1711: Taito Legends PS2 \\ Rastan - I'm gonna go play something easier like Demon's Souls = ooo
1Playing Rastan from Taito Legends on PS2, at the default "Easy" difficulty and set to "Original Aspect Ratio."
My Taito Memories playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzP5ozemiLMWhixFuVea4304
0:00 - options
4:31 - arcade rolling demo
7:56 - Ready!
18:02 - bats & lava ;_;
34:04 - 1st boss
34:38 - forest
39:41 - castle
44:20 - 2nd boss
45:06 - cave
53:35 - dungeon
1:09:01 - 3rd boss
1:23:50 - CANCEL = ooo
Never played Rastan much back in the arcade 'cause it was too hard ie expensive. Kinda got into it here, stiff animation and weird movement and all; the round 2 boss' intro sequence even had me calling it something silly like "the Souls game of its day." 'p'
The background graphics are surprisingly lovely.
Oh, "TO CANCEL PUSH ATTACK BUTTON" it says on the Continue screen. Surprised I got to the end of round 3 before pushing that button ("X," since UNLIKE the Japanese "Taito Memories" compilations, you can't remap the buttons in Legends 'p') there and inadvertently ending the playthrough. Yikes. If I'd realized the main action button turns into CANCEL PLAYTHROUGH button on the Continue screen I'd have been sweating it hard the whole time, so maybe it's just as well.
Had no idea what to do against the Stage 3 boss anyway, just seems like you're gonna get hit by his fireball spray, he's invulnerable whenever he wants, and you can't tell if you ever hit him anyway, whee! They made people pay PER PLAY for that! Man.
Funny none of the Rastan games are in Arcade Archives yet, wonder if there's a rights issue. Oh yeah and my PS2 makes really loud fan or whatever sounds while running Taito Legends, like they programmed it to run your PS2 as hard as possible somehow. I don't remember that happening with the Japanese compilations.
Players in another video found there's no more Continue service once you reach the final stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dysSHS_nks .
12/16/23
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