(PCE 60fps) Pro Tennis: World Court - RPG mode, can't win random battle ~ Duo-R-ventures #19
1This is me being terrible at Pro Tennis: World Court on PC Engine, first in the "Quest" RPG mode, where some guy I assume is the Tennis King talks to you for a long time, then you go wander around and get into random tennis battles out in the forest, and I can't win a single one of those. So the King isn't too happy.
I give up on that and try the regular tennis "Singles" mode (6:55), which doesn't go any better. PTWC isn't one of those later namby pamby tennis games that holds your hand and makes you feel like a pro just by pressing a button; no, in this game you can quite easily just miss the ball entirely, or swat it out of bounds or into the net. There's a narrow window for getting in a serve.
That would be okay I guess if it was something where I could learn to get better at it, but some of the mechanics just seem off; for instance, it *seems* like if I try to hit the ball while I'm approaching the net, it will almost always fly out of bounds. I would need to test that before I could say that definitively, but it happened frequently enough that it was just pretty discouraging.
And I want to like this game because the graphics are super cute. But the control just feels so flukey.
Well I lost game after game, even blowing like 40-0 leads--and then, I *finally* win a game (20:15 -- not a set, not a match, just a single game : P), and what happens right after that? 20:41 -- The HuCard resets. : o
The card had been really tough to get working in the first place (I'm finding this with a lot of my HuCard games--they seem to take some massaging in order to boot up after these ~ 15 years of being used, just sitting in a big CD slip case binder), so maybe it was something to do with that--although, after this I was putting my Duo away for the evening and found the RGB cable had come loose somehow, so maybe that was involved.
Or maybe it was just the revenge of the Tennis King.
Recording: RGB-modded PC Engine Duo-R, OSSC, Framemeister, Elgato HD60