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Shinseiki Odysselya (1993)

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This is my playthrough of Shinseiki Odysselya for the Super Nintendo, but be warned that the playthrough is completely in Japanese, so if you can't read Japanese, then don't feel too bad because I can only pick up a word or two in the game myself, mostly related to the four cardinal directions, North, East, South, and West. Suddenly, I want to play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Shinseiki Odysselya sees the player taking control of a young girl who has lost her memories, and is befriended by Kyle. They go on a whacky Scooby-Doo styled journey to find out why exactly the Flintstones isn't actually a historical documentary series based around empirical science. Unfortunately, the head honcho of the dragon dinosaur people, Konlon, is told that the Flintstones have a statue of a god named Narga in their cavern and so he goes to destroy it, not understanding why Dino wasn't worshipped as the Second Coming of Christ. As he destroys the statue, the god tried to tell him that the Fruity Pebbles weren't there, but Konlon didn't listen, and got the dinosaur people killed, along with the rest of Bedrock, causing Kyle and Alias (pretty sure that's the English translation of her name) to head to the local church, where the snake says that the Town of Bedrock is no longer the greatest place in history. This angered Kyle, causing him to attack the snake, killing himself in the process. Alias gets blasted forward into the future, to the before Christ--literally--where she meets a man named Ruth, who is apparently the reincarnation of Kyle. They go on all sorts of whacky hijinks through history from there, killing demons and other important people from history, leading to the rise of terrible people throughout human history. You know the ones. In case it wasn't clear by now, I'll spell it out for you: I haven't the foggiest idea of what's going on in the game's story, so let's move onto to the other things the game has on offer.

If you've ever played Paladin's Quest, Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest V, Dragon Quest 6, etc, then you're going to have a fairly good idea of what the gameplay is like. Combat takes place from a first-person perspective, and you issue commands to your four party members, with a fifth sometimes getting in on the action, and you input commands or have them go on auto-pilot. This brings me to my first major complaint of Shinseiki Odysselya: the game is too easy. I mean, it's definitely harder than Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, but I gotta say that I only truly got a game over whenever I got careless, but the final boss of the game was actually pretty tough, as he should be, but still, I got stuck a few times and watched a Japanese person play through the game, and he got a piss easy version of the final boss while the one that I got was balls-bustingly difficult. I have no way of knowing unless a Japanese person who has played the game and is fluent in English, or someone who speaks English natively and is fluent in Japanese and has played the game can tell me, then I have no true way of verifying.

The music in Shinseiki Odysselya is beautiful to listen to, the town theme and the overworld battle theme, especially the latter because you will be hearing it A LOT! The random encounter rate in this game is ridiculous, as you will soon see, but I left them all in as I'm trying to learn Japanese so that I can play more games like this, even having bought a $75 journal just to help with the Kanji. Speaking of, I'll be preparing myself to play Shinseiki Odysselya 2 sometime in the future, but trying to play through the game without Kanji actually gave me a right headache, so I think I'm going to be taking a break from Japan-exclusive games like that for a while.

Shinseiki Odysselya is a good game, one that won't be receiving any awards for innovation, but I think it's a game that's worth checking out for the story alone, similar to The Glory of Heracles III: Silence of the Gods, one of my favorite games of all time!

Oh, and to any Japanese people who manage to find their way to this video...

皆様へ、

このビデオをご覧いただき、誠にありがとうございます。私は日本語を話すことも、読むことも、書くこともできませんが、日本限定のこのゲームを楽しむことができました。日本語が不自由なため、ご不便をおかけすることがあるかもしれませんが、どうかご理解いただけますと幸いです。

ご視聴いただき、本当にありがとうございました。心より感謝申し上げます。