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New blog post about my experiences with SNK fighters over the last few weeks here: https://radpage.neocities.org/blog/2024/10-16/
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Hey, question since I have a few fighting game mutuals, anyone here savvy with Samurai Showdown? I've currently been playing through SNKs fighting game library and am struggling to get into this one the most out of all I've played. Curious if anyone has any tips for it (I've gotten pretty decent at their other fighting games I think and it seems a shame to give up on one of their big series)
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New review of Shining Force here: https://radpage.neocities.org/segaages/shiningforce/
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shiningforcelibrary
1 month ago
Thanks for the shoutout ^^, and great review, i feel you covered pretty much all of the game's strong and weak points. Looking forward if/when you ever play the others in the series.
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Fun is Infinite being your 404 page is an excellent choice. Great aesthetics all around!
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Loving the site, some wonderful aesthetics here and really enjoy the idea of compiling NES and Master System games that fit under a specific theme like Halloween and Summer. Very nice!
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rabidrodent
2 months ago
Thanks very much! I'm not much of a web designer but I try giving each page their own looks. Been following yours a while and there's some good stuff there too. Dig the Sega pages.
so it turns out it was a bit bold of me to assume i had finished all important scenes of SF1, i forgot my beloved Chaos, who was just as mistreated as Adam was. It's done now: https://shiningforcelibrary.neocities.org/sf_localization/meetingadam
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shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
kind of a big update today, feel i should start noting what i did in times like this, so: 1) added a few more retranslated scenes (the intro, the dialogue with Darksol at the start of Chapter 8, and the epilogue). I feel that with this the whole main plot is retranslated, all that's left is NPC and more filler-y battles, and I'm unsure if i wanna commit to all that.
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shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
2) added the volume 2 of the Shining Force Neo manga to the list of things i desperately want scans for, the first volume is already scanned and picked my interest. or a lesser note, i couldn't even find the JP manual of this game, which is kinda sad. I don't care too much about it, but stuff should be preserved, you know? 3) added a few links to translated scenes where was relevant, minor stuff
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radpage
2 months ago
Excellent work! I'm really starting to realise how little of the localisation actually adds up the more I play like the king of Alterone's dialogue making no sense ("you promised that Alterone would not be involved" when he had already directly involved himself) and its wild how much dialogue is just nearly the opposite of what the original script is. Just finished up the bit with Otrant in my playthrough.
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radpage
2 months ago
Out of curiosity, any ideas about Otrant's gender? It seems in the English localisation the NPCs refer to them as he/him but their face looked more androgynous/femme to me (not that that inherently means not male of course, after all I'm a femboy) and I noticed you used they/them pronouns in the notes. Are they more ambiguous or enby in terms of gender in the Japanese script?
shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
Otrant's gender is a bit more ambiguous yes, mostly because it's easier to avoid pronouns in JP. A few of their speech patterns do come off as masculine, and I just noticed their name is in blue in the manual (yes the names are color coded for gender). However, they are never referred to explicitly as a man and clearly use lipstick, which is peculiar in a series usually far more stereotypical with its genders.
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shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
so i'd argue Otrant is either a gnc man or a wonky attempt at writing a gender-neutral character, so I've been using neutral language to be safe. I have seen japanese players be confused at their gender as well, so I don't think I'm misreading anything.
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shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
another thing worth noting is that Shining Force 2 has a few characters listed as genderless/unknown in the encyclopedia, despite using even more masculine language. So this may be a case of writers using masculinity as neutral (this series is unfortunately not that great to women). Though those characters are also non-human, so the gender unknown could be more of a physical thing
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Hey, been following for a while but I've been enjoying your site even more now that I've started playing through Shining Force 1 myself! I had only played Darkness, Wisdom and Holy Ark prior. I will enjoy checking your scene translations as I play through!
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shiningforcelibrary
2 months ago
I'm so happy to hear that! I love that someone might be able to enjoy the original story right on their first playthrough now, really makes all my work worth it. (i do need to pick up on bringing the rest of my guide book translation over there though lol, there's a bunch of stuff missing)
New review of Crack Down is here: https://radpage.neocities.org/segaages/crackdown/
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I'll probably make a blog post at some point detailing my exploration of SNKs library and my thoughts on each game (I don't think I'm fighting game savvy enough to do full reviews of these games that are suitably in depth). Main thing I've learnt is that I LOVE king of fighters especially
It's a very footsie based fighter, unlike Kof you won't be getting in your opponents face but wait for them to make a mistake and punish. If you look up matches you will commonly see people just sitting and waiting for an opening. A wayyyyy more defensive game compared to the rest of the SNK fighters. Unless you plan to play ALL of them(I'm guessing u are), I recommend 2019 or V Special.
This is a cool guide for 2019 but the basics apply to most samsho games: https://t.ly/hyQV5
@the-game-hoard I have been trying to play through everything like you guessed (mainly for full story context). I kind of feel like I'm cheesing the AI any time I play slowly and defensively and wait for punish opportunities. Is it normal for most fights to end in a time out, or does that mean I'm not being active enough? I also swear the CPU does more damage than me and I'm not sure why other than the pow metre