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Another day, another forgotten Japanese computer OS to learn to navigate. The end result isn& #39;t going to be nearly worth the amount of time I& #39;ve dumped even to get this far, but I& #39;ll consider it making up for lost time not getting to see much of this sort of thing in the 90s. c:
Well, I& #39;ll be damned. I got the game I was after to boot!
This is the original FM Towns version of Yakata, a polygonal doujin adventure game. It got ported to the PS1 by way of the Net Yaroze; if any of you have ever player Super Mansion on a magazine demo disc, this is it!
This is the original FM Towns version of Yakata, a polygonal doujin adventure game. It got ported to the PS1 by way of the Net Yaroze; if any of you have ever player Super Mansion on a magazine demo disc, this is it!
I found it on a Japanese disc myself. I& #39;ve never played much, but I always liked its aesthetics. After realizing the dev& #39;s site disappeared, I scrambled to get this original version extracted from the Internet Archive for posterity and now here we are! https://web.archive.org/web/20131008141025/http://yokoya.naist.jp/~tomoka-s/backup/gameb.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20131...
I& #39;ve been playing Yakata some more and y& #39;know? It& #39;s certainly clunky in the way I& #39;d expect "mid-90s one-man doujin game inspired by Resident Evil" to be, but there& #39;s a certain simple charm to it. I really do like environmental design; it does a lot with mostly flat shading!
Kinda baffling they included it in Net Yaroze compilations on Western demo discs, though. Sure, you could stumble your way through it with a lot of trial and error I *guess*, but it definitely expects you to be literate in Japanese to know what to do where. Not the worst filler.
