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Another day, another forgotten Japanese computer OS to learn to navigate. The end result isn't going to be nearly worth the amount of time I've dumped even to get this far, but I'll consider it making up for lost time not getting to see much of this sort of thing in the 90s. c:
Well, I'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've never played much, but I always liked its aesthetics. After realizing the dev'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
I've been playing Yakata some more and y'know? It's certainly clunky in the way I'd expect "mid-90s one-man doujin game inspired by Resident Evil" to be, but there'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.
