![]() ![]() Making it a point to pick up Iron Storm since my poor Saturn rarely gets any use (incidentally I'm glad Nintendo fanboys like the AVGN never heard of Daisenryaku because you know they would love to hear that Sega liked to focus on the Nazis). I'm guessing there might be differences between the PC-98 releases and the later Windows ones? How does this hook text machine translation thing work? What emulator do I use (since I assume I need an emulator for this)? Military strategy as a genre is usually entirely sanitized of warcrimes and such, although there are games where you conduct nuclear strikes or massive aerial bombings. Panzer General had originally problems in Germany because of the manual. The Saturn installment is an exception.Ĭheck out this page for translation patches. The Advanced Daisenryaku subseries that Iron Storm is part of is Sega's WWII adaption which normally focuses very much on Germany as a force. I was going to write " English release", but one of the first games already had English menus. The first western release was for the Saturn by Working Designs as Iron Storm. Which is why so many are actually available on consoles. In the genre of historical military strategy, you can probably find the most accessible games in the Daisenryaku series. On Daisenryaku.: This struck me always as a more serious Advanced Wars. The PSP game has a PS2 equivalent for which a translation patch is available. On PC-98 and Windows you have tools to hook text and use machine translation. Master of Monsters originated on computers, most installments have been made available for Windows I believe. ![]() I don't know Japanese, but I'd be willing to try and acquire the games in the Master of Monsters series (because I'm more into fantasy than historical simulation) and send them off to someone who knows Japanese and/or has Japanese computers to play them on, and play editor on an article. It's starting to sound like these two series need HG101 articles. Getting back to Master of Monsters, I was just ebay searching and saw someone selling a PC9801 game called Master of Monsters II, and apparently this is a case (like Hydlide and Eggerland Mystery) where some installments only exist on Japanese PCs. though I seem to remember it was actually optional and you could play the Allies if you wanted, but the title makes it clear you're supposed to be the Nazis). I can think of precisely one game where you do, and as it happens, its a game that I just saw a wiki somewhere claim was "inspired" by Daisenryaku-Panzer General (which spawned a series and, somehow, actually saw release in Germany despite, you know, you play as the Nazis. The only placed its mentined here on HG101 (besides the forums) is in an article on the Sega Ages re-releases, where the author said that a game where you play as the nazis would never fly in the west. There was also a spin-off of the game targeted towards the younger audience titled Masumon Kids, and there is now a cell-phone based version of the game available for the popular cell phone game market in Japan.Heh, ran into an irony while looking up Daisenryaku. Available for Japanese language Windows-based systems, the remakes include マスターオブモンスターズIII Special Edition, マスターオブモンスターズ4 ~光と闇の争覇~, Master of Monsters Value Edition (the original game, updated and with expansion packs added in), and 真・マスターオブモンスターズ Final. Two more sequels (3 and 4) were made for Japanese Windows and harken back to the deep strategic gameplay of the NEC PC9801 versions (as opposed to the more casual Genesis and PlayStation versions). Today, System Soft Alpha has returned the game to its strategy-based roots, and the 2 titles (I, and "Final" – but not II) in the Master of Monsters series as originally popularized on the NEC 9801 PC were updated by System Soft Alpha with new graphics and gameplay features. Its success in the US market on the Sega Genesis proved sufficient for a sequel on the Sega Saturn and an anime art-style enhanced PlayStation version titled "Disciples of Gaia" with a Japanese RPG feel.1 While it never garnered the same success as its System Soft stablemate Daisenryaku, the game has garnered a loyal following over the years. Master of Monsters is a turn-based strategy game created by Japanese software developer System Soft (now System Soft Alpha) for the MSX and NEC PC8801 later ported to a variety of consoles and PCs including the PC Engine, NEC PC9801, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis), Sega Saturn and PlayStation. ![]()
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