/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7390512]

ITT: Retro isekai games.

[Anonymous No.7390515]

>>7390512
>make-believe tale
>isekai

what

[Anonymous No.7390517]

>>7390515
FFTA1 and 2, FF Unlimited and the new manga are all Isekai FF.

[Anonymous No.7390520]

>>7390515
It's a weeb term, not less or more embarrassing than any other.

[Anonymous No.7390519]

>>7390517
But why do you call it isekai?

[Anonymous No.7390530]

>>7390512
Amazing game, but not retro.

[Anonymous No.7390531]

[Anonymous No.7390548]

>>7390530
It is, boom boom. Let it go.

[Anonymous No.7391197]

>>7390519
Because it has a character from the "real" world by means of magic or plot contrivance magically appear in a world that's completely alien to them.

[Anonymous No.7391398]

So...this entire series?

[Anonymous No.7391431]

>>7390519
Isekai, 異世界, means Parallel Universe or Another World. It's a genre of fiction where someone somehow ends up in another universe altogether, usually after being killed, and is set largely or entirely in this alternate world.

>>7391398
Ultima is an example.

[Anonymous No.7391446]

not retro, but retro aesthetics

[Anonymous No.7391453]

>>7390520
Using weeb terms is inherently embarrassing

[Anonymous No.7391454]

I'm guessing this is borderline cheating.

[Anonymous No.7391458]

>>7391454

[Anonymous No.7391482]

>>7391458
ISomething I just fucking realized.

[Anonymous No.7391490]

Technically in-universe "isekai"...at first.

[Anonymous No.7391852]

Marche is the most based character ever created

[Anonymous No.7392362]

>>7391852

[Anonymous No.7392392]

[Anonymous No.7392527]

A good one. Even ties into the 'unhealthy escapism' thing, as you find a few people like you, each having their own part of the world they imagined up that reflects them as people. I assume the hero would too if he stayed in the experiment long enough.

My favourite isekai game plot is not retro - Contact (DS) had you force videogame ideals and gameplay on a regular kid who just wanted to go home instead of being controlled by a player, getting hurt and having to fight/kill/'level up' to satisfy 'objectives'. He rebels at the very end, but your almighty touch of the bottom screen defeats him easily. You monster.

[Anonymous No.7393134]

I think Pokemon Mystery Dungeon counts.

[Anonymous No.7393136]

Here's one

[Anonymous No.7393145]

>>7391458
Didn't know there was an Escaflowne game. I hope it's a schmup

[Anonymous No.7394221]

>>7393134
I believe so. Same goes for some Digimon games.

[Anonymous No.7394238]

>>7390512
Mario and Luigi go from Brooklyn to the Mushroom Kingdom so I guess that counts.

[Anonymous No.7394248]

Does the Dark World count?

[Anonymous No.7394287]

>>7392527
It's a shame about Contact. I really liked the pixel aesthetic but then it turned out most of the game was hideous pre-rendered assets and then the gameplay itself was boring to the point I dropped it only a few hours in. Sometimes I look at in my box of carts and consider giving it another go but never have.

[Anonymous No.7394305]

Pic related

[Anonymous No.7394312]

>>7390520
>>7391453
>mfw anytime someone here says kusoge

[Anonymous No.7394318]

>>7390512
The only FF worth playing.

[Anonymous No.7394323]

Isekai was always big in western fantasy. Every wonderland, narnia, Peter Pan game counts, plus the wizard of Oz game as mentioned above.

[Anonymous No.7394434]

>>7390530
The garbage hardware ruins it. battles that would take 5 minutes with decent controls end up taking half a fucking hour because of how slow the AI is

[Anonymous No.7394730]

>>7391482
No, going through a pipeline isn't taking you to another world. Mario just lives in a nightmare world.
SMB2 is a dream, and 3 is a play.

[Anonymous No.7394737]

>>7392527
DS is retro.

[Anonymous No.7394739]

>>7394730
Canonically he's from the "real" world and gets transported to the mushroom kingdom though.

[Anonymous No.7394743]

>>7394248
No, Hyrule is just a fucked place to be, the "dark world" is just a second place to go, though it was ruined by Ganon.

[Anonymous No.7394751]

>>7394739
Mario's canon gets retconned constantly. The real world is just "over there" aka through a pipe.
Not a magical dimension.

[Anonymous No.7394767]

Nobody said Moon for PSX yet?

[Anonymous No.7394789]

>>7392362
BWAHAHAHA, BRILLIANT, thank you so much

[Anonymous No.7394821]

>>7394751
Do you have a source on that? It makes little sense.

[Anonymous No.7394882]

>>7394743
Nobody knew it existed except the sages though. It's technically "another world." Though then you get into dodgy territory like does shit like The Divine Comedy and various journies to hell or Tartarus count. I think the spirit of the topic requires a person from the "real" world going to some wacky ass place. Not going from one fantasy world to another.

[Anonymous No.7394889]

>>7394751
That'd be a pretty magical pipe. There's clearly a difference between going from Brooklyn to the Mushroom Kingdom than going from Brooklyn to Boston.

[Anonymous No.7394954]

>>7391454
I haven't played this game but it was instantly on my mind when I entered.
Just tell me, is this game any good? Have to know for the inevitable case I get a Saturn and mod it.

[Anonymous No.7394987]

>>7394889
It would also mean this mushroom kingdom must be pretty close by to Brooklyn.

[Anonymous No.7395226]

>>7390512

[Anonymous No.7395361]

>>7394987
That's like saying Wonderland must be pretty close to England, it's just on the other side of a mirror.

[Anonymous No.7395416]

>>7395361
Well Wonderland is another dimension so that obviously makes sense. That guy is trying to say Mario literally just goes through a pipe to get to the mushroom kingdom which also exists in the "real" world. I'm pointing out how silly that is. Obviously it's like Wonderland or Narnia and the pipe is a portal like a mirror or wardrobe.

[Anonymous No.7395493]

>>7391197
It ain't isekai in the 21st century sense if the characters eventually go back to the real world. 21st century isekai is about not looking back and not learning anything, and only indulging in wish fulfillment. Mewt's trying to be in a 21st century isekai, Marche follows the old form which you may as well call something different.

[Anonymous No.7395502]

>>7391398
the Ultima protagonist is routinely ejected from Britannia, he has no place there. In an isekai he would stay.

[Anonymous No.7395513]

Isekai is a convenient genre designation because it lets me know what anime I can automatically skip. Shit is garbage senpai

[Anonymous No.7395914]

>>7395493
>21st century isekai is about not looking back and not learning anything, and only indulging in wish fulfillment.
Seriously, I don't understand why so many anime of this nature insist on starting their fun fantasy cartoon with the main character fucking DYING. It casts a pall over the whole show, like it's pro-death or something on the sneak. Give me fucking Inuyasha again where the girl just finds a portal.

[Anonymous No.7395930]

Based video game isekai.

[Anonymous No.7395942]

>>7395914
The only anime that is not from Disney or is aimed at little babies, which achieved huge success was Kimetsu no Yaiba

[Anonymous No.7396618]

>>7394287
It's Shining Soul 2 with a more laid back battle system, really. Just put your dude in combat mode and he'll auto melee stuff in range, with you engaging skills. The suits all have viable skillsets you'll never wind up using cus you have to level wearing each suit. I've seen people go full autism statgrinding in this game, and you can go adventuring for tons of obscure secrets you won't use because every hour you spend galvanising this kid into the ultimate killing machine is an hour he spent kidnapped by a jerkass professor, missing his family and normal life while you forced him to do your bidding. It's brilliant and dabs on completists, but there's tons of this game you don't see otherwise (and now can't cus the Wifi island is unplayable) which is damned interesting to explore. There's silly things like being able to choose a waifu and woo her with gifts that're clearly there cus the devs thought 'haha christ, people will actually put in the hours to do that'.

[Anonymous No.7396707]

>>7396618
That sounds pretty rad and I'm glad it exists. Probably could have been a good fit for me too since I typically rush through a first playthrough blind and only look up stuff if I'm stuck so there's more to discover on the second if I want to keep playing. But as is it's way at the bottom of a huge pile and I'm not really interested in grinding to make a kid get a bad ending at this point.

[Anonymous No.7396902]

>>7391431
That is the name of the genre. Not what distinguishes it.

[Anonymous No.7396913]

>>7391490
I will allow this because it's like the Planet of the Apes. It maintained the perception of isekai for the majority of the story.

[Anonymous No.7397106]

Kid Chameleon

[Anonymous No.7397117]

Chrono Cross? It's weird when the original world is just as made up as the alternate one. I think the spirit of Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz is the person is from Earth.

[Anonymous No.7397197]

>>7396902
What distinguishes it then?

[Anonymous No.7397625]

Valis should count.
>Yuko Asou (麻生 優子, Asou Yūko) (voiced by Sumi Shimamoto) is a schoolgirl in late 1980s Japan who is fated to protect three different realms – our own Earth, the land of spirits, and Vecanti, the Dream World – by wielding a mystical sword known as Valis.

[Anonymous No.7398483]

This is kind of an inverse. Fantasy "person" shows up on Earth.

[Anonymous No.7398485]

>>7398483
Are you serious

[Anonymous No.7398491]

>>7398485
I like starting shit

[Anonymous No.7398502]

>>7395502
based on his living conditions in our world you're making the assumption that the avatar actually wants to stay in britannia forever.

dude's pretty well off especially for an isekai protag who are usually beta losers.

[Anonymous No.7398504]

>>7390512
>isekai
Alright. Which youtuber said it?

[Anonymous No.7398604]

Astyanax was like this. Also possibly Little Nemo? I don't clearly remember the story of Little Nemo though.

[Anonymous No.7398772]

An inverted Isekai. Samurais from a fantasy setting reach a post-apoc Tokyo.

[Anonymous No.7400691]

>>7390512
How do you make a game as good as FFT and then make FFTA

[Anonymous No.7400759]

>>7398504
Are you retarded? Isekai has been a standard anime and light novel word to describe the setting for years now.

[Anonymous No.7400869]

>>7398772
Well sort of... They're from the future though not an alternate dimension.

[Anonymous No.7401068]

>>7398772
No, also not retro but great game

[Anonymous No.7401621]

>>7400869
What about the original Megami Tensei Digital Devil Story?
Nakajima and Yumiko are transported to the demon world.

[Anonymous No.7401629]

>>7401068
3DS is retro.

[Anonymous No.7401638]

>>7394954
It's fucking great

[Anonymous No.7401642]

does it count as an isekai if the protagonist wakes up in the future and it's effectively a different world?

[Anonymous No.7401674]

>>7400759
I can google, fag, it's just no one ever fucking says it outside of your /a/ hugbox and you know it. I've never goddamn seen it used here til today and I lurk here constantly.

[Anonymous No.7402480]

>>7401674
That's because this isn't an anime board. Maybe you're a shut in with only one interest, but not everyone is. There's more to the world than this board and fucking Youtube. I don't even watch anime any more and I've heard the term.

[Anonymous No.7403228]

>>7394318
kek no

[Anonymous No.7403270]

>>7390530
>spoiler
It really isn't

[Anonymous No.7403625]

>>7401674

I learned it on /r/manga, which will probably not satisfy you since you appear to be a standard 4chan complainicus which suggests you hate (or at least maintain an exaggerated affectation of hating) everything associated with Reddit for no clear reason, but yeah there has clearly been a big fad of goofy mundane-nerd-sent-to-fantasy-world stories in the manga industry semi-recently, plus lots of silly/clever/absurd variations of that general premise, and anime is closely related to manga, so probably any community focused on either of those two media will be using this word at least occasionally