It's Critter Time!

HakariSquish wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:09 am Okay, whenever someone asks me "What is a niche game you obsess over?"
this, does anyone remember this masterpiece omfg.

Elebits was great! I'm still a boom blox fan when it comes to wii gimmicks. Steven Spielberg's finest work. :3

god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA



it's a hack'n'slash game where you can play as either a wolf man or a dragon man. the wolf man in particular also gets a passive skill where his HP regenerate over time, which is *really* good

JarylGaren wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:15 am god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA



it's a hack'n'slash game where you can play as either a wolf man or a dragon man. the wolf man in particular also gets a passive skill where his HP regenerate over time, which is *really* good

Me and Enby have actually played this co-op and it's pretty fun when the game wants to work right. (We were using the 2P GBA Core on the MiSTer)

My pick for "90's PC game mostly forgotten to time" is Hardwar, an Elite-type 'space' sim set in a series of crater cities on Titan after everything's gone to shit and corporations and gangs scrounge to survive. They got The Designer's Republic and Warp Records on board for art and music, so if you're a Wipeout fan you'll feel right at home.

Space Colony!

As a general dork for simulation and management games, this is one that seemingly flew under a lot of folks radars. It was good fun though, and I played an awful lot of it back in the day. (And then some more when it was re-released via GOG a little while back.)

HakariSquish wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:09 am this, does anyone remember this masterpiece omfg.

WAIT TELL ME MORE....... i fear the cover is so familiar....... holy molyy

Mixi Blacksand wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:54 pm My pick for "90's PC game mostly forgotten to time" is Hardwar

thanks for sharing this one as well!!! defo looking into this one more.. it gives a vibe i really like

Flint wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 10:16 amA great recent example of this has been the phenomenal (and still ongoing) Ultima series retrospective by Majular: it's a franchise that can claim the credit for literally creating RPGs, MMOs and immersive sims (among many smaller game design traits now considered baseline)

Sorry to contiune this quote train but I found this comment funny on his Ultima Underworld vid:

JarylGaren wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:15 am god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA

Same! But that was a couple years ago. I kind of ruined its speedrun by discovering if you get to the pirate ship and glitch-dupe the free +1 STR power wine you get 200 times, you can destroy the rest of the game in an hour as any class.

Oops.

Amazing game though; I still run through it once in awhile for funsies.

Scourge Hive is a game I have never seen ANYONE talk about, and this is coming from a Trauma Center/Team fan (Awesome DS/Wii series BTW,I do recommend playing through all the games)

It's been awhile since I played but I think it was a timed action adventure game that played like an isometric Metroid game, horror themings included.