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Finally got my hands on my childhood holy grail.
When the sequel to my favorite game didn't get translated back in 2005, that became my villain origin story. I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese classes on the weekend just so I could play it. But it turned out learning a foreign language was hard and I had too much actual schoolwork to keep up with, so I didn't get all that far.
But now that I'm trying to learn again on my own, I've decided it's time to tackle this one. Took me almost an hour and a half to get through the opening cutscene, but with the help of OCR and a dictionary I understood nearly all of it. Made 30 new vocab flashcards out of it in the process.
Unfortunately my old GBA SP is not holding much charge, I may need to find a new aftermarket battery replacement. And the game's signature gimmick gets in the way of OCR, it already takes several tries to read the pixel font and it's even harder to recognize while playing outside.
I had no idea (or had forgotten) that a third game existed!
Really wanted to like the first game as a kid, but the sun thing did hold me back. Liked the idea of playing outside, but in practice I didn't feel like doing it much. And by the time I got a GBA SP, seems like I'd end up leaning over the system in a way that made it hard to get sun, too.
Might be too evil to say it, but I think if I go back to (1 & 2) these days, I might look for some kind of GameShark or whatever code to just keep sun on. <.<
Nice! (It's 新・ボクらの太陽 逆襲のサバタ if anyone wants to look it up.)
Dating myself here, but I got the Famicom Mini version of the original Legend of Zelda ages ago when I was in Japan. Learned the horrors of all-katakana scripts for the first time.
It actually wasn't until last year that I got comfortable enough with my kanji and I started seeing shapes instead of strokes that I realized how they got away with the characters being so pixellated back then.
Thanks, it can be really hard to read the stylized writing (although at least the alt-text is accessible). To add on to that, for anyone lazy, it's the Japanese name for Boktai 3! And if you're not familiar with Boktai, it's a series of GBA games that use a solar sensor as a primary mechanic.