What game is this?Aizouban Houshin Engi is the fancy re-release edition of Houshin Engi, which is a Final Fantasy Tactics-style turn-based strategy RPG first released by Koei in 1998, and then again in 1999. Loosely based on the Chinese myth/novel Fengshen Yanyi, the story follows the protagonist Taikoubou as he goes on a quest to rid the Yin Empire of China of the demons that are causing its downfall.
In the tradition of everything I like being depressingly niche, the game was never localised in English, nor was there an English patch for the ROM. I actually couldn't even find a working ROM at all, so I'm emulating it from the disc itself. I'm blaming any lagging and skipping in the videos I post on this, as the hiccups happen even when my recording software isn't running.
So you speak Japanese?Haha, no, I wish. My vocabulary is pathetically small and I can count the number of kanji I recognise on one hand. I can read kana decently enough so I can pick out the odd word or two here and there but mostly I'm flying blind.
Why are you playing a game in a language you don't speak?Because I
want to! The game looks really fun and it's not like I'm waiting around for a localization. Besides, I have a pretty big interest in Fengshen Yanyi and adaptations of it, so I'm loosely familiar with the story it's based on. Koei shouldn't have gotten
too wild with the plot. It's not like the final boss is going to secretly be some space alien or something. I'm expecting the plot to be relatively straightforward, and if it isn't, I can scour the Koei wikia for scraps like the scrub I am.
For your entertainment, I'm going to be fabricating my own english script for the game. If you're interested in the original dialogue, you can watch the videos. If you're interested in my attempts at humour, then boy do I have the thing for you!
(there's nothing here yet! oops!)
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