The Biggest Game Project on this Planet

Brace Yourself!

E not only stands for Easter, but also for Eldorado Gate, which is considerably less fun, and doesn't taste as much of chocolate.

Eldorado Gate is a series of RPG's released by Capcom on Dreamcast in 7 separate volumes. The only way you can tell this is a Capcom RPG by the way, is that it features the universal Capcom RPG currency: Zenny.
There's very little of it around this time though.
All Character and enemy design have been done by Yoshitaka Amano, who also did this for many a Final Fantasy game.

The story is about a group of Twelve individuals, bound by fate (aren't they always?). You see, once upon a time the Benevolent God Dyos had a bit of an argument with the not so benevolent Demon Rajin, probably over some kind of apple.
Dyos won the argument as Benevolent Gods tend to do in works of fiction and sealed up Rajin which is also something that happens far too much nowadays.
However, Rajin, being the clever evil bastard that he is, made 12 Alter Ego's with his remaining spirit, and it is up to YOU, as all twelve of them, to revive the Evil Being, albeit more or less unconsciously.

For this purpose, the whole story has been split up in 18 chapters, spread over 7 separate Discs. This is a very nice way of Capcom to say:"Let's extort our fans!" cos every CD contains only a couple of hours of gameplay, very average graphics and no voices whatsoever (apart from "Enemies have appeared" at the start of each battle) so I really don't know what all the data has been spent on.
I'm sure they could have squeezed it on 2 or 3 discs.

I have to point out though that I have only managed to get the first 4 volumes, so the story won't reach a conclusion, but that was never the point of this project anyway, so shut up.

So far I've finished the first chapter, starring Gomez, the rude Oaf.
It's kinda weird. You're supposed to be this alter ego of an evil god, and so far every character does have his/her faults, but nevertheless you are required to do all kinds of goody-two-shoes quests. Rescuing people and helping old geezers work off their debts. Bizarre.
I'm about to complete the second chapter, starring Kanan, the Lovely Archer girl, who gets sentenced to Death for stealing a loaf of bread (must've been some pretty goddamn tasty bread then). She manages to escape using the power of a mysterious mask, which starts to slowly drain her of her life...






On a side note, I noticed that the Big List of 225 contains a game for Neo Geo CD, Samurai Spirits, which I do actually own, the only problem is, I don't actually have a Neo Geo CD.... :S

Yay for me! I can skip one!

posted by Ingen! @ 1:19 PM