Daarkseid
09-18-2003, 10:28 PM
I've been playing the the rom for the Famicom game Sweet Home, an RPG capcom released on the Famicom in 1989.
This game is excellent. The setting is certainly unique for an RPG in that it takes place in a haunted mansion, and centers on these five hapless people who are trapped in it and must escape before the hostile supernatural forces kill them.
The cool thing about this game is that you have 5 characters who are like your typical RPG character with their own items and stats, but you can control them separately as you move through the mansion. Each one also has a unique tool item that is required to get past certain areas, like one of the characters has a lighter which is necessary to burn things.
The cool part is that you need these characters in tandem to solve puzzles and survive, essentially. If your character gets caught in a hopeless battle, they can call for help, at which point you take control of one of the other characters as you rush to the original one's rescue. You can also form parties by teaming up characters, with parties of up to three characters. Also, each character has two item slots and a weapon slot, as they can pick up items, drops items, and use weapons or replace them with better weapons.
And then your characters can die, meaning that when one character is dead, they're gone, but the game continues. I haven't played this game to the end or had all of my characters die, but I imagine the game ends when all 5 are killed. There are also replacement "tool" items scattered throughout the mansion that you can use in case a character does die(you lose access to their tool if they do). I imagine though that if you can't get past a certain part without a certain character because you can't get a replacement tool, you'll have to start over.
I've also heard the game has multiple endings, depending on how many of your characters survive. And as can be expected from such a game, the setting is sufficiently creepy, with eerie music, horrific(as best as the NES can do) looking enemies, and some pretty graphic depictions. When a character dies, it shows their body pressed against a wall in a bloody mess, before they slide to the floor, leaving a bloody trail where their face and hands were pressed to the wall.
Theres also apparently some kind of sub-plot behind the former occupants of the mansion, but I've only found trace hints as what went on. If anything, its going to make me want to play this game through to get it.
Theres actually a translation patch for the rom, translating it into English, which is how I'm able to get into it and understand whats going on. It can be found in the translations section of http://www.zophar.net. As always, rom distribution is prohibited, so I can't provide anyone with it here, in the case you're interested in playing it. Another thing to note is that the gameplay and setting had a big impact on Capcom's Resident Evil. As I said, Sweet Home was developed and published by Capcom. Its also based on a Japanese horror movie by the same name.
This game is excellent. The setting is certainly unique for an RPG in that it takes place in a haunted mansion, and centers on these five hapless people who are trapped in it and must escape before the hostile supernatural forces kill them.
The cool thing about this game is that you have 5 characters who are like your typical RPG character with their own items and stats, but you can control them separately as you move through the mansion. Each one also has a unique tool item that is required to get past certain areas, like one of the characters has a lighter which is necessary to burn things.
The cool part is that you need these characters in tandem to solve puzzles and survive, essentially. If your character gets caught in a hopeless battle, they can call for help, at which point you take control of one of the other characters as you rush to the original one's rescue. You can also form parties by teaming up characters, with parties of up to three characters. Also, each character has two item slots and a weapon slot, as they can pick up items, drops items, and use weapons or replace them with better weapons.
And then your characters can die, meaning that when one character is dead, they're gone, but the game continues. I haven't played this game to the end or had all of my characters die, but I imagine the game ends when all 5 are killed. There are also replacement "tool" items scattered throughout the mansion that you can use in case a character does die(you lose access to their tool if they do). I imagine though that if you can't get past a certain part without a certain character because you can't get a replacement tool, you'll have to start over.
I've also heard the game has multiple endings, depending on how many of your characters survive. And as can be expected from such a game, the setting is sufficiently creepy, with eerie music, horrific(as best as the NES can do) looking enemies, and some pretty graphic depictions. When a character dies, it shows their body pressed against a wall in a bloody mess, before they slide to the floor, leaving a bloody trail where their face and hands were pressed to the wall.
Theres also apparently some kind of sub-plot behind the former occupants of the mansion, but I've only found trace hints as what went on. If anything, its going to make me want to play this game through to get it.
Theres actually a translation patch for the rom, translating it into English, which is how I'm able to get into it and understand whats going on. It can be found in the translations section of http://www.zophar.net. As always, rom distribution is prohibited, so I can't provide anyone with it here, in the case you're interested in playing it. Another thing to note is that the gameplay and setting had a big impact on Capcom's Resident Evil. As I said, Sweet Home was developed and published by Capcom. Its also based on a Japanese horror movie by the same name.