Pretty confused how this completely misses talking about the music for the platform, which is a huge piece of its technical-aesthetic history... It had the Yamaha YM2203 chip for FM Synthesis, similar to the Sega Genesis in style. (Same as a couple Capcom machines like Space Harrier, apparently?) FM composers like Yuzo Koshiro worked on the platform, and Ryu Umemoto in particular made a name for himself pushing its boundaries.
For anyone who wants a good starting place on the platform, I'd really heavily suggest the ero visual novel YU-NO. There's a recent remake with contemporary style (and it's probably a good idea to support the official release), but there's an older TLWiki translation patch for the PC version floating around the internet that basically ports the original PC-98 graphics and music over. There's also a more recent PS Vita patch with the PC-98 aesthetics that does the same. The game itself is a crazy, winding sci-fi mystery story where the main character is left a device that basically allows him to drop save points through the story; he can return to the drops with the inventory he collects but backwards in time, and he's armed knowing certain characters are scheming against him. You have to get past a very long and winding narrative that's very difficult to traverse without a guide, and a lot of very useless porn. (My favorite review blurb from Wikipedia - RPG Site counted three instances of incest and called two of them "unnecessary and gross". What was the third?? ) But it's cool to look at how the platform's technology shapes its story, and it's utterly fascinating watching a 1996 game with this much meticulous care tackling an enormous plot which becomes unbound by save slots.
If I'm being charitable, sex within a story should serve the story lest it becomes gratuitous and perhaps in that one instance, the incest porn did indeed serve the story.
YuNo was also great in that it switches from the common at the time menu based interaction format to a more modern point and click with (some) inventory puzzles.
Spoiler story, about the wikipedia review
Regarding the incest, I suppose the non objectionable one is Ayumi (who has been your stepmom for a couple years? and is probably 4-5 years older than you tops). The other two (Kanna and ...I guess Yuno?) you don't even know they are your time/dimension-travelling children, and then a throwaway line in the epilogue explains that kids in the epilogue dimension get adult bodies super fast, so Yuno (and maybe Kanna) are potentially very underage by out world standards.
Whoa... WTF. What a very very strange coincidence. I actually grew up with the author of this article. We went to elementary and high school together. And we also raved together for many years. He had a Tildes account for a brief time too, but eventually got banned. :(
I didn't know he wrote articles on this site though. I wonder if any of the other authors on the site are people I know too. (Edit: Doesn't look like it, I don't recognize the others.)
Out of curiosity, how did you find this site/article, @drannex?
I'll let him know you enjoyed his mixes. :P He was a rave promoter, and touring DnB/Jungle DJ + producer for many years. So yeah, he's got talent for sure.
Sadly, I don't think he wants to come back to Tildes though. I already tried to convince him to appeal the ban. :(
Not sure to be perfectly honest? I'll try to retrace my steps and get back on this if I can (or come back across it), but small digital world we have here!
I told Biz this old zine article of his popped up here on Tildes, BTW, and now he's also wondering how the heck you managed to come across it too. So hopefully you can remember or manage to retrace your steps somehow, since we're both really curious how this happened. It's such a bizarre coincidence. Small world indeed. :P
Lapbunny | 2 years ago
Pretty confused how this completely misses talking about the music for the platform, which is a huge piece of its technical-aesthetic history... It had the Yamaha YM2203 chip for FM Synthesis, similar to the Sega Genesis in style. (Same as a couple Capcom machines like Space Harrier, apparently?) FM composers like Yuzo Koshiro worked on the platform, and Ryu Umemoto in particular made a name for himself pushing its boundaries.
For anyone who wants a good starting place on the platform, I'd really heavily suggest the ero visual novel YU-NO. There's a recent remake with contemporary style (and it's probably a good idea to support the official release), but there's an older TLWiki translation patch for the PC version floating around the internet that basically ports the original PC-98 graphics and music over. There's also a more recent PS Vita patch with the PC-98 aesthetics that does the same. The game itself is a crazy, winding sci-fi mystery story where the main character is left a device that basically allows him to drop save points through the story; he can return to the drops with the inventory he collects but backwards in time, and he's armed knowing certain characters are scheming against him. You have to get past a very long and winding narrative that's very difficult to traverse without a guide, and a lot of very useless porn. (My favorite review blurb from Wikipedia - RPG Site counted three instances of incest and called two of them "unnecessary and gross". What was the third?? ) But it's cool to look at how the platform's technology shapes its story, and it's utterly fascinating watching a 1996 game with this much meticulous care tackling an enormous plot which becomes unbound by save slots.
Heichou | 2 years ago
I myself would very much like to know what RPG Site considered justified incest lmao
CptBluebear | 2 years ago
If I'm being charitable, sex within a story should serve the story lest it becomes gratuitous and perhaps in that one instance, the incest porn did indeed serve the story.
parsley | 2 years ago
YuNo was also great in that it switches from the common at the time menu based interaction format to a more modern point and click with (some) inventory puzzles.
Spoiler story, about the wikipedia review
Regarding the incest, I suppose the non objectionable one is Ayumi (who has been your stepmom for a couple years? and is probably 4-5 years older than you tops). The other two (Kanna and ...I guess Yuno?) you don't even know they are your time/dimension-travelling children, and then a throwaway line in the epilogue explains that kids in the epilogue dimension get adult bodies super fast, so Yuno (and maybe Kanna) are potentially very underage by out world standards.[OP] drannex | 2 years ago
I think this fits better in ~tech than ~arts, purely because it does focus on the technical history than the art itself.
cfabbro | 2 years ago
Whoa... WTF. What a very very strange coincidence. I actually grew up with the author of this article. We went to elementary and high school together. And we also raved together for many years. He had a Tildes account for a brief time too, but eventually got banned. :(
I didn't know he wrote articles on this site though. I wonder if any of the other authors on the site are people I know too. (Edit: Doesn't look like it, I don't recognize the others.)
Out of curiosity, how did you find this site/article, @drannex?
p.s. If you like DnB, his YouTube channel has some great music:
https://www.youtube.com/@HCKRSDNB
slashtab | 2 years ago
whoa!! those are some nice DNB mixes. Thanks for recommendation.
call him back to tildes :)
cfabbro | 2 years ago
I'll let him know you enjoyed his mixes. :P He was a rave promoter, and touring DnB/Jungle DJ + producer for many years. So yeah, he's got talent for sure.
Sadly, I don't think he wants to come back to Tildes though. I already tried to convince him to appeal the ban. :(
[OP] drannex | 2 years ago
Not sure to be perfectly honest? I'll try to retrace my steps and get back on this if I can (or come back across it), but small digital world we have here!
cfabbro | 2 years ago
I told Biz this old zine article of his popped up here on Tildes, BTW, and now he's also wondering how the heck you managed to come across it too. So hopefully you can remember or manage to retrace your steps somehow, since we're both really curious how this happened. It's such a bizarre coincidence. Small world indeed. :P