In this episode of PC-98 Paradise I talk all about the very first game in TGL’s “Farland” series: “Farland Story” from 1993. I also talk all about one of my old favorite Japanese PC game developers TGL.
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00:00 Intro: Who is TGL?
02:13 Packaging
02:47 Installation
04:24 Opening
05:04 The game!
10:48 The Plot
12:37 Music & Soundtrack
15:08 SPOILERS!
16:45 some downsides
18:11 Taiwan MS-DOS version
18:34 Super Famicom version
19:02 PC-FX version
20:03 PlayStation version
20:27 Windows version
21:06 What happened to TGL?
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Yet another beatiful RPG series that i would have never known if not because of your videos.
It would be wonderful to see you play thru the rest of these games and sharing your experience of the pc98 paradise
1:15 – The guy on the left is about a 93% match to Ryu's artwork from Street Fighter Alpha 3!
Lovely video mate! I definitely want to see more of the games in this series!!
I must say that after this video i'll probably add another bunch of games to my never ending list of japanese games to catchup (Why there is so many interesting games and so little time to play them?). I love this 90s anime artworks from cover and manual, and comic chibi graphics in game are also good. And because i'm trying to play whole Fire Emblem series in this year i saw many similarities to early FE games, for example with how promoting of characters works. I'll gladly watch videos about rest of Farland Story games.
Wow! Didn' t know that Entergram, the company who did the two Konosuba RPG, is actually TGL! This is a surprise!
This is so crazy to look back on… I actually played most all the Farland Story games in a somewhat unorthodox way. In highschool we were given little computers to complete assignments during class, but instead of doing math I'd visit a website that let you play the english version of these games in browser! I ended up completing all of them. The difficulty was nothing compared to fire emblem, but the chibis were 10x cuter. It was probably the first PC-98 game I ever played. Anyhow, thank you for bringing back such good memories. Your videos are always a blast to watch, I especially like seeing the convoluted installation process!
I could see myself playing one of these. I will have to see if I can get the english translation working with my MiSTer. I hope that is one of the better games in the series. I'm guessing it is if someone bothered to translate it.
Great video! Thanks for letting me listen, and watch.
Pumping out 6 games in a series in two years is just, wow. At that point it's pretty much an episodic series.
This looks fun
Didn't know you actually live in Japan.
I find this series about Japanese home computer games fascinating despite having never even heard of most
Great video! I seen u mentioned langrisser which i really love too for the artstyle alone! I hope you will do videos about that series! Lol
Falcom and Hudson Soft games always deliver on the Soundtrack department. Colorful games too
For some reason when I read the thumbnail title I missed the question mark and thought I was going to watch a video about a turn-based game fueled by hate 🙂
Seals… Why does it always have to be seals…
Finally someone talks about only in japan games i notice a lot of retro gamers leave these ones behind which is shame. by the way do you know any List or website that has a complet list of pc fx98 and other pc platforms (or a least most of them i know its impossible to have all of them)?i arleady have complete lists for consoles but i need ones for PC
I'd definitely love to see you cover the rest of this series! It seems like an easier carbon copy of Fire Emblem, so if you love this series then you'll probably love FE even more.
Is there a good PC-98 emulator out there? My brother and I would love to give this game a shot!
I barely knew this series even existed; as a Fire Emblem fan though, it looks fascinating! I would love to see more coverage of the Farland games :3 Thank you for making this video!
Hearing that a game this old had an autosave feature made my eyes bug out of my head.
I've been running out of Strategy RPGs to play, and have been thinking about giving this a shot at some point.
Can you please correct me if I'm wrong about the series? From what I understand, there's:
Farland Story 1-7 on PC-98, which all have full English fan-translations
Farland Story 8 on PC-98, which does NOT have an English fan-translation
Farland Symphony on Windows, which has a full English fan-translation
Is that accurate? Am I missing anything?
Would love to see your cover more classic TGL games
I enjoy all your videos, so I don't have strong feelings on covering the whole Farland series or not. I do think documenting the whole series like this would be a good reference work. But it would mean fewer videos on other games. But it seems like you'd enjoy playing through the series, and that counts for something too!
Maybe aim to complete the series, but not necessarily in sequential videos?
Well, regardless, I look forward to future videos. This is the only channel I've found in English or Japanese that covers PC-88/98 games with such quality videos.