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| Spoon 1531th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):so-and-so's" , posted Thu 13 Mar 11:28
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I've never played a Mysterious Dungeon game. How exactly does it play? Also, don't Izuna and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon also count?
Indeed they do, and I mentioned them in my post :D
The Mysterious Dungeon games are based on an ancient game design which has come to be known as "rogue-like" in honor of the first game, Rogue. Wikipedia for more deatiled info.
Rogue-likes tend to be signified by 3 things:
- tiled, randomly generated dungeons
- "synchronized real time": it's turn based in that enemies don't move until you move and you take turns hitting each other, but whenever you take a step the enemies can take a step (or more)
- death and difficulty: you are going to die, when you die you are going to lose everything you are carrying on you, and you can't just hit "load game"
Now, some of the DS games like the Pokemon one and Shiren have the "rescue" feature, where when you die you can go into a special state, go online, and pray for somebody else to go online as a "rescuer". Or you can choose not to wait for rescue and just start back at whereever back at level 1. I can't remember if the Pokemon one is more lenient with regards to its penalties for death. Izuna and Shiren also have warehouses where you can cache items.
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| sfried
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| "Re(3):so-and-so's" , posted Thu 13 Mar 12:18:
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Rogue-likes tend to be signified by 3 things:
- tiled, randomly generated dungeons
- "synchronized real time": it's turn based in that enemies don't move until you move and you take turns hitting each other, but whenever you take a step the enemies can take a step (or more)
- death and difficulty: you are going to die, when you die you are going to lose everything you are carrying on you, and you can't just hit "load game"
Now, some of the DS games like the Pokemon one and Shiren have the "rescue" feature, where when you die you can go into a special state, go online, and pray for somebody else to go online as a "rescuer". Or you can choose not to wait for rescue and just start back at whereever back at level 1. I can't remember if the Pokemon one is more lenient with regards to its penalties for death. Izuna and Shiren also have warehouses where you can cache items.
Ah, I see. Would Yoda Stories count as being anything remotely like a Rogue-like?
[this message was edited by sfried on Thu 13 Mar 12:24] |
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