Time for a new post outlining my next set of games. As usual, I took my full list from a variety of sources, some of which are very liberal in labeling something an RPG. There’s also a burst of PCE games in this section. The bolded games are the ones I will be playing.
The first three games on the list are all games that I think qualify as Action RPGs, but I’m not 100% certain about any of them.
- Lady Stalker: Challenge from the Past
- Mahoujin Guruguru
- Rejoice: From Far Aretha’s Kingdom (the last game in the Aretha series)
- La Wares (This game is notorious as a kusoge)
- River Fishing 2 (this game may technically qualify but it’s mostly a fishing game rather than an RPG, and I’m not a big fan of fishing games.)
- PCE Gulliver Boy (This is a different game from the Super Famicom RPG of the same name, although both based on the same anime)
- Elfaria II (Sequel to the auto battle game I played earlier)
- PCE Nekketsu Legend Baseballer
- Princess Minerva (I already played the PCE version)
- Ruin Arm
- Der Langrisser (I played the PC-FX version on the SRPG side)
- Gran Historia
- Little Master 3 (already done on the SRPG side
- Tottemo! Lucky Man (I may reevaluate this when I reach this point, but I don’t believe this quite qualifies as an action RPG for me.)
- PCE Xanadu II (Apparently much shorter and simpler than the first Xanadu game)
No big names in this list. The huge hitter for 1995 will be the last set (October-December), although the next block does have Seiken Densetsu 3 in it.
I’ve heard about Lady Stalker. It’s supposed to be a successor to Landstalker, an action-adventure game which for some reason gets labeled as a “RPG” despite not having level ups or random battles or other RPG hallmarks. You could argue there’s character progression similar to in the Zelda games, but the Zelda games are not RPGs either – with the exception of Zelda 2.
From what I’ve seen, Lady Stalker actually does look like it qualifies as a RPG though, so that should be interesting to read about.