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posts from @Snakeman tagged #shockman

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So it's been over 2 years since I tackled the first Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman on my channel and in those years the entire series now has official re-releases outside of Japan. Before, the only title to leave Japan was Shubibinman 2, known as ShockMan over here. The remaining 2 games I'd like to cover for the series is Shubibinman Zero which came out via Satellaview and Shubibinman 3 for the PC-Engine CD-Rom². While Zero does have a fan translation, both 3 and Zero's re-releases have new "official" translations.

So I guess my question is, are the re-releases worth it to stream? They were put out by Ratalaika Games and I remember hearing middling to ok things about some of their earlier releases. I'm usually an actual hardware guy so its pretty easy for me to set up the SNES via Everdrive or my PC-Engine Duo with a copy of the 3rd game but if the re-release is quality then it'd feel kinda silly skipping over using that. I guess another big question is how important is a translation to these 2 games? I managed to play the 1st Shubibinman in Japanese and I don't think I need to retread it for an English translation.