Since I had this saved in my drafts, I guess I'll share it: a link to freely and legally download and patch to English the awesome Chinese RPG The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1.
I've seen a fair share of people around playing classic turn-based JRPGs, like the first Final Fantasy games, the first Trails games and such. To those people (and to anyone curious about the story of the genre), I beg you: give this game a try.
Trust me, I wasn't very convinced when I started this game. But it has so much going on from the start that by the end of the first hour playing, I was completely hooked by it.
Even if there are things to improve in the formula (the inventory and shop system requires a bit of trial/error to find the best items to equip, for example), and there are some eyebrow-raising moments in the story, the game positively surprised me with some very interesting decisions in his mechanics and narrative.
I understood why this was a massive success in China, sparking a love for this saga that is still alive almost 30 years later, and I think it would have also been a well-regarded game in other countries if it had been localized at his time. It felt really different from anything else that I had played before.
Hope you enjoy this journey into the Chinese mythology!
Update: the web I posted previously doesn't work anymore, this one should do! Thanks @PlushMayhem for noticing and providing the new link!
I’m gonna mention again that I made a patch for the game client to render English text at a more reasonable size and I’ve been editing the English script (with reference to the original Chinese) to be more fluid and nuanced with all this new free real estate. It’s a long term project with no promises on when it’ll be done, certainly not by the time cohost goes read-only, so, check my mastodon 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange or my website https://0xabad1dea.github.io I guess
