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iiotenki
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It's Japanese adventure game week as I've been making a few test purchases to get to know how to actually use Yahoo Japan Auctions now that I'm in Japan and don't have to rely on proxies to bid on stuff. Still intend to keep online purchases to a minimum here because I really do enjoy hunting through Japanese game shops in person, but even I can't resist the siren call of a few Saturn bangers, so here we are. 😌

Left game is, of course, Snatcher, a game that needs no real introduction other than to say that it's my hope to properly catch up on the "rest" of Kojima's adventure game catalog soonish, having gone about it completely backwards and played through his team's fantastic, genuinely vital Tokimeki Memorial games first, as I've written about on here before. The game on the right, meanwhile, is Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari, which essentially has you traveling around Tohoku as you play rounds of hanafuda (mainly koi koi) against pretty anime ladies for the chance to take photos of them as they model in front of real world backdrops. It's the direct predecessor to FOG's long-running Fuuraiki, a travel-em-up series very near and dear to my heart that I've covered elsewhere before and will probably get around to talking about on here soon enough because boy do I have some words that need to be written about those games.

What can I say? 2022 is the year of the Saturn for me and honestly, it's been better than ever.


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in reply to @iiotenki's post:

Sure! Michinoku is a lot rougher around the edges in terms of its writing than even the first Fuuraiki, so I wouldn't necessarily call it essential (and certainly not the Saturn version, which is a lot pricier simply because it has some friskier CGs for that particular audience). But it's a very breezy six hour-ish romp that still feels unique given that history, so if you find yourself wanting to dig into it for its connections to Fuuraiki, I'd say it's still worthwhile on that end. (The secret route in Fuuraiki 1 also draws directly from it, which is a fun touch.) Just be sure to grab the Kai version for the PS1, which is both a lot cheaper and also way easier than the original PS1 release, which has infamously hard hanafuda AI, ahaha.

Have a hard time imagining using YAJ now that Mercari and friends bring all of the purchasing flow a bit to the 21st century lol. Haven’t had to use it in a while but remember having to do bank transfers by hand and figuring everything out

Yeah, I definitely use and prefer Mercari, too. It's just when you go down my particular rabbit holes (arcade PCBs, etc.), a lot of sellers seem to still favor Yahoo by far, so either I deal with the rustiness or get nothing, ahaha.