Niki-chan (niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:06:54 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Message-ID: <001a01be6637$7f370820$3546a5ce@ia160.sanctum.com> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:06:54 -0500 From: Niki-chan <niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM> Subject: Re: Sakura Taisen: How did you find out about it and decide to buy it?
Hee hee....another person found out about ST through GameFan...join the
club! I wanted that game for like a year...till my boyfriend finally got it
for me last Christmas! He also bought me ST2, and Tsushin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jose Barragán <devilot@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
<SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 2:22 AM
Subject: Sakura Taisen: How did you find out about it and decide to buy it?
>I was just wondering...how did people here on the list find out about the
>Sakura Taisen game series and finally decide to buy one of the games?
>Anyone willing to share his/her introduction to the Sakura Taisen
>experience?^_^
>Let me start off by telling you guys how I found out about Sakura Taisen.
>GameFan. Yep, that magazine which is now pretty much considered a has-been
>laughingstock had a wonderful 2-page import review by Takuhi on the
original
>Sakura Taisen (I'll never forget the phrase "Hey! You got a strategy game
>in my dating simulator!"). The unusual mix of steam-powered mecha with
>cute anime girls, as well as the storyline and the romantic possibilities
>(I'd never played a dating sim at that point, and was more than a little
>intrigued by the prospect). Considering how cool it looked, (even then
>Takuhi mentioned that the game would probably become a fan favorite) I
>figured it would eventually get translated to the US. I wasn't about to
buy
>the import version, considering how text-intensive the game obviously was.
>I'd only recently gotten a Saturn and wasn't really into import gaming at
>that point (I owned some import Dragon Ball Z games, but they were all
>fighters...didn't see the point in buying something with a lot of Japanese
>text I couldn't understand). I read and re-read the review longingly,
>ogling at the oodles of screenshots, hoping against hope that it would get
>picked up for US release. A short while after that, I got into import
>gaming on the Saturn on a somewhat serious level. I bought Cyberbots (the
>Limited Edition, naturally...all the best for my dear Devilot and her
>Super-8!), got a converter, and began slobbering over the import titles
>available overseas. I saw a screenshot (featuring Sumire) in the back of
>the last issue of Game On! magazine. Reading the scant information in the
>preview (character designs by the guy who did Oh My Goddess!...some other
>stuff I can't remember), I decided to try to find out more on the web. My
>quest led me to Ming's Sakura Taisen page. After finding pictures of Kanna
>and falling head over heels in love (heheeh), and seeing that Ming was
>working on a translation of the game, and that it was probably never going
>to see the light of day via any company...I decided to go ahead and import
>the game. This was early in the summer of '97, I think. The game arrived
>about a week before I was set to go on a month-long trip to Spain (the most
>beautiful country in the world, IMO). I decided not to open the game until
>after I got back (I didn't want to start and leave it halfway through and
be
>miserable the whole month in Spain waiting to get back to finish playing
>it). Once I did get back, the first thing I did was put the game into my
>Saturn, watch the intro, play chapter one...and then promptly ignored it as
>more and more US PSX RPGs got released. Sakura Taisen took its place in
the
>back burner where games such as Tactics Ogre and Tales of Destiny still
>lie.^_^ A few months pass, I get tired of the PSX RPGs I've got, and
decide
>to take out my dusty Saturn. I looked at my CD rack full of games, and one
>game definitely stood out. Sakura Taisen. I wanted to play that game, but
>was still a bit nervous about my lack of knowledge regarding Japanese.
>Nevertheless, I printed out the chapters Ming had translated, began the
game
>anew from Chapter 1 and the rest...is history.^_^
>Anyone else want to talk about how they got into playing the game?