mp (thuey@UCDAVIS.EDU)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:46:41 -0800
X-Sender: ez073369@dogbert.ucdavis.edu Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9903040437250.22624-100000@dogbert.ucdavis.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:46:41 -0800 From: mp <thuey@UCDAVIS.EDU> Subject: Re: Sakura Taisen: How did you find out about it and decide to buy it?
> > Anyone else want to talk about how they got into playing the game?
>
> Yeah. Moonprince told me to. I already knew I liked the music after looting the
> redknight ftp site. Getting the game was a natural step.
Hey, Moonprince told me to get it too!!! j/k =) I'll speak for
Gerald/Godai too cuz I convinced him to get ST...
Anyway, the way I discovered Sakura Taisen I think was just research on
the Saturn. I wanted a Saturn originally for Rayearth as I had recently
got into that anime. But as I liked toward Japan for their anime games, I
came across Sakura Taisen... Wait. Lemme back up. I initially heard of
ST through... *gasp* a SonMay catalog. I looked at the cover for the game
OST and I liked the art/char designs. "What kind of anime is this?" I
thought. Back to the saturn story. Anyway, I started researching import
Saturn stuff and came across ST. It was then that I realized that ST was
a game and not an anime. I read interesting reviews on the game(mainly
the one on Dave's Sega Saturn page, sega-saturn.com, dunno if exists
anymore), and knew I had to try it.
So after buying Slayers Royal and borrowing my cousin's Saturn for a
couple months, I eventually got my own Saturn in Jan '98. I wanted ST but
my brother(who works at an import game store) said ST was hard to get.
BUT, I later learned about the Feb rerelease and was overjoyed. So the
day it came out was the day I became a Sakura Taisen fan. I admit for the
first couple episodes, I "floated" through the game. The adventure mode
was too "foreign" to me. But once I got used to it more and more, it
became much more than a game- more like an experience.
Of course once I told Gerald about it, he HAD to copy me and got one too.
When ST2 came out, I picked it up that day(incidentally I beat ST for the
first time as my brother was coming home with ST2 in his hands...). And
once I told Gerald I had ST2, he then orders ST2... heh heh. What a
biter...