Gerald Lee (gleee@UCDAVIS.EDU)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:17:48 -0800
X-Sender: godai@peseta.ucdavis.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Message-ID: <19990304162804.FKCT21746.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@C60345-A> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:17:48 -0800 From: Gerald Lee <gleee@UCDAVIS.EDU> Subject: Re: Sakura Taisen: How did you find out about it and decide to buy it?
Heh heh, this time I'll explain it for myself moonprince. ^-^
Well actually most of what Moonprince said is true. He was explaining to
me how cool this game called Sakura Taisen is, I was kind of skeptical but
I later found out the artist for ST is none other than the person whu drew
OMG so I took a chance. Yeah Yeah, MP here was showing me all these sites
and it seems as if I'm over at Ming's ST site everyday while I should have
studied... Anyways, I didn't get my Saturn til Feb (and paid LESS) than MP
paid for his Saturn. heh heh ^-^ I really liked the game! At first I
didn't know who to pick for my girl but it's fun to pick Iris! (Much to
MP's dismay) I bet he secretly wants her too. heh heh Ok about the biter
part... after I played ST, I just had to get Iris's theme song! So, I got
the ST soundtrack, and later the ST2 soundtrack after I played ST2. Guess
what? MP wound up getting the ST CD single instead. I have no idea why
since I know he liked Sakura's theme (Even though Iris's theme is way
better ^-^ ). I guess he didn't want to bite off me. But after I bought
my ST2 soundtrack, he quickly bought it too! So what MP says is true, he
just forgot to mention about the CD soundtracks. ^-^
(Long live Iris!)
-Gerald Lee
At 04:46 AM 3/4/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> > 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...
>