Iriliane
@iriliane.bsky.social
Japanese to English translator and retro game enthusiast.
May have an unhealthy addiction to retro game shopping.
May have an unhealthy addiction to retro game shopping.
I have a (currently slightly stalled) run on the go right now.
Sheds a bit of the Momotaro Densetsu influence the first one had and becomes more of its own thing. It's good stuff!
Sheds a bit of the Momotaro Densetsu influence the first one had and becomes more of its own thing. It's good stuff!
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I have a (currently slightly stalled) run on the go right now.
Sheds a bit of the Momotaro Densetsu influence the first one had and becomes more of its own thing. It's good stuff!
Sheds a bit of the Momotaro Densetsu influence the first one had and becomes more of its own thing. It's good stuff!
The original is up on Aozora Bunko, since it's out of copyright.
www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081...
There are also multiple anime adaptations of it that have been fansubbed over the years.
www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081...
There are also multiple anime adaptations of it that have been fansubbed over the years.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The original is up on Aozora Bunko, since it's out of copyright.
www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081...
There are also multiple anime adaptations of it that have been fansubbed over the years.
www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081...
There are also multiple anime adaptations of it that have been fansubbed over the years.
That Wildcat Cafe sequence is an homage to a short story by Kenji Miyazawa called The Restaurant of Many Orders about a couple of hunters who find a strange restaurant in the woods and, after following increasingly strange instructions, find out they've been preparing themselves to be on the menu.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
That Wildcat Cafe sequence is an homage to a short story by Kenji Miyazawa called The Restaurant of Many Orders about a couple of hunters who find a strange restaurant in the woods and, after following increasingly strange instructions, find out they've been preparing themselves to be on the menu.
It really is excellent.
If you're looking for something thematically along the same lines, I also had a good time with Bluesteel Variable Formula -Space Griffon- for Dreamcast. (That one also has a PS1 game, Space Griffon VF-9, that it's a remake of, but I haven't played that version yet.)
If you're looking for something thematically along the same lines, I also had a good time with Bluesteel Variable Formula -Space Griffon- for Dreamcast. (That one also has a PS1 game, Space Griffon VF-9, that it's a remake of, but I haven't played that version yet.)
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It really is excellent.
If you're looking for something thematically along the same lines, I also had a good time with Bluesteel Variable Formula -Space Griffon- for Dreamcast. (That one also has a PS1 game, Space Griffon VF-9, that it's a remake of, but I haven't played that version yet.)
If you're looking for something thematically along the same lines, I also had a good time with Bluesteel Variable Formula -Space Griffon- for Dreamcast. (That one also has a PS1 game, Space Griffon VF-9, that it's a remake of, but I haven't played that version yet.)
Thanks!
I've been enjoying your posts too. I've got a pile of the older Memories Off titles on Dreamcast that I should check out at some point.
I've been enjoying your posts too. I've got a pile of the older Memories Off titles on Dreamcast that I should check out at some point.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Thanks!
I've been enjoying your posts too. I've got a pile of the older Memories Off titles on Dreamcast that I should check out at some point.
I've been enjoying your posts too. I've got a pile of the older Memories Off titles on Dreamcast that I should check out at some point.
I've definitely appreciated having you around (and enjoyed checking out your posts too, which are much more insightful)!
There are only so many of us in the English-speaker who plays in Japanese category, so it's definitely a niche.
There are only so many of us in the English-speaker who plays in Japanese category, so it's definitely a niche.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I've definitely appreciated having you around (and enjoyed checking out your posts too, which are much more insightful)!
There are only so many of us in the English-speaker who plays in Japanese category, so it's definitely a niche.
There are only so many of us in the English-speaker who plays in Japanese category, so it's definitely a niche.
The feeling's mutual. I enjoy your retro computer posts, and it's always nice to see you spreading the good word of Lunacy for the Sega Saturn.
(I wanted to play the first Mansion of Hidden Souls for Halloween, but work kept me busy. Alas. I'll get to it someday!)
(I wanted to play the first Mansion of Hidden Souls for Halloween, but work kept me busy. Alas. I'll get to it someday!)
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The feeling's mutual. I enjoy your retro computer posts, and it's always nice to see you spreading the good word of Lunacy for the Sega Saturn.
(I wanted to play the first Mansion of Hidden Souls for Halloween, but work kept me busy. Alas. I'll get to it someday!)
(I wanted to play the first Mansion of Hidden Souls for Halloween, but work kept me busy. Alas. I'll get to it someday!)
It's been fun keeping a sort of public gaming diary, and interacting with people a little here and there.
Everyone on here has been lovely, and I just wanted to say thank you for all your kindness.
Everyone on here has been lovely, and I just wanted to say thank you for all your kindness.
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It's been fun keeping a sort of public gaming diary, and interacting with people a little here and there.
Everyone on here has been lovely, and I just wanted to say thank you for all your kindness.
Everyone on here has been lovely, and I just wanted to say thank you for all your kindness.
It's apparently an issue with the PS4 version too.
I was forewarned by a JP post talking about that version, so I made a point of saving frequently (well, as frequently as I can when you can't save inside levels).
It's annoying when it happens in a boss fight, but hasn't made me give up yet.
I was forewarned by a JP post talking about that version, so I made a point of saving frequently (well, as frequently as I can when you can't save inside levels).
It's annoying when it happens in a boss fight, but hasn't made me give up yet.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It's apparently an issue with the PS4 version too.
I was forewarned by a JP post talking about that version, so I made a point of saving frequently (well, as frequently as I can when you can't save inside levels).
It's annoying when it happens in a boss fight, but hasn't made me give up yet.
I was forewarned by a JP post talking about that version, so I made a point of saving frequently (well, as frequently as I can when you can't save inside levels).
It's annoying when it happens in a boss fight, but hasn't made me give up yet.
It's got a pretty standard isekai plot. MC falls into a sinkhole with his fiance who's not that into him and they get sent to a weird SF world with a bunch of other folks.
Also, he's possessed by an evil glove that's voiced by Takehito Koyasu and shouts chuuni lines at the start of every battle.
Also, he's possessed by an evil glove that's voiced by Takehito Koyasu and shouts chuuni lines at the start of every battle.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's got a pretty standard isekai plot. MC falls into a sinkhole with his fiance who's not that into him and they get sent to a weird SF world with a bunch of other folks.
Also, he's possessed by an evil glove that's voiced by Takehito Koyasu and shouts chuuni lines at the start of every battle.
Also, he's possessed by an evil glove that's voiced by Takehito Koyasu and shouts chuuni lines at the start of every battle.
This being on Vita means I can take screenshots that aren't just me pointing my cellphone camera at the screen. Fancy.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This being on Vita means I can take screenshots that aren't just me pointing my cellphone camera at the screen. Fancy.
I appreciated the Skies of Arcadia cast having cameos as recruitable soldiers in this one. (Vyse even managed to make it into the anime adaptation!)
Never did finish it, but I should definitely go back someday.
Never did finish it, but I should definitely go back someday.
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I appreciated the Skies of Arcadia cast having cameos as recruitable soldiers in this one. (Vyse even managed to make it into the anime adaptation!)
Never did finish it, but I should definitely go back someday.
Never did finish it, but I should definitely go back someday.
Yeah, I definitely need to spend more time with it. I'm only on my second loop. Good mix of different stories so far.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Yeah, I definitely need to spend more time with it. I'm only on my second loop. Good mix of different stories so far.
There's also a remake, アパシー学校であった怖い話 Visual Novel Version, I've just realized is up on Steam.
I kind of dig the low budget "just stick some developers in school uniforms whether they look the right age or not" aesthetic this original has, but it's a more accessible option, albeit untranslated.
I kind of dig the low budget "just stick some developers in school uniforms whether they look the right age or not" aesthetic this original has, but it's a more accessible option, albeit untranslated.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There's also a remake, アパシー学校であった怖い話 Visual Novel Version, I've just realized is up on Steam.
I kind of dig the low budget "just stick some developers in school uniforms whether they look the right age or not" aesthetic this original has, but it's a more accessible option, albeit untranslated.
I kind of dig the low budget "just stick some developers in school uniforms whether they look the right age or not" aesthetic this original has, but it's a more accessible option, albeit untranslated.
There's apparently something like fifty or so stories in total, and a follow-up game called Tsukikomori with a similar concept.
The PS1 version apparently lets you choose your gender, which changes how some of the stories go, but the SFC version is all I've got, so it's what I'm playing.
The PS1 version apparently lets you choose your gender, which changes how some of the stories go, but the SFC version is all I've got, so it's what I'm playing.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There's apparently something like fifty or so stories in total, and a follow-up game called Tsukikomori with a similar concept.
The PS1 version apparently lets you choose your gender, which changes how some of the stories go, but the SFC version is all I've got, so it's what I'm playing.
The PS1 version apparently lets you choose your gender, which changes how some of the stories go, but the SFC version is all I've got, so it's what I'm playing.
You pick one of the six interviewees (the seventh storyteller not having shown up) and depending on the order you ask them in, they'll tell a different story.
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You pick one of the six interviewees (the seventh storyteller not having shown up) and depending on the order you ask them in, they'll tell a different story.
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Every game over, a girl yelled at me to しっかりしろよ！！
It's only a couple hours long, assuming that you don't get a game over, so when I finish my current Famicom RPG I'll try again and see if i can get an おめでとう！！ instead.
It's only a couple hours long, assuming that you don't get a game over, so when I finish my current Famicom RPG I'll try again and see if i can get an おめでとう！！ instead.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Every game over, a girl yelled at me to しっかりしろよ！！
It's only a couple hours long, assuming that you don't get a game over, so when I finish my current Famicom RPG I'll try again and see if i can get an おめでとう！！ instead.
It's only a couple hours long, assuming that you don't get a game over, so when I finish my current Famicom RPG I'll try again and see if i can get an おめでとう！！ instead.
I've been meaning to give this another go now that I actually know how to equip stuff, but work has been keeping me busy this month, and I've gotten around to less spooky games than I planned to going into it.
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I've been meaning to give this another go now that I actually know how to equip stuff, but work has been keeping me busy this month, and I've gotten around to less spooky games than I planned to going into it.
I wanted to take mine on the train with me, but then I realized it has no built in headphone jack, and there's no way I'm playing Makai Toushi SaGa without the music.
No luck finding the headphone adapter out in the wild yet.
No luck finding the headphone adapter out in the wild yet.
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I wanted to take mine on the train with me, but then I realized it has no built in headphone jack, and there's no way I'm playing Makai Toushi SaGa without the music.
No luck finding the headphone adapter out in the wild yet.
No luck finding the headphone adapter out in the wild yet.
Yeah, no relation here other than the thematic one.
I figured why not follow up one Greek/Roman mythology inspired Famicom RPG with another.
I've had Heracles 2-4 sitting around for a while, and finally managed to pick this one up while I was in Tokyo, so it was already on my mind.
I figured why not follow up one Greek/Roman mythology inspired Famicom RPG with another.
I've had Heracles 2-4 sitting around for a while, and finally managed to pick this one up while I was in Tokyo, so it was already on my mind.
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yeah, no relation here other than the thematic one.
I figured why not follow up one Greek/Roman mythology inspired Famicom RPG with another.
I've had Heracles 2-4 sitting around for a while, and finally managed to pick this one up while I was in Tokyo, so it was already on my mind.
I figured why not follow up one Greek/Roman mythology inspired Famicom RPG with another.
I've had Heracles 2-4 sitting around for a while, and finally managed to pick this one up while I was in Tokyo, so it was already on my mind.
Playing with a guide did mean that I ended up with all of the Zeus equipment, which kind of trivialized the final boss. Poor Hades couldn't do more than one damage a turn as I crushed him in only a few hits. Oops.
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Playing with a guide did mean that I ended up with all of the Zeus equipment, which kind of trivialized the final boss. Poor Hades couldn't do more than one damage a turn as I crushed him in only a few hits. Oops.
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)