Started Raidou 1 yesterday. I only ever played this very briefly. Not much past the tutorial actually, so no existing save to start from this time, I just started a new game. Let's go!
Ah, crap. Welcome back to the PS2.
At least they put a bit more work into this PAL version than they did with Digital Devil Saga. Well, it's a different publisher anyway. Luckily, the 60Hz mode really is an NTSC mode and not PAL60, which means I can use that and still use my capture card.
The title screen looks really nice. I really like the overall art style and the setting in this game.
First off: The tutorial. Ugh. Oh well, this one isn't very long and I guess coming from other SMT games, it really is necessary.
We also get introduced to our new sidekick, who is, of course, a black cat.
So, this is where we will work. And immediately there is a new and strange case to work on. We are to meet with a girl on a bridge. Spooky.
Actually, she wants us to kill her (why don't do your dirty work yourself?), but before we can think about it, she gets kidnapped by the Soulless Army the game title told us so much about.
First fight! Well, if they are the first real enemies, they can't be so tough then, can they? Well, wrong. One hit and we're down. But at least we managed to hit them first!
But at least we got our first real case and a clue to the girl's identity as well. Chapter 1 can finally start. I'm a bit sad they want for the simple text on black background for the chapter introduction. They should have done something a bit nicer like some artwork like in Project Zero (I guess the butterfly made me think of PZ). Oh well, it's not really that important.
We now get our first chance to explore town. With a bit of demon trickery we get some information about the girl's identity. Seems like she belong to the Daidouji family, so maybe we should stop at their residence. But first we should take a look around. There are random fights in the city and a chance to recruit a new demon. With Alp we can now read the minds of people, not very nice, but noone has to know.
Also, we get to meet Dr. Frankenstein, who is in charge of fusing demons in this game. That was this thing you do in SMT games that are not DDS.
The map screen looks really nice, but it also has this annoying feature, that you have to use specific exits of the town to get to where you want to go. So, let's go to the Daidouji family residence.
Here we learn, that the girl's name is Kaya and that she actually went missing 10 days ago. Also, we learn that butler of the family seems to hate us for some reason, so we have to use a demon to sneak past him and find that photo. Seems she goes to Ouran High, so let's ask around there.
But first, let's take a look around the residence. There are a lot more employees we can ask (and bribe and intimidate) to learn a bit more about the family. And there are also some new demons you can encounter. For the strongest one, the Agathion, you have to be at level 8 (we came here at level 5), so it took a bit of grinding.
Afterwards we go back to town and pay a visit to Frankenstein to fuse a new demon. With 1:34 hours on the clock, we decide it's enough for today and head back to the agency to rest.
(Sadly, my stupid laptop somehow couldn't handle all the recording and more or less broke down while recording the video, so I couldn't take screenshots of the last few minutes. But really it was only missing about 5 minutes or so.)
Ah, crap. Welcome back to the PS2.
At least they put a bit more work into this PAL version than they did with Digital Devil Saga. Well, it's a different publisher anyway. Luckily, the 60Hz mode really is an NTSC mode and not PAL60, which means I can use that and still use my capture card.
The title screen looks really nice. I really like the overall art style and the setting in this game.
First off: The tutorial. Ugh. Oh well, this one isn't very long and I guess coming from other SMT games, it really is necessary.
We also get introduced to our new sidekick, who is, of course, a black cat.
So, this is where we will work. And immediately there is a new and strange case to work on. We are to meet with a girl on a bridge. Spooky.
Actually, she wants us to kill her (why don't do your dirty work yourself?), but before we can think about it, she gets kidnapped by the Soulless Army the game title told us so much about.
First fight! Well, if they are the first real enemies, they can't be so tough then, can they? Well, wrong. One hit and we're down. But at least we managed to hit them first!
But at least we got our first real case and a clue to the girl's identity as well. Chapter 1 can finally start. I'm a bit sad they want for the simple text on black background for the chapter introduction. They should have done something a bit nicer like some artwork like in Project Zero (I guess the butterfly made me think of PZ). Oh well, it's not really that important.
We now get our first chance to explore town. With a bit of demon trickery we get some information about the girl's identity. Seems like she belong to the Daidouji family, so maybe we should stop at their residence. But first we should take a look around. There are random fights in the city and a chance to recruit a new demon. With Alp we can now read the minds of people, not very nice, but noone has to know.
Also, we get to meet Dr. Frankenstein, who is in charge of fusing demons in this game. That was this thing you do in SMT games that are not DDS.
The map screen looks really nice, but it also has this annoying feature, that you have to use specific exits of the town to get to where you want to go. So, let's go to the Daidouji family residence.
Here we learn, that the girl's name is Kaya and that she actually went missing 10 days ago. Also, we learn that butler of the family seems to hate us for some reason, so we have to use a demon to sneak past him and find that photo. Seems she goes to Ouran High, so let's ask around there.
But first, let's take a look around the residence. There are a lot more employees we can ask (and bribe and intimidate) to learn a bit more about the family. And there are also some new demons you can encounter. For the strongest one, the Agathion, you have to be at level 8 (we came here at level 5), so it took a bit of grinding.
Afterwards we go back to town and pay a visit to Frankenstein to fuse a new demon. With 1:34 hours on the clock, we decide it's enough for today and head back to the agency to rest.
(Sadly, my stupid laptop somehow couldn't handle all the recording and more or less broke down while recording the video, so I couldn't take screenshots of the last few minutes. But really it was only missing about 5 minutes or so.)
