VGEsoterica
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Clearly the PC-FX (the successor console to the PC Engine / TurboGrafx) was a total market failure and killed NEC / Hudson's entire home hardware ambitions...but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some legit amazing games that are 100% worth checking out.
Zenki FX is one of those games. Even if NEC leaned hard on Hudson to JUST make FMV Anime games, luckily somehow Zenki snuck onto the platform to show us just what the PC-FX was capable of. Awesome and fluid 2D sprites and art, a super creative art style, solid beat em up gameplay and an actual interesting and sparingly used FMV and pre-rendered 3D mix of graphics. Honestly it's a game that makes the PC-FX worth owning even if for a single title. Sure it's expensive to own an original copy but you really don't need to own an OG disc just to play Zenki on the original hardware.
Plus it's one of those games that I am sure 90% of people have never heard of, let alone played. Which always makes it extra fun to talk about. It does work perfectly in Mednafen too which is a huge bonus.
But it's on the level of Alien vs Predator on Jaguar or Virtual Boy Wario Land; a single game that makes wanting to own the hardware it runs on seem worth it!
But I am curious what other people would say when it came to games on failed consoles that you think make the hardware worth buying just for that ONE game?
Zenki FX is one of those games. Even if NEC leaned hard on Hudson to JUST make FMV Anime games, luckily somehow Zenki snuck onto the platform to show us just what the PC-FX was capable of. Awesome and fluid 2D sprites and art, a super creative art style, solid beat em up gameplay and an actual interesting and sparingly used FMV and pre-rendered 3D mix of graphics. Honestly it's a game that makes the PC-FX worth owning even if for a single title. Sure it's expensive to own an original copy but you really don't need to own an OG disc just to play Zenki on the original hardware.
Plus it's one of those games that I am sure 90% of people have never heard of, let alone played. Which always makes it extra fun to talk about. It does work perfectly in Mednafen too which is a huge bonus.
But it's on the level of Alien vs Predator on Jaguar or Virtual Boy Wario Land; a single game that makes wanting to own the hardware it runs on seem worth it!
But I am curious what other people would say when it came to games on failed consoles that you think make the hardware worth buying just for that ONE game?