Der Langrisser FX appeared on the PC-FX in 1996, about two years after the game's original Mega Drive debut as the more straightforwardly titled Langrisser II, one year after Der Langrisser, the first of what would turn out to be several remakes, appeared on the Super Famicom, and roughly a year before the game finally made the leap … Continue reading A big game for a dead console
Power DoLLS FX, released in 1996 for NEC's poorly received PC Engine follow-up, the PC-FX, is one of several remakes of the original PC-98 game Power DoLLS, a Kogado Studio "Scenario Simulation Game" featuring an all-woman cast stomping around in giant mechs on the distant planet Omni in the far future. The grid-like nature of the battlefields, marketable … Continue reading Playing with DoLLS
Power Dolls, Tuned Heart, Meltylancer, Sakura Taisen... mid-nineties gaming is stuffed full of unlikely groups of highly trained young women and girls saving the day using some combination of fantastical weaponry and mechs that run on spiritual energy or love (and on rare occasions, fuel) so it's only natural the PC-FX would have its own … Continue reading Meowdiocre
1997 first-person dungeon crawler Boundary Gate: Daughter of Kingdom was briefly a PC-FX exclusive... until a PlayStation port showed up on Japanese shop shelves a few short months later, presumably because Pack-In-Soft needed the game to sell to a userbase larger than the programming team that created it to turn a profit. Just so you're … Continue reading High fantasy and low expectations
I lazily assumed for the longest time that the FX suffix meant this was either some sort of remake of one of the original Yuna's or one of those nice but nothing of substance fan discs packed with illustrations and short movie clips at the sort of resolution that would struggle to fill a postage … Continue reading Yuna and Yuri’s FX-cellent adventure
Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster 