Miguel 🦑 Sternbergさんのイラストまとめ

Just wrapped on my last big task before building/testing the release candidates for Russian Subway Dogs on PS4/Xbox!

The final thing on my list was making a whole bunch of sound design improvements, tweaks, new sounds etc.

Some things I learned this time🧵

@VeryOkVinyl You know we do!❤️

There is a segment where you have to slot 4 slates into 4 walls. My assumption was that you needed to match the the slate color to the compass letter color, which would have leaned into the game's core "HUD is full of subtle visual cues" design philosophy.

Conquest of the Crystal Palace was apparently designer Yasumi Matsuno's (FF Tactics, Vagrant Story) first game.

I love this touch where the shop girl also does little news bulletins. Good stuff!

Hats off to the NES pixel artists at Quest Corporation. Super charming art that really pushes the technical limits to actually give the games some nice looking UI.

Screenshots from Dungeon Kid and Conquest of the Crystal Palace

@2_Old_4_Gaming

Planning on eventually playing through all the English translated Madou Monogatari games. So likely do another one of these long threads when I do either the Genesis or SNES game, both of which really bend the standard formula in some new ways. Then the rest of the Game Gear ones

The function buttons (PC-Engine select / Game Gear start) will give more details on items and spells.

Consumable items can be used to solve puzzles.

You can save anywhere so save regularly. Keep one save slot always on a safe floor just in case you get stranded on a harder one

A few tips if you're playing a Madou Monogatari game for the first time. Because they are still old games with a few rough edges...

I still wouldn't recommend playing them back to back without a break of course. It's more fun to revisit a familiar map with a few twists after some time away.