ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman

A fun, wonky, janky, weird game full of strange equipment, hit-and-miss writing, nice moments, boring moments, incremental power gain and no small amount of progress robbery. Only, some of your progress is non-robbable. That's the part you probably want to prioritize; thusly, you'll get through every struggle sooner or later. The game's a bit overloaded with ancillary features that aren't really necessary or even particularly interesting, but that's just one of the consequences of game design focused on tossing as many cool things as possible into a big vat and stirring it together with art and code and voice acting and stuff until it's a game. They apparently cut some content, which sucks. Game's still got a good amount of hours of fun to it, though, and some neat ideas. Oh, it's a roguelike, by the way, in the "similar to Rogue" sense, not the "you die and stay dead" sense. Though you die a lot, you don't stay dead. And there are ways to keep some of your stuff when you die. It's complicated. You wander around dungeons and whack (or shoot) monsters. You can use special moves when appropriate. Eventually you get hungry and need to eat or start losing health. Some pretty oldschool gameplay. Kind of fun. Mostly recommended for fans of NIS, goofy writing, occasional wholesome moments, badass hero-ing, tokusatsu sentai hero stuff, and games that are like Rogue. Be prepared to invest a fair number of hours if you want to see the end.

This is a Nippon Ichi game with a bit of a twist on their usual TRPG chinanigans. It's kind of a mix between a true rogue-like dungeon crawler and a strategy game. Enemy characters will move towards and engage you once you enter into their cone of vision, so avoiding fights is also a strategy. You can pick up items found in a dungeon, and these will give you additional abilities or stat boosts - the way the magic/specials work in this game is a bit odd - you have to prime them, then use them. So a special will take two turns to use - you can prime them move around and then activate them once they will hit an enemy, so there's a strategy around the use of those too. When you defeat a dungeon and exit, you'll return back to level zero when you go back into a dungeon. Still, your base stats will have improved, so it's a case of going through the dungeons lots of times, getting strong enough to return to the real Earth (as you end up in Bizzaro Earth as part of the story). The story is typical NIS style, quirky with a sometimes off-beat sense of humour. It's fun enough to stop you from skipping, and the main sections are voice-acted well enough. Overall I think it's well worth the £17 asking price (definitely better than the £70 over-priced Disgaea 6) and different enough from the usual NIS titles to justify its existence. For this reason, I give it 8 Laharl Laughs out of 10. Muhaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha.

Yes

fun

is good

o game é péssimo compre outros da mesma franquia que é melhor

A quirky game with a funny story. An enjoyable time

ZHP Is an excellent mystery dungeon style dungeon crawler. It has a fun stat-leveling and progression system, and is overall quite casual in terms of difficulty - so it makes for a fun experience with low stakes. The humor is great, if a little dated, and the story was a blast to play through. My only complaint is that there's no post-game content. Basically. the story ends and that's that - you can replay it as many times as you want to see the different endings, but besides there there's sadly nothing else to do. And I want more, damn it! One can only hope this can get a sequel, just like Phantom Brave will be getting after 20 years!