The futuristic city of Riubane is under the attack of a ruthless terrorist group. To oppose them was created a military organization called S.A.T.M.D (Special anti terrorism missions division), and our hero, the swordsman and martial artist Toshio, is one of the prominent members. However the attacks seems to be just a distraction, since the real aim of the terrorists was the theft of a top secret experiment. Toshio and his colleague Kira are then sent to investigate, a mission that will take them to different planets.
Don't let the boring title screen trick you, Ryuukishi no me II is a game that tries to put together a lots of cool elements: a anime-styled cyberpunk setting, monsters, robots, martial arts, airships, big swords, summons, betrayals and Metal Gear Solid references. Ok, for the most part it plays as a classic Rpgmaker game with some random battles and some avoidable enemies, anyway the author surely tried to add many features like gears that a character can ride, multiple planets, free roaming cities, collectibles, and cool attack sprites and cutscenes created with edited rips from beat em up games (especially Final Fight and Street Fighter). Some minor issues are probably the overly spacious maps and some imprecisions, but I can forgive something to a game that is 20 years old!
Random Fact: while most of the rips comes from Final Fight, the battler of the protagonist Toshio is a black haired edit of Cloud, that's in turn an edited sprite made by a user named Chucho, used in a game called Final Fantasy Fighter (that you can check
HERE). The original base sprite seems to be Trunks from Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden, that the author edited to resemble Cloud Strife.
Final Verdict: after getting the airship I was a little lost, but then I found out what I had to do. The first half is pretty different from the second half of the game, anyway this is a pretty cool and interesting game, and while combat wasn't very fun, the story kept me interested with its surprises and twists.
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