This Old Neon Forum

Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!

Each game in the lower bracket is still seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools! Every game in the lower bracket has already been defeated by another game in a 1-on-1 poll to get to this point. This is their chance to claw their way back into the main event... but the stakes are high. The games that lose in these polls are out of the tournament for good! The games that survive will face the next crop of upper bracket losers in the next round.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Saturday... or Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

Opoona is great. I wish it had a better translation.
The entire opening chapter of the game could do a LOT better job of telegraphing the unsettling atmosphere of the opening. Your parents are comatose. Can you see them? No. But they're racking up a very large medical bill. Even though you're a child, you can still join the workforce (with minimal preparation) and fight monsters to earn money to pay it off. Doesn't that sound great? You can help them!

I mean, I haven't seen the original text... and the story's told by characters that are sympathetic, even if many are unwittingly part of a stratified culture... but it could at the very least have been more coherent.

I also liked the fast-food restaurateur who recruits you because "you look funny and might draw attention to my store".

From Wikipedia, my emphasis:

Opoona suffered low sales upon its release in Japan. The game was released on the same day as Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy, a title that Artepiazza and Koei did not foresee as competition being in a different genre.

Someone lost their job over that.

As for Dungeon Master, it's a better game in general and the Atari ST was an underrated computer. Didn't get a lot of support, but the music and RAM capacity were both good for its era.