demagogue on 3/10/2008 at 07:10

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Thanks for the suggestion. No it's not that. Graphics and gameplay are a lot better, probably 2nd generation, and I don't really recall any jRPG elements, though that makes it peculiar that there were stats and top-down-persp.

I don't want to highjack the thread though; I have some more leads (I possibly played it mid-1990, the same week the Gulf War broke, to be exact; and it was new then ... but it could have been on a later trip 1991-1993?), so I'll keep looking.

I realize trying to google search for it how hard it is to pin down a game when there are so many generic features!

Edit: Looking at Golvellius with fresh eyes again, it's really the only one in the field with top-down and side-scrolling, and there are other things that match my memory. So I guess that's it after all. I guess the graphics were really inflated in my memory (undoubtedly they looked better at the time).

io organic industrialism on 3/10/2008 at 12:00

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Doesn't sound like Actraiser... You can't do the missions in different orders and your weapons don't build stats

io organic industrialism on 3/10/2008 at 13:58

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It's a great game regardless, you should try it. It gets pretty hard though

Minion21g on 3/10/2008 at 14:25

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A Boy and his Blob anyone? It's an old NES platformer. You'd give your blob jellybeans to have it change into different tools. I always thought the blob was kinda creepy looking though.

http://i34.tinypic.com/1zlbw3a.png

demagogue on 3/10/2008 at 17:40

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For the record, the side-scrolling portion looked very much like ActRaiser (judging by the video I just watched). I should have mentioned the protagonist was a European-like knight at that scale.

The look of the top-down part could even pass, but I don't remember a civ building part at all! Probably not it, but I'll play it just to make sure. It looks interesting in its own right, too.

And watching the vidoes of ActRaiser2, wow I like the art and gameplay on that (was it mentioned earlier?), it looks like another classic. (It might be that one, too ... I'll check).

Edit: I didn't see it previously ITT. So here's a screenshot:

ActRaiser 2
http://i33.tinypic.com/a4odcg.jpg