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I would be willing to give Tecmo the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe this is a common practice in Japan, but that’s not accurate either. Look at the sentence “I go to DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.” There are three proper nouns there, and not one of them has any quotations marks around them, because I speak acceptable, common-usage English.
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Even more annoying was the propensity of the hermits to put proper nouns in quotation marks. In my ‘pants’ lies the entrance to ‘my genitals’ out of which I’ll produce a ‘steady stream of urine on your little podium there’ and then I’m going to go ‘home’ and take a ‘nap’. “In the ‘Gran Mountain’ lies the entrance to ‘Garloz’.” Well that’s just fantastic. In Rygar, they tell you to go to places I’ve never heard of and only they talk about. They’re called “homeless”, and I never take advice from them, especially if they’re saying some crazy shit about how Dean Cain played Superman to distract from the fact that he’s an alien wanting to kill the President. In Chicago, we have a word for old half-naked men sitting inside alcoves wearing purple pants.
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I have to question the hero’s wisdom in accepting their advice. Old men with white beards, no shirt, and purple pants, they sat eternally on elevated pedestals in large chambers located inside trees and caves. Rygar’s way of helping you through all this the game was the hermits.
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Much like Castlevania 2, you were often required to go to specific places but with no map telling you where to go told about items that you had no idea how to locate other than the off-chance you ran into them and referred to characters never otherwise named. Nintendo also bought you legendarily confusing quotes from popular games like The Legend of Zelda (“Dodongo dislike smoke” – no, dislikes smoke, Dodongo dislikes EXPLOSIVES GOING OFF IN HIS STOMACH JUST LIKE THE REST OF US) and Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest (too fucking many to name, but I was able to find a Nintendo Power about CV2 and could never find one about Rygar.) Anyhow, a lot of games were terribly translated or whatnot, but Rygar often took the cake. Rygar was also one of those games that had NPCs so useless as to render the player virtually impotent.Ī lot of games of the era were like that, to be sure. A game like this usually has characters in the game (NPCs, if you’re a dork) who tell you these things, so only the barest spark of brainpower is necessary. Rygar required you to think a bit, to know where to go, to know who to talk to, to know where to use what items. You see, Rygar was one of many games for the Nintendo that required more than hand-eye coordination, the ability to tell your right from your left, and the willingness to spend many hours in the basement while your friends played football (a sport I first learned about from a videogame, btw). I put “favorite” in quotation marks not in an ode to the hermits of Rygar who “put” “everything” “in quotation marks” (more on that later), but also because I didn’t actually enjoy the game rather, I played it endlessly because nothing made any fucking sense. Synopsis: As a young child of 5 playing Nintendo while my parents desperately tried to get me to go outside, Rygar was one of my “favorite” videogames. | Classic Games! Reviews and More! Console, Arcade, Computer, & Handheld Classics!