I liked the music, but bad voice acting just makes me cringe, especially when other people are in the area to hear it, too. It's a big reason why I'm leery of voice-acting in general.
Enterbrain ought to consider coming out with a product like that. They do have a Game Maker suite but I think that's more geared towards shmups. I'd be all over a beat-em-up maker myself.
Good luck with your new friend.
Star Ocean 2 was a good game. Had a great soundtrack. Sakuraba is one of my favorites. I still have the PS1 original as well as the PSP remake. The PS1 original had some of the worst voice-acting on the console. and that was a low bar to begin with.
I'm personally not interested in the Atari Flashback machines. I didn't like 2600 games all that much, and I have all of those games on the Atari and Activision PS2 collections anyway. I wish Atari would do a 5200 Flashback, minus the crummy joystick, but I don't know if Atari even exists at this point.
So Schaefer finally got his game off the ground? Last I read on it was that development was really struggling along, and it was being held up as a cautionary tale about Kickstarter projects. If it's coming out soon, kudos to Double Fine for rallying the troops and getting it done.
Right now, my 3DS is keeping me content gamingwise. There's nothing on the magnitude of Ni no Kuni coming, but I'm well satisfied so far.
I'm part of the audience that would enjoy this kind of game. I liked Code of Princess a great deal, and one of my favorite games of last year was Dragon's Crown, which is providing serious challenge to Konami's Simpsons game as my favorite brawler of all time. There's been a lot of good brawlers out lately.
My favorites on that list would be Fallout: New Vegas and Resonance of Fate. I say, go with what your heart tells you. Video games shouldn't feel like work. I think we get into that trap sometimes when we buy a lot of games and then feel guilty because we don't play them all the way through or it's months before we even remove the shrinkwrap on them.
Didn't Sega have an Outrun game on Xbox 360 a few years ago?
I'd like Sega to do 3-D Virtual Console releases of stuff like Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, and the Genesis Phantasy Star and Shining Force games. I'd also like to see them do some Saturn games, but that's asking too much.
I actually really liked the Genesis Sonic games and honestly, I played those more than I did Super Mario World or Super Mario World 2. And I was a SNES owner back in the day! The Genesis console seems like a bit of a letdown, but I guess it would be cool enough for the fact that unlike the Atari stuff, it can also play most original Genesis cartridges.
I remember seeing the commercials for Ecco back in the 1990s and wondering "WTF is this?" Sure looked pretty. It was one of the best-looking games on any system of its time, but it also seemed rather esoteric. Maybe I'll download the 3DS 3-D remake.
My wife bought mine at Barnes and Noble. Gamestop was selling it for awhile too, if I recall correctly.
