Tengai Makyou II rocks hard...

[KingDrool]

Alright, I'm going to order this based on your recommendations.  I really hope I don't have to know any Japanese...

[Black Tiger]

Alright, I'm going to order this based on your recommendations.  I really hope I don't have to know any Japanese...

Well since you can get it for like $5 now, its a steal eitrher way.

I paid $100 for my first roughed up (complete)copy.

But it's straight forward enough that my walkthrough should be all you need. If you still have trouble with the menus, let me know and I'll ascii-art up a full translation and amend that ancient old version on gamefaqs.

And if anyone ever gets stuck in any PCE RPG, Tengai Makyo or otherwise, please feel free to contact me for assistance.

[Ninja Spirit]

I definitely wanna get into Fuun Kabuki Den. I never ever made it past the first town because the overabundance of kanji in the menus scare me.

Hey Black Tiger you familiar with Tengai Makyo Zero on Super Famicom also? I was lucky enough to beat at least one dungeon and a boss on it.

[Black Tiger]

I definitely wanna get into Fuun Kabuki Den. The overabundance of kanji in the menus scare me.

Hey Black Tiger you familiar with Tengai Makyo Zero on Super Famicom also?

Zero's fun and the battles seem easier to figure out, but some of the windows are Final Fantasy style and it can be hard to distinguish between 100 items on one screen.

Kabuki Den's the easiest TM to jump into. When I got my first PC, I doctored up some crude screen shots of translated menus to help people.

I'll try to dig them up again.

[Ninja Spirit]

Ahh I'm used to that. I've beaten actual copies of Final Fantasy III on famicom and Super Famicom Final Fantasy V in japanese. But then again, in the FF games I was still able to get by because beside item/weapon/armor names there were pictures representing each category.

[Keranu]

Black_Tiger, making the ASCII art to translate the menus for Tengai Makyou II: Manji Maru (or graphic editing) would be very useful for the non-Japanese speaking new comers to the game. The hardest part of starting the game for me was figuring out all the menus. Luckily I studied a little hiragana and katana a a couple years ago and learned a little Japanese, so it slightly helped me in the process.

[KingDrool]

Thanks very much!

[DragonmasterDan]

1. Manji Maru
2. Ziria
3. Kabuki Den
4. Apocalypse
5. Zero
 I have yet to play Namida or Oriental Blue, I am not counting the fighting games. Overall it's one of the best RPGs around and one of my personal favorite games.

[Black Tiger]

I recently got a preview book for Kabuki Den that shows some of the early development on Tengai Makyo III: HIMIKO

It stars a young blonde haired girl who appears to be some sort of sorceress and her companion is a giant pig named Yamataku!

I also have a PC Engine mag that had the most amount of info on NAMIDA before it was cancelled. I translated most of it with Photoshop and was going to post them on my long-dead TM site(I've got the images on a CD around here somewhere...).

The hero was a very plain looking boy who was orphaned and the only thing left by his parents was a necklace and he was raised by fisherman. There was a tall shady looking guy, a young blonde girl(Himiko?) who looked like Kinu and a white Dog named "Dog".

The game finally released for PS2 is radically different, but it looks like Namida's back story is similar.

I found those pics I made up long ago. It turns out that the girl in the SCD version really was Himiko. Here they are-

http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/namida.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/mayu.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/ngroup.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/sandh.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/scd.jpg

PCFX version-

http://members.shaw.ca/turboduo/pcfx.jpg

[esteban]

Awesome! You don't recall the magazine that came from, do you? Even a year would be helpful, since I don't have many to look through...

[Keranu]

Badass!

[Black Tiger]

Awesome! You don't recall the magazine that came from, do you? Even a year would be helpful, since I don't have many to look through...

I's PC Engine FAN June 1995-



It also has previews of Kakutoden, Apocalypse IV, Zero and a 2 page retrospective on the series.

[DragonmasterDan]

By any chance did you pick up the Otkau bonus DVD that was a pre-order incentive for the Japanese GC version, there's a lot of neat stuff on it.

[Black Tiger]

By any chance did you pick up the Otkau bonus DVD that was a pre-order incentive for the Japanese GC version, there's a lot of neat stuff on it.

Whats on the GC DVD???

I bought the PS2 version with the bonus DVD, which has a series of interviews, some making of and a couple of special events.

[DragonmasterDan]

By any chance did you pick up the Otkau bonus DVD that was a pre-order incentive for the Japanese GC version, there's a lot of neat stuff on it.

Whats on the GC DVD???

I bought the PS2 version with the bonus DVD, which has a series of interviews, some making of and a couple of special events.

I'm guesing it's the same DVD, since the GC version came out sooner I thought it was the only release to have the DVD with it.