Canon - Legend of the New Gods

"Canon - Legend of the New Gods" is an ancient Sega Mega Drive game from 1996. It's a whopping 28 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. "Canon - Legend of the New Gods" is a rejected and abandoned 2D JRPG for the Sega Mega Drive. You may be wondering why a crap rejected Sega Mega Drive game belongs on Steam and the answer is, you're right, it doesn't. This is another abandonware cash grab by Piko Interactive, who swindle their hands onto old abandoned/broken/dead games then try to swindle Steam gamers into paying them for someone else's old abandoned game. Ethical? Nope. This is a top down brawler/lightweight RPG hybrid that never got any success at launch and got even less after Piko did their usual grave robbing exercise, grabbing old abandoned crap, slapping a HUGE and insulting price tag on it, and tryin…

I mean it seemed like it was panning out to be a totally fine JRPG. Ended up playing it for a little over 2 hrs before I wanted a break. Come back to find out that saving doesn't work and the game just isn't THAT good to want to leave it running 24/7 to finish. Oh well.

UPDATE: I have beaten the game. It is a super slow slog and it only gets worse towards the end, with little originality or surprises on the way there. I have only a few minutes of gameplay time due to the default installation being the usual Mednafen lagfest. Running the ROM with Kega Fusion is vastly more functional. Get it on a super deep sale if at all. The game feels really rushed towards the end. The novelty of 12 characters wears off fast when you realize that their differences are mostly about magic and you cannot use magic because you run out of MP almost instantly. Then there are enemies that can only be damaged with magic. And later enemies that CANNOT BE DAMAGED AT ALL. Fookin' oof. Tl;dr - it is garbage slop ruined by infinitely spawning enemies, narrow corridors that cannot reliably progress through, experience reduction schemes, level ups that make little difference, enemies that either turtle endlessly until you step into their attack zone or b-line to your weakest character - the list goes on. I give this a recommendation simply because it has some decent features such as the story and the music, things that are ruined by awfully sadistic level design. Most of th…

Temu Fire Emblem. Should have used Wish instead.

A very bad port of an old. Save feature is broken.

https://youtu.be/hfkc8A315t4 Providing a look at game development from a often less featured regions here in the west, it's interesting but not worth investing time into.