Weekly Game Talk: Sword of Jade

This week's game is Sword of Jade: Parallel Dreams.

Hailed as the best OHR game ever made, this game deserves a look.
It's got good graphics and a large scale, which goes a long way in an OHR game.
Like always, I'll provide my own comments/reviews later on in the thread.

I've played the fuck out of this game. I've got to say, it's one of my favorite games for OHR, and the one I take the most inspiration from, and I think it show because I keep making promises to get a game finished and yet I never do. Lmao!

So, the good things about this game. Like Spoonweaver mentioned, the graphics are very good, and there are a lot of them. The enemy sprites are all unique and interesting to look at, which really helps makes battles fun. I mean, I think Squaresoft has figured this out long ago with their Final Fantasy and Romancing SaGa games, but battles are clearly more fun when you have boobs to look at. The music was also very good at the time the game came out, but apparently the creators did a rerelease where they replaced the ripped tracks. I don't know what they've been replaced with, and I'm not going to find out because Sword of Jade just isn't Sword of Jade to me without my fucking Mr. Bungle songs.

Now, my favorite thing about the game is the time system. Your main character starts off the game with a suicidal depression that will kill him within a matter of days, and you have to stave off his impending doom by filling him up with good feelings and (eventually) getting him laid. In addition to the natural passage of time, you use up time when you hit the gym or take a nap, and you gain more time by completing main quests and side quests.

And speaking of side quests, there are a ton of them in the game. And they're not like those shitty WoW side quests where you have to go into the woods and kill twenty bears and collect their pelts. No, these are side quests where you go into the woods and kill ONE bear. Or you go into a cave and kill ONE dragon. And then you never have to kill that dragon again. I think that's what makes the side quests in this game so great. I think MMORPGs can learn a lesson or two from this game. But anyways, I think this game strikes a perfect difficulty balance with its time limit and side quests. You can rest any time to restore your party's hp, but you still feel pressure because each rest uses up a bit of your time. At the same time, even if you start running low on time, there are enough side quests in this game that you can fill your time bar back up relatively easily. You're constantly feeling pressured, but you'll never feel like you're stuck in a dead end.


The cons of this game? The creators are arrogant jerks. Please discuss further.

One acronym: lol

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I prefer the original tunes to the ripped ones/replaced ones, although a few legit tunes got hit with this update too, including that one boss tune that also appeared in Vikings of Midgard.

I infer this is a furry game, and if there are seriously boobs in this game's battles color me interested. I've tried downloading this game three times since 2005 though, and each time the file was corrupted in some way and wouldn't unzip/play for me.

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Which version are you downloading? I know there are copies of this game in several places, and I honestly have to admit I am not 100% certain which is the most current. I *think* it is http://fyre.castleparadox.com/jade/jade_comm.zip but note that version does not contain a copy of game.exe, and should be played with latest stable release.

Also, it is a .rpgdir rather than a .rpg, so you can't play it by double-clicking it, you will need to extract it to a folder that contains the beelzebufo game.exe

As for my own play experiences, I have played the beginning of this game a whole bunch of times, but I have never played very far into it. I really want to, I just haven't had the right opportunity.

Another side note, I noticed that Baconthulhu is listed for the week of January 5. I wanted to let people know that the currently uploaded version is *not* the final version, and that I am working on another update to be uploaded in the next few days.

The most current version of the game was updated earlier this year. You can download it here:
http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=5563

So, Sword of Jade.
Hailed as the best OHR game ever made. Let's take a look as to why.

First, it's got the graphics. This thing not only has a large selection of different graphics, but they are also of a quality you might find on an SNES game. And not a bad SNES game either. There's a lot neat little graphical things going on in the game too, like the battle backgrounds.

But that's not all, this game is also long and complete. And as I've said before, completeness is a rare find in the OHR pile o' games. But besides having the ability to actually reach an end in this game, there are also a lot sub-plots going on.

But anyways, graphics and gameplay aside, the real reason this game is popular in the OHR community is likely because it's got furry stuff in it. And let's face it, OHR'ers love them some furry stuff.


Anyways. I put this game on the game talk schedule during christmas week, because even though it was suggested a few times I felt that this game didn't need that much more talk about it. It doesn't leave much room for recommending improvements and it's developers are unlikely to ever actually see this feedback.
However, I felt this game talk thread could still serve to feature this great OHR game to the newer OHR'ers.

Seriously how many furries make up this community?

Anybody who actually has heard of the ohr that wasn't told by me outside of the ohr community think the entire community was a bunch of furries. Not hard to see why when the most popular games for the thing tend to be about furries.

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Count me in.

You should actually look at the top downloaded games here and the highest ranked games because this isnt even remotely accurate.

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I'm just speaking from experience. I've not heard of many people outside the community speak anything of stuff outside of Sword of Jade and Vikings of Midgard, or whatever that game was that comes with the package. With the exception of those articles you posted about people talking about your C.Kane, that is. I've seen what-his-name post about Okedoke on the starmen.net forum, but that was it for real activity outside of ohrrpgce territory.

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Hmm.... meant that small comment as a trollish joke.
Leave it to Meowskivich....

I guess I count. Since I draw Sonic art.

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