Moon - Remix RPG Adventure (Japan) ISO
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Moon - Remix RPG Adventure is an adventure game set inside an RPG. The game was developed by Lovedelic (a studio founded by ex-SquareSoft employees) and was released in 1997, it was Lovedelic's debut game. Moon is about a small boy who's playing an RPG. During playing his Mom tells him to go to bed and he does so. While he's sleeping the TV and video game system turns on by itself and sucks him into the world of the RPG he was playing. The world is terrorized by a man called the "Hero" who kills innocent monsters and invades people's homes and rubs them of their things. The game is frequently described as an anti-RPG. Instead of regular levels in an RPG where the characters grow stronger to be able to kill stronger beasts, Moon instead uses a love system. The boy helps the people and the monsters and brings some love and joy into to their lives. The more he helps the more his love levels grow. In the begining the boy can only stay up for half a day untill he needs to go to sleep, little can be done in that time. As the boy's love level grows he can stay up later and later and the player can continue exploring further into the world. Moon is an obscure yet pretty influencial game. Though most of it's legacy is keeped by studios like Skip and Vanpool, who were founded by the disbanded Lovedelic members. It's influence can be felt in various games today. The game has a clock and calender system where characters move around town in various times of the day. Some scenarios can only be found at certain days and certain times of day. -----Moon is lovely and beautiful from start to finish. The intial hours can be a little frustrating because of the time limit and there are a few annoying quests, but stick to it and you'll find an artistic game unlike anything on the Playstation. Though it's only my own assumption -since I never heard Eiji Aonuma or Yoshiaki Koizumi mention it- Nintendo may have been influenced by Moon while developing The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. Majora's Mask side-quest concept of helping people as the day goes by does share some similarities with Moon. And if you managed to influence a masterpiece like Majora's Mask you managed to influence video games in general. Nintendo also has been Skip's only publisher and frequently works with Vanpool. ----Moon is completely in Japanese and was never released outside of Japan. A English guide can be found in gamefaqs.com