Exploring the Fascinating PC-98 Lovecraft Visual Novel (Necronomicon)

If an English translation ever gets made, I would love to play it!

I sure live hearing about unknowingly yet cult classic games, I think there is something fascinating in that vn era and specially how silly anime games interwine with classics of literature, fascinating video.
Also, gods this game is gorgeous, I could stare at it for hours, retro stuff limited budget and/or color palettes really brought up the best of the best on artists of said eras.

"ancient drawings idolizing fish people" that's Dagon, that's an actual Sumerian drawing of Dagon

So, fun fact, Ole Howie Lovecraft wrote "Shadows Over Innsmouth," a story of discovering the horror of the unknown working it's way into the local populace and destroying its purity and morals from within, after discovering his great grandmother was...
DUN DUN DUN
WELSH!

Sorry! Deleted the previous comment about emulation without noticing you'd replied! Damn, you're a fast replier. I forgot to mention I downloaded the FMTowns version from My Abandonware, which also has the PC-98 version, because I'm an obedient girl.

Of all the ways the auto subtitles tried to transcribe "eroge", "edo gay" is by far my favorite.

I can't believe you pronounced "Ko-Fi" as "ko-hee", what a weeb move, I love it.

This party is literally the same as the Hylics crew

"Racism bad"
"Shit on white people"
"Excuse me (me an intelectual) this is not racism because blabla racism equals power and prejudice, also I'm trans".

Nice video aside from the resentment disguised as virtue.

i'm a french nerd and seeing "les oubliées de la playhistoire" notified here was sure a flashback to my youth watching nolife...

GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS!!!

I can't tell if I'm more shocked there's a Lovecraft game in this style, or that the Dead of the Brain people made a good one...

engagement

I've been trying to get PC-98 working on steam deck but it lags and some of the text doesn't show up.

I know its a bios issue but its the only system that has complicated bios instructions (that didn't even work for me) instead of just having the bios files online.

It always strikes me as funny how a lot of modern Lovecraft inspired media tries to shoehorn sex and nudity in. Despite what his name might imply, Lovecraft's actual writings were pretty much sex free outside of perhaps some vague allusions.

Hey there, I am working on something with Necronomicon and wanted to see if I could borrow a few shots from your video (towards the end) as my save file is corrupt and I don't want to navigate to the bitter end lol. For credit of course :) lmk!

This game's pixel art is absolutely beautiful.

That point on cults at the 39 minute mark and the bad ending was great!

this is so good!! the discussion of the themes especially!

algorithm recommended me this. a good day!!!

i have a 40 min drive everyday so i always look for channels to listen to vids, yours are SO entertaining ! thank u for the making me look forward to my drives now<3

I think I've found your vids recommended after watching Hazels and I love these ! I'm working through your catalogue and I'm totally gonna try to get my hands on some older types of these gams to play now. These look great!

"because every trans girl i know besides myself has played it, and will gaslight, gate-keep, girl-boss me if i don't mention it."

well if that's not a brand new sentence then i don't know what is. it's also a believable sentence as bloodborne is just an overall popular game, just weirdly surprising to find out it holds a special place in the trans girl community …i guess?

Me, Before "Alien Superstar": this is great, I love this video.

Me, After "Alien Superstar": Amelie said "UNIQUE" 27 times and I responded to every single one.

I would be surprised if one of the Joestar family didn't have Cthulu for a stand.

Found this on vndb over a year ago! It's been a major motivation to learn Japanese

Is the artist for this the same as the one who wrote bastard? The art is the same.

Ma'am??? wHY does your content slap so hard??? plS??? 😆

The way they've used raster effects to make the most of a limited 8-bit color palette is really impressive.

I'm so happy I found your channel!! Your videos are exactly the content I was looking for and you really know and research your stuff plus you explain it so well and in such an engaging way! One of the best channels I discovered this year if not the best :)

I'm so glad super eyepatch brought me here. This is top tier content

Now I really want a translated version of this game!

Loved it ^^

A fan of the now deceased NoLife TV channel?! that would be an insta suscribe if I wasn't already suscribed to your channel!

Neat!

Me: Ah cool, some good old Lovecraft material. Disturbing and spooky but nothing too much really.

warns about the s*xual violence bit

Me: Wait, what do you mean by...oh. Oh jesus that's messed up man. Yet handled (from some perspective) in a more mature way then others. Yes that scene from GB is uhm...I mean it gets the point across but still.

I appreciate that your videos don't make me have to put my speakers at full blast to properly watch them. I skip a lot of potentially interesting videos from smaller channels because they're a pain to listen to.

Can't wait for your next video, as someone who started TTRPGs with COC I love hearing about jp content of the mythos. I appreciate your perspective on all these VNs and your explanation of the software difficulties they impose. Bravo!

poggers this is a kino video amirite oomfies

I just love the look of these games. This art has such a particular look i can't really put into words

Imagine waking up too triple the amount of subs big up to super eye patch for the recommendation

your video about ayayo went down half way through me watching it. will you be re-uploading that one?

I'm currently playing Laplace Demon, on the SNES also inspired by the Call of Cuthulu Tabletop release in Japan and really enjoying it. A fan translation recently came out, its a solid vibe. I would recommended playing around Halloween.

You deserve all the subscribers. You have earned them with your earnest and inspired content. Keep it up!

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Great video! I can't seem to find the video you mention about Ayayo-san though. It seemed really interesting but it's just not there anymore.

I am here from super eyepatch wolf