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Hero Chronicles - Project Olympus (Hero Senki - Project Olympus) is an JRPG released for the Super Nintendo/Famicom in 1992 for Japan only. It was Developed by WinkySoft, and Published by Banpresto. The English Fan Translation was released in 2019 by Aeon Genesis.
STORY: 14/20
You are put in command of a special task force using, known as ZEUS, to investigate the recent terrorist attacks on all the cities of the World using powerful mech suits. The story's not complicated and extremely well translated by Aeon Genesis so you know it's going to be a great story to follow.
GRAPHICS: 12/20
Well, i've seen much better but i've seen much worse. This seems to be the standard look for a lot of the JRPGs in Japan in 1992, graphics did get better and better as the console got older. There's no glitched text or graphics that I had noticed during my gameplay so the graphics hacking seems to be top work also. The mech suits look great and the character models look nice too but the battle screen look a bit boring. Skills, Magics, Attacks and such all look nice and unique from one another unless it's the same skills used by your party and the enemy of course.
SOUND: 14/20
I can't remember there being a lot of music for this game, but of what there is.. it's quite nice, upbeat and stuff. It's not a bad OST but there's very little of it over all. The game has a ton of sound effects, every skill/magic or whatever has it's own sound effect, trust me.. there's quite a lot of them.
GAMEPLAY: 12/20
The gameplay is your pretty standard Jrpg type control, menu base for items, status checking, equipment, etc. Battles are turn-based so you have time to stop and think about your next actions for your team. You explore a world that's followed along a path, think how 'Super Mario World' exploration is done, this is the same but done using MODE 7 graphics. Skills re tied to your equipped weapons and armor, so depending on what you have equipped will change skills but you will learn some skills as you level up. Each party member seems to have their own unique skills also, one is able to heal your party, another can use AIM, and such. Controls are easy to understand and learn, menu navigating is also pretty simple. The game has stores, and also hospitals (marked with a red + on the building) where you can heal HP or recover from status effects that you may have, such as poison, blind, etc.
My only TWO issue really is.. the amount of battles you go through whilst exploring, it has a high encounter rate, and to top it off.. you don't get a lot of Gold from battles so expect the grind to get real at certain points of the game. Secondly,, the game is quite short but its only extended because of the grind.
TRANSLATION: 20/20
Aeon Genesis always produce fantastic translations especially for their later projects so expect this game's story and translation to be on top form. I didn't see any issues with glitching, text overlays or anything of the type during play so again, it's nice work from the team.
OVER ALL: 72/100
It's not a bad game, it's just grind heavy and tough at times and the small OST makes this get a little boring later in game for grinding. Do I recommend it? Sure, especially if you are a battle suit fan such as Gundam Wing and such, just don't expect flashy battles like in the SNES/SFC Gundam games.
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Hero Chronicles - Project Olympus (Hero Senki - Project Olympus) is an JRPG released for the Super Nintendo/Famicom in 1992 for Japan only. It was Developed by WinkySoft, and Published by Banpresto. The English Fan Translation was released in 2019 by Aeon Genesis.
STORY: 14/20
You are put in command of a special task force using, known as ZEUS, to investigate the recent terrorist attacks on all the cities of the World using powerful mech suits. The story's not complicated and extremely well translated by Aeon Genesis so you know it's going to be a great story to follow.
GRAPHICS: 12/20
Well, i've seen much better but i've seen much worse. This seems to be the standard look for a lot of the JRPGs in Japan in 1992, graphics did get better and better as the console got older. There's no glitched text or graphics that I had noticed during my gameplay so the graphics hacking seems to be top work also. The mech suits look great and the character models look nice too but the battle screen look a bit boring. Skills, Magics, Attacks and such all look nice and unique from one another unless it's the same skills used by your party and the enemy of course.
SOUND: 14/20
I can't remember there being a lot of music for this game, but of what there is.. it's quite nice, upbeat and stuff. It's not a bad OST but there's very little of it over all. The game has a ton of sound effects, every skill/magic or whatever has it's own sound effect, trust me.. there's quite a lot of them.
GAMEPLAY: 12/20
The gameplay is your pretty standard Jrpg type control, menu base for items, status checking, equipment, etc. Battles are turn-based so you have time to stop and think about your next actions for your team. You explore a world that's followed along a path, think how 'Super Mario World' exploration is done, this is the same but done using MODE 7 graphics. Skills re tied to your equipped weapons and armor, so depending on what you have equipped will change skills but you will learn some skills as you level up. Each party member seems to have their own unique skills also, one is able to heal your party, another can use AIM, and such. Controls are easy to understand and learn, menu navigating is also pretty simple. The game has stores, and also hospitals (marked with a red + on the building) where you can heal HP or recover from status effects that you may have, such as poison, blind, etc.
My only TWO issue really is.. the amount of battles you go through whilst exploring, it has a high encounter rate, and to top it off.. you don't get a lot of Gold from battles so expect the grind to get real at certain points of the game. Secondly,, the game is quite short but its only extended because of the grind.
TRANSLATION: 20/20
Aeon Genesis always produce fantastic translations especially for their later projects so expect this game's story and translation to be on top form. I didn't see any issues with glitching, text overlays or anything of the type during play so again, it's nice work from the team.
OVER ALL: 72/100
It's not a bad game, it's just grind heavy and tough at times and the small OST makes this get a little boring later in game for grinding. Do I recommend it? Sure, especially if you are a battle suit fan such as Gundam Wing and such, just don't expect flashy battles like in the SNES/SFC Gundam games.
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