Dynamic Designs strikes again! This time with the help of Matt's Messy Room and right in the middle of E3 2016 chaos, its Banpresto's 1995 title Hyper Iria that is now fully translated to English. This Japan-only action platformer is licensed from Ashi Productions, using characters and settings from the six episode OVA Iria: Zeiram the Animation, despite not following the anime's plot directly.
In this game, players take control of Iria, a bounty hunter taking on missions for Ghomvak Security. You pick a mission, buy weapons and items (assuming you have money to do so) and off you go. Despite looking like a regular platformer, the game is actually very text-heavy with several bits of important information like map directions taking place in dialogues between Iria and Bob, a fatally wounded fellow bounty hunter who got his consciousness downloaded into a computer. Iria controls rather well and is not only keen to shoot whatever comes her way; she is also an able fighter which is rather handy since ammunition is limited and best saved for mission bosses.
Due to the anime boom of the '90s, this Super Famicom game was actually rather popular among western gamers with an eye in the import market due to its strong female lead and lovely cutscene graphics, with an excellent game box cover art to bring the whole package together. Grab the patch from Dynamic Designs website. It works rather well on your RetroN 5 or Retro Freak. Time to do some Hyper shooting bounty hunting, then.
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Damn, that looks good.
@EllenJMiller So happy I can know understand the dialogues! I really was missing out on crucial stuff, namely directions from Bob in that first mission.
I love that kicking the giant robot does more damage than shooting it.
LMAO! Game Over within 6 minutes! They're SO bad!!! And DAT depth perception fail at 10 minutes 30 seconds in!
But really, this looks and sounds more like a Mega Drive/Genesis game. Might be fun to try it out!
@FantasiaWHT I thought the same thing. Must be those piston thighs and high heels... Hurts way more than a bullet, didn't you know?
Thanks a lot for advertising the translation! I had given up long ago on playing this game (I lost myself fairly easy in games).
Looking forward to the next episode of your "old games" reviews.
Oh yeah, another reminder, the Retron 5 SKU that can play everything from NES to GBA is sold out on the Hyperkin website. So you have to either buy it used, or new at marked up prices, from Amazon or eBay. (And there's about 10 in all on Amazon... And some are being charged for $230-300.)
Meanwhile, the Retro Freak is still $200 from Play Asia, in who knows how few of quantity. Also, it's Japanese, so it's meant to play Japanese carts... Which means it will work with Hyper Iria, but it won't work with NES toaster carts.
And don't forget, the actual Hyper Iria SFC cart runs you $200-300 on Amazon or EBay! So that's about $370-600 to play Hyper Iria, depending on which sellers you buy from, if you have none of the gear already.
Yeah, good luck to anyone not willing to fork out for those last available ones to actually play Hyper Iria with the patch... Screw that, I'm just gonna immolate it!
@PlywoodStick Lol, I guess immolate is becoming a thing now.
@LemonSlice It is!? YES! Start the meme machine, it's got another entry!
Time to make a custom snes vc of this.
I actually remember this game. A friend of mine owned the anime and we played this on emulator. If only I knew Japanese then like I do now! Haha
@PlywoodStick Hey! That's ME playing! Them fighting words!
@Rei I just want to make sure the efforts these guys put into translating these games reaches as many people as possible.
Iria: Zeiram the Animation is the first anime I ever watched as a young lad. This, therefore, is relevant to my interests.
Never heard of this anime or game before. It looks fun, though. I'll probably try it out a little later.
What system, 3DS or Wii U?
@sotnfe Neither sadly. Super Nintendo / Super Famicom.
I liked this show. I'll have to check out the game some time.
@Shiryu ok
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