Edia Crowdfunding Cosmic Fantasy Collection For Nintendo Switch

the developer behind the recent Valis: The Fantasm Soldier Collection-

Nope

They've already surpassed their funding goal by a healthy amount.

I have the Mega CD version somewhere around here, but these being RPGs, they'd need to get localized to have much international interest (I'd guess they'd have to localize the first game, and ask Victor Ireland about using the Working Designs localization of the second. Supposedly being one of his earliest efforts, it's said he probably didn't do as much to the script as usual.)

Shame it's download only. I think the price they're asking is pretty high considering it's only half the series (not even - Cosmic Fantasy 4 spans 2 separate games).

I reeeally hoped the Valis collection would've been much better considering I never played Valis I thru III. That price is the hardest pill to swallow and it has the audacity to only be 10% off currently... It'll stay on my wishlist sadly for now. The second collection sounds like it will be just as bad. As for the Cosmic collection, I don't know anything about these.

People will toss their cash at anything.

It's a cosmic fantasy for this to be priced reasonably.

If they had included 3 & 4 then that'd be a insta-buy. However, I always wanted to play no.2. Wasn't this series absolutely huge in Japan in the early and mid 90s (Swiss cheese memory banks sparks here and there)?

Let me know when the full collection comes out in a single game. Konami recently set the bar with Cowabunga Collection, and that is the new standard imo.

@daveMcFlave Except Konami didn't include their two Gameboy Advance Games and their Nintendo DS title.

Why call it a collection when it's only two games though?

@thinkhector

Yeah, but you get 13 titles for forty bucks, online play, and a museum....not a small handful of games games split across two bare-bones collections. There's still a massive difference in value, no matter how many straw-mans you pull out.

@daveMcFlave also literally any collection Capcom has done for the last couple of years.
Arcade stadium especially just lets you buy the games you want for only a dollar each and has leaderboards, online, rewinds and save states, a fun hub, all sorts of bonuses, rapid fire, and I’m pretty sure both cost the same amount as both this and each barebones valis collection too.

@daveMcFlave Did Konami remake all the games to be Widescreen? No. Did Konami commission new animations to connect a the games together? No. Did Konami update the play mechanics adding new characters and moves to previous titles? No. Is there an online leader board for speed runners? Nope. Does Konami have emulation issues in their Castlevania Collection and Contra Collections? YES. To a judge a collection superior before it's even out is putting the cart in front of the horse. In think the Cowabunga Collection will be good, but to say that Konami put more effort into is objectively not true.

@thinkhector this cosmic collection and the valis collections don’t have that either dude😑

If not on Kickstarter and don't see english option makes harder to pledge.

I don't know anything about this series, but I tend to stay away from older JRPGs, as they're really hard for me to get into. I have a general rule: Any JRPG before FF7, I stay away from. I'm sure they were great at the time, but going back to those old fossils nowadays is really tough for me. FF7 really modernized the genre, making them more accessible for noobs like me. Anytime I try anything earlier, I end up giving up about an hour into it.

@Rainbowfire Have you given Chrono Trigger a try? It has no random battles like most older RPGs do, it's fast-paced like FFVII is, and it has fun minigames sprinkled throughout it. It also started the feature called "New Game +", which lets you start a new game with all your levels, techniques, and items that you earned in your last completed playthrough.

The PlayStation version has load times, so you might not have the best experience by playing that version first. I can't remember if the Steam version got its issues fixed, but if so, then every other version is fine to play.

@Funneefox

My best guess is that thinkhector is referring to the Sonic Origins collection. Kind of weird to bring up a Sonic collection as an argument for why a Cosmic Fantasy/Valis collection might be better than a TMNT collection, but here we are.

PS - Sonic Origins collection has a ton of issues too.

@RushDawg That's because someone said that Knoami set the bar forl collections with the Cowabunga Collection. Which no one has ever even played 5o judge it. I was making the point that it was more fair to compare it to Origins, since it's out and people can play it. Origins has some bugs that take the experience down a little. (The bugs are mostly the annoying variety. Just enought minor ones to mar it a little.) But, overall, I haven't seen ANYONE attempt this much for a collection. Which is okay if you are going to be lower in price. So Klonoa doesn't have to do anything crazy, if it has a lower price.

@Gauchorino No I haven't, but I've heard nothing but great things about it. I also want to try Earthbound out of sheer curiosity, as people are always praising that game so much. I'll have to try both of those one of these days. I think Pokemon is the only RPG that predates FF7 that I was able to stick with to the end. It had a fun "hook" that kept you playing. Other than that though, I have a hard time with older JRPG, and really staying committed to them to the end.

@Rainbowfire Cool. You may like EarthBound, as well, for some of the same reasons (example: no random battles), though its battles are slower-paced than Chrono Trigger and the post-NES Final Fantasies, and it also has other "archaisms" that those two series don't feature.

I think I know what you mean. Last less-modern RPG that hooked me was (ironically) the first Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest, I think. There's a lot more "prep work" in older JRPGs that leaves less room for just relaxing while playing them.

I remember seeing cut scenes from Cosmic Fantsy 2 at CES and being all mesmerized like, “whoah, the future is here, bruh”.

@Funneefox Are they that bad? I didn't think they seemed any worse than the average retro collection. I still haven't bought that collection because I thought it was overpriced for only having a few games.

one of my favorites back in the day. Not a great game by any stretch but it had charm. The price seems steep. hopefully they release in english. I've beaten all of them without knowing japanese. But would prefer to play in english. Remakes would also be nice and get them up to snuff. These look exactly like they did in 1992