#SENGOKU RANCE FUWANOVEL SERIES#

Rance isn't a gentleman and it's completely intentional. They wanted Rance to stand out and made him a jerk, somebody with an attitude and behavior you don't want to copy. According to the ingame 'behind the VN' in Rance 1, protagonists back then were all heroes. However remember that this style is decided back in the 80s. It's not uncommon for people to complain about Rance and how he isn't treating women nice.

Also the size of the new Rance releases indicates a gigantic production budget, something which is only realistic due to a legacy, which will sell a lot on the name alone. Rance started before anything had voices and just didn't add them (remake of Rance 3 excepted), meaning Rance is likely the only VN today, which can make a AAA VN without voices.

Releasing unvoiced VNs today indicates low budget productions, possibly of questionable quality. In other words Rance is big not just because what it has done, but also because of when it has done so. However regardless of how perfect they are made, they can't be made with the legacy from day one and with the high amount of releases today, odds are that any good releases now will not last multiple decades without being killed by competition. You can make new VNs/games now and they can be well made. That is without being retro because it was new at the time. Rance kept getting new releases, which were updated for the modern era of the time, meaning Rance will most likely represent the era of when you started playing computer games regardless of how old you are.

#SENGOKU RANCE FUWANOVEL SERIES#

It was a series of games with a world building legacy. This means unless you are a Japanese in your 50s (or older), your first contact with Rance was not contact with a game. When Rance 3 was released, the Soviet Union still existed. To put this into perspective, you can be born 11 years after the first Rance release and still be old enough to buy adult VNs. Rance is old, much older than most old games. just be happy you were able to enjoy evenicle as much as you did. yeah, you unlock a teleporter pretty early on but still. he was so nice and always doing the right thing and, ugh! rance may have his evil moments but its more entertaining watching a hero being reluctantly good than one whos always good.Įvenicle isnt bad just there are times where it feels tedious with walking place to place. i remember playing senki and just thinking how boring the mc was. say what you will about him but he does leave an impression on you. you got your harem to attend to, building relationships, leveling up characters, exploring dungeons, gathering items, leveling rance up with h-scenes, all kinds of stuff.Īlso theres rance. youre basically staring at a forum sheet for doing your taxes for rance with the amount of shit you can do on one screen but again, the simplicity of it allows for complex gameplay. its simplistic but can lead to complex stuff. rance just has a ton going on based on the ones ive played. even if it wasnt for this, rance probably might maybe be more popular. My point is that to this day the vn industry can still feel the light ripples that kichikuou started.

the vn came out to high praise and high sales, saving the company from bankrupt and solidifying rance as a household name. stories they wanted to incorporate but couldnt are now possible in this what if to the universe. alice soft was going under and they decided that their last game in their popular franchise would be kichikuou rance, a what if scenario with various ideas from the company thrown into the vn. eddie murphy started wearing fat suits, the first mission impossible was released, super mario 64 came out, and then there was kichikuou rance which shook up the vn industry. in order to get some context, lets go back in time to 1996. Not evenicles fault, rance just has a lot going for it and not just its main character. long answer nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

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