Famidaily - Episode 0854 - Radia Senki/Record of the Radia War (ラディア戦記)

Being the hero in an RPG in the second most common cause of amnesia.
Famidaily is my attempt to catalog all of the commercially released Famicom games.

[@atmaweapon2803]

Been eagerly awaiting this game on my watch through. It's probably my favorite action adventure RPG title on the Famicom, and probably my favorite game on the console period. It's maddening that we didn't get this stateside. It was about to be localized as Tower of Radia and there's a prototype that exists that is essentially complete, save for minor errors. I've been working on my own text and grammar cleanup hack of it.

[@skyrunner14]

I'd seriously been considering doing something like this myself, so it's nice to hear someone beat me to it! Is there anywhere I could keep an eye on this?

[@atmaweapon2803]

@@skyrunner14 i thought I was, but real life kind of got in the way and I didn't get very far. You're welcome to have a go at it if you want! The text isn't compressed--it would be super easy to tidy up grammar and punctuation errors.

[@Hatchyack]

This is one of my favorite games period, not just on the Famicom. Whenever people are asking for lesser known RPGs on NES/Fam I end up recommending this. One of the very few 3rd gen RPGs I've played through more than once. Always loved it when I made it into that one town that's abandoned and all fiery, the music is awesome and the place is like an anime version of Centralia PA.

[@carlozulueta-de9hd]

Radia Senki and Chaos World are awesome!

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

This is one of the best Famicom RPGs. It plays like Tecmo was trying to do an 8-bit Star Ocean, and besides Ninja Gaiden and Captain Tusbasa, this is the only game they applied their "Tecmo Theater" style to. I'd have loved to have seen it in another RPG.

[@FoundOasis]

Thx for all these famicon videos

[@MabelsFanboy]

5:16 I was just started watching Klonoa related video when I found out that this game and Klonoa had the same final boss :)))

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

Been looking forward to this one! Love the cutscenes

[@FatDragonHats]

I enjoyed this game, I’m over do for another play through.

[@romannikonenko7325]

Such a great game! Being the best ARPG on a system, it's gameplayingly fun, more epic, graphically moodier, musically finer than many genre counterparts and so on. Yeah, backtracking is a tad annoying but it is still manageable. Also, I liked the meat grinding in this game 😅

[@polarbear1713]

I have never played a game quite like this, especially on the NES. It is a shame that this game wasnt expanded upon because I think it has some promise. I am on my first playthrough and have no idea what items do, so I am planning on looking up an item guide. With that, I think this game deserves a playthrough from anyone looking for old rpgs. The one thing that turns me away from some old rpgs was that a lot of them required you to go in to a menu to talk to people. This game does not require you to do that, thankfully.

[@mariusamber3237]

I believe this game was supposed to be released in the West, there's even a prototype floating around (under the title Tower of Radia). I played through it a while ago, it's okay, but kinda slow unfortunately; I wouldn't call it a hidden gem personally. Some of the music is great, the AI is not entirely stupid, and it's not 'that' long, so there are positive aspects. I'd say give it a go and see whether you like how it plays later on. Overall, it's perhaps worth a playthrough, but likely not more than that. Too bad it wasn't released in the West, but I guess it's not so surprising at that point. Regarding your question... it must be amnesia. It's just super common in every genre, whereas having your home town destroyed happens mostly in RPGs/action games.

[@TanookiSuit]

I found you fairly recently so there's 100s of back catalog to hit, but I can see from your total you're hitting the high end of this system. What's your plan in the future if you keep the format up? NES? FDS? Game Boy/Color?

[@RndStranger]

I have two very small system libraries I'm going to do in the two month gap between the end of Famidaily and the new year. Then 2024 I'm going to make into the year of FDS. Beyond that, I'm going to ease off a fair amount. There's 191 FDS games so I won't have the pressure to make at least a video a day going on and I can start doing other things in my life. If I do any further game libraries they'll be smaller and at a gentler pace than Famidaily.

[@rydog11]

@@RndStrangerI was hoping for an fds dive.

[@rydog11]

Excellent analysis. I’ve played a bit and have the same experience you did. Kind of want to see it further due to all the praise online but not sure it’s for me. I do prefer the prototype due to faster movement speeds.

[@darktetsuya]

huh can't say I've heard of this one! too bad they didn't continue this one on SFC instead of doing whatever 'secret of the stars' was, that one just seemed extremely generic from what I saw of it. suppose I'll at least give it a look.

[@scaryice82]

I played this game for an hour or two and I thought it was below average, with the real time battle system lacking any intensity.

[@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd]

When you have five characters running around, it gets much more interesting. It does remain on the easy side, though.