brandnewscooby wrote:
Just hunkered down and polished off the last couple blocks of text and sent it in to Taskforce. That should do it as far as the main script goes. I'd like to go over it one last time once I have a guidebook in my hand to cross-reference, but I did a lot of reviewing and re-reviewing as I went along, so hopefully not too much needs correcting. I'll leave things in D-D's capable hands for the time being.
Wildbill, I'm not too familiar with the Oni games outside of this one and some incidental knowledge of the Game Boy titles, but I've had a blast with this project and I'm sure the history geek in me would eat it up. I'd definitely be willing to look further into it at some point!
Heh, with your report, brandnewscoopy, no wonder Taskforce needed a nap this evening.
I've been zinging him all day with drafts of a madcap recapitulation of Minerva Chapter 1 through the eyes of this goofball wal-mart-type front gate greeter, the very first person you meet in Chapter 2. Then, I sent him a bunch of SSMS-II materials to sift through as he builds a project page for our V0.88 beta. So, finally, with your 100% script translation of Oni-II in his hands, I can see we've all been piling on TF today, beating him up like a re-headed stepchild! No wonder he's behind on the final sanity check of SSMS-I!
Thinking about all of this work TF must accomplish has made me so tired, I'm hitting the rack now. I'll probably be back after Minerva about 5-6 A.M., long before everyone and their dog starts calling me on the phone around mid-day - forcing me to detour into real-world aggravations.
Now, if Bongo` read what you said about reviewing the possibility of doing Oni-I, I'm now tossing the ball over into his court to get a hack check going and maybe a script dump in the works. Here's what Richie's FAQ reads near the start:
The Super Famicom version of the Japanese ... RPG 'ONI' series that was
popular in the Game Boy version. The stage is the beginning of the Kamakura
period. The story of five people who are guided by fate changing into Oni by
borrowing the power of Tenka's five swords and crossing over to the Nether
World while fighting with [a] ghost.
Thanks again!