Hoping to make your life's design a bit more dynamic!

Ahahaha. Those Terrytown Donuts were supposed to be universally famous after all

Hmmm... I wonder if Filler would let me clone that PS-G scene into 3X3. (I know... I'm bad...!)

Ah, OK. The glitch I was referring to is something late in the game; I explained it in a different post and Bongo expressed interest in trying to fix it. I hope he can -- I wasn't a huge fan of this game but if that bug could be fixed it would at least be an average RPG. With probably more interest for fans of 3x3 Eyes.

Heh, a average new RPG is better than no new RPG at all, neh?!

Who knows what magic rabbit Bongo` may pull out of his hat next? He does feats like that all the time, two days after he declared them unfix-able! One trick with Bongo` is to say, "Don't try to do that any more. It's impossible." An hour, day, week or year later, he might deliver that very update right into your inbox.

One other tip I have, that isn't really a glitch but just poor game design -- make sure you always keep a good stock of the bombs that Ling Ling sells. You need them at certain points in dungeons, and if you don't have enough, you have to buy a plane ticket to go all the way back to Hong Kong and then another one to return to your goal. These are pretty expensive, especially early in the game when money is hard to come buy.

Heh, Ritchie set me straight on that! I've translated some Japanese websites since. One I read today had a player complaining that he got off into far-flung places and learned that after-the-fact.

Its a double edged sword. I personally wouldn't include tips that weren't originally there. I never did like dumbing down a game for other languages. It happened a lot in professional translations and never went over well. If they wanted a tip to be there, it would be there. If the Japanese players can deal with it, why can't us English speakers? It made many players upset when companies treated Americans and Europeans as less intelligent than Japanese players. Square was one of the worst offenders, actually turning down the difficulty of games for the US release back in the SNES days.

In 2018, I'm inclined to agree with you. Bongo` did, too, a few years back, when he groused about a certain SNES RPG port that was reconstructed into an incredibly easy play, relative to others (forgot the title - was it Mystic Quest? Did he say I might turn Mystic Ark into that once? That was downright insulting, hee-hee....!).

Filler's the coordinator, but my first inclination was NOT to buy the Plastique "bombs". The pitch sounded like "snake oil" in the publishing office, oozing from the mouth of Ling-Ling's toady. Still, I needed to zip around, writing the story, so I "Ritchied myself up"! I'll play 3X3 honesty during the polishing pass, but I already 'know" the score. That's what you give up writing games, the opportunity to sit in a recliner with nothing more than a new game cart or emulator, a clipboard and pen, a gamepad controller, and mug of cold beer!

It should be noted that 3x3 Eyes is widely considered a kusoge (crappy game), and that this aspect is one of the frequent complaints about it. So it's not like this would be addressing something that Japanese players were completely fine with. I'm not necessarily saying this tip should be added, but if you did add it it wouldn't be because Americans are dumb, it would be because the original game design was bad.



In some cases the Japanese companies just wanted to make money off of hint guides, I think. For this game I've seen a bunch of players say that at the time they couldn't figure out where to go or how to beat the game so they had to buy the official hint guide, but it was full of errors and typos.

Yeah, I think this is one of the major reasons for the cryptic design of many games. Almost every game under the sun had a guidebook produced for it in Japan, which is why I don't think they have a centralized hub for the FAQs/walkthroughs of any kind (like GameFAQs for English speakers etc.) Still, I remember checking out some huge guidebooks for games that technically don't need them at all as well, so I guess this is more of a Japanese thing all things considered.

Anyway, great progress on this project so far!