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Now this is a story all 'bout how - I learned to love the rare Roguelike... anyhow, It starts back in '06 (guess-tamation, time's a slippery-ass concept, when it comes to me.) In those years past - Elementry (I threatened a friend's life, beat that one Devon) or so; gaming to me was the simple Platformer; an Rpg now and again; never did touch a Puzzeler in my short time; an SNES port of a bad (seriously, how good can DBZ: Super Butouden 2 be on Nintendo's second console?) Fighter. I may love me some Shin Nihon Kikaku, but Fatal Fury came a fair bit later in my gaming career.



Anyhoo ~ grade 6 I had your usual time in middle-school (right after grade five and the death threat; left mayhap 3 friends to my
name) Given; I was your average Poké-mans fan (ahh, weren't we all...) and shit, what do I find on a trip to the mall - but a game, one that'd take me literal years to mark the genre of - aside from my praise of Soul Blade (the opening CG might have made it worth-while) not just that, but all the Tekkens (3 at the time...) on what was a friend's old PlayStation (nope, no PS2 for this cat...).



Yea, anyway, I knew not of Games beyond your common GameFaqs-lingo, at the time... (forums didn't exist 'till my RPG-Tsukuru phase); so this one was kind of neat as... well, altogether, different; see, in Pokémon - it was your common RPG minus, ya' know, story - that thing
that makes an RPG an RPG. (May god be thanked for FF5.) But in this strange -New, to me anyhoo- genre, it was basically an a-rpg, with the
added bonus of actual (real) stratagy all on that Gameboy. I loved me some Zelda; sadly, Melissa - my older sister - got it for the N64
(yea, I was an N64dian, sue me....) and beat that one, followed by us getting Gameboys; Link followed in an Awakened manner, then Majora had his mask-ive adventure on N64 - and neither of us beat that one. So, ah yea, I fell in love with this game; genre-ever-elusive. And me being
the most stupid kid ever said to my best friend (at the time, may still be, ask someone who cares...) 'Yo, guess what; I got a game (for me
a true rarity, atleast pre-knowledge having...) - and it's...good!!!'



'Well, what genre is it?' - he asks, thereby I explain how I have no F-ing clue, 'but, but - it's like Pokémon, but, with swords and shit!;
and even a dating sim thrown in for good measure' I give mayhap 5 months to a Ben Lewing, and he (buys, and) fricking beats it
-of all things, before me; given my head start, et all- I carry on to the end of that school year in a rage, I find the elusive-game-with-no-genre and my best friend F-ing apes the win from me.

-The story takes a break here for some years...-

In nearly 2 years I discover that the game I had loved all that time ago, was a frickin' sidequel (still, with no genre), to of all things a Playstation game. (Ben, having a Ps2 all those years ago, gave me his old PSX...) So I buy this Game; and ever the idiot give my friend another chance to race thru this Arpg/Dating sim and prove me a slow old fool.

You think I learn my lesson; nope, anyhoo - He beats me to beating this game once more. (I learn my lesson though, and never suggest another
game to him).



Anyway; SelectButton enters near the next part - I play games, yea... anyhoo, Mr. Apol - RE-(yes, re-)introduced me to the grand rarity of Net-Hack (a game suspiciously a-kin to elder-Azure-Dreams) Genre naming; here we come, a Frick-ing Rogue-like. (note: I have actually played Net-Hack once and only once...)



I later got to enjoy Cave Noire, translated by a one Ghideon Zhi; and on my DS - Shiren, though I'd have loved it on the SupraFami just as
well and oddly enough (for this place) and I fricking love Shiren Wii.



Ah, "What is a Rouge-lite?", you ask; good question - anyway Nethack and such are miles beyond my (nearly-casual, sadly) gameplay acumen, so, um, a Rouge-lite™ is a (Roguelike-like) game (as I say) that can be beaten by a nigh-casual (ability-wise) such as myself...
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[Notymenow]

no, It's a reference to the DOS game Rouge; first of the games likened to Rouge....

(I think, could be marginally wrong...)
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