ITT: Series that got eclipsed by a spinoff featuring a random enemy

Besides the Puyo taking over the former Madou Monogatari series, what series have this? I genuinely can't think of any right now.

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Puyo Puyo

Good thing these fuckers went to their own thing and let Rayman have good games again.

Reminder

fucking RAYMAN

Yeah but that's the one I was using in the OP. MBM was just an identical copy of Puyo Puyo with the portraits swapped out.
Looking more for stuff like

I was just joking with the fact that Mean Bean Machine eclipsed Puyo Puyo in the west.

Sega's never been good at marketing to the west. PSO died early because for some reason, only Blizzard thought to capitalize on a market of people who didn't have credit cards by making physical timecards. Their most recent attempt at bringing Puyo overseas was their phone game, Puyopuyo Quest, which got rebranded as Cranky Food Friends. Puyopuyoquest is still up, buy Cranky Food Friends ceased to exist in like a couple months.

Oh ok sorry
I played a shitload of MBM when I was younger, still have a plug n play thing with it included on it.
Still a good port of Puyo Puyo.

Puyo Puyo Tetris is their latest attempt to bring it over, actually

Good port of PP1, I guess. PP1 is a shitty puyo game by today's standards though, and as a result so is MBM.

I heard they fucked over Satan with that one, and that Tee sounds like an autistic toddler, but I've also heard the voices are half-decent. Is it out physically already?

Fair enough, but the scenario mode is something I still come back to from time to time.
Also the only PP game I physically own, so it's got a special place in my collection.

I have Fever physical on both DS and GC.

Also Puyo Tetris on Vita

>tfw no translation of Madoh Moonogatari

Is the game/story even good?

Jelly af bruh
I couldn't own a DS, too pricey at the time, mostly just played PC games and my old genesis when DS was out.

As long as we're talking Western versions of puzzle games, how about Panel de Pon? No Pokemon or Yoshi in Japan, ironically.

No one will ever know.

Fucking weird, at least for 2.
The enemies aren't all what you'd expect from a game from a franchise that's so cute now.
Pic is the "rotting test body" a being that's held to the exit by its skin, created by Schezo, who kidnapped Arle to steal her power. Schezo also gets decapitated in the gamegear version iirc.

I was asking about the saturn game in particular

>Japan got a puzzle collection that included HD Panel de Pon for GameCube
>with 4P multiplayer, even
>west got nothing

At least they kept the Animal Crossing minigame and the Lip costume associated with it.

And the VC version of Pokemon Puzzle League still has the Panel de Pon prototype in it.

>Mickey Mouse game in Japan gets a Western release that doesn't involve Disney at all whatsoever.

What were they fucking thinking? Original game is Mickey Mouse 3: Yume Fuusen ("Balloon Dreams").

I played it halfway blindly, I didn't understand a thing, but it seemed like the usual shenanigans from the Madou/Puyo cast, but with a serious side coming from the main villains which are some eldritch abominations wih huge eyes.
It has a great OST too
youtube.com/watch?v=Gpor-PBOpu0
youtube.com/watch?v=fFVXNhVrppQ

It's very different from the other Madou Monogatari games, especially because it's not the same kind of dungeon crawling the other ones use. Much cuter.

puyonexus.com/wiki/Madou_Monogatari_(Saturn)

That cover is fucking awful, jesus christ

>Schezo also gets decapitated in the gamegear version iirc.
Need a source on that.

HOLY SHIT.
It's true, but that's in the PC98 version.
youtube.com/watch?v=AVPacuOEfn0

>"She sees light of the exit but Schezo notices her escaping and fights her. In the PC98 version, Schezo is decapitated but the bloody head manages to attack still. After you defeat him, he passes on and you don't see him again (except in the Gamegear version where you meet him again a few times.)"

Woops, I was wrong, it's on the PC version, sorry.
puyonexus.com/wiki/Madou_Monogatari_123

PC-98, not PC.

Eee.
Sorry.

Arle A CUTE!

Phantasy Star?

Granted the series already had a conclusion with IV.

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What happened to it? I've never played PS.

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Go play Madou Monogatari the snes one has a translation.

I fucking suck at puyo. I can never get more than like a 5 chain.

I love Kid Klown rip

Oh shit really
I've not used an emulator prior, what's a good one for this

It's Brain Dumbed IIRC

They're also "dire", "ice storm" and "diamond cut"

I dunno snes9x, zsnes or retroarch?
Link to the translation. The snes version is a much more kid friendly version.
romhacking.net/translations/386/

Ok thanks
Is this the dungeon crawler one? I enjoy dungeon crawlers.

bsnes/higan ran the game pretty well for me, but snes9x should suffice for it

Are they all clowns?

no the snes version is a more traditional jrpg for toddlers.

klowns are kool

I want to fuck Arle.

Ah. Do any of the crawlers have translations?

t. Satan
She doesn't like you dude, there's a hot blue haired girl lusting after your every move and you go after the one who thinks you're retarded?

Don't we all?

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Neither can I.
Can't even beat the first enemy in mean bean machine

not really unfortunately. This series is pretty moonrune dependent.
romhacking.net/translations/1502/

He only wants Arle because Carbuncle won't leave her. Or at least I'm pretty sure that's how it started, but at some point it became a real infatuation and they all forgot how it started. 25 years of hijinxs kind of dulls the memory.

Dangit. I wish I could learn to read moonrunes without bothering to speak it but it's impossible to do so afaik.

I guess I'll just muddle through one anyway.

Satan was going to give Carbuncle to his future bride. Carbuncle went with Arle and travels constantly with her so he thinks she should be his bride.
In a different game, he actually expresses independent desire for her based on her looks, rather than just because of Carbuncle.
He always loves Carbuncle though.

It got pretty mixed up.

I figured, but like I said, 25 years of this likely makes the routine grow on everyone involved, so i doubt either of them even remember what's going on anymore, they're all just used to this by now.

Yeah, I like to imagine them as friends anyway, despite all the kidnapping, decapitations, and fighting they've done.

That'd serve as a pretty good explanation as to how they went from all that shit to the fairly lighthearted shenanigans that goes on in Puyo now.

I wish more of the games got localized, especially the PC98 ones. I'd like to see more character interactions between them, or at least a little more personality like in that gif

Agreed. The original is nothing special but it's not bad either.

That looks fine, forgettable but way better than the obese clown on a pink backdrop.

Rather gory. Old PC98 games are nice to revisit once in a while. If I understood more moonspeak I'd love to play DCs like this

>Still a good port of Puyo Puyo.

Isn't it just a reskinned version of the mega drive game?

Yup, and it works the same way with some good remixed music tracks to boot.
It's a port that doesn't fuck the game up or add too many different things, which is good enough for me.
Might've misused the word "port" though, I guess I mean localization.

Isn't that because Madou Monogatari's world was destroyed and Satan recreated it with his own tastes?

Technically Shadow Hearts is a spin-off on Koudelka and it had three games made after that where Koudelka has one

When did this happen? Just curious, never played the later MM games

I just heard about it. That's also the reason Arle doesn't age and will be a semi-loli forever, because Satan wills it.

>satan is a semi-lolicon
makes sense

What's Koudelka?

PS1 jrpg it has a spin-off called shadow hearts on ps2 and it had three games made over the original's one

I see. She's cute

ere why's she a midget

because she's a toddler here

How has nobody said Donkey Kong yet?

why is she a toddler

becuase she's literally attending a magical kindergarden in some of the games

Isn't Donkey Kong the enemy though? And his series didn't quite take over the protag of his game.

Oh I see. Well that makes sense then.

Is it any good?

not me
rulue is better

Yes.

Blue long hair and sexy>brown short hair and cute

That's hot

Correct.

I wouldn't say "eclipsed" but the Prinnies got a psp game.

shame she's already obsessed with another guy but still a best

At least disgaea has decent mascot enemies though, unlike How was the game?

I heard someone had bad taste.

I never bothered to learn anybody's name besides Arle but she was always the cutest girl.

The Prinny games are pretty good, but be ready to fuck up your square button since there's a lot of mashing. They also are quite hard, witht he second game being more like old NES platformers where there will be parts with pits and a bunch of enemies scattered around that will push you into said pits if they hit you.

Mandrake is better
Sounds pretty good, although way different than normal Disgaea. PSP has an emulator right? Or not?

who

>Draco figure
I NEED IT

It's a Charagumin. I want one but I can't afford it either due to a fucking leaf
I want the Satan one as well.