Kate

I beat Earnest Evans for the Mega CD! (twice in a row lol). This is my second experience now, with this Annet + Earnest trilogy.

I love El Viento, because I think it's genuinely an amazing, wonderful action-platformer that is a ton of fun. I love Earnest Evans, because it's hilarious and weird and awkward and clunky at every step of the way. The ragdoll sprites, the "QWOP before QWOP" vibe, and the way the silly gameplay contrasts with the badass music and tone, really makes for an amusingly surreal experience. I would not seriously recommend that anyone try to play through this... but at the very least, it's fun to mess around with. (and also doable to beat if you know what you're doing)

Hopefully someday an English patch can be released for this.

Been several months since I last played a Falcom game, but I just beat Popful Mail for the Sega CD (with the Unworked Designs patch, that restores the gameplay to how it was in the Japanese version).

...it's not really very good, lol. It's basically a clunky awkward action-platformer with some adventure elements, as localized by Seth MacFarlane. It had its moments, but gosh there was a lot wrong with it. I think I like it more than Ys V, but I would put pretty much every other Falcom game I've played so far over it.

If the other versions of Popful Mail ever got translation patches, I would be curious to try them. The Sega CD version is apparently pretty different from the older computer versions, and those are all apparently pretty different from the Super Famicom game as well.

I should really get into the habit of tagging these game completion posts.