Let's play Secret of the Stars

I blame peer pressure and my own poor judgement for this. Let's get started.

Secret of the Stars is a very generic SNES-era RPG, published by Tecmo; it's not very good and mostly stands out for the utterly ridiculous translation. The graphics are pretty goofy, too.

Let's kick things off with the introduction.

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I'm sure you're all immediately struck by the high-quality graphics in this game.





So what's going on here is, we're barging into an old man's house so he can tell us a story. That's how all RPGs start, right?



Of course, he makes us go all the way over to find the book ourselves.





I have the strangest feeling that this is going to be a story about an adventure. I don't know where I got that idea.



I don't entirely understand this intro, really. Mostly because both characters in here are in the actual game, as the hero and save point respectively. If this is supposed to be a framing device where the old man is telling the kid a story about his adventures, well, it gets kind of confusing seeing the same kid as the player's character. Also, I don't think the phrase "Stars of hope" is used in the actual game, but I could be misremembering that.

Anyhow, after that exciting and totally relevant and clarifying introduction, we get a little light show before the title screen.






Really exciting, I know. Anyways, apparently the point of all that was to summon the logo.



And now we have our full title screen, featuring a plane that gets used maybe twice in the entire game.



I'm sure you can't wait for me to get started on uncovering the secret. I'll get to that once I'm up for providing actual decent commentary. Or in the morning, whichever comes first.