Ancient Roman: Power of Dark Side

Ancient Roman: Power of Dark Side (1998)

by Nihon System
Genres:Role-playing (RPG)
Themes:Fantasy
Game modes:Single player
Story:A PS1 RPG with 3-D models and pre-rendered backdrops, Ancient Roman was released in 1998 by Nihon System, but exploded into internet infamy in the late 2010s as word of the game began to spread through Japanese gaming circles. It is now widely considered to be one of the worst RPGs ever made by Japanese retro gamers.Show more
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February 06, 2025
This is a legendary Kusoge. Stilted dialogue, absurd CGI cutscenes, and only enough stolen from other (more famous) games to make it resemble a JRPG. It has many misfeatures such as: Holding a face button stops all encounters, there's an axe that will 100% of the time inflict sleep, there's no way to tell if a status effect went off, and the music was transposed wrong during conversion to Playstation so it's an audio jungle (derogatory). Oh, also the all sounds are raw uninitialized sound data truncated to be exactly 10 seconds each, so there's a long pause any time a sound plays at MAX VOLUME. Not sure what this is doing on the Dreamlist though, seeing as it's legally an untranslated Playstation exclusive kusoge JRPG.
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