'Taito LD Game Collection' includes three classic games from the past where you help characters with QTE while watching animation.
The Nintendo Switch software ' Taito LD Game Collection ' released by Taito on December 14, 2023 is an HD remaster of three classic laser disc (LD) game titles that became mainstream in game centers around the 1980s. I am recording it. The games included are ``
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When you purchase 'Taito LD Game Collection', three games are added to your Nintendo Switch.
First, let's play 'Time Gal'.
When I pressed the button, a menu was displayed. Select 'ARCADE'.
The opening movie will play. The big villain, Ruda, steals a time machine and escapes.
Reika, a ``time gal'' from the Historical Security Police, travels through various eras in pursuit of Ruda.
You can see how it is actually played by watching the movie below.
Reika lands in the ice age and is chased by a mammoth. An arrow suddenly appeared in the animation, so input the stick in that direction.
Then I was able to dodge it. In this way, the game progresses through the animation by repeating so-called
In addition to QTEs that require stick input or button presses, Time Gal also has an event called 'Time Stop.' As shown in the image below, the animation stops for 10 seconds, during which you choose which movement to make from three options. Only one option is always correct, and if you choose the remaining two, you are immediately out. There are almost no hints as to which option to choose, so it is quite difficult to proceed without making mistakes. However, the correct answer choices are fixed, so you can retry and memorize them as you progress.
If you fail to enter the QTE, Reika will be defeated. If you fail, you will have to restart the stage, but Reika's reaction when she fails also varies from scene to scene, so it is one of the highlights.
If you fail, the 'GAL' number at the bottom right will decrease, and if you fail when it reaches 0, the game is over. However, although your score will decrease, you can retry repeatedly, so if you have patience you can move forward with the animation.
When the game is over, enter your name and record your score.
Clear the stage to get 5000 bonus points and warp to the next era. There are 16 stages in total, 5 stages are ancient times from 1 to 70 million BC, 5 stages are from the Era to modern times (2000), and 6 stages are future stages from 2000 to 4000 years. Please note that there are no saves or loads.
From the 'TRAINING' menu, you can individually select the stages you have cleared.
In addition, you can watch the stages you have cleared without having to play them at MOVIE THEATER. In the image below, the trees flowing in the river are shining, and in normal play you will fail if you do not input the stick downwards toward the light, but in MOVIE THEATER you do not need to input anything. The animation will move forward.
In addition, from 'CONFIGURATION' you can change the number of remaining planes, set the language, and adjust the difficulty level from 1 to 5. I changed it to '5' which is the most difficult one to try.
You can see what will happen if you increase the difficulty level and play 'Time Gal' by watching the movie below.
If you increase the difficulty level, arrows will no longer appear during QTEs. In the image below, the tree vine above Reika is glowing yellow, so you need to type the stick upwards.
Also, in the image below, the holster on Reika's waist is glowing, so you have to press the button to fire the ray gun. In this way, when the difficulty level is high, 'what to enter' is not displayed, so it becomes almost impossible to proceed without memorizing it.
Next, let's play 'Space Battleship Yamato'. It is an arcade game originally released in 1985.
The menu contents are the same as 'Time Gal'. Select 'ARCADE' to start the game.
The movie I played 'Space Battleship Yamato' is below.
Yamato takes off with familiar music.
Juzo Okita will tell you his strategy.
A sudden QTE will appear, so enter the stick below.
I failed to input the stick and Yamato crashed into a rock.
There was heavy damage inside the ship.
However, although the number of remaining lives in the bottom left decreased, the game progressed without retrying or game over. In ``Space Battleship Yamato,'' players select warp targets from ``Pluto Skyspace,'' ``Space Cavity,'' ``Aquarius,'' and ``Fortress Uruk,'' and complete each stage. Here we choose Aquarius.
You will be attacked by missiles, so press the button to intercept them. ``Space Battleship Yamato'' has a relatively large number of shooting-like elements, in addition to QTEs similar to ``Time Gal.''
When the game is over, Yamato will be completely destroyed.
Even in 'Space Battleship Yamato,' you can play stages that have already been cleared individually during training, or just watch the animations.
Finally, let's play 'Ninja Hayate', which was released by Taito as the first LD game in 1984. 'Ninja Hayate' also has five menus: 'ARCADE', 'TRAINING', 'MOVIE THEATER', 'MANUAL', and 'CONFIGURATION'. Select 'ARCADE' to start the game.
You can understand the game content of 'Ninja Hayate' by watching the movie below.
Hayate invades a castle held by an evil ninja army to rescue a princess who has been kidnapped.
When 'ACTION' is displayed, input the stick in the direction of the arrow. Ninja Hayate requires button input in a total of 8 directions (up, down, left, right, and 4 diagonal directions).
Make full use of QTE to avoid traps set in the castle.
Also, powerful enemies are waiting in the castle. Battles with enemies proceed only with QTE using sticks and buttons.
If the input fails, Hayate will turn into dust and disappear.
Ninja Hayate has a total of 18 scenes, of which 6 are randomly selected from 15 scenes, and the final 3 scenes are fixed, making a total of 9 stages to be completed. Therefore, from 'CONFIGURATION' you can also select and play the pattern in which the scene is selected.
In addition, if you turn on the 3-mistake skip function, you can advance the story if you fail at the same point three times, so if you are curious about where the animation is going, but it's difficult and you can't proceed. It can be set from 'CONFIGURATION'.
The regular version of 'Taito LD Game Collection' has a list price of 9,680 yen including tax, and the special edition, which comes with various benefits such as a goods store soundtrack, has a list price of 19,580 yen. In addition, ``Time Gal'', ``Space Battleship Yamato'', and ``Ninja Hayate'' can be purchased individually as download versions, each costing 4180 yen including tax.
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