Zenki FX

[Eclipse14]

Today marks 30 years since this game came out (in Japan, the timing was deliberate as it's past midnight over there). Seen a couple topics about the system before, and of course there's a more active one bashing on it, but I wanted to avoid that subject since I'm typically one of its defenders.

That said, the NEC PC-FX was one of the game consoles of all time. A year ago, I made something about the system at large, and it ended up becoming my watershed project; after completely embarrassing myself back in October and trying to get a grip on making things better, I started to find my footing there. I did want to cover some of the system's games afterwards, one of which had to be one of, if not the best-known game for the system: Zenki FX. What better time to post it than today?

So, I took the game a spin a couple months ago, tried to do some research, and got some extra info from a dood I got acquainted with after he caught wind of my original PC-FX video. This was the result. A bit of a short one, but...well, the game was also short, so it fits. Lmao.

 

[deceptionfalls]

Zenki FX is one of the best underrated games i have ever played, im glad someone is covering it in detail, great stuff!!

 

[UnDubious]

I've said it elsewhere, but there's too little game there to be any kind of holy grail or hidden gem. It's got a decent play system and could have been a really solid beat-'em-up but there are only about two and a half levels and some bosses and midbosses, plus lots of unskippable, spoken (which makes it worse because you can't press a button to load the next line) dialogue in Japanese. If this were a Playstation game, it would go largely unnoticed.
The PC-FX has a couple of full on untranslated RPGs like Miraculum. If that were in English, maybe we'd have something really worth it.

 

[Eclipse14]

I didn't even notice until one of my online friends brought it up.

Is that Donkey Kong?!