This is one of the most influential games do ever exist. Let's go over just a few of the small things it's inspired.
• The entire Visual Novel genre. That's right this is quite literally the very first VN to ever exist. Ace Attorney? Danganronpa? You name it. Detective mystery games started here.
• Almost every RPG made in Japan. The development of this game lead to Dragon Quest being made which inspired Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Shin Megami Tensei, Kingdom Hearts, and yeah basically everything under the sun in the genre.
• Inspired the Metal Gear creator to want to become a game developer meaning it also heavily impacted the stealth genre.
• One of the devs of this game went onto become the director of Zelda Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, and many other games in the series. This means Portopia helped inspire the game that set the standard for 3D adventure games and the game that opened the gates for true open world games.
Ok so this game is clearly one of the most important games ever made but is it actually good? I absolutely think it's amazing for an early 1980s game. In tried to actually have an interesting plot in an era where almost no game actually had a significant story. This is a game with an actual significant plot twist in 1983. That alone makes it exceed in value over most games from this era. In fact this is the only game older than 1985 that I think I'd actively recommend to someone if I think it meets their interests. There are some flaws I think are worth mentioning such as the lack of being able to save the game but the story is short enough and save states now exist which erases these kinds of issue.
• The entire Visual Novel genre. That's right this is quite literally the very first VN to ever exist. Ace Attorney? Danganronpa? You name it. Detective mystery games started here.
• Almost every RPG made in Japan. The development of this game lead to Dragon Quest being made which inspired Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Shin Megami Tensei, Kingdom Hearts, and yeah basically everything under the sun in the genre.
• Inspired the Metal Gear creator to want to become a game developer meaning it also heavily impacted the stealth genre.
• One of the devs of this game went onto become the director of Zelda Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, and many other games in the series. This means Portopia helped inspire the game that set the standard for 3D adventure games and the game that opened the gates for true open world games.
Ok so this game is clearly one of the most important games ever made but is it actually good? I absolutely think it's amazing for an early 1980s game. In tried to actually have an interesting plot in an era where almost no game actually had a significant story. This is a game with an actual significant plot twist in 1983. That alone makes it exceed in value over most games from this era. In fact this is the only game older than 1985 that I think I'd actively recommend to someone if I think it meets their interests. There are some flaws I think are worth mentioning such as the lack of being able to save the game but the story is short enough and save states now exist which erases these kinds of issue.
InstantRamenKing
11 months ago