What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love (PSX)

June 12th, 2022

I got really set on getting my Japanese PS1 up and running last night, and am not sure why. It is not a machine that has any problems, and it was out and ready to go, so I am blaming a mix of allergies and antibiotics making me weird for the whole thing. Once it was set up, though, I got out the The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love game to try it out.

I've had the game for a while, but I'm so bad at horizontal shooters that I'd been almost too worried about sucking at the game to actually try playing it. From the little I played last night, though, it was really cool! It had some really nifty effects to recreate some of the movie's space battle animation in sprite form- the missile trails in particular looked pretty impressive- and as well as I like Macross, I was really taken in by all of the music and voice clips. Plus, I liked how fuzzy and low res the anime clips looked on the PS1 disc.

It might be a while before I fully tackle this game, since it got played last night just to make sure my console was still running, but I'll look forward to really playing it! It made me, as a dork, very happy.

Later in the night, I got back to Sonic Adventure. I'm still not totally back to my normal energy level, so I just did the first level for Big the Cat. It was fine. It's maybe a little much that you lose a life when the fishing line breaks, but I don't know how giant talking cats feel about this stuff. Maybe it's really a lot for him to deal with.