Azure Dreams

[Projeear]

Tell me you know of it.

Outline

There's a city (Small town). There's an ancient, magical tower next to it. Monsters are trapped inside. You are 16.

You can go into the tower, find treasures, weapons, armor, magic - and eggs. Take the eggs home, hatch them, have a new monster. Take the monster into the tower with you, level it up. Find "Sand", which can be used to level up your weapons.
Fight monsters, trip/avoid traps.
The character's level is reset each time he enters the tower, so he has to rely on his monsters to protect him, as well as his uber sword/shield.

Find "Special Items / Quest items" such as the Blue Collar, which allows you to use two monsters at once. Fuse the monsters, gain stats/abilities from both, as one creature (Albeit, you still have the appearance of the one creature ).

Once you return home from the tower, you can sell the treasures you found. You can spend the money on your house and monster hut, making them bigger. Or, spend it on improving the town. Casino. Temple. Racing Track. Library. Hospital. So forth.

At least 60 different monsters (That I can safely say. Mayhap 80+?). Considering the tower has 40 floors... Meh.

Get. Girls. I think it's 7 girlfriends you can have altogether, or was it 5? In the japanese version you can have a boyfriend, but they removed it from the US version (How... Gay.)

Eventually reach the top floor... And I'll leave that to you to find out about.

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There's probably alot more I left out, but that's some of my favourite parts (hurr). It's a Playstation One game from the 90s, in an Action-Turn-Based-RPG style. Available easily on Emulator, although it's probably against the rules for me to link that.

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I've been playing this game for years, coming back to it every few months. It's awesome.

[Audiosmurf]

I played this game to death when I was younger, but lost my copy the last time I moved. The game boy colour version was pretty good too!

[Projeear]

I played this game to death when I was younger, but lost my copy the last time I moved. The game boy colour version was pretty good too!

I only found out that the GBC version wasn't a rumour whilst making this thread :O. I'll have to check it out some time ;D

[Ikor]

That's just puberty stories. Nwm. It'll pass with time.

[Implojin]

Azure Dreams was a great, if simplistic, graphical roguelike.

Considering its time and its target audience, I thought they did a very good job with it.

[Projeear]

So I just had a pot at Azure Dreams on GBC... Wow.

It's so easy.

Azure Dreams: Playstation One.
Likely to die, on first play-through, floor 5? 6?

Azure Dreams: Gameboy.
Likely to die, on first play-through, floor 17? 18?

By the third floor, I had already grabbed 6 eggs. SIX. EGGS. I don't usually get that in PS1 version in two-run-throughs, even to the top floor.
By the third floor, I had picked up a weapon and shield. Both were at least +5. I mean, wow.

However, what I do like about the Gameboy version is it seems to have greater variance in items and monsters, and a cool pokemon-like cutscene for when you attack/are attacked.

Meh. It was alright. I'mma stick to the playstation, though. (: