Perch
2017-06-01, 10:50 AM
Tecmo's Deception series is drastically different from the typical action/adventures games. Most give you a weapon of some kind and let you deal with your opponents directly.
Instead, Deception puts you in the shoes of a protagonist without any weapons or fighting ability. What they can do, is control an elaborate series of traps to murder intruders with. And to survive, Deception doesn't just expect you to kill those who get in your way. You frequently wind up killing innocent people, for no better reason than the fact that they were in the wrong place, at the wrong time. They're weird, creepy games, unlike anything else on the market.
Think of it as fantasy of the Christmas movie Home Alone, I really like the lore and art design of this game, it was my favorite game as a kid growing up and influenced a lot of my own fantasy settings, as a huge fan I decided to start a let's play series. :smallsmile:
Unfortunately the last installment has received the Waifu-sexist perv Japanese bait some other fantasy games form japan received (Like Drakegrd 3), so I won’t be playing the last game, nor do I consider it part of the canon.
The games consist of a protagonist in large castle who must use innumerous traps to save his/her life, innumerous types of adventures, normally seen as the heroes will try to kill you, knights, warriors, mages, wizards, witches, nobles etc... And you must lure them to the traps in order to murder them and advance the story.
So now we need to choose which game we are going to play. The series are only loosely connected so there is no need to play it in any particular order.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/deceptionnacovera.jpg
The first one is also the ugliest, the graphics didn't age way, the character design is... Interesting but not nearly as cool as the later games.
It consumes a lot of blocks in the memory card and has some really slow loading screens, it kind of sucks, but hey how many games allow you to kill adventures and heroes in order to bring Satan back to life?
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/kageroeucovera.jpg
The second game, for some reason called Kagero, it’s considered by many as the best one, the plot of these games is not that great but this one has the best plot among them, interesting characters and a protagonist who makes sense.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/darkdelusionnacovera.jpg
The third installment and my favorite, the protagonist is kind of annoying and the story doesn't make a lot of sense but I have to say the character design and setting are AWESOME, the invaders designs are among my favorite of all games EVER.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/traptcovera.jpg
The last game I can do, the only one in the PlayStation 2, so it has the best graphics and... Well not much, it keeps the original formula which is cool, but the protagonist is boring, the story is boring, the antagonists are boring... It's kind of a boring game really.
Don't get me wrong I spend countless hours on it, more of this weird elaborated death Traps type of game is always great since you can't get it anywhere else, but it's kind of a bland take on the series, the best one graphically speaking but even the first one had more original ideas(Like summoning monsters and building your own castle) but laying traps and luring unsuspecting targets to them feels satisfying, in good graphics it feels even more satisfying.
So that's it guys, which one do you want to play?
Some articles about the game: Here (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/deception.htm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nGeFXTeyP8
Instead, Deception puts you in the shoes of a protagonist without any weapons or fighting ability. What they can do, is control an elaborate series of traps to murder intruders with. And to survive, Deception doesn't just expect you to kill those who get in your way. You frequently wind up killing innocent people, for no better reason than the fact that they were in the wrong place, at the wrong time. They're weird, creepy games, unlike anything else on the market.
Think of it as fantasy of the Christmas movie Home Alone, I really like the lore and art design of this game, it was my favorite game as a kid growing up and influenced a lot of my own fantasy settings, as a huge fan I decided to start a let's play series. :smallsmile:
Unfortunately the last installment has received the Waifu-sexist perv Japanese bait some other fantasy games form japan received (Like Drakegrd 3), so I won’t be playing the last game, nor do I consider it part of the canon.
The games consist of a protagonist in large castle who must use innumerous traps to save his/her life, innumerous types of adventures, normally seen as the heroes will try to kill you, knights, warriors, mages, wizards, witches, nobles etc... And you must lure them to the traps in order to murder them and advance the story.
So now we need to choose which game we are going to play. The series are only loosely connected so there is no need to play it in any particular order.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/deceptionnacovera.jpg
The first one is also the ugliest, the graphics didn't age way, the character design is... Interesting but not nearly as cool as the later games.
It consumes a lot of blocks in the memory card and has some really slow loading screens, it kind of sucks, but hey how many games allow you to kill adventures and heroes in order to bring Satan back to life?
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/kageroeucovera.jpg
The second game, for some reason called Kagero, it’s considered by many as the best one, the plot of these games is not that great but this one has the best plot among them, interesting characters and a protagonist who makes sense.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/darkdelusionnacovera.jpg
The third installment and my favorite, the protagonist is kind of annoying and the story doesn't make a lot of sense but I have to say the character design and setting are AWESOME, the invaders designs are among my favorite of all games EVER.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/traptcovera.jpg
The last game I can do, the only one in the PlayStation 2, so it has the best graphics and... Well not much, it keeps the original formula which is cool, but the protagonist is boring, the story is boring, the antagonists are boring... It's kind of a boring game really.
Don't get me wrong I spend countless hours on it, more of this weird elaborated death Traps type of game is always great since you can't get it anywhere else, but it's kind of a bland take on the series, the best one graphically speaking but even the first one had more original ideas(Like summoning monsters and building your own castle) but laying traps and luring unsuspecting targets to them feels satisfying, in good graphics it feels even more satisfying.
So that's it guys, which one do you want to play?
Some articles about the game: Here (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/deception/deception.htm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nGeFXTeyP8