I tried to play Treasure of the Rudra no Hihou back in 2006 and didn’t find it very interesting, but now watching youtubes of other people playing it I am overcome with a strong interest in acquiring and eating apple crisp
a lot of stuff about the game doesn’t make sense and I don’t know what senselessness is due to the original Japanese game’s script and what is due to the english translation being unofficially translated from another unofficial FRENCH translation of the Japanese.

I do know that the only rudra to not have attempted to exterminate a race is the one wearing a klan hood.

you say that the same way you’d say “my dad owns an electric weed trimmer.”

that old thing? I sold it at a tag sale a few years ago

I am not sure what to make of these sicko lizards who carry around boots formed from the skin of their own slaughtered ilk that they don’t even wear.
This game tries to talk big about harmony among the “races,” but in the end decides “eh humans are actually the best race.” I don’t have the energy to find more screenshots to prove that and worry I will want to change that dumb video again –I already remembered today how funny it looks when the heroes turn around casually walk away from battle when told to flee– and I don’t want to make a third post about dumb old rudra: the home game. But the important matter is that lizards are scum.

any lizard that is agreeable is an exception and they are still “lizard”s and not people.

one of the most powerful monster attacks is to fire a beam made of flying lizards with scythes out of your nose

All the hero characters have ostentatious multi-piece sprite movements whenever you tell them to do things, including a breakdancing mermaid and two temporary characters that only stick around for about ten minutes and an hour respectively, except the one lizard present for 90% of scenario 3 who has roughly animated single-piece sprites. Even the outwardly evil lizards have smoother animation. I don’t have a gif of those because I do not tolerate evil deeds on my web page. This minimally animated lizard enters into the plot by stealing the ONLY “revive herb” left in the world to try and revive an evil lizard rudra that will destroy everything except for lizards, but then gets stuck in a plant on the way to the rudra’s roost.

pardon me, wrong roots. I don’t know how this came up when I was talking about a race story.

What a loser! When that evil lizard gets revived anyway it’s pretty much the wimpiest rudra story-wise and it simply blinks out of existence without any last words or threats that it isn’t actually dead and will be back.

And characters in this game are often uncertain themselves whether things that disappear in front of them have perished or simply gone somewhere else.
Abilijer is also a rudra. It is actually easier to beat than the lizard but it turns to stone instead of vanishing, and needs to be refought again later. The second time it at least talks trash, and THEN disappears, and this dork Legin who wears a pink jester hat at all times and has seen 4000 monsters before this one, including the reptile rudra, be erased from existence in a manner that defies the Conservation of Mass physics law only at this point thinks it strange. Which isn’t the lizard’s fault but I would think more highly of it were that the case.

goodness gracious I don’t even LIKE this game and look at how much they made me talk about it!