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Torneko: The Last Hope
Torneko: The Last Hope is a 1999 role-playing video game for the PlayStation. The game was co-developed by Chunsoft and Matrix Software and published by Enix. In Japan, the game was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2001.
Torneko: The Last Hope is a spin-off title of the Dragon Quest franchise and the second Mystery Dungeon game to star the Dragon Quest IV character Torneko. It is also the second game in the Mystery Dungeon series to be released in North America, after Chocobo's Dungeon 2. Like in Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon, Torneko (or Taloon, as he was known in Dragon Warrior IV) explores dungeons in search of items, while fighting hordes of monsters.
The game is done with two dimensional graphics and an overhead perspective of the games activities. The main gameplay involves Torneko exploring mazelike dungeons in search of items. When players first start conquering dungeons, Torneko continuously returns to level one strength and loses all his items until he rebuilds his storehouse. Temporary saves are sometimes allowed mid-dungeon, but these are erased as soon as players resume play. Combat against monsters is turn-based, with player and enemies alternating movements and actions. Torneko can attack with close range weapons like swords, long range like bow and arrow, or magic spells summoned with a wand or scroll. Torneko also has a hunger meter which causes him to lose health if he does not eat bread. During his exploration, Torneko can discover treasure and magic items.
The plot for Torneko: The Last Hope happens after the events of Dragon Quest IV, and half a year after Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon. Torneko returns to his village and is forced to help cure his village of a curse that has been placed upon it.
On April 18, 2000, Enix announced its first three games to be made for the original PlayStation, of which Torneko: The Last Hope was one. The game features 130 hand drawn monsters.
A 2013 news article wrote that based on forum posts by Nob Ogasawara, one of the game's editors, The Last Hope was only localized in the United States because of the passion of the translation team and their agreement to work for much less than normal. In a 2020 interview, Ogasawara clarified that the localization team largely consisted of himself; according to him, the original translation company "made a total mess of things", produced no usable text, and wasted most of the budget and deadline, so he personally with his editor and kids finished the work in three weeks.[citation needed]
Torneko: The Last Hope was released for the PlayStation on September 15, 1999, in Japan. Its U.S. release occurred over a year later, on November 16, 2000. Finally, its Game Boy Advance port was released exclusively in Japan on December 20, 2001.
The musical score for Torneko: The Last Hope was composed by Dragon Quest series composer, Koichi Sugiyama. The original game soundtrack from the PlayStation version was released by SPE Visual Works on January 21, 2000, in Japan on a single 21-track disc.
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Torneko: The Last Hope
Torneko: The Last Hope is a 1999 role-playing video game for the PlayStation. The game was co-developed by Chunsoft and Matrix Software and published by Enix. In Japan, the game was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2001.
Torneko: The Last Hope is a spin-off title of the Dragon Quest franchise and the second Mystery Dungeon game to star the Dragon Quest IV character Torneko. It is also the second game in the Mystery Dungeon series to be released in North America, after Chocobo's Dungeon 2. Like in Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon, Torneko (or Taloon, as he was known in Dragon Warrior IV) explores dungeons in search of items, while fighting hordes of monsters.
The game is done with two dimensional graphics and an overhead perspective of the games activities. The main gameplay involves Torneko exploring mazelike dungeons in search of items. When players first start conquering dungeons, Torneko continuously returns to level one strength and loses all his items until he rebuilds his storehouse. Temporary saves are sometimes allowed mid-dungeon, but these are erased as soon as players resume play. Combat against monsters is turn-based, with player and enemies alternating movements and actions. Torneko can attack with close range weapons like swords, long range like bow and arrow, or magic spells summoned with a wand or scroll. Torneko also has a hunger meter which causes him to lose health if he does not eat bread. During his exploration, Torneko can discover treasure and magic items.
The plot for Torneko: The Last Hope happens after the events of Dragon Quest IV, and half a year after Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon. Torneko returns to his village and is forced to help cure his village of a curse that has been placed upon it.
On April 18, 2000, Enix announced its first three games to be made for the original PlayStation, of which Torneko: The Last Hope was one. The game features 130 hand drawn monsters.
A 2013 news article wrote that based on forum posts by Nob Ogasawara, one of the game's editors, The Last Hope was only localized in the United States because of the passion of the translation team and their agreement to work for much less than normal. In a 2020 interview, Ogasawara clarified that the localization team largely consisted of himself; according to him, the original translation company "made a total mess of things", produced no usable text, and wasted most of the budget and deadline, so he personally with his editor and kids finished the work in three weeks.[citation needed]
Torneko: The Last Hope was released for the PlayStation on September 15, 1999, in Japan. Its U.S. release occurred over a year later, on November 16, 2000. Finally, its Game Boy Advance port was released exclusively in Japan on December 20, 2001.
The musical score for Torneko: The Last Hope was composed by Dragon Quest series composer, Koichi Sugiyama. The original game soundtrack from the PlayStation version was released by SPE Visual Works on January 21, 2000, in Japan on a single 21-track disc.