Retro video – Popful Mail -
Monday 19 February 2007 @ 9:45 pm | By Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte 10 CommentsOne of the main reasons I thought making a 20-minute walk daily from my house to a friend’s, who happened to have a Sega Saturn was worth the sweat was Popful Mail: A skinny, red-haired medieval sword fighter with a lot of willpower and a hilarious English Dub.
The game is a standard 2D Action-Rpg sidescroller, where you start with Mail, then along the adventure you meet Tatt and Gaw, who will join your party. Each char has different abilities and 5 different weapons. Along the stuff that make this game part-RPG (besides the cliched scenario, characters, everything. . .) is that you can get different items that affect your status or the health bar. It has pretty funny music, and as always (before the 2000 World Japanimation Project*) if they didn’t see some elements of the original game to meet their expectations, the US branch of the Developer’s people would modify them, starting with the spoken dialogue (and not being able to change it to original Japanese with Subs [as today {e.g. DBZ Tenkaichi 2 for the Wii}]), WORDS from some characters (Tales of Phantasia “…Like a Tiger” issue) and something I most of the time disapprove of*, the music is completely changed in some scenes.
And that’s why I’m posting the same 2 videos from the intro of this awesome game, the first one in the Original Japanese version and the latter in the Polluted US version. Have fun!
I liked the Japanese version of the pursuit scene better. I imagined a medieval Initial D moment. ha!
* I disapprove only if the music is by 2 different composers, or if the change wasn’t made with the original composer’s approval.
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I’m actually like Working Designs (the guys who localized the game). From what I hear about them, they do their best to stay with the spirit of the game (and make it as accessible as possible) and deliver quality stuff. Like, a neat thing they do is include all of these trinkets with their boxed games, like cloth maps, figurines, and what-not.
Oh thats nice, incentive to pay up for games instead of… plucking them off the bountyful internet tree.
Yeah. There have been few Legendary Fan Services in videogames, “Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete” being my favorite. included a cloth map, a pendant from a char form the game, the OST, and other pretty awesome stuff at an average price! talk about pleasing the consumer.
Hi.This game work on MEGA-CD(Japanese SEGA-CD).
Popful Mail was a great game, with an impressive amount of voice acting in it!! You are wrong though…Popful Mail never made it to Sega Saturn to my knowlege, and only appeared on the Sega Cd Console…(Maybe your referring to a japanese import I’m not aware of??)
I just watched the video, and it was a Japanese import…Sorry for that lol…
Still not fully convinced that the movies here weren’t from the Sega CD though…I own that game personally, and the visuals are identical. You’d think Saturn would of improved it in some way, like they did for Lunat…
Lunat=Lunar
Oh, sorry Janine. Most of the Retro Videos are from my personal experiences at the time these games were blooming, so I would understand if it were an error made by me.
Thing is, I went to a friend’s house to play, and he had a Sega CD and a Sega Saturn in the same place so I guess it was a small error in my memory bank.
Hey, thanks for the info, and glad you told me before I went crazy tearing up the internet trying to find the Saturn version lol…Take Care!!