One 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!

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