It stinks that "Dungeon Master Nexus" was a Japanese-only Saturn release. It's unfortunate that game series that were US/European first often had their final/later games released in Japanese-only versions, like the fourth game in the Phantasie series. Even though I'm highly critical of how Japanese developers "bastardized" Western RPG concepts over the years, they have shown an unrivaled passion for the genre.

All things being equal, as a gamer, I suppose I'd like to know the Japanese language in order to play all these "exclusive" games! As it is now, I have to carefully pick and choose import games so I don't get something that's unplayable due to too much Japanese or Japanese in a game critical location... (though I wonder if "Dungeon Master Nexus" might be one a non-Japanese gamer could struggle through?)

By the way, notice the visuals in "Dungeon Master Nexus"? Very crude, obviously, and proof positive in my mind that 3D didn't get better than 2D until the mid-PS2-era. After all, the DM games and their pseudo-3D with sprites was very effective and certainly more attractive...

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