So, I've been wasting away for the past several days, doing nothing but playing this gem of a game called Elona non-stop...literally non-stop. And now I'm taking a break now to share this gem with y'all.

It's a roguelike rpg, which means it's dastardly difficult, has sprite graphics, but incredibly fun -- think Final Fantasy 3, or Chrono Trigger ... but much harder, and less plot-driven (but more sandboxy!). To give you an idea of some hilarious aspects of this game, here are some quotes from some fellow Elonians:

Hmm I appeared to have gotten pregnant from drinking in a fountain, my char is also a guy.

You get a little girl as your pet. And you ride her. Then you buy a ranch and put your little girl there as a breeder to get more little girls. And then you modify her genetically to give her a centaur lower body. Then you ride her some more. You put a leash around her neck and she tells you "Please be gentle".

I took one of those "escort the dying person" quests in Port Kapul. 10 days to get to Derphy, so easy stuff, right? The escort was a "kamikaze samurai." I get ambushed by monsters two steps out of town. The escort BLOWS HIMSELF UP and I fail the quest.

I got a little girl and named her Bear, and she's like some sort of retard. She eats whatever the hell she finds on the ground. She ate this thing, and it said that she "enjoys being hit" and "enjoys showing off her body" now, and I don't like where this is going.

Haha, my first action in the game was to eat a beggars corpse, and my character goes mad because he realises he's a cannibal now - cue uncontrollable running around and throwing my clothes off.

fuck, and I proposed to my pet bear as a joke, I didn't think I could marry it

My first action of being alive was playing my piano for the first ever on tour perforamce after defeating my first enemies! Sadly the audience hated the performance yelled "You can't play shit!" and hurled a rock at me, killing me.

I picked a little girl as my companion, and then this happened as I was walking through town: Sayban the little girl draws water from a well. Sayban the little girl falls in the well! Sayban the little girl yells "G-Give me your hands!" Sayban the little girl is caught in a trap and dies. "No...no...!"

My personal favorite that happened to me was when I was equipping one of my kobold allies. I accidentally gave him an engagement ring and this happened: Kobold looks at you. Kobold blushes. Your relationship with Kobold is now <Friendly>! Rofl. Then I tried to take it back: Kobold angrily swallows engagement ring! Nice, haha.

So anyway, if you miss the old style Super Nintendo RPGs and want to play something that's actually challenging enough to make you go "wtf?", come play Elona and wave goodbye to the next few weeks! (Link)

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P.S. If this is your first time to roguelikes like it was for me, expect to die. A lot. A lot a lot. And restarting several times 'cuz sometimes things get screwed up beyond recovery, haha, like aliens invading your town and impregnating everyone and overrunning the whole place. And yes, there's many things you have to figure out yourself, the game tells you almost nothing -- but that's the fun of it, no? :D

ClysmiC

United States2192 Posts

July 11 2011 21:25 GMT

Hmm I've never heard of this. I'm a pretty big fan of casual rogue-likes such as Spelunky and Desktop Dungeons (I especially recommend Desktop Dungeons if you like rogue-likes) but I've never played a hardcore one like NetHack or an ASCII game. I'll probably check this out later.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

July 11 2011 21:39 GMT

Played it a good while ago and was doing pretty well(had some buildings of my own) but then my little girl pet died and I accidentally entered a town(which results in saving)...well, that made me quit the game. Can't stand losing someone who grew close to me when it's not unavoidable =(

sick_transit

United States195 Posts

July 11 2011 21:40 GMT

On July 12 2011 06:25 ClysmiC wrote:
Hmm I've never heard of this. I'm a pretty big fan of casual rogue-likes such as Spelunky and Desktop Dungeons (I especially recommend Desktop Dungeons if you like rogue-likes) but I've never played a hardcore one like NetHack or an ASCII game. I'll probably check this out later.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I remember playing Rogue, then Hack, then Moria many nights unto the wee hours back in the 80s. My best friend and I would take turns on his 286 PC, switch off every time we died. Making my crysknife...running from the Balrog...kiting the chromatic dragon...trying to polymorph my dog into something fearsome. And the wand of rock to mud. Oh, to be young again...

happyft

United States470 Posts

July 11 2011 22:28 GMT

Nice! Hahaha...*evil grin*

On July 12 2011 06:39 Lucumo wrote:
Played it a good while ago and was doing pretty well(had some buildings of my own) but then my little girl pet died and I accidentally entered a town(which results in saving)...well, that made me quit the game. Can't stand losing someone who grew close to me when it's not unavoidable =(

I know how you feel ... I ragequit whenever my companions die, even when the penalty is just a few hundred gold and a little relationship number. Most of the time I just tell them to piss off until I go dungeon crawling 'cuz I hate it when chess pieces or aliens or stuff like that pop out of nowhere and start massacring hah. Sounds like you got farther ahead than me though, I've just bought my first building (a farm), I hoping I can get some nice items from that before I start trying out performing while I take a break from destroying everything with my faerie archer :D What's your char?

On July 12 2011 06:40 sick_transit wrote:

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Heh heh... come play Elona!! :D

Sotamursu

Finland612 Posts

July 11 2011 22:31 GMT

Kind of weird to put that many pedophilia "jokes" into a roguelike game.

gameguard

Korea (South)2132 Posts

July 15 2012 06:30 GMT

this game is really good lol.

In a sense, its much more forgiving than other roguelikes, mainly because death isnt permanant. The game is still quite complex and you will likely fail miserably in starting off your character many times until you finally get the hang of it.

This is basically a single player RPG with japanese sprites and a mix of roguelikes and mmorpg gameplay.

When you die, you lose a % of your gold (you cant store it anywhere at the beginning), some skill proficiencies, and items (if you die and drop items in a non persistent dungeon area, items are lost forever). The game basically plays like a sandbox game with turn based and random aspects from roguelikes.

You can buy ranches and breed monster to eat them or sell them as slaves, or whatever. You can buy farms and grow food and equipment lol. You can buy a castle and have all sorts of shit in there.

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