Verne World

Verne World

Official box art of Verne World
Developer(s) Dual[1]
Publisher(s) Banpresto
Designer(s) Kunio Ohgawara
Futoshi Nagara
Programmer(s) Naoki Suzuki
Tsutomu Takano
Kureaki Takahashi
Saburou Matsuoka
Composer(s) Ryuichi Nitta[2]
Platform(s) Super Famicom
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Role-playing video game
Mode(s) Single-player

Verne World (ヴェルヌ・ワールド World Verunu)[4] is a role-playing video game that was released for the Super Famicom exclusively for the Japanese market. The game revolves around the main character being trapped in a theme park based around the works of Jules Verne such as A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.[5]

Plot

Fighting a battle against some animatronic French maids.

The player controls a young man visiting a theme park (which is shaped like seven interconnected islands[6]) with his little brother during the summer[6] of 2028.[7] The player soon finds out that he is trapped inside the park by himself. Enemies include an animatronic screw, SD Gundams, and a man that transforms into a drilling rig.

At the final level of the game, players must battle a nefarious version of Jules Verne himself in order to determine the fate of the theme park.[8]

Gameplay

While players start out as incredibly incompetent in battle, they eventually start hitting the target monsters more frequently after leveling up. Players start out with an unusually high amount of hit points but can easily die, although they have access to healing services.[9] Healing is done by eating food items at a restaurant, as opposed to sleeping at an inn. Players use items like bamboo sticks and basketballs as weapons against the enemies, which are fought in a manner similar to the Romancing SaGa video game series.[10]

Some of the allies included in the game are a young girl in a wheelchair and a young boy from India.[9] Other allies include main characters from Jules Verne's novels, like Passepartout and Mr. Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days, for example.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Developer information". VGRebirth. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  2. ↑ "Composer information". SNESMusic.org. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
  3. ↑ "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
  4. ↑ "Japanese title". SuperFamicom.org. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
  5. ↑ "Story Information" (in Japanese). Big Globe. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Map/additional story Information" (in Japanese). Infoseek. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  7. ↑ "Story Information" (in Japanese). Infoseek. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  8. ↑ "Final boss/ending information" (in Japanese). SFC no Game Seiha Shimasho. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Basic gameplay information". Retrojrpg. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  10. ↑ "Advanced gameplay information" (in Japanese). GeoCities.jp. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
  11. ↑ "Advanced character information" (in Japanese). Saturn.dti.ne.jp. Retrieved 2012-01-04.

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