Aurora Quest

Aurora Quest

Aka: OTAKU NO SEIZA IN ANOTHER WORLD, オーロラクエスト おたくの星座 In Another World, Aurora Quest - Otaku no Seiza in Another World
Console: TurboGrafx CD
TV Standard: NTSC-J
Developer(s): Pack-In-Video Co., Ltd
Publisher(s): Pack-In-Video Co., Ltd
Release Date: 1993-12-10
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Role-Playing

Foregoing the generic fantasy setting of most RPGs, Aurora Quest casts you as Otaku-chan, a man in a land controlled by a group of five women called Aurora (who would pass quite easily for a Japanese girlie band). Together with your fellow travellers, Jonjon and Nekketsu, you work your way through a humorous sci-fi story. The gameplay is very standard RPG stuff with towns containing shops, hotels and so on, and the world map throwing up random encounters every few steps. These battles are turn based with the usual mechanics of selecting your attacks and watching them play out - although you have to choose carefully, as you don't default to the next available target when one is destroyed, which will often have you shooting into thin air.