Yay! I've always wanted to role-play a love-sick geisha who commits suicide!ĭoes it seem at this point like the developers wanted to create a Japanese-themed RPG but only knew like two things about Japan? It would be like someone in Japan trying to set a game in England based on what he knew from television. Butterfly." That would admittedly be original for an RPG, but I I don't believe the depth of role-playing in Karma quite supports it. If that isn't odd enough, the next option appears: "Or Mme. They start with a view from inside a spaceship with a message saying "Hyperspace Jump," then move on to the question of "What role to embody?" The next two screens offer a couple of possible answers: "A samurai or a brave native." Trying to interpret the plot from Karma's opening screens would land you in therapy. If nothing else, the game perfectly captures the quality of an Asian "mockbuster" movie poster. This apparently is going to involve collecting a series of talismans scattered among the six planets. They enlist the PC to assemble a team representing Karma's various castes and solve the mystery. A Council of Elders thinks that someone named Ming has found the source of power of the Ancient Gods and is using it to wreak havoc and gain power for himself. But after thousands of years of peace, monsters of flesh and metal are roaming the countryside, people are having nightmares so disturbing that they refuse to sleep, and the other planets seem to have forgotten Karma's existence. Karma was the capital of this empire, established by the Ancient Gods with virtues that ensured mankind lived in harmony with nature and with each other. The game takes place among a confederation of planets called Karma, Iron, Betel, Quarz, Hell, and Flame. The woman's face appears at the top of the screen every time some kind of luck or die-rolling is involved in a decision. The game box manages to combine, among other things, a samurai, Yoda, a spaceman with a heavy weapon, and a robot.įighting some kind of robot monster. For those who thought Tera: La Cité des Crânes (1986) was too comprehensible comes Karma, essentially the same game as Tera but with worse graphics and a weird Japanese skin.
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