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Merry Deciever
Aug 20, 2015
Pillbug
What it says on the tin, let's have a thread to discuss Isseki videogames, though I really only know of one, and it's a controversial and rail-roaded to heck one, which seems antithetical to the spirit of things:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1146100/The_Rising_of_the_Shield_Hero__Relive_The_Animation

More of an advertisement for RPG Maker than a real game, this follows the plot of the anime to a T, locking you to a fairly linear path, so much so that you can't even level past 20, since that's where the "anime" ended at the time of release. The combat is fairly basic, as the main role of your hero is indeed, to shield their companion while they do all the real work. For a game showing off the capabilities of rpg maker, the pacing is pretty darn slow, and the battles last longer than they have to. If you saw the show and thought "I wish it spent more time showing the hero grinding." Than I suppose this game is for you....

Does anyone know of any other issekai videogames? Hopefully good ones?

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Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
the mario series

Miss Mowcher
Jul 24, 2007

Ribbit
Ni no Kuni II has the president of the US isekaie'd into fantasy land, but it's not a good game sadly

Cephas
May 11, 2009

Humanity's real enemy is me!
Hya hya foowah!

RangerKarl
Oct 7, 2013
The premise of Nox has you as a trailer-dweller suddenly getting sucked up into the fantasy world because the Macguffin happened to be on top of your TV.

The junk collector
Aug 10, 2005
Hey do you want that motherboard?
Toejam and Earl is a reverse Issekai.

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer

Lamebot
Sep 8, 2005

ロボ顔菌~♡
Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy Tactics II

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild
Misspelled Isekai, voted 1.

Also Jak II is a pretty good isekai.

booksnake
May 4, 2009

we who are crowned with the crest of wisdom
David Cage's trash garbage fire Omikron the Nomad Soul operates under the premise that you, the literal player, have your soul transported into the game world to control the avatar in the game

Stranger in Sword City is an isekai setting dungeon crawler that unfortunately is aggressively against valuing the player's time

The expansion to One Way Heroics has a recruitable character who has been transported in from another world but in general the game is just a fantasy setting.

Do the Star Ocean games count as isekai? (they are, imo, not worth the time to play despite developing powerful meme levels)

Lamebot posted:

Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy Tactics II

Final Fantasy Tactics 3, as well (by which I mean Tactics Advance 2)

MatteusTheCorrupt
Nov 1, 2010
The Ultima series are isekai games.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Issekai? More like... pissekai! Amirite? :dadjoke:

I guess the Rayearth videogame counts.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde
The Longest Journey

Myst is Isekai

Cobalt-60
Oct 11, 2016

by Azathoth
Were the dot.hack games isekai?

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

sinky posted:

Myst is Isekai

oh my god. And when you take Uru into account, it's an isekai nested in another isekai.

I thought their most recent game Obduction did a good job of being a similar type of game where you're a regular-rear end dude transported to an alien world, although it doesn't lean into having to figure out puzzles through cultural stuff as much as Riven or Uru.

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

Cobalt-60 posted:

Were the dot.hack games isekai?

You never play as one of the people stuck in the game, so no.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

Out of this World/Another World

The name literally translates into Isekai.

-e-
Also, Heart of Darkness.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

There are sword art online games

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



Majora's Mask

Dark Souls 2

UnderFreddy
Oct 9, 2012

GEGENPOSTING


Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

It still counts if it's a dream world right? We let the VRMMO games get away with it.

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Oct 15, 2012

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Biscuit Hider
Technically speaking it doesn't really count since you're not actually transported from another world, but given your total lack of backstory and ability to ask things about the world that anyone should know you could almost consider Skyrim to be one.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

which digimon game is the actual best

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Stairmaster posted:

which digimon game is the actual best

Cyber Sleuth in my opinion.

IShallRiseAgain
Sep 12, 2008

Well ain't that precious?

Toon Town is an Isekai game.

The Dig also counts as an Isekai game.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Is Space Jam an isekai?

grate deceiver
Jul 10, 2009

Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.
Doom is reverse isekai

Lamebot
Sep 8, 2005

ロボ顔菌~♡
Futurama, the video game.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Wark Say posted:

Is Space Jam an isekai?

One of the best and where the MC having crazy good skills makes sense.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
captain n is an isekai about a guy who gets pulled into the world of actual video games that exist

he even has a light zapper and his nes controller turns into a belt buckle that he can stop time with.

pretty sure he uses the power glove at one point

well that's all I got, seeya

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer

Stairmaster posted:

which digimon game is the actual best

world 2

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Fire Emblem Heroes is an iseaki game FWIW.

Pootybutt
Apr 5, 2011

VR chat

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
the Turok games are all isekai

Eeepies
May 29, 2013

Bocchi-chan's... dead.
We'll have to find a new guitarist.
I'm pretty sure Kingdom Hearts has multiple people being isekai-ed at the same time multiple times.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

final fantasy 10

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Nii no Kuni 2

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

Cross/Code

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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
The Binding of Issekai was one of the most influential early entries in the genre, check it out.

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