So, as you know I'm fairly big into JRPGs. OLD ones mainly untranslated, but I dig Persona 5, Refantazio, etc. I am also a text adventure guy.

However, looking at this game on Youtube it looks.. dull? That's really the only thing that comes to mind.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02/the-obscure-ps1-action-rpg-prisoner-is-now-playable-in-english

[quote]A new fan patch was published earlier this month for the Japanese-exclusive title Prisoner, giving players an exciting opportunity to play the action-adventure RPG in English for the very first time.

Released in 1999, Prisoner is one of only a small handful of titles that were developed by the Japanese developer Feycraft before it went out of business in the year 2000. It was published by Mainichi Communications and saw players take a control of young boy named Fry, who has been looking after his sick parent, Gernack, in a small village located in a subterranean world known as the Golden Dawn.

It features a top-down perspective, with players having to navigate across a series of interconnected rooms that occasionally have NPCs you can befriend for information within them, or a group of monsters to do battle against in real-time. The ultimate aim of the game is to somehow escape from this underground world, with the amount of allies you collect reportedly having an impact on the ending you receive.[/quote]

I tried to find the bin file and patch it, but it did not work for me yet.