The primera PlayStation received games with an absurd number of discs inside their boxes. Final Fantasy VIII and The Legend of Dragoon are good examples of this, as both titles came into our hands with four discs ready to be played. That figure seemed impossible to beat, but the truth is that two titles went further.
Only two video games reached the immense number of five discs, all of them dedicated exclusively to being able to play and without having extra content. The first of them was Riven, sequel to Myst
The reason for choosing to include five discs in the box is that the directors, Robyn Miller and Richard Vander Wende, They became obsessed with showing a level of brutal realism. More than 4,000 rendered scenes, more than three hours of animations and an insane number of triangles made up the scenarios of RivenThe game’s islands became the largest wireframes ever made to date, with one island alone featuring 2.5 million triangles in its modeling.
The development took more than four years, more than double what was invested in Mystand the budget was close to ten million dollars. To render the entire job, 18 SGI Indigo workstations were needed due to the large amount of light, detail and other elements that could appear in a 608×392 pixel image.
The other game in this equation is about Tokimeki Memorial 2released on November 25, 1999 by Konami in Japan, a country from which it never left. The title is one of the classic franchises that could only exist in the Japanese country, since it is a dating simulator
The particularity of the game was that it used a new system called Emotional Voice System (EVS), which allowed the girls we dated to pronounce the player’s name. It should be noted that only Hikari Hinamoto and Asou Kasumi could use this feature initially, so Japanese players had to Refer to Tokimeki Memorial 2’s Hibikino Watcher Magazine. This was the way to complete the five discs, although Maeka Kudanshita was presented as the only young woman who refers to the protagonist as Shounen, a Japanese term meaning “boy.”
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