Just for some extra context: "Laplace's Demon" is a physics/philosophical postulate that presents the idea that, (in short) "If someone (the demon) were to know the exact position and momentum of every atom in the universe, they would be able to extrapolate all past and future events." Essentially what is known as determinism. To put it casually, Laplace's Demon is the idea that if you had perfect universal knowledge of the present you could perfectly infer the future (and the past).

Originally the translation patch was supposed to come out on Halloween 2001, but it ended up buggy and left unfinished until they completed it in 2018. The original game was originally released in 1987 as part of the Ghost Hunter Series by HummingBird Soft, which also made the Record of Lodoss War games for Japanese home computers, and was later used as the inspiration for the first two Deep Dungeon games. Also, the original game got a sequel on home computers (I think) titled Paracelsus no Maken.

"Which occupation should we give the character that makes a lot of money?" "Journalist!"

Your forgotten games videos highlighting super famicon titles are some of my favorites that you cover on the channel.

After all these years still pumping out some of my favourite vids on KZfaq. Keep it up SNESdrunk!

This looks and feels like a spiritual successor to Sweet Home (which is already a good thing, that game was way ahead of its time), with an overhauled interface and a way friendlier gaming experience, which makes it even more appealing to me. Thanks a lot for showcasing this, man. I wouldn't have known otherwise.

A Call of Cthulhu inspired game with SMT gameplay elements that doesn't put too much emphasis on leveling through combat? Man, the SNES really had everything in its library, didn't it.

This game sounds really close to Sweet Home but with way more features

What is even funnier than seeing someone in a body bag is you carrying around a gibbering insane party member. When their MP drops to 0, they go insane (A confuse status that persists until it is restored by sleeping at the hotel or treating it at a hospital), which causes their attack and accuracy to skyrocket, dealing a lot of damage, but may attack other party members. While insane on the map, they spin around while you walk.

Yet another SNES title I need to find time to play. I absolutely love how decades since it's original launch I still find myself surprised at what the system has to offer.

Always impressive managing to be scary with the limitations of being 2D like this. Metroid Fusion is one of the best horror games ever despite being a GBA game too. The devs have to be really creative. No jump scares and overuse of darkness and shadows for then to abuse.

That "talk to enemy" mechanic would have blown my mind if I'd encountered it back on the NES.

As a Paranormal researcher/investigator myself, this game seems right up my alley. A plus that it takes place in New England which is where my team is based.

This is the first time I heard about this and sounds really good , definitely not a lot of this genre on the console but it sounds like the famicom game Sweet Home. Maybe it's just the cliche of the haunted house. Great review man

This is a really cool game. There's actually going to be a speedrun of it showcased at RPG Limit Break this year on May 15th if anyone is interested.

Nice Sweet Home vibe. Too bad we didn't get that one

This is the first time I've ever heard of this game, which reminds me of the atmosphere of Clock Tower a lot. I appreciate very much your reviews of these hidden gems, thanks for the recommendation 🙂

I sometimes wish that "replay value" wasn't considered an aspect of game reviews. At least, not a given alongside reviewing graphics and gameplay. As you said, there's nothing wrong with a story-driven game that you replay at long intervals. That's practically every RPG around, isn't it? I could never crank through a Final Fantasy game, full complete it (as is my wont), and immediately restart after the credits roll. And yet at least since I was a kid in the 90s, it's been a big deal to talk about replay value. Also, can it really be quantified? I've played Mega Man 2 more times than I care to think about and I have a friend who literally plays it at least once a day, but I strongly doubt any reviewer would look at a bog-standard 2D platformer, albeit a very good one, and say "This has tons of replay value!" Because it doesn't, at least in the sense meant.

Best channel ever.

Seems like its sweet home but more robust

1:14 "Which person is me?" Asking the big philosophical questions right at the beginning!

Fascinating game, thanks for covering this

"Guess what it is that I do" is the best class selection screen text ever. The game should have outright trolled players by going against their wishes and picking a random class instead. "You GUESSED I was a detective... but you're wrong! I'm really a medium! Fooled you!" 😝

Scientist AKA Ghostbuster.

Nice shouting out to Daria plays.yoyr both great content providers i respect. No bs just facts and or personal opinions. Love it. Keep up the good work ya arcade and SNES drunk.

Kinda reminds me of Sweet Home for the Famicom.

Okay, wow. I am definitely interested in this game. I also love when multiple objects can be examples for a variety of flavor text. I might just play this while streaming it to a friend.

this looks interesting and would have blown my mind if I had played it in my younger years

Man, this reminds me of Sweet Home... Which is a great thing. I need this.

Still finding hidden gems. Why have I never heard of this game before?

About time you talked about this game!

Great video, as always. I want to offer a small correction. Laplace is a French name pronounced more like Lah-Plahss. Laplace is one of the many mathematicians and scientists whose name my American students struggle with, e.g., Euler, Fourier, Chebyshev, etc.

The music is really reminding me of Earthbound! Also this games looks quite neat; definitely want to give it a go sometime.

In this case, "Laplace's Demon" might actually be a more accurate translation than "Demon of Laplace". In English, Laplace's theorized intelligence is referred to as "Laplace's demon." Just as we'd say "Maxwell's demon" instead of "Demon of Maxwell." Though I haven't played the game, and cannot say that there isn't something about the story that might actually make the "of" translation a better fit.

Absolutely outstanding. If I could double thumbs up I would. Man I wish this had been on SNES in North America during my childhood

Lovecraft Dragon Quest. The bodybag thing is even like the coffin draggin of earlier DQ games.

This game reminds me of Sweet Home.

Laplace Demon, what an amazing name for a game. Good to know that some coders know their mathematics!

What a gem. 100% I will check this out. I like to create my own troupe of characters.

It reminds me a lot of Sweet Home but executed a whole lot better

Interesting concept. Looks like I'll have to check it out.

This looks pretty damn cool 😊

Great suggestion. I'll check it out.

I did a Playthrough on this! really fun RPG with good Atmospheric Music

Can't believe I've never heard of this. Putting it on my SNES Classic ASAP.

Has some nice sounding music tones I could hear.

This looks frikkin great! Why did I never knew that existed?

That's a new one! Thanks for sharing! S2

Daria Plays RPGs is great.

Dat ominous soundtrack doe.

This reminds of of the Famicom game Sweet Home in a lot of ways.

It looks freaking awesome.

Adding this one to the list.

It took me the entire video to realize "Drunk" isn't a character class. It's just what the host calls his characters.

Replay value or not, it's always good to see how older consoles decided to approach horror with immovable limitations of the hardware. Great video!

For some reason, the BGM that starts at at 3:34 reminds me heavily of Full Throttle, when Ben's skulking around Mellonweed at night.

Never heard of this before. Looks interesting. Might need to give it a go.

love the battle music though

This game actually looks really interesting. Thanks for the video!

Love how you pronounced “Benedict Weathertop”~ so much snark lol

You need to review “ sweet home” on NES .

nice video like always

There was once an RPer who placed his Detective's stats into Driving, Fists, and Guns. It sounds like this RPG would agree with said stat spread.

Didn't know about this one! Thanks Drunk-masta Flex!

I literally only just hears about this day before yesterday, as it showed up on the schedule for RPG Limit Break to be run by Pa-sama.

Damn this would have been amazing back in the day!

Would be cool to see this on the SNES Switch!

Man that's an awesome game. I wanna play it

Sooo loveee your intro 👍

I will try this.

Newcam I guess a combination of Newton and Cambridge

rest of my day is always great after i watch one of these it's just the before part i got to work on. or else watch snes drunk first thing...

Translated version is named "Laplace's Demon", I know you pirates are going to plunder the search option

Total length of video: 400 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 5 secs. 1.25% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."

Looks cool.

That game looks really cool

Very interesting game. Nintendo should make a compilation of all the good super famicom rpgs and release it on the switch. Fully translated of course. One can dream.

I’m relieved that I can mosey around town rather than shlep.

How many unique intros did you made already, man? I have the feel that is a new one per video, but I could be wrong.

In the end do you have to use the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics to defeat determinism and vanquish Laplace's Demon?

Like the SNES version of Sweet Home

I tried this game only once. I no longer have the endurance to pull through a game like this. It is very original but you gotta have a lot of time to spend.

He should review Sweet Home on the Famicom next since its sooo similar to this game

If you look closely, 2 of the characters, looks like a lot to Shaggy and Fred from Scooby-Doo, even the same cloth colors!

This is really interesting! I loved Sweet Home for the Famicom, how does it compare to that game?

Can you do the Phantasy Star games? I'd like to hear more of your opinion of them

I find it odd that there's no comparison here to Sweet Hone on the Famicom.

UNDERRARTED GAME i will play it

I was just looking at this game on cdromance...now my opinion can be formed for me!

I doubt you’ll ever run out, but if you ever do run out of games for a console would you do a big wrap up on the games you’d recommend? Or maybe do it in general, like my top 100 nes games?

Would this be the upgraded version of sweet home???

This games sound cool

Any chance you could do a video on Lady Sia for the GBA? There aren't any decent videos on it and I think it deserves more attention - some really impressive visuals and animation in that game.

You should check out Sweet Home if you haven't already.

Where can I buy a translated cart If this game

This looks absolutely intriguing. I gave up RPGs for adulthood, but maybe it's time to allot some evenings to checking this out. Thanks, Drunk. 👌

Creepy asf. Great video. 👍🏾

Do you do Birthday Parties?

Didn't know there was an SNES Laplace No MA. I assume its the same or similar to the PC Engine CD game? Is there any info on getting that game translated? There's been a lot more translated games for PC Engine lately, it'd be nice, among other, if this got tackled.

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