Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming (2011)

Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming cover

Developer: Opus
Publisher: Marvelous AQL
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Portable
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Indie
Rating: 4.0 of 5, 2 player ratings
Where to get it: Steam

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Racing the clock through dozens of bite-sized JRPG parodies feels frantic, jokey, and relentlessly fast.

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About

The world's speediest homage/roast to JRPGs! Can you save the world in 30 seconds? Get a quest, find those in need, fight through dungeons, earn cash, get cool loot and level up until YOU>EVIL. Don't have enough time? Pay the Goddess to reset the clock and try again! Over 100 mini-JRPGs for you to test your might with! Available outside Japan for the first time ever exclusively on Steam.

Screenshots

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