Popful Mail (1991)
PC-8800 Series · PC-9800 Series · Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
3.45 from 29 ratings
113 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 56 backlogged · 35 wish listed
How long? · 100% 7h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Mail is a young, cute, enthusiastic female bounty-hunting elf. Unfortunately, every time a bounty is near, something goes wrong: the last case was particularly painful, involving Mail bravely cutting off the head of a famous criminal - only to realize that his body escaped without the head. Mail tried at least to sell the head in the nearest town, but …
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Mail is a young, cute, enthusiastic female bounty-hunting elf. Unfortunately, every time a bounty is near, something goes wrong: the last case was particularly painful, involving Mail bravely cutting off the head of a famous criminal - only to realize that his body escaped without the head. Mail tried at least to sell the head in the nearest town, but discovered that the local tavern was full of these heads stored in a basket. But not all is lost: Mail reads a poster that promises a big reward for someone who catches an evil wizard who terrorizes the land. Sounds like just the job Mail was looking for!
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Details
- Developers
- Nihon Falcom
- Publishers
- Nihon Falcom
- Genres
- Platform, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Fantasy
Release dates
- Dec 20, 1991 (Japan) PC-8800 Series
- 1992 (Japan) PC-9800 Series
- Aug 12, 1994 (Japan) Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
Also available on
- Popful Mail: Magical Fantasy Adventure (1994) · SCD
- Sister Sonic · SCD
Related
Remakes
- Popful Mail (Jun 1994) · SFAM
Rating distribution
5 stars
4
4 stars
9
3 stars
13
2 stars
2
1 star
1
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status GigaDeathNullGolem Dec 24, 2017
Played this on PC 9801 last night for about an hour and a half (my first PC 98 game, I figured it would be good one with it's look) overall kinda neat. feels like a lot like a kirby action RPG from an older era. Due to language barrier. the fact I can't save and it feels like a bit …
Played this on PC 9801 last night for about an hour and a half (my first PC 98 game, I figured it would be good one with it's look) overall kinda neat. feels like a lot like a kirby action RPG from an older era. Due to language barrier. the fact I can't save and it feels like a bit of an investment... I'm going to abandon it and go on to another version though (it doesnt require much english but I'm going to want save states) Too bad. I really kinda like it. But based on what i read i'm going to just get half into it then stuck and start wandering around.
PC98 Version has little animation of the sprites but gets away with it. You can still time attacks and 'fight' by bumping into enemies from right direction and at right moments timing there attacks. This makes it still feel rather action packed. I'd be tempted to return to it were it T-Eng'd! 