>>6437572It was similar for me. I didn't play MNOG till the rerelease, I only saw the cutscenes around 2002-2003-ish, and those etched themselves into my memory. Back then, MNOG was this unknown, ancient relic for me that I sadly missed out on, and I had this recerence mixed with faux-nostalgia towards it.
Then when I played it, it lived up to the hype. Sure the gameplay was minimal and there was little challenge, but the art, sound design and the atmosphere with all those hints at an ancient lore made up for it. I'll readily admit that it's these things, plus the toys, that got me interested in the franchise, not the story and characters (because I knew so little about those). Even before I played MNOG, I got my fix through the promotional CDs, the character videos and all those CG images. A shame they stopped doing these sort of promos later on. They went a long way towards making the characters and settings memorable.
