I got nostalgic for Riviera: The Promised Land, so I’ve been playing it on and off for the past couple of months. I just finished my third and a half playthrough of this game and got Serene’s ending for the second time. Since I’ve played it so often, I don’t have much to say about […]
The Idolm@ster: Dearly Stars – Not my kind of game
Just finished Hidaka Ai’s route. Meh. Just glad it’s over, that’s all. The Idolm@ster Dearly Stars disappointed me in nearly every aspect I could think of: As a raising/life sim There are only three stats to manage, plus tiredness. All of them are very easy to raise and keep high. You’d expect that as a […]
The Idolm@ster: Dearly Stars – Hmm…
I wanted something with absolutely no random battles in it, and I haven’t started a new raising sim in a while so… here we are. The Idolm@ster: Dearly Stars has you playing as a wannabe idol singer who grows from a complete nobody into a famous id0l. I picked Hidaka Ai, the one in the middle, […]
Hero’s Saga Laevatein Tactics (2)
After blathering on about my “gamer’s pride” in the previous post, I felt a bit silly walking away from the Immortal King without a fight, so I went back and killed him. The King himself wasn’t all that tough. It was those zombie magicians with the crazy range and full Valhalla gauges that decimated my […]
Persona 2 – On hold again (spoilers)
I held out as long as I could, but the absurdly high encounter rate finally did me in. I’m supposed to visit a couple of temples and take back the crystal skulls, but I just got out of grueling crawls at Mt. Katatsumuri and Caracol. I don’t know how long any of these temples are […]