Star Ocean Second Evolution – Inferior sequel with annoying characters

It plays 99% like the first Star Ocean, only Square-Enix took all the cool characters out and replaced them with whiny teens. I’m about 6 hours in and things have gotten a little better since I added Ashton to my party simply because the whole Creepy ‘n’ Weepy saga is pretty funny. But that’s all […]

Bleh. I don’t feel like playing anything.

I have a bad cold and my wrist hurts, so I don’t feel like playing anything right now. When I’m better, I’ll be playing the following over the next couple of months. New Year’s Resolutions? What New Year’s Resolution? 1. Star Ocean Second Evolution 2. Valkyrie Profile Lenneth 3. Princess Maker 3 4. Last Bullet […]

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja – Hurray for easy rogue-likes!

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja was developed and published by Success and Ninja Studio, the same publisher-developer team that brought us the wonderful must-play title Tactical Guild. Luckily for us all, the two games don’t have anything else in common. For one thing Izuna is actually pretty good. I’m going to borrow the plot description […]

Atelier Marie, Elie & Anis: Message on the Gentle Breeze – Quick review + screenshots

All right, there’s still time before the interesting matches start, so time for a quick post. And it’s double quick in this case because I’ve already played Atelier Marie, Elie & Anis Message on the Gentle Breeze (Soyokaze kara no Dengon) before, long long ago. I played it quite a while before tackling Atelier Marie, […]