As promised here are a few words about how much I enjoyed playing Summon Night 4 and how much it scratched my strategy RPG itch so that I won’t be playing another one for a while. Unless I feel like it. Unfortunately with the benefit of hindsight, I’m starting to realize I didn’t enjoy SN4 […]
Tales of Legendia – Quit because of puzzle booths
And after only 3 hours too. Not that I was actually playing Tales of Legendia. It’s more like I was watching it, like one would watch an anime. A long, slow, cliched anime. I had the controller in my hand and I was pressing buttons all right, but I also had combat difficulty set to […]
Duel Love – Koisuru Otome wa Chotto Kimochiwarui
It’s 3 a.m. Do you know where your daughter is? If you live in the world of Duel Love, she’s in some basement somewhere pawing at a naked, sweaty guy. Don’t blame her; blame yourself and your complete lack of parental supervision. Failed parenting aside, Duel Love is way more fun than I’d expected when […]
Tales of Innocence – Quit after 7 hours
7 hours and 20 minutes, to be precise. I don’t think the Tales series is quite right for me. Tales of the Tempest was bad, everyone admits that. But Innocence was supposed to be one of the good ones. So good, in fact, that Namco released a remake for the Vita, meaning they were confident […]
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 […]