I’m so glad I cleared my schedule just to spend time on Dark Cloud 2. In addition to the five-ish hours I’d played already, I also got about 10 hours of playing done yesterday and today. Right now I’m almost done (I think?) with chapter 3, with around 15 hours played. I’ve done as much […]
7th Dragon 2020 review – Didn’t live up to my expectations (spoilers)
All my worst fears from the last post came true, and I just got more and more bored and more and more frustrated until it was all I could do to finish 7th Dragon 2020 at the 34-hour mark. That’s the last boss over there on the right. He wasn’t so tough. Spamming EX-attacks is totally […]
7th Dragon 2020 – This is why dungeon crawlers don’t need stories
They always get carried away and mess it up. Just give me a Mario-style motivation and leave me be. I’m in the situation now where I want to go out and kill dragons, but the NPCs are holding me up with meeting after meeting after speech after speech about how we need to kill those […]
7th Dragon 2020 – Too early to tell
I played 7th Dragon on the DS around this time last year. It was extremely fun but also extremely tiring and I ended up with a long list of complaints by the time I was done. One of the reasons why I like to play games in order of release is so I can chart […]
Fuurai no Shiren 4: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso – The most playable of the lot
I skipped playing Shiren 3 on the Wii, because somehow I can’t wrap my mind around playing a rogue-like on a console. The earlier games have spoiled me. Besides, it doesn’t matter which one I play or what I play it on, my play style is simple: go out there and die until I’m tired […]