Have you ever played an RPG and for the first half it was so much fun you couldn’t stop playing, then the last half was pretty meh and draggy, so much so that you didn’t feel like finishing it and had to force yourself, but then when you finally finished it you were glad you […]
Last Ranker – Show-and-Tell Edition
Good old Imageepoch. They make some terrible stinkers when they’re working on their own, but the games they make for other companies are usually pretty good. Case in point, Last Ranker. I wasn’t expecting much when I saw the surly-faced main character, but it has given me a very pleasant surprise. The other characters could […]
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 […]