The advantage of drawing up gaming resolutions is that I never have to wonder what to play next. I’m going at a good pace, playing at least one of them every month. Innocent Sin, Atelier Elie and Phantasy Star Portable are done and I’m currently working on Dragon Quest 6. If you play one Dragon […]
I’m supposed to be playing Phantasy Star Portable right around now. But I still hadn’t had enough item synthesis after Atelier Elie last week, so I played Atelier Annie instead. This is actually my third or fourth playthrough of Annie. I played it quite thoroughly when it first came out in Japanese, but I didn’t […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]