After the last post I made about Disgaea, I received some very helpful comments that made me decide to give the game one last chance. To that end I also switched from the PS2 version to the DS version in the hopes that this would make the game feel more accessible. Changes I had to […]
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 […]
Fire Emblem Shin Monshou no Nazo – Casual Mode for life!
Now that I have finally experienced the joys of Casual Mode Fire Emblem, I am never playing Classic Mode again. Ever! It is seriously not worth the annoyance and frustration. In fact I marvel at my initial negative reaction when I heard of casual mode. “No perma-death?! What a travesty! It shouldn’t even be an […]
Dramatic Dungeon Sakura Taisen – A roguelike for people who don’t like roguelikes
Of which I am not one, mind you. But the reason why I’ve tried many rogue-likes and finished none is that I quickly get tired of starting over from level 1 every time I die or warp out. Despite that, I’d always accepted that as a standard feature of the genre and never really considered […]
Glory of Heracles finished. Spoiling everything I can think of.
It’s not exactly 10/10 material, but Glory of Heracles did get much better after 15 hours or so. I liked the story and characters to begin with, and the battle system got a lot more interesting once I learned and began to make use of all kinds of interesting skills, spells and passives. In far […]