Happy New Year everyone! I spent the day playing with my nephews and nieces in my backyard, and even my 2-year old niece ran circles around me, so my resolution for 2020 is to spend more time exercising and less time sitting around gaming or tinkering around with my smartphone. What little gaming I will […]
Happy New Year! And resolutions for 2014
It’s a little late, but Happy New Year! Now, straight to business. What am I playing this year? Last year’s resolutions were a bit of a disaster. I packed the list with games I’d “always wanted to try,” little realizing that the real reason I’d never actually tried the games I’d “always wanted to try” […]
Suikoden II – Not interesting enough to finish
It’s been a while since I last wrote about Suikoden II, but in the meanwhile I have made my way slowly and painfully to Rockaxe Town, home of the Matilda Knights. My save file reads 11 hours and 36 minutes. My verdict is just as the title says: it’s an interesting game, but not interesting […]
Suikoden II – Tiring
Suikoden II. 3 hours in. Been betrayed twice and seen three destroyed villages/forts. This is about par for the course for a Suikoden game, I guess. I’m trying hard not to get attached to my MC’s childhood friend Jowy or his sister Nanami because either one or both of them will be killed/will switch sides […]
Wild Arms 2 – 10 years too late for me
I quit Wild Arms 2 so quickly that normally I wouldn’t even write about it, but since it’s on my New Year’s Resolutions list I should at least say something. I played Ashley’s prologue and started Lillia’s, so that’s about an hour in. When I played Wild Arms 1 back in 2003-ish, what I really liked […]