Finished Shin Megami Tensei V after 72 hours. It was kind of fun, actually

shin megami tensei v nahobino in battle

Fun, but not memorable. I would have passed it by without a final word if I hadn’t heard recently that Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance was coming out. I thought it would be a spin-off like SMTIV: Apocalypse, but no, they just added more content and re-released it. Which is like RRGGGH, I just bought […]

Done with Romancing Saga Re;Universe for now

Just completed a 130-day login streak, where I got down and dirty with Romancing Saga Re;Universe and explored all its nooks and crannies, doing all the story chapters and events that later went away in the 3.0 overhaul, doing plenty of Spiral Corridor (180) and Remembrance Battles as well as catching up to the latest […]

Tried and dropped Atelier Resleriana – Too sluggish and too stingy

I haven’t played any Atelier games in a while (last proper game was Firis in 2020 IIRC), but I still have a lot of love for the series. A lot of good memories, lots of fun times spent crafting and adventuring, good times. The more recent entries have just left me cold because the focus […]

Epic Seven 2024 update – Made it to Champion V! (plus tips for making your own journey)

In AI arena, of course, not Real-Time Arena. Smilegate actually scared me for a while when they announced a Lionheart Cermia RTA skin, because the two Cermias are some of my favorite characters, but luckily they walked it back shortly afterwards. I like Briar Witch Iseria too, but I don’t use her nearly enough to […]

Games I dropped in 2023

The latest in a series of “games that sucked too much to play” posts I’ve been doing since… 2013? No, 2011. This is where I collect all the games I played too briefly to bother reviewing in depth. There were very few of them in 2023, though, because I didn’t focus much on gaming for […]