Quit after 5 hours and 57 minutes. Astonishia Story is not as horrible as I’d heard, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth playing either. I quit because: 1. It was boring. The story wasn’t going anywhere fast and wasn’t doing anything attention-grabbing either. This guy is a soldier, the staff he’s guarding gets stolen and he […]
Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner is a passable game. I would even have deemed it “pretty good” if the endgame hadn’t dragged on interminably. It’s one of those games where you approach the final dungeon thinking “I’ll be done in about 5 hours” and then that 5 turns into 50 before you know it. As happened […]
I haven’t posted in a couple of days, which is unusual for me. It’s not because I haven’t been playing any games but rather because I’m playing a few at the same time but haven’t gotten far enough to post about any of them. Suikoden II – At the 7 hour mark, just got Shu […]
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 […]
Finished after 52 hours and 55 minutes. I got sick of it pretty quickly and had been trying hard to finish it for the past 5 days or so, but the harder I tried, the longer it dragged on. I’m really, really glad it’s finally over. Thinking back, I went through the same 3 stages […]