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 […]
I’m well over the 30 hour mark (35 hours in, to be precise), I just didn’t feel like writing anything more about Shining Hearts until now. It happens. Reading over the previous post, I don’t think I fully articulated what was bothering me about the game, so I’ll try to spell it out more clearly, […]
Shining Hearts is billed as a turn-based RPG, but it’s more like a slice-of-life game with random battles. In my last post I called it a cross between Rune Factory and Atelier Iris. It’s not an exact analogy, but that should give you some kind of idea of what this game feels like to play. […]
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 […]