“Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned…” – William Congreve I’ve played a lot of RPGs in my life and I have never been so glad to put a game behind me as I was when the credits finally rolled on Snails in the Sky. The credits rolled, but the game didn’t exactly […]
Or, more accurately, The Legend of Heroes: Snails in the Sky. I’ve been playing this game for ages. Barely anything has happened and the game drags on like you wouldn’t believe. Won’t it ever end? Incidentally this is why I like to write posts at various stages of the playing process. If I’d written this […]
I beat Pandora. As far as SMT/spin-off bosses go, she was by far the easiest I’ve ever faced. The only reason she killed me the first time was because I didn’t know the fight was coming up, so I didn’t have enough Balms of Life and most of my personae were weak to magic. All […]
I went back and read over the last post I made about Nora. It wasn’t exactly inaccurate, but I realized I’d done the equivalent of calling a girl “Gorgeous” and then quickly adding, “But her nose is too big, and her teeth are a bit crooked, and her face is kinda spotty, and she smells […]
I’ve been struggling to finish Arms’ Heart for months. After 18 hours and 45 minutes the last shreds of my patience finally gave out in the final dungeon. It’s always been pretty close to bad, with a sophomoric storyline, tedious, repetitive gameplay and an insanely high encounter rate. But for 18 hours I could live […]