Halfway through Shin Atelier Rorona – Mostly good, a few nitpicks

Shin Rorona no Atelier (New Atelier Rorona) is a 3DS remake of Atelier Rorona, a 2009 PS3 game. I’ve never played the original. Back when it came out I was still hung up on the character designs of the older Atelier games. Thus I decided I just didn’t like the “piss-and-watercolor” style of the new […]

I declare Rune Factory 4 “finished”. It was killing my buzz

I haven’t gone anywhere, I haven’t been playing anything other than Rune Factory 4, just trying to unlock that elusive final event. No dice. The event isn’t unlocking and RF4 is blocking the way so I can’t start something else. Putting story-critical events on a random trigger was a terrible, terrible idea. I’ve been playing […]

Rune Factory 4 – Finished the second arc (spoilers)

Rune Factory 4 is divided into three arcs. Every time you finish one arc,  you fight a boss, the credits roll, music plays and you’re deposited back in town to enjoy the love and adulation of your fellow villagers until the next crisis arises. There was clearly unfinished business left at the end of the […]

Rune Factory 4 – Slight progress (and slight spoilers)

I had played almost 14 hours of RF4 last time, now I’m around the 23 hour mark – or more like 30 hours if you take lost progress due to freezes into account. Rune Factory 4 is a slow-moving game so I won’t probably be doing too many updates on it. You’ll just have to […]