I couldn’t decide what to play after “dropping” Dragon Quest VII last week, so I tried three different games on the VITA. Lord of Apocalypse – Another in a line of Monster Hunter-like games for people who are too scared to actually play Monster Hunter. A couple of years ago I tried one (Frontier Gate […]
Ah man, this isn’t how I wanted my relationship with Dragon Quest VII to end. I was having so much fun. Until I ran into a boss at the end of an annoying dungeon that wiped me out four times in a row. Damn you, Cumulus Vex. This is obviously a test to see if […]
But I came pretty close just now when I got wiped out by a boss named Gracos. I thought I might have to grind to get past him and right now I’m in the frame of mind where I’d rather drop a hundred games than grind for even an hour. Luckily it didn’t come to […]
I’d been wanting to play Dragon Quest VII since 2013, but people kept talking me out of it. They said it was slow, they said it was repetitive, they said nothing happened in the game for the first 40 hours. They were right. But they were warning me from the perspective of someone who thinks […]
It’s been so long since I played Final Fantasy XIII that I’ve forgotten how the battle mechanics work. Especially what Paradigms are used for and double-especially whatever that mechanic I was supposed to use to beat some scorpion-like mecha that wiped me out about 5 times. So I thought I’d start again, skip all the […]