I barely made it two hours into Steambot Chronicles before getting clobbered by some spiky train in a canyon. I like everything about the game: the story so far (amnesia excepted), the characters, the setting, the music, the art (the cover really doesn’t do it justice), everything. I like the hunger stat, the music mini-game, […]
Zettai Hero Project – Unending Game VS Uninterested Gamer
A pig in lipstick is still a pig. And a rogue-like in lipstick is still a rogue-like. And I play rogue-likes not to finish them but to see how many times I die before I lose interest. So I played Zettai Hero Project for a while, lost interest and quit. End of report. You: “That’s it?! […]
Rune Factory Frontier – Progress Report 3 (finished)
Done, done and done. I met all the Rune Factory Frontier goals I set for myself last time, so here I am for the final round up. 1. Getting married to Iris was a bigger ordeal than I’d thought. First I had to raise both girls to 10 LP. Then they inexplicably fell sick and […]
Tokimeki Memorial 3 – Emi Tachibana GET!
Tokimeki Memorial 3 is the black sheep of the Tokimemo family, the least-praised, least-loved and least-remembered today. Fans complained about the dumbed-down system and 3D character design when the game was released, but I believe all would have been forgiven if the cast of girls had been even slightly attractive and memorable. Now I’m no […]
In which I criticize Phantasy Star Portable 2 for being harder than Phantasy Star Portable
When I said I wanted to play Phantasy Star Portable 2, I lied. I don’t want to play PSP2, I want to go back in time to before I played Phantasy Star Portable and play that again. My dirty little secret is out, but I’m sure I’m not alone. I’m sure many of the fans […]