My valiant pursuit of otome games with actual gameplay continues! Not that I won’t ‘play’ otome visual novels, and not that there aren’t some very good ones out there, but when I pick up a handheld or a controller, I want to play something, not read for 10 hours. And so it is that I […]
After 10 hours I hope I’m almost done with Summon Night Swordcraft Story, but I have no way to tell. I’ve reached level 33 in the dungeons, reached the semi-finals in the tournament and just returned from Fort Mirana story-wise. It hasn’t been a bad ride, but I’m ready for it to end now. The […]
I had a blast playing Anno 1404 (a.k.a. Dawn of Discovery) this Easter. I spent so much time on it that I’m limiting myself to no more than 10 hours of gameplay a week for the rest of April. I know I’ve played well over 10 hoursof this game by now, because I got the […]
Of which I am not one, mind you. But the reason why I’ve tried many rogue-likes and finished none is that I quickly get tired of starting over from level 1 every time I die or warp out. Despite that, I’d always accepted that as a standard feature of the genre and never really considered […]
Should’ve been called El-blandia Story instead. -_- Well at least it was short, clocking in at just under 20 hours for the first playthrough. The soundtrack was very finely composed, far too good for a game like this. The voice acting was decent and battles went by very speedily once animations were turned off. Of […]