Time for another round of games I tried and quickly abandoned. It’s a rather short list this time round, because 2013 was a pretty good year. I think I’m slightly more discerning in the games I’ll even try as well, so that leads to fewer casualties in the long run. Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu […]
10 hours in. I didn’t know what to expect from an Arc the Lad game, but this seems like a normal SRPG so far. I’m really liking half of the story, and the battles are slow but highly playable. I don’t know how long this is or whether there’ll be a difficulty spike later on, […]
Remember how I said last time that I thought I’d be done with Kanuchi soon and that Kasuga’s route would be relatively drama-free? Yeeeahhh, I kinda underestimated Idea Factory’s readiness to ruin a good story. Kasuga x Aki really seemed like a match made in heaven to me. The ordinary blacksmith girl and the ordinary […]
Shortly after my last post about Idea Factory’s fantasy blacksmithing otome game, the writers hit the reset button and reset most of my progress back to square one. To recap the story a bit, the two nations of Takamahara and Yasuna have been at war for approximately 2017 years. Aki, an ordinary Taka-whatsit village girl, […]
It’s a little late, but Happy New Year! Now, straight to business. What am I playing this year? Last year’s resolutions were a bit of a disaster. I packed the list with games I’d “always wanted to try,” little realizing that the real reason I’d never actually tried the games I’d “always wanted to try” […]