A company mixup led to me going without electricity for three days. 👿 It wasn’t too much trouble to keep my laptop and phone charged, but as a principle my consoles and handhelds don’t leave my bedroom, much less my house, so I haven’t got much gaming down in the past couple of days. I still managed to get Dark Cloud 2 and Devil Survivor 2 started, but only barely.
Dark Cloud 2
Devil Survivor 2 –Â Played about 2 hours and 30 minutes. Day 2, Osaka, around 12:30 IIRC. I’m not really enjoying myself, but it is kind of scratching my SRPG itch, so I might hang in there a little longer. TBH it’s a little too much of a Devil Survivor retread for my liking. There are things I liked about DS that I didn’t particularly care to experience again. The demon auction, for example. The constant need to fuse for new demons. Skill cracking. The MC’s cowardly male friend and vapid, helpless female friend. The “suddenly, demons!” storyline. Meaningless conversation choices every 3 sentences. I’ve seen it all before. Once was good, twice? I’m not that bored yet.
Having said that, it doesn’t look like such a long game. Unless something radically annoying happens or I start a better SRPG, I’m probably going to finish it.
Devil Survivor 2 starts slow but picks up. Hopefully you’ll start enjoying it in day 3, though the difficulty also picks up there(the story also starts to show itself as being very different from the first game). And don’t worry, theirs more to Daichi than cowardice. Io is kind of boring, but most of the other characters are more interesting, and even she gets another dimension to her.
And the fate links get less inane as they go on, this game has far more character development than the first, and trust me the best ending makes no sense without them (which is why it was such BS when the anime pulled it out of nowhere)
Your words have given me hope. I shall soldier on a little longer. No one is happier than I am when a game I thought was sucking turns out to be great after all.