Ness is level 53-ish, the rest of my party ranges from level 48 to level 36. Just reached Tenda Village, everyone claims to be too shy to help me. I probably shouldn’t write a post so soon after finishing what I can only hope is the worst stage in the game (Deep Darkness) but I will anyway.
Except… I still don’t have anything to say. When I play it I have fun, but when I don’t play it I have even more fun playing other stuff. Well okay, I guess like the pacing of the game. One thing leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. There’s very little time spent standing around wondering what to do. Right now I have to find a book to help the Tendas cure their shyness, but I’m sure the solution will be somewhere close by and easy to find. Apart from that bit around Fourside and the Desert, there’s been very little backtracking in this game, which I also like.
What I’d really like, though, is for the game to end soon. In the next three or four hours kind of soon. I won’t lie and say it’s been wonderful or anything, but it’s been okay, at least. In all respects EarthBound is either decent or above-average (except inventory management, but even that’s not so bad), so if they can just keep the game length to a similarly moderate level then everything will be nice and even and we can all go home with smiles on our faces.
