In alphabetical order:
Adventure Bar Story – 13 hours and 58 minutes. It’s gotten old. I haven’t unlocked any new recipes or dungeons in a while and I’m too stubborn to look at a FAQ. Cook the same dishes, buy the same items, visit the same dungeons, fight the same monsters. I’ll give it another 2 hours and try to hit level 30 with my peeps before giving up.
Ao no Kiseki – Only 30 minutes in, probably going to stay that way for a while. It’s nice of them to continue directly from the first game and give you save bonuses from Zero (Sega, are you listening?!) but the game itself is even more boring than I’d imagined. Talk, talk, talk, talk, easy battle (owait I have the game set to Easy), talk, talk. No one’s forcing me to play it, though, so I’m not going to clog your ears by whining about it. If I finish it I’ll write something, until then radio silence.
Rakuen Seikatsu Hitsujimura (Shepherd’s Crossing Online) – It’s an online browser game, so I’m not sure how many hours I’ve put into it. I was going to write about it today but meh, not in the mood. Maybe tomorrow, or the day after. Or the day after.
Tales of Hearts – Such a fun game, even when the characters are annoying me. If it had a Save Anywhere function I might have finished it by now. The developers are generous with the save points all right, but I tend to play at night when I’m already sleepy so instead of enjoying the ride, I’m often just desperately looking for the next save point so I can sleep. 14:55h, trying to get Ines and Beryl through the desert stage.
The downside of playing so many games at once is that it slows your progress in all of them. There are only so many free hours in a day, after all. ToH is the game I’m enjoying most right now, so I’ll give that the bulk of my attention and see if I can clear it in the next week or so.
Awesome that your playing ao. Zero and ao are the only two in the series I have not played. Could you fill me in on the gist of the story for zero pleeeease and if you do manage to finish ao could you fill me in on that one too. I cannot find any info on as story anywhere on the internet. Thanks in advance!
I already dropped Ao. Too much talking. Zero is about a group of rookie police cadets in a tiny country named Crossbell. Crossbell is sandwiched between two major countries so there’s some politicking and stuff going on, but the cast spend most of the game doing minor tasks, then near the end it turns out there used to be this group of bad guys who did experiments and stuff, and they gave some super-powered medicine to the city Mafia and all kinds of crazy stuff went down but our team managed to stop them. Also the group of bad guys might have had something to do with MC’s big brother being murdered a couple of years ago. And we rescued some mysterious girl with green hair that everyone’s after. But none of that matters in Zero, it’s just setting stuff up for Ao.
At the start of Ao it’s suggested that the city Mafia going nuts due to the medicine is actually someone’s plot to get rid of one of the major powers in Crossbell and leave the country even more open to interference by other countries, etc etc. TBH games about politics bore me stiff, especially games where people just spend time sitting on their keisters doing nothing about it. The main cast isn’t directly involved in all this politicking, so all they can do is speculate, which is REALLY REALLY boring.
Zero was kind of fun, all things considered, but not because of the story. More like the battles were decent and I liked quest-based story progression. But to do it again in the form of Ao? Impossible. I can’t. I won’t.
Thank you very much