“Playing lots of games but want to start something new” Syndrome

sleeping panda tehvidyaWat do? I’ve kind of dropped Bravely Default for a bit. Couldn’t seem to get back into it after playing Lord of Magna for a while. Maybe later.

Atelier Judie is dropped as well. It’s… boring. Worse than boring, just dull. I’m going to look up the endings on Youtube or something.

Tsurugi no Machi… not dropped. Definitely not dropped I just haven’t felt like playing it for the past few days. The lack of save points in dungeons means I have to carve out at least 15 minutes for every session, which I can’t always do.

HanaIchi Kinema Mosaic… Eh… not feeling it… I guess I’ll try to clear Isami’s route tonight. Or tomorrow night. Let’s make it tomorrow night.

Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume – Haven’t started it yet for a very silly reason: the DS feels really small and flimsy in my hands after playing with the 3DS for a while. There’s another reason, which is that I suddenly feel like playing a roguelike instead of an SRPG. Maybe Izuna 2, or Shiren 5. And whatever happened to the Princess Maker 3 and Tokimeki Memorial 2 I was going to play? Eh. Whatever. It’s best not to fight these feelings.

So uhh, I haven’t dropped anything yet (not even the games I say I’ve dropped) but I’m kind of shelving them for another week to “explore new opportunities” or however you say it in the corporate world.

This has been your obligatory “I haven’t gone anywhere, I’m just being lazy” post.

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic – Sometimes a bad sequel is worse than no sequel at all

hanakaya nari kinema mosaic coverDisappointment, thy name is Kinema Mosaic. But in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. The original Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku was all kinds of fun not because it has the best graphics or the greatest story but because it had a great cast and very strong comedic writing. That kind of feat is hard to repeat, as many a failed comedy sequel can attest to. And when the developer repeating the feat is Idea Factory then, then well, the phrase “asking for too much” comes to mind. I’m not even sure what I was expecting from Kinema Mosaic any more. Anything but this, I guess. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin, the middle days

43 hours and 29 minutes is a little late for a ‘middle days’ report, but whatever. Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin isn’t that long a game, so by rights I should have been done by now. The delay is due to me wasting time returning to base to save every couple of minutes. Nowadays I’ve grown a little bolder so I hang around a little longer, counting on my running Divinity skill to get me out of serious trouble. I should be done before too long. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Bravely Default – Got a lot better!

bravely default love powerA few weeks ago I said I would give Bravely Default 10 more hours to get its act together before dropping it. I had played about 10 hours back then, now my save file reads 22:33, so I think I’ve been more than fair to it. And it has been more than fair to me, to give credit where credit is due. I don’t want to praise it too highly too soon because I tend to ‘jinx’ games that way, but yeah, I’m having a good time now. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Lord of Magna: Failed in Heaven (spoilers)

lord of magna front coverWas it the game that failed or was it me? Lord of Magna came to a rather abrupt and unsatisfying end after 13 hours and I can’t figure out why. Is it because I was playing on Easy? Did I make a wrong choice along the way? Was I expecting too much from a harem RPG to begin with? Do please go on, this is most interesting →