Last Bullet
Since Last Bullet is 90% story and I plan to spend some time in this review pointing out just how ridiculous said story is, I’m going to have to do a lot of spoiling in this post. If you were planning to play the game (and it’s not bad at all so you might as well) you might want to look away now. Do please go on, this is most interesting
What better way to welcome my PS2 back to the land of the living than with a game that rightly belongs in the land of the dead? Finishing the light route on Elvandia Story
But I’ve already written a lot about how terrible Elvandia Story is, so I’m not going to retread old ground here. As usual Ashley was overpowered from start to finish, so I mostly solo’ed the game with him except for the few missions with mandatory party members. It didn’t take very long with Ashley gunning for the boss like a cruise missile, and to the game’s credit most of the maps are quite small so it only takes a few turns to win. I would never have made it through 3 runs of this game if it wasn’t for that. Do please go on, this is most interesting
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4 was such a mess story-wise that I feared the worst when I picked 3 up, but it’s actually pretty good. Good enough that I actually contemplated going for 100% completion, which would be the first time I’ve ever fully completed an otome game. And I would have done it too if I hadn’t posted about it last time. Somehow writing about things I’m going to do makes me feel like I’ve done them already, so that’s the end of that.
Story: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3
Akane and her childhood friend Yuzuru end up on the side of the Genji, where she discovers she’s actually the priestess of the white dragon. Masaomi, their other childhood friend and Yuzuru’s brother, ends up with the Taira. And then there’s all kinds of back and forth action that mainly consists of Masaomi trying to use his knowledge of history to bring victory to the Taira while Akane uses her hax priestess powers and a magical scale that can wind back time to thwart the Taira’s ambitions and bring victory to the Genji while chasing bishies at the same time because it’s that kind of game. Do please go on, this is most interesting
Toothless affection.
Why? Because I’m busy conquering bishies in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3. For the past week it’s been like “Okay I’ll just do this guy’s route and then I’m done.” “Oh, and this guy too.” “Okay, and this guy too.” and on and on and on. Right now I’ve done almost everyone’s main route except Saku’s and Tomomori’s (‘cos you’ve gotta save the best for last) but once I’m done with the main routes I’ve also got to get the Izayoiki bonus endings for everyone, which will take some more time. I’m not starting anything new until that is done, so I’ll be busy for a while longer. Don’t expect me to write a long post about it once I’m done though. I’m kind of burnt out, but I just can’t stop.
I’m also playing Shiren DS 1 and 2, but ‘playing’ just consists of finding inventive ways to die every day, so there’s nothing to write about. I had an interesting death yesterday, when I was OHKO’ed by a shopkeeper. It was like this: I walked into the store and for some reason or another my companion was standing in front of the doorway, so when I picked up an item the storekeeper couldn’t block the door. Then I pressed B, switched through my companion and stepped out of the store. And the storekeeper went “Thief!” Welp, so far so good, I could have tried to run away or hit him with a staff of postpone or something, but I wanted to see how strong he was… bad idea. Don’t waste your time going toe-to-toe with a storekeeper, just run. I’m learning all kinds of stuff from these games!
Once I’m done with HTND3, my PS2 is back from them hospital so maybe I’ll work on maybe Dragon Shadow Spell? But I’m not in the mood for an SRPG, for once. Maybe I’ll continue Wild Arms 5. I recently downloaded several free Japanese indie/doujin games and trials only for my desktop PC to go caput. For some reason most of those games don’t work right on my Windows 7 laptop, preferring my WinXP desktop, so I’m going to have to delay playing them for a while. If it’s not one thing, it’s the other.
So anyway that’s what I’ve been getting up to. See you guys in a bit!
And it only took 2 years, 3 months and 17 days from the day I first quit. Congratulations, me! ^_^ Everybody stop round for champagne and cookies later, on the house.
Actually story mode in Fuurai no Shiren 2 was really easy… Actually I should be calling it Shiren DS 2
To clarify: there’s a main series of Shiren games, Shiren 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Then there are at least four Shiren gaiden games, including ones called Shiren GB and Shiren GB2 (named thus because they were first released on the Gameboy and Gameboy Color). When Chunsoft and Sega released DS remakes, they made Shiren 1 (SNES original) into Shiren DS 1 (remake). But instead of making Shiren 2 (N64 original) into Shiren DS 2 (remake), they skipped over it and chose Shiren GB2 to be remade as Shiren DS 2. There is no remake of the original N64 Shiren 2 yet. All clear now? Do please go on, this is most interesting