At long last the struggle has ended. I vowed not to touch another game or write another post until I’d put Persona 2 behind me, now the day is here at last. I feel so relieved! I must have written like 20 different posts whining about a game that no one was forcing me to […]
An ordinary turn-based RPG from Sting. 5 years is a long time to hold a grudge, so I decided to try another game they developed, the more “normal” the better. Unfortunately Hexyz Force is perhaps a little too normal, making it hard to write about. I didn’t not enjoy it, but I wasn’t crazy about […]
Just finished Hidaka Ai’s route. Meh. Just glad it’s over, that’s all. The Idolm@ster Dearly Stars disappointed me in nearly every aspect I could think of: As a raising/life sim There are only three stats to manage, plus tiredness. All of them are very easy to raise and keep high. You’d expect that as a […]
After blathering on about my “gamer’s pride” in the previous post, I felt a bit silly walking away from the Immortal King without a fight, so I went back and killed him. The King himself wasn’t all that tough. It was those zombie magicians with the crazy range and full Valhalla gauges that decimated my […]
I held out as long as I could, but the absurdly high encounter rate finally did me in. I’m supposed to visit a couple of temples and take back the crystal skulls, but I just got out of grueling crawls at Mt. Katatsumuri and Caracol. I don’t know how long any of these temples are […]