My “patience with poor game design” meter gets shorter and shorter every year. I forget what the screen said last time I saved, but I know I’ve played at least 35 hours of Wild Arms 5. When I quit I was supposed to go around the continent destroy some TF System stuff in some towers […]
Spinning my wheels in Wild Arms 5 and Avalon Code
They aren’t bad games, but I don’t really get excited at the thought of playing them either. Wild Arms 5 – 20 hours in, maybe? The last scene I recall was riding my monowheel into Twelbit… and there was some fountain or the other in the middle of town. Can’t remember if I saw anything […]
Wild Arms 5 – Picking up nicely
It took about 10 hours, but I’m finally starting to enjoy Wild Arms 5. I got used to the ‘kiddiness’ of the characters and the cheesiness of the story (aliens are discriminating against us!), and in my last session they finally began to introduce the real Save The Planet story. I don’t know why RPGs […]
Wild Arms 5 – Shelved for not being bad enough
I should have been playing WA4 by now, but my PS2 had another one of its fits and decided not to play it, so Wild Arms 5 it is. I’ve played an hour of it and finished the prologue. It’s a good game, so far. It doesn’t have as many immediately off-putting puzzles as Wild […]