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.
On to the report. After lots of switching up and down, Mako-chan is now level 19!
You can compare these with his stats at the start of the game if you like. I’ve been raising Str, Vit and Agi almost equally, and he’s doing pretty well for himself. As a Samurai I would really like him to dual-wield katanas, but I haven’t had much luck finding good ones, so he’s going with spears instead. There are a lot of spears, axes and maces in this game and relatively few swords and katanas, so I make do with what I have.
Difficulty-wise I’m still playing on Beginner. This has turned out to be a rather bad thing because it made it possible for me to blitz through most of the game at a low level only to run smack-dab into certain powerful bosses who won’t let me progress. In the Ice Dungeon there’s this Behemoth monster that shows up if I spend more than 2 turns killing something, which happens more often than not. I need to level up once or twice and put points in Vit so I can survive a few hits from him. I would have liked to give my Knight a shield and have her protect the rest from his hits, but you can’t use Skills in that dungeon -_- so unfair.
I have a similar problem with a boss in the underwater dungeon. He hits like a truck, and he’s a proper boss so I can’t even run away if it doesn’t work out. Skills work down there, but… wait I just thought of something. Hold on… Wahaha! I did it! I beat the Behemoth in the Ice dungeon!
Now I can grind up good equipment without fear! There’s no secret to beating him, though. My idea was to put a Knight in both rows and put them on Defend in the hopes that they would cover the other party members anyway, but it didn’t work. I guess you need skills to activate that ability. Since that plan failed, I went with Plan B: hit it till it dies. I also spammed MultiHit, Multi-Avoid and Slow like crazy, but the beastie had such nerves of steel that it almost never missed. That’s what I get for taking on a level 32 monster at level 20, I guess. And I only lost 1 party member in the process, yay!
Stuff like this is why I can’t quit playing dungeon-crawlers no matter how repetitive the gameplay or how barebones the story. What did I start writing this post for anyway? I can’t remember any more. La la la~ time to grind~ See you guys in another 43 hours!
I love your blog. I was wondering if you have ever played rezel cross on psp? It looks pretty good.
I’ve heard the name but never really looked into it. Now that I’m running out of games to play on the PSP, this is a good time to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Your welcome. There’s also heroes phantasia. It’s a cross over rpg.
I skipped that one ‘cos I’m not familiar with any of those shows except Sgt. Frog.
Ah that ice dungeon, such a horrible place yet has so many good loot…the high level golems you run into doing treasure chest ambush there can bring a world of hurt as well. I’ll probably revisit the game in the near future myself since they put out the big content patch for it after vita version was released.
Those blasted Mythril Golems and their instant-death attacks. I avoided them wherever I could.
I’m in that tower thingy now. I was grinding for good weapons when I ‘accidentally’ stumbled into the boss’s area. I could have taken him out easy, but the two successive battles before that wore out my MP and I was game overed. I’ll be back Charon, you can count on it!
I just stumbled across this one, Twelve: Sengoku Fuushinden for psp. It looks really good too : )
That one looks good. I tend to shy away from games based on real history, but this one looks promising.
Here’s 2 more I’ve never heard of : Ore Ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo Otsu and Kyoukaisen No Horizon Portable
Ore ni Hatarake is on my To Play Very Soon list. Kyoukaisenjou I’d never heard of until today, but based on the screenshots it’s too fanservicey for me. Those boobs are just ridiculous! My back hurts just looking at them.
Very true lol just as bad as 2 hearts 2 dungeon series
OK two more : Narisokonai Eiyuutan: Taiyou to Tsuki no Monogatari and Shin Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono: Toki no Gakuen. There’s also the two tears to tiara games. I’m only looking because I played all the English games on psp and was looking for others to play. Hope this helps : ) nendroids looks all cute as does monster diary, not for me lol. There’s magna Carta which is already on ps2. Maybe legendary hero’s legendary saga. I’m looking at so many right now.
I’ve tried both Tears to Tiara games and the Legend of the Legendary Hero game. I quit both within an hour, so they don’t show up in the regular reviews.
https://www.tehvidya.com/more-games-that-didnt-work-out/
https://www.tehvidya.com/games-i-didnt-like-2013-edition/
Narisokonai I remember not trying because it looks cheaply made. Might give it a shot. The Ken to Mahou/Class of Heroes games don’t do it for me, though I have mentioned somewhere that I might give the later games in the series another try.
I’m running out of PSP games to play myself, so thanks for all the suggestions!