Luminous Arc Infinity – Actually it’s not so bad

I didn’t have any clear goals when I started this blog years ago, but one thing I knew was that I wanted to give every game a fair chance. I didn’t want to either rush through games or play a little bit just to say I’d played them. Sometimes a game just sucks and I […]

Luminous Arc Infinity – I hate it already

I’ve only played an hour, but I’ve played enough of other games to know the signs so I can tell Luminous Arc Infinity is going to suck. Here are the three main signs: Too much talking. In that one hour I played, I’ve only fought two battles. And they were tutorial battles too, so almost […]

I declare Rune Factory 4 “finished”. It was killing my buzz

I haven’t gone anywhere, I haven’t been playing anything other than Rune Factory 4, just trying to unlock that elusive final event. No dice. The event isn’t unlocking and RF4 is blocking the way so I can’t start something else. Putting story-critical events on a random trigger was a terrible, terrible idea. I’ve been playing […]

Rune Factory 4 – Finished the second arc (spoilers)

Rune Factory 4 is divided into three arcs. Every time you finish one arc,  you fight a boss, the credits roll, music plays and you’re deposited back in town to enjoy the love and adulation of your fellow villagers until the next crisis arises. There was clearly unfinished business left at the end of the […]

Rune Factory 4 – Slight progress (and slight spoilers)

I had played almost 14 hours of RF4 last time, now I’m around the 23 hour mark – or more like 30 hours if you take lost progress due to freezes into account. Rune Factory 4 is a slow-moving game so I won’t probably be doing too many updates on it. You’ll just have to […]