Just when I had all but given up, I managed to get my PS2 limping along again. It wouldn’t read any disks, so I started by cleaning the laser. No use. Then a bit of googling told me there’s a second laser beneath the first one. I had to take the whole array out to […]
I almost titled this post “Doki Doki Majo S**tpan” but I’m trying to run a clean(er) ship these days. Besides, such a perfectly descriptive name would leave me with nothing left to write about this game, one of the dullest, most joyless things I have ever experienced in my life. Doki Doki Majo Shinpan! is […]
I’ve put off this post for a long time because it’s slightly embarrassing for me to admit it, but… I don’t like that much strategy in my SRPGs. They should be more like (s)RPGs than Srpgs in my book. The reason this has never come up before is that I tend to avoid games that […]
I was told The Last Story was a 30-40 hour game, but I fast forwarded a lot of scenes because they were hella cheesy and finished in 28 hours and 40 minutes. I finished it in January so I don’t remember too many of the details now. General experiences and impressions follow. First, the battles. […]
Finished the main game! I killed the last boss at level 70, around the 70-hour mark. It was a pitifully easy affair, so I was probably supposed to take him down about 10 levels earlier. Bye-bye baddie, welcome back Mist, roll credits, back to my farm to continue daily life. In Rune Factory 1 and […]