Star Ocean: Second Evolution – Irritating

Finished Star Ocean Second Evolution after about 26 hours. Got an ending where Claude and Jeanne went treasure-hunting while Rena and everyone else ended up forever alone. Like I care. With game characters, as with human beings, when you don’t like someone, nothing they do can ever please you. The supporting cast was decent but […]

Star Ocean Second Evolution – Inferior sequel with annoying characters

It plays 99% like the first Star Ocean, only Square-Enix took all the cool characters out and replaced them with whiny teens. I’m about 6 hours in and things have gotten a little better since I added Ashton to my party simply because the whole Creepy ‘n’ Weepy saga is pretty funny. But that’s all […]

Bleh. I don’t feel like playing anything.

I have a bad cold and my wrist hurts, so I don’t feel like playing anything right now. When I’m better, I’ll be playing the following over the next couple of months. New Year’s Resolutions? What New Year’s Resolution? 1. Star Ocean Second Evolution 2. Valkyrie Profile Lenneth 3. Princess Maker 3 4. Last Bullet […]

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja – Hurray for easy rogue-likes!

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja was developed and published by Success and Ninja Studio, the same publisher-developer team that brought us the wonderful must-play title Tactical Guild. Luckily for us all, the two games don’t have anything else in common. For one thing Izuna is actually pretty good. I’m going to borrow the plot description […]