Yuugen Gaisha Brave Company review – Don’t judge a game by its cover

yuugen gaisha brave company coverThe good news is, the 3DS region-free hack works like a charm. Now you can play games from any region on any 3DS, which is excellent news for those of us eagerly awaiting the release of 7th Dragon III Code: VFD in October.

The other good news is that if you like nice-looking covers, there’s a 3DS game called Yuugen Gaisha Brave Company that has a pretty good one. It looks mysterious and intriguing and action-packed all at the same time. Brave Company also has an interesting premise, especially for fans of simulation/management games.

You play the head of a guild of adventurers whose job it is to handle the various quests that come in by hiring, equipping and dispatching adventurers, managing guild finances and developing the local sub-region all at the same time. Sounds like fun, right? Hahaha. You’re a gamer, you should be used to disappointment by now. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

“Playing lots of games but want to start something new” Syndrome

sleeping panda tehvidyaWat do? I’ve kind of dropped Bravely Default for a bit. Couldn’t seem to get back into it after playing Lord of Magna for a while. Maybe later.

Atelier Judie is dropped as well. It’s… boring. Worse than boring, just dull. I’m going to look up the endings on Youtube or something.

Tsurugi no Machi… not dropped. Definitely not dropped I just haven’t felt like playing it for the past few days. The lack of save points in dungeons means I have to carve out at least 15 minutes for every session, which I can’t always do.

HanaIchi Kinema Mosaic… Eh… not feeling it… I guess I’ll try to clear Isami’s route tonight. Or tomorrow night. Let’s make it tomorrow night.

Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume – Haven’t started it yet for a very silly reason: the DS feels really small and flimsy in my hands after playing with the 3DS for a while. There’s another reason, which is that I suddenly feel like playing a roguelike instead of an SRPG. Maybe Izuna 2, or Shiren 5. And whatever happened to the Princess Maker 3 and Tokimeki Memorial 2 I was going to play? Eh. Whatever. It’s best not to fight these feelings.

So uhh, I haven’t dropped anything yet (not even the games I say I’ve dropped) but I’m kind of shelving them for another week to “explore new opportunities” or however you say it in the corporate world.

This has been your obligatory “I haven’t gone anywhere, I’m just being lazy” post.

Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku Kinema Mosaic – Sometimes a bad sequel is worse than no sequel at all

hanakaya nari kinema mosaic coverDisappointment, thy name is Kinema Mosaic. But in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised. The original Hanayaka Nari Waga Ichizoku was all kinds of fun not because it has the best graphics or the greatest story but because it had a great cast and very strong comedic writing. That kind of feat is hard to repeat, as many a failed comedy sequel can attest to. And when the developer repeating the feat is Idea Factory then, then well, the phrase “asking for too much” comes to mind. I’m not even sure what I was expecting from Kinema Mosaic any more. Anything but this, I guess. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Tsurugi no Machi no Ihoujin, the middle days

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. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Bravely Default – Got a lot better!

bravely default love powerA few weeks ago I said I would give Bravely Default 10 more hours to get its act together before dropping it. I had played about 10 hours back then, now my save file reads 22:33, so I think I’ve been more than fair to it. And it has been more than fair to me, to give credit where credit is due. I don’t want to praise it too highly too soon because I tend to ‘jinx’ games that way, but yeah, I’m having a good time now. Do please go on, this is most interesting →