Finished Shin Megami Tensei IV (slight spoilers)

shin megaten 4Neutral route clear. My final save read 66 hours and 59 minutes. In my humble opinion, only 30 of those hours actually needed to be in the game. Okay, so the extra 10 hours I spent doing sidequests were kind of my fault. Kind of not my fault either though, because it turns out I had to do almost every quest in Tokyo to finish the neutral route. I just got a headstart, is all.

The 10 hours I spent getting lost in Tokyo and the Hall of Eternity were totally Atlus’s fault, as were the 16 hours spent dragging out the game and explaining things that didn’t need explanation while glossing over issues that could have used more attention. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Shin Megami Tensei IV – Neutral Route! (spoilers)

shin megami tensei iv cover artWhee! I’m on the neutral route! I’m so happy~! I didn’t think I’d make it because I only started using a FAQ when it was almost too late. For most of the game I just chose options that seemed right to me and generally tried to be a decent sort of guy. Unfortunately the stories in these SMT games are so juvenile, always trying so hard to be “edgy” and “against the grain” that being an honest fellow and not wantonly murdering people somehow makes you side with brain-sucking gangsters and dictatorial angels instead of just making you a normal human being. Go figure. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Playing Shin Megami Tensei IV

Yeah, I know I said I was going to play Izuna 2 last time, but then I came over all turn-based-ish and SMT-ish and one thing led to another and here we are! My latest save file reads 24:54:32, MC Flynn is at level 37. I just entered Shinjuku National Park after the execution (that should be vague and non-spoilery enough, right?). Unfortunately I’m really busy this week so I don’t have the energy to write anything long about Shin Megami Tensei IV right now. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Dungeon of Windaria – Sometimes simple is good

dungeon of windaria coverWindaria is a classic anime movie from 1986 that tells a tragic tale of love and betrayal in the midst of war.

Dungeon of Windaria is a roguelike based on the anime made by Compile Heart and Idea Factory in 2008. If you haven’t watched the movie the game won’t make any sense at all. Its “story” is a rough summary of the anime that is even less detailed than what you would find on Wikipedia. Apart from that and a few stills taken from the anime, the game and the original don’t have much to do with each other. Do please go on, this is most interesting →

Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume – Too whiny and too gloomy

valkyrie profile covenant coverThere’s this kid named Wylfred and his dad dies and a Valkryie takes his dad’s soul away and Wylfred is like “Nooo y u do dat? REVENGE!” and a dark goddess gives him power to get revenge on the Valkyrie by feeding souls to a magical feather and then a lot of other stuff happens… but I wouldn’t know any of it because I quit after chapter 1. Normally I wouldn’t even write a post about Covenant of the Plume after dropping it so quickly, but it happens to be one of my gaming resolutions for 2015 so a very brief explanation is in order. Do please go on, this is most interesting →