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 […]

Happy New Year + Resolutions 2013

Happy New Year! May 2013 be as quiet and uneventful for me as 2012 was! Everybody, love! And peace! And lots of video games! This year I have two overall gaming resolutions: 1) I shall no longer force myself to continue games I’m not enjoying. I usually end up quitting later anyway and feeling terrible […]