SaGa 2 is the only one I felt was a good game. The others are very confusing, and, like you said, almost impenetrable.
I've got a Willow review in a folder somewhere that I'm going to post eventually. I'm trying to space them out. :)
Princess Crown is that Saturn game that was never released here, right? Again, memory is hazy, but I believe I've read good things about it.
Meh. I played the game for dozens of hours. If it was really that bad, I would've stopped. I got a lot of enjoyment from it. Ni No Kuni has a premise that really shouldv'e been used to better effect. And if the battling is what you are there for, this isn't the game for you. You might not even notice how bad the system is until you are invested, however.
I think if you put this game in an "RPG opposite machine", you'd get Resonance of Fate.
I think it's odd, the item management system. If there were more inventory slots, it wouldn't annoy me so much. And I agree that those preventative items are so expensive.
My quesiton is whether or not I should expect anything new going forward. I'm 60% done with Oswald's quest, and I feel like I'm just going through the motions at this point. I'm not listening so much to the story any more. Should I stick it out for some final big plot twist? I know I'll play a few more hours, but I move into a new apartment in a week, and I wonder if the game will get lost in the shuffle. By lost, I mean I won't be able to play for a few days and won't bother to pick it up when I'm finally settled in.
Like I said, it's good. But so damn repetetive. I feel like I won't make it across the finish line..... I think I'll make it to the last playable character and give up just before the end. It won't be the first time.
I've been lax keeping up with newer games, but I feel like I've heard of Dragon's Crown somewhere. Is it by the same development team? Is it a spiritual sequel?
You have a lot to catch up on. I'm posting every friggin' day. :)
I mean, objectively, NiER is a shitty game. The graphics are trash and it's basically one long fetch quest. The story takes up maybe 10% of the actual playtime of the game.
But for god's sake, that 10% is so involving and immersive. The world, while tiny and ugly, is alien and creepy and evokative in a way that many games attempt but never achieve. The soundtrach is possibly the best of this generation. The story is just interesting enough, but the final series of endings does something fantastic that hasn't (to my knowledge) been matched within the entire medium of video games. A very memorable game, and I don't say that very often.
If I were rating this game based on graphics and gameplay, I would give it a 5/10. But this game is so much more than the sum of its parts; I've never seen its like.
I enjoy writing them, so it isn't even really work for me. Honestly, I think countdowns and reviews are sorta cheap and uninspired, easy ways to get people to read your stuff. So I try to put a little more effort into 'em than the typical countdown or review.
I'm in the process of moving into a larger apartment, and that means moving all my games. I'll try to take some pictures before I store them away again. I'm curious how they will all look splayed out there like that.
I think it's Ages that's available on repro cart. I tried to find out anything at all about the thing, but there are no playthroughs or faqs anywhere. I don't know whether or not I played the final version of Echoes, but the one I did play (two or three years ago) was buggy and repetetive. While I (obviously) love Chrono Trigger, anything created by the modding community will likely be inferior, simply by virtue of the fact that it's not the dream team creating the game. There are so many games that I've paid money for, but have never played. I mean, there are probably, this isn't hyperbole, between 500-1000 games in my collection that I've never even touched. Some of them I may never touch, but that will be because I die of old age before I get to them. My time would be best spent playing those, is my point.
