Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

I know it will be very difficult to recreate that feeling as SH2. I;'ve played a little of SH3 and I agree it's a bit more in-your-face than SH2 was, hell my biggest gripe with it back then was that the game suddenly got more combat focused in a franchise well known for having bad combat mechanics.

On the other hand, Fatal Frame is a very eerie game in it's own right, especially since so much of it is the audio than the visuals. I'm debating between three entries right now.

Oh I finished DDS 1 tonight. Actually found some of the bosses leading p to the final boss to be tougher than her. Halloween gaming starts tomorrow.

Also, I discovered this cool composer on Youtube that does melancholic renditions of classic video game themes, mainly Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger.

It's just about staying consistent, like Pike said in the thread.

I'm either going to start my occult detective story or finish (I'm like two pages in) a romance story I started awhile ago. I tried doing my longer novel last time and that didn't really work out so well cause I overthought everything and kept falling behind on my word counts. I figured doing something fresh would work better.

That's a shame, it was easily one of my favorite parts of DQVII. Then chances are, the last mini-medals are attached to the optional boss. Unless it changed, the shard the Mini-Medal king gives you is for one of the two optional dungeons in the game, so I wouldn't sweat it.

If memory serves me correctly, I don't think you can even collect them all until the post game. You collect some of the shards to unlock one of the optional dungeons and the last few are there. The other issue might be the town minigame, cause I'm pretty sure there are mini-medals in all of them.

I know you played a simple version of it in IV and I'm not sure if VI had one but in VII, the town's final form is based on the type of people you've collected from it and there are four different outcomes with various initiatives for going for all of them. The basic huge town was the easiest to get but the other three required having a majority of themed residents. Farmers and livestock net you a giant farm where you can buy some of the best restorative items that are unavailable anywhere else. Nuns and priests net you a giant Cathedral where you get some awesome Holy items for purchase, and the final involves collecting dancers, thieves, and criminals to create a giant slum that houses the largest and final casino in the game where you can try your hand at getting the Metal Slime gear and other one of a kind items.

What's sad is that they're really rather friendly towards each other in their own way, even during the alternate segments. Then they all go their separate ways for the very last time.

Oh, on a completely unrelated note, Halloween Writing Contest. I mentioned timings in the committee, do they sound reasonable?

Having fallen in love with the game, I'm looking forward to Apocalypse also.

Feeling sad about ending the game though. As you mentioned, Neutrality means having to get rid of Jonathan and Walter. Nooooooo!

You don't actually get to see much of them, they're all rather shortened. I went through Infernal Tokyo in like, an hour or so. There was only one side-quest to undertake there.

Of the two, Blasted is the most bleak. I take it the catastrophe occurred because of the ICBM strike? Doesn't that appear in other SMT games? Either way, pretty terrible. But the resolution at the end gives it a semblance of hope, I think.

Infernal Tokyo doesn't appear as bad, the landscape isn't barren and there is a semblance of a structure there, but yeah, the whole neurisher/demonoid thing is pretty revolting also.

Neutral seems the best option, all considered. With a small margin though, talk about earning your happy ending.

Thanks Fynn. Oh, regarding the DlC quests, is there a right time to complete them? Should it be now? Or is there a point later on that is more 'appropriate'?