Let's finish this...
Alright, due to work and school joining forces to destroy my free time I've decided to finally get back to work on a few games I've started and yet to finish. Course, this turned out to be a much longer list than I expected so its up you EoFF to give advice as to where my most precious commodity, my time, should be wasted on. The list is mostly comprised of games I've started and have yet to finish because starting something new is dangerous for me, especially since midterms start this week. I play games obsessively and I'm really bad at multi-task gameplay (By that I mean I don't do well playing multiple games at once, one always proves to garner my interest over the other) so no go on trying to tackle more than one.
FFXII: Revenant Wings - I really don't like this game, the gameplay and some of the weapon building is fun if a bit underwhelming but the sheer butchery of one of my favorite casts of characters trapped in a plot that feels like Motomu's Greatest Hit collection has really made me not like this game at all. The thing is, I'm at the last boss and the super challenges. I just can't bring myself to play anymore and I actually took a year off from the game to get back to it recently but now the game elicit my nerd rage so much that I fear for my DS' safety.
Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana - Once again, the alchemy side of the game is awesome, its everything else that's the problem. The cast is boring the combat is even worse and the story takes forever to get to the bloody point. If memory serves me correct, the party had just arrived in the ruins of the great alchemist that they have been talking about visiting for 20 hours now and when we finally got there I realized I seriously didn't give a damn anymore. This is a game I'm borrowing from a friend, so I've had it for several years now and well... he has my copy of Secret of Mana held ransom... You can see where this is going.
Dragon Quest VIII - I actually like this game out of the bunch so far, my only problem is that I'm easily distracted by what I feel are better games and the more I play it the more I feel like playing DQVII instead. The other issue is that I have a major disconnect when playing DQ. the games actually use a ton of elements I really hate but I never seem to care when I'm playing the games its only when I stop playing that they begin to nag at me and make me have second thoughts on going back to old saves.
Sword of Mana - This game just doesn't want to end, everytime I think I'm at the end, the game somehow manages to force me to go back to a previous area and find a new dungeon. I like this game as well but I played it til I was burnt out. Not to mention it has the same issue as DQVIII and the more I play the more I want to play the other entries instead...
Arc The Lad 3 - I blame part of my problem on Arc the Lad 2 being massive and incredibly tedious at the end. I blame the other problem being that some games have spoiled me and there is crap I don't like to do anymore in RPGs the major one being a worldwide fetch quest. Yes, for those of you who have played and beaten this game, I left off on the quest to build a new Ark which is going to involve me wandering the world and talking to everyone (most likely returning characters) until I get the quest needed that will most likely involve long dungeons (it is Arc the Lad after all) until I obtain one of seven or eight useless items to build the Ark which will most likely be stolen by the evil powers that be who I was fighting during the collection faze, which will involv me breaking into their evil headquarters only to have the Ark stolen by the true villain of the game which will involve me going to an even longer dungeon to fight a boss who is probably more ridiculous than the one in AtL2. You can see my conundrum...
Golden Sun - I will never understand the appeal of this game. I'm not sure if I just missed something cause I didn't play it back in 2001 or if I'm missing something entirely. The thing is, I find this game incredibly boring. Its world and story feel like cheap knockoffs from the Mana and Lufia games but ditches
many of the elements that made their stories good and while the puzzles are nice, I still feel Wild Arms and Lufia did puzzles better. I am playing this game on my GF's behalf cause she loves this game. I can't fathom the appeal and I've been playing it on and off for a year waiting for the game to finally snag my interest. So far I've been struggling to get through dungeons. I just finished the dungeon in the village that was buried under water.
I might find more and I'm kinda not adding in certain console entries because I'm not far into them so its the equivalent of playing the game from scratch.
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