Since the Maboroshi Gekijou playthrough has reached a temporary stopping point, here's a handy index of the installments thus far:

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Inside the mysterious hut in the creepy mansion's courtyard, we find...


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1. World 6: I keep saying this, but World 6 is trying to do survival horror - before survival horror was even properly invented, mind you - within the format of an RPG and succeeding. It deftly uses elements that are standards of the RPG genre and Mystic Ark itself to that end to succeed in both genres. It plays with resource management (the ( Read more... )

Actually, there's not that much that's nightmarish in this installment, but I think we're probably going to be wrapping up this chapter next...chapter, so it's now or never for that title.

When we last left Mystic Ark: Blah de Blah de Blah, ridiculous story triggers had ground a halt to the action. Time to once again enter the world of survival ( Read more... )

We return to Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijou to showcase...a stunning lack of progress.( Cut )

Last time, in the shock of the century, a Mystic Ark title was holding up progress until I solved a board game puzzle.


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Well, I hope you weren't waiting for a dramatically satisfying solution to last episode's roadblock.


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I've had this playthrough of Mystic Ark on in the background while doing various things on the computer, and rewatching the game has gotten me thinking about the origin of the game's worlds and how it ties into the plot's figurine business... ( Cut )

OK, here's the deal: I'm stuck in a huge work project - again - and had my posting aspirations derailed - again. So, again, I'm gonna go through my link backlog throughout the evening and, when I have time, post a few noteworthy entries. Such as:

- Big news in the semi-recent past of the world of Resident Evil is the discovery of an ISO of ( Read more... )