Two games that I am salivating over: Persona 4 and Valkyrie Profile: The Accursed One (hereafter VP:DS). (The VP stuff was announced a few days back with a screenshot, but the P4 screenshots are completely new ( Read more... )

Warning: completely arbitrary "best of" list ahoy!

...I figure it's late enough in the PS2's lifespan to look back on the games released for it as a whole. And specifically, my chosen genre of game, the RPG. So, bored and fueled by cinnamon bears, I am making a top ten list of the best PS2 RPGs ever.

( My list (spoilers ahoy) )

Well, my brother has booked our European vacation sensation. ( Our itinerary )

For some reason I'm feeling very nostalgic today - not for anything in particular, really, just for about everything. It's kind of a weird feeling, because normally I can put a specific name to nostalgia - like "oh, remember England?" or "oh, I remember that trip to Memphis!" But now it's just kind of a generalized nostalgia for all of my various ( Read more... )

Well, I finally beat Radiata Stories - the ending wasn't great but wasn't horrible either, the way I hear the nonhuman path ending is - and now I'm playing through the bonus dungeon. (Of course it has one - it's a tri-Ace game.)

( Postgame spoilers )

The Suikoden V trailer...there are no words. WANT SO BAD

Seriously, between the fact that they play Jowy's Theme from Suikoden II in the trailer, the return of characters like ( spoilers )

Welp, today was kind of a wash academically. For my Romantic Lit class this morning, we had to read Northanger Abbey, Blue-Beard (a Gothic play), both versions of Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and Coleridge's "Christabel". I got through all of it but Christabel, because I ran out of time and I'd read it and "Mariner" before (I wanted ( Read more... )

Well, I've been playing more Radiata Stories. (Reading for class? What reading?) Still enjoying it immensely - I've recruited about fifteen of the 177 (!) possible playable characters. I never thought I'd see a game that beat the Suikoden series for number of characters, but sure enough here it is. XD ( Read more... )

After I finished classes and meetings today, I stopped by Gamers just on a whim to see if they had Radiata Stories in. (For the uninitiated, it's the new game from Tri-Ace, makers of the Star Ocean series and Valkyrie Profile.) And lo and behold, even though the release date isn't until tomorrow they did ( Read more... )