by superkenon
Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and continue this tradition. Documentation! Full disclosure! Posterity! Last year had a mighty fine line-up of cool things I played, so let's start a-shapin' this one!
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[BEGAN: January 1st] [FINISHED: January 17th] Startin' the year off right. Better late than never? Yeah, for a number of various logistical reasons, I missed out on the series at the time, and then never bothered myself to go back. But then my brother took matters into his own hands and threw the Trilogy at me, so here we are. I'm doin' this thing. Totally loved this first game. I'm playing a renegade with a heart of a paragon. The game's actually taking to my hedging quite well, and I feel like I've made a really interesting Shepard. I mean, sure, they're probably always interesting. But this one's mine, and I love it. Shepard.
[BEGAN: January 1st] [FINISHED: January 26th] With Rune Factory 4 bring great (I'm still playing it), and Neverland sadly closing down, I felt the urge to celebrate the series by playing through the games again. Starting here. Going back to the beginning was a pretty jarring exhibition of how far they've come in their iterations. Compared to 4, you could call this downright unplayable. But, then I settled back into the old groove and got way into it yet again. Totally happy I came back.
[BEGAN: January 19th] [FINISHED: December 7th] Can't let a Zelda go un-replayed. Haven't been exactly flying through it though. While I had a lot of fun with this game the first time, it's definitely weak on a second run, which is kind of a damning thing for me to say about a Zelda game. With the "what's around the corner??" gone, all I've got left is the slog. And boy, it's kind of a slog. I mean, it's not all bad, but dang if it doesn't have a lot of needless filler gumming up the tour.
[BEGAN: January 28th] What has Kleptok DOOOOOONE!!
[BEGAN: September 2012] [FINISHED: February 6th] Yeah, I kinda let that one sit awhile. Thinking about Bravely Default recently reminded me, "right, that OTHER class-based JRPG." Thought I might as well dust it off and run it through, and I'm glad I did. Guys, old Final Fantasy is great.
[BEGAN: February 7th] ["NORMAL" END: May 25th] And then I launched into Bravely Default! Or maybe I'm still playing Final Fantasy III. I can't quite tell? I think Bravely Default is an outstanding, highly charming, jewel of a game that goes on a lot longer than it needs to. I guess I agree with the general consensus that BD's "twist" really wrecks the momentum of the adventure, even though in concept I think it's clever. They just didn't execute it well. It occurs about at the time when the game could've ended, and still have been a good length for JRPG, and then says "want to do stuff you've already done for another 20 hours?" That said, it's not a wholly bad thing. You'll certainly get your money's worth out of this game, and it's still fun even after said "twist." It only becomes frustrating to me at the part where my backlog continues to grow while this game kinda plateaus. But where it plateaus isn't necessarily bad. If you're someone who purchases games more infrequently than a scumbag like me does, you'll probably appreciate that it keeps giving you things to do. I got the "Normal" ending, and have more-or-less moved on to other games for the time being. But I do want to see the alternate way it wraps up, so I know I'll be coming back to it. Just definitely needed to take a break from it. PS, the music in this game is pretty much the best thing ever.
[BEGAN: February 14th] [FINISHED: March 29th] Happy Valentine's! I kinda took my time with this (see below), but certainly not because I wasn't loving it. What a great ol' game, with a great ol' universe. And I like how you could fit the length of like four ME1's inside it. Whew! The story of my lovable, puckish rogue continues. Firing off biotics, saving a lotta lives, probing planets obsessively, romancing Garrus, and just generally wasting fools left and right. Although still slightly heavier on the Paragon side of things, dang, Shepard got a lot rougher in this game, didn't she? Some of those interrupts can be pretty gnarly! There was a bummer note during the Suicide Mission when I lost Tali, which I think will haunt me forever. I wrestled with reloading, but... argh, we gotta accept the consequences and move on!! At least I didn't lose anyone else, and I saved the crew 'n all that. But, man. Tali, noooooo!! Now on to Mass Effect 3. Eventually.
Also, I binged on random NES games for an evening or two. I'm filled with a desire to rebuild my collection of old.
Oh, and by the way, Persona 4 rocks on and on.
[RECLAIMED: March 3rd] One of the raddest, hiddenest, best-soundtraskest little gems on the SNES. I had a cart of this back in the day, before it mysteriously vanished to my dismay. Finally, after many years of a Uniracers-shaped hole in my collection (and my heart), I found a replacement. IT'S STILL GREAT. YOU GUYS.