Currently playing...

So, a quick rundown of all the games I'm currently playing:

[PS3] Final Fantasy X-2 HD - I'm at chapter 4, with around 30 hours in and with a 67% completion rate. Not sure what to feel about this one.
On one hand, the combat system is really addictive, on the other hand, the game has terrible pacing, an idiotic story and the characters are hit-or-miss. Whoever thought that this completion mechanic was good needs to be fired. Still, I'm having fun with it and I'm actually enjoying the cheesiness of the story (and I'm curious to see how this train wreck of a story develops) so I'm not gonna drop it. At least for now.


[DS] Metal Max 3 - 15 hours in and I'm at the Evil Estate, helping out the poor traders clean up the place. Thinking about switching my Mechanic for a Nurse but then I'd have to grind her to the party's level and that would take a while. I already finished the game a couple of years ago but got the urge to replay it since it's one of my favorite games.





[PS] Parasite Eve - aka Vagrant Story meets survival horror. I dislike horror games so I never touched PE until last week when I found out that the game is more like 80% RPG and 20% horror. Just finished the game yesterday and got the normal/bad ending at around 10 hours. Now I have to do an EX game run and clear the Chrysler Building to get the good/canon ending... Or I could simply go to Youtube and save myself from the slow walking and the tedious battles. The story is pretty nice and unexpectedly grabs you but the actual gameplay is "meh", so don't blame if I don't wanna slog through a 77 floor dungeon.



[PC] Touhou-A-Live - The SNES masterpiece Live-A-Live with a Touhou Project coating. Finished all chapters except for the "Wild!" and the final chapters. As soon as I found out that it was made with RPG Maker 2003 I thought I was in for a terrible game but, against all odds, the game is good. No, scratch that, it's great. I don't know how the creator did it but he actually successfully mimicked Live-A-Live's battle system in RPG Maker 2003! That alone is worth some serious praise.




[GBA] Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari Hajimari no Ishi - (Re)Playing it on and off for the last months on my cellphone. The last game of the Swordcraft Story games (spin-offs of the Summon Night games) on the GBA that never left Japan and as excellent as the other two.
I choose Rufeel as my Guardian Beast for the first time and I'm quite satisfied with her. She's quick and a jack-of-all-trades skill-wise so I can adapt her magic to the enemies's weaknesses easily.

Well, that's all for now! I'll (hopefully) end up doing a more detailed article on each once I finish them.
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