Emboldened by my success with Tales of the Abyss, I decided to tackle another PS2 game. I'm a huge fan of Front Mission 4, but its glacial pace and unforgiving difficulty made it a difficult game to make progress on. Despite the fact that I had already logged a good 50 hours on the game, I was stalled out and had been on the same mission for a year or more even then. After some serious grinding, I managed to get past the mission in question and used that as motivation to get me to push forward and finish the rest. I'm still proud I managed to do that.
I didn't finish another game until about a month later--this time it was Pokemon Platinum. I'd played Pokemon Pearl shortly after it released but wasn't fond of the battles' slow pace. Platinum fixed this issue so I enjoyed it a lot more. I'd also finished Pokemon Black and Pokemon SoulSilver earlier that year. I didn't finish another game until I was all the way in Austin, Texas. I had a regular job during this time but I still managed to finish Cave Story 3D, Torchlight, Orcs Must Die! 2, Borderlands, and Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy during the four months I lived there. I also played a little of the newest WoW expansion, but I didn't make it to level 90 until January when I was back in Kentucky.
At this point, I was out of a job again. I didn't have a whole lot to do so I became interested in the idea of making something out of all the video games I was playing. I started playing games for reasons beyond simple pleasure. I played several games and wrote pretty detailed synopses/reviews of them. I played Crystalis, a very old and mostly forgotten NES RPG that I found to be quite good! Faria, another NES RPG I played and finished right after that was not so good, although I did find it interesting since I had never heard of it before.
I toyed with the idea of playing the original Final Fantasy at this point--something I've tried and failed to do on multiple occasions--but instead I moved on to the SNES and playeed Lufia & the Fortress of Doom. It's a serviceable RPG but considering the stellar lineup the SNES has to offer, it's forgettable. I'm told Lufia 2 is significantly better, but after sinking 40 hours into its predecessor and not particularly enjoying it, my heart wasn't set on playing the sequel.
I decided to jump consoles again. At this point I wasn't writing about what I was playing to nearly the same degree. I fully intended to write a great deal about Suikoden, my next little project, but it didn't pan out. Suikoden is a game I had played extensively in the past but had never finished for whatever reason. I played through it and unlocked all 108 characters, much to my delight. I enjoyed it enough that I immediately played through the sequel afterward, despite having beaten it as a kid many years ago.
As it turns out, I've finished a lot of games since I bought Final Fantasy XIII-2. There are still a few more to get through--and then maybe I can actually talk about my initial impressions of this game.
I didn't finish another game until about a month later--this time it was Pokemon Platinum. I'd played Pokemon Pearl shortly after it released but wasn't fond of the battles' slow pace. Platinum fixed this issue so I enjoyed it a lot more. I'd also finished Pokemon Black and Pokemon SoulSilver earlier that year. I didn't finish another game until I was all the way in Austin, Texas. I had a regular job during this time but I still managed to finish Cave Story 3D, Torchlight, Orcs Must Die! 2, Borderlands, and Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy during the four months I lived there. I also played a little of the newest WoW expansion, but I didn't make it to level 90 until January when I was back in Kentucky.
At this point, I was out of a job again. I didn't have a whole lot to do so I became interested in the idea of making something out of all the video games I was playing. I started playing games for reasons beyond simple pleasure. I played several games and wrote pretty detailed synopses/reviews of them. I played Crystalis, a very old and mostly forgotten NES RPG that I found to be quite good! Faria, another NES RPG I played and finished right after that was not so good, although I did find it interesting since I had never heard of it before.
I toyed with the idea of playing the original Final Fantasy at this point--something I've tried and failed to do on multiple occasions--but instead I moved on to the SNES and playeed Lufia & the Fortress of Doom. It's a serviceable RPG but considering the stellar lineup the SNES has to offer, it's forgettable. I'm told Lufia 2 is significantly better, but after sinking 40 hours into its predecessor and not particularly enjoying it, my heart wasn't set on playing the sequel.
I decided to jump consoles again. At this point I wasn't writing about what I was playing to nearly the same degree. I fully intended to write a great deal about Suikoden, my next little project, but it didn't pan out. Suikoden is a game I had played extensively in the past but had never finished for whatever reason. I played through it and unlocked all 108 characters, much to my delight. I enjoyed it enough that I immediately played through the sequel afterward, despite having beaten it as a kid many years ago.
As it turns out, I've finished a lot of games since I bought Final Fantasy XIII-2. There are still a few more to get through--and then maybe I can actually talk about my initial impressions of this game.
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