Yesterday I talked about how I'd mostly stopped writing about the games I was playing right around the time I finished Suikoden II. I'd played the game before, so it didn't feel extremely natural to write about my. . .second impressions. Still, when I started playing the PlayStation version of Tales of Phantasia, I decided to relax and play through the game without worrying about writing anything. I ended up enjoying that game a lot and finished it--something I can't claim to have done with the SNES version. Both the gameplay, graphics, and fan translation were greatly superior. I immediately ranked it in my head as one of my favorites in the series, although Tales of Symphonia likely still rested firmly on the top.
I decided right then and there that I was going to marathon as many games in the Tales series as I possibly could. As always, my plans did not quite reach fruition. After sinking about a dozen hours into Tales of Destiny, I lost interest and moved on to my next project. More recently I revisited this game while on a co-op spree, but that ended up not going so well either. Even though Tales of Destiny isn't really an amazing game, the gameplay is perfectly adequate and I'd like to finish it someday. I think it's going to end up being one of those games that I power through and finish when I feel a sudden burst of motivation. Maybe I'll continue on to Tales of Eternia after that--we'll have to see.
After giving up on ToD, I became aware of my dissatisfaction with how little writing I was doing. I flirted with the idea of forcing myself to write every day--and as it turned out, I did just that. I've been doing it ever since, for about, oh, let's say 200 days or so. Baldur's Gate was the first game I played during this period and therefore it was the first game I covered on this blog. I played through it, its expansion, and its sequel in a very completionist way. I fully intended to play through Throne of Bhaal afterward because I'd never finished it before--but as is so often the case, I lost interest! This always seems to happen at the worst time.
Six to seven months later, I've played a lot of games and finished a few. I've very slightly thinned out my backlog but unfortunately I'm still behind so far this year. If I finish the three games I'm playing right now, I'll be breaking even--and let's be honest, I'm not sure that's even going to happen! I'm reasonably sure I'll make it through Final Fantasy XIII-2, but hitting level 60 in Rift seems almost to be an unattainable goal--and Vagrant Story's end seems woefully out of reach as well.
Well, I kind of got off on a tangent there, but tomorrow I'll probably actually start talking about Final Fantasy XIII-2. It's a game I've put of for a very long time for no good reason I can ascertain. I'd like to start up a Final Fantasy marathon of sorts with this title but my plans never end up working out so nothing is set in stone.
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