Games

[wallwalker]

I don't get to game very much during the school year. Catching up a bit during the summer. I played Beneath a Steel Sky and finished it fairly quickly (it's an old-school adventure game, and a darkly-funny one, although I was rather distracted by the fact that no one had an Australian accent despite the game being set in Australia.)

Games to play/finish soon:
- Might and Magic: World of XEEN (PC. I'm done with Clouds and one dungeon away from finishing Darkside, and haven't touched the World content yet. I don't know to what extent I'm going to do the Dungeon of Death. The first level is fun, but I seem to remember the second-to-last level being tedious.)
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP, Normal/Ending B. I'll do an A Ending run on hard mode later. Honestly I'm amazed I don't have saves from hard mode... did I not play through this game on this memory stick before...?)
- Breath of Fire (SNES, playing on Wii U)
- Transistor (PS4. I've finished once and am working on the first recursion; I just need to get back to it and kill the final boss.)
- Dishonoured (PS3. I want a no-kills low-chaos playthrough, but I'm not gonna worry about being spotted. Just watching my SO do a Ghost playthrough was excruciating.)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (PS3 remaster. I got distracted by the ridiculous arena mode and giving all of the monsters doge meme names, so I should get back to the game so I can see the actual plot. I'm probably strong enough with some of the dress spheres that I can do a lot of damage, and low-level enough that I'm not going to break the game completely.)

There's more, but that's probably enough.

Comments

[wallwalker]

• To be honest, I haven't played Swords of Xeen in so long that I can't remember much about it. I think I have it on GOG, so I should download it and play it once I finish Castle Alamar. I'm pretty sure that you can use the heroes from WoX and get stuff from it, although I have no idea how that'll work with GOG stuff.

• I just really love the VP:L Hard Mode dungeons. There are eight that you can only get on Hard Mode and a lot of them have really great themes/stories (and then you play VP:S and meet some of the people behind some of the various dungeons, and it's a great little touch!) They are tough, though, especially the Tombs of Amenti - it's the only dungeon where I've had a hard time getting out! Thank goodness for the Dimension Slip.

• I played it years ago, and I really liked the first one! And what I played of the second one, too. I think I remember trying to play BoF3 when I first got a PSX but not really feeling it at the time, but I hope I can try it again sometime.

• Wait, what? I am kind of glad I don't have a Vita. ;p (My SO got the PS3 version for my birthday a few years back. At some point I still wanna play more FFX and play around a bit more with the battle arena. I tend to get distracted by those, I have found. Although I will probably never have the patience to get most of the best weapons... dodging lightning is for the birds.)

[samuraiter]

Hmm, I'd forgotten that GOG had M&M titles. I've got them on UPlay, the proprietary Ubisoft launcher, in a collector's set that includes the first six games, and then several of the others separately. The UPlay version has the two original Xeen game pre-merged into the Worlds format, and then includes Swords, too, but I've not tried importing anything into that.