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>PLAYAN
Nearly at the end of Dragon View, I think. I hope, anyway— I was ready for this to end ages ago.
I really enjoyed it at first. It's an SNES action RPG, where the action is in a 2.5d field like a brawler. It's also open-world, and you can run around the whole continent, humping the walls and looking for upgrades.
What would be better is if on top of looking like a brawler, it actually played like one, without knockback animations and iframes on every hit. The open world is 90% caves. I could be cute here and list all the fucking caves in this game, but fixing the bland, repetitive window dressing wouldn't fix the bland, repetitive dungeon crawling underneath.
The writing, too, starts of well enough: you're a shonen hero archetype and a wizard stole your girl. Twenty hours CAVES later there's almost no development to the plot. The villain you were after from chapter one is still in his stronghold waiting for you to show up and kill him. You just meet a parade of throwaway NPCs who mostly exist to lay pipe and point you to the next cave.
The fun part is when you go off in some other direction, ignoring the plot for awhile and find some weird tree in the countryside that makes you go "wow, what the hell is this?" and inside you find some dude who upgrades your fire magic. You're visiting places that aren't on the mainline, so you kinda have to keep your own notes about where you've been, which I think is also fun. It was such a good time for maybe the first five hours that I want to fire up OpenBOR and make something more colorful and fun, with less inane hoop-jumping and more exploration.
>WATCHAN
ST:TNG. "Loud as a Whisper" is yet another episode where the Enterprise is sent on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace between space-zulus and space-tutsi on planet bumfuck. Federation people die as a result, but NO, LET'S TRY AGAIN! IT'LL TOTALLY BE WORTH IT FOR SOME REASON!
I remember hating Pulaski as a kid. She was just so old and crusty, and talked shit to Data for no reason. I didn't realize at the time that she was supposed to be McCoy to Data's Spock. I find her very charming now.
>LISTENAN
Tatsuro Yamashita. I like his "Escape" because it's about how cities are terrible garbage.
>READAN
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