Recent content by mothcorrupteth

When you die, you go on a tour of heaven, hell, and all the places you've ever visited in this life. After that, you face the tollhouses. There is a tollhouse for every vice. At each tollhouse, demons come out to accuse you, both of things you did and things you didn't do. It is the task of your...

I liked the cute factor about the Compy, and the brachiosaur "avoid being stepped on" stage. Otherwise, I agree; it's the second worst segment of the game behind those repetitive T-rex levels. I like grinding. Grinding builds character. People act like it takes no skill to grind, but it does...

I've been feeling some 2000's nostalgia and listening to the song from the Sin City trailer. I absolutely love Hartigan and other Dirty-Harry-type characters.

Well, the game, as you seem to know, was ridiculously hard due to things like poor hit detection and repetitive level design. Actually, the impression that the TV spots had left me with was that it was an open world where you were free to roam the entire island as a T-rex, but of course what I...

Twenty-five years ago, I would have said FFVI. Now, I'd have to say FFVII. In 1997, I decided to get a PlayStation because I wanted to play The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Packed in with the system was the Squaresoft demo disc. My best friend had played what were at that time Final Fantasy II and...

The following is a poem inspired by the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Germanic myth. It is written in an artificial dialect of Elizabethan/Jacobite English that purposely uses German idiomatic phrases with their English equivalents, often diverting into Anglish, which is an artificial...

Yeah, I've played Lost Odyssey, and while I did enjoy it, I just couldn't get into it enough to finish it. Maybe it's Shadow Hearts's prerendered backgrounds, or maybe I just find the characters much more interesting. I normally don't take to gothic-style horror, but it has me.

So I finally went and did it. I hacked my PS2 to run ISOs off a hard drive, and so I finally started playing an RPG that I remember seeing advertised back in the day but didn't have the money for: Shadow Hearts. Imagine if you took Legend of Dragoon's battle system and grafted it into a...

I collect the ones for Fire Emblem and Zelda. Right now, the crown jewel of my collection is Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles.

How "classic" are we talking, here? Like, the ATB gauge is for taking just any action, or for magic, etc. specifically?

Not concerns so much as complaints. I was convinced I wasn't going to be a release-day buyer from the moment I saw they were ditching the ATB battle system in favor of KH. I think Square-Enix has a serious problem of forgetting that Final Fantasy is a role-playing series, not Secret of Mana with...

Well argued and formatted. I wish you would cite/source some of the things you talk about, but this is an interesting angle I'd not heard. Overall, I view Square-Enix as a Greek tragic hero who soared too high too soon. The film was boring and stupid, no two bones about it, but the consequent...

First thing I'd do is hit the pharmacy and the nearest gun store. I need my meds, and I need to be able to fend off wild animals, which will become more and more of a problem the longer the world goes without other humans. Second thing I'd do is go to military surplus and load up a backpack...

I mostly like Gen. 2 for the visuals. I love how the GBC colors pop out with contrast! But I also really like the cohesion of the Pokémon designs.

So over the past year or so, I've been slowly coming back to Pokémon after leaving it following Gen. 1. I got Gold on 3DS virtual console in November, I followed up with Alpha Sapphire in December, and HeartGold in July. Meanwhile, I chatted at length with my brother-in-law, who has been a...