Certainly No Slouch!

All righty, pardners.

...yeah, I won't do that again.

In any case, I've been playing a whole bunch of games, per usual, though I've strayed a bit from my 8 and 16 bit retro games that I so love to dote on. Lately, it's been about the PSX and PS2. Specifically, I'm finding my RPG roots again. With what, you might ask?

I've found myself obsessed with the Wild Arms series over time. Definitely not my favorite (that title goes to Atlus' Persona series, I might have mentioned before), but it has a lot of charm, a lot of heart, and a lot of fun. I remember beating the original Wild Arms a long time ago and loving it, so I started playing 'Wild Arms: Alter Code F'. For those of you unaware, that's a remake of the original that burst onto the PS2 scene a while back. By burst, I mean kind of snuck on and happened, but for the fans, it was a burst. In any case, I just couldn't finish it. For some reason, I felt like the charm and heart of the original had been sucked out, despite having the same characters, situations, and everything else. Something was missing. You won't be reading a review of that one anytime soon.

That's when I decided to pick up the rest of the series and play through. As of right today, I finished up the first disc of Wild Arms 2 (Wild Arms 2nd Ignition, I think you can find it as, too), and I have to say that no game in my recollection has had a more interesting End of Disc dungeon than 'Heimdal Gazzo'. While the game itself is interesting, the final dungeon had me glued to my seat the entire time. Not to mention that that cast is awesome, the game itself has epic moment after epic moment- I mean, this game really has snagged my attention.

Well, I suppose I should head off to finish playing Dokapon Kingdom with the gang- which if we ever beat that, I'll have to have a whole post for it, since no one I know has ever beaten this game- but expect some good stuff soon.

Oh yeah, and a remake of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals is coming out next month. Guess what I'm going to have to finish beforehand?