Friday, August 11, 2006

Blue Valkyrie Needs Food Badly

Gauntlet is such an awesome series. I love dungeon-crawlers in general, but Gauntlet just does it right. From the original Gauntlet adventures, to it's first venture into 3D Legends, all the way to causing Seven Sorrows. The journey's Gauntlet games guide us on are never boring.

Sure, Seven Sorrows tried too hard to become an RPG and a fighter with it's buffed up exp. and "combo's" that were... pointless. It still had some fun. And I can concede that Dark Legacy was just a fleshed out version of Legends. At the end of the day though Dark Legacy is an amazing experience jam packed full of content for a group of dungeon delvers to explore. Legends is really the victim in this scenario. In theory it should still hold some merit, but after playing Dark Legacy it just feels pointless. It almost feels like a demo to the sequel, but I digress.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Rupee Land

Although many people don’t believe that Tingle is an important character in the Legend of Zelda mythos, they are wrong. Tingle was first introduced in Majora’s Mask, this was one of his lesser roles. All he did was give you maps for easily identifiable areas anyway. Though his next (console) escapade in The Wind Waker actually progressed the story. If Tingle hadn’t been around Link would never have gotten all of the Triforce shards he needed to beat Ganon. Sure his prices were rather high, but he’s cursed to collect rupees, what can he do?

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Grandia II With A Side of Sonic

I hooked up my Dreamcast again just recently, so I've been playing two games that needed closure.

It started with Sonic Adventure. I hadn't been able to beat Big's story because I couldn't figure out how to do it exactly. So I gave it another go. Twenty minutes later Big's story is complete. Of course, I deleted my previous save file for the damn game, and now I must beat Tail's story, Knuckles' story, Amy's Story, and E-102 Beta's story. Pissed may I be, defeated I am not.