Brian Erickson

Recently finished "Secret of Mana" for the first time

I got to tell all of you, as someone that's been a lifelong, dedicated fan of JRPGs, I'm genuinely surprised it's taken me this long to get through this one

It's a wonderful little game; almost up there with all of the other titles Square has on the system

Is this also a glaring admission that they've run out of ideas and that we should probably consider the series all but dead at this point? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised

i kind of lost the plot during the last few years of the original telltale's existence (yes, i'm one of those "strong bad/sam and max, then all downhill from there types, i'm sorry in advance...walking dead and wolf among us never did much for me), but man, it's impressive what a team is capable of when they really want to demonstrate that there's still life in a style of game

this one was a lot of fun; fun characters, better actual gameplay than i've seen games in this particular genre have in a minute (i found myself genuinely enjoying the whole RTS dispatching sections by the end of the game), and, you know what? i genuinely found myself invested in finishing invisigal's redemption arc by the end of it; to say nothing about how genuinely great the visuals were-seriously, that was better than some anime I've seen, which is as high of a bar as it sound

trying persona 3 for the first time

i'm old enough to remember when this show was a big deal the first time around, and man, the rush of nostalgia i felt for something i technically hadn't seen before was unreal

i don't know how controversial of an opinion this is at this point, since apparently this game has had quite the reappraisal since then (as well it should), but, holy shit, that may very well be my favorite game in the series now, if not at least tied with 7 (and oftentimes 6, depending on my mood) as well as probably one of my favorite games period

now, keep in mind i'm old as hell by tumblr standards so that if there's any sort of memes surrounding it or it's attached to any sort of fond memories people have of a certain streamer (one of the ways the game apparently spread via word of mouth), i'm about as out of touch as one can be, but, you know what? that was a heck of an experience, if i do say so myself

i've been a fan of adventure games since as long as i've known what video games were, and this is probably the best time i've had with one since that surprise monkey island game that came out a few years ago

just, everything about it worked for me, really; memorable characters, striking imagery, very thought provoking themes, great atmosphere...like, that's what good horror is supposed to be, as far as i'm concerned (which likely isn't very far, seeing as how i'm just some gormless, faceless asshole on a tumblog, but hey, we all have to start somewhere)...some of the scenes for this are going to stick with me for a while, like swansea in the graveyard

i've been all convention-ed out for a while now, and finding other, more somewhat unique things to spend both my PTO and my disposable income on has been a bit of an imperative concern for me, to say nothing of my desire to keep seeing new places...this seems like a perfect fit, to say the least