GFF Gamers Month ver. 3
 

Hey Guys, its that time of year again in which we can take a little bit of time out of our lives to speak of a certain game we all have a particular passion and dedication towards.

To the new and old members of GFF that were not a part of this event over the last two years; basically the GFF Gamers Month is an event in which each member selects one game and gives their review on it. It can be anything from your personal experiences about the game, how you obtained the game, what you loved about the game, or even any funny stories that came as a result of playing it.

It should be a little easier to manage the Gamers Month this time around, because of the success of the original. I understand that forum activity has died down significantly but I still think we have more than enough people to cover every day for the event.

First of all, the GFF Gamers month will be in the Month of March.


Here are the rules:

1.) People sign-up

2.) Each member selects one date in the Month of March ( I don't think we'll have any problems getting the entire month filled up, but on the off chance that all the slots are not filled out, anyone can volunteer to do two games if they wish.)

3.) You send me a PM, of your primary choice of what game you would like to review and a secondary choice of a game, just in case your game may have been already taken.

4.) If two people end up picking the same game, The person that has sent their PM first will have priority over that said game; thus the reason why each person needs to send a secondary choice.

5.) Once the Month of March starts, a separate thread will be created that will just have each person's game review and nothing else. Pretty much the event will be a two thread approach. One thread will have each person's game review, and this existing thread will be used for any discussions about any of the games mentioned.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

6.) When it comes time for your review on your specified day. There is really no set format or any rules pertaining to what game you may want to review. It can be a very popular game or a very obscure game; that is totally up to you. If your unsure of how to write your review you can check THIS THREAD out if you need any ideas:

But overall your game review should at least have these:

1.) Title of Game
2.) Picture of the Game (Box/Case Art)
3.) Publisher & Release Date
4.) Brief History
5.) Brief Review
6.) Some of your personal experiences with the game, such as favorite boss fights, wtf moments, or any other funny stories that have come with this game.
7.) Conclusion


7.) NEW RULE: When choosing your game try to pick a game that has been released to most markets. Do not pick a game that has just had a Japanese release in which a European and North American release is still waiting to come out. It is okay to review an import game as long as its game from a previous generation of consoles, or will never have a release to North America or other specific areas.

For example, doing a review for Terranigma or Policenauts is perfectly okay. I however do not want to see a review for the third birthday (Parasite Eve 3) especially since it is a game that is released in Japan now, but has not made its way to North American or European shores.

8.) Above all else, Have fun

With doing this event for the third year, I do have a few concerns I would like to address.

I am of the sound mind that if it's not broke don't fix it. I thought the event last year went a lot better than I expected, but I do want to keep ideas open if there are any changes people would like to see to the event this year.

The major concern I have is something one of the moderators brought up and that is one of problems with putting every game review in one thread is that the thread becomes so picture heavy and slow it does not make it very convenient for people to go to a certain review.

Would everybody feel it would be best if we could create a sub-forum for GFF Gamers Month and put the reviews in there instead of putting them in a single thread if that would make it a lot more convenient for other people.

As far as I know that is the only concern I have. I am always open to hear any other suggestions for this event.

I'll set up the sign up sheet and just let me know on the thread which date you would like.

March 1st/2011 - Angel Of Light (game confirmed) - finished
March 2nd/2011 - GB (game confirmed)
March 3rd/2011 - Encephalon (game confirmed) - finished
March 4th/2011 - Rhychord (game confirmed) - finished
March 5th/2011 - Worm (game confirmed) - finished
March 6th/2011 - Skills (game confirmed) - finished
March 7th/2011 - Tails (game confirmed) - finished
March 8th/2011 - CHz (game confirmed) - finished
March 9th/2011 - Muzza (game confirmed) - finished
March 10th/2011 - Sprouticus (game confirmed) - finished
March 11th/2011 - NovaX (game confirmed) - finished
March 12th/2011 -
March 13th/2011 - Qwarky (game confirmed) - finished
March 14th/2011 -
March 15th/2011 - Philia (game confirmed) - finished
March 16th/2011 - Dark Nation (game confirmed) - finished
March 17th/2011 - The Dopefish (game confirmed)
March 18th/2011 - SuperSonic (game confirmed) - finished
March 19th/2011 -
March 20th/2011 -
March 21st/2011 -
March 22nd/2011 - Sousuke (game confirmed) - finished
March 23rd/2011 -
March 24th/2011 - Tritoch (game confirmed) - finished
March 25th/2011 - Omnislash124 (game confirmed) - finished
March 26th/2011 - Shin (game confirmed) - finished
March 27th/2011 -
March 28th/2011 - TheKnightOfNee (game confirmed) - finished
March 29th/2011 - Rockgamer (game confirmed)
March 30th/2011 - Dr. Uzuki (game confirmed)
March 31st/2011 - Denicalis (game confirmed)


(game confirmed): The member has their game selected and a pm has been received.
finished: Review has been written for that members said game.

This Is Very Important: You guys can go ahead and let me know which date you would like to do your game review. Send me your first and second choice. I do recommend that you write your review ahead of time to save the trouble of hunting people and their review down on their specified day.

Be sure to check the last two GFF Gamer Months to see which games have already been picked.

I'm open to all suggestions and ideas for this event. Always remember that an event is only as good as the time and effort that people put into it. I'll try to address any questions.

Take Care Guys.

EDIT: Disregard!

Let's see if I bother with mine this year (gunning for it)

How convenient, I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago. I'll take March 24th. Expect my game choice by March 21st.

YEEHAW LET'S ROCK AND ROLL BOYS

March 9th, please! <3 gamers month

I'll take March 22nd! I'll let you know my game choice when I think of something worthwhile. :3:

Sweet, one of these again. I'll go for the middle of the month: March 16th. Expect my game choice in a week or so?

Is this my favorite forum event?

http://www.angryjerk.net/images/csi_miami_yeah.jpg

I'll take St. Patrick's Day (17th)!

There's a perfectly good reviews forum already you know, why not use that?

I'll have a date towards the end of the month, as I'm away on holiday until the 15th.

I'll take the 13th.

Hey I'll do it this year! Sign me up for the 10th.

Same old day. :D The 15th. Hope I can figure out my choice by then too.

Give me the third. I wanna get my whack game and the VERY EASY jokes out of the way first. And, for the record, I'm not picking Bayonetta. :mad:

Maybe there was already an easy way to do this, but I made a list so no one has to use forum searches or go through the image-heavy threads:

Damn, beat me to it Worm. Only thing though is Mother 3 was only briefly mentioned in that one review but it ended up leading into Xenogears.

I'll take the 19th, now I've just gotta figure out what game to do it on.

Derp. I'm stupid. Fixed; thanks.

I like to have a ringer for the endgame. Calling the 31st to bring the pain.

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WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT DYIN'!?

I call the 5th.

This was good fun for the last two years, so I will be in again. The 4th would be a good day for me. PM on its way soon.

I disqualify myself for still not having done the one I said I would do for last year. I've got footage sitting around somewhere but oh the laziness.

Well, I look forward to what you guys come up with. =)

I don't want to fully commit yet, just expressing interest to participate before you fill up. The game I intend to do has hardly any youtube content to draw from, meaning I'll probably have to run through it myself to get screen captures and refresh my memory. Which is a little daunting. I'd probably like as much time as possible, I'd tentatively call the 30th.

Hey guys, just a little update.

I'll be heading out of town for the next week and I probably won't be back until the 15th of February. I'm heading back to my hometown for a change of scenery and hopefully some well deserved stress relief. My internet will very little to none at all.

I have received all messages that have been sent to me so far. Spread the word and lets see if we can get a few more slots filled out. I'm looking at you OmniSlash124, Mo0 and Tails.

Keep sending me those game requests; so far everybody's choice for their game is good. Rychord I got your message and I'll get back to you when I get back home. Things have been hectic.

I think we are going to create a sub-form for this event to avoid the problem of having a picture heavy main thread. So that will be created when the first review is ready to go up.

In the meantime guys, I'm going to leave skills in charge until I get back(OH GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

Yeah, PM me and I'll update the OP as needed, also forward all your game names to Angel for when he returns~

I'll take the 11th? :)

Ooh, nice to see that somebody remembers me even though my activity on this board has been lacking. Sign me up for the 25th.

I think my first choice game will be taken already, and for once it's not Fire Emblem. ;)

I'd like to sign up for some day late in the month, let's say the 28th. I'll browse through my backloggery and find something good.

I'm gonna procrastinate for as long as possible (honestly, it's how I do my best work) and thus sign up for the latest date still available, the 29th. Nothing in mind yet, but I should have something picked out relatively soon (relative to my procrastination, not to any upcoming date).

Hey guys, sorry about the delay. I've had a lot on my plate over the last two weeks, so I just wanted to make my post before the Gamers Month started.

So far everybody's game choice is good to go. There have been no duplicates. So if the rest of you guys could get the rest of the game choices into me I would greatly appreciate it.

I'm actually in the process of writing my review right now, so I hope to have it finished by tonight and be ready to place on the Forum on Tuesday.

We still have 7 slots available, so if anybody is still interested in doing a game review for the GFF Gamers Month just give me a holler. I don't think its appropriate for one person to do multiple reviews because in a way we're kind of limiting the amount of games we can talk about. So even if we can't get the entire month filled out, we'll just leave a blank space and continue from there.

Any other questions guys please let me know.

As I told you in my PM, I'm down to make another review toward the end of the month. I'll leave the date to your discretion if you choose to do so.

Just a heads up, the first review is up and ready to go. Please keep all discussions regarding the games throughout the GFF Gamers Month in this forum and this form only. I hope you enjoy it. It is my favorite DS game of all time.

Messed up the first img link. NO HOTLINKING EASTERNER.

GODDAMNIT! Where the fuck did February go?! I'll, uh, write my review tomorrow!

It's cool, from this small blurb I've experienced, and to be honest I was reading on easy mode, this is the best review of all the reviews this year.


Sorry Paco. Couldn't help it.

I hate you like Mo0 hates vegetables. :(

because I'm lazy and I'm sure someone else is too

That's a great review AoL, except for this bit:

I dunno but it looks to me like you're saying Square are crap for rereleasing the same old shite year after year and milking franchises but then in the same breath you say they're crap for annoying their loyal audience, which I would read as "Not churning out the same old shite year after year and milking franchises". I find it hard to see how one can criticise a company both for stagnation and innovation in the same paragraph.

Anyway, it was good review and if I knew where my DS was I might even be tempted to look the game up, I doubt it costs much these days.

No worries Shin, when I look back on it. I don't think it came out the way I wanted it to.

I think maybe the biggest thing I wanted to point out even though I don't think I did a very good job of it. The World Ends With You was something very innovative and different for an rpg. I was just annoyed with square enix fans at the time because they tend to be some of the most bitchiest gaming fans on the face of the planet. I was sick and tired of people thinking that square enix was only good for final fantasy and kingdom hearts games. Knowing full well they could put out a very great original product from time to time.

PACO and GB, I see somebody who haven't written their reviews yet!

It'd be smart to let them make up on a day that is free or haven't taken up by someone yet.

I'm working on mine, damnit!

Additional Spam:
Also, shouldn't each article post to the Gamingforce home page at Gamingforce: Serious Business?

I can't believe I still haven't played Grim Fandango. It's effectively the only LucasArts adventure game I haven't played at least once.

Great review, am going to go play this game now.

I'm convinced the reason Paco likes it is because you can't die in it.

You're already dead!

Will you fucking stop making tired jokes and fix the home page feed so that the article show up in it already?

Were you playing GFF on easy mode when you posted it? Articles aren't recorded unless you're playing on normal or higher.

(I hate you people... :-_-:)

Guys.

Guys.

He had a walkthrough.

Speaking of walkthroughs, one of the reasons I've put off playing Grim Fandango is because I've read that some of the puzzles are heavy on the kind of counter-intuitive dream logic that everyone complains about in adventure games. Encephalon says the puzzles are rather simple, so I'm wondering if I've just had bad luck and found only the whiny reviews or what.

Whiny reviews. If such exist for Grim Fandango.

Yeah, the puzzles are not always based on real world logic, but they make sense within the game's world. There's probably about two proper stumpers where you won't know how to do what you're trying to do, but a lot of my friends have played through the game without any need for a guide.

The game's biggest issues are on the technical side. There's at least one (rare) game-stopper bug that can get you permanently stuck in the game, so keeping multiple older saves is always good. And on modern computers the game can be that bit more unstable.

If you're intent on putting off playing such a great game, at least pretend you're waiting for Residual to finish.

Yeah, take it from the guy who plays everything on VERY EASY. The people who couldn't figure out their way out of this game are the same kind of speds whose math education was 2+2=JELLO SHOTS and think that peeing inside a girl is how you make babies.

For real though I was going to check this out for you, because it sounded like a bug. Maybe the vB upgrade broke it or something.

That's about when I looked at the thread list and realized they're not showing up as front page articles because they're not being posted in the Front Page Articles forum.

My consulting fee is $39. Feel free to donate it to server costs. :)

Fixed that for you Paco.

FUCK YES SYPHON FILTER. Tazing people all day ERRY DAY. I need to load that on my PSP and give it another spin one of these days because god damn that game ruled.

Yeah, Syphon Filter was awesome. The museum stealth level was about the best thing ever, especially after I got good enough at it to run and gun through it with a stealthy head shot on every guard. Fucking loved that game. :)

OMG. Someone did Syphon Filter. AWESOME. YES, I fell hard for this series when I first played it. Its also my only reason why I fucking insist on keeping the trilogy (for a while) and Omega Strain because they were that awesome. Omega Strain will be my forever tribute to that game til they make another one like it. Here's hoping.

But yes, that series also got me into Metal Gear Solid back then too. But man, those patented headshot kills were uber satisfying on that game. I haven't played any other game like it! :(

Thank you Worm for doing this tribute review for Syphon Filter!

<3

Awesome review, Worm. :) I remember playing Syphon Filter and getting to a point where I had to tail someone underground (or in some dark area) and I would always get caught. Gabe would shout "Dammit!" every time when I failed that mission. I never got any further than that, so I never finished the game because I was too frustrated.

I was also guilty of tazing people until they burned, it was so satisfying.

Worm's post has inspired me. After I finish Ghost Trick (hopefully today), I will go through all three PS1 Syphon Filters (have them on my shelf). Possibly the two PSP games as well.

I loved the first one, but never finished it because I got stuck later in the game in some museum and couldn't for the life of me find where I had to go. The bosses were ass, but everything else was so atmospheric.

By the way Skills kind of jumped the gun (1am post lol) but Afterburner ALSO owns just fyi

Hahaha oh my GOD I forgot how much bullshit the enemy spawns in this game are.

You come to room that's a dead end with a weapon crate. Open crate, two enemies are suddenly behind you. Take them out, go back the way you came, and by the time you exit the room that was an empty dead end, another two enemies magically appear from it behind you. The fucking catacombs are the worst.

Love that running animation tho.

It seems my post will be a tragic combo breaker. =(((

YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO WRITE A NEW ONE

Muzza there are many options.

Do Black Falcon though

for real

DO IIIIIT

lol AFTER BURNER PRESSURE, the coolest only kind of peer pressure

FUCK YES! JACKAL!!! <3

I used to have this game on the NES but I have no clue what happened to it. :(

I still hum the song from the first stage to myself sometimes...

YouTube Video

I miss being a kid. :(

Yes, the music fucking rocks. You fucking rock. Sprout's bad taste in movies redeemed forever! <3

Until Die Hard 5 comes out, anyway.

Holy shit, played that game so many times when I was a kid and completely forgot about it. A++ for bringing back all those memories.

I never owned Jackal, but a lot of my friends did. What I remember distinctly is the feeling that after watching them play, I knew what to do, and this time I wouldn't die in the first 30 seconds or lose my power-ups right after collecting them. Of course I did both, every time.

I've always liked the music, though.

Since no one seems to have claimed the 12th, I assume no one will mind if I post mine a day early. I finished typing it up a few hours ago.

What great timing, I just finished this excellent game a mere couple hours ago. <3 so much for Missile. He's just so awesome. No make that,

AWESOME!

Since we don't have all the spots filled and I was planning on writing another review, can I have the 27th for another title?

(I promise it won't be Bayonetta)

Sorry about that Encephalon, if you have another review ready to go your more than welcome to put the review up. I have no objections.

Fuck yeah! Super Mario RPG! I've beat that game so many fucking times, it's retarded. HOWEVER. I heave never beaten Culex. That battle rages on for days and I've never managed to score a killing blow on the fucker. :(

There's a story with this.

Once upon a time, silly girl rented Super Mario RPG for the weekend. She was poor, cannot afford much gaming besides renting them for two bucks for 2 nights. Silly girl has school to attend to and her grandmother wouldn't let her play games on school nights. So silly girl tries to play the game and beat it before the weekend was up or before that rental store closes early on Sunday.

She was successful at reaching at the very end within the time limit. And then King Smithy came along and dashed all of her hopes of beating the game. She had only a mere hour or so before returning it, she did not have time for a redo over. Silly girl knows that when she returns a game cart with her saves on it, there's always someone renting it bound to rewrite her saves over. So game over.

http://www.ulms.me/media/specials/ma...ins_smithy.jpg

He's such a fucking bastard I tell you. :mad: :mad: :mad: I just didn't have the heart to pick this up again after that.

God that sucks so much, you mean you never ever went back and finished the game? :( That's just not right.

Oh I will eventually. But that's just missing the point. Its not the same.

The experience was lost and ultimately disheartening to start over with. Its fun though while I got to the end. Just never had it on a beaten status is what's embarrassing about it I suppose after said decade or so.

Imagine it like its your memory card with the saves corrupted or something before the final boss of a rpg lmao. Everyone has a story like that. SMRPG just happen to be mine.

No, the point is that YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED IT AFTER LIKE A MILLION YEARS AND THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Seriously, one of the best credit rolls out of any game. You have to do it.

I understand your situation and all but STILL

Tell you what. Go play Opoona and I'll meet you outside with SMRPG then.

Soon as you buy me a Wii. :p

(Sold mine months ago)

So you missed out on both Mario Galaxies, Super Paper Mario, and the NEW SUPER MARIO BROS? You even skipped the Tales of Symphonia's sequel. I think you have bigger problems than missing out Opoona. o.o'

Man. We SHOULD give you our collection some day. I'm so sorry Tails, I've no idea.

Hah, it's no big deal. My interest in a lot of vidya stuff was kinda waning. All of those do sound alright, except for Symphonia. I literally couldn't play past the first disc of Symphonia 1. I kept telling myself if I heard something about inferior beings one more time I was done, and welp

All this said, I remember SMRPG having a fantastic credit roll, but I don't remember WHAT about it was so fantastic. Damnit. ...Oh well, it just means I'll have to play through the game again. Which is totally fine with me. :3:

Philia, the exact same thing happened to me with that game. Rental, blazed through it, was defeated by the final boss just as time was expiring. Worst thing was being so aware it was my last shot and botching it. Was like Vader at game over, just like, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Of course, next weekend I rent it and the save is gone. :(

Yeah that what sucks about rentals for carts. I still managed to do so with a few rpgs (Dragon Warrior to be specific) with this. I just make sure I save on the third/last slot to ensure it'll BE THERE still. ;)

I'm also not sure if you're the one I've heard this from but I believe there's another who similar thing happened to too. Perhaps with a different game.

I've actually had pretty decent luck with renting carts other then smrpg, I do have some memories of family members erasing each others' saves by accident, I've never seen my mom quite so angry at me as when I saved over her phanasy star 4 file while she was deep into the game, and she had me when she was 35 so imagine this middle aged woman momentarily flipping out at her kid over Genesis.

Damn, my review date is getting really close. I wrote the first few paragraphs a month ago and now I just stare blankly at the text file when I open it up. Been working long hours, weekends. Beginning to wish I picked a title without as much depth to review. By the time it's done, gonna be tl;dr.

FFFF---!

I thought I had signed up for the 26th, but I didn't know it was actually the 25th I signed up for. Scrambling to write my review right now. It'll be up in a few minutes.

Date: 12/15/10 After Skills gifted me this on a steam sale for 5 dollars. My gametime was 17 hours in a span of 3 days.

Awesome little game. I just got extremely lucky at the right time with the boom sale. I have yet gotten Griff though but everything else was incredibly addictive.

FUCK YES THIS GAME ROCKS

YOU ARE THE BEST

I'm glad someone did it. It's what I was going to do if I didn't do the afterburner thing.

Carpe Fulgar rules so much. I hope their translation of Chantelise is still on schedule for an April drop.

So I was supposed to have the 16th but I had a very busy last week and this week too; I basically failed to deliver. I'll be adding my game tonight shortly if there are no objections, and I apologize in advance that its late and not as good as it could have been. My original review being on my desktop which has died and is inaccessible.

(Not trying to steal your thunder at all Omnislash, Recettear is a pretty awesome game :) )

Man, Recettear was such a blast, but I really wish it didn't have the jap-style grindfest at the end in order to unlock all the various items and how most of the dungeons were in post-game. I also found it was generally more profitable after the first payment or two not to bother with dungeon crawling to earn money since it was way easier to just buy in bulk when things were cheap and then hold onto them until a boom. You earn merchant points really fast which unlocks more expensive items, which lets you earn money at an even faster pace.

Maybe not rereleased, but DopeWars was pretty much this in a nutshell and, for a point and click game of the simple-minded, it wasn't half bad.

LOL funny that you're mentioning this game, Rockgamer, SD and Kyndig picked this up today from Kmart. SD told me that this is his game for days. Weeks. Months even. Some of the achievements for 6 is so maddening I'd just stare at him wondering how the fuck...

But yes, a lot of people kept saying how the fuck is this series still alive. Well there you have it, you got rabid fans all over the place for the series in some dark corner. SD's be so glad to see another fan out of you Rock. :)

I'd love to watch him play this since most of the scenes I'd see are often over the top and hilarious. And god, WHO the hell doesn't know who Lu BU is.

Haha, Dopewars was awesome, I played that shit for hours on end.

Awesome. I honestly didn't know if there were very many DW fans here on GFF (Tritoch is the only other person on here who I know has actually played a DW game), so I'm glad to know there's a few more out there.

And yeah, I can understand why the series gets so many complaints from people who aren't hardcore into the series. On a surface level, the games can seem very similar to one another, but if you really get into it you can tell just how different they really are. But to most people, I imagine they feel the same way towards this series as I feel towards something like Madden, which just seems like the same game with a roster update every year to me.

I do enjoy playing DW games every once in a while. They're good, mindless fun that you can sit back and play without thinking much at all unless you're aiming for some of the more difficult conditions to unlock things. DW6 is the only main game that I own, though I did borrow DW4 from a friend many years ago. All I remember from it was playing as the badass eyepatch dude (Xiahou Dun) and having a lot of fun.

I prefer the Warriors Orochi spinoffs that also include the Samurai Warriors characters. Their gameplay is the same, but the WO games allow you to bring a team of 3 characters and the variety really makes the battles more interesting.

I had a roommate who was really into the DW series. Saw him playing it a lot and wondered how someone could get into something so mindlessly repeatitive. Then I became a Drakengard fan. I now understand how addicting being a one man army can be.

Warriors Orochi didn't appeal to me in the past (mainly because I didn't have much interest in the Samurai Warriors part), but in recent times I have kinda wanted to try one out (mainly because I actually have learned more about the SW characters from a Japanese TV drama I watched that took place during the Sengoku period). It's a shame the PS3 game never got a North American release, since it seems like it's a perfect entry point into the series (I think it's essentially just an enhanced port of the first two games). I guess I could always just track down one of the PS2 or PSP versions, though.

And fuck, Drakengard. I remember playing a demo of that back when it first came out. I did enjoy it, but I never ended up getting it at the time. That's another game I definitely to track down one day (I know there's a sequel as well, but I don't recall hearing much about it so I have no idea if it's any good or not).

You know, I was about to say I'd send you my copy of the first WO, but then I remembered you have no 360. I 1000'd it a long time ago and it's worth about $6, so I wouldn't have any problems parting with it. WO2, on the other hand, requires an insane amount of grinding to unlock the last two stages to the point that I'll almost definitely never do it.

Drakengard is an aquired taste, to give fair warning, even if you enjoy these type of games. The game play was not that well exacuted to be honest, but the story is so off-kilter that it really drives you to play through to the end. The second one plays better but the feel of the narritive is far more tame.

Wouldn't want to shy you away from giving them a shot, but don't be surprised if they're not for you.

My internet connection has been really unstable, people, I'm posting from my phone right now. If the damned thing decides to work, I'll get right on posting my review, it is done.

Awesome review. SD loved this game to death despite of the hard as nails strategy required. I however missed the chance and would take up on an inane rpg like this from time to time to sate my love for hard-as-nails rpgs (or dungeon crawlers). This is saved for that mood, and I just started up on the Persona series so it won't be long before I get into this soon too. (This'd be the year of the dang PS2.)

Thanks for reminding me that you were turned into a god by Lucifer himself lmao. And fuck yes, that guide is awesome too. I remember pouring over it despite of not playing it (of course, SD was playing it for several weeks when it came out so yeah). The bestiary section is awesome.

Oh god, Nocturne. This was the first (and so far, remains the only) Shin Megami Tensei game that I've played and it's quite possibly the only turn based RPG that I actually needed some strategy. Level grinding only got you up to a certain point, and regardless of the level, there's always some way for you to die quickly.

Good choice, Uzuki.

This right here is and always has been my favorite thing about Nocturne. You spend the entire game facing nasty, badass demons that look like they could swallow you whole and what do you do? Punch 'em right in the face. You're a scrawny, shirtless teenager, but some bitches are gonna get socked.

Also have to agree with you that you haven't played the real game without fighting your way through to the True Demon ending. I still remember going into Beelzebub for the first time fully prepared for a big fight. Bam, one attack that instantly kills anyone without Death immunity and it can't miss. Time to completely revamp my party and battle strategy. The Demonic Compendium made it so that swapping out your whole team wasn't even much of a pain since you could buy them back again later if you wanted.

I just remembered I named the mc Jesus "Jew King" Christ on my playthrough. Wish that would have came to mind when writing my post.

Fuck yes SMT:N is the bnest rpg of all time. I spent hundreds of hours playing that. Beating Lucifer is helluva satisfying too, I've actually done it using a few different combinations of team members although getting the pierce skill onto the ones you want can take a while.

Fucking love that game and that's a great review too, Doc.