Vay anyone?

Vay is my game that has a soft spot in my heart even though it TOTALLY shouldn't because it's medicore.

It's the story really that pulls me in. At the time I didn't play Phantasy Star and it has a lot of similarities to that. You really need to play Vay just to see THE most ironic death scene ever.

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I mean think about it. Pottle is the archer of the group who is scared of heights...and he dies through an arrow through the chest and even if he survived that he falls off a bridge TO HIS DEATH. I guess in reference to Kaelin in terms of how he survived prior to getting splutted I assume there's a difference between getting beat up by monsters and having your heart explode by projectile weapons.

The poor bastard. :(

I've played the Japanese version of the game and you can blame Working Designs for making the battle system completely bonkers. The enemies are MUCH easier, so you don't need to level up constantly. Furthermore, in the U.S. version spell costs are tripled to quadrupled, so magic is actually -- gasp-- useful. I don't THINK you got more gold but since the game wasn't so gosh darned hard you didn't HAVE to have the newest equipment so you wouldn't die.

Unfortuantely, the Japanese version has no humor whatsoever and virtually no spark to it at all. WD saved it in that regard.

Plus the US version removed hilarious stuff like what's found in the picture below. Also, there was more nudity (naked harpies, for example)

Jam it back in, in the dark.