Monthly Archives: January 2017

Surface Gaming Round 2: Emulation

At some point in the last few years, I decided that I was going to set up a box full of emulators and older games and put it under the living room TV and have access to decades worth of … Continue reading

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Sakura Shrine Girls: The Spirits Are Willing.

One of the first manga series I was introduced to, wayyyyy back in the early 90s, was “Ushio and Tora”, a series about a young lad who is supposed to take over the family shrine and who has to put … Continue reading

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I Kept Waiting For The Shark

Right, then.  Something a little different from the norm to talk about tonight. “One Last Chance” is a bit of an odd duck as visual novels go.  It’s originally in English, features voice acting, has characters who are actually in … Continue reading

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I Was Young, I Needed The Page Views

So I played through The Typing of the Dead: Overkill a couple of nights ago.  I could talk about that.  But, I also see the google search terms that lead people to find this blog… and, well, maybe I should … Continue reading

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I don’t THINK this was intentional

In the last post, I not-so-humbly bragged about beating every Ys Origin boss on the first try.  That did not hold up – even excluding the boss you’re SUPPOSED to lose to, I took a few dirt naps before the … Continue reading

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The Only Hit Point That Matters

So, as I mentioned earlier, I’m following up Ys: The Oath in Felghana with Ys: Origin, a game set 700 years before the first Ys game. I’ve only played about three hours, which has been enough to get past the … Continue reading

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Ys-y Like Sunday Morning

So, my third Ys game down in the last few days, leaving only the prequel “Ys: Origin” sitting in my Steam library.  I’m honestly not sure where that one is intended to be played, but I’ll be playing that one … Continue reading

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Product Placements, Perplexing

So, my wife and I sat down yesterday and did a movie exchange. This is where you both pick a movie that the other person really ought to see for some reason and then you watch them both so you … Continue reading

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On Surface Gaming

So, I mentioned that I was playing Ys: The Oath in Felghana on a Surface 3 in my last entry, and I thought I’d talk about that because it’s one of the more interesting pieces of hardware I’ve owned in … Continue reading

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On The Fine Art Of Item Descriptions

I decided to follow up Ys Chronicles+ with Ys: The Oath in Felghana, and it’s a pretty huge jump in visuals – rather than the sprite-based artwork, it’s all polygons and looks stunning on the Surface 3.  It’s also about … Continue reading

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