Together RPG - JRPG - Phantasy Star 2 - 7/11 -> 9/11

[MrPopo]

If you are going to play later sections of the game without the visiphone, you are a stronger man than me...I found it to be absolutely essential. (Not because I kept dying - my party was very rarely wiped out - but because it took forever to navigate between save points.)

This is very valuable information. When I game it's in LONG sessions, so having to keep going for a while before I can save again isn't an issue for me. If the game was throwing out cheap deaths left and right I could see the visiphone as being essential, but here it just sounds like the issue is not having enough time to play.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Fair enough.

I usually play in 30 minute spurts.

I would hate to get owned by the final boss or something and then get sent back to a "regular" save point though.

[prfsnl_gmr]

If you are going to play later sections of the game without the visiphone, you are a stronger man than me...I found it to be absolutely essential. (Not because I kept dying - my party was very rarely wiped out - but because it took forever to navigate between save points.)

This is very valuable information. When I game it's in LONG sessions, so having to keep going for a while before I can save again isn't an issue for me. If the game was throwing out cheap deaths left and right I could see the visiphone as being essential, but here it just sounds like the issue is not having enough time to play.

I don't know...As I am sure you have noticed, the characters move like they are stuck in molasses, and there is a random encounter every three steps...Moreover, the game can hand out the occassional cheap death; so, having the visiphone might save you a lot of frustration.

[Violent By Design]

Honestly, the townspeople say such mundane bullshit that I don't even bother to talk to them. One town is full of guys that just say "What?"

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[BoneSnapDeez]

In Climate Control now. Damn does this game love to obstruct the player's field of view.

[MrPopo]

In Climate Control now. Damn does this game love to obstruct the player's field of view.

I was about to ask if you're even going to work anymore, then I remembered you're a teacher, so you don't

[BoneSnapDeez]

I resigned. I'm a stay-at-home father.

Which actually means I "work" more hours than I used to.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Just finished Climate Control...

Nei... *sniffles*

[pierrot]

Moreover, the game can hand out the occassional cheap death; so, having the visiphone might save you a lot of frustration.

Those Mancover (Mancabra?) purple cloud bitches in the tower are INFURIATING! I had to go through that entire place four times because I kept running into them on the top floor, and their main attack is complete and utter BS. I hate it when a game makes the run command practically useless for situations where you would actually want/need to run. Make it 45% if you don't want me to abuse it, developers. Wasting my damn time! Rant::off.

I left off last after getting Ann (the doctor) and getting to the next town. (Forgot the name.) I think my levels were 9/8/17/3 (main character/Rudger/Nei/Ann) and I spent a little time upgrading some equipment.

That bridge scene was a bit shocking. I had heard tell of something like that happening in this game, but it played out a bit differently than I was anticipating, and it actually made me jump a couple times. I ended up watching it twice. Very interesting, and surprisingly graphic. Certainly not something many console RPGs were courageous enough to do at the time. I guess FFII kind of did something similar, but no one really cares about that game. Crazy stuff. If I had ever played this back in the day, I probably would have lost my mind.

[TheSSNintendo]

Started to work on the Tower of Nido this evening, only for it to be cut short. Instead of going right for the main goal, I was checking out my maps to to a quick treasure run, and then got involved into a fight with a couple of Blasters. Two shots later, Rolf and Nei are done for, leaving Rudo to run back to Arima all alone.