Category: Game Diary

Dark Age of Camelot (PC)

Hmmm – where to start? Well, I started playing DAoC during the original beta test, way back when. I think, all in, I played for about a year and a bit and got some quite high level characters. Anyway, a friend at work has been nagging me to play for months and I succumbed. A

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Final Fantasy VI (Playstation)

Woohoo! Chocobos! Made a dramatic escape from the sinking castle mounted on Giant Chickens. Was pursued by some magitek riding goons who didn’t prove much of a problem. There was a really well done and funny bit of dialogue mid battle as well. Unfortunately, Number One Son decided the king should be called Bob instead

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Fire Emblem – The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Finally cleared chapter 6, but it cost me my thief and my journeyman. I think the problem is that I’m playing in too linear a fashion and should really be revisiting cleared levels to train up the weaker characters. Either that or my strategy is just crap 🙂 Possibly the latter. Difficult to believe I’m

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Fire Emblem – The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Gah – Chapter 6 handed my arse to me on a plate. The map has really thick fog so, other than a thief with good senses and a cleric with a torch, all the characters have very limited vision. I ended up walking into the mother of all ambushes and being chopped to tiny little

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Final Fantasy VI (Playstation)

Would you believe I’ve never played Final Fantasy VI? Well, I haven’t. I do, however, have it on very good authority that it’s one of the best. I’m about 38 minutes in so far and the one thing that’s struck me is the music. It’s just lovely. So, I’ve managed to have a mind-control thingy

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Gaaaah. Chapter 5 complete, but at a bit of a cost. I lost a junior mage and a pegasus knight in the process and I don’t have anyone who can directly replace either of them. I wonder how that’s going to affect the story? So, Chapter 5 was tough – in the end, it was

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Damn you, chapter five! I keep getting all my low level characters killed :-/ There are far too many enemies for a frontal assault. Going to have to use my noodle, I think. The trouble is, the guy I need to talk to to turn to my side is working with the enemy and his

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

It’s a triumph – it really is. I’ve only just completed Chapter 5 (on easy, natch – normal and hard modes don’t include the tutorial), but this really is a stunning game. Imagine the depth of play, character progression and branching storyline of Final Fantasy and add in the turn based tactical combat of both

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Pokemon Emerald (GBA)

Had a fairly intense session at lunch today. Defeated half a dozen trainers, trained my little gang up to level 10, captured a Slakoth, a Silcoon, a Lotad, a Taillow, and a Maril. Went for an adventure in the woods. Defeated some more trainers. Popped back to town to check out my new acquisitions and……

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Pokemon Emerald (GBA) 2 hours 6 minutes

If you look up the definition of ‘useless thing’, you’d probably find a level 2 Ralts. Or maybe even a level 5 Ralts. Anyway, I’m still at Oldale town cos I’m doing a spot of levelling up on Wurmples and Poochenas. My Mudkip is at level 10 now and the others are all between 5

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