What’s the deal with FFTA-2 displaying elemental weaknesses in words rather than numbers!? It’s in blatant disregard of how long we’ve been trained to think about Final Fantasy stats in numbers, rather than outright saying a monster takes double damage from a certain element but absorbs another!
From what little I’m through in it it seems [...]
Posted by Manna on 26 Jun 2008 at 8:00 am under Rambles | Link
Parish just emailed me about the old Izuna review, wherein I said:
If only Izuna had a tag-team function to let you swap spunky ninja girls on the fly.
Well, I meant to say something sooner but it kept slipping my mind, but apparently Izuna 2 does just that! Where’s my check, Success…?
Posted by Manna on 23 Jun 2008 at 6:51 pm under Rambles | Link
Air Fortress (NES)
HAL Labs (Their minds are going.)
The Short Version: Remember how cool that escape sequence from Metroid was? What if we made a game that did that eight times with sluggish controls and a hero with none of the perks and upgrades who loses health steadily from any sort of strenuous activity like walking? [...]
Posted by Manna on 23 Jun 2008 at 4:49 pm under Reviews | Link
Man, it’s been way longer than I intended between postings. Stupid life! I was supposed to write about Air Fortress weeks ago. But between my personal life, my addiction to The World Ends With You, and preparing to move out- yes, that’s right- I’ve been too distracted. That and work continuing to become more frustrating [...]
Posted by Manna on 16 Jun 2008 at 7:26 pm under Rambles | Link
You know, getting one last extra day of vacation time to laze about and attempt to finish up TWEWY only makes going back to the lab harder… I WILL OVERCOOOOME~
Posted by Manna on 08 Jun 2008 at 6:20 pm under Rambles | Link