https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/ The Malgorian Blog - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:56:33 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios owsf2000 personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/11263364/3042091 https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/ 83 100 https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/157015.html Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:56:33 GMT https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/157015.html I would be surprised if Dreamwidth accepted the full title, so below is what the title should read:<br /><br />Game Night #17: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Myth Infinite Combate<br /><br />So trying to get back into playing the insanely long backlog of games I haven't played since I'm on vacation and I randomly chose this one - mostly because it looked like it be simple enough, and I felt like having some "zelda style" combat. Didn't get what I hoped, but that was the logic going into the decision.<br /><br />This game has a metacritic score of 46 I believe. Didn't know that going in but I'd agree overall with the reviews I saw on gamefaqs. Poor execution. Fairly bland. And little effort. (Particularly for the player I find...)<br /><br />The game is part visual novel based on the anime/etc, and part dungeon crawling hack and slash. It follows the events of it's source material for the most part with the game being told in a Chapter format.<br /><br />Essentially at the start of the game you'll do "Chapter 1" as Bell (The main character) then after 2 story quests you'll do a "Chapter 1" as Aiz - the Sword Princess adventurer he admires. After about half way I found I stopped having Aiz chapters and it was Bell Bell Bell. And it followed the anime. I'll have to double check a few things to see if I have to replay the game to get an Aiz series of laterchapters...<br /><br />In each chapter you'll have to do two story related quests to advance the story. There's no real meaning to level in this game. Your stats will improve automatically as you advance the story quests. There's also two special quests per chapter that aren't story related but can only be done once each. After that there's "practice quests" you can do over and over to grind for materials/skill points/money.<br /><br />After finishing the story mode for Bell I unlocked a special post-story dungeon. During this extra chapter, it looks like you just grind through the special elemental related dungeons to get "date points" so you can unlock special encounters/story events with the other characters in the game. At this point you can freely switch between the two main characters. They each have their own people to "go on dates" with.<br /><br />It's hard to say much about this one... if you're a fan of the anime/manga/light novels, it's probably not bad. Could have went so much further though... Make sure you get it on a big sale like I did though. <br /><br />I was going to mark this beat after I played around with the extra dungeons a bit first but I think it's safe to assume the story mode is what counted here. I'll update it to "completed" after I've unlocked all the events, assuming I bother to stick with it that long. I'll likely just be doing a few dungeon runs here and there going forward while playing other games.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=owsf2000&ditemid=157015" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/157015.html anime gamenight public 0 https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/154864.html Sat, 03 Sep 2022 08:40:11 GMT https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/154864.html Well, I finally created an account for Crunchy tonight. Of course, a free account on crunchy is only slightly better than a free account on netflix. (You can technically watch an episode or two here and there.)<br /><br />I'll probably buy a yearly megafan sub for it later this weekend which will cost me about 100 bucks or so. It'll be cheaper than Netflix and it's 15+ bucks/month they want to charge me nowadays at the very least. Plus it'll have a lot more shows I'll want to watch.<br /><br />Browsing the site, I can see a bunch of series I'd like to see at first glance, and those will likely take up my time for the first couple of months. After that I'll probably start going down the anime alphabetically except when new shows I want to watch get added (new seasons, etc).<br /><br />Ultimately though this will likely save me a lot of cash since I tend to buy dvds and blurray/dvd combos of seasons. (Both for shows I know I want to watch, as well as random shows that look like it might be interesting.)<br /><br />Sunrise Records is going to lose some cash that's for sure, given that's where I usually buy anime locally. They haven't been getting a lot in lately for series I'm waiting on though. To be fair, even if I watch a show I like on crunchy, I'll probably end up buying it on disc so long as they offer a proper package. I typically don't buy blu-ray only. I buy dvd-only at times, particularly for older shows, but most of the time I expect blu-ray/dvd combos. If I get blu-ray only, it's usually when they offer it cheap - like less than 30 bucks minimum. I've only broken that personal rule maybe 2-3 times over the last decade.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=owsf2000&ditemid=154864" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://owsf2000.dreamwidth.org/154864.html anime crunchyroll public 0