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Game Night #17: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Myth Infinite Combate

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.

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...)

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ok, so it's been about 16hrs after I had the wisdom tooth disassembled and removed.

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As a rundown of what I watched yesterday afternoon:

Vandread: 2nd Stage (All 13 episodes)
Tenchi The Movie
Chobits Vol 6
Lost Universe Vol 1-2.

These are mostly DVDs I bought cheaply at walmart years ago for like 6-8 dollars each. Amazing how anime dvds became relatively cheap at most places around town while Walmart was selling these things. :P But as soon as Walmart sold out of them, the prices around town went straight back up to the 30+ range. I suspect at least one store bought up Walmart's DVDs to resell as in particular one store was sold out of a few of these series for like a year or more. Then as soon as walmart was mostly sold out of it, poof! They had stock of it again! (At 35+ per dvd)