This past weekend, I finally managed to beat Final Fantasy Legend II for the Nintendo Gameboy. When I first bought my copy of the game way back in February, I was completely zonked out on RPGs, so I put it aside. A few months later, I picked it up again and managed to get through the entire game. There was one evening where I went Giants Town to the game's final dungeon. It was a good, if not extremely hard RPG for the gameboy.

How Tall is this Tower, Anyway?

This morning, I decided to play an really old GBC game that I bought six years ago but never got around to beating it. The name of the game is Towers: Lord Baniff's Deceit. It's pretty much a first-person RPG, but in real time. So far, I found the stairs to the second floor of the Tower.

Knights, Ninjas and Plumbers?!

This upcoming Wednesday, I get paid at my job. I intend on purchasing EternalRing for the PS2, Dragon's Lair for the GBC, Nobunaga's Ambition for the Gameboy and Super Mario Land II: Six Golden Coins for the Gameboy. The reason why I'm getting Eternal Ring is because it plays similar to the King's Field titles for the PSOne, Dragon's Lair because I read it pushes the graphical limits of the GBC to that of the PSOne Nobunaga's Ambition because I want to play a strategy game for achange and SML2 just for the memories.

Yesterday afternoon, I finally got around and beaten Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for the PS2. It was a long and arduious journey down the game's 11 basement floors, but I managed to complete it. Interestingly enough, the final boss of the game has an insane amount of HP and it took me almost 30 minutes to kill it.

Earn a Online Degree in Dungeon Mastery

Earlier in the week, I decided to dabble some more into RPG Maker for the PSOne. I decided to play the sample game that is on the software package, called Gobli's Adventure. Interestingly enough, it took me only 5 hours and an average experience level of 21 to beat it. Although the game is really short, it gives you an general idea on how RPGs are created, from the planning stages to the actual scenario writting.

Helghans--The New Punching Bag

Earlier this month, I finally got my PS2 online. So, in celebration, I bought a used copy of KillZone to go along with my current copy of Madden NFL 10. So far, it's been mostly online matches, just to see how active the online game is. So far, I have three wins to my record, all of them in the Team Deathmatch mode. With up to 50 people playing online each evening these days, I'm amazed I actually got some online FPS action experience with this game. It's a shame that the online component of the PS2 will be retired in about a year or 2.

For the past few days, I've been playing the PSOne version of Doom, where I've already beaten the 30 Ultimate Doom levels and the first 11 Doo II levels, all on the easiest difficulty level. It's pretty interesting, because in a couple of those level, there were at least one CyberDemon waiting to tear me to shreds. Fortunately, I perservered and made it this far.

Beware The 20th Level Dungeon Master

For the weekend, I've been playing The Dark Spire for the DS again, this time going for the last of the three endings the game gives you. However, this took quite a bit of XP grinding to be able to use the Beauty Clinic on the Bonus dungeon floor to boost my party's charisma stat up to it's requirements to take part in the ending. On the bright side, it only takes 50,000 experience points and 10,000 Gold to actualy attempt to use the clinic.

Countdown to Kickoff!

As of this blog post, the new Madden NFL 10 video game isn't to be released for another five days, but I am definately waiting in anticipation of the release, so I can pick up my copy of the PS2 version that I prerodered at GameStop and paid in full on July 31st. This is going to be interesting how a Josh McDanials-led football team is going to do, but in case the Broncos somehow fall to an early 0-4-0 start in video game form, an impending trade of Kyle Orton for Jay Cutler will be made if neccessary.