Well, for starters you'll find that the bosses of the last couple of chapters spike in terms of difficulty, and the fights' victories are a mix of staggering timing and pure luck on which moves the boss does when. This also goes with the final boss.

I had Vannile in the party because her status magic spells are a must. Spam Poison and Slow on the boss at every chance you get, Blind and Silence when those 2 spells are active. Keep an eye out when Poison and Slow wears off and use it again ASAP. Good luck.

Man I can't wait for XIII-2

You basically put way too high expectations on the game on something that could only meet so little. Nostalgia and preference can be very dangerous criteria, basis-wise, when it comes to evaluating whether or not you should invest your time and money on a relic of entertainment.

I can tell you this, if you find yourself not enjoying something that's meant to entertain then just put it aside. Don't force yourself, for then the purpose of the game, to entertain you, would be null and void. There are thousands of newer RPGs that truimpth over FFVI and improved its foundations in every way. FFVI just set the standard at the time. It's a classic, the "Westside Story" of RPGs. I think I've brought my point across.

stop associating islam with saudi arabia because they are not the model of what an islamic country should be like. just take a look at saudi's surroundaing countries (UAE,Kuwait Qatar,Bahrain). those countries are open minded and free. i can go out without hijab in those countries and no one will say anything. they evne have bars and night clubs. in Dubai and Qatar they sell pork.

helwa1988

I'm sorry, but do you notice the contradiction in your statement? Since when is allowing bars/nightclubs, alcohol and pork consumption a "model" of what an Islamic country should be? It's anything BUT Islamic. It's just pure democracy. Have you even been to the country?

It's hilarious how some Muslims defend Islam by defiling the very country that stands, in essence, as the pillar. It's like bandaging a gunshoot wound in the arm then shooting yourself in the foot right after. Makes no sense whatsoever. And yes, in essence, it IS a model of a true Islamic nation. If you wanna argue then argue over the culture, not the country's constitution which is solely based on the Quran when it comes to the points you mentioned above. The Quran does not preach violence.

Your hateful spat is so obvious, but I thought I'd throw my 2 cents on the topic as if your argument is legitimate. Have fun hating.

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Boy, where do I start? Japanese games are part of the reason why I'm interested in learning Japanese professionally. But given the motivation and time-constraints I've been having ever since, I don't think I'll ever get to it. Not unless I move to Japan for life, which is also pretty nonsensical.

Captain Tsubasa, Super Robot Wars, Detective Conan games to name a few. I grew up watching a ton of dubbed Japanese Anime and most of the games of them I'd wanna try out. Also those games that never got a localized sequel and I enjoyed the originals very much.

It is likely more akin of Deadline by Infocom - the first sleuthing adventure. I haven't found much motivation to get into Portopia myself (I've known about the english patch for a while), but the introduction, or rather the lack of one, doesn't hint at much beyond a routine exercise, the streamlined interface might or might not have been sufficient for what the game set out to do - of course, there weren't many options in converting the game to console, but that's a concern of mine, that something would've been left out in the conversion. And the images for the locations look like they were drawn by a 5-year old kid. :(

Have you played Deja Vu for the NES? If not, maybe that'd be a better place to start?

So technically unsophisticated, yet after all these years I find the soundtrack - exclusive to the NES-version - most memorable.

doubutsuteki

Well, I'm pretty much never gonna touch Portobia again. I read awhile back that one of its merits for the time was its twist ending, and ever since then I've been contemplating how a "twist" would be set up in an early 80's text-based game. It was in the back of my head as I played the first 10 minutes of it. And now that I accidently found out who the culprit is via a troll spoiler thread on Gamefaqs, I can tell you that the twist that was in the back of my head was confirmed. It's so obvious.

If you haven't played it yet by all means go ahead. But I think it'll become obvious for you as well once you dig into it. And LOL! @ the 5-year-old comment. I was thinking the same! It was done on an MSX Paint editor I bet, reminds me of the drawings we used to do on a PC back in pre-school.

Thanks for the info on Deja Vu, I'll give that a go instead. Looks and sounds much more interesting. Plus it's got sequels to complete if I think the first is worth completing.

resurfacing doesn't always work , some scatches are just too deep for resurfacing, though from experience ,Ive noticed its worked on 8/10 games.

as far as cost, it depends on where you go, the closest game shop to my house resurfaces discs for £2 a disc, though I eventually just bought a £20 resurfacer which does almost the same thing.

Darkman2007

Is a resurfacer similar in looks to a grinder meeting a pancake pan? I recall watching a TV show where they talked about how to get scratched discs to work again, and he used a device where he places a disc in something like a pancake pan, closes it shut, and then "grinds" it by turning this winder similar to jack-in-the-box for a minute or two.

There's this game by Yuji Horii (of Dragon Quest fame) called The Portopia Serial Murder Case. It's a text-driven game akin of Myst by way more archaic. It was first released in '83 on PC then ported to the NES in '85. An English fan translation exists.

I so want to get into it but the presentation is so statle, slow and ancieint that I find myself quitting 10 minutes in. I'll try again and this time will try to stick to it longer. I'm a sucker for good plots in video games.

Well, I beat Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. And as I predicted, aside from the annoying Knuckles/Rogue stages, it was fun. Ending was very anti-climatic though.

Having beaten it, I so wanna play Shadow The Hedgehog now. Had it awhile back but it always froze mid-way through level one. Aint half-bad but it's probably because I'm used to the Sonic 3D frustrations by now. It's the only 3D one left I haven't beaten. Sonic '06 doesn't exist.

Some people collect games based on their materialistic value. So I can imagine that it'd lower the value of a game when auctioned provided that resurfacing on said game has been proven.

I actually didn't know resurfacing of discs was actually a legit manner in getting games to work properly again, figured it'd be more like hit and miss. How much does a resurfacing procedure go by cost-wise?