The weekend being 40 minutes from its official end, I'm beginning to wonder if I maybe should have started my homework earlier. Betsy introduced me to Romancing SaGa 3 last week, and since then I've been trying to figure out what exactly makes an obsolete SNES game so addictive. The plot's okay and the game-world richly varied, the graphics shine through the platform's limitations, the game-play is endearingly open-ended and replete with incomprehensible mini-games, and, best of all, there are no random battle encounters (unlike the Final Fantasy series, the makers of which have yet to realize that getting ambushed from nowhere every two steps is no fun at all). At this point I'm almost certain I will not be able to abandon the game until I've completed it.
Friday night, however, was all about the talk and the pizza and the bowling (a winner is me!) and the gelato.
posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005
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