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gbI'm downloading The Spirit Engine 2 again. I really enjoyed it, but I was playing on Medium and an early boss was still trouncing me before my laptop died an ignoble death. (I put my drinks waaaaaay over on the other side of the desk these days)
The Spirit Engine 2 lets you choose a party of three from nine characters, divided into three groups (optimistic characters, experienced/world-weary characters and antisocial jerks :D). The classes are essentially melee fighter, ranged fighter and magic user, and there's one of each in these groups. You can choose to have two or three of the same class (though it's not recommended for first-time players), but you can only choose one character from each group.
It's an ingenious idea; it gives the game a replay value which is often missing from story-based RPGs, and at the same time prevents the woe that would come from writing every possible variation on interactions between every playable character in the game.
I was going to go with Merecious, Charlotte and Denever, but I used Merecious during my first attempt and as much as he entertained me, it might be fun to go with someone new. Maybe Ionae, PyanPau and Denever... Ionae seems to be the fan favourite, and I'm curious to see why.
(As a note, if you're curious about the game and want to download it yourself, don't bother with the CWF-Freeware mirror, it's stuffed!)
I haven't picked up God Hand again. I'm struggling with this tiredness, which I am hoping is only due to me drinking far too much coffee (which I need to stop; more pertinently, I'm too broke to buy so much now :P) and running out of my preferred vitamins. I went to local chemist to buy more and they cost $90. Same brand costs $25 on internet. Yeaaaaaaaah, I'll just prop my eyelids open for the few days it takes for parcels to get here.
I started work on rearranging my room, which is full of other people's stuff I have nowhere to put. I managed to shift two cupboards around, which improved things already, but the contents of one of them are spread over my floor.
I've been developing my thoughts a bit more, but there's always distractions; the weariness and all this junk everywhere and the dog sitting under my chair and farting... ya know.
I always feel like I'm close to some big revelation, and if I could keep going a little faster and a little harder everything would make sense, and it's my own fault that I keep falling on my face and losing the plot and have to retrace my steps over and over.
But honestly, it's more likely that one day I'll happen to glance over my shoulder and I'll see that finish line is far behind me, yet the one I'm running towards is even further away....
The Spirit Engine 2 lets you choose a party of three from nine characters, divided into three groups (optimistic characters, experienced/world-weary characters and antisocial jerks :D). The classes are essentially melee fighter, ranged fighter and magic user, and there's one of each in these groups. You can choose to have two or three of the same class (though it's not recommended for first-time players), but you can only choose one character from each group.
It's an ingenious idea; it gives the game a replay value which is often missing from story-based RPGs, and at the same time prevents the woe that would come from writing every possible variation on interactions between every playable character in the game.
I was going to go with Merecious, Charlotte and Denever, but I used Merecious during my first attempt and as much as he entertained me, it might be fun to go with someone new. Maybe Ionae, PyanPau and Denever... Ionae seems to be the fan favourite, and I'm curious to see why.
(As a note, if you're curious about the game and want to download it yourself, don't bother with the CWF-Freeware mirror, it's stuffed!)
I haven't picked up God Hand again. I'm struggling with this tiredness, which I am hoping is only due to me drinking far too much coffee (which I need to stop; more pertinently, I'm too broke to buy so much now :P) and running out of my preferred vitamins. I went to local chemist to buy more and they cost $90. Same brand costs $25 on internet. Yeaaaaaaaah, I'll just prop my eyelids open for the few days it takes for parcels to get here.
I started work on rearranging my room, which is full of other people's stuff I have nowhere to put. I managed to shift two cupboards around, which improved things already, but the contents of one of them are spread over my floor.
I've been developing my thoughts a bit more, but there's always distractions; the weariness and all this junk everywhere and the dog sitting under my chair and farting... ya know.
I always feel like I'm close to some big revelation, and if I could keep going a little faster and a little harder everything would make sense, and it's my own fault that I keep falling on my face and losing the plot and have to retrace my steps over and over.
But honestly, it's more likely that one day I'll happen to glance over my shoulder and I'll see that finish line is far behind me, yet the one I'm running towards is even further away....
