Games that Emp should be playing

As much as I wanted to love the La-Mulana games, I just couldn't get into them. The slow controls combined with brutal difficulty was just too much. I remember fighting the first boss in the second game (I think). The pattern was very simple. But the boss had SO much HP, your character moved SO slow that it was a nightmare, since one little mistake could ruin you. And this was the first boss!

I could live with the obscure puzzles and death traps, but not when combined with the controls and the harsh combat. That's just too much for little old me.

Emp -- wishing you luck on the 2018 list, so that I can give you a new batch for 2019. Gotta move fast if you're gonna catch up to the current year!

I'd have caught up by now had Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen not become a thing...

Tokyo Xanadu is beaten, despite Jason's best efforts to keep it buried in my backlog forever.

My 2018 list is complete. I also beat the Utawarerumono remake for good measure. I don't think I want to play the Zen games.

Curses! Foiled again!

The N-Gage game review led me to think about this: there is a superb RPG for the PC, Betrayal at Krondor, which is very little known by people taking on videogaming in the last... 20 years.

Its primary strength is the ambience — that thing that isn't easily put in words (which, if I didn't misunderstand, is the same forte as the N-Gage RPG): it really carries you in another, its, world, and it surely is a one-of-a-kind work.

It's nice that there's a reader review of it. I'd like it to have a staff review too.

I think I have that game on Steam, so there's always a chance. It's been something I've been curious about for quite a long time, now.