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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2009-04-26 06:01 pm
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Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly

Feliz cumpleaños por atrasado, [livejournal.com profile] hamsterfactor <3

It's been a while, hasn't it? I still ache a bit, but I can move normally again. Now, if only I could remember to keep a good position while seating...

I finished my Trials and Tribulations replay while lying down. Since I had nothing new and high maintenance to do with my DS, I went and got a second-hand copy of Hotel Dusk. I'm digging it so far. It's really sad that this console is just so perfect for point-and-click adventure games, yet they're doing so few of those. Besides, ports for old LucasArts games on the DS would be so much fun.

Persona 4 is pretty cheap here: 30€ and it includes a soundtrack CD. So you have an idea, a platinum game for PS2 is around 20, and the average NDS game is 40. I've been debating about getting a legal copy since the effort from the swap disks can't be nice on the reader, and I sorta like to buy English-only games out of spite on the wanky Spaniard gamers. But I have my doubts because I have a record for buying JRPGs that I never finish (sad thing is, this one I *want* to finish but sitting and playing it stresses me out).

I also ponder about importing a game guide for P4. I mean, I find them to be something incredibly stupid these days since there are walkthroughs on the Internet. But, well, normally walkthroughs for video games are solid stuff, quite detailed. Instead, for P4 you have like five guides for different aspects of the game, and alternatively a wiki (which is just annoying to print out/save/copy-paste). Which are all thick and quite cryptic and "do what you want lol" anyway. Believe me, having to play with my laptop open next to me and look up around several txt files -and I check on shit every five minutes in Persona- is exhausting. And I'm not really a strategy lover or someone who likes to improvise on games, no sir. The free will in this game is a lot of pressure on me. I prefer a few solid solutions instead of this "do what you want" thing. I wish there were a guide where someone gave their one successful playthrough for me to follow, and this probably will make the Atlus fans in my flist shudder because I'm doing it wrong. I want to play P4 for the plot and characters and can't be bothered with the pokemon clow cards personas and harems s-links.

So yes, tl;dr: I'd like to have a physical guide to feel safer, as this game is too complicated and stressful for my personality. But is it worth it to spend 20 dollars (S&H not included) in such a thing? It's a lot of hassle. Why am I so dumb for non-action RPGs? Should I go for it when I get the money?

[identity profile] alternian.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
WHY WOULD YOU PLAY A PERSONA GAME WITH A GUIDE D:

THAT JUST

IS

YOU SUCK D:
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly what I was saying. *expects more stones from flist*

AND OF COURSE I DO. I um. I spent more time in horror of doing things badly or being underleveled or not understanding what the fuck fusions are, than playing the fucking thing. Then it's not fun, and I don't want to start hating this awesome game just because I'm not into free will.

[identity profile] alternian.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
---> Max Kenji

---> Fuse Surt

---> ????

---> PROFIT!
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I don't even understand what any of that is! I don't have any pokeman persona called Surt (or is it something else, I have no idea). And I'm still on Kanji's dungeon.

*sobs forever* I'M TOO DUMB FOR SMT GAMES.

[identity profile] alternian.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
oh we're talking Persona 4?

P3 is easier to play without a guide. 8(
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
L-LOL YEAH... XD

I still suck at this, nonetheless.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
El problema es que llegué a un punto en que incluso usando todas las guías de GameFAQs estoy totalmente perdida y sin saber si lo estoy haciendo bien. Odio que tengan todo separado: una guía para s-links, una para bosses/enemigos, una para personas, una etc etc. Para ningún otro juego necesité tener abiertos como cuatro walkthroughs simultáneamente, y detesto cuando al jugar tengo que estar con la cabeza más metida en el portátil que en el televisor (pun not intended!)

Por eso me estaba planteando si sería un gasto tonto el comprarse una guía normal de papel.

[identity profile] the-great-elk.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
I must've missed something ): What happened?

I really need to go play some DS now. So much for working!
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
What happened about what? o.o

[identity profile] the-great-elk.livejournal.com 2009-05-10 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
You mentioned that you ached but could move again. When couldn't you move?!