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« on: December 19, 2016, 06:56:19 PM »
Pillars of Eternity: Started playing this again. Not sure if it's just my mood or the various revisions this game has had since it was new, but I'm having a lot more fun this time. Not that it was bad originally or anything. Just clicking more this time around.
Project Diva X: Getting Excellent on all Hard songs. Also picked up my first PD Perfect ever. Woo.
Monster Rancher 2: Monster Rancher urge kicked in and bought MR4, but that's not being delivered for somewhere between 1 and 8 more days. So started playing MR2 again. Also I've never technically beat MR2, so, you know, might as well do that. I'll jump into MR4 when that shows up to compare the two games close to each other!
Took me a while to get an emulator that I think is reliably doing Disc Stone stuff. It's really hard to tell when I'm getting unlucky vs when image files are just spitting out the same stuff.
Anyhow. A brief chronicle of my ranch thus far.
We started our adventures with Soppy, a Zuum/Arrowhead. He proved to be a loyal and loving monster quite quickly, though his early days were fraught with stress. His skill and defense made him pretty good in combat, though he hit with all the fury of an angry sponge. He made it to A Rank at 72-0. Not bad for a first monster.
My follow-up to Soppy, Jim, a Plant/Zuum (spawned from a DDR game) proved less successful. He was quite high stress and his initial skills made battling with him very difficult. I attempted to raise him for Adventures, but it just didn't pan out. He retired fairly early for his species, no doubt because of the endless stress endured during his formative years.
Following that was Tide, a Pixie/Monol (spawned from Wild Arms 2). Tide took to my training methods quite well, particular since I had the finances to buy stuff to support the training. Despite some oddities, Tide worked quite well, reaching 999 Int and a healthy 450 odd HP to make adventuring possible (getting me the items to unlock Jokers, Durahans, and Phoenixes), and also had a decent career, making it to A rank on the series of a LOT of KOs. Unfortunately, Tide's otherwise lackluster stats led to some crushing defeats (835 damage to the face when you don't have that many HP is bad) and I missed some early warning signs, leading to Tide dropping dead. =(
Seeking to take a break from disc spinning for new monsters, I merged Soppy and Jim with the help of the Joker mask, creating Buysoap, the scythe wielding monstrosity who keeps cheating on his goddamn drills. We'll see how he goes. Historically I have trouble with bad tempered monsters.
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