It’s time to take on the Water Temple guardian.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 325 – Water Guardian I


As part of the build-up for Final Fantasy XVI, it’s time to give my thoughts on the past couple main Final Fantasy games.
Read moreWe manage to get through without Denam getting yeeted into the void.
Read moreWe have this temple’s map with treacherous pitfalls to watch out for.
Read moreRecently, the first volume of the Slayers novels – which had been translated twice in the past (once by Tokyopop & now by J-Novel Club) received an audiobook review. This was ultimately the impetus I needed to get around to reading this, and this case, listening to the audiobook, read by Lisa Ortiz – the actress who voiced Lina in the English dub of the TV series.
Read moreFinal Fantasy XV had a lot of DLC planned, to expand on the game’s story by providing additional plot details during the big time skip before the game’s final act, expanding on the game’s backstory, and even providing an alternate ending. We got… some of it. We got the backstory expansion. We got some elaboration on what characters were doing when they were off-camera at certain parts of the game. However, we didn’t get the whole story – we didn’t get the expansion discussing the time skip, and we didn’t get the alternate ending. However, the game’s writers wanted to make sure that story was told, leading to The Dawn of the Future – which adapts one released episode, and the plots of a bunch of unreleased ones, to give an alternate ending.
Read moreWe prove ourselves king of the hill and take our pro-pain implements onward.
Read moreWe get a fight with a big island in the middle with enemies on all sides.
Read moreWe have the return of Victor Fries, and Renee Montoya getting up close and personal with AzBat.
Read moreWe clean these enemies out so we can continue on.
Read moreWe encounter a new type of Lizardperson.
Read moreDeadly Ever After is the first Rivers of London story to be published after Amongst Our Weapons, and the first to move the timeline forward after that point, and a little past that point as well. It’s also one that moves the focus of the story clearly beyond The Folly, with the focus being more on the River Goddesses themselves.
Read moreCrunchyroll has held their 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony – the first one that was in person since the pandemic and the first ever in Japan, and I have some thoughts on the presentation.
Read moreI ultimately end up going offline and continuing play that way.
Read moreWe run into some frame-dropping issues that distract me from play.
Read moreIn honor of White Day, it’s time for some silliness with a bunch of horny idiots.
Read moreWe properly open the path to the Water Temple.
Read moreIt’s time to take on the Water Temple.
Read moreWhen I reviewed Fortress of the Pearl, I was partway through the next book in the first of the more recent Elric omnibus collections, and I came to the realization that book was written less with the thought of “How do I fit this story within the larger Elric saga?” and more “I have an Idea for an Elric story – where do I put it?” By contrast, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, which was published soon after Elric of Melnibone, feels like Moorcock continuing with the concepts he had with that first story – setting up the chain of events that lead to where the first published Elric story – “The Dreaming City” – picks up, and in the process further building up the concept of the Eternal Champion Mythos, based on the other incarnations that had been published at this point.
Read moreThe first season of Legend of Vox Machina left off on a significant cliffhanger – Vox Machina had overcome the Briarwoods and liberated Whitestone – and had succeeded at their first major act of deliberate heroism. However, the Chroma Conclave were literally on the doorstep. Season 2 kicks off the start of the Chroma Conclave arc.
Read moreWe take out the fire guardian, and I get set to do some gear crafting in between streams.
Read moreWe finally get to take on the Fire Guardian.
Read moreWe get to the second of the Von Bek books I’ve read (and the last of them I’ll be reading for a while).
Read moreAfter some close calls, we finally clear our path to the Fire Guardian.
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