I’ll be honest, I haven’t made a whole lot of progress in this game of late. Ayn, Mieu and Wren are quite a bit stronger than they were, and I know what my next goals are–essentially “Go west, acquire the Twin Ruby and the Power Topaz (I think that’s what it was called), in some …
Tag: Phantasy Star II
Oct 09
Greetings From Newington!
I’m currently sitting in an office building goofing off doing important staff work for Connecticon’s Member Appreciation Day for October. These are like little mini-cons that take place…in an office building, something that seemed completely surreal to me the first time I attended one. Mainly, I figure that I should update the site to keep …
Oct 03
Phantasy Star II Streaming Fun
Over the last few Sundays, I’ve been streaming Phantasy Star II at my UStream channel. It’s been fun replaying it, even if I had kind of forgotten where one of the towns was located (I’m using dungeon maps from an aborted speedrun attempt, which makes it quite a bit easier.). So to up the challenge …
Sep 14
Hacking Biomonster Brains
I was messing around with a save state of my current Phantasy Star II playthrough. This actually will have a purpose later on when I attempt (And fail) to change the outcome of a certain climactic scene in the game. In the meantime, I have an alternate savestate in which one of the characters is …
Sep 12
Gently Streaming
Earlier today I decided to start streaming a casual playthrough of Phantasy Star II. I figure this is something different from what either of the two primary stream fora that I go to. It’s a casual playthrough, so it doesn’t come with endless resetting after five minutes of attempts like a lot of the SDA …
Aug 31
Breaking the Nostalgia Filter
When I was about 6 or 7, my aunt, grandmother and I went to the house of another of my aunts. I don’t remember what for–what I do remember is that my cousin was tasked with keeping me entertained (As he would be many times in the following years). It says something about both of …