Dragon Quest VIII

I did it! I only went and bleedin’ did it! Thirty-nine minutes it took. All my skill, all my cunning. Items and abilities and spells and attacks. Omniheal! Kerplunk! Sage’s stone! Oomph! Kabuff! I was magnificent. Oh man, there’s not many feelings like seeing that bastard (who looked a lot like me, disturbingly) go down.

HEY! WARNING! I’VE NOT GONE INTO SPECIFICS, BUT IF YOU’RE PLAYING THE GAME YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ THIS ENTRY, JUST IN CASE YOU THINK IT CONTAINS SPOILERS! OKAY? You have been warned. ARGH!!!!!!!!! HOW MANY FUCKING BOSS FIGHTS ARE THERE AT THE END OF THIS GAME???????????? WHO THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE IN ANY

Fifty-four hours. Things are coming closer to a close, I believe. Not there yet, though. I must say, the story is a lot more compelling and a lot more, well, more like a story than at the beginning of the game. Only one boss this evening. He didn’t seem to difficult, but with a few

Fifty hours now. No, still not done. Not by a long way, I don’t think. I got to a boss who slaughtered me in about six turns. Ouch. I assumed it was a battle I was meant to lose, you know, they happen in RPGs now and again. But it wasn’t. Somehow I was meant

Hmm. I didn’t think this worked off the hard drive, but someone on a forum said it did, so I copied it and it does. Hooray for even shorter load times! Putting the disc back in its case I found the FFXII demo, which I’d completely forgotten about. I’ll have to try that sometime. Anyway,