GBA

Well, that’s okay. Everyone’s up to level nine and I’ve crossed the drawbridge. It’s tougher over there and I’m not sure where to go. I found a cave inhabited by a man who’d lost his eye and some brooms which told be to select button B, but didn’t tell me when or why.

Returned to town now for a rest before pusing on eastwards this time.

I’ve still only killed 139 goblins. I decided to level up a bit more efficiently this time.

And I’m pretty sure I saved before turning off.

You know, I was thinking earlier today that it would be good if Castlevania’s monsters section recorded how many of each type of monster you’ve killed. But it doesn’t. Excellently, however, the Bestiary section of Final Fantasy does. So far, I’ve killed 199 goblins. Bring ‘em on!

Everyone’s up to level eight now. I’ve rescued a princess (well, we’re heroes, we’ve got to, haven’t we?), in the process of which I defeated the first boss. He was really stupidly easy and I rejoiced at his humilation. Later, though, I got annoyed when I checked his data in the Bestiary. You see, as well as giving monster stats it tells you which items they can drop. Apparently this boss could’ve dropped a long sword, but he didn’t. He seems to have had the last laugh after all. I hate him now.

I’m about to cross a newly built bridge to the north now. Hopefully there will be a town there that sells decent stuff, because the starting town only sells shit. I’m wondering if I should buy a Phoenix Down now I’ve got 1,745 gil. Hmm.

I’m really having a lot of fun with this game. As I said before, it’s just what I was hoping for.

And when I’m done with it, there’s Final Fantasy II on the cart as well! Superb value for less than twenty quid delivered.

Yes, the very first Final Fantasy. Remixed so us twenty-first century types don’t recoil in horror when we see it and shoved into a handy cartridge that we can play on the move.

I’ve set up a party.

Introducing -

George – Warrior
Beans – Thief
Floss – White Mage
Arnold – Black Mage

All named after family cats, trivia fans.

So far I’ve just talked to a few people, spent all my starting money in the shops and wandered out into the surrounding lands. Three fights against goblins later and I’ve levelled up and run back to town to rest.

Oh, and after playing on my previously much loved GBA SP for a while, I’ve cancelled a load of game and DVD pre-orders and ordered a Game Boy Micro instead. But I’ve ordered a UK one, because it’s going to work out cheaper, especially as if I bought a foreign one I’d still have to buy a UK charger. The trouble is, the UK gets shit colours. If I ordered now I could get a lovely Famicom one or an acceptable black one. The UK ones are horrible silver, evil pink, puke green and eye-hatred blue. I ordered a green one in the end. I don’t know why. I also ordered from Amazon, which may turn out to be a mistake. We’ll see.