Month: November 2005

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Gaaaah. Chapter 5 complete, but at a bit of a cost. I lost a junior mage and a pegasus knight in the process and I don’t have anyone who can directly replace either of them. I wonder how that’s going to affect the story? So, Chapter 5 was tough – in the end, it was

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Damn you, chapter five! I keep getting all my low level characters killed :-/ There are far too many enemies for a frontal assault. Going to have to use my noodle, I think. The trouble is, the guy I need to talk to to turn to my side is working with the enemy and his

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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

It’s a triumph – it really is. I’ve only just completed Chapter 5 (on easy, natch – normal and hard modes don’t include the tutorial), but this really is a stunning game. Imagine the depth of play, character progression and branching storyline of Final Fantasy and add in the turn based tactical combat of both

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Pokemon Emerald (GBA)

Had a fairly intense session at lunch today. Defeated half a dozen trainers, trained my little gang up to level 10, captured a Slakoth, a Silcoon, a Lotad, a Taillow, and a Maril. Went for an adventure in the woods. Defeated some more trainers. Popped back to town to check out my new acquisitions and……

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NanoWriMo Ahoy

I’m going to enter this year. For those who may not know, NanoWriMo is an annual competition for writers. And non writers. Basically, what you do is write a 50,000 (minimum) word novel in one month. You start at 00:00:01 on November 1st and finish at Midnight on November 30th. It doesn’t have to be

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