Month: January 2006

Fire Emblem (GBA)

Chapter 3 complet0rised. Pretty easy, really – sneak in, gubb the bandits, make off with the goodies. Still, this is all still tutorial territory, really. Later that day……. Chapter 4 defeat0red. Loads of nastie beasties were coming at me from all sides, and it was pretty tricky to balance my little gang so that the

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Fire Emblem – The Sacred Stones (GBA)

Back to Fire Emblem. I’ve started again because Easy mode was a bit, well, easy. Things aren’t much tougher on Normal, to be honest – the only real difference is in the lack of hints. Any RPG which gives you a Paladin as a starting character isn’t going to be hugely tricky. The challenge, of

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The Runes of the Earth – Stephen Donaldson

I have a bit of a love/hate thing going on with Stephen Donaldson. He manages to create the most loathsome, irritating and frustrating characters and then drops them into compelling storylines. I spend my time between urging them on then being frustrated when they stubbornly refuse to behave the way I would 🙂 Runes of

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