So, I’m working on making 3/2 more lively once again here, and as I’m currently downloading Hard Corps Uprising, there’ll probably be an addition to Contrapalooza! pretty soon. Now, if anyone here’s a long time reader and remembers my big-ass SNK memorial (before they turned out to not-really die, then get kind of sad), Contrapalooza’s a lot less… comprehensive, mainly since I never really felt especially driven to hunt down physical copies of most ‘modern’ Contras and I basically gave up emulating Playstation crap after I got a real copy of Misadventures of Tron Bonne (<3). So, I really don’t plan on filling in the C: The Contra Adventure/Shattered Soldier/Neo Contra gap, even if the latter two actually looked kind of promising.

(Mainly advance ass-covering here as I reviewed Contra 4 under said banner and will be continuing as if the other Playstation games and the Wiimake never happened- as CRACKTASTIC as it looks to be since it involves Lance in drag)

I’ve been digging into Radiant Historia a bit, since people kept name-dropping Chrono Trigger while it was in the dev chute awaiting intercontinental evacuation. Stop doing that, people! Don’t get me wrong, Historia is far from bad, it’s just not Chrono Trigger, and not every random encounter-less, time travel driven RPG should be compared to it. RH’s story is a lot more grim and grounded, and I like how right out of the gate they establish that Stocke’s ‘gift’ was given intentional, purposeful limits by some as-yet-unknown party. I also like the fighting system a lot. Course, I like any RPG where positioning means something beyond “enemies attack squishy mage slightly less.”

oh yeah i’m also moving soon too yeah woo hoo