Recettear: Kinda late to the party here. Awesome little Item Shop simulation game. It's a lot like Atelier Non-Iris, except replace "Item Crafting" with "Item Pricing and Customer Levelling". Also, the dungeon-crawling aspect is all Ys-style ARPG instead of the various turn-based systems from the Atelier series.
And... yeah. That's it. That describes the game completely. I guess it has a funnier translation than most Atelier games? (Affirmations! Yayness~)
Turns out I'm really addicted to this style of play. I should drop this and pick up Mana Khemia 2 instead.
Darkdeath Evilman VS The Unlosing Ranger!:
Most terrible quote from this sitting: "I'm not responsible for anything, man! Except maybe bruising her uterus! OH!"
Chapter 7's boss fight involved picking up random green shards and tossing them into the giant boss's hard-to-see nostrils to get him to open his mouth so I could walk inside it, do a shot of 4HKO damage and then get crunched, and spit out at the beginning of the level to start all over again.
How the HELL was I supposed to figure that out, game?!
Anyway, Mana and Kyoya win for most amusing/terrible characters in the game so far.
Saiyuki: Journey West:
So far it's an awesome little SRPG, very much a Chinese-flavored FFT-meets-BoF2 affair, only with a pretty damn awesome translation. I ended up stalling my own playthrough when I got bored at a doctor's office and read -really- far ahead in the LP I was playing along with. (
http://lparchive.org/Saiyuki-Journey-West ) So now I'll probably never finish it.
Too bad, it's a really interesting game DL-wise, too. Someone should stat topic it if they're feeling the need to stat topic something cool.
Also... has anyone else played/heard of it? I'm curious about DL-ers' opinions on this one because it seems like something the DL would have latched onto as tightly as Brig/OB/FFT.