Alard

I had initially played Legend of Legaia years ago, I remember it fondly but always kept in mind how grindy it felt. A few years ago I tried to replay it, but just lost interest as I reached the midgame point of the game was getting annoyed at how expensive everything was in shops. Then about a month and a half ago I was browsing Youtube listening to music and found the world map theme. My life has been rather troubled for the past year and hearing this rekindled my desire to try it again. I had also seen that someone released a fix for the US version and I had been itching to give it a retry for that reason as well.

Well today I want to talk about King's Field 2 a bit, though in the US it was King's Field. First worth mentioning that with this I finally started trying to get myself acclimated to streaming again after taking a 6+ month break due to reasons. This game managed to be a great choice for this, if only for the reason that I gladly just streamed this 5 days in a row despite planning to just do a stream of it once last week as a warm-up and to continue it on my birthday, which immediately failed as I just wanted to keep streaming it (Also were some other reasons I won't go into).

To be more on topic, a couple months back I played through the first King's Field and had a blast, never touched it before. Hell to be honest I've never even played any of the Dark Souls or related games either, though I have watched plenty of people play the first Dark Souls to the point I don't think I'd ever touch it myself. The closest I've come to King's Field was renting Eternal Ring one time when I was a kid, and I barely remember that game. So when I played King's Field I didn't know too much about that game itself and what I found was something that scratched the dungeon crawler part of me that loves to explore and figure stuff out. Unsurprisingly after that I knew I'd be going through this series, but I'd like to pace this out better than I paced out Phantasy Star where I blitzed through the games with only like a single game in between each entry except for 3 to 4.

So yesterday I played the demo on Steam, mostly to play more of it, but also to try and get a better grasp of it and it was definitely worth it. Diva's story allows you to have a better example of how worlds are most likely being designed with there being multiple choices on what paths to take and also you get what gave the impression of a real choice of what to go to next upon completion of the first one.

I've been rather torn thinking about how I've been doing with LTTP randomizer recently. The 2 hour mark has been this barrier that's felt rather impassable unless I get lucky with the seeds I get. So anytime I manage to clock in with a time that's good for me I always just attribute it to a seed that's being generous.

The problem I've been having is that I've been rather consistently clocking under 2 hours for the past few seeds I've played. And for as much as I want to feel like I've made some progress, the seeds have felt rather generous so in the end I'm hesitant to acknowledge any possible growth.