So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

I'll make it easy on you. Folklore reviews at the time were spot on and maybe a bit too kind to the game because outside of the weirdness and it being set in Ireland it's the run of the mill bog standard boring action game that Game Republic kept putting out. I bought all the DLC for it, played it and got bored and played God of War instead. And I'm not even wild about God of War but at least it's fun.

But that's the big problem with Folklore. It should be interesting but it just isn't. If you really must have it then go for it, especially with the price increases but its kind of a Genji/Maijn level by the numbers action slogfest.

It was bargain bin fodder for a while but there's a perception now that Sony developed/published games are all high quality classics despite stuff like Genji, Folklore, Legend of Dragoon and Primal existing and stinking to various degrees.

I imagine it will at some stage. It's constantly in 'hidden gem' articles and videos despite being 'grand'.

Finished Final Fantasy Legend finally. Started a few times but its take until the analogue pocket to finish it.

It's a remarkable game considering it was the Gameboys first RPG and in the launch window of release. Squaresoft not only released a fully fledged RPG on the system but instead of copying the dragon quest formula they put out something really interesting and like no other JRPG at the time. The weird levelling up of the characters and random elements might annoy people but I really enjoyed how they upset by comfort zone and made me adapt constantly. And the setting is pretty cool with a giant tower that has to be climbed and side worlds that have really varied settings.

It's surprisingly great especially considering it's a 1989 game. It's really made to take advantage and fit around its handheld nature and yes it has save battery. It's not quite perfect, localisation is a little weak due to memory limitations and you will need a faq for some early puzzles but it's a nice neat little 12 hour RPG. Check out jeremy parish's gameboy works video on it.

I've not played or bought SMTV yet. I'm a massive megaten fan and absolutely adored SMT 3 and 4 and heard SMTV is very much a SMT3 follow up. I'm holding out for a PC version as it was one of the games in the Nvidia leak that has so far been 100% on the money. I imagine there's going to be a SMTV release with added content for all consoles and PC. It's been very hard not taking the plunge but I'm thinking I'm probably holding the universe back and the day I buy it is the day they announce the PC port.

I'm on Chapter 5 of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and being reminded how much of a ball buster the series can be. Chapter 4 was the first difficulty spike. At a certain turn an enemy comes in as a reinforcement and inevitably makes a beeline for your weakest character and takes them of. The only way out of it is to stay out of range of them when they appear. At least you can recruit them and turn the tables but I think I had to try this mission about 10 times before figuring it out.

I'm also playing some british games. Lemmings I never fully beat and have been playing a few missions a night.

Also played Cannon Fodder which I was enjoying until Stage 8. I got through it but it broke me and was about to pack the game in because I couldn't go through another 20+ stages with that difficulty. Thankfully I read that it's an infamous difficulty spike and the rest of the game is (mostly) not as bad.