I started out this week by discovering that, for some unknown reason, Castlevania: Order of Ecclasia is the one game I apparently cannot play on the train commute to work.  For whatever strange reason, it makes me incredibly dizzy.  So, with that unavailable, I decided to go back and re-tackle Panzer Tactics, which I was never able to beat (which I guess makes me a historically accurate player…).  On the console front, my march through Persona 4 continues, and I think I’m coming to the end of the game – it remains a fantastic game, and I’ll have a full review as soon as I wrap it up.  I also got down and dirty with starting my text Team Fortress 2 map this week, and I’m aiming to finish this one in a much quicker timeframe than the 5 months it took me for my last one…

-Joel Haddock

Much like Joel, I’m still stomping through Persona 4, although my progression hasn’t been as quick due to the game’s propensity to murder your main character without you so much as taking an action.  Unfortunately, unlike most RPGs outside of the Persona series, as soon as your main character is offed, it’s game over, due to your teammate’s apparent inability to use a healing potion, even though you’ve used it on their own ice-weak dumb asses plenty of times.  Since Joel and Chris got it for Xmas, I’ve also been spurred to get back to Order of Ecclesia, in which I’ve just entered the seriously hard Castle of Dracula.  My only problem with the game so far has been that it falls into the niche that I call “games which require GameFAQs”, as I see no way that i could’ve possibly found the last two villagers without a FAQ or randomly running around the world and hitting every single wall with my mace.  Maybe there’s an X-Ray Specs glyph that you can use that I just haven’t found yet…

-Jeff Feeser