A small victory

[lathany]

A few years ago (2003 in fact), bateleur bought me Jade Cocoon 2 for Christmas. I finished the main game and rather enjoyed it, but I never completed the post-main-game sub-quests and associated championship. This year, back in August, I picked it back up off the shelf and, starting a new game, I resolved to do just that.

About ten minutes ago, I did it. I defeated the reigning champion after many failures and many more levelling-ups and got to see the second end sequence. It's the first game I've played that has two (and only two) sets of end credits, somewhat different to each other.

I smugly feel I have reached the end of a tiny era.

Comments

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Ah, the really quite brilliant Deus X gives you a choice of three endings; and it's not a case of 'this is good, this is bad' it's a case of 'what you pick is important, you can't be sure of the consequences and there are pro's and con's to them all'. One of the best endings to a game I've come across.

And congratulations BTW.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

What sort of game is Deus X?

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

First Person Shooter with lots of roleplay elements. Well, by lots I mean more than any other FPS had at the time. Unusually it is possible (but much harder) to go through the whole thing without killing anyone. (you get a decent selection of non-lethal weapons)

It's quite old now (99?) but I've found it bore replaying a few times.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I'm not good at big on first person shooters except Doom (and Doom II) which I could handle at "Hurt Me Plenty" difficulty (and, for the original, "Ultra Violence" once) using keyboard controls. However, a good storyline might tempt me.

How difficult's the shooty bit and can difficulty be set?

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Difficulty can be set. The lowest level is makes life really rather easy, the highest level is getting toward realistic in a 'damn, I was shot with a pistol and it killed me' kind of way.