5 people could be a Brass Quintet!

Great cast this week! I really enjoyed the tangent into urban dictionary.

I’m glad to hear the concern for my well being. I am just tremendously busy with work and family. I hope to return to a full power Info Blast once things settle down a bit, but I have no idea when that might be.

I’d love to see the site continuing but I can totally understand if you have to close it do to lack of readership.

Our next playthough will be Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! (It’ll be a 1-2 week playthrough).

Our next RPG playthrough will be this:

Hi, I’m Daisy!

In another unrelated note, in the last ashes England was Australia’s beach…. can’t wait for the ashes to begin again.

By the way, how about Valkyrie Profile as the next playthrough?
If memory serves, playtime in that game can be made longer or shorter depending on how you play.
Might be easier to stomach for those of us who tend to lose interest mid-playthrough.

@Bup: No. No you will not.

1. Hyperdimension Neptunia is not an NIS title (I’ve told you this on the podcast before!). It was published in the US by NISA and in the EU by Tecmo Koei, but it was developed by Idea Factory and Compile Heart (Felistella handled the PSVita port).

2. My point about La Pucelle is that ‘action’ screen where the combat actually happens is where all combat takes place in Agarest, which was the game I was trying to describe. The difference is that the action choices in LPT are made on the ‘battle map’, but in Agarest they are made in the combat screen proper. I have never played Rainbow Moon, so I cannot comment on that.

I don’t know that I want to play a dungeon crawler at all! I’d like to see more JRPGs full stop, but Dungeon Crawlers bore me very quickly.

Hyperdimension Neptunia is an NISA title, not Tecmo Koei who are responsible for Dynasty/Samurai Warriors.

Agarest is not like La Pucelle: Tactics. La Pucelle is exactly like Disgaea, only the results of a fight were shown on a separate screen rather than on the field. A better comparison would be to say that Agarest was like Rainbow Moon, a horrible, horrible game that used SRPG fights for random battles.

In a choice between Agarest and Conception II, I’d go for Conception II. It has the fan service and it’s a pretty decent dungeon crawler, whereas Agarest felt a little cheap to me.

Instead, it was just two very positive games of Cricket and, in the end, England won through the might of the man I’ve been saying for months has that Flintoff-factor, Ben Stokes. He saved England with a 92 when they were 30-4 in the first innings, and when they were inching along in the second, he came in and hit the fastest-ever test century at Lord’s, giving England enough time to get a lead and then bowl NZ out with just a handful of overs remaining. It helped that he broke key partnerships and took two in two, culminating Brandon McCullum bowled first ball to the ecstatic roar of the Lord’s crowd.

Genuinely one of the best games of sport–any sport–that I’ve ever seen. Brilliant, back and forth, up for it to the very end.

Oh well, best England spend all their luck before the Ashes get underway! ;)