[James]

I've not heard many good things about the .hack series. The whole MMORPG that's not an MMORPG deal gets old fast, and the series gets ridiculously harder with the last two games. No real interest in it.

I started Golden Sun yesterday. I bought it used for $15, and there was still a save file on it. The last person who owned it spent 33 minutes playing the game, then decided to sell it.

I played through the prologue, and saved. 33 minutes. I can see why the person would have sold it. So far, there's a LOT of pointless conversation. Something about elemental stars and alchemy and... I don't know. They throw all this shit at you, and not all of it makes a lot of sense. And some people just don't shut the fuck up.

Also, you're asked Yes-or-No questions A LOT, and they never matter. They're not there to decide the outcome of events. They're just there to piss me off.

"Hey Isaac, that's what we did, isn't it?"
"Should we keep going, Isaac?"
"That didn't go as expected, huh Isaac?"
"You're going up to the mountain, Isaac?"
"You're going down this path, Isaac?"

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME JUST DO THINGS. Should we keep going? LET ME KEEP GOING AND YOU WILL FUCKING FIND OUT.

I also loved the moment where we had to escape IMMEDIATELY from a volcano, and about 3 minutes of conversation followed, about how we needed to escape. JUST LET ME FUCKING LEAVE YOU FUCKING DOUCHEBAG I GET IT I HAVE TO LEAVE SO I WILL LEAVE IF YOU JUST FUCKING LET ME WALK OUT OF HERE JESUS CHRIST.

I just got to the part where I can travel the world map (after an hour and a half into the game), so I'm hoping things get better. I'll also say the gameplay is very confusing, revolving around character classes and Djinn you collect to boost your skills. But none of it really is explained well enough to make any sense. I'm hoping this changes once I get to experience it in the game.