Star Ocean: The Divine Force is an upcoming action RPG with a flying combat drone and a focus on disabling enemies through battle effects. The demo offers a taste of the game’s fast-paced combat and linear storytelling.
Oyebanji’s Braking Day is a refreshing take on the generation starship story that avoids many of the tropes of the genre. The novel follows trainee engineer Ravi MacLeod as he discovers that the truth about the 132 year journey to Tau Ceti is not what he has been told. Although the book has a few flaws, Oyebanji’s writing is enjoyable and makes for a quick read.
As I promised Terra in my last post, I would be playing Drakkhen for the Super Nintendo. It’s 3D! It has dragons! You get to create your own party! And dragons! Well, there may be a couple bad eggs in the bushel. I really knew nothing about this game. Although I was a huge Atari ST fan at the time and played a lot of RPGs on it, I missed it on its original platform (and I hear it was better there, too, though graphically it looks pretty similar). Still, it’s better late than never. I started hearing bits and pieces about it on retro RPG YouTube channels, and when I saw it at the Hartford RetroWorld Expo, at a reasonable price, I took the plunge and bought it. ...
Retro World Expo in Hartford came up light on Sega Saturn games, but I got a couple new games to try. Terra isn’t a fan and is warning me away from Drakkhen for the SNES.
I wrote a chatbot that thought it was Terra. I wrote fanfic, during which Celes gradually became the character I was rooting for. I uncursed the shield. I woke the Phoenix. I spent 60 hours in this game. I enjoyed every minute of it. Toward the end of Final Fantasy 6, I hunted up the SNES cartridge I’d played it on back in the 90s. It still had my save files – it was just before the final fight with Kefka. That fight was one of the few things I actually remembered about the game since I played it a quarter century ago. ...
Flamecraft is a light-hearted game in which players take on the role of Flamekeepers, tasked with helping Artisan dragons create a variety of goods using their specialized flames. The game is easy to pick up and play, with players taking turns visiting shops, placing dragons, and casting enchantments to earn rewards..
An AI-written article about someone who sold himself as an NFT to pay for medical school, but ended up trapped.
A year after Kefka woke the Warring Triad and destroyed the world, Celes wakes up from a coma to find that she is on an island with Cid. Cid has been sick for a long time, and Celes is determined to take care of him.
More Celes/Terra/Locke fanfic, I’m afraid. I gave TerraChat a lot more background on the characters and their motivations, than before.
GPT-3’s real power comes when it can use AI to help people find what they need. In this case, information about Final Fantasy VI. Read on to find out how I used AI to help make a FF6 chatbot – TerraChat.