The Backlog

Well, I've put Chrono Cross on the backburner after coming to the realization that I still have quite a few games built up that I'm nearly done with. Before going any further, I think that there are a few games that have a higher priority.

Shin Megami Tensei:Digital Devil Saga 2

I finished the first DDS game back in January and thoroughly enjoyed myself. The degree of customization that came along with the title really made me happy. Sure, it was pretty grindy, but it was essentially the Sphere Grid from Final Fantasy X with a much more calculated chart growth. It wasn't overly complicated and you could develop your characters in any way you wanted.

The big problems I had with the second game came down to the stripping away of your characters. I had gone through the entirety of the first game heavily developing only three characters and it worked fine. There was no reason to use any of the other characters if you didn't want to. In this one, I went through the same way, only to find out that I would be losing characters at times for story related purposes and I'd be left with the other characters. Just to sort of emphasize how much I had ignored the other two characters, they were both at LV.12 and only had their first elemental spells while I had everyone else at LV.34 with their 'dyne' level elements.