The journey starts

 

 

 

That Extra Level.

Any regular RPG player knows what I’m talking about. 

Let’s paint the picture. You have been sitting there for quite some time, playing your latest favourite RPG title. You do not know for how long exactly, since you kind of lost track of time in the process; but given the soreness in your thumbs, the burning in your eyes and the general tiredness that is starting to creep into your very soul, you would guess it has been a fairly long time. A quick glance to the nearest clock tells you that it is actually nearly 2. 2 AM, that is. Ouch. Someone’s gonna have a hard time getting up for work at 7 am.

 

You should stop playing now, and you know that. Your tortured thumbs, your stinging eyes and washed-out brain beg for a well-deserved relief, and somewhere in the very back of your head, the little voice of consciousness tries to pip that you should go to sleep before making the upcoming day a total hell of foggy, hazy sleepiness. But all that does not matter. All you want to do is achieve one last goal. Your whole mind is acutely, painfully set upon this: before you finally indulge into a well-deserved rest, you want to grind just a tad more, and gain one more level. 

 

Yep; that’s it. THAT extra level. That ever-elusive, ever-taunting extra level. Always more alluring than the last one you reached, keeping you playing more and more. That Extra Level.

 

You may have figured out now where I’m going from there. This blog is mostly going to cover the glorious realms of RPG, although I will also cover other genres every now and then. When I say RPG, I mean every single type of RPG under the sun: Strategy-RPG, Action-RPG, Turn-based RPG, J-RPG, Dungeon Crawler, you name it. When it comes to this favourite genre of mine, I just gladly take everything that comes my way.

 

It may also be worth noting that I exclusively play on portable systems, aka handhelds; namely, the Nintendo 3DS, the Playstation Vita, the Nintendo DS, the PSP and the Gameboy Advance. I also enjoy the occasional trip down memory lane by picking up a 16-bits era RPG once in a while, and I may cover these too. 

 

That being said, on with the journey!