Currently going through the non-revisionist Resident Evil games, minus the Revelations titles, which I'm saving for a later binge. Having gone through both singular and binary scenarios in the first and second games, respectively, when it came time to go through 3: Nemesis, I decided to play it on Hard Mode; to play as a Jill (and, at one point, a Carlos) who wasn't ridiculously overprepared for a zombie apocalypse. It took some work, especially during the first real battle against Nemesis (the Mine Thrower wasn't quite the Magnum-topper I'd long envisioned) and the trip to the hospital (600 Assault Rifle Bullets would've been better than 300), but I completed it.

Now here's the kicker: I now have to decide whether or not to delete the completed file with the others come my next such binge. If I don't, I'll be on my way to collecting all eight of the game's epilogues, a gradual task that, knowing me, will eat up a good chunk of my upcoming thirties. Of course, if that is the path I choose, there's always the risk I'll forget and delete it anyway, the pain of which would be directly proportional to how many I'd gotten. And that's not even mentioning the possibility of my having a family along the line. You just know the potential for calamity exists there in spades.

Or course, if I do decide to just delete it and go back to playing Easy Mode, none of the above will be an issue. I'll just have to wait 'til I get there, I guess.

After a significant chunk of the Summer, I've finally settled my score with Chrono Cross and, therefore, the Chrono series as a whole. My score with Resident Evil Revelations 2 remains pending.

It's definitely worth playing. The protagonist, Serge, is way better than Crono simply because we learn infinitely more about the former in this game's opening moments than we ever do about the latter throughout the entirety of the first game. The sheer number of playable characters makes your party more like an army. The battle system is innovative, although it can get necessarily monotonous. It might not seem like a sequel at first, but if you're patient and pay attention, it's all explained neatly, though you may be a tad unsatisfied with what you read.

And remember, just as you turn down the fight with Magus in the first game, don't try to kill the final boss, lest you wind up making the same mistake I did last year.

For me, the series didn't get terrible until the next game.

By way of a reproduction cartridge, I have finally completed Dragon Quest VI after 54 days, twice those I spent working on V (also a repro), a significant amount of which spent grinding only for gold and, towards the end, class mastery. Thus, I now have the entire Zenithian Trilogy under my belt, along with the Alefgard/Erdrick/Whatever Trilogy. Although I'm now in the market for Dragon Warrior VII, I'm not going to want to touch this franchise again for at least a year. I once read in Nintendo Power that that game has a record-breaking 100-hour playtime, but if that's true, I can safely say that VI has it beat. To put into perspective how long I was playing this game: 54 days into my Final Fantasy binge, I was a fair bit of the way into VII.

As it's now after midnight, I'll be playing as the last two Smash characters today, Bayonetta followed by Corrin. Tomorrow, I'll get back into Batman: The Animated Series for the Game Boy, to which The Adventures Of Batman & Robin on the SNES is the sequel, a fact it took me far too long to realize.

Incidentally, here are the names I've entered so far over the course of the series. The more attentive amongst you should notice a pattern.

I: Harrison
II: Richmond
III: Pasquale, Courtney, Stanford, Lawrence, Orinthal
IV: Wolfgang
V: Tiberius, Alphonse, Michelle
VI: Ebenezer