Lunar is like my bible, I love it and keep up with it constantly. But...Lunar Legend slipped right under my nose. Hell, I even work at EB and I didn't notice it come in the shipment. But, yea, Lunar Legend is out to buy on GBA, as of like 12/12 or so. It's a badass new variation on the old TSS and SSSC story, with lots and lots of changes. Like you said, can't go wrong with Lunar as far as old school RPGs goes, and this is a good refresher of the 'old school' genre. Just felt the need to spread the word, because no one else I know noticed either---they really should do more advertising or whatever.

Hi, this is Ewcoolio. I have one bad rpg experience and 1 good one.
1. I was playing final fantasy 9 and I had been spending hours on the chocobo side-quest. I had just found tons of rare items at chocobo lagoon and used them to open the last 3 chests, but I forgot to save. I was heading back to the chocobo lagoon to get lots more items when I got into a random battle- one with a monster I had not fought before. I thought I was winning when he did some weird spell/ability that killed all my characters at once. I was ticked.2. On final fantasy 5, I had just got the airship and was flying around to new places when I got into a random battle. Some strange machine-looking thing (can't remember it's name) started attacking, so I just attacked with my knight. BTW, I had a team of a knight, a ninja, a white mage, and a blue mage. The knight did 0 damage. At first I thought the system was messed up, so I attacked with my ninja. 0 damage. I barraged the thing with spells from my mages. 0 damage. I thought I was going to die, seeing my white mage was at 3 health, when I used the last ability in my arsenal- and it worked. I used the ??? ability that my blue mage knew. Turns out, it does damage to a target equal to the damage one char has taken. However, it did not do much. Then I tried my ninja's throw ability- it worked with the shuriken items, but did not do much, but after a nearly 1-hour battle, I won and got tons of exp. Ever since then, blue mages have been my favorite chars.
---Ewcoolio

Andrew;
Two of three years ago SquareSoft released a wonderful holiday rendition of the Final Fantasy quest theme. I really loved that piece. I downloaded it and played it even in July. A few months later, I experienced something weird: My computer seemed to think that I had four hard drives (one was installed, and, yes, I understand partitioning.). At the time I thought it was a virus, so I used FDISK on the offending apparitions. Needless to say I lost EVERYTHING, including the beloved SquareSoft holiday MP3. The link that I still have for the file on SquareSoft's servers is broken. I even contacted them via e-mail, and they say they don't have the file anymore. I really would like help finding that file! Dare I offer a reward?
-Wesley

Not sure if you're doing the whole "Worst RPG" experience thing a second day in a row, but I have one that almost made me break the controller in half with wild, feminine rage.
I was playing FF7, and was almost at the end, so I decided to go breed some Chocobos, so I could get the Knights of the Round materia. It was working out very nicely, and I finally came to the point where I had to breed the black chocobo and the nice yellow chocobo. But I didn't get a gold chocobo. So I raised their stats to maximum, double checked everything, and tried it again. And again. And again. At one point I was going to give up, because nothing was worth the agravation. But I had a vendetta against the game by then.
It took me three friggin' weeks to finally get that chocobo. I nearly wept with joy.
However, I nearly killed my friend when he got it the first time he tried.
Laura

You asked for us to send in our worst RPG stories, so I thought I'd send mine.
My story takes place durning my junior year of high school. I went to a math/science boarding school, and as such, all the students traded things back and forth. In my case, I burned CDs in exchange for borrowing a Playstation.
At any rate, I spent a decent chunk of the semester working on Xenogears, but it came time for finals. I tried to balance studying for finals and playing Xenogears, but I found the last boss to be a bit harder than expected. So, I decided to spend the time studying that I would spend leveling up for my run on the last boss. I figured that I would polish off the game after winter break when I could afford to spend the time. However, when I got back from break, I found that my friend had flunked out of the Academy, and had taken his memory card with him.
I hope this has never happened to you, especially for a game as long as Xenogears. Also, I wanted to say that you've turned into a really good host. You've mellowed out a lot from the initial weekend. Now, you're more witty and less downright mean. Keep up the good work.
--Akajin

To your wretchedness,
As a member of a legion of nitpicky, lifeless internet zombies, I am destined to point out your awful "Except - Expect" error at the end of the last column. I told you the perfectionist cutrabbit would get you. I was wrong, must've been those ruthless chobits... (whatever they might be)...
On a more related note, I don't see a problem with censoring in RPGs. So what if we don't get to see something we could just as easily see on TV? I'm not crying, is anyone else?
Also, have you ever heard of the Sega Saturn release of Suikoden 1 (released only in Japan)? It had all kinds of extras, including added scenes, mini-games, and a better intro. Am I the only one who thinks that would make a awesome GBA release?
-Masamune

I've been reading these worst RPG experiences, and I figured I would relate mine. Back when Lunar 2:EBC was first released I picked it up and played it like a normal, if fantastically executed, RPG. I get to Zophar in the normal course of things, everything going fine, then tragedy, or obtuse and linear thinking, strike. I fight his first form, beat it, fight his second form and lose, and lose, and lose, and lose. His second form kicked my ass about seven times. Now, I don't deal well with frustration, so the screams of rage were many and loud. Finally I just put the game away, chocking it up to under-leveling (I was level 52 by the way). Then about a year or so later, during a dry spell in new RPG releases, I decide to play through again, this time fighting every enemy along the way, and I do, and I get to the boss again, and my level is again 52. I get beat a few times, but then I realise my hideously obvious mistake. I didn't spread out properly and my characters were getting destroyed by Zophar's disgustingly powerful area attacks. Now, I already had my characters in the most spread out positions possible from the tactics page, but I had to spread them out manually in battle with the Defend command. After I did that it was still a challenge, but I was able to win and eventually play my way through the excellent and most fulfilling Epilogue.
Perhaps not the worst thing to happen to anyone, but I don't buy third party memory cards or save my game without paying attention to what I'm saving over, so I don't have any of those problems.

Greetings (reindeer sing) SHADRACK Doesn't anyone else here think Goog's an Amano Drawing? I mean it's noted that he/she's tall, pale, thin, and has silver hair so I think he just might be one. I just wished he did drawings of the Disney characters for Kingdom Hearts. Am I the only one who is oddly addicted to playing Animal Crossing? I noticed that some of the ideas done in the game could be real interesting on other games. It makes me wish you could completely customize your base in a Suikoden by having to get all the furnishings and such by battle or rare finds or whatever. It does invoke the mental image of winning a dresser after a battle but then again, you do get strange items won in games.
Imperial Mog

• Ragnarok.
• Sensible music.
• Sexy turkey girls! *barf*

• Ragnarok Online!
• Christmas!
• Sexy elf girls!