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Why Star Ocean 4 Is A Terrible Game Part 4

 We will resume this part with the Roak arc, which is one massive parade of terrible writing, canon defilement, and otherwise stupid writing trying to coast off nostalgia for a much better game, albeit it did introduce a clever predestination paradox and a character who deserved a much better game to be in) First, let's start off with the good stuff. 1. Elayne Farrence and the GOOD predestination paradox Elayne Farrence is the distant ancestor of the SO1 hero Roddick, which I could buy. She even has sequences foreshadowing the events of SO1, which I can also buy. Even the SO4-specific stuff she foreshadows would work in a game with much better writing, and I regret she was wasted on this one. She's a fun character who takes crap off no one, tells Edge to get over himself, had good voice acting, and overall just deserved a better game. Of course, they had to ruin this in one of the secret unlockable endings by pairing her off with someone who by all rights should be dead just so...

Book of Resolutions: Vows to The Lord

 Note: This post is about my New Year's resolutions, but has been written in the style of the Bible for fun, feel free to let me know how well I did with my silly little experiment in writing "Scripture style". The contents are meant to be serious, but the style is meant to be for fun. And so it came to me at the dawn of the New Year of The Lord that I needed to make resolutions that the year might be one to glorify God with all that I might do. Therefore, may The Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if these oaths are not carried out. I vow to be resolute in continuing my work for the ministry of the Christ Centered Gamers, so that my efforts will please not only Jason and Cheryl of the House of Gress, but that the works of my hands might also please the multitudes as a fitting memorial offering to the Lord. I resolve to continue honing my skills in my scribing work, so that the works of my hands shall reveal the greater mysteries of The Lord in my reviews of recre...