Interlude post

 I just wanted to do a quick summary, without going into too much detail.

Since the last round of posts, I've been playing Dragon Quest IV for the PSX. But I've been simultaneously playing the Famicom, NES, and Android versions, mostly to see how the official localizations compare to what I can come up with on my own (with the Famicom version informing me of changes to the PSX version).

This is similar to what I did on the first three Dragon Quest games, but with a large increase to the amount of dialog to parse, due largely to the party chat feature introduced in the PSX version.

After failing to beat Hydlide and Xanadu, I tried out Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished - Omens, and really, really enjoyed it. I bought the second game, too, but haven't played it due to translation fatigue.

I've been playing through the DS Castlevania games. Those have been great. I seem to be over half-way through Order of Ecclesia. I also played through "Castlevania" on the N64, but apparently got the "bad" ending for taking too much time. That game was more fun than I'd expected based on what I'd heard.

I think I've decided that my next adventure will be with the Switch game Octopath Traveler. I am considering revisiting my blog here because it will be the first current gen RPG I've played in a long time that wasn't Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy. I can't say for sure that I'll actually follow through on blogging about it, but I thought I'd bring things a bit more up to speed just in case.