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[cuddlefish]

How come when I drown in a book it's okay, but when I get really wrapped up with a video game I have to make sure to take breaks?

Robin: I think it's because the RPG is more draining
Robin: Especially Summon Night 3
Yang: more emotional investment
Yang: anxiety during battles
Robin: No, not that, I mean, there's just more going on
Robin: Yes
Robin: Summon Night 3 really drained my energy. I'm pretty sure it came from the Negaverse
Yang: Beryl's crack team of game developers

I read "Itsuka Aozora no Shita de," the sequel to "Soshite Koi ga Hajimaru." Unfortunately, it wasn't nearly as fun as canis_m's ideas, or as the first book. Miki lies to Asami, gets busted by his family, and spends the rest of the book emoing. Oh shut up, I don't care what I've been told about how silly Miki is, I didn't buy this book for this nonsense. It's nothing but how he's hurting his parents, who are completely undeserving, and he lies to Asami. That last thing really pissed me off for some reason. When I realized what was happening, I had to put the book down for a second and go, "Oh, Miki. Oh, Miki." But back to the emoing, at least the first book had some wonderful developments to break it up, like Asami buying Miki a pen because he was clearly worried about his body, that is SO HOT! But this sequel was just, I dunno, they had sex, and then Miki went crazy, and everybody suffered a lot, and then he was all like, I wish we could hold hands out in the open. Oh god, it was such a mess.

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[narugami.livejournal.com]

SN3's battles are TOO LONG. In order to get through the game efficiently I'd have to gain a lot of levels for Aty and Sonolar and a few other characters, and that's boring.

Now that you mention it, there probably was an episode with an evil arcade machine that ate people's energy. The bad guys certainly tried everything else. :P Best enemy in a series I can recall is the evil vacuum cleaner in Futari wa Pretty Cure.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Actually, as far as I remember the arcade machines in Sailormoon were always distinctly aligned with the forces of good, but there was a home game in Sailor V that sucked entire people in. I think Naoko liked games.

I know what you're saying. And if you're worried about your karma, you can't let ANYONE die or you have to start over again. I got really sick of battles that were like 16 people on 8, BECAUSE the bad guys only came at you two or three at a time. If you go too fast, then you die.

[narugami.livejournal.com]

And I'm OCD about stuff like that so I hate letting people die. Even sabotaged myself a few times trying for Brave Clears ^^;

Sonolar and Varxeld do a good job picking off the enemies from far away, but it's so slow ;_; I liked the braindead AI in SN1 the best, I could just steamroll through everybody.