Games

I finished Dragon Quest II last night. I had a good time with it until I got to the area outside the final dungeon and the game gave me a giant middle finger. Basically every random encounter there either nearly or completely wiped my party just from damage alone, and they gave the enemies there a skill that has a chance to instantly kill you and that targets your whole party. I tried a few different strats to see if I could make it through but realized I was just severely underleveled, so I grinded for like an hour but then realized I still stood no chance and had hours of fast-forward grinding to go just to even unlock the revive spell, which only one party member learns and he might just get insta-killed anyways. With the only other revive being an item you can only hold one of and that you need to travel to the opposite side of the map to get another of, I kinda just didn't feel like playing any more. So I decided to abuse save states to clear the last zone just to see the end.

Otherwise I've been back into NetHack lately, playing the 3.7.0 pre-release. I'm still not very good at the game, but I'm getting better. I'm still a long ways off from ascending, but I think with some practice I can start getting deep into the dungeon at least.