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Recordkeeping: Live-a-Live 2022 Complete
Jul. 23rd, 2023 11:08 pmLive-a-Live is a 1994 SNES game that asks the question "What if this video game were actually at least seven different video games?" A celebration of genre fiction that offers you the choice of playing a wild west cowboy movie, a tense sci-fi thriller, Street Fighter 2, Ninja Undertale, or a bunch of other small RPGs. There's even an unlockable! Ha ha!
I've been intimidated by this game for a long time. I didn't really get the battle system and I didn't really understand what it was doing. When I threw caution to the wind and bought the shiny remake on PC, I expected to maybe get a couple scenarios in, have an okay time, back out and shrug. It was okay, as long as I liked part of it, that was good enough.
I LOVED this damn game. Holy crap this is a masterpiece. I not only played every scenario including the unlockable, I finished every superboss and everything it was possible to do, bar a couple of minor achievements. I might go back for them, I am ENTHUSED about 100%ing this thing actually.
Part of the good and the heartful about these streams I'm doing is that I'm pushing myself to try out games I just... never got to before. (I say this on an evening when I'm playing the crap out of Skyrim. Shhh.) Live-a-Live is a great triumph of RPG design and I can't say enough good about its music, its battle system, its scenario writing, the emotional heft of it all.
As always, there's a playlist over here on Youtube.
I've been intimidated by this game for a long time. I didn't really get the battle system and I didn't really understand what it was doing. When I threw caution to the wind and bought the shiny remake on PC, I expected to maybe get a couple scenarios in, have an okay time, back out and shrug. It was okay, as long as I liked part of it, that was good enough.
I LOVED this damn game. Holy crap this is a masterpiece. I not only played every scenario including the unlockable, I finished every superboss and everything it was possible to do, bar a couple of minor achievements. I might go back for them, I am ENTHUSED about 100%ing this thing actually.
Part of the good and the heartful about these streams I'm doing is that I'm pushing myself to try out games I just... never got to before. (I say this on an evening when I'm playing the crap out of Skyrim. Shhh.) Live-a-Live is a great triumph of RPG design and I can't say enough good about its music, its battle system, its scenario writing, the emotional heft of it all.
As always, there's a playlist over here on Youtube.
