No, that was no acid trip...Nintendo just decided to rip off a cheap plot twist from an old soap opera ("It was all a dream").

Y'know, I lurve me my Tales of Phantasia to death, but the Valhalla Plains thing kinda pissed me off. You try to navigate the "plains", which are more of a maze than a plain, hacking your way through anywhere up to a few dozen enemies per screen (and they instantly refresh, too, once you've left); and they do emphasize how important it is to kill as many of the monsters as possible. I believed it too, first time round. Now I just fight the ones I can't avoid. It's basically enforced leveling-up (same as the "run fetch Basilisk Scales" a bit earlier on). I prefer to level up on my own time, thanks.

And I know this in Nintendo, but I do wish the characters could swear properly, at least a bit. I mean, you watch Cress lose his parents and his village, get ratted out by his uncle, land in jail, view the sword-impaled body of Mint's mother, and witness the release of Dhaos and the likely death of his best friend and the best he can do is "Darn it"?

I personally was dissapointed by the lack of FMV in Tales of Symphonia. If a city is destroyed by heavenly lightning, I want to see it in all its cinematic glory! I don't want to see a crappy little lightning bolt on the overworld scorching the place.

Also, I found the aftermath of sidequests like the Devil Arms a bit disappointing. Oh look! Presea is possessed! No wait, its fine now immediately afterwards for some reason because of Collette! Now Genis burns the book! Don't even get me started on the Book of the Underworld. You'd think something like that would be a bit more dramatic to finish.

I could also go on about the characters' tendencies to state the obvious over and over again. They really needed to work on their dialogue in some parts. Aside from that though, I really loved it.

I hated how Shadows of the Collosus ended. Not the ending, just the fact that it wasn't endless.

I guess Jak II's blatant retardedness towards where check points should have been got a little annoying. I don't mind a challenging game, but the fact that the checkpoints were spread out so far away from the actual hard parts of levels got a tad annoying. Also, Jak III's sections where you had to pilot desert dune buggy's deserves a Tobias Bruckner award for pointless game addition.

I was somewhat disappointed with Shadow Hearts: From the New World.

I love the game to death, but it was trying too hard to be Shadow Hearts: Covenant with a new dress on instead of being its own game.

Well, the fact that, in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, you can't fight Soma as Julius at the entrance to the Chaotic Realm, just as you fight Julius with Soma in the same spot recently ticked me off.

I also hated Megaman Battle Network 2. Mainly because having your pack and folder stolen during an event in the game, causing you to lose some really rare chips in the process, sucks extremely hard. It's especially bad because, unless I'm mistaken, you can't order duplicate chips from Higsby in that game. Need to replay it to be sure.

I also hated that, in Phantasy Star IV: End of the Millenium, Alis dies. Come on, at least give me a halfway decent boomerang-user to replace her - Kyra's attack power blows, even if her magic is decent. I hated that. Hell, that was on par with Aeris dying in FFVII. She was my dedicated healer, for cryin' out loud.

Devil...May...Cry...2...

And BOF: DQ. I was disgusted at first at that game. Do not get me wrong though, it is a very good game, it just should have never been labeled as a Breath of Fire game. In my opinion, that is what hurts the game the most, its name.

Square in general durings its mid-playstation era games. Xenogears, Saga Frontier, FF8(Time Compressed what?), FF9(WHO THE FUCK IS THE BLUE GUY AT THE END?), they just had a habit of pushing half assed games onto us. They have gotten better about that though.

It sounds like you should've played the emulated dejap translation. I'm wondering what happened to Arche's character in this new release. Most of her dialogue (and the dialogue about her) in the game involved blatant references to sex and a lot of swearing.

I love the Golden Sun series, but in Golden Sun 2 you end up getting about 5 Mercury Djinni before your water adept (Peirs) even joins you, and if you're going the pure element route with each character it's quite irritating. Not to mention the length of the passwords.

In Shadow of the Colossus it takes so long to get anywhere (although it's damn beautiful) and I end up hating myself whenever I play, because I don't like brutally murdering all those Collossi, they're just minding their own buisness and then you have to come along and attack them. Only monster in games that I've ever felt sorry for.

The loading times in DQVIII are just horrendous. I love everything else about the game but you have to wait for it to load every time you change sceen on the map and in the menu. It's really frustrating.

My most recent disappoint would have been in Kingdom Hearts II, where I expected both Setzer and Vivi to kick some ass. But what do I get? A weirdo fangirl loving who loved to bully on little kids and brag about it, and Roy Disney's daughter making the voice of one of the most awesome FF characters ever.. who got turned down into a wannabe stupid boy. Also, the fact that there is only ONE secret boss in the game made me very, veeeeeeeery mad.

I mean, come on Square! You gave us Emerald and Ruby, Omega, even the unexpected Sephiroth in the last game (which by the way, is an asshole in this one and made me almost throw the controller to the toilet)! Why couldn't you put Kefka or Kuja, or hell, make some titan another secret boss? Replay value is not one of the strengths of KHII, y'know?

Saga Frontier is one of my favorite old games (Heaven or Hell was the best sword move ever!). I enjoyed it more than FF4. The game was beautiful and reminded me of FFT.
Also, FF9, 10, and X-2 (ESPECIALLY X-2! X is a roman numeral in this fucktards! Not a letter! You can't have 10-2! Make it 10 1/2 or 11! THE GAME WAS HORRIBLE AND NOTHING BUT FANSERVICE (nothing wrong with that but they don't need to make a game about it, DOA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball not withstanding.) were very dissapointing.

Don't get me wrong man, I loved Saga Frontier (I just beat Blue's game again last night!), but its no secret the game was unfinished. Point in case, Fuse.

Fuse was supposed to be a main character, the start of his game was gonna be him going to the top of the mountain in where you get the Shield card with Doll, Silence and another deleted mec for a flower to impress the secretery at the desk in IRPO.

There are several trap doors and places that it would look like you can go, but can't. You were supposed to be able to go to Margmel and get the Evil Magic gift. T260G was supposed to face off against the Trinity for murdering Leonard and help give Gen more character development and shed some light on what happened in Wakatu.

I could go on ya know...