Well, between being away for Baltimore Nerdfest aka Otakon and Amazon's complete lack of good deals lately, I've been sort of neglecting this. But no more! Today's Amazon deal is a fairly solid albeit somewhat easy RPG from Atlus. Summon Night: Twin Age will set you back a grand total of $17.99 today.

For those of you who have played the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story games on the Game Boy Advance, this game is a bit different. Whereas the GBA games had a battle system akin to a Tales of.. game, this entire game is played via the touchscreen. Tapping on enemies to attack, move, cast spells, etc. This may or may not be a deal breaker for some of you. Item creation still plays a decent part in the game, and the ally AI isn't completely stupid, so it's not bad overall.

However, there is one distressing thing that's been brought to light by the ever-helpful Amazon reviews.


WOOOOORRRDDDDSSSS!


Lots of talking, June 27, 2008
By James Riek -
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
This game has a lot of talking. To me this game is more complicated than the normal rpg game. I don't think it was worth the money I paid for it.


Frankly, I am appalled. An RPG with tons of dialogue? Blasphemy. If we continue down this path, soon we'll have first person shooters with crates everywhere, racing games with rubberband AI, and rhythm games where they throw in extra notes unrelated to the music just to justify a higher difficulty level!
Is that really the world you want to live in?