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In a post-apocalypse world where the environment has been ruined by “Black Edea”, a two-bit bounty hunter meets up with an autonomous golem and goes after a massive criminal organization for the bounty on their heads.

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Overall: Decent start but it fizzled out; there isn’t quite enough direction but there isn’t enough openness either. I’ve vaguely interested in where the plot goes and what Lock’s deal is, but not enough to sit through endless boring battles while searching for plot triggers.

We visited several gatchapon-specific stores while touring various parts of Japan (and also the machines are pretty much everywhere—every convenience store and gift shop has at least a few), but I wasn’t going to actually put money into any of them because I didn’t need any figurines or other doodads. Well, then I saw one that had mini-handhelds in it for 400 Yen ($2.50) and my resolve was broken.

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Overall: Is this a good device? No! Is it awesome for a random gatcha toy and souvenir? Yes!

During a recent trip to Japan, I got to browse through game stores in Akihabara in Tokyo, and while I didn’t buy Super Famicom carts or Final Fantasy orchestral CDs, I did pick up the Legend of Zelda Anniversary Edition Game and Watch for a very reasonable 5,000 Yen (roughly $30, less than half of what it goes for in the US). It’s got the original two NES Zelda games, Link’s Awakening, the original Game and Watch game, and a “display” clock mode.

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Overall: This is a cool keepsake device, not something I’ll actually use particularly heavily. But it is cool, nonetheless. And the box folds out into a little display stand!

A member of The Watchers, a robin hood-esque band of thieves, gets caught (because his rival in the group is a dick) and ends up meeting the princess, who was tricked and replaced with a double right before her parents mysteriously died. Turns out the scheme to take over the kingdom is just the tip of the iceberg, because the Shadow Deity is up to something.

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Overall: Middling. This is fine, it’s straightforward, it’s playable; but it’s unbalanced, there’s nothing particularly special to it, and the plot and characters are very one-note.

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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Armed Emeth (Android, Played on Odin Pro)

Gatchapon Handheld - Electro Game Collection 4

Legend of Zelda Anniversary Game and Watch

Asdivine Cross (Android)

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