I have an unhealthy obsession with Bumpy Trot Steambot Chronicles (aka Bumpy Trot, or Relaxing Nonlinear Adventure: Be a Bad Guy If You Want).

Where does this come from? Well, I can pinpoint it for you, but I should mention that I have always been interested in the game since people started importing Bumpy Trot from Japan due to Next-Gen’s William Rogers recommendation (hell, even before that too).

So let me pin-point it: We got a review copy of the game right before E3, and then at E3 I gave it to Mr. Andrew Toups to review. I called him up one night shortly after returning from E3 and over hear something like: “We will return with Mecha-Elephant Mk4! Bwahahaha!”

Andrew: “Whoaaaa…”
Me: “What?!”
“This is great, I just lost, but the guy has so much respect for me he is letting me go.”
“Really?”
“Yea, it is great.”
“So how is it.”
“Amazing, but I guess I have hardly gotten anywhere in the game yet.”
“How far in are you?”
“I don’t know, I am not paying attention.”
“Tell me about the game some.”
“It’s good.”
“Why?”
“Because.”
“Damnit Andrew, tell me what is good about it.”
“Well basically it is like Megaman Legends, or rather it has the soul of MML.”
“Really?!”
“Yea, it’s pretty great.”

So then a few days ago I ran across J. Parish’s 1up review of the game and stating that it is the “closest we will ever see to Megaman Legends 3.”

I wanted to pick the game up yesterday, but the only game store I can get to closes at 5:30pm… if not slightly earlier (I got there at 5:31pm one day and they would not let me just buy the damn game I came for). Anyways, I didn’t get it. I am going to try today and hopefully succeed. But… yea.

I don’t really have too much time to play.

See a lot of shit is going down right now. I have to figure out what I am going to do between the dates of June 30th to July 15th because my housing that I am staying at (the hotel in New Orleans) will no longer be available, but I can’t leave to go back to St. Louis just yet. This doesn’t even include time to make the 10 hour drive each way to St. Louis to move my things. I may have to resort to an ultimatum or sorts. I also have the magazine coming to crunch month, which is no where near as bad as crunch week, but still busy, but crunch week is only 3 weeks away. On top of all this I still need to do my taxes (finally got all the info together) and I need to donate a car to charity.

I can only blame myself on some of this due to procrastination. Damn my slacker attitude! Anyways, busy busy! The same thing kind of happen with Dragon Quest 8 last year and Issue 4 of TGQ. It was damn addicting and I had a very hard time putting it down, but since I did I have not returned to it and I am mildly sad that I haven’t.

I finish so damn few RPGs anymore.

I have always thought/written about games more than playing them for the past like … 5 years, but this is getting out of control. I need a break or something. Every time I take one I just get further behind, so I guess that I just need to catch up and quit letting slack build until the tension is tight enough to break.

This entry was originally going to be about Ozu and a comparison of A Story of Floating Weeds, and the remake Floating Weeds… then other things happen. So, hopefully tomorrow.