I guess I shouldn't really be surprised
that my plan wound up going to shit on me here.
Considering the amount of otherwise
good luck I've had with these Text Plays since I essentially gave up
on Breath of Fire a couple years ago, I suppose it's about time I had
a little bad luck with one. It's just too bad it had to be this one.
Although, I guess this is more than
just “a little” bad luck. I've been saying for quite a while now
that I think my Super Nintendo is finally on its way out after
twenty-plus years of somewhat less-than-gentle use. What it had been
doing this whole time is that it would play fine for awhile and then
stop sending a signal out to the TV. At first, it was rare and for
only a barely noticeable amount of time, but as time went on, it got
more frequent and long enough for me to have more than enough time to
read the “weak or no signal input” message my TV gives now.
That's something that I found annoying,
but I could still work with it. After all, it didn't seem like it
was going to be a permanent or fatal thing. I'd even thought that
now that I was past the Glasdar Tower section of the game, maybe I'd
be free of it. This is, after all, a twenty year old game being
played on a console that's just as old, if not slightly older. So
when the thing started acting up on me when I tried to finish this
off this morning, I thought I'd just shut it off, take a shower,
maybe have a little lunch, and try again.
Of course, it turns out that I was due
for another failure of this sort, and that's exactly what's happened
here. After the shower, lunch, and a little screwing around on the
Web for awhile, I finally got back around to coaxing my SNES back
into working again. The good news here is that I did eventually get
the thing going again, at least for a little while. The bad news is
that when I say “for a little while,” I mean just long enough to
find that the whole process of coaxing the thing to work wound up
wiping out the game that I'd come so damn near finishing. All those
hours of work, gone. And only an hour, maybe two, away from
finishing the game. The whole damned thing just had to go splooey
now, I suppose. That's the way my luck tends to go.
So I guess this is the end of my Lufia
and the Fortress of Doom Text Play. It's certainly not the ending I
was hoping to give, and I'd think not the one anybody reading this
was hoping for. I may try this again later, just as I may try the
first Breath of Fire game again. It's just likely to be a while now,
if only because I need to step away from my SNES. I'm not sure if
it's actually going to finally break down on me, but I'd rather not
ensure that it does out of my own frustration, mostly because I'm not
into rage-smashing things, but also because I can't spare the funds
to replace it right now even if it does go out on me regardless of
my own actions.
I guess this is just one of those games
that fate just won't have me finishing, at least not in the
foreseeable future. Both times I made it to this specific point in
the game, unavoidable circumstances took me away from it. The first
time, it was because I finally started taking my higher education
more seriously when I should have been giving it that level of
attention the whole time. This time, it's because of technical
difficulties that I guess had to crop up at some point simply due to
the age of the game and system.
This leaves us with the question of
what game I might try to do next. To be honest, I'm not really sure.
I know it's not going to be Final Fantasy 6, because I need to get
away from that particular console for awhile. I might do Crono
Trigger next, though, because I did find a copy of Final Fantasy
Chronicles available for cheap just before everybody's hours changed
at my day job.
That's a decision I'll make later,
though. I want to look through my PlayStation collection before I
actually settle on something, and I'm going to need a little time for
that.
So anyway, thanks for reading along
with me for this long. I'm sorry I couldn't actually finish this
game in spite of getting so close. I'd fully intended to, but I
guess it just wasn't meant to be.
I'll let you know soon as I'm ready to
start another one of these. Until then, stay safe, have fun, keep,
gaming, and DFTBA!
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