I found the Rice Boy Summer song, I'm the happiest man on the entire planet. Next time.

Really digging the "Bored to Death" short story so far. :D

I'm very glad! I'll do my best ✍️

I like the story.

I love Rhea and Feena so much it's unreal. (Also love how Rhea was called "Lair" in American Ys Book I & II -- one of those endearing localization quirks)....

So much more to say about Ys V... I didn't mind it being too easy but the problem is that there's an alchemy system with like... Over a dozen spells. And they are completely useless, because no enemy is so difficult that you can't just use your sword. And you can't even use them at all against some bosses. Plus you need to rapidly tap R to concentrate--more trouble than it's worth. I'm serious: entire system, useless

I remember beating Terranigma without casting a single spell.

Terranigma's on my list! ... I think there's two other similar games I'm supposed to play first though

Yup, Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. They're all VERY different, despite all three belonging to the same genre and "series." I guess I'd compare them to Dungeon Explorer, Zelda, and Secret of Mana, respectively.

Doctor S-G is from my KH fanfic that I can never fully share. Great character, very deep and nuanced. More depth than his name perhaps suggests.

1-4 on PCE (TurboGrafx) CD is my favorite cluster of Ys games.

KFCMan mentioned LETS GOOOOOOO (I assume I am "Kuts")

Not familiar with this Anbernic stuff...... These are emulation machines shaped like actual retro (and modern) handhelds??

They are Chinese handhelds designed to look like Gameboys but they run Linux or Android and you can play a bunch of other consoles. Most of the lower end consoles from Anbernic can play up to PS1 or Dreamcast if you really push it.

I wouldn't be suprised if the next GOTY awards puts me in a coma. One already put me to sleep.

Thanks Mr. Wizard. Had never heard of those but I've been doing more emulation in an effort to preserve my actual hardware. I've got a Retroid Pocket.