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	[quote name="Bananadine"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]<A HREF="http://www.scottgames.com/" TARGET="new">The Desolate Room</A> is a great game, and you really should stop reading this and get to downloading if you haven't tried it yet. It takes the traditional jRPG battle system and throws grind out the window by giving your team access to their full range of interesting and varied powers from the get-go. Most enemies are way too tough to take down by just haphazardly making attacks. To win you need a strategy that combines your party's skills to short circuit the enemy's powers. Leveling up mainly serves as a means of augmenting your chosen strategy, and the gains are pretty marginal. The result is something I would have thought impossible: a jRPG that tests your skill instead of your patience.[/quote] I just finished this game and you are right. It was actually kind of hard! Watching those Muppet robots dance is awesome! [quote name="Derek Yu of TIGSource"]When you realize what the title of the game means, it’s a genuinely chilling moment. I’ll be thinking about this game for a while.[/quote] Hm I don't know that he's right. I guess I basically understand what happened in the story, which implies that I know what the title of the game means, but I'm more curious than chilled. It seems like the story wasn't complete. I was waiting for one of those "so-and-so is actually... SO-AND-SO" revelations to pop up and clumsily resolve everything but no it's just some big pointless unresolved disaster that for some reason was presented to me in an upbeat, exciting way. [quote name="FABIO"]And seriously, fuck the ending.[/quote] Yes that too. :( BUT it was a good game in most of the important ways so who cares.[/quote]