Eternal Sonata is a role-playing video game developed by tri-Crescendo and published by Namco Bandai Games. The game is centered on the Polish romantic pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin, who died
Back around 2008 when this game was still fairly new, dinosaurs roamed the earth and those of us interested in playing games had to go to a store (uphill both ways) and interact with a human being in order to procure physical discs. I wasn’t very big into newer video games at the time, preferring …
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[Click here to start from the first progress log] I’ve officially finished Eternal Sonata for the second time, and that just leaves the fun part that I’ve waited years for: writing the review tearing into it and listing the many, many, many reasons why it’s awful. It’s not going to be gentle. First, though, I’m …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] Okay, so I meant to continue pushing through Eternal Sonata to finish it up, but ended up leaving it unplayed for a month. No regrets, but doing so led to some awkwardness when going back to the controls. I was also dogsitting, so I had to …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] Things got incredibly busy this month, and since I’ve started to slot old games into any free space I have between newer titles rather than focusing equally on the two, it’s been almost 20 days since I last played Eternal Sonata. As much as I’d love …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] This is another 1-2 hours of nothing in particular happening while random subplots arise and are apparently resolved out of nowhere. I haven’t been keeping track, but it seems like both of those things have been happening a lot. It’s kind of stunning how everyone has …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] This is where we bid adieu to Powerful Anime Jeff. In case you don’t remember, he’s the random Royal Brat Baddie underling who attacked Polka and Fauxpin in the forest “for the lulz.” Sadly, he hasn’t been forced to go through a bunch of mandatory fights …
A whole bunch of pointless cutscenes await in the near future, but this is easily my favorite among them. It starts innocuously enough, with Royal Br [...]
[Click here to start from the first progress log] This is yet another progress log where nothing of real importance happens, and it’s all because this game loves spinning its wheels. Everyone’s goal is to go talk to Royal Brat Baddie, but the ADHD and general incompetence of both the party and the NPCS littering …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] In the last progress log, I mentioned that I didn’t know when the one character I remembered liking joins the party. Turns out the answer was “literally 9 steps past where I stopped playing last time.” Seriously, there’s video and I counted. Only 9 steps. That’s …
[Click here to start from the first progress log] The last progress log ended with Polka randomly inviting Fauxpin into the forest to show him something. Is it some kind of eldritch horror? Perhaps a stash of decapitated heads belonging to all of the sensible people who refused to be her friend? No, of course …
