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		<title>March is on fire for games; also other stuff.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a long time since I wrote up anything here.  More than two months, in fact.
My main purpose in posting here is to point out the nice swath of RPG/strategy (or in one case, just incredibly interesting) games that are coming out in March.
Infinite Space is a Sega RPG on DS that looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2010/01/march-is-on-fire-for-games-also-other-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Dwelling on Digital Devil Saga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written up a pair of reviews for this series at videolamer, but I wanted to go into a little bit more about the atmosphere of Digital Devil Saga &#8211; because it is nearly perfect for a post-apocalyptic game (with no real-world tie in beyond vague references to global warming).  I grabbed the soundtrack for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/10/dwelling-on-digital-devil-saga/</link>
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		<title>Persona PSP Remake &#8211; The Power of Sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the PSP remake of Persona last week.  Thus far I&#8217;ve found it to be mostly superior to the original, with some relatively minor negatives.
The biggest positive is that the relatively low-quality and occasionally downright strange original localization has been replaced with a spiffy, high-quality and more accurate job.  No longer does the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/09/persona-psp-remake-the-power-of-sound/</link>
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		<title>A Farewell to (Wild) Arms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first RPGs to land on the Playstation in 1997 was an unassuming, Old West-inspired game by the name of Wild Arms. Though it never managed to compete with more mainstream series, it has a greatness all its own; with a solid difficulty balance, a variety of puzzles, and a plot that dwells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/08/a-farewell-to-wild-arms/</link>
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		<title>Mini-update: Rune Factory Frontier, Black Sigil, Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent game-playing has been prone to brief enjoyment followed by hours of disappointment.
Rune Factory Frontier is paradise for anyone with ADD.  You will do a dozen different things a day and make no significant progress in any of them.  For me, this was really fun for about a week and a half.  Then sort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/07/mini-update-rune-factory-frontier-black-sigil-reading/</link>
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		<title>Mini-review: Dark Souls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a much-abridged review of Dark Souls; a fuller review can be had here.
Dark Souls is an indie RPG, created in the much-maligned RPG maker.  Aside from its oversized font (compare its font and The Spirit Engine 2&#8217;s), you wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell so easily; it runs quite fast and despite being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/06/mini-review-dark-souls/</link>
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		<title>Go for Baroque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often avoid buying games when they catch my eye at a store.  But I had heard so much bad and so little good about Baroque that I avoided it for the better part of the year, despite wandering over and reading the back every other time I went to the local Gamestop (not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/05/go-for-baroque/</link>
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		<title>Uncharted Waters, Valkyrie Profile &amp; Suikoden Tierkreis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just today, Koei&#8217;s classic &#8220;Uncharted Waters: New Horizons&#8221; was released on Virtual Console.  I can think of few other games that would incite me to write an update.  UWNH is a great game, being open-ended, stats-and-menu-filled, and incidentally very rare.  It&#8217;s a standout even among Koei&#8217;s crop of SNES games, and sure to please any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/04/uncharted-waters-valkyrie-profile-suikoden-tierkreis/</link>
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		<title>Now a true RPG fan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since my last post.  I&#8217;ve been shoring up some of the other pages (creating an HTML version of the FFL2 FAQ in honor of SaGa2 DS and updating the Destiny of an Editor section to reflect more recent work).
I have also been playing one of the most popular RPG &#8220;classics&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/03/now-a-true-rpg-fan/</link>
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		<title>Personas &amp; Phantasies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, it&#8217;s been awhile.
In the past several weeks, I have beaten two games that start with &#8220;P&#8221; and end with &#8220;4&#8243;.
First off is Persona 4, which is an excellent game.  At this point I think it&#8217;s in the running for my favorite RPG ever.  It is leaps and bounds beyond Persona 3, and far easier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niahak.org/2009/02/personas-phantasies/</link>
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