Beyond the Beyond – Part 2
The second half of Beyond the Beyond goes quick. At this point in the game, your options for what to do next start narrowing, and the narrative picks up, making it easier to find your path forward. In the last part, I had just unlocked a path across the ocean that led to the next dungeon. I have to reiterate how exciting this moment was for me. This is where my childhood playthrough stalled out, and I was now breaking new ground and moving into the unknown. The Gaea Shrine was my next destination. This was another dungeon that was designed to be another brutal slog with eight floors of increasingly tough battles.…
Beyond The Beyond – PS1 Game Review
Beyond the Beyond was the first JRPG to land on western shores for the original PlayStation. It was also one of the very first games I ever played on that console. The game itself felt like an oddity, with towns, dungeons, and sprites that looked more at home on the Super Nintendo than on Sony’s much more powerful hardware. The battles tried to stand out with quasi-3D animations, 2D sprites clashing on a 3D battlefield, but it still felt stuck in the past. I still remember heading up to Family Video on a Friday night, hunting for something to play that weekend. Flipping through the limited PlayStation section, I was drawn in by…