S.E.E.S.

It was May 2020. I was taking one of my daily walks around the neighborhood, lost in the existential fog of those early Pandemic days. I was listening to an episode of Retronauts on Etrian Odyssey, Atlus’s series of dual-screen (mostly) dungeon crawlers. Jeremy Parrish, longtime evangelist of the series, was opening up about how difficult it had been in recent years to keep up with the series. When he was younger, he would grind away the hours with his DS in bed. Now that he was older, he admitted to having trouble staying awake for more than a few minutes before sleep took him. I laughed to myself, thinking that would never happen to me. I get most of my productive gaming in at night!

Which brings me to my mea culpa: it happened to me. S.E.E.S hasn’t really taken off yet because of my inability to stay awake past 9 pm. After schoolwork, parenting, podcast prep and the Sisyphean task of maintaining my household, I often don’t have the mental energy to devote to gaming. But I hope that will change. It’s officially MP3 and I am committed to restarting this little project of mine. Wish me luck. S.E.E.S Game #1: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003).