Cleared another nine stages in Yoshi's Island, and I restarted Harmony of Dissonance. Mainly because I've forgotten most of the game, but also because I wanted a fresh reminder as to how stupid the dialogue was. Why do all the IGA Belmonts have brain damage?

I remember back when I first played this, I was getting Game Overs left and right. So far, I've only gotten two because I didn't realize how little HP Juste had. Still, this game is really tame compared to Circle of the Moon - I've pretty much button mashed all three bosses so far and beaten them on my first try. In CotM, the Cerberus, which was the first or second boss (I had actually put CotM away for a long time after getting out of the catacombs, then when I picked it back up I finished it without a long break. That's not uncommon for me to do), slaughtered me when I tried that.

I've only been playing for just over an hour (though it felt like three), and I've already opened up 40% of the map.

This game's skeleton-to-everything-else ratio is even worse than LoI.