The Longest Grind 00 - A Short Introduction

What is The Longest Grind?

The Longest Grind is a series of blog entries on my personal experience of mightily struggling to complete JRPGs and competing in fighting games.

What inspired you to do The Longest Grind?

A combination of how long it’s taken me to complete JRPGs in the past year or so, feeling the pain of realizing of actually going after the true ending on Bravely Default after barely beating the Airy battle before it, and the spark of wanting to write frequently again and a place to pour my thoughts out to.

What do you hope to achieve with The Longest Grind?

I have a personal goal with The Longest Grind to rekindle my interest in just writing in general. My English professor from my first semester in college suggested to me to write a journal to improve my writing, and it has helped immensely. I kept to myself during my college and writing was one of the few hobbies to mitigate the constant stress of studying and passing classes. I really like writing at that time even though it was BS stuff and didn’t share it with anyone. This time, I hope my writing will provide some entertaining reads to whoever reads this stuff.

What games will you be covering for The Longest Grind?

I’ll probably start the blog series by covering a few fighting games I spent a ton of time with in the past two years.

Fighting Games

• Persona 4 Arena
• BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
• Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012

JRPGS

• Bravely Default, then whatever games I play after I eventually finish BD.

How long do you plan to run this blog for?

I hope I can reach a number of entries for this blog series, especially once I get rolling into some other JRPGs after Bravely Default. All I can say is, “we’ll see”.

Hey, I already wrote my first entry. Go!