THE FUSE

Over the past year, I have spent at least three individual nights yelling over the din of a loud New York City bar to try and sell someone on The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Too Kyo Games’ passion project visual novel/tactics RPG hybrid is the kind of thing that you can easily convince someone is impressive, but getting anyone to get over the hump of its magnitude and actually play it is something that still eludes me as we approach the end of the year. I think at a certain point, I accepted that as long as I could get someone to respect The Hundred Line, that was enough for me. If anything, I consider the fact that it’s such a hard sell to some people a testament to its accomplishments.