When you're in a dungeon or cave, you can open the UMD tray, or take the UMD out, and not deal with random encounters. If you're coming up on a boss fight though make sure to put the UMD back in before you initiate the battle.
Video games is such a diverse medium that it is somewhat easy to forget that differing opinions, however alien they may be to your own, are welcome for a critical debate. Recently, a forum user named Melaisis posted a rather interesting article titled “Games Are Not Art.” I won’t go into much detail here, but suffice to say, Melaisis gives the theory that due to the inaccessibility of certain games by the general public, games cannot, all things considered, be art in the sense... read more...