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re: Dissidia 012 Duodecim (☆04:16)

Van more fun to fight with than Lightning. Reasons for this probably being:
1. I don't hate Van. Might not care all that much for him, but I don't hate him either.
2. Van's moves more controllable.
3. Switched back to Action Style battle system.

There was this nice scene with Kuja in the reports section but the ending to it has me really confused about him. And I'm not talking about his gender.

re: Final Fantasy IX (☆49:52)

Off to find Hildegarde so that Frogcid can be changed back. Have all party members again plus the option to switch people in and out. Cue running back to the Grand Dragons to train up Garnet and Steiner but not before a quick detour to Iifa Tree to eat Level 5 Death.

Level 5 Death makes the training up process a million times faster. Half hour's work has resulted in Garnet LV50 and Steiner LV48. Zidane LV60. Considering staying there longer to have everyone learn all their abilities, but unsure if necessary at this point. I'll inevitably be back here later of course if I don't do it now. Or, maybe I can just stay there now and get everyone to LV70 or so and then take my party to the end of the game without grinding? Decisions, decisions.

( re: Dissidia 012 Duodecim (☆03:16) )

( re: Final Fantasy IX (☆46:32) )

Oh and, this is just a note to myself, but next time I'm feeling particularly bored, sort through my save files on my PSP. Since I have my Crisis Core PSP again, I want to separate my English and Japanese games. So yeah, will use separate memory cards for the different games and separate them via PSPs too.

I did something stupid earlier. I played Tales of Vesperia both on the X360 and on the PS3, and I never actually watched the PVs for it. Now, since I was watching some promotional videos for Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave and Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 (yes, I do watch them for Yuri. I KNOW THIS IS UNHEALTHY) I thought I'd go and check out the PVs for Vesperia and THIS WAS A STUPID IDEA. Because you see, when I first got the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia, I bought it out of my intense adoration for Yuri and not because I liked the X360 game. I did not...actually have a PS3 of my own, yet. So I didn't get a chance to use the preorder code that came with it until after it had already expired. So I missed out on the Tales of Abyss + Vesperia haircolors preorder DLC bonus.

Not only that, but because I was short on money, I wasn't able to purchase Tales of Vesperia: First Strike when it first came out. I did manage to get my hands on a copy that had a preorder code in it, but by then the code had already expired. AND AND, Tales of VS? I pre-ordered that, but didn't get the preorder code for the extra Tales of VS related skits you get for Tales of Vesperia.

I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN OVER THIS. EVER.

Because you see, it turns out that not only was the PS3 version of the game a lot better than the X360 version, but I have never stopped playing it. And it's become one of my favorite games and I am so sad that I missed out on those bonuses now. And because of this, I've become incredibly obsessive over preorder bonuses. I just. SO SAD. FOREVER.

(Namco, why would you put an expiration date on these things? Why?)

I got to the second disc! I just finished up Garnet's sequence in Alexandria and instead of moving off to Cleyra like I was supposed to uh, my brothers and I just spent the last few hours training up Zidane's party from level 18 to...level...50... Aha, thank you,

caethis, for your advice!

So uh, couple things to comment on~ ( this got really long. )

Hey, since when did the PS3 get a "saved data utility (remastered PSP/PSP)" folder? ...Is that for games like God of War Origins Collections? :/ Sony, sony, make it so that we can play downloaded PSP games on the PS3!! YOU WOULD ONLY EARN MONEY. (LMAO, I forgot I posted that on the forums. And HAHA someone told me that if they did that, nobody would buy a PSP. No, you're stupid. People would still buy a PSP because most people can't take a PS3 with them when they travel. THINK BEFORE YOU TELL ME MY IDEAS ARE WRONG.)

re: Final Fantasy IX (☆06:41) +2ish unsaved hrs
I FINALLY GOT TO ACTUALLY FIGHTING. My brother managed to impress 100 nobles today while I was off dealing with my car, so we finally continued the story today. 10,000g + Moonstone, get! Then I spent about an hour leveling up Zidane before rescuing Garnet. It's okay, she'll be okay while I train up. Zidane was LV8 by the time I went and actually did anything haha. And I'd stolen some 32 potions and hi-potions and phoenix downs. Yeah, Zidane's best at stealing at the beginning of the game. (Some of my more hardcore Zidane-fan friends insist that between Kaitou Kid and Lupin III, Zidane is the better thief. I beg to differ. Zidane sucks at stealing.)

Currently, I've finally made it to the world map and out of the Forest of Evil. Pretty boss! Current party levels: Zidane LV8, Vivi LV2, Steiner LV2. Mostly working on mastering abilities. I'll keep leveling up and then as soon as I get to Chocobo Hot and Cold I think my game is going to be at a standstill for several more hours. Man, I am the slowest Final Fantasy gamer ever. Also, Final Fantasy 8 and 9 have the most distracting minigames ever.

re: Dissidia [012] Duodecim (☆00:00)
Since I was out today, I started playing the Asian version of this game! Because it has Japanese voicing, English/Chinese subtitles, plus the option to import your save data from either US or JPN's version of Dissidia and Dissidia Universal Tuning. ♥ Anyway, I haven't gotten anywhere in it because I have this thing where I like to do Data Installs before I actually play the game, and er, yeah. By the time I realized I should deal with the Data Install later when I'm doing something else, my mom was ready to take me home. So yeah, haha, haven't done anything but Install Data for a few hours and import my save data from Dissidia.

Final Fantasy IX at 2:29 plus I don't know how many hours. We haven't even kidnapped Princess Garnet yet. :/ Spent all this time playing Tetra Master, Jump Rope, and trying to get 100 impressed nobles during the I Want to Be Your Canary fight scene. We gave up on Jump Rope after 200 and stopped doing Tetra Master a while ago when we cleaned out most of Alleyway Jack's cards. The 100 impressed nobles is something we're determined to get though, and it's eluding us pretty badly. My brothers can manage 96-98 pretty regularly, with my own highest score being a measly 73 haha. But yeah, trying to get 100... /SIGH

Lmao man, replaying Final Fantasys, you are always like this for me. I start a game, spend a gajillion hours at the very beginning doing nothing (getting Meteor Rain before Rufus#1, getting 21 Elnoyle cards before joining Rinoa, getting Blitz Ace before Calm Lands, etc.), and then I don't finish the rest of it. FF9 is hard though, because my reaction times aren't as good as they used to be and I cannot comprehend Tetra Master for the life of me. Too used to Triple Triad /sigh

In non-Final Fantasy IX news, I picked up Bastion on Steam a while ago, but since it's a PC game, I haven't had too many chances to play it until recently. Anyway, I started it and it is very, very, very nicely designed. I also suck at it. Pity. I do really like using the Breaker Bow and the Machete though!

Also in Team Fortress 2, my brother got me a few Strange Festive weapons the other week! For those not familiar with TF2, during Christmas they released a bunch of Christmas themed boxes and in the boxes were either hats or weapons. The weapons were all Christmas themed (icicles, Christmas lights, etc.), and had a small chance of being Strange (they track your kills). So yeah, my brother got me a Strange Festive Scatter Gun (for Scout), Sniper Rifle (for Sniper), and Rocket Launcher (for Soldier), since those are the classes I like the most. I haven't played Team Fortress 2 since early mid summer (I had about 70 hours back then), and so since those weapons actually cost a fair bit to get, I decided to get back into the game now that I don't have school.

I'm pretty much limiting myself 30 minutes to 1 hour on this game every day to try and get better at it. I am...currently failing pretty hard as a Scout but I'm better getting the hang of how to play Soldier and Sniper. I'm killing myself with my own blasts less as Soldier HAHA and I'm trying to get out of the habit of staying scoped in as Sniper. EVENTUALLY I WILL SUCK LESS, I HOPE.

Started playing Final Fantasy IX again!

I currently have my ~~slaves~~ brothers jumping rope for me. We're aiming for 300, current record is 57 lmao. Kind of tempted to go for 1000 though. King of Jump Rope indeed.

YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED A SWITCH-A-ROO IN USERNAMES. Due to someone absolutely amazing, I was able to acquire the username

killua for my main journal. Basically, my gameblog is now

tidus because my main journal, which used to be tidus, is now

killua. I'm kind of sorry not to be Tidus anymore, but Killua beats Tidus on my list (by quite a lot even if Tidus is #2). That's okay though, because since I'm doing a fair bit of gaming these days in my spare time, I should be using this blog (

tidus!!) more.

...Anyway, I finished Star Ocean III. And by finish, I mean I beat crazy Luther and am moving into Maze of Tribulations. And by I, I mean I got tired of the story and let my dad do it.

( re: Star Ocean III Till The End of Time (★65:50) )

Considering playing either Lost Odyssey, Shadow Hearts II: Covenant, Tactics OGRE or any of the following Final Fantasys (VI, IX, X) next. You know, in between everything else I need to do.

HAPPY NEW YEARS! I hope everyone has a great year ahead of them! I'm currently wishing I lived in the UK so I can watch the airing of BBC Sherlock Series 2. I need it in my life like, yesterday.

( re: Star Ocean III Till The End of Time (☆54:50) )

I still need to find time to respond to Disgaea 4. I'll do that...soon. I mean, I have the time now that I've graduated haha. Anyway, I've neglected this blog for forever due to aforementioned graduation endeavors, and now I am on vacation for the holidays before I settle into a never-ending process of job applications and portfolio improvement.

I've been spending a fair bit of the last few days playing Star Ocean III (Director's Cut) again. I know, I know, another Star Ocean game so soon after the last one? Am I crazy? Possibly. But Star Ocean III is the only Star Ocean game that I've honestly ever liked, and it was also my first Star Ocean game, the game that got me really into Star Ocean in the first place. Unfortunately.

( re: Star Ocean III Till The End of Time (☆30:42) )

I just got back from the midnight release of Arkham City! I preordered the limited edition version a while ago and was kind of on the fence about actually getting it. I am so glad I did. The figure is gorgeous and this is seriously some of the nicest packaging I've ever seen. ( No, seriously, nicest packaging ever! I have ten more photos as proof! )

At the midnight release I got a free t-shirt and a poster, and then when I was shown the Other Stuff...I ended up picking up Batman Year One (Blu-Ray+DVD) (10% discount!), the Arkham City guidebook (15% discount!), and ...the Arkham City PS3 controller ($10 off!). The Arkham City PS3 controller is really cool, it's shaped like a Batarang, it lights up with 7 different colors that you can choose from, and it's a rechargeable wireless controller! Super cool looking. Unfortunately, it's not as good a controller as the normal one, but it still looks awesome and works well-enough so I don't mind too much. Unfortunately the controls are in the same order as the X360 controller - I think it was made originally for the X360 and they just decided to make a PS3 one to make more sales and that's why it's not such a great PS3 controller but that might be my anti-X360 bias showing up ahah.

Anyway, I'm super behind on blogging about things. I won't actually get to play Arkham City for a while (and they kind of screwed up my order...I got two Catwoman DLC codes instead of my Dark Knight Returns code ;-; I'm probably gonna call Best Buy tomorrow morning to ask but I expect that since this is a packaging error I'll actually have to call the company instead. /sadface Aside from that I also need to get around to writing up my Disgaea 4 response, but all in good time! Catching up on real life too!

I'll be back later with my opinion on Disgaea 4 (it was a very positive opinion, actually! It's been too long since I enjoyed a game from beginning to end. ♥) since this post will be devoted to more recent game news (that's pertinent to my interests.)

Odin Sphere is on the PSN today! After however many years since they removed backwards compatibility, Sony is finally porting PS2 games to the PS3 via PSN downloads! I'm actually pretty stoked. I had originally been hoping they'd do this for Final Fantasy X, but since a remake (probably an HD remaster, when you think about it) has been announced for that, I wasn't going to complain too much. But eee, there's so many PS2 games that I want to play on the PS3 that haven't been remastered (Klonoa 2, Shadow Hearts 2, etc.) so this is awesome. And Odin Sphere being one of the first ones is awesome. (I've never played Odin Sphere actually, but I've always really wanted to and kind of just never got around to it!) Other games that were released as PS2 classics today were God Hand and GrimGrimoire.

...Yeah, updating my Xillia PS3 to a 500GB harddrive is a must, because I went ahead and purchased Odin Sphere and it's like 3.5GB.

On the same topic, Chrono Trigger is on PSN today! I know, I know, it's the laggy PSX version where you can have tea and cake between screens but it's still Chrono Trigger and it's still fantastic and even with shit loading times I still loved it. *3* I wish they'd put the version they did for Nintendo on the PS3 though (LOL I know, it's wishful thinking and will never happen) because that was a fantastic remake. ♥

Odin Sphere was $9.99, as was Chrono Trigger. Pick it up if you love these games! ♥

EDIT/ Oh, and Nightwing is playable in Arkham City. This game is going to be boss.

I beat the main story of Disgaea 4!

I think I like it even better than the original Disgaea. *3* It was a really, really good game. More on this later!

The Tales of Heroes: Twin Brave website was updated er, yesterday! They have the character page up now with information on the first six characters announced (Yuri, Flynn, Lloyd, Zelos, Jude, and Milla), and some other stuff! I took some screencaps here, but definitely go navigate the website!

I can't get over the fact that Yuri and Flynn are in the logo. This is totally my favorite logo ever.

( Another 3 screencaps! ) The game's coming out next year, but the exact date hasn't been announced yet!

This is mostly a Tales of Xillia post because I have started playing it! I haven't played it a lot or anything, because I'm playing it with one of my roommates and I promised to let her see the story. Given that we're both pretty busy, that means that I haven't exactly been playing it in the...two days that I've had it.

However, I did get as far as Alvin! Who is so incredibly good looking and I absolutely, definitely approve. And I also got to see the absolutely epic opening sequence that plays after you finish the introduction to either character, and it is epic. ( Continued under a cut because this post was getting quite long. I have screencaps that I filched off the website! )

EDIT Chrono Trigger is coming to US PSN on October 4th! And this time it's not a false alarm! Still waiting for news on FFVI though!

Look what I got in the mail today! ♥

Thanks to

arahata, I was able to preorder this way back when and now it's here! It's absolutely beautiful and I am in love with it. I haven't turned it on or set it up though, since it's a 160GB PS3 and I want to give it a hard drive update before I do all my data transfer. 500GB hard drives are only about $50 on Amazon right now, so I might order one today and get it in the next two days so that I can do my transfer. :D ...Or I might just keep it in the box for now because I do have a PS3 here already that I need to give to my brother. No use keeping two PS3s on hand at once and all that. It's all pretty and pristine in its box right now anyway TTwTT I want to wait until I have a much nicer apartment all set up for me before I start using it. Lol my carpet is so gross.

( More photos of it here! )

I didn't really seriously start this game yet, though I did pop it into the PS3 to at least see what it looked like. It's both really pretty and kind of not. Like, the graphics are the nicest I've seen in a Tales game by far, but it seems Tales Studio is finally venturing out of its SD/chibi stage, and trying to go for much more realistic proportions and facial movements. What results is some kind of funny looking morph where it's successful in some parts and very unsuccessful in others. It's actually kind of hilarious to watch.

Oh, and the package came with my copy of Final Fantasy IV: Complete so I'll be playing that at some point in the future! ...Eventually! ...After all the other PSP games I have to play are finished...

Anyway, Shadow of the Colossus & Ico collection came out today in America!

arahata ordered the Japanese limited edition collection for me, but I don't think I can wait that long to play it. I'll play the English copy that I got for my family haha for now. ♥

( re: Kirby Mass Attack (☆21%) )

agro and I flipped a coin to see whether I'd change Blackii to Yorda or Agro, and

yorda won. Eeee, I love Yorda she's so pretty and so is her name. And now Gogo is

agro so we are officially fabulously awesome together.

So. Star Ocean IV. Um, before I continue, please keep in mind that I am oft very critical of everything I watch and play, but I absolutely do not mind if someone disagrees with my opinion. My disliking something you like a lot is not at all an indication of how I feel about you so don't take my opinions personally. I've heard that I'm pretty funny, so I don't know, try enjoying the vast amounts of misery I convey in relating my experiences!

(Also, no matter how awful I have found some games, anime, manga, films, or whatnot, I am generally able to at least find one or two positive things about them so I swear I am not entirely a bundle of negativity!)

( re: Star Ocean IV: The Last Hope —International— (★53:40) )

And if you didn't feel like reading all that, see icon for how I felt about the game.

In preparation for my Star Ocean IV review, the updated Rena Lanford Scale of Characters I Cannot Stand. So named because guess who's at the top of this list. The only list she'll ever top.

(BTW, this really is a scale. The further apart characters are, the more or less I can stand them in comparison to other characters.)

( The Rena Lanford Scale of Characters I Cannot Stand )

This may or may not be updated as I play new games/remember terrible people.

The games that I've picked up recently and started playing! They're really both so very adorable.

( re: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (☆04:30) )
( re: Kirby Mass Attack (☆1%) )

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