I am over it.
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samatethecookieSo tired. I've been awake since five o'clock this morning. @_@; I can't wait to get to sleep tonight, because I had a bad day and I want to put it behind me.
I got The Princess on the Frog on Blu Ray today! It's great. (And I spazzed out because OMG, THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE'S COMING OUT IN APRIL, EEEEEE.)
I played through Final Fantasy XIII a bit more today, and I've finally reached chapter eight. Obviously there's a huge spoiler warning here. Nothing major, but I'm putting a warning up just in case anyone else hasn't reached that point yet.
(1) IDK, you guys. I've reached chapter eight of Final Fantasy XIII, and so far the angst hasn't been too much to deal with. Given the situation that all of the characters are thrown into, their reactions make sense. I don't think the majority of people would adopt, I don't know, Vanille's (feigned) attitude if they knew their paths would either lead them to turning into a monster or turning into a crystal. And really, this angst that everybody's complaining about is no different than angst featured in previous Final Fantasy games. I think what players are having a problem with is how the events begin and where the story starts? It's hard to get a grasp on how the characters are before the drama unfolds and they're justifiably upset about it.
(2) You know, I don't know where they're going with these scenes with Sazh/Vanille, but the shipper within me is falling into the trap. A TRAP THAT WILL LEAVE ME BITTER FOREVER. I refuse to fall for it because I know where this is going. :| (I'm losing. T-They're on a "park date", for God's sake. I CAN'T RESIST THINGS LIKE THAT.)
Other than that, no ships at the moment. Snow/Serah is cute, but I haven't seen enough of them to really make my mind up about it, and they lack the certain something I look for in ships. Fang/Vanille is fascinating, but watch, they're sisters or cousins or something and the incest will leave me feeling icky all over for even considering it. Snow/Fang seems okay, but that's really cruel to Serah, imho.
(3) I AM SO GLAD HOPE IS DONE BEING AN ANGSTY BITCH. It got to the point where I didn't want him in my party at all because he aggravated me so much. (And I was suspicious of him fighting alongside Snow, because there were points where he'd straight out stop healing me in the party and I ended up dying. Little bastard.) He still does, but his mommy and daddy issues seem like they've been settled and I can only hope that it remains that way.
(4) I kind of don't like where they went with Vanille's characterization. Like, I get what they're trying to do, but what I think ruined the impact for me was how they revealed everything about her from the very beginning. "Oh, she's cheerful, but it's just a mask for the darkness within her! She's sad and she's done things she regrets!" If it hadn't been for her inner monologue throughout the game, her relationship with Fang would've been a bit more shocking.
I got The Princess on the Frog on Blu Ray today! It's great. (And I spazzed out because OMG, THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE'S COMING OUT IN APRIL, EEEEEE.)
I played through Final Fantasy XIII a bit more today, and I've finally reached chapter eight. Obviously there's a huge spoiler warning here. Nothing major, but I'm putting a warning up just in case anyone else hasn't reached that point yet.
(1) IDK, you guys. I've reached chapter eight of Final Fantasy XIII, and so far the angst hasn't been too much to deal with. Given the situation that all of the characters are thrown into, their reactions make sense. I don't think the majority of people would adopt, I don't know, Vanille's (feigned) attitude if they knew their paths would either lead them to turning into a monster or turning into a crystal. And really, this angst that everybody's complaining about is no different than angst featured in previous Final Fantasy games. I think what players are having a problem with is how the events begin and where the story starts? It's hard to get a grasp on how the characters are before the drama unfolds and they're justifiably upset about it.
(2) You know, I don't know where they're going with these scenes with Sazh/Vanille, but the shipper within me is falling into the trap. A TRAP THAT WILL LEAVE ME BITTER FOREVER. I refuse to fall for it because I know where this is going. :| (I'm losing. T-They're on a "park date", for God's sake. I CAN'T RESIST THINGS LIKE THAT.)
Other than that, no ships at the moment. Snow/Serah is cute, but I haven't seen enough of them to really make my mind up about it, and they lack the certain something I look for in ships. Fang/Vanille is fascinating, but watch, they're sisters or cousins or something and the incest will leave me feeling icky all over for even considering it. Snow/Fang seems okay, but that's really cruel to Serah, imho.
(3) I AM SO GLAD HOPE IS DONE BEING AN ANGSTY BITCH. It got to the point where I didn't want him in my party at all because he aggravated me so much. (And I was suspicious of him fighting alongside Snow, because there were points where he'd straight out stop healing me in the party and I ended up dying. Little bastard.) He still does, but his mommy and daddy issues seem like they've been settled and I can only hope that it remains that way.
(4) I kind of don't like where they went with Vanille's characterization. Like, I get what they're trying to do, but what I think ruined the impact for me was how they revealed everything about her from the very beginning. "Oh, she's cheerful, but it's just a mask for the darkness within her! She's sad and she's done things she regrets!" If it hadn't been for her inner monologue throughout the game, her relationship with Fang would've been a bit more shocking.
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-17 12:29 am (UTC)Sounds like a good plan for the night! I started playing Final Fantasy XII sometime in January, but I got distracted from it. I've been meaning to play it again, but it's going to happen after I'm through with XIII. D:
I'm so excited about the Great Mouse Detective! I've watched the movie recently on YouTube, but it's going to be nice to have a physical copy of it again.
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:34 am (UTC)XD I meant FFXIII, I beat FFXII already. Was going to play DragonAge before bed but FFXIII sounds a little better...XD Especially since everyone on my flist who is playing it is WAY a head of me. I'm still on episode 1. lol. You have it for the PS3?
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Date: 2010-03-17 12:40 am (UTC)Oooh. Yeah, the earlier comment read as XII. And yep! I've got XIII for the PS3. I've gotten pretty far, but IDK how many chapters there are in total throughout the whole game. It's a good game. It gets more challenging as it goes on, but it's a flexible battle system, and the characters really grow on you when they begin to bond with each other.
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Date: 2010-03-17 01:33 am (UTC)At this point I'm hoping for a big twist or at least something remotely surprising or different.
wow this got really long, sorry about this
Date: 2010-03-17 02:51 am (UTC)As for Vanille...I'm in the middle with her. She has the potential to be the most interesting female character in the game just based on her backstory. I just don't like how they're going about it.
The character I wish would've been left out altogether is Hope. My problem with Hope is that they're painting him as this awkward, moody teenager who really is a good kid underneath his grief over his mother's death, but all I'm getting is this stupid, selfish brat who's justifiably grieving but he blatantly admits he's just looking for someone to blame--so he picks Snow instead of his mother who willingly walked into the battle, fully aware of the consequences--and he thought of his father as some cold-hearted jerk for...no reason so far other than obvious teenage angst. That doesn't make me like him; it just makes me wish something bad will happen to him to make him realize that he's not the only one who lost somebody in the Purge.
The main thing I feel that this Final Fantasy series did differently is the entire team. It breaks apart at the very beginning instead of banding together and attempting to get along with each other. They actually break apart because they can't agree on how to handle their situation! I like that they broke off into their own personal groups--Sazh and Vanille, Lightning and Hope, Snow forcibly with Fang and Cid, et cetera--because it just seems more realistic that their feelings over the matter would clash, even though they secretly want to stick together in case something happens. And I like their relationships with each other; I think the characters were paired off with the right people.
<3 Sazh is pretty damn cool. He's my unbiased favorite, even when I was watching the trailers and got like...one or two glimpses at him. I like how he seems to be the most multi-layered character of the bunch. It's a shame, because he was the running joke in the fandom--I'm sure you've seen the "fried chicken" icons once or twice--before he even had a chance. Personally I wouldn't have minded if he was the main character instead of Lightning, though I admit that Lightning's role as a protagonist is a step-up for Square-Enix.
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Date: 2010-03-17 02:52 am (UTC)