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Another "what I'm up to" post!
Gaming: I'm at the end of White Knight Chronicles 2, but am stuck. I'd really love to get my hands around the throat of whichever person working on this game piped up in a meeting and said, "Hey guys, I've got a great idea! For one of the hardest boss fights in the game, let's force a character into the party that the player hasn't had access to since halfway through the game! So he'll be grossly under leveled! Even better, let's not give the player a chance to alter the character's sucky equipment or give him any decent healing items before the battle! And hey, why not have the character bring another boss with them when they drop into the battle, so an already difficult fight will be even harder?" Seriously, there's a line between "challenging" and "needlessly frustrating". Having to go through a large chunk of the game without the Knights? Challenging. Having a crappy, under-leveled, poorly equipped character forced into an incredibly hard boss fight and thereby totally destroying the strategy you'd built around the party you've been using all this time? Infuriating. I wouldn't mind if he'd been forced in as an extra party member, but no. You have to kick out someone who's actually useful.
Anyway, FFXIII-2 is on the way so I'll be playing it next. Hope I can finish WKC2 first, but if not, oh well. I'm not gonna torture myself.
Anime: I'm rewatching Fushigi Yuugi. Just today I got to that episode. You know, the one that can still make every late 90's anime fan sob uncontrollably at the mere thought of it. Yeah. I cried like a little girl. Again. Every single time. Forever.
Also watching Tiger & Bunny. It's surprisingly addictive, and all the characters are easy to root for. I was pulling for Tiger like two minutes into the first episode. It's a pretty slick anime that can accomplish that. I think Origami Cyclone is my favorite, but I like all of them. I'm 16 episodes in.
Manga: Working on reading through B.O.D.Y., a cute but sort of predictable shoujo manga. I'm really liking this trend (of the past few years) of shoujo manga love interests not being total abusive douchebags. Most of them still aren't perfect (and they'd be kinda boring if they were), but the fact that most of them aren't repeatedly trying to rape the heroines is a nice change of pace.
Other: Reading the Catherine Lim ("The Bondmaid", "Teardrop Story Woman") novel "Following the Wrong God Home". Like her previous work, it's fantastic. She's really the only author I can tolerate reading romance from, only because she writes romance in such a wonderfully passionate yet honest and realistic way. She perfectly captures that feeling you have when you're hopelessly in love, that longing and that ache. But she's not afraid to bring reality crashing down on it. A lot of romances end badly. This fact isn't lost on her.
And that's all for now! I know I sorta skipped a week but I've had trouble with sore teeth and other things.
Gaming: I'm at the end of White Knight Chronicles 2, but am stuck. I'd really love to get my hands around the throat of whichever person working on this game piped up in a meeting and said, "Hey guys, I've got a great idea! For one of the hardest boss fights in the game, let's force a character into the party that the player hasn't had access to since halfway through the game! So he'll be grossly under leveled! Even better, let's not give the player a chance to alter the character's sucky equipment or give him any decent healing items before the battle! And hey, why not have the character bring another boss with them when they drop into the battle, so an already difficult fight will be even harder?" Seriously, there's a line between "challenging" and "needlessly frustrating". Having to go through a large chunk of the game without the Knights? Challenging. Having a crappy, under-leveled, poorly equipped character forced into an incredibly hard boss fight and thereby totally destroying the strategy you'd built around the party you've been using all this time? Infuriating. I wouldn't mind if he'd been forced in as an extra party member, but no. You have to kick out someone who's actually useful.
Anyway, FFXIII-2 is on the way so I'll be playing it next. Hope I can finish WKC2 first, but if not, oh well. I'm not gonna torture myself.
Anime: I'm rewatching Fushigi Yuugi. Just today I got to that episode. You know, the one that can still make every late 90's anime fan sob uncontrollably at the mere thought of it. Yeah. I cried like a little girl. Again. Every single time. Forever.
Also watching Tiger & Bunny. It's surprisingly addictive, and all the characters are easy to root for. I was pulling for Tiger like two minutes into the first episode. It's a pretty slick anime that can accomplish that. I think Origami Cyclone is my favorite, but I like all of them. I'm 16 episodes in.
Manga: Working on reading through B.O.D.Y., a cute but sort of predictable shoujo manga. I'm really liking this trend (of the past few years) of shoujo manga love interests not being total abusive douchebags. Most of them still aren't perfect (and they'd be kinda boring if they were), but the fact that most of them aren't repeatedly trying to rape the heroines is a nice change of pace.
Other: Reading the Catherine Lim ("The Bondmaid", "Teardrop Story Woman") novel "Following the Wrong God Home". Like her previous work, it's fantastic. She's really the only author I can tolerate reading romance from, only because she writes romance in such a wonderfully passionate yet honest and realistic way. She perfectly captures that feeling you have when you're hopelessly in love, that longing and that ache. But she's not afraid to bring reality crashing down on it. A lot of romances end badly. This fact isn't lost on her.
And that's all for now! I know I sorta skipped a week but I've had trouble with sore teeth and other things.