I actually only picked this up as a primary text for my research. I enjoyed FFVII an awful lot, but didn't develop much of a fannish attachment to it (missed out on the nostalgia factor, for one thing, by only playing it for the first time, er, last year ¬_¬) - not enough to pick up the spin-offs, at any rate. So I was kind of surprised by just how ( Read more... )

Title: Erosion
Pairing: None. Gen, Angeal-centric
Rating: PG-13
Word count: c.2500
Summary: Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades. This is not true. Angeal weeps for himself.
A/N: Set after Angeal first disappears, and before Zack meets him again at his mother's house. ( skippable rambling commentary )

On making the first videogame ever to make me cry.

And when I say congratulations, I mean fuck you; I'm going to be useless for the rest of the day, now.

More coherent thoughts on Crisis Core to come in the probably not-too-distant future.

Unsuccessful melding of story, emotional trajectory and gameplay: making the fight against Angeal last so long that when it's over, I am punching the air and yelling YEAH GET IN while Zack is sobbing in a corner ( Read more... )

Things I have read/watched/become unduly obsessed with recently:

1) Naomi Novik's Temeraire book series (or, The Great Platonic Love of One Man and His Dragon): ( massively tl;dr non-spoilery review )