I realized that I haven't written about two of the latest Final Fantasy games that I'm playing!

Final Fantasy Code 0 (PSP)
This is the school war drama Final Fantasy. Long story short: Class 0 and their two new transfer students help Suzaku win the war against Byakko (with Gembu and Souryuu also involved). You go to classes, take on missions, make ( Read more... )

This is slightly old due to all of the Olympic updates, but... guess who finally beat FF13?
( No real story spoilers, but cut for minor gameplay spoilers. It shouldn't be anything more spoilerific than your average pre-release game article. I vaguely discuss the ending, but it shouldn't be considered a spoiler if you've ever played a FF game before. )

So, I managed to play 3 hours of Final Fantasy XIII last night. I finished the first few chapters, finally reached a point in the game where I can start leveling up and using strategy in fights, and earned three trophies for... well, I'm not entirely sure what. For not dying straight away, I think. So here are a few of my first impressions!
( Cut for minor spoilers, although probably nothing bigger than previously released information or spoilers from the released demo. )

It's 8:15am, and I have a copy of Final Fantasy 13 sitting in my desk at work.

....

Can I go home now?

This is going to be a very long day. ^_^

And a quick note to translation companies: if you are trying to encourage people to contact your company, you might want to avoid having TWO major typos on the "Contact us" page alone. (Or should I say, the "Contac us" page.) Le sigh. In other news...

( Video Games Part 1: Valyria Chronicles 2 )

So things are going... Well, they're going. >_< My monitor blew out during the middle of work yesterday (literally, there was a pop and then it turned black) and so I spent a while carting monitors around and hooking them up. THEN, I found out that we have a surprise work day today (Saturday), which is just arrrrrgh. SO not fair; I really hate 1 ( Read more... )

Holy cow, I'm exhausted. The filming today took no time at all, but I still spent half of the day in either a car or train, so I chugged a very sugary latte in an attempt to wake up. (Note: Backfired big time. Caffeine is a total crap shoot with me: I'm either insanely wired for the next 6 hours, or I immediately want to curl into a ball and go to ( Read more... )

I haven't actually made a real post recently, so here's what I've been up to for the past month.

• A group of wonderful folks came to visit Japan. We shopped and went to the Winter Comiket and ate parfaits the size of my head and went to the hot springs in Hakone and wents to the Ghibli museum and had dinner with various members of the anime ( Read more... )

I've been surprisingly busy the past two weeks or so. I'm leaving this weekend for a trip to Greece with kinomakoto, and I'm super excited. My laundry isn't quite done and my apartment probably won't get cleaned before I go, but I'm basically ready. Hurray! Excitement!

A few weeks ago, I was watching one of the millions of animal related TV shows in Japan ( Read more... )

Well, I watched the final ever episode of "Gakkou e Ikou" last week. Despite the fact that I haven't watched the show regularly for about two years, I've been a fan since 2000, so it was still very sad to have it come to an end. Then again, the show ran 11 years, so it had a good run. They've done some retrospectives over the past few weeks, and it ( Read more... )