Girl, If You're Depressed, You Better SOUND Like It!
You know what I like to do when I play Mario Kart Wii? I like to go on Time Trials through each stage using the character whose stage that is and the kart/bike that is most "appropriate." Like, I'll go on Daisy Circuit and use Daisy on the Daytripper or go through Rainbow Road with Rosalina using the Spear or something or through Wario's Gold Mine with Wario on the Wario Bike. I don't know why. I think it looks cool or something.
But that's not important! What IS important is that I'm still stuck in the Black Dream Tower in Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth and I should have been out of there a long time ago. It's those stupid Monstrous Glowflies that keep attacking my people. I'm a perfectionist with my games, so I hate to have anyone dead at the end of a battle, even if it's just a random battle. I'm also trying to level Janus up, and he keeps dying so, basically, I'm stuck in this tower because I want to defeat these Monstrous Glowflies and also have Janus still be alive by the end of the fight and it's not working so well. I guess I'll have to level him up some more with other enemies but that takes foreeeever. Come ON, Janus! I want to get to Chapter 6 already and get Lucian!
Speaking of which, I have to say this. The voice acting in the game...makes me laugh sometimes. I don't know if it's a case of the voice actors never being given much information about the game or the characters or what but it just doesn't seem to fit sometimes. This is probably just my own perception, since I've seen reviews where people thought the voice acting was pretty good but, for a game with such a somber mood, the characters somehow sound too "normal" or something. The best explanation I can come up with is that a lot of times they seem to read lines that end with "..." as if they ended with "!"
And in this video at around 2:16 you can see my favorite "weird delivery". ^_^; To me, it sounds like, "*whiny voice* Luciaaaan.... *weirdly perky sounding* What'sgoingon? DoyouknowwhatTIMEitIS?" I don't know if it's my ears or what. I guess I feel like Platina should sound way more bummed out or something. Her parents are abusive, she just got slapped in the face... Come OOOOON! Well, maybe I shouldn't be all cranky with her for not sounding depressed despite her circumstances. Anyway! It is a beautiful and depressing game. With some questionable voice acting sometimes. But still good.
Also, since Here is Greenwood is being made into a drama, my new dream drama that I hope they'll make someday is Ookiku Furikabutte. Which, it just got licensed! YAAAY! And yet...not so yay at the same time because if they take forever to come out with the DVDs then that means I won't be able to see Mihashi for a while. And that will break my heart. Apparently, the English title is going to be Big Windup or something. I guess that's as accurate as anything...? I reaaally hope they choose good voice actors for the dub. I know I don't have to watch it, but I'd like it to have a good dub nonetheless. Get Mihashi a GOOD voice actor. *_* Anyway, a GOOD drama of this series would just... I don't even know what I'd do with myself.
Ok, back to work. Janus, please don't make me have to keep restarting.
Edit: A book meme thing from meganbmoore!
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (well, the first two...)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare {WHAT? *points way up*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So I've read...14, sort of? I hope I counted those right.
But that's not important! What IS important is that I'm still stuck in the Black Dream Tower in Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth and I should have been out of there a long time ago. It's those stupid Monstrous Glowflies that keep attacking my people. I'm a perfectionist with my games, so I hate to have anyone dead at the end of a battle, even if it's just a random battle. I'm also trying to level Janus up, and he keeps dying so, basically, I'm stuck in this tower because I want to defeat these Monstrous Glowflies and also have Janus still be alive by the end of the fight and it's not working so well. I guess I'll have to level him up some more with other enemies but that takes foreeeever. Come ON, Janus! I want to get to Chapter 6 already and get Lucian!
Speaking of which, I have to say this. The voice acting in the game...makes me laugh sometimes. I don't know if it's a case of the voice actors never being given much information about the game or the characters or what but it just doesn't seem to fit sometimes. This is probably just my own perception, since I've seen reviews where people thought the voice acting was pretty good but, for a game with such a somber mood, the characters somehow sound too "normal" or something. The best explanation I can come up with is that a lot of times they seem to read lines that end with "..." as if they ended with "!"
And in this video at around 2:16 you can see my favorite "weird delivery". ^_^; To me, it sounds like, "*whiny voice* Luciaaaan.... *weirdly perky sounding* What'sgoingon? DoyouknowwhatTIMEitIS?" I don't know if it's my ears or what. I guess I feel like Platina should sound way more bummed out or something. Her parents are abusive, she just got slapped in the face... Come OOOOON! Well, maybe I shouldn't be all cranky with her for not sounding depressed despite her circumstances. Anyway! It is a beautiful and depressing game. With some questionable voice acting sometimes. But still good.
Also, since Here is Greenwood is being made into a drama, my new dream drama that I hope they'll make someday is Ookiku Furikabutte. Which, it just got licensed! YAAAY! And yet...not so yay at the same time because if they take forever to come out with the DVDs then that means I won't be able to see Mihashi for a while. And that will break my heart. Apparently, the English title is going to be Big Windup or something. I guess that's as accurate as anything...? I reaaally hope they choose good voice actors for the dub. I know I don't have to watch it, but I'd like it to have a good dub nonetheless. Get Mihashi a GOOD voice actor. *_* Anyway, a GOOD drama of this series would just... I don't even know what I'd do with myself.
Ok, back to work. Janus, please don't make me have to keep restarting.
Edit: A book meme thing from meganbmoore!
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (well, the first two...)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare {WHAT? *points way up*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So I've read...14, sort of? I hope I counted those right.