Time to die now!
Thank You, Alex - Your application for the Final Fantasy VI- Cole, Locke fanlisting has been received. A staff member will process the application and you should hear back within 4 weeks (hopefully sooner!) :)
Wish me luck everyone :D *crosses fingers* Also, I should mention the lovely and wonderful dresstokill has made me a fanlist, so I think I should probably plug it everywhere.
As you may have guessed from the last entry, I've been hitting the Vagrant Story. Now, I haven't exactly gotten very far in the game- it's hard!- but I am far enough in the game to want to go further in it. I'm in Lea Monde now.
Even though I'm not very far into the game, for some reason "Try and catch me, Ashley Riot!" has been a firm part of my vocabulary for months. I don't know what it is about the phrase that attracts me, but I want to work it into everyday conversation.
Mom: Alexandra, have you started dinner yet?
Alex: Try and catch me, Ashley Riot! *makes gesture with imagined hand-claw things*
Most of what I have done so far is walk around in a dungeon. Now, I got lost in the Plains of Amur North. (Which is, for the record, basicaly a field with a road in the middle that you have to walk across. There aren't any turns or anything.) You can imagine how many times I got lost in the VS dungeon. It has multiple rooms. That's enough to get me. All the rooms reset with boxes and enemies when you reenter them, so it's hard for me to know where I've been and where I haven't.
On the upside I actually really enjoy the impossible battle system. I'm not very good at it (my riskbreaker rank is Gladiator?) but stringing the combos is fun!
Also, this game uses grown up words. One of the characters actually said "Ye are a stain on the escutcheon of our order!" It's not lame arhcaic English, it's AWESOME archaic English. I love a game that can be so shamelessly pretentious and still have some of the most ridiculous RPG hair imaginable.
The plot, from what I understand of it so far, centers around one Ashley Riot, who manages to get himself framed for murder and justly charged with assless pants in public. So he goes to Lea Monde, an ancient city of magic. Meanwhile, Sydney Losstarot is being an enigmatic cult leader who doesn't like to die while being shot with arrows. He pops up from time to time and says stuff like "Try and catch me, Ashley Riot!"
There's also something about zombies. There are lots of zombies, actually, and you can never go wrong with those. Hamlet didn't have zombies, and was quite the worse for it.
And a corrupt church! As I've said, I don't exactly like the "church is always evil" bit that games have going on, but I do like a shamelessly manipulative order of holy men, for some reason. I guess I identify with "Shameless Manipulative Bastards for Christ" in some way. Huh. I think religion is an overall good thing, but I know that there are some people who do evil in the name of God, and that idea I find really fascinating.
I was working on that Nash related project, trying to write about Nash and Chris, and this is sort of what happened. (I am enjoying Open Canvas muchly, th3newblack.)
I also randomly picked up The High King, and now I can tell I'm going to have to read all the Prydain Chronicles all over again. Why do I still find children's fantasy novels so enjoyable after I've pretty much given up the grown-up books of the genre?
Wish me luck everyone :D *crosses fingers* Also, I should mention the lovely and wonderful dresstokill has made me a fanlist, so I think I should probably plug it everywhere.
As you may have guessed from the last entry, I've been hitting the Vagrant Story. Now, I haven't exactly gotten very far in the game- it's hard!- but I am far enough in the game to want to go further in it. I'm in Lea Monde now.
Even though I'm not very far into the game, for some reason "Try and catch me, Ashley Riot!" has been a firm part of my vocabulary for months. I don't know what it is about the phrase that attracts me, but I want to work it into everyday conversation.
Mom: Alexandra, have you started dinner yet?
Alex: Try and catch me, Ashley Riot! *makes gesture with imagined hand-claw things*
Most of what I have done so far is walk around in a dungeon. Now, I got lost in the Plains of Amur North. (Which is, for the record, basicaly a field with a road in the middle that you have to walk across. There aren't any turns or anything.) You can imagine how many times I got lost in the VS dungeon. It has multiple rooms. That's enough to get me. All the rooms reset with boxes and enemies when you reenter them, so it's hard for me to know where I've been and where I haven't.
On the upside I actually really enjoy the impossible battle system. I'm not very good at it (my riskbreaker rank is Gladiator?) but stringing the combos is fun!
Also, this game uses grown up words. One of the characters actually said "Ye are a stain on the escutcheon of our order!" It's not lame arhcaic English, it's AWESOME archaic English. I love a game that can be so shamelessly pretentious and still have some of the most ridiculous RPG hair imaginable.
The plot, from what I understand of it so far, centers around one Ashley Riot, who manages to get himself framed for murder and justly charged with assless pants in public. So he goes to Lea Monde, an ancient city of magic. Meanwhile, Sydney Losstarot is being an enigmatic cult leader who doesn't like to die while being shot with arrows. He pops up from time to time and says stuff like "Try and catch me, Ashley Riot!"
There's also something about zombies. There are lots of zombies, actually, and you can never go wrong with those. Hamlet didn't have zombies, and was quite the worse for it.
And a corrupt church! As I've said, I don't exactly like the "church is always evil" bit that games have going on, but I do like a shamelessly manipulative order of holy men, for some reason. I guess I identify with "Shameless Manipulative Bastards for Christ" in some way. Huh. I think religion is an overall good thing, but I know that there are some people who do evil in the name of God, and that idea I find really fascinating.
I was working on that Nash related project, trying to write about Nash and Chris, and this is sort of what happened. (I am enjoying Open Canvas muchly, th3newblack.)
I also randomly picked up The High King, and now I can tell I'm going to have to read all the Prydain Chronicles all over again. Why do I still find children's fantasy novels so enjoyable after I've pretty much given up the grown-up books of the genre?