I have no faith in UPS.
First, I know it's tacky to leave this here instead of replying directly but adshufjigko and I'm bad at that and I can't think of anything that doesn't come out with me saying I'm sorry for being pathetic all over the place (I AM AWKWARD YAY) BUT ANYWAY, thank you for the support on my previous entry. It really did help.
Now I talk about video games.
No, I haven’t abandoned FFXII.
BUT I DID PLAY ANOTHER GAME OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. EVERYTHING OUTSIDE THE CUT IS NEWER, EVERYTHING UNDER IT IS FROM A FEW DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
CAPS CAPS CAPS
Since this is all prewritten (I did beat the game before Christmas, as it is short and straightforward), there aren't a lot of places where I close in an obvious END OF ENTRY ('fraid I don't plan that far in advance). Everything under the cut for the next few entries just directly follows everything from under the cut of the previous entry. The death count is ridiculously short. I'll just post it in the last entry.
So I bought this for my brother for Christmas, but I’ve heard people talk about it (and spoken to people about it), and OH I AM LAME IT’S A USED GAME, ANYWAY, SHUT UP.
Introoo. First impressions consist mostly of me going, oooh, that’s pretty. Maybe the graphics aren’t supershiny top notch, but they’re still nice. Also, I’m a sucker for pretty scenery.
Also, I have a horse. Hello, horse!
Ooh, it’s raining? Yes, it is raining now.
Bridge to forever.
Awesome bridge to forever. Oh, that’s pretty.
Dark tunnel/stairs. Oh, darker when the door shuts. I’d not like that, but our Hero On A Horse seems undaunted.
(Hooorse.)
Oh, man, we’re, what, two minutes in? And I’m already in love with the soundtrack. Wow. Good job, composer. (But then my mother just came in and I had to turn it down. It wasn't really that loud, just she's going to bed and the walls are thin.)
Body to altar. That’s another really pretty scene. Is the whole game this pretty? Though I don’t entirely like Our Hero No Longer On A Horse’s outfit/top/overshirt/tunic thing. Looks weird.
Wah! Not English! That was a surprise. (It’s not a problem, it’s just a surprise.) I take it we’re in that forbidden land now. Good job, protagonist.
I’d make a Heartless parallel here, but they don’t remind me of Heartless somehow. Even with the blank and the seeping up through the floor. They feel entirely too different. Which makes no sense. But they do. (Heartless still seem alive, if that makes sense?)
Repelled by sword!
Which attracts the attention of the voice from above - Dormin? I can’t read that text too well. (I might have been able to pick it out the name through the sound, but now I’ve got it juuust low enough that the dual-voice synthing makes it impossible to make out anything.) Dead girl, cursed fate, he wants her not to be dead OH THIS WON’T END WELL NOT EVEN REMOTELY.
Askest. *repeats it several times* Askest.
Oh, and there it is. We will pay a heavy price, but he doesn’t care~~
Mmm, more pretty.
I wonder which of these things I’ll be fighting first.
Pool of water! OMINOUS. I wonder what happens if I go in it? …. Okay, toes are safe. So are knees. … And I’m too much of a wuss to go in any more? Whaaat? JUMP IN. JUMP. GO. oh god Dx *closes eyes and leaps*
ahaha it’s very shallow. SHUT UP IT’S DARK AND HARD TO SEE AND DEEP WATER HAS TRAUMATIZED ME TOO MANY TIMES.
…. Yes, I am backtracking just to see how far I can go. Meanwhile, my horse turns circles down below. He doesn’t want to climb the narrow path up. Hm. Don’t entirely blame him.
Ah, the door won’t open. SO NOW I TURN BACK AND WALK/RUN BACK DOWN THE NARROW PATH. My horse is distressed. He’s been making noises at me this whole time. .. If I get on the horse, can I make it go up the ramp? Haha, horse says no.
Sunlight! Balconything! Can I walk off this cliff/balcony/ledgething? I assume it’ll kill me, but I must know. (oh god, the war with gravity starts again)
Oh, my horse is down there. Hello, horse! :D I am too pleased about having a horse.
Oh, I called it! Hee! It comes running so fast! It? He? She? HORSE. Hello, horse! I guess I won’t be checking gravity, since now I’m on the horse.
… *gets off and checks anyway* Oh, no, I’m fine. Cool.
MY HORSE HAS AMAZING HEARING.
Iiiis… there something I should be doing? Or am I really just racing off to the first Colossus now?
Uh. Horse, why don’t you just wander around and graze or something while I introduce myself to the controls, yeah? Yeah. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
*Tutorials it the hell up*
Kid, you can stop tripping over your own two feet any time now~
AHAHA! Bellyflop onto the horse! That was amazing. Do it again!
No, no, let us be off and away.
Also, that was fast. Here we are!
CLIMBING ELUDES ME. Uh. Uuuh.
Oh! Oh, okay. Trial and error. I’ve got it. Stop letting go of R1, for goodness’ sake.
Aha, that was a bridge, not a hole. OH WELL I JUMPED IT ANYWAY.
… rolling and jump/climbing are the same two buttons. This will kill me several times, I am sure. THANKS, GUYS. Also, I can’t climb this rock! But the other way is clearly a dead end. Uhm. I can see where I need to gooo…. Can I climb around the rock?
YES, I CAN! Okay, cool. Made it!
Oh, dear, that thing’s huge. *chases!* NO REGARD FOR PERSONAL SAFETY, GO. Oh my god I am going to get trampled so bad.
It’s weird looking!
Can I even save my game? It didn’t check for room on my memory card, which is kind of unusual. But there must be a way! I just clearly have not discovered it yet. Maybe it’s one of those, save after you do X-thing types.
Voice From Above says to point my sword-light at it to find the weak point.
OH OF COURSE IT IS THE FEET. WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT TRAMPLING?
I like the way we all kick up dirt clumps when we run.
ANYWAY, FEET, RIGHT, I WAS GOING TO GET TRAMPLED. (To be fair, there’s one higher up, as well. Even platforms! Why he has platforms on his back is beyond me. BUT HE DOES. I cannot reach them, though. Not yet, anyway.)
Oh, it’s all furry! Is this the one from the cover? Hm. I have to climb his fur, don’t I. He’s not gonna like that. Too bad. It’s not like it’s doing anything other than merrily stomping about. I feel bad. (SORRY DEAD GIRL, I’M JUST NOT FEELING YOU.)
Oh, he didn’t notice when I climbed. Is that a common occurrence, Mr. Colossus? Little creatures climbing your legs? They want to be your friend? Protagonist man here (yes, yes, I know he has a name) does not want to be your friend. Defend yourself, tall furry creature! OH, HE NOTICED WHEN I STABBED, THOUGH. Then he fell over.
AHAHAH! Graceful~ I climbed up his back to the platform and promptly fell off the other side of it~ What did I say about rolling and jumping being the same button combination? WHAT DID I SAY? *cackles*
WAY TO GET STEPPED ON, YOU NINNY. Oh, man. That’s my skull under your foot, there, buddy.
Back to square one, then.
OH GOD IS IT LOOKING AT ME? IT’S LOOKING AT ME.
YOU DIDN’T SEE ME LAST TIME DON’T SEE ME THIS TIME GO AWAY OMINOUS MUSIC. *flees*
Ouch. Again. *goes squish*
THIS IS GOING BETTER THIS TIME.
See, I knew those unexplainable platforms on its back would be useful.
Woah. Massive fountain of black blood. (Blood? I don’t know. For lack of anything better, I refer to it as blood.) Ick. ALSO I FEEL BAD WHAT DID THAT THING EVER DO TO ANYONE.
Uh oh, something black and glowy got me. (Here I will say, my first reaction was along the lines of, “DARK EECCCCOOOO.” Will I turn pale and grow horns now? SORRY, JAK, APPARENTLY YOUR PAIN IS HILARIOUS.) Pass out time!
AND THERE IS MY SAVE.
Shadow! It lurks over me. And I’m somehow back at the temple. … Convenient. Did you do that, Shadow? Wow, my neck looks weird. I don’t know, that’s just what I thought as he stood up. Oh, the horse came, too! HELLO, HORSE! ♥
Haha, my horse just ran me over. Hello, horse! You’re gonna die, aren’t you? I like you a lot, so clearly you are doomed.
Ah! There is the trick to saving! *saves at altar and calls it a night*
AND WE ARE BACK NOW.
Oh! How interesting! He’s in a different position than when we shut down last night. Also, I didn’t notice the green specks floating all around yesterday, either. (HERE IT COMES AGAIN) Pretty!
Wake up, now, though.
Swoooord, why you be useless? Hmm… Not in front. Behind? *trundles along*
Yes! Behind! DOWN THIS PATH?
YES.
YOU GUUUYS THIS GAME IS PRETTY.
oh my god I promise to shut the hell up about it soon THIS IS A LIE NO I WILL NOT
Also, watch out for the cliff, there. Yes, good job. No driving horses off of cliffs, thank you. It kind of seems like the tone is changing around a lot, but it might just be my imagination. Or the scenery all loading in fully. Not sure.
Heh, I went to stop just as it put into one of those short scenes where it points the camera at something. A wall. Gate. OVER THERE. DOWN THE CLIFF.
WE GO, HORSE. WE GO.
(Place bets now on whether or not Jecca will ever use anyone’s actual name throughout the entire gameplay.)
I SAID GO, YOU GOOFY QUADRUPED. Thank you.
Dark down here. Ah! There is the sunlight.
Oh, and there is the Colossusssssss. Bring all big and in a wall.
FOUR FEET? All the better to smush you with~? Yeck.
OH YOU ARE JOKING the weak points are on the bottoms of his feet? And his head, and maybe tail?
Hey, horse? I know I rode you here and all, but maybe you should go back over there so as to avoid being flattened, yeah? I’ll go run around under the thing’s feet and - OH MOTHER OF GOD IT’S REARING UP ON ITS HIND LEGS RUN RUN RUN
Okay, that didn’t turn out too horribly, and I accidentally whipped out my bow while flailing and trying to avoid being stepped on, so that gets me a pretty clear shot at his feet… Which’ll let me get up his leg if I can knock him over. And then get to his head? AWESOME.
Sorry, Colossus. Plot demands you die. Uugh, the black blood spray is both disturbing and upsetting.
NOW ON TO THE OTHER END SO I CAN FINISH MAIMING YOU OKAY? OKAY. COOL.
HEY. DID YOU JUST TRY TO STEP ON MY HORSE?
Stop thrashing! I don’t want to fall!
I know! It hurts! I’m sorry! D:
More dark stuff hitting me. More passing out and probably going back to the temple place.
Voice? I dunno, thought I heard something in that…
Two shadows this time. Hmmm.
‘Nother Colossus to chase and kill. (Well, obviously.)
Oh! White birds!
So, back across the little path, only we stay up this time. It’s loud over here. Wind?
Have I mentioned yet that the scenery in this game is amazing?
… Was that a lizard that just went up the wall? How cool!
Ahaha, crud. I have to swim across a lake.
(What are those beams up light? I see two… Are they where the two Colossi were? I don’t know…)
There better not be any sharks in this water, or I’ll revert to speaking dolphin and flailing miserably. Stay here, horse.
The shadows and stuff in the water make me scaaared. D:
SAFETY OH MAN
Hey, didn’t I tell you to stop tripping over everything at some point? STOP.
Nooo, I have to jump and grab a rock and not fall and die. Doom. (Will I die? Or will I just fall back into the water? I hope I die, if those are my options. Seriously, I’m over the middle of the lake! Any number of eels could be down there! Waiting to chomp me up. Ugh.
Like, I even actually think sharks and eels are really neat. And probably not even there on account of it probably being fresh water. This is just Ecco having ruined my life some more.)
I CAUGHT THE ROCK!
AUGH AUGH AUGH I MISSED THE OPPOSITE STONE PATH OH GOD AUGH SHARKS TRILOBITES SWIM YOU MORON THEY’RE COMING.
…..No, this is ridiculous. Dive under the water and look, there is NOTHING THERE. Seriously, freak out, why don’t you?
SEE, NOTHING HAPPENED. SHUT UP, DOLPHIN.
Darn. Missed again.
ALMOST GOT IT THAT TIME.
MADE IT!
STOP TRIPPING OVER EVERYTHING HONESTLY
And there is Colossus number three. … How does it stand on those? It has balls for feet. How strange!
Hm. One weak spots is high up, so how…? CANNOT CLIMB LEGS. OKAY.
Oh! Sword!
Hm. But his wrist, or the rock thing around it, is in the way. Can I jump over it? Sometimes the sword raises enough so it looks like maybe I could…?
Yeek! I fell off. Run away!
The ground over there is a different colour? Why? Oh! Haha, little platform! Now where is the other one. Probably on its head… come on! HURRY IT IS COMING TO SMASH US GEEZ COME ON COME ON COME oh god flattened.
… uh?
Nnno, not flattened. What just happened? There was a little scene, and there’s a chunk of the platform missing now, but…..?
OH! Did his armthing break? Oh, it did! Aha! Nice! Not sure how that worked, but I’m not gonna complain! (It... didn’t look like it should have hit itself on the little platform? But maybe it did. I don’t know!?)
No, don’t fall off the sword!
Grah! Okay! I HAVE YOUR ARM FUR NOW. Now I must jump over to your torso~
First try! Much better than the walkway. So there’s that one gone.
I don’t know where the other one is, but the other two had one on their head, so I’m gonna assume that pattern holds and just CLIMB UP!
Hm. Maybe I should’ve gone for the head first. Have to jump back to the arm, looks like. Eh. Made it! It’s watching me… as I climb its arm. Why not use your other arm to flick me off? Though they seem to have fairly limited mobility.
AGAIN I AM SORRY COLOSSUS IT IS NOTHING PERSONAL.
Whoa, hi, dude, sorry. Didn’t mean to fall into your face like that.
AUGH STOP FLAILING!
Or don’t. Hey, falling’s cool, too. I don’t mind climbing back up, I guess. (AUGH I ONLY HAD TO HIT IT ONE MORE TIME. THAT’S ANNOYING.)
(I am kind of impressed at how far this kid can fall.)
Of course, climbing back up would be easier if you’d stop driving your sword directly into the ground so I could climb up it. But whatever.
Finally!
MOAR BLACK.
Yes, definitely a voice there.
My exciting news is that I got a PSP! YAY! (Not remotely surprising, since it was almost the only thing on my list, BUT STILL YAY!)(THIS MEANS WHEN DISSIDIA COMES OUT HERE I CAN PLAY IT WHENEVER I WANT, not just whenever my brother is home and comes to see me - or I go see him - and he lets me borrow it. Also, now I can finish playing Crisis Core.) It's one of the bundle packs. Also, it's a silver one, not a black one. (And one of the thinner ones, so, no, Dad, there is absolutely no chance in the world of my brother and I confusing ours.) (It is not the newest model, though, which is good, because the screen looks weird on that one.) It came with a Family Guy DVD (which I promptly handed off to my brother, because I don't like that show) and Daxter, which is kind of alarmingly short.
But right now I only have Daxter, so I played that. (Did I mention Daxter is short?) SORRY TO SAY I DID NOT KEEP A LIST OF MY DEATHS (my guess would be less than Jak II LIKETHAT'SHARD um. Actually, probably not as high as any of the other games, closest to The Precursor Legacy... not because I didn't die a lot, but because it's really, really short.), BUT I'LL STILL POST THOUGHTS ABOUT IT. (I think they opened a few plot holes, sadly.) Or maybe I'll just replay. Since it's short enough. (I was downstairs and it was Christmas, and I can game and have coherent conversations, but I can't game and keep a log of everything.)
(Also my mom wanted to try, so she played through the first mission. She thinks Daxter is adorable, but does not like the PSP controls. They do take some getting used to.) (I am not there yet.)
Now I talk about video games.
No, I haven’t abandoned FFXII.
BUT I DID PLAY ANOTHER GAME OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. EVERYTHING OUTSIDE THE CUT IS NEWER, EVERYTHING UNDER IT IS FROM A FEW DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
CAPS CAPS CAPS
Since this is all prewritten (I did beat the game before Christmas, as it is short and straightforward), there aren't a lot of places where I close in an obvious END OF ENTRY ('fraid I don't plan that far in advance). Everything under the cut for the next few entries just directly follows everything from under the cut of the previous entry. The death count is ridiculously short. I'll just post it in the last entry.
So I bought this for my brother for Christmas, but I’ve heard people talk about it (and spoken to people about it), and OH I AM LAME IT’S A USED GAME, ANYWAY, SHUT UP.
Introoo. First impressions consist mostly of me going, oooh, that’s pretty. Maybe the graphics aren’t supershiny top notch, but they’re still nice. Also, I’m a sucker for pretty scenery.
Also, I have a horse. Hello, horse!
Ooh, it’s raining? Yes, it is raining now.
Bridge to forever.
Awesome bridge to forever. Oh, that’s pretty.
Dark tunnel/stairs. Oh, darker when the door shuts. I’d not like that, but our Hero On A Horse seems undaunted.
(Hooorse.)
Oh, man, we’re, what, two minutes in? And I’m already in love with the soundtrack. Wow. Good job, composer. (But then my mother just came in and I had to turn it down. It wasn't really that loud, just she's going to bed and the walls are thin.)
Body to altar. That’s another really pretty scene. Is the whole game this pretty? Though I don’t entirely like Our Hero No Longer On A Horse’s outfit/top/overshirt/tunic thing. Looks weird.
Wah! Not English! That was a surprise. (It’s not a problem, it’s just a surprise.) I take it we’re in that forbidden land now. Good job, protagonist.
I’d make a Heartless parallel here, but they don’t remind me of Heartless somehow. Even with the blank and the seeping up through the floor. They feel entirely too different. Which makes no sense. But they do. (Heartless still seem alive, if that makes sense?)
Repelled by sword!
Which attracts the attention of the voice from above - Dormin? I can’t read that text too well. (I might have been able to pick it out the name through the sound, but now I’ve got it juuust low enough that the dual-voice synthing makes it impossible to make out anything.) Dead girl, cursed fate, he wants her not to be dead OH THIS WON’T END WELL NOT EVEN REMOTELY.
Askest. *repeats it several times* Askest.
Oh, and there it is. We will pay a heavy price, but he doesn’t care~~
Mmm, more pretty.
I wonder which of these things I’ll be fighting first.
Pool of water! OMINOUS. I wonder what happens if I go in it? …. Okay, toes are safe. So are knees. … And I’m too much of a wuss to go in any more? Whaaat? JUMP IN. JUMP. GO. oh god Dx *closes eyes and leaps*
ahaha it’s very shallow. SHUT UP IT’S DARK AND HARD TO SEE AND DEEP WATER HAS TRAUMATIZED ME TOO MANY TIMES.
…. Yes, I am backtracking just to see how far I can go. Meanwhile, my horse turns circles down below. He doesn’t want to climb the narrow path up. Hm. Don’t entirely blame him.
Ah, the door won’t open. SO NOW I TURN BACK AND WALK/RUN BACK DOWN THE NARROW PATH. My horse is distressed. He’s been making noises at me this whole time. .. If I get on the horse, can I make it go up the ramp? Haha, horse says no.
Sunlight! Balconything! Can I walk off this cliff/balcony/ledgething? I assume it’ll kill me, but I must know. (oh god, the war with gravity starts again)
Oh, my horse is down there. Hello, horse! :D I am too pleased about having a horse.
Oh, I called it! Hee! It comes running so fast! It? He? She? HORSE. Hello, horse! I guess I won’t be checking gravity, since now I’m on the horse.
… *gets off and checks anyway* Oh, no, I’m fine. Cool.
MY HORSE HAS AMAZING HEARING.
Iiiis… there something I should be doing? Or am I really just racing off to the first Colossus now?
Uh. Horse, why don’t you just wander around and graze or something while I introduce myself to the controls, yeah? Yeah. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
*Tutorials it the hell up*
Kid, you can stop tripping over your own two feet any time now~
AHAHA! Bellyflop onto the horse! That was amazing. Do it again!
No, no, let us be off and away.
Also, that was fast. Here we are!
CLIMBING ELUDES ME. Uh. Uuuh.
Oh! Oh, okay. Trial and error. I’ve got it. Stop letting go of R1, for goodness’ sake.
Aha, that was a bridge, not a hole. OH WELL I JUMPED IT ANYWAY.
… rolling and jump/climbing are the same two buttons. This will kill me several times, I am sure. THANKS, GUYS. Also, I can’t climb this rock! But the other way is clearly a dead end. Uhm. I can see where I need to gooo…. Can I climb around the rock?
YES, I CAN! Okay, cool. Made it!
Oh, dear, that thing’s huge. *chases!* NO REGARD FOR PERSONAL SAFETY, GO. Oh my god I am going to get trampled so bad.
It’s weird looking!
Can I even save my game? It didn’t check for room on my memory card, which is kind of unusual. But there must be a way! I just clearly have not discovered it yet. Maybe it’s one of those, save after you do X-thing types.
Voice From Above says to point my sword-light at it to find the weak point.
OH OF COURSE IT IS THE FEET. WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT TRAMPLING?
I like the way we all kick up dirt clumps when we run.
ANYWAY, FEET, RIGHT, I WAS GOING TO GET TRAMPLED. (To be fair, there’s one higher up, as well. Even platforms! Why he has platforms on his back is beyond me. BUT HE DOES. I cannot reach them, though. Not yet, anyway.)
Oh, it’s all furry! Is this the one from the cover? Hm. I have to climb his fur, don’t I. He’s not gonna like that. Too bad. It’s not like it’s doing anything other than merrily stomping about. I feel bad. (SORRY DEAD GIRL, I’M JUST NOT FEELING YOU.)
Oh, he didn’t notice when I climbed. Is that a common occurrence, Mr. Colossus? Little creatures climbing your legs? They want to be your friend? Protagonist man here (yes, yes, I know he has a name) does not want to be your friend. Defend yourself, tall furry creature! OH, HE NOTICED WHEN I STABBED, THOUGH. Then he fell over.
AHAHAH! Graceful~ I climbed up his back to the platform and promptly fell off the other side of it~ What did I say about rolling and jumping being the same button combination? WHAT DID I SAY? *cackles*
WAY TO GET STEPPED ON, YOU NINNY. Oh, man. That’s my skull under your foot, there, buddy.
Back to square one, then.
OH GOD IS IT LOOKING AT ME? IT’S LOOKING AT ME.
YOU DIDN’T SEE ME LAST TIME DON’T SEE ME THIS TIME GO AWAY OMINOUS MUSIC. *flees*
Ouch. Again. *goes squish*
THIS IS GOING BETTER THIS TIME.
See, I knew those unexplainable platforms on its back would be useful.
Woah. Massive fountain of black blood. (Blood? I don’t know. For lack of anything better, I refer to it as blood.) Ick. ALSO I FEEL BAD WHAT DID THAT THING EVER DO TO ANYONE.
Uh oh, something black and glowy got me. (Here I will say, my first reaction was along the lines of, “DARK EECCCCOOOO.” Will I turn pale and grow horns now? SORRY, JAK, APPARENTLY YOUR PAIN IS HILARIOUS.) Pass out time!
AND THERE IS MY SAVE.
Shadow! It lurks over me. And I’m somehow back at the temple. … Convenient. Did you do that, Shadow? Wow, my neck looks weird. I don’t know, that’s just what I thought as he stood up. Oh, the horse came, too! HELLO, HORSE! ♥
Haha, my horse just ran me over. Hello, horse! You’re gonna die, aren’t you? I like you a lot, so clearly you are doomed.
Ah! There is the trick to saving! *saves at altar and calls it a night*
AND WE ARE BACK NOW.
Oh! How interesting! He’s in a different position than when we shut down last night. Also, I didn’t notice the green specks floating all around yesterday, either. (HERE IT COMES AGAIN) Pretty!
Wake up, now, though.
Swoooord, why you be useless? Hmm… Not in front. Behind? *trundles along*
Yes! Behind! DOWN THIS PATH?
YES.
YOU GUUUYS THIS GAME IS PRETTY.
oh my god I promise to shut the hell up about it soon THIS IS A LIE NO I WILL NOT
Also, watch out for the cliff, there. Yes, good job. No driving horses off of cliffs, thank you. It kind of seems like the tone is changing around a lot, but it might just be my imagination. Or the scenery all loading in fully. Not sure.
Heh, I went to stop just as it put into one of those short scenes where it points the camera at something. A wall. Gate. OVER THERE. DOWN THE CLIFF.
WE GO, HORSE. WE GO.
(Place bets now on whether or not Jecca will ever use anyone’s actual name throughout the entire gameplay.)
I SAID GO, YOU GOOFY QUADRUPED. Thank you.
Dark down here. Ah! There is the sunlight.
Oh, and there is the Colossusssssss. Bring all big and in a wall.
FOUR FEET? All the better to smush you with~? Yeck.
OH YOU ARE JOKING the weak points are on the bottoms of his feet? And his head, and maybe tail?
Hey, horse? I know I rode you here and all, but maybe you should go back over there so as to avoid being flattened, yeah? I’ll go run around under the thing’s feet and - OH MOTHER OF GOD IT’S REARING UP ON ITS HIND LEGS RUN RUN RUN
Okay, that didn’t turn out too horribly, and I accidentally whipped out my bow while flailing and trying to avoid being stepped on, so that gets me a pretty clear shot at his feet… Which’ll let me get up his leg if I can knock him over. And then get to his head? AWESOME.
Sorry, Colossus. Plot demands you die. Uugh, the black blood spray is both disturbing and upsetting.
NOW ON TO THE OTHER END SO I CAN FINISH MAIMING YOU OKAY? OKAY. COOL.
HEY. DID YOU JUST TRY TO STEP ON MY HORSE?
Stop thrashing! I don’t want to fall!
I know! It hurts! I’m sorry! D:
More dark stuff hitting me. More passing out and probably going back to the temple place.
Voice? I dunno, thought I heard something in that…
Two shadows this time. Hmmm.
‘Nother Colossus to chase and kill. (Well, obviously.)
Oh! White birds!
So, back across the little path, only we stay up this time. It’s loud over here. Wind?
Have I mentioned yet that the scenery in this game is amazing?
… Was that a lizard that just went up the wall? How cool!
Ahaha, crud. I have to swim across a lake.
(What are those beams up light? I see two… Are they where the two Colossi were? I don’t know…)
There better not be any sharks in this water, or I’ll revert to speaking dolphin and flailing miserably. Stay here, horse.
The shadows and stuff in the water make me scaaared. D:
SAFETY OH MAN
Hey, didn’t I tell you to stop tripping over everything at some point? STOP.
Nooo, I have to jump and grab a rock and not fall and die. Doom. (Will I die? Or will I just fall back into the water? I hope I die, if those are my options. Seriously, I’m over the middle of the lake! Any number of eels could be down there! Waiting to chomp me up. Ugh.
Like, I even actually think sharks and eels are really neat. And probably not even there on account of it probably being fresh water. This is just Ecco having ruined my life some more.)
I CAUGHT THE ROCK!
AUGH AUGH AUGH I MISSED THE OPPOSITE STONE PATH OH GOD AUGH SHARKS TRILOBITES SWIM YOU MORON THEY’RE COMING.
…..No, this is ridiculous. Dive under the water and look, there is NOTHING THERE. Seriously, freak out, why don’t you?
SEE, NOTHING HAPPENED. SHUT UP, DOLPHIN.
Darn. Missed again.
ALMOST GOT IT THAT TIME.
MADE IT!
STOP TRIPPING OVER EVERYTHING HONESTLY
And there is Colossus number three. … How does it stand on those? It has balls for feet. How strange!
Hm. One weak spots is high up, so how…? CANNOT CLIMB LEGS. OKAY.
Oh! Sword!
Hm. But his wrist, or the rock thing around it, is in the way. Can I jump over it? Sometimes the sword raises enough so it looks like maybe I could…?
Yeek! I fell off. Run away!
The ground over there is a different colour? Why? Oh! Haha, little platform! Now where is the other one. Probably on its head… come on! HURRY IT IS COMING TO SMASH US GEEZ COME ON COME ON COME oh god flattened.
… uh?
Nnno, not flattened. What just happened? There was a little scene, and there’s a chunk of the platform missing now, but…..?
OH! Did his armthing break? Oh, it did! Aha! Nice! Not sure how that worked, but I’m not gonna complain! (It... didn’t look like it should have hit itself on the little platform? But maybe it did. I don’t know!?)
No, don’t fall off the sword!
Grah! Okay! I HAVE YOUR ARM FUR NOW. Now I must jump over to your torso~
First try! Much better than the walkway. So there’s that one gone.
I don’t know where the other one is, but the other two had one on their head, so I’m gonna assume that pattern holds and just CLIMB UP!
Hm. Maybe I should’ve gone for the head first. Have to jump back to the arm, looks like. Eh. Made it! It’s watching me… as I climb its arm. Why not use your other arm to flick me off? Though they seem to have fairly limited mobility.
AGAIN I AM SORRY COLOSSUS IT IS NOTHING PERSONAL.
Whoa, hi, dude, sorry. Didn’t mean to fall into your face like that.
AUGH STOP FLAILING!
Or don’t. Hey, falling’s cool, too. I don’t mind climbing back up, I guess. (AUGH I ONLY HAD TO HIT IT ONE MORE TIME. THAT’S ANNOYING.)
(I am kind of impressed at how far this kid can fall.)
Of course, climbing back up would be easier if you’d stop driving your sword directly into the ground so I could climb up it. But whatever.
Finally!
MOAR BLACK.
Yes, definitely a voice there.
My exciting news is that I got a PSP! YAY! (Not remotely surprising, since it was almost the only thing on my list, BUT STILL YAY!)(THIS MEANS WHEN DISSIDIA COMES OUT HERE I CAN PLAY IT WHENEVER I WANT, not just whenever my brother is home and comes to see me - or I go see him - and he lets me borrow it. Also, now I can finish playing Crisis Core.) It's one of the bundle packs. Also, it's a silver one, not a black one. (And one of the thinner ones, so, no, Dad, there is absolutely no chance in the world of my brother and I confusing ours.) (It is not the newest model, though, which is good, because the screen looks weird on that one.) It came with a Family Guy DVD (which I promptly handed off to my brother, because I don't like that show) and Daxter, which is kind of alarmingly short.
But right now I only have Daxter, so I played that. (Did I mention Daxter is short?) SORRY TO SAY I DID NOT KEEP A LIST OF MY DEATHS (my guess would be less than Jak II LIKETHAT'SHARD um. Actually, probably not as high as any of the other games, closest to The Precursor Legacy... not because I didn't die a lot, but because it's really, really short.), BUT I'LL STILL POST THOUGHTS ABOUT IT. (I think they opened a few plot holes, sadly.) Or maybe I'll just replay. Since it's short enough. (I was downstairs and it was Christmas, and I can game and have coherent conversations, but I can't game and keep a log of everything.)
(Also my mom wanted to try, so she played through the first mission. She thinks Daxter is adorable, but does not like the PSP controls. They do take some getting used to.) (I am not there yet.)