Lightning Returns first impressions, plus more knitting/crocheting
People have played the Final Fantasy XV demo, and it's getting great reviews. AM SO EXCITED! Oh, how I wish I had the money/console to get Type-0 HD so I could play the demo for myself. Alas, it is not meant to be.
So, on Tuesday I did indeed start Lightning Returns. And well, um. The game takes place 500 years after the end of XIII-2. I was confused at first because Snow is still alive. How could he still be alive? But then they explained that people stopped aging once Chaos was unleashed, so everyone is centuries old now. Folks can still die from illness, accidents, and violence, though, so the population is dwindling.
Lightning slept in crystal stasis for those 500 years but has awoken. She made a deal with Bhunivelze (god) -- she will be his savior and save souls, and he will return Serah to her. Saving souls releases Eradia, which literally gives you more time. Seriously - the world is ending, and it will definitely end in 13 days, but as the game starts you only have 5 days to work with. Gathering Eradia extends those days.
There is a game clock. I don't mean the clock that counts your playtime - I mean an actual clock in which time passes in the game. You need to return back to the Ark in the sky at 6 a.m. every day. On the first day, you are given a quest to help an inspector solve a murder. I somehow managed to fail this quest without even realizing it. I was just playing along, doing the normal RPG things: talking to everyone in sight and examining objects of interest. Then I checked my quest log and saw I had failed the quest. WTF? I think I understand why I failed, but it did not sit well with me. Not at all.
So the first day ended, and I didn't have much Eradia to show for it, plus there was that FAILED QUEST, and well, I just felt like an utter failure. So much that on Wednesday I did not play the game. I did finally play again Thursday, but there was much dragging of the feet before I turned it on. I have not played since, even though my second day went better.
I dunno. I feel like the game clock doesn't work for me. It puts too much pressure on me to GET THINGS DONE rather than leisurely explore. And I hate feeling like a failure. I seriously considered restarting the game so that I could do the quest over and not fail it this time. I'm still hoping that I will play the game and enjoy it, but right now I feel like I'm in no rush to do so.
Instead I've been knitting and crocheting a lot. On Friday evening I made a doily, which was entered in the Nerdopolis Pi challenge. I woke up early on Saturday and couldn't fall back asleep, so I frogged the original Orchid Top I had tried making. Then I split the yarn from the frogged swatch, and knit a swatch for the Cockleshell Camisole. On Sunday I entered that into the Nerdopolis Summit Seekers challenge, to give me motivation to do it. I'm really eager to get started on the knitting part of it, not so eager to split the yarn. Yes, I am crazy and splitting yarn for this, LOL. But I split 11 skeins for my Orchid Top, and that turned out nicely, so I'm willing to do it again for the camisole (which I will wear underneath the Orchid).
Also on Sunday, I worked on ministry shawls #2 and #3, and did a few more rows on my pumpkin socks. Which means that all the projects I currently have on the needles were worked on, yay! I'm hoping to finish ministry shawl #3 this month so I can submit it to Nerdopolis, though I'm not sure what challenge I will submit it to yet.
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So, on Tuesday I did indeed start Lightning Returns. And well, um. The game takes place 500 years after the end of XIII-2. I was confused at first because Snow is still alive. How could he still be alive? But then they explained that people stopped aging once Chaos was unleashed, so everyone is centuries old now. Folks can still die from illness, accidents, and violence, though, so the population is dwindling.
Lightning slept in crystal stasis for those 500 years but has awoken. She made a deal with Bhunivelze (god) -- she will be his savior and save souls, and he will return Serah to her. Saving souls releases Eradia, which literally gives you more time. Seriously - the world is ending, and it will definitely end in 13 days, but as the game starts you only have 5 days to work with. Gathering Eradia extends those days.
There is a game clock. I don't mean the clock that counts your playtime - I mean an actual clock in which time passes in the game. You need to return back to the Ark in the sky at 6 a.m. every day. On the first day, you are given a quest to help an inspector solve a murder. I somehow managed to fail this quest without even realizing it. I was just playing along, doing the normal RPG things: talking to everyone in sight and examining objects of interest. Then I checked my quest log and saw I had failed the quest. WTF? I think I understand why I failed, but it did not sit well with me. Not at all.
So the first day ended, and I didn't have much Eradia to show for it, plus there was that FAILED QUEST, and well, I just felt like an utter failure. So much that on Wednesday I did not play the game. I did finally play again Thursday, but there was much dragging of the feet before I turned it on. I have not played since, even though my second day went better.
I dunno. I feel like the game clock doesn't work for me. It puts too much pressure on me to GET THINGS DONE rather than leisurely explore. And I hate feeling like a failure. I seriously considered restarting the game so that I could do the quest over and not fail it this time. I'm still hoping that I will play the game and enjoy it, but right now I feel like I'm in no rush to do so.
Instead I've been knitting and crocheting a lot. On Friday evening I made a doily, which was entered in the Nerdopolis Pi challenge. I woke up early on Saturday and couldn't fall back asleep, so I frogged the original Orchid Top I had tried making. Then I split the yarn from the frogged swatch, and knit a swatch for the Cockleshell Camisole. On Sunday I entered that into the Nerdopolis Summit Seekers challenge, to give me motivation to do it. I'm really eager to get started on the knitting part of it, not so eager to split the yarn. Yes, I am crazy and splitting yarn for this, LOL. But I split 11 skeins for my Orchid Top, and that turned out nicely, so I'm willing to do it again for the camisole (which I will wear underneath the Orchid).
Also on Sunday, I worked on ministry shawls #2 and #3, and did a few more rows on my pumpkin socks. Which means that all the projects I currently have on the needles were worked on, yay! I'm hoping to finish ministry shawl #3 this month so I can submit it to Nerdopolis, though I'm not sure what challenge I will submit it to yet.
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