Jaffa Cakes and Sodomy

Yes, I bought it today, despite gunnhildr 's warnings of crappiness (if it helps, it was an eeny-meeny-miney-mo between that and God of War 3). Not very far into it yet (I just got control of the wimpy-looking androgynous boy-teen who I'm assuming will be the main character), but here's my thoughts so far.

What I'm liking:

Pretty, pretty Snow.
Cute little chicobo. :3
Bouncing, hard-to-miss treasure chests.
Was that Shiva in the opening movie? If so nice redesign.

What I'm not liking:

So noisy! Had to turn the subtitles on so I could catch the dialogue.
Seems a bit easy (although it could just be breaking me in softly).
The music so far. Why so bland? :(
That kid who looks like Naruto. /irrational

Is it weird that my ISP hasn't billed me since I signed up with them? I supposedly had 3 months free, but I switched in May. Checked on their website, and apparently I owe them nothing, so it's not that the payment isn't going through or anything.

*hopes his noticing doesn't mean the free internet goes away*

In other news, I think I'm nearly finished the story mode in Dissidia now. Still liking it... while the story itself's pretty much just self-indulgent wank and the dialog's corny as all hell, the voice acting is spot on, the characters all have nicely distinct fighting styles and the gameplay's good for a fighting game - the RPG elements make it a lot less of a button masher than most. Favourite fighters at the moment are probably Bartz, Zidane, David BowieEmperor Mateus and Kefka, and I'm really relieved about the latter... when I first tried him his attack style was driving me barmy but now I know what I'm doing it turns out he rules as much as he should. Sephiroth and Cloud are pretty much meh, which didn't see coming with the amount Squeenix seems to love FF7. :O

So yeah... probably going to get a lot more life out of this one. :>

Recalling his happy words makes me long for Kingdom Hearts II: Final Fantasy VII Mix, in which all Disney characters have been removed, and the Final Fantasy characters inhabit Disney worlds all alone, where every dialogue consists of the single line "He will awaken soon," spoken by a computer program, repeated, and the bonus Blu-ray includes a mini-application you can load onto your PlayStation 3's hard drive -- which, when activated, will place a real-time, internet-enabled picture-in-picture window in the upper-right corner of the screen, which will show the current state of Tetsuya Nomura's glistening, mumbling lips as he drools while listening to Gackt.

Really interesting review of FFXII / essay on Square - old, but worth reading nonetheless (ditto his Mother 3 one).

Just listening to the third Black Mages album, and I'm fairly certain the arrangement of the FFVI opera has Celes singing about her devotion to Ultros. :>

OK, it probably doesn't really - I just heard "たこ" somewhere in there (wasn't really listening to the lyrics), and took it to mean "octopus" (蛸). It was probably "really happy" (多幸) though, thinking about it... ^^;

I had the bright idea yesterday of going back to my "do everything" file of FFXII to try and get the Tournesol (strongest greatsword in the game), which basically entails getting 3 each of 3 rare items and then selling them. Sounds easy enough...

Problem is that the items are so rare that they DON'T EVEN EXIST - I have to go to the four corners of the world searching for other rare items, some of which I've never had at any point and had no idea they were even in the game they're that hard to get hold of, and then sell those in set quantities to make the things I'm actually after magically appear in the shop. Fun.

Anyway, putting this here so I can remember what I still need to get:

Gemsteel - still need 2 x Scarletite (from the big green no-neck tortoises).
Empyreal Soul - still need 2x Soul Powder (steal from the toothy bastards in the hard bit of the mines) and 2x High Arcana (from the lemonade balls Leamonde Entites), or if I give up getting the High Arcanas: 2 x Soul of Thamasa, (from the purple magic stealers in Nabudis).

-_-

EDIT - managed to get the High Arcanas easy enough (10 minutes chaining Dustia) but decided to kill 2 birds with one Gemsteel and get the Masamune at the same time. Also, remembered I got a Gemsteel & Empyreal Soul off Montblanc ages ago, so less collecting needed. :D So; revised list:

1 x Scarletite, from green tortoise things
1 x Soul Powder, from toothy reapers
1 x Mallet, from bombs at the top of the Pharos

Hopefully it won't take much longer...

From gunnhildr:

STEP 1: Choose a fandom.
STEP 2: Choose a pairing or character.
STEP 3: Choose a tarot card from the Major Arcana [listed below].
STEP 4: Post a fanfiction request.

FANDOMS I'LL WRITE: Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy (all except XI), Ace Attorney (all except 4), Silent Hill (all except Origins), Half-life (inc. Portal), Team Fortress, Kingdom Hearts, killer7, Metroid, Evangelion, Supernatural (not seen S3 yet though).

RULES:
a. Never work with children or animals.
b. Uc through R18 - it's all good. (it's very rare I write full-on porn though)
c. Word counts will be of my choosing.
d. Requests are limited to one per person for now. However, if spaces remain open after 48 hours, I'll open it to anyone who wants to request more. 48 hours up - knock yourselves out. :)

THE CARDS:
o. The Fool - Lotta,Atmey,Pearl,April,Grossberg (AA): Charlotte
i. The Magician/The Juggler
ii. The High Priestess - Lesbian Zelda (TP): sarshin
iii. The Empress - Telma/Shad (TP): taure
iv. The Emperor - Pyramid Head (SH2): gunnhildr
v. The Priest - Someone/Vexen (CoM): princess_saix
vi. The Lovers - Pyramid Head/James (SH2): sarshin
vii. The Chariot - Axel/Demyx (KH2): taure
viii. Justice - Marluxia (CoM): princess_saix
ix. The Hermit
x. Wheel of Fortune
xi. Strength - Rasler/Ashe (FFXII): taure
xii. The Hanged Man - Amarant/Freya (FFIX): gunnhildr
xiii. Death - Marluxia, Naminé (CoM): taure
xiv. Temperance
xv. The Devil - Rude/Reno (FFVII): gunnhildr
xvi. The Tower - Link, Shad, ReDeads (TP): taure COMPLETE
xvii. The Star
xviii. The Moon - Midna/Shad (TP): taure COMPLETE
xix. The Sun
xx. Judgement - Agitha (TP): gunnhildr
xxi. The World - Dean & Sam (SN): gunnhildr

Is a beautiful thing indeed :D (unlike this FST)

Couple of FFIX ones tonight - not particularly coherent though...

( EFF OFF - Necron (FFIX) )

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( Cornbread Faggot - Ruby/Lowell (FFIX) )

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With new recruit harpylink234 :)

( Space - Xigbar/Xaldin (KH2) )

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( Piss - Asuka, Sandalphon (NGE) )

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( Fag - Cid/Vincent (FFVII) )

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( Bad Ass Motherfucker/Adore - Jenova/Sephiroth (FFVII) )

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