tetrawrath (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tetrawrath) wrote,@ 2008-12-31 13:46:00 |
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In which I am a total nerd
I have no one to jabber about this stuff with, so.
Oh my god. In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, is it just me, or is Ed really starting to get taller now? They've mentioned it once or twice, but all the short jokes! They'll be gooooooooooooooone! Those are some of the best humor moments!
God bless America. hiimdaisy is starting on MGS3 after doing the previous two and a load of Apollo Justice and Phoenix Wright comics. It is a great day.
So my dad got an Xbox 360 for Christmas. We now have nigh on every game system on the planet aside from the morbidly expensive PS3 and the Xbox, but who the hell needs the latter since the 360 is backwards compatible? Regardless, it was really much less of a gift for him as it was for us, specifically my brother and I, as we were both given games to use on the console. I got Tales of Vesperia, he got Devil May Cry 4 and possibly a couple others, whereas my dad got the usual sports games. He's not really into it.
Just as planned.
News on Tales of Vesperia: a few things have already come to my attention. I've played I think the majority of the Tales games in my time. I actually liked and beat Symphonia (GC), Legendia, and Abyss (Abyss is easily my favorite so far). I tried Destiny (I was spoiled by Symphonia at this point, so I didn't like it enough to play past the first few hours), Destiny 2/Eternia (got to the second disc and looked it up on wikipedia before deciding I wasn't interested), and I've tried to get my hands on Phantasia for a while before choosing to just check out the story online and leave the rest to my imagination. I like it when new Tales games come out, because if nothing else, their stories seem to keep getting better and better, along with graphics, naturally. (Still love Abyss. Luke and Jade are the win.)
I'm about, oh, twenty five hours into the game now, and OH MY GOD, THEY ACTUALLY USED THE WORD VESPERIA AS A MAJOR PLOT POINT. This NEVER happens in Tales games, except for one exception in Destiny 2/Eternia, in which the world they're on in the first disc is called Eternia. But on the whole, there's not a lot of actually incorporating the names into the story. So when Estelle offered the name of Brave Vesperia for your shabby, new guild's name, I was nothing less than shocked.
Also. Yuri, the protagonist, while displaying SOME of the traits of the typical Tales heroes (namely his basic nature in that he generally puts others above himself and looks after his pals), that is only some. His approach to the whole justice and meting out karma aspect of the game is far different from previous protagonists. Luke starts out as a bastard, then cuts his hair, kills some people, learns the value of life, and gets all lovable (while Jade is just always an awesome, sarcastic jerk until the very end). Senel starts off as one of the FFVII or FFVIII heroes did, copping a 'too cool for you' attitude, then later learning the wonder of FRIENDSHIP and LOVE but still essentially being kinda FFish. And Lloyd's just an idiot, but he's a moral idiot.
(Did it bug ANYONE else that all his accomplishments were SOLELY due to the fact he had an Exsphere? "Look! I can survive jumping off a cliff!" "That's because you have an Exsphere." "Look! I have mad fighting monster skills!" "No, it's because of the Exsphere." "Look! I sprouted the most beautiful wings in all the game and now I'm about to save the world all by myself!" "It's the Exsph-" "SCREW YOU.")
Yuri? He GOES OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, while all his compatriots are asleep, goes up to whatever bad guy is traumatizing the town this time, and KILLS THEM. This has happened TWICE. The first time was understandable. The guy has been feeding kids to his pet monsters for sport and oppressing the local townspeople (not original but an effective bad guy), and he was about to get off with like a misdemeanor or something due to his high position in the Council (also not that original, but what can you do?). So Yuri? Yuri doesn't take that shit. First he kills the guy's escorts, then kills the bad guy himself while he's pleading for his life, and DUMPS HIS BODY INTO THE RIVER.
This is pretty hardcore for a series of games that, while occasionally indeed looking into the darker aspect of life, usually goes on about the wonderful warm ideas of love, friends, and apparently, going out on killing sprees in the middle of the night.
And as I mentioned, he does it a second time! This time the bad guy was sending people into the desert to try to get them to kill a monster, (technically an Entelexia, but I won't bog you down with details about that) and Yuri doesn't wait for him to try to leave town this time. He goes up to the guy in his bed, tells him to wake up (while standing over him with sword in hand, mind you), and follows the terrified bad guy out by a little cliff surveying some quicksand. Bad guy naturally threatens and pleads, with a surprisingly long plea with the usual promises of wealth, status, and power. Yuri doesn't even stop, except to make fun of him (Yuri's a tad sarcastic), and ends up backing him into the quicksand, where he naturally dies.
Problem is, this time Yuri's caught, despite not ACTUALLY murdering anyone this time. Flynn, his bud since childhood and captain of the empire's knights, is the one to find him. The entire beginning of the game was spent trying to FIND Flynn, and he turns out to be about what's expected. He's trying to fix the corrupted empire (NEVER a nice empire, oh no) from within the system, while Yuri gave up on that and was just living life as it came. So Flynn's kinda disappointed in Yuri to begin with, so when he finds out he's killed not one, but two officials, he freaks out a little.
The best part? I think either Flynn, Yuri, or both might die at the end of the game, but the most likely is option one. 'Cause guess what! Flynn, the literal knight in shining armor, is becoming corrupted by his positiom of power. And we all saw what Yuri did to the last guys who did that!
I MIGHT GET TO KILL FLYNN.
YESSSSSSS.
Wow, that turned into a video game rant really quickly.
Nothing much else to report though, except that I'm starting to read Wuthering Heights for my own enjoyment (and Candide by Voltaire for school), and that there has been a bout of sick in the older members of my immediate family as of late. I will probably catch this within the next week or so, but it's designated the 24 Hours of Hell, so hopefully it won't last long enough to force me to miss school. You simply cannot do that in IB. I missed one day and everyone I knew noticed and asked me what was up because I am like a bad penny. You cannot get rid of me short of moving away.
Happy New Year.
I have no one to jabber about this stuff with, so.
Oh my god. In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, is it just me, or is Ed really starting to get taller now? They've mentioned it once or twice, but all the short jokes! They'll be gooooooooooooooone! Those are some of the best humor moments!
God bless America. hiimdaisy is starting on MGS3 after doing the previous two and a load of Apollo Justice and Phoenix Wright comics. It is a great day.
So my dad got an Xbox 360 for Christmas. We now have nigh on every game system on the planet aside from the morbidly expensive PS3 and the Xbox, but who the hell needs the latter since the 360 is backwards compatible? Regardless, it was really much less of a gift for him as it was for us, specifically my brother and I, as we were both given games to use on the console. I got Tales of Vesperia, he got Devil May Cry 4 and possibly a couple others, whereas my dad got the usual sports games. He's not really into it.
Just as planned.
News on Tales of Vesperia: a few things have already come to my attention. I've played I think the majority of the Tales games in my time. I actually liked and beat Symphonia (GC), Legendia, and Abyss (Abyss is easily my favorite so far). I tried Destiny (I was spoiled by Symphonia at this point, so I didn't like it enough to play past the first few hours), Destiny 2/Eternia (got to the second disc and looked it up on wikipedia before deciding I wasn't interested), and I've tried to get my hands on Phantasia for a while before choosing to just check out the story online and leave the rest to my imagination. I like it when new Tales games come out, because if nothing else, their stories seem to keep getting better and better, along with graphics, naturally. (Still love Abyss. Luke and Jade are the win.)
I'm about, oh, twenty five hours into the game now, and OH MY GOD, THEY ACTUALLY USED THE WORD VESPERIA AS A MAJOR PLOT POINT. This NEVER happens in Tales games, except for one exception in Destiny 2/Eternia, in which the world they're on in the first disc is called Eternia. But on the whole, there's not a lot of actually incorporating the names into the story. So when Estelle offered the name of Brave Vesperia for your shabby, new guild's name, I was nothing less than shocked.
Also. Yuri, the protagonist, while displaying SOME of the traits of the typical Tales heroes (namely his basic nature in that he generally puts others above himself and looks after his pals), that is only some. His approach to the whole justice and meting out karma aspect of the game is far different from previous protagonists. Luke starts out as a bastard, then cuts his hair, kills some people, learns the value of life, and gets all lovable (while Jade is just always an awesome, sarcastic jerk until the very end). Senel starts off as one of the FFVII or FFVIII heroes did, copping a 'too cool for you' attitude, then later learning the wonder of FRIENDSHIP and LOVE but still essentially being kinda FFish. And Lloyd's just an idiot, but he's a moral idiot.
(Did it bug ANYONE else that all his accomplishments were SOLELY due to the fact he had an Exsphere? "Look! I can survive jumping off a cliff!" "That's because you have an Exsphere." "Look! I have mad fighting monster skills!" "No, it's because of the Exsphere." "Look! I sprouted the most beautiful wings in all the game and now I'm about to save the world all by myself!" "It's the Exsph-" "SCREW YOU.")
Yuri? He GOES OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, while all his compatriots are asleep, goes up to whatever bad guy is traumatizing the town this time, and KILLS THEM. This has happened TWICE. The first time was understandable. The guy has been feeding kids to his pet monsters for sport and oppressing the local townspeople (not original but an effective bad guy), and he was about to get off with like a misdemeanor or something due to his high position in the Council (also not that original, but what can you do?). So Yuri? Yuri doesn't take that shit. First he kills the guy's escorts, then kills the bad guy himself while he's pleading for his life, and DUMPS HIS BODY INTO THE RIVER.
This is pretty hardcore for a series of games that, while occasionally indeed looking into the darker aspect of life, usually goes on about the wonderful warm ideas of love, friends, and apparently, going out on killing sprees in the middle of the night.
And as I mentioned, he does it a second time! This time the bad guy was sending people into the desert to try to get them to kill a monster, (technically an Entelexia, but I won't bog you down with details about that) and Yuri doesn't wait for him to try to leave town this time. He goes up to the guy in his bed, tells him to wake up (while standing over him with sword in hand, mind you), and follows the terrified bad guy out by a little cliff surveying some quicksand. Bad guy naturally threatens and pleads, with a surprisingly long plea with the usual promises of wealth, status, and power. Yuri doesn't even stop, except to make fun of him (Yuri's a tad sarcastic), and ends up backing him into the quicksand, where he naturally dies.
Problem is, this time Yuri's caught, despite not ACTUALLY murdering anyone this time. Flynn, his bud since childhood and captain of the empire's knights, is the one to find him. The entire beginning of the game was spent trying to FIND Flynn, and he turns out to be about what's expected. He's trying to fix the corrupted empire (NEVER a nice empire, oh no) from within the system, while Yuri gave up on that and was just living life as it came. So Flynn's kinda disappointed in Yuri to begin with, so when he finds out he's killed not one, but two officials, he freaks out a little.
The best part? I think either Flynn, Yuri, or both might die at the end of the game, but the most likely is option one. 'Cause guess what! Flynn, the literal knight in shining armor, is becoming corrupted by his positiom of power. And we all saw what Yuri did to the last guys who did that!
I MIGHT GET TO KILL FLYNN.
YESSSSSSS.
Wow, that turned into a video game rant really quickly.
Nothing much else to report though, except that I'm starting to read Wuthering Heights for my own enjoyment (and Candide by Voltaire for school), and that there has been a bout of sick in the older members of my immediate family as of late. I will probably catch this within the next week or so, but it's designated the 24 Hours of Hell, so hopefully it won't last long enough to force me to miss school. You simply cannot do that in IB. I missed one day and everyone I knew noticed and asked me what was up because I am like a bad penny. You cannot get rid of me short of moving away.
Happy New Year.
