"Don't stop."

[bouteillebleu]

Some observations from today follow.

• Why on earth did our local Gamestation have a Canadian copy of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories? Now all I have for reference is a French instruction manual. And, uh, GameFAQs.


• As theblunderbuss said, the final boss rush in FFX is far too easy when you've been accidentally levelling your characters. How can you level accidentally? I hear you ask. Well, I started collecting monsters, and when I stopped I'd got Yuna, Tidus and Auron at ridiculous power levels.


• Tidus needs to stop trying to act. Poor kid. The forced lip synch didn't help either, as I'm sure he'd have sounded more natural if he hadn't had to match the Japanese lip movements.


• FFX needed more goddamn Jecht. (He's like the Goddamn Batman.)


• I want to write random Yuna/Auron smut. This is bad. (And all because of one line near the end.) However, as with everything else, including that weird thing involving Sephiroth, Malificent, the Heartless and jam[1], I'll never get around to writing it. So no worries.


• Incidentally, Auron is pure awesome. For further reference, see Kingdom Hearts II.


• Despite Tidus's acting - well, everyone's acting - I cried at the final bit on the airship. Now I just want to hug him and Yuna and tell them it'll be all right.


My housemates have warned me against playing FFX-2, so I'm going on to Kingdom Hearts next - I've seen it and its PS2 sequel played, but never played them myself. I'm probably going to fail marvellously because I have terrible reflexes (why else would I play RPGs? I tried Metal Gear Solid for the story, and was so annoyed by the bit with the lasers near the start that I haven't gone back to it).

Dancing Stage Max isn't holding my interest quite as much as Squaresoft's stuff. I've been playing it whenever I miss out on the gym, and while it certainly makes me overheat I don't think it's giving me much exercise. There are also lots of licensed tracks I don't care much for, and it's quite expensive to buy new tracks at the in-game shop.

I'm really playing it to get Miracle Moon, one of the Pop'n Music tracks I like, but having heard the terrible dance version of Absolute (also a Pop'n Music track, originally mainly guitar; the Dancing Stage version has an almost inaudible melody line), I'm not too hopeful about how it'll sound.

However, DS Max does have a dancer who looks like Phoenix Wright in a waistcoat, so I've been playing as him and laughing at his dancing. ^_^


[1] Inspired by a running joke with someone I work with, who has accused me of writing fanfic involving Sephiroth and jam. I assure you that I have not written any such thing; at least, not yet.