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cuddlefish) wrote2010-11-01 03:16 am
cuddlefish) wrote2010-11-01 03:16 am
Malaise, Atelier Iris (please stop, game), Rayearth, Supernatural, in that order
Last week was characterized by malaise. I'm back now! The causes of said malaise are said to be bleeding (and the usual preparations for bleeding) combined with catching a cold. I also pulled a muscle in my back while handling books BOOKS BOOKS and the cold was a special one that gave me muscle pains, so I had to spend a day or two grunting and avoiding moving at all setting it off.
I ordered some things from Japan and they took about two weeks longer to arrive than I anticipated. (This is because I only really factored in the amount of time it takes for the forwarding service to teleport my goodies to my side of the world. Said forwarding service took several days all by itself getting my stuff ready to go.) This also produced a lot of MALAISE because this shipment had my new favorite game of the year, Pro Action Replay EZ. ...is this not a game? Yeah, anyway, I was never able to use one when I was disk swapping, then they stopped making them probably even before I got a Japanese PS2 (why?) and I never realized I could just buy one from Rakuten. Yeah. I'm still working on how I'll get doujinshi from them because what if it counts as わいせつなもの? ロイエドとか十分わいせつなのでは…
The first game to fall under my IRON FIST OF CHEAT is Atelier Iris, or at least I'm getting really close??? This game drove me nuts for years. Who in their right mind wants to see Lilims twirl in the air, power up, and moan the most dumbshit "I am on the slut side of the dichotomy" lines for every attack? I don't think even guys want that (enough). I take entirely too much joy in ripping them to shreds with alchemy aheheheheh...likewise, who wants to see those freaking pigs powering up again and again? This battle for Viola's jewel-encrusted underpants has no meaning to me. So that's what the cheat that maxes your party's stats is for! Hahaha fuck off pigs you are all star candies now ~_~ Now all I have to do to complete my item encyclopedia is wrest an Invisible Gear away from a monster with my SUPER STRONG PARTY.
I happen to be watching Rayearth with a friend, and this awakened in me an old and terrible lust for Rayearth video games. So I went down to the basement. The game system was little to no trouble, it was the actual game that took a day or two to find (I had to hold off because of my freaking back!). I plugged in my Sega Saturn, stuck in Working Designs' localization of the Rayearth game, and I played that motherfucker.
No, I don't have any other Saturn games anywhere, and I never have. Just this one. This is the only one I need. Because. \o/ ME ARE DORK.
This is a really good game. It might be a little too simple, seeing as it was made for kids, but if you are Rayearth dork extraordinaire that is utterly immaterial. You get to choose which magic knight you want to control when you fight, and their weapons all do different things, and Fuu stays with her bow and arrows the whole time and if you do a charge attack with them she shoots lots of arrows, homing arrows even, in yellow or green...! And there are tons, seriously tons of things in towns that you can examine to hear a different comment from each girl...! They comment on kitchens and furniture and toys and books and cleanliness and awesome views---saf;gahfl;ugh THIS GAME IS SO GOOD TO ME. SO, SO SOOOOO GOOOOD.
Also, I would prefer to rant about this another time, but the loading times are fine. A certain famous PS2 game had loading times that felt perhaps infinitesimally shorter but much more frequent. Come on now, it's not such a bad little Sega critter.
Rayearth, man! Rayearth is awesome! Everybody go look it up, because it's the magical girl genre married to RPGs, swords and magic, and GIANT ROBOTS in a way that offends no one who sees it. And everybody who saw it before, REMEMBER HOW AWESOME IT IS.
Thoughts on Supernatural: it is wrong to say that we love it when Dean cries. We like it when Dean expresses his feelings, particularly while staring into a sunset that lights his tears of utmost purity, not when he breaks down and cries because (highlight for spoilers) his rather serious girlfriend told him she didn't need him and meant it. We do not like it when he spends like the entire episode drinking because his brother (more spoilers) lacks a soul. Waste. Of. Time. Stop making my imaginary boyfriend depressed.
EDIT: I also don't like it when Castiel looks weary and is tough and serious. I know he was sick last season but I miss the Cas that said, "The voice says I'm running out of minutes."
I ordered some things from Japan and they took about two weeks longer to arrive than I anticipated. (This is because I only really factored in the amount of time it takes for the forwarding service to teleport my goodies to my side of the world. Said forwarding service took several days all by itself getting my stuff ready to go.) This also produced a lot of MALAISE because this shipment had my new favorite game of the year, Pro Action Replay EZ. ...is this not a game? Yeah, anyway, I was never able to use one when I was disk swapping, then they stopped making them probably even before I got a Japanese PS2 (why?) and I never realized I could just buy one from Rakuten. Yeah. I'm still working on how I'll get doujinshi from them because what if it counts as わいせつなもの? ロイエドとか十分わいせつなのでは…
The first game to fall under my IRON FIST OF CHEAT is Atelier Iris, or at least I'm getting really close??? This game drove me nuts for years. Who in their right mind wants to see Lilims twirl in the air, power up, and moan the most dumbshit "I am on the slut side of the dichotomy" lines for every attack? I don't think even guys want that (enough). I take entirely too much joy in ripping them to shreds with alchemy aheheheheh...likewise, who wants to see those freaking pigs powering up again and again? This battle for Viola's jewel-encrusted underpants has no meaning to me. So that's what the cheat that maxes your party's stats is for! Hahaha fuck off pigs you are all star candies now ~_~ Now all I have to do to complete my item encyclopedia is wrest an Invisible Gear away from a monster with my SUPER STRONG PARTY.
I happen to be watching Rayearth with a friend, and this awakened in me an old and terrible lust for Rayearth video games. So I went down to the basement. The game system was little to no trouble, it was the actual game that took a day or two to find (I had to hold off because of my freaking back!). I plugged in my Sega Saturn, stuck in Working Designs' localization of the Rayearth game, and I played that motherfucker.
No, I don't have any other Saturn games anywhere, and I never have. Just this one. This is the only one I need. Because. \o/ ME ARE DORK.
This is a really good game. It might be a little too simple, seeing as it was made for kids, but if you are Rayearth dork extraordinaire that is utterly immaterial. You get to choose which magic knight you want to control when you fight, and their weapons all do different things, and Fuu stays with her bow and arrows the whole time and if you do a charge attack with them she shoots lots of arrows, homing arrows even, in yellow or green...! And there are tons, seriously tons of things in towns that you can examine to hear a different comment from each girl...! They comment on kitchens and furniture and toys and books and cleanliness and awesome views---saf;gahfl;ugh THIS GAME IS SO GOOD TO ME. SO, SO SOOOOO GOOOOD.
Also, I would prefer to rant about this another time, but the loading times are fine. A certain famous PS2 game had loading times that felt perhaps infinitesimally shorter but much more frequent. Come on now, it's not such a bad little Sega critter.
Rayearth, man! Rayearth is awesome! Everybody go look it up, because it's the magical girl genre married to RPGs, swords and magic, and GIANT ROBOTS in a way that offends no one who sees it. And everybody who saw it before, REMEMBER HOW AWESOME IT IS.
Thoughts on Supernatural: it is wrong to say that we love it when Dean cries. We like it when Dean expresses his feelings, particularly while staring into a sunset that lights his tears of utmost purity, not when he breaks down and cries because (highlight for spoilers) his rather serious girlfriend told him she didn't need him and meant it. We do not like it when he spends like the entire episode drinking because his brother (more spoilers) lacks a soul. Waste. Of. Time. Stop making my imaginary boyfriend depressed.
EDIT: I also don't like it when Castiel looks weary and is tough and serious. I know he was sick last season but I miss the Cas that said, "The voice says I'm running out of minutes."