With fairly little to say, at the moment. Of note (or not so much, maybe?) are several things, which I may or may not detail later on–I commit, at this point, to nothing, save long sentences punctuated by an unsightly, if rather amusing, amount of commas.
I finished Final Fantasy X-2, aka Yuna Raider, a couple of nights ago. Actually, I can safely say it’s not actually Yuna Raider, as I attempted to play Tomb Raider 3 soon after and could not stomach the controls for more than 2.73 seconds. (Yes, I know that comparison is completely retarded.) Anyway, I was rather disappointed to only receive the Mascot dressphere 65 hours into the game, as I would have loved to play through the entire game dressed as a moogle, a Tonberry, and a Cait Sith, using a chocobo, a Cactrot (I refuse to call them Cactuars), and a PuPu (a what?!) as weapons, respectively. I will admit to abusing the Speed Bracer/Cat Nip Gunner trick, though. Man, that’s a beautiful thing, much like the Master Tonberry -> Massive AP trick in Final Fantasy X.
Anyway, I really enjoyed FFX-2, though not nearly as much as FFX or FF7.
Speaking of FF7, I recently discovered a program called StepMania, a Dance Dance Revolution clone for the PC (and Mac, I guess). I got so into it that I ordered a Playstation controller -> USB adapter to hook up my dance pads to my computer to play. (This really is leading to FF7, I promise.) So I started getting way better at playing DDR on the keyboard than on my feet, especially because my friend Adam has some Cobalt Fluxes and I don’t. I do, however, have a new receiver that does DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX decoding, if only I had that sixth speaker to take advantage of it.
So back to FF7. Because I got that Playstation/USB adapter, I decided to download a Playstation emulator last night and try to play some of my games on it. I popped in Chocobo Racing, which features Chocobos and Moogles as does FF7, and was dismayed by how much better it looks on my GeForce4 than on my actual Playstation. Now every time I play a PSOne game on my new 27″ TV that my beautiful wife let me buy to play video games on I will be reminded of something… I forget what, exactly, because as I ramble my train of thought goes bye-bye rather quickly.
Did I mention I got a new TV? Yeah, my wife is so nice–she even tried to talk me into buying a bigger one than I did. I know that no one will actually believe it, but it happened, I swear.
Oh yes, I remember why I actually started writing this in the first place. I was looking at some Final Fantasy artwork over at the RPGamer when I came across the same moogle that graces this site. I was looking at images of other moogles and I noticed that my moogle is missing the puffy ball thing on his head. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that before, and I call myself a Final Fantasy fan.
I guess one of these days I’ll need to play Final Fantasies 1-3 and see what all the fuss was about back then. All I know was FF4 got me hooked.
As a last note for now, I have also updated the links various and sundry, removing some links and adding a few more. Of especial note is Bebo Norman. My dad sent me his first CD when I was an LDS missionary in France. I was a bit put off by the music at first but quickly came to love it. Since returning home I’ve bought each of his three subsequent albums, all of which I wholeheartedly recommend. I can’t get enough of the Bebo. I’m still kicking myself for missing his Utah stop in July. I think I’d rather see him than BNL, R.E.M., and TMBG combined.
Well, maybe not combined, as such, but the point is Bebo is the new hotness.
I think that’s enough for now, mostly because I think it’s probably time I went to bed, even though I’m sure I’ll find some excuse to stay up even later, because I always do.