Likely that tomorrow should beget studying
Last night I think I might have gotten more than 3 hours of sleep without interruption--first time that has happened while not under sedation (via morphine, vicadin, or IV pneumonia antibiotics) since right before I came home and almost died. Remember a dark room probably around 1:30 or 2am and the next time I opened my eyes it was past the break of dawn--so at least 5:30.
Today I logged 5 and a half hours into Shadow Hearts 2. I am missing tons of references to Shadow Hearts 1 and a few more to Koudelka--this is the first time I'm playing a sequel of a game I do plan on playing the precursor of before I try the original. That stated, anyone with a copy of the original I'd appreciate if notified me. If I haven't found a copy cheaper than $25 used (assuming I can't find a copy to borrow for about a month) before, probably, I finish Shadow Hearts 2 (unless I finish it before my Spring Break, now two days in, ends--then it'll be after I finish Star Ocean 3 or Phantom Brave... I've given up on Baten Kaitos until the summer) I'm going to try signing up with Gamefly.
The dialogue is witty, adult, and progresses in a way that suggests the plot is going somewhere. The graphics aren't the most detailed on the PS2, but are interesting for an RPG, considering this one is set in an alternate-world (with magic and monsters) Europe, circa 1915. Battle system is addictive, and is the closest to that of a truly traditional SNES-era RPG I've seen since I stopped playing Wild ARMs 3 a year and a half ago. Since then, it has been TRPG (Disgaea, La Pucelle, Phantom Brave) or action-based RPG (Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean 3, Tales of Symphonia, to a lesser extent Baten Kaitos and Paper Mario 2). Maybe its better I was unable to rent Devil May Cry 3 yesterday--Shadow Hearts 2 is good. At the moment, I think a large part of the attraction is the novelty of the setting--it's definately the exception to write an RPG on Earth, especially in such an interesting time period. The intro had some direct (fictional) World War I stuff going on, and rumor of the War has appeared in many townsfolks dialogue windows.
My quota before returning to DeKalb is to get 80% of my PHIL101 homework done, 65% of my ENGL104 work, 40% of my STAT208 work, and 25% of my PHYS180 reading. I hope to get a little more English done, but the actual homework is generally 2-5page essays, which I generally can't write more than one of a night without burning out and finding myself unable to do a damned thing the next day.
Feelings on the consistency of Get There are starting to become mixed. The problem is there are only 4 songs that I currently think are outstanding--none of the tracks are /bad/ (of which could be argued one or two of Twilight's songs were actually kind of bad, or would be if Jasmine's lyrics were sung by any other vocalist in the universe), but only a third of them are outstanding. I think I'm just a little disappointed Jasmine wasn't as forceful as she was in Deeply or Rain or Scoring... the instrumentals take a step up at the cost of Jasmine taking a step down. I'll give it a few more weeks before I make a final decision whether that's acceptable or not. It probably is, but I wanted another Duvet--Get There, the title song, is close, but it isn't (for me, anyhow--a man that considers just about all American pop since Vaudeville days to be "meh" since the sounds are so saturated) as immediately genius. The first time I watched the opening for Serial Experiments Lain, I knew I had to find out who made Duvet. Maybe if they do what many message board fans have been suggesting and record a music video for Get There I'll feel a little better.
But I do suppose I, individually, /am/ honestly starting to feel a little better in a spiritual sense. Spending 6 hours with Shadow Hearts 2 today reaffirms I have not just the heart of a Gamer (go find and read Iwata someone (the President of Nintendo)'s Keynote Address from this year's GDC--which happened Wednesday or Thursday), but the heart of an RPGamer. And one that developed before social digital RPGs really existed--an individual, self-serving heart that can survive by consuming what it wants in privacy. Social butterflies (I think that's the term) should consider this a fearful fault, but it has been working to set me apart as someone just a little more unique than that other guy for many years now.
"This is the last time
I’ll take this from you"
Today I logged 5 and a half hours into Shadow Hearts 2. I am missing tons of references to Shadow Hearts 1 and a few more to Koudelka--this is the first time I'm playing a sequel of a game I do plan on playing the precursor of before I try the original. That stated, anyone with a copy of the original I'd appreciate if notified me. If I haven't found a copy cheaper than $25 used (assuming I can't find a copy to borrow for about a month) before, probably, I finish Shadow Hearts 2 (unless I finish it before my Spring Break, now two days in, ends--then it'll be after I finish Star Ocean 3 or Phantom Brave... I've given up on Baten Kaitos until the summer) I'm going to try signing up with Gamefly.
The dialogue is witty, adult, and progresses in a way that suggests the plot is going somewhere. The graphics aren't the most detailed on the PS2, but are interesting for an RPG, considering this one is set in an alternate-world (with magic and monsters) Europe, circa 1915. Battle system is addictive, and is the closest to that of a truly traditional SNES-era RPG I've seen since I stopped playing Wild ARMs 3 a year and a half ago. Since then, it has been TRPG (Disgaea, La Pucelle, Phantom Brave) or action-based RPG (Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean 3, Tales of Symphonia, to a lesser extent Baten Kaitos and Paper Mario 2). Maybe its better I was unable to rent Devil May Cry 3 yesterday--Shadow Hearts 2 is good. At the moment, I think a large part of the attraction is the novelty of the setting--it's definately the exception to write an RPG on Earth, especially in such an interesting time period. The intro had some direct (fictional) World War I stuff going on, and rumor of the War has appeared in many townsfolks dialogue windows.
My quota before returning to DeKalb is to get 80% of my PHIL101 homework done, 65% of my ENGL104 work, 40% of my STAT208 work, and 25% of my PHYS180 reading. I hope to get a little more English done, but the actual homework is generally 2-5page essays, which I generally can't write more than one of a night without burning out and finding myself unable to do a damned thing the next day.
Feelings on the consistency of Get There are starting to become mixed. The problem is there are only 4 songs that I currently think are outstanding--none of the tracks are /bad/ (of which could be argued one or two of Twilight's songs were actually kind of bad, or would be if Jasmine's lyrics were sung by any other vocalist in the universe), but only a third of them are outstanding. I think I'm just a little disappointed Jasmine wasn't as forceful as she was in Deeply or Rain or Scoring... the instrumentals take a step up at the cost of Jasmine taking a step down. I'll give it a few more weeks before I make a final decision whether that's acceptable or not. It probably is, but I wanted another Duvet--Get There, the title song, is close, but it isn't (for me, anyhow--a man that considers just about all American pop since Vaudeville days to be "meh" since the sounds are so saturated) as immediately genius. The first time I watched the opening for Serial Experiments Lain, I knew I had to find out who made Duvet. Maybe if they do what many message board fans have been suggesting and record a music video for Get There I'll feel a little better.
But I do suppose I, individually, /am/ honestly starting to feel a little better in a spiritual sense. Spending 6 hours with Shadow Hearts 2 today reaffirms I have not just the heart of a Gamer (go find and read Iwata someone (the President of Nintendo)'s Keynote Address from this year's GDC--which happened Wednesday or Thursday), but the heart of an RPGamer. And one that developed before social digital RPGs really existed--an individual, self-serving heart that can survive by consuming what it wants in privacy. Social butterflies (I think that's the term) should consider this a fearful fault, but it has been working to set me apart as someone just a little more unique than that other guy for many years now.
"This is the last time
I’ll take this from you"
posted by SJ at 3/13/2005 10:49:00 PM
1 Comments:
BoA has a new album? ....I want more of their music. Not sure if you'll see this comment, but i'll probably talk to you sometime before you go back to school. Would be awesome if you could burn what I don't have of them. God i love her voice.
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