This week's loot (4th October 2014)

Well this is pretty nice.

 This week's Falcom mail order special. I now have all of the Kiseki series OSTs and arrange albums!

Sen no Kiseki II

Just cleared it. Holy shit it's late.

Sixty hour playtime (50 hours to get to the end of the "last" chapter and another ten for the rest of the game). It was fantastic. Not without its faults- In many ways it looks and feels like a PS2 game (though this isn't entirely a bad thing since I can't really think of any REALLY good RPGs on current gen; Plus while the graphics might not be all that good the aesthetics are fantastic as usual), the pacing was pretty bad, the balance is even sillier than before (getting back attacked near the end of the game means you're pretty much fucked, yet you can defeat almost all the bosses without taking any damage easily, except the final boss with his fucking vanishing breath and mirror/shield piercing 1 HP bullshit is fucked up, etc.), and while at this point I'm used to new entries in the series raising more questions than they answer the balance was REALLY skewed this time. It was nothing BUT questions.

Gameplay was broken as usual. For me, it seemed like most enemies' best moves could kill my entire party at full health at one hit, so I handled that by killing them without taking any damage. It's way easier than it sounds. Laura decked out with hadou and all the damage-boosting stuff I have starting off the fight with ridiculous damage, Rean following up with his S-craft, Fie using grail burst to let everyone move again then using her S-craft, Laura bumping CP up again with tempest roar thus letting everyone use their S-crafts again, Alisa using adamas shield and crescent mirror and her CP-boosting stuff as necessary. End of Vermillion and the mercenaries managed to hit me once each, and I took down all the other bosses in the final chapter without taking any damage. The only fight that really gave me trouble was Lucifaria on my first try (he made everyone but Alisa vanish then immediately killed her in one hit).

But yeah it was fantastic.

So, "near future" huh?  Judging from the gaiden stuff they're probably already working on it so hopefully it's nearer than I expect.

Also, have some snippets from IRC


Twist ending from the final chapter:

Lucifaria:

Edit: Also this

This week's loot (27th September 2014)

続・どうなってんだよ佐川

またかよ。

今日は待ちに待った閃の軌跡Ⅱの発売日。ゲームは予約解禁の当日に予約した。ゲームのためにも、今日は休暇を取った。午前中に届くかもしれないので朝の８時に起きた。

８時間経過後の１６時現在、追跡画面がこれである。ちなみに電話しても誰も出なかった。

俺の休暇を帰せクソが。

補足：

さて、５～１０分置きに画面を更新していたら１９３０時くらいで↑からいきなりこうなってた

あれっ、おかしいなぁ？画面によると１８４０分に配達に来たら俺不在だったから持ち帰ったらしいけど俺ずっとインターフォンの前に座ってたよ？今でも座ってるけど。はぁ？

で、再配達を依頼しようとしたら

明日以降の配達になるってさ。

ふざけるな。

重ね重ね言うが俺は今日、このために、休暇を取った。そして丸一日がこうやって佐川とかいう
カスどもに潰された。

誰を恨めばいいが分からんが、願わくばそいつらが全員性病に掛かって生きたままネズミに食い散らされながら火事で焼け死ぬように。

This week's loot (21st September 2014)

Watched Rurouni Kenshin 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy. GotG was good. I was expecting Ruroken to be shit but it betrayed my expectations by somehow managing to be far shittier than I could have imagined (Uonuma's fight lasts five seconds and he has no lines, Anji is just a villain and Sanosuke punches him in the balls and leaves him to die on a sinking/exploding ship, the rest of the Juppongatana aside from Chou who was defeated in 2 and Soujirou don't have lines or fight and just stand around in the background, Aoshi is just a random douchebag...).

God damn it.

And yeah, hit the Falcom exhibition again. They didn't have the shirt I wanted in my size so I only got a Laura tapestry.

Finally cleared my second playthrough of Sen no Kiseki in preparation of II's release next week. I started the playthrough last September so it only took about a year (with an eleven month hiatus, albeit)