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Phew. Two days of playing in this post. I was too tired the last two nights to type it up. :>

( Of course, what would a Zelda game be without some kinda of plot twist? Or seven to eight dungeons... Spoilery within!!! )

Woo! Here we go. The Commentary begins!

( Zelda Commentary Within. Browse at your spoilery risk. )

I, uh, wanted to post today. So I shall talk about: a game!

Actually yesterday I felt the need to escape my house, so I went to the area I refer to as the explosion of commerce, which is also the closest area to me that I know of which has a bookstore. While my credit union there held depressing news, success was found at Half-Price Books.

See, I picked up Dreamfall two weeks ago. But I wanted to play the prequel first, in case there was any story parts I would miss. So yesterday I went looking and found The Longest Journey. And it was cheaper than Dreamfall so I picked it up. (Yeah, I know I could have borrowed it.) Oh and Petshop of Horrors v. 10. So now I'm only missing two-three books from the series.

Now here's the shocking part. I not only installed the game, I actually played a bit of it. I'm a little ways in the first chapter. This game really does remind me a lot of the Kings Quest type of games. Point and click everything. :> Oh and solve small puzzles along the way. The graphics are dated (though it would be better if anti-aliasing were applied liberally) but not too bad. I stopped just before sending April, the main character, on her way from the intersection of pathways near the clock.

So, now, a poll! Because I can, and because I'm been debating this for a few days. (Also, because I can't afford Crisis Core right now. Grrrr.)

[Poll #1157623]

Apparently I'm a bit behind on this but only by a day or so.

At the Tokyo Game Show going on right now, Square-Enix announced three new Kingdom Hearts games, all of them on portable platforms.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP)
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)
Kingdom Hearts: Coded (Mobile)

KH2.co.uk has more information about the three, including a translation of the press release. KH: Birth By Sleep and the 358/2 Days games look very interesting.

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Okay, before I take on the final chapter of this game, I have to make some commentary first. Of course, major, major story spoilers are within the cut.

( WEEEIIIISSSS! )

So, double XP weekend was this weekend on City of Heroes. I had plans on Sunday to take advantage of that. Would have been the first time in over two weeks playing the game again. And I did play a little bit on Saturday.

But, heavy thunderstorms rolled in this afternoon and I shut my machine down. I start eyeing the many PS2 games I haven't played. And, I actually start playing one today. And it was shockenly enough, one I purchased just recently.

As such, here's a quick overview/review of Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus.

( Dirge of Cerberus reviewy like thing )

Overall, not a bad game so far, and I'm glad I got it for $20. Can't wait to finish it.

Zexion's weapon finally revealed! And why not! Luxord has cards and dice as his weapons. (Still, hahahahah. ^_^)

I'm this close to ordering Final Mix+. I already have KH's Final Mix. But I'm trying to wait and see if Square-Enix will bring this one over. I'm sure I'll fail and buy it anyways, then they'll annouce it but I rather not take one for the team juuuusst yet. (Almost though.) Watch me cave in March just before release.

And for all of you broadband happy people: KHII Final Mix+ Preview trailer. YouTube doesn't like dial-up it seems. (Because the ruddy thing died 50 seconds into it!!! Grrrr. *clears cache and tries again*)

And here's the cover for the game.

Oh! And of course the KHII Final Mix+ Flash-heavy official site finally opened up recently.

Crisis Core has a trailer out now.

Of course, this is the same trailer that if you were a member of Square Enix's little online club, you could see it there too. (And you can join even if you can't read the language. I did that because I saw that there was a trailer for Crisis Core. :P)

Mostly cinematics of course, and some game play shown. I even think we see Kadaj's predecessor. But it is going to be awesome to play as Zack.

So, because I felt like updating or saying something, here's a post.

Inventory is still going on. We're almost done with the English books in the front of the store. Then the Japanese manga comes next or I decide to attack the nightmare of books in the back of the store. Even I don't know where everything is back there. Though I have a good idea where anything might be. But its looking a lot like my room bookwise. You know, if my room had a fax machine, central air, and tables. Oh, and fast internet. Definitely don't have that in my room. *grrr* Hands and arms are bothering me as well, since I had that test on Monday that had essay questions and work is handling lots and lots of books and yeah.

Want to see an interesting PS3 RPG? Check out the gameplay trailer for White Knight on 1up.com. I just watched it tonight and man, even though I don't plan to get that system any time soon, it was an awesome trailer to watch. The battle system was very interesting.

I also need to update this machine if I'm going to keep running videos and playing City of Heroes. I'm still having some weird video problems with playing videos and I know having more RAM in this machine would be helpful, but the memory slots for the new memory are a bit messed up.

And I'm totally procrastinating tonight instead of working on the job analysis project. It's due on the 2nd and I'm mainly working on the categorizing right now. I'm wondering if I can send a rough draft to my professor by tomorrow and still get feedback in time. I'm just really, really tired tonight but don't quite want to go to bed yet. Might very soon though.

So, interestingly, World of Warcraft is featured today in the Houston Chronicle Star section.

Links:
For some, World of Warcraft is a way of life
My name is Jack, and I'm a Warcraft addict

Also, now been paid. So I can now order my replacement boots and get my hotel for Yaoi-con. Woo!