riari

Woah.

Just saw this today while checking out info on Crisis Core: Pictures of Square-Enix's booth at Comic-con. (Got the info from Crisis-Core.net.) Turns out Squeenix is opening a store for the US: Square-Enix Online Shop. Even if it's mail-order only, to get some of the keychains and whatnot at cheaper prices will be awesome. One picture before the one I linked above, shows keychains for three series with reasonable prices. Yeah, the look to bring their silver jewelry as well, but hopefully it will knock out some of the bootlegs I've seen for keychains and whatnot. The booth at Comic-con is selling some of them there now. I'm envious.

Also, go check out those pictures! If you were ever interested in seeing the oh-so-expensive Cloud and Sephiroth Masterpiece Arts figures, they've got them on display at Comic-con.

IGN Square-Enix Booth Pictures
Figures.com Playarts Pictures

(Which, by the way, the Crisis Core website just updated today with soundtrack info!!)

Also, Square-Enix's Japan Online store has a blog for what's being developed about about the retail location they have. Point of interest? The pictures being posted about the new Play Arts figures. (Which some are already on display as Coming Soon items at the booth at Comic-con.) They're coming out with the original Final Fantasy VII designs, including Cloud with the Hardy Daytona. I'm...sad to say that I would probably buy that version of Cloud as well, depending on how much I like the sculpt. And its looking like I will.

Some rather annoying things from Dirge of Cerberus:

Dear WRO members,

Yes, for once Vincent is right. Stay the hell away from him. Your chances of dying is quite high with my accuracy.

*sigh*

And no! Don't tell me your life story about Sector 7 then go get yourself killed!

No love,
me

That mission took me three times to escort all five WRO soldiers and I almost made it the second time but the girl got herself killed again. Actually, getting them through with some of them would have gotten me the mission finished...I just didn't want to have the girl killed after that cutscene.

To be fair, these are regular soldiers versus Deepground SOLDIERS that even Shinra didn't acknowledge let alone out to fight. But still, the escortable and highly killable soldiers do tend to die a lot around me.

And I wonder if some of Final Fantasy X's crew worked on this one. The FMV scene with the universe had a very familiar feel to it. And this is going to be a short game. I got two major bosses left to go and I'm eight or nine hours into it. Ah well. Off to play again!