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Yeesh, if there was anything I could second-guess myself on, or be late to, yeah, that was today. I did however end up with two more shirts today. I'm weak sometimes.

*headdesk*

However, there was a delicious (late!) Japanese lunch and an oatmeal raisin cupcake involved today. More days should have cupcakes involved.

One application was turned in today. I will be applying online to Costco and Microcenter very soon. The next part is on Friday when I visit the explosion of commerce to look. Not tomorrow because I only have a little over a quarter of a tank of fuel and I'm saving it for Friday.

Also! Oh yay GameStop wasn't teasing me. Kingdom Hearts Re: CoM. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! I highly, highly doubt we will see KHII Final Mix but at least this was different enough that they brought it over.

And now: Booklists! Because I don't believe I posted Septembers (I'll check later) and here's October's. Which I think there are more there in October that I'm not listing, because I read a bunch in a rush and now I don't remember if I put them on the list.

September Books:

Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion Vol. 02-03
Kingdom Hearts Vol. 03-04
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Vol. 01-02
Kingdom Hearts II Vol. 01-02 (yay, now I'm all caught up!)
Loveless Vol. 08 (Seimei, you manipulative bastard. And that was a horrible tease for the next volume, that we'll probably not see until late late next year.)

October Books:

Blank Slate Vol. 01
Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion Vol. 04-05 (Aww, what a rather neat story. I may have to purchase this myself.)
Elemental Gelade Vol. 02
DNAngel Vol. 02
Black Sun, Silver Moon Vol. 01
Blood+ Vol. 02
Soul Rescue Vol. 01-02
Mugen Spiral Vol. 01-02

Hmm, looks like Issue 13 of CoH has hit open beta. This should be interesting. *goes to read forums*

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.

I'm feeling better. Sinuses still bothering me a little, but much reduced in my suffering from them compared to earlier this week. Mentally, this was the first day this week outside of Monday that I was able to actually concentrate on things. Still pretty much just read forums at work, but since I was recovering, I didn't have to shift around bookcases.

But, I will be so damn happy when my ear pops. Seems they have accumulated fluid again and while this happens every so often when I'm sick, my left ear will not pop right now. Erg.

In not sickness related news, Jump Fiesta has given us new information about Kingdom Hearts Final Mix+. Try visiting maiki's LJ at this post, for some info. Also this community 0kingdom_hearts has two posts over the event.

For fun, please visit BlackLillian's DeviantArt page to see the ongoing Thirteen Days of Christmas. She also has some funny and neat art. And another 12 Days of Christmas is going on at yuukihikari. The first day is sooo cuute!

In the "oh my poor credit card" news, RightStuf has completed (I hope) their 12+ Days of Christmas Sale. I say hope since I already have quite a few I'm eyeing there. Soo many good deals. (Hey, Samurai Champloo is awesome enough to buy at $80, right?)

Also, I picked up Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Cube today. ^_^

So, I mentioned below that I restarted Kingdom Hearts 2 on the hardest mode, right?

( Comments on the beginning through Beast's Castle. (Possible spoilers?) )

Things that will never fail to amuse me:

Hearing the Little Mermaid songs in Japanese. Really. It's amusing to listen to them on the KH2 soundtrack. I can sing along a bit on the chorus parts too.

(Also, is it bad that I restarted the game in the hardest mode? ^_^)

So, I finished Kingdom Hearts 2 today.

After a long break and long time playing this game, I finished it.

( Obviously, this is a giant spoiler for those who haven't played the ending yet. )

So that's that. Kingdom Hearts II was an awesome game. And will definitely get some replay value down the road. Probably after I finish Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. (Sadly, I'm still working on that one.)

For people interested in videos of the game cutscenes and opening and endings, I found the folowing sites very useful:

1up.com - Has the video captures of the Organization boss battles, and Sephiroth's fight, and a few others.
KH-Vids.net - Where I got all of the cutscenes of any of the Kingdom Hearts games, most especially KH2. The videos can be large in size but that's for the length really. They're a small window and I would like to find higher quality ones, but that's a personal preference.
KH Ultimania - Here you can lots of information, pictures, and videos! I got my high res video of the Japanese opening here, some trailers, and Chain of Memories videos and even some Final Mix ones. Also, the nice Another Side, Another Story [Deep Dive] video that I have is here.
IGN.com - Here's the place, along with 1up.com, that I use for trailers. They also have some gameplay videos as well.

Now, I can see all those ending icons and fics and what not that I couldn't before.

Tonight! Tonight I have kicked Sephiroth's butt....

*does shuffle*

After 15 tries... Annoyingly enough, it was just a prelude to the Showdown of Fate (part 2) between Cloud and Sephiroth. And it should have just had a speech bubble come up and said "To be continued in Advent Children..." I mean really. That wasn't an ending to that fight.

*sigh*

Oh well, with that and the new Fenrir Keyblade, I now managed to finish two more of the journal requirements. Just need to get Hades to give me the last damn two tournaments and to find six pieces of Orichalcum for the synthesis stuff.

So close to getting all of this done so I can finish the game with the secret ending. ^_^

You know, it just figures that I spend at least two hours last night using Drive to try to get Final Form in The World That Never Was, and this morning I get it in less than ten minutes. Damn you, random Form!!!

*sigh*

On the plus side, I know who to defeat to get Oblivion. ^___^

So, how y'all doing on the non-Kingdom Hearts world? ^_^

Mwhahaha. Loving this game. It's just so much fun.

1) And, Sora as a lion cub is just so cute!

2) Tifa! In essence pounding on the walls and looking for Cloud. And where the hell was Leon hiding when Tifa was kicking the wall?

3) Master Control Program! Tron Tron Tron!

4) Lightcycles are annoying to use when you have no way of reviving health. I'm not at a point where you can play the bikes without a story part yet, but I have a saved game just at that story part.

5) 8-bit chibis of Sora, Donald, and Goofy! Also, did they really get the Tron actor to come back to do the voicework? Sounds a lot like they did.

6) And yay for better acting from Leon's voice actor! I was getting worried there for a moment. ^_^

7) FFX-2 fairies are silly.

8) Holy crap! Just ran into Sephiroth! And...he didn't fight me? He just talked about Cloud? Wtf? I didn't die? (Besides the thousand Heartless I'm about to fight?)

9) Okay, picture a huge swarm of Heartless, surrounding Leon and Cloud who are back-to-back. Dialogue?
Leon: "Are you sure you can handle this many?"
Cloud: "Only if one more doesn't show up."
Me: *dies*
Leon: "Then that'll be one I'll take care of."
Cloud: "What? You're fighting too?"
Me: *dies again*

MUST HAVE THIS VIDEO!!!!

10) Holy.. An almost Cloud vs Sephiroth fight! They just talked though.

11) Half-way point obviously. Big cutscenes, big fights, all sorts of things going on. And I'm 25 hours in on a 50 hour game. That is also a big pointer.

12) Demyx is so dorky. How many bosses do you fight where they tell themselves, "I told them to send someone else." I like him. He's fun.

Well, now being 3 a.m. and way past the time I should be in bed, I'm going to stop before the huge fight with the horde of Heartless & Nobodies. I hate to stop the momentum of the drama for this part but I need sleep.

Well, another entry of Kingdom Hearts comments. ^_^ My journal and all. Besides, I like commenting and now I have a platform to do it in. And returning to the Kingdom Hearts universe again causes a lot of comments. :>

Usual lj cuts for spoilery-like items, but if the list gets too long, I'll put the entire post under an lj cut, or break it up a bit.

1) The "Hey, that looks familiar" and one world available to go to should not equal Hollow Bastion. There should be an option below the landing option for Hollow Bastion of "Oh crap not again." (Along with a certain villain that just popped back up.)

2) What the hell is that monstrosity of a castle? I don't remember Hollow Bastion being like that. But yay for the music. I always loved Hollow Bastion's music. Now there's a new version of it.

3) Not too much to add. I have gone through Beast's Castle, Land of the Dragon (Mulan), a short visit to 100 Acre Wood, and I am now working on Olympus Coliseum.

4) Auron!!!! Still the awesome voice actor I remember for him. Forgot how awesome Auron was. ^_^

5) I'm doing pretty well I think. With the exception of Twilight Town, I've managed to get every treasure chest that the journal has. I can't go back to Twilight Town at the moment since it has disappeared. But if I get a chance to go back, I'll definitely try to get them all. But I've done missions at Disney Castle, Timeless River (which is modeled off of Steamboat Willy), and gone back to see the Underworld coliseum. Right now, I'm in Atlantica. With a rhythm song challenge to deal with. *sigh*

6) Pirates of the Carribbean is just so weird!! The area's called Port Royal and its just so weird seeing the PotC characters next to Sora and the others.