Entry 010

I spent an evening with my other friend couple weeks ago, I'll call her Greenie. She's a elementary school friend of mine with whom I hadn't been in contact for couple of years before having a random chat on Messenger two years ago or so. We noticed that we had same interests: she had grown to be a gamer and also followed quite a few anime series that I did, too.
The last time we had seen each other was in October at Yamacon. When Christmas came she asked me to tell if there were any days I could hang out, and so happened a phone call:

We both had difficulties to decide what to do until I suggested that we'd play something. I ended up playing Final Fantasy VII on her PC.

It was pretty interesting. Seemed like a good game, which was predictable. Though I have to admit that Cloud's attitude towards, well, everything amused me quite a bit.
And another thing that amused me was the whole essence of Barret.

Uga buga. Uggagaga bugaga!

I'm sorry I just had to XD Somehow I like his design, it's not your ordinary JRPG character design. But from time to time it's just too hilarious to deal with!

The gameplay was also something I was not familiar with. The battle system is basically turn-based but with time limits which, at least according to Greenie, shorten eventually when your characters have evolved enough. It got time to get used to it after having played FFX, but I managed to do it.

I also liked the soundtrack! The battle music was something I recognized right away. Maybe because I have heard it before while watching FF Dissidia battles on YouTube...

But I guess I have spoiled a bit too much. I had to see Cloud's dream voices talk to him only twice before I realized who it was... Oh man.

Entry 009

Guess what.
I tried going back to that Game Boy simulator page I found.
It didn't open.
I had been playing that one over 40 hours and passed the seven first gyms, and then it all just disappears into thin air!

Ah well. It's gone, nothing to do about it. I'll just have to get over it.
But my lovely party and my Gyarados that didn't get the chance to grow as much as it could have and my Butterfree I grew to love so much and my lovely strong Furret and OH NOOOO THEY CAN'T BE ALL GONE CAN THEY.
*calms down again*

Entry 008

Okay, so I played Final Fantasy X again yesterday with my friend. I basically waited for her after school without properly knowing why, but when she finally finished with her group project we came up with playing for a change XD
I'll call this friend of mine Scarlet from now on. She's the same person I introduced on Entry 001, btw :3

Now I'll just jump right to the main subject of this post.
Seymour.

Just look at that raep face.

Scarlet is not the type who spoils you every single plot turn of a story, quite the opposite. She didn't have to say anything, and right from the very first time I saw this man in the game I just knew that he wasn't good news.

This boss fight proofed that I was right.

The beginning, no big deal. There's two minions of his there to protect them, and the only thing that makes them really annoying is their Auto-Potion trait. I was able to take down the whole lot with a single aeon's overdrive. I don't even remember which one I used.

Then comes Anima. This is where things start to get VERY exciting.

The first time we played this part through, Scarlet wanted to show me Anima's overdrive Oblivion just because that would be the only time we would have been able to see it. I guess it was worth it, it really was something. Too bad it was the reason we lost that fight.

Oh, yeah! Almost forgot!

SHE. IS. GORGEOUS!

 

Sorry, just had to.

And the first thing that comes to my mind when I see this? "Now that would be some epic cosplay." Yeah.

 

It's a good thing really that Scarlet was there to give me advice. I would have not used her if she didn't suggest it to me. No wonder this is one of her favourite summons, I can see that more than clearly.

 

But, back to Seymour and Anima.

We were KOed by the hell unleashed by Seymour after beating Anima, so we had to take that match again.

This is going to be a joke that Scarlet will never stop hearing from me. I think we had a party consisting of Auron, Kimahri and Tidus at the point when Anima unleashed Oblivion for the second time, and to Scarlet's surprise (and mine as well) KIMAHRI was the one to be the only survivor from the strike and the saviour of our fight. She always complains that my Kimahri is weird be cause he's too useful. She has never been able to make him useful. Hehe.

 

Ah well. That was some fight. And after that we made it to the oasis. I still haven't found Yuna there, Rikku is leading us to Home.

I'll just leave this ENORMOUS entry here and end it with this:

 

What is more frustrating than being killed by Seymour from the first strike?

-Being killed by a random encounter from the first strike after running several miles through a desert.

Entry 005

You may have noticed from the pic in Entry 003 that I used Internet Explorer until May. So many people were almost forcing me to get Firefox because "IE just sucks".
Well, I was forced to get it when I noticed I COULDN'T PLAY THOSE GAME BOY COLOR GAMES WITH IE. It was too slow.
So, now I'm surfing with Firefox. I actually like it.

Anyway.
I've been playing Pokémon Crystal version a lot lately. In a month I've played all the way to Blackthorn City. And there would be the last gym of Johto with its leader. She'll use Dragon type, so one of my goals last time was to get my crappy Magikarp to evolve to Gyarados. I made it, and oh how happy I am for it. She's so much more powerful when she can actually DO something besides splashing water and tackle others with poor success rate. She can't use Thrash, though. Guess I should have caught a Gyarados instead of a Magikarp in first place.

That's my current party, featuring my lovely, grown-up Gyarados~
Alongside with Gyarados, I'm planning to use Poliwhirl. I taught her Ice Punch, so maybe she'll be useful. Maybe I should consider catching something of the Ice-type, too. My pride, 38-level Typhlosion, won't be any good because he's Fire-type and wouldn't do much damage.

Don't say anything. I'll call them he and she depending on their gender. I've even planned making a team consisting only cute girls. My Gyarados is a cute girl, and so is my Butterfree. And sure I'll take my cute Geodude with me, too :'D
No, I really love Geodude. She can do a lot of damage and has a very good endurance against almost anyone. Just as long as I don't use her against any Water- or Grass-type, I'll love her more and more every second.
I also love my Furret and his Fury Swipes and Strenght I taught him. It's a pity that he's male. He could've easily gotten into my merry cute girl gang. Ah well, I think I'll let him in anyway, he's just so cute and strong~ And not that the gender matters that much after all.

OK, that's with the chatter this time, and back to training. The Pokémons of the latest gym leader were lvl 30, 30 and 35, so I'd better catch them up!

Entry 003

For once I was the one to find something... WONDERFUL.

In my neighbour lives a family of five, all the children are boys younger than me. Even the eldest son is three years younger.
When I was still in elementary school, every one of these boys had their own Game Boy Color consoles. AND they had Pokémon to play with them. I had no consoles, so I just sat there and watched them play and wished I could too.

And now, after almost ten years, I find THIS.

You see that --Select A Game-- there? There are for example Pokémon games Red, Blue and Yellow. And of course many more.
OMFG, I can play them even without having the console itself! AAAAAAAA~

...well, I tried this yesterday. My computer was being a snail, so I didn't get any further than choosing names. Ah well, I'll try again someday later.
But this was a finding one of a kind. Thanks Tumblr! I love you! Even though you are sometimes VERY strange.

Entry 001

What would be better than doing something you love and seeming strange to outsiders - AND at the same time having only little knowledge of the area and looking like a clueless little being to insiders?

One day I got this idea of starting a blog about being the weird insider and the sane outsider at once, mostly based on the scenario described above: my everyday life.
Basically, my life is full of curious little things and people talking about and keeping busy with them. Most of the time I understand and am able to discuss them, but there are also some topics and sub-topics I'm not quite familiar with yet.
So, I'd like to share some of my thoughts of these things as a somewhat well-informed outsider while explaining about my doings as a somewhat novice insider :'D

What will I be writing about?
Mainly games, anime/manga, tropes, cosplay, maybe something else occasionally.
Currently, I don't have any gameplay consoles besides my computer and a PS2, which is in my little brother's room and which I rarely (read: never) get to use. All the gaming I do usually happens visiting my friends.
For example, I've been introduced to the Final Fantasy series by a friend of mine; she's been making me play FFX every time I visit her. We have a very good time each time! And I'm always a bit afraid of using Yuna's White Magic too often and reducing her MP too low too soon...

To tell something about this friend (won't be the last one introduced), I'll just drop this here for starters. This is the cute reaction I get to see every time she has been playing something that pleases her :3

Oh yeah, and I apologize for any grammar errors and weird choices of words beforehand. I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive me ^_^"

See ya later!