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Jul. 27th, 2010 02:49 amSo I once again have a 3 cat household. A few weeks ago Blue asked if I could take in a kitten her co-worker had to give up. I said yes to keep him from going to the pound, but because of my work schedule Blue had to hold him for a few hours, during which time she completely fell in love. The plan was then for me to take care of him until Blue's allergic to cats roommate moved out(he was already supposed to have been moved but it was delayed due to family issues) and she would take the kitten back. Well they still don't know when the roommate is moving, and at this point the kitten has settled in at my place and Blue decided it would be mean to take him away from his home again. So now he's mine.
In geeky news I did finish Final Fantasy 13 but was too busy to do a write-up. This is probably the first time where I really truly liked all of the characters. Yes all of them were flawed, from Snow's idiotic wannabe hero talk, to Vanille's overly persistent perkiness, these were characters I was prepared to hate from their first introductions. But as the story went on and the characters developed I found that I couldn't hate, hell I couldn't even feel indifferent to them.
Things I liked, the battle system(with one exception) With the different roles available you couldn't simply turn each individual character into a physical god and teach them all possible skills and magic, and be able to use them all at once. It forced you to prepare characters in certain roles before hand and be ready to swap them around as needed. The tutorials were built slowly and never felt like giant info dumps. The one part I didn't like was if the lead character(one you manually control) dies you go to game over. I also would have preferred being able to directly control the other characters in the battle party rather then trust solely to the AI, one more tweak that could just been nice was the ability to swap just one character's role rather then having to shift the entire team. Like in X-2 when you moved along the dress-sphere.
they brought back the hunt/mark system from FF12 but with a minor change that you didn't have to hike all the way back to the source to fully complete the quest and get your reward. But they took away your ability to have multiple hunts going at one time. Annoying if you have a hunt that is pretty far from the giver, and they have this nice big circle of the stones you get hunts from in one place. So you still ended up running back and forth to get and complete quests.
Something I would like to see is actually a prequel about the War of Transgression between Pulse and Cocoon (spoiler) I want to see Vanille and fang previous adventure and how they came to be crystallized at the start of FF13
In geeky news I did finish Final Fantasy 13 but was too busy to do a write-up. This is probably the first time where I really truly liked all of the characters. Yes all of them were flawed, from Snow's idiotic wannabe hero talk, to Vanille's overly persistent perkiness, these were characters I was prepared to hate from their first introductions. But as the story went on and the characters developed I found that I couldn't hate, hell I couldn't even feel indifferent to them.
Things I liked, the battle system(with one exception) With the different roles available you couldn't simply turn each individual character into a physical god and teach them all possible skills and magic, and be able to use them all at once. It forced you to prepare characters in certain roles before hand and be ready to swap them around as needed. The tutorials were built slowly and never felt like giant info dumps. The one part I didn't like was if the lead character(one you manually control) dies you go to game over. I also would have preferred being able to directly control the other characters in the battle party rather then trust solely to the AI, one more tweak that could just been nice was the ability to swap just one character's role rather then having to shift the entire team. Like in X-2 when you moved along the dress-sphere.
they brought back the hunt/mark system from FF12 but with a minor change that you didn't have to hike all the way back to the source to fully complete the quest and get your reward. But they took away your ability to have multiple hunts going at one time. Annoying if you have a hunt that is pretty far from the giver, and they have this nice big circle of the stones you get hunts from in one place. So you still ended up running back and forth to get and complete quests.
Something I would like to see is actually a prequel about the War of Transgression between Pulse and Cocoon (spoiler) I want to see Vanille and fang previous adventure and how they came to be crystallized at the start of FF13
