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jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-04-07 01:30 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2011-04-07 01:30 pm
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How familiar!
Things that never stop being weird include finding a story someone is writing that has a plot that has thus far been nearly identical to one I considered years ago. (And, yeah, I know, every story's been written before, but it's still amusingly odd to me. It's even the same character set, haha.)
.... that's freakishly short, let's tack something else onto this entry to make it more worthwhile.
LAGUNA: MASTER OF SHORTCUTS. To the completely wrong places. Nothing ever changes.
(Man, the first, like, two seconds of this opening scene I was all, UUUGH WHY because they started us with Vaan, but then EVERYONE ELSE showed up so now I am one with the glee.) We're supposed to be headed to Cosmos' hangout (Sanctuary), and Laguna apparently gave one of his inspiring speeches so we all (foolishly) followed him and, of course, ended up going to the entirely wrong place. So Kain and Lightning went off to the corner to sulk.
But we're back on track now! LIGHTNING IS IN COMMAND. Though everyone's calling her Light by now. (YUNA. YUNA, HIIII.)
Laguna thought it would be okay? Dude, it was just a failed shortcut. Calm down. And stop running around in the bushes. (Alternately: wait, what did we miss?)
Also Kain wants to know if I want to face what Laguna faced. WHAT THE HELL ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? (Or: HOW LOST WERE YOU, YOU DOOFUS?) If I go along with it, surely no one will suspect I've no idea what they're referring to…
So, we started on, essentially, a world map (whoo! The first game didn't have one of those), and we have to go through gateways, which are controlled by Chaos, and then in those we have the weird stepping-stone things from the first game. But they're planned better. And also, you know, animated and stuff, rather than being like game pieces on a board.
...
Lightning: *opens chest*
Laguna: Kaboom!
Lightning: …
Laguna: What if it exploded like that? …Okay, it won't… Sorry.
But you're so fun to pick on, Laguna… How can you blame them for it? (YEAH, YOU WOULD KNOW, CHRIST, MAN ["a little distance can be good for a relationship"]. … not that you probably even remember the events of your game, since that seems to be one of the big things about this place. Mostly we all just remember that we've forgotten. It's like some kind of demented purgatory, and when your strength finally fades and you disappear is when you finally move on to being properly dead or something.)
HEY, S'UP EVERYONE. Or, rather, most everyone. Lessee, I see Warrior of Light, Squall, Zidane - oh, Cosmos hits us with glowy lightbeams and we all go, oooh, pretty, and then march off again. (wtf was that?)
Ah, it was divine energy that we can't actually use on our own, but which will turn into a crystal. So that is how the crystal hunt from the first game started!
Lightning, I'd be all D: about your narrating (since narrators have a tendency to be out of the picture by the end of the game when SE's in charge) but I already know the basics of how it ends and didn't I go off on a ramble a few paragraphs up, anyway? (It's totally my personal canon. I can't remember when I made it up. But yeah! Dissidia is where they get snatched up to after they die! Whenever they die. And then they have to fight this crazy shit until moving on for real!) (Hey, you know, when you smash the glowing orbs on the world map, you start collecting the power of the dead.)
Ha! Tifa has been practicing her kicks on Laguna. He disapproves.
And I guess the manikins from the first game only turned up recently, too. They've never seen them before now? (OR THEY DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THEM BEFORE NOW.)
(hahaha, ugh, it took me forever to adjust to the DS controls of the right-most button being OK and the lower button being cancel – still haven't, really – but now I'm using the wrong buttons on the PSP controller. I WILL NEVER GET IT RIGHT EVER AGAIN.)
Okay, guys, I don't know if Lightning really is JUST THAT AWESOME (well, okay, yes, I do, and yes, she is) or if they have actually improved their combat system THIS MUCH, because, oh, man. This is going so much better. Or maybe it's just because we're all low level. BUT STILL, it feels like it is handling better. THANK GOD.
("It's not that I have a bad sense of direction. I'm just interested in all directions." GOD DAMN IT DON'T MAKE ME RESPECT YOUR INEPTITUDE THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE. Still, it's a good excuse. When it's the right time and place.)
(Alternately, they're not all already dead, but they've been displaced from their original time and world and when the power holding them here fades, they just go back. 'Cause, uh, obviously they're not just being pulled out for good, 'cause there's that whole younger Laguna and FFVIII-age Squall both existing here thing. UNLESS THEY ARE FROM ALTERNATE REALITIES.)
Vaan is fanboying over Lightning. NOT THAT I CAN BLAME HIM OR ANYTHING, I GUESS, I just… wish I found him less annoying. Vaan! Contribute more to this game than you did your original! Please! (STANDING AROUND WITH YOUR ARMS BEHIND YOUR HEAD IS NOT CONTRIBUTING MORE.)
Iiiiit's Kuja and Kefka! KEFKA, GET YOUR FACE OUT OF THE CAMERA. But you don't need to stop talking yet, it amuses me when you're bothering Kuja. … And, Kuja, did you change voice actors, or am I just – well, I'm wearing headphones, that could be it, I suppose. Maybe I'll look that up later. (Speaking of voices, gotta say, most of the time SE does a fairly good job of casting people to play established characters, but I am not really feeling Laguna'a VA. I always read him as having a livelier voice, but the guy doing it has kept everything pretty level thus far. This makes it kinda weird to go from text to voice to text to voice.)
Oh, his (Kuja's) death cry sounded the same, so maybe it is the same guy. (Or maybe they just reused the sound…) BYE, ANYWAY.
Hahaha, oh, Kefka, you're so bizarre and vaguely unsettling…
Back on the world map. I'VE FOUND A MOOGLE. ... it… says I have the smell of kupo on me. … uh.
I… I don't know if I'm collecting "kupo". What does that even mean?
(Though, you know, Lightning saying, "… Kupo?" makes this conversation completely worth it, regardless of how it plays out.)
KUPO IS THIS WORLD'S ENERGY AND MOOGLES COLLECT IT. … interesting. (Also, Lightning is now Thunder Lady.)
… HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS. Okay, there are two styles of battling in this game. There's the regular style from the last game (what I've been using thus far) and then there is "RPG"-style, which I remembered last night that I'd wanted to see what it was.
Well, apparently! In "RPG"-style, the computer controls half of your motions – you can't really make the character run or jump or anything. You just tell it when and how to attack. Which sounds really stupid!
Until you remember that the computer is a cheating bastard and realize that, by allowing the computer to partially control your character, you, yourself, gain some of that cheating bastard skill! Ohohoho I just went through an entire field without having a single blow land on me and I was able to kill everything in, at most, 3 hits.
Put in just for the people who, like me, are not very good at fighting games!
(Though I am an obsessive button-masher - which is why I suck at fighting games, haha - so I'll probably change back soon, since X makes her defend, which is not super useful when I am trying to attack or jump or get to the EX core or… well, anything.)
(Also, Balthier and Fran are teasing each other in the customization menu manual. Heeee!)
OH NO KAIN YOU ATTACKED BARTZ. Whyyyyyyyy?
…OH NO KAIN YOU'RE ATTACKING ME!whyyyyyyyyy die die die
Oh, hey, baddies. …..HEY. GET BACK HERE, KAIN, I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION.
Oh, dear. All of my idiot teammates have been off getting themselves killed.
… oh! Oh, my. If a manikin kills you, you can't be brought back in the next cycle. That is a bit of a bother… (… Kain, are you killing our teammates so that they can come back…? Because, uh, seriously? I'm sure there's a better way to deal with this problem.)
oooh! I unlocked a report! …what does that even mean? WE WILL FIND OUT LATER!
Yaaay.
LJ WHY YOU NO LET ME POST. >:|
.... that's freakishly short, let's tack something else onto this entry to make it more worthwhile.
LAGUNA: MASTER OF SHORTCUTS. To the completely wrong places. Nothing ever changes.
(Man, the first, like, two seconds of this opening scene I was all, UUUGH WHY because they started us with Vaan, but then EVERYONE ELSE showed up so now I am one with the glee.) We're supposed to be headed to Cosmos' hangout (Sanctuary), and Laguna apparently gave one of his inspiring speeches so we all (foolishly) followed him and, of course, ended up going to the entirely wrong place. So Kain and Lightning went off to the corner to sulk.
But we're back on track now! LIGHTNING IS IN COMMAND. Though everyone's calling her Light by now. (YUNA. YUNA, HIIII.)
Laguna thought it would be okay? Dude, it was just a failed shortcut. Calm down. And stop running around in the bushes. (Alternately: wait, what did we miss?)
Also Kain wants to know if I want to face what Laguna faced. WHAT THE HELL ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? (Or: HOW LOST WERE YOU, YOU DOOFUS?) If I go along with it, surely no one will suspect I've no idea what they're referring to…
So, we started on, essentially, a world map (whoo! The first game didn't have one of those), and we have to go through gateways, which are controlled by Chaos, and then in those we have the weird stepping-stone things from the first game. But they're planned better. And also, you know, animated and stuff, rather than being like game pieces on a board.
...
Lightning: *opens chest*
Laguna: Kaboom!
Lightning: …
Laguna: What if it exploded like that? …Okay, it won't… Sorry.
But you're so fun to pick on, Laguna… How can you blame them for it? (YEAH, YOU WOULD KNOW, CHRIST, MAN ["a little distance can be good for a relationship"]. … not that you probably even remember the events of your game, since that seems to be one of the big things about this place. Mostly we all just remember that we've forgotten. It's like some kind of demented purgatory, and when your strength finally fades and you disappear is when you finally move on to being properly dead or something.)
HEY, S'UP EVERYONE. Or, rather, most everyone. Lessee, I see Warrior of Light, Squall, Zidane - oh, Cosmos hits us with glowy lightbeams and we all go, oooh, pretty, and then march off again. (wtf was that?)
Ah, it was divine energy that we can't actually use on our own, but which will turn into a crystal. So that is how the crystal hunt from the first game started!
Lightning, I'd be all D: about your narrating (since narrators have a tendency to be out of the picture by the end of the game when SE's in charge) but I already know the basics of how it ends and didn't I go off on a ramble a few paragraphs up, anyway? (It's totally my personal canon. I can't remember when I made it up. But yeah! Dissidia is where they get snatched up to after they die! Whenever they die. And then they have to fight this crazy shit until moving on for real!) (Hey, you know, when you smash the glowing orbs on the world map, you start collecting the power of the dead.)
Ha! Tifa has been practicing her kicks on Laguna. He disapproves.
And I guess the manikins from the first game only turned up recently, too. They've never seen them before now? (OR THEY DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THEM BEFORE NOW.)
(hahaha, ugh, it took me forever to adjust to the DS controls of the right-most button being OK and the lower button being cancel – still haven't, really – but now I'm using the wrong buttons on the PSP controller. I WILL NEVER GET IT RIGHT EVER AGAIN.)
Okay, guys, I don't know if Lightning really is JUST THAT AWESOME (well, okay, yes, I do, and yes, she is) or if they have actually improved their combat system THIS MUCH, because, oh, man. This is going so much better. Or maybe it's just because we're all low level. BUT STILL, it feels like it is handling better. THANK GOD.
("It's not that I have a bad sense of direction. I'm just interested in all directions." GOD DAMN IT DON'T MAKE ME RESPECT YOUR INEPTITUDE THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE. Still, it's a good excuse. When it's the right time and place.)
(Alternately, they're not all already dead, but they've been displaced from their original time and world and when the power holding them here fades, they just go back. 'Cause, uh, obviously they're not just being pulled out for good, 'cause there's that whole younger Laguna and FFVIII-age Squall both existing here thing. UNLESS THEY ARE FROM ALTERNATE REALITIES.)
Vaan is fanboying over Lightning. NOT THAT I CAN BLAME HIM OR ANYTHING, I GUESS, I just… wish I found him less annoying. Vaan! Contribute more to this game than you did your original! Please! (STANDING AROUND WITH YOUR ARMS BEHIND YOUR HEAD IS NOT CONTRIBUTING MORE.)
Iiiiit's Kuja and Kefka! KEFKA, GET YOUR FACE OUT OF THE CAMERA. But you don't need to stop talking yet, it amuses me when you're bothering Kuja. … And, Kuja, did you change voice actors, or am I just – well, I'm wearing headphones, that could be it, I suppose. Maybe I'll look that up later. (Speaking of voices, gotta say, most of the time SE does a fairly good job of casting people to play established characters, but I am not really feeling Laguna'a VA. I always read him as having a livelier voice, but the guy doing it has kept everything pretty level thus far. This makes it kinda weird to go from text to voice to text to voice.)
Oh, his (Kuja's) death cry sounded the same, so maybe it is the same guy. (Or maybe they just reused the sound…) BYE, ANYWAY.
Hahaha, oh, Kefka, you're so bizarre and vaguely unsettling…
Back on the world map. I'VE FOUND A MOOGLE. ... it… says I have the smell of kupo on me. … uh.
I… I don't know if I'm collecting "kupo". What does that even mean?
(Though, you know, Lightning saying, "… Kupo?" makes this conversation completely worth it, regardless of how it plays out.)
KUPO IS THIS WORLD'S ENERGY AND MOOGLES COLLECT IT. … interesting. (Also, Lightning is now Thunder Lady.)
… HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS. Okay, there are two styles of battling in this game. There's the regular style from the last game (what I've been using thus far) and then there is "RPG"-style, which I remembered last night that I'd wanted to see what it was.
Well, apparently! In "RPG"-style, the computer controls half of your motions – you can't really make the character run or jump or anything. You just tell it when and how to attack. Which sounds really stupid!
Until you remember that the computer is a cheating bastard and realize that, by allowing the computer to partially control your character, you, yourself, gain some of that cheating bastard skill! Ohohoho I just went through an entire field without having a single blow land on me and I was able to kill everything in, at most, 3 hits.
Put in just for the people who, like me, are not very good at fighting games!
(Though I am an obsessive button-masher - which is why I suck at fighting games, haha - so I'll probably change back soon, since X makes her defend, which is not super useful when I am trying to attack or jump or get to the EX core or… well, anything.)
(Also, Balthier and Fran are teasing each other in the customization menu manual. Heeee!)
OH NO KAIN YOU ATTACKED BARTZ. Whyyyyyyyy?
…OH NO KAIN YOU'RE ATTACKING ME!
Oh, hey, baddies. …..HEY. GET BACK HERE, KAIN, I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION.
Oh, dear. All of my idiot teammates have been off getting themselves killed.
… oh! Oh, my. If a manikin kills you, you can't be brought back in the next cycle. That is a bit of a bother… (… Kain, are you killing our teammates so that they can come back…? Because, uh, seriously? I'm sure there's a better way to deal with this problem.)
oooh! I unlocked a report! …what does that even mean? WE WILL FIND OUT LATER!
LJ WHY YOU NO LET ME POST. >:|