A Look Ahead

So I now have three things in the queue to write reviews for, if only I could thoroughly finish any of them. Of course one, the core book for Exalted, Second Edition, I only got yesterday, so I at least have an excuse of some sort for that one. Though judging from the setting material I've read thus far (and what little I know of how conflict resolution works in it) I expect I will be treating it favorably.

The second, of course, is Final Fantasy XII, which I have been having great fun with despite running into a few gamestalling moments along the way. The main reason I haven't gotten around to writing a review for this one is because the game is so bloody long. I'm over thirty hours into it and I suspect that that is maybe halfway through. It's positively mindblowing. And epic. I'd try to combine the two words, but I suspect that it would come out sounding like something a particularly gifted courtesan would be able to do after rigorously practicing for several years. Which is awesome in its own way, but not the kind of awesome that abounds in FFXII.

The third is a little Japanese doujin game called Perfect Cherry Blossom I downloaded. It's an incredibly pretty game, aurally and visually, but it's also a hard as fuck vertical scrolling shooter in the spirit of the Raiden games. I really like it, but trying to actually get through the whole thing is practically an exercise in masochism. ...Though it is very, very pretty masochism, which I suppose partially makes up for it.

So those are things I have planned just at the moment. As soon as I finish one or all of these I'll start doing my writeups of them and post them here. It's good practice.

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Jim thinks you're all pretty fucking lucky he's here.