Funny words along the road

Another funny phrase from the storage facility along the highway in kelowna!

Don’t sweat petty things
Don’t pet sweaty things

My fics are bust and addition to white knights walkthrough

Somehow or rather, i had been mulling over the idea of creating a new blog for posting stories. Well, i did it. Not that i would really like anyone to read them, and most of them are incomplete. But then again, who cares. I write because i want to. And my brain wants to put them out. Starving for attention? Maybe. But i don’t care now…. i’m tired.

i noticed in my previous post of the White Knights walkthrough /spoiler sort of thing, that i was missing a couple of things. Like the dungeon in the mutated turtle. Well, that map is relatively easy. Just follow the map, use the elevator often and pray. That dungeon has very easy small fry enemies and rather hardcore giants.

It also has some interesting material drops.

Oh yes, and my walkthrough is rather off in some places, but it is relatively usable. I went online a couple of times, though it is rather irky. Item creation is useful only in online play, as i said before, materials you gather to create weapons in story mode is usually only capable of making stuff that are lower level than yourself. Until you upgrade your Guild level by doing quests online, the super powerful stuff are far from your reach.

Also it has been confirmed by a friend of mine online, that the last Knight is Yuri, her theme is the moon and her knight (female shaped) has a bow. Artemis?

While waiting for the second white knights game to come out, i have to look for other games to play… there are a lot, but few can match up to this.  And the english version is only coming out in 2010…. good luck to you english gamers for waiting for such an awesome game to come out. I’m already done long ago, and played it twice. Still online play is a too funky for me. Not a lot of people play online in my area so i can’t do a lot of stuff.

Big White Knights have large metal underpants

Ha….. it’s been so long since i’ve typed anything on this blog, so much that i think dust has filled the site….. omg, i think i can see the dust…

anyway, i finished White Knights Chronicles. I bought the Japanese version online after i failed to buy it while i was waltzing in Akihabara in Japan. I played it, and really…. I LOVED IT. The graphics is pure gold and honey…. not that i would eat gold, or pay anyone in honey. The music is also to die for…. But the best part of it all? The characters. Okay, i admit that i’m never a huge fan of the active time bar (or ATB as it is commonly called, remember FF VII and FF VIII?). And this game goes further by letting you run free as the bar (or in this case, circle), fills up. BUT BE WARNED!!! IT IS SIMPLY A FACADE!!! Running around and hoping your enemy cannot hit you when he tries to does NOTHING. This game is really like any old JRPG, based off stats.

But the characters are nice. And the loading times are nearly non-existent…. to point where it actually irritates me. I wanna take a quick break, but then i know i would most likely die if i do nothing while gigantic enemies swarm all over me. I created my own character, and the option of being able to customize my characters anyway i want is a win for me. I love that. So i created a short girl with longer white hair… She’s cute. And i made her specialize in the two handed swords and bow. Her third option would be single sword, followed by spears. I don’t know anyone who is good with an axe….

Anyway, training in the game is something that really wasted my time, but maybe it was well worth it. Trying to get my character to be stronger, the urge to gain more stats, to increase her attack power, her defence power, her speed, her evasion, her everything! But i also realized i may have done a few things wrong with her…. well, nevermind. She can take down most giants in less than five minutes. That isn’t saying much though, since i’m sure many others can.

The funny thing about the game is that there seems to a huge number of giant monsters lumbering about. To anyone who knows the game, some of the characters can transform into giant Knights using ‘arcs’, or simply put it, ancient artifacts. So i guess those giant monsters are meant to let you use those Knight transformations to whoop ass…. but i ignore that, and charge at it like David fighting Goliath…. or simply an idiot running to his doom. But i triumph multiple times…. in fact, i only use the Knight transformations (by my own accord, and not following the storyline), in boss fights. You may wonder, isn’t using those transformations during boss fight the main idea ofthe storyline? Ah, but there are some boss fights where you can just defeat using your normal party. And that just proves how powerful your party really is. I defeated more than half of the bosses in the game using my own party, and not any giant clanking, faceless man/woman-transforming-machine.

Another thing that irritates me about this game…. the ‘item building’. You know, the special option of you collecting materials and going to a specific guy…. or frog, and creating very nice equipments….. Now….. the thing about this is that most of the materials are nearly non-existent….. OKAY, so that do exist, but most of the items that you create, and are at a lower level than the armour you have by the time you find the monster who drops those materials…. so it makes the armour, or weapon completely useless.

okay, now for the storyline…. SPOILERS!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! TURN AWAY IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE… SOMETHING…. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

So the storyline…. what can i say?…. CLICHE AND CLIFF-HANGER!!!! WTF?! CLICHE!!!! Ordinary boy (who turns out to be not so ordinary after all) falls in love with princess, and sneaks into ball where the princess is having her coming of age ceremony…. or something along those lines. Then enemy bursts in, storming the castle and town…. boy rescues princess, and leads her away, only to find the White knight…. okay, not so cliche on that part, but here is where it gets back on the cliche train… princess gets kidnapped…. and boy goes to rescue her…. cliche right? EXACTLY!!! Now, where does your character fit in? The one you created? Oh…. appears only as a new helper in the store where the boy works…. and so your character gets dragged along without a word…. YES, YOU DON’T SPEAK. Your character simply stands in the back of the group as people shout stuff, discuss things…. sigh, well, you can’t ruin the story with your character blabbering….

So let’s see the characters:

-Lenard (レナルド)
unknown age (possibly over 100)
Male
Has the White Knight
Likes the princess (duh)
pretty naive and out-going, typical main male lead

-Yuri (ユウリ)
unknown age (she may be the same as Lenard, but no proof so far)
female
childhood friend to Lenard
Knightless
Likes Lenard (DUH)
Feeling slightly jealous of princess (DUH)
out-going, tomboyish, typical childhood friend to dumb main male.

-Eldoa (エルドア)
unknown age (unlike the Knight contractees, he claimed to travel through time, so by law of physics, he is the same age as he was before he jumped time)
Ex-knight to the Queen of one of the two warring nations during the great war that gave birth to the Knights…. His Queen was the one who sealed the Knights of the enemy nation.
He vows to protect the reincarnation of his Queen, who just so happened to be the princess (CLICHE)

-Ceasar (シーザー)
unknown age (possibly same age as Lenard, but could be older by a year or two)
adopted son of the mayor of a city on top of a giant stone mutated turtle…. forgot the name, sorry, but i like that town alot.
He is REALLY good at artwork, able to duplicate an extremely rare piece of artwork to the finest detail, though colour seemed to be a problem for him.
He has a bad habit of looking into people’s heart and character with the use of his power, Dragon Eye.
Has the Dragon Knight (which is pink…. why pink?!)
Likes Kara (how sweet)
He is the most laid back on the entire group, though can be serious if the need for it arises.

-Kara (カーラ)
unknown age (possibly over 100, maybe younger than ceasar by one or two years)
she seems to be slightly bitchy, but a nice person overall
very analytical
Has the Black Knight (though she dies in the end, and the Black Knight goes to that one eye green goblin dude)
likes Ceasar (hinted that she and Ceasar used to play with each other when young)
blindly follows the eldest of the contractee children, even when she knows it is wrong.
As stated above, she dies. She also betrays the group not too long after she joins…. don’t bother training her. She dies before she can rejoin your party… which sucks, because i really wanted to play the black knight.
She is the black armoured person, but she isn’t the one who killed the King. Lenard saw two black armoured people and thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. No, lenard boy, you didn’t not see wrong, nor do you need glasses.

-Princess Shizuna (シズナ様、シズナ姫)
the main princess of story
is actually the reincarnation of an ancient Queen who sealed away the Knights and their weapons
a typical dojiko, actually she doesn’t actually fall, but she does seem like one who would.
can be serious at times, but still gives off a dojiko feeling
can go into trances often and chant weird words to releases Knights and their powers.
keeps on getting kidnapped over and over again
she lost her voice when her mother was killed before her eyes, and never spoke till her father was stabbed before her eyes…. what an ironic twist of fate.
likes lenard (for whatever reason besides that he constantly declares that he will save her, i do not know)
she met lenard once when lenard visited the castle as a small boy. She chased him, and smiled to him…. unbeknownst to Lenard, she was looking at the butterfly that was perched on his head, though let’s just let the boy day-dream a bit longer.

Okay, so that’s the main cast…. i didn’t add the enemies, because there are simply too many…. or i just forgot their names. Now, let’s talk about the Knights…..

In ancient times, two great nations waged war upon each other. I forgot their names, so let’s just call them A and B. Shut up, i’m also sad to not remember their names.

So A is the one where Eldoa came from, led by the Queen who would later become Shizuna. B is the nation which is basically down-right evil…. They created the Knights. The Knights, used by B, had to have a source of energy to run. And they used babies and children. These babies and children formed pacts and contracts with the Knights, exchanging life energy for power. Nation A then used some special skill (or they just whoop ass), and defeated nation B, sealing the Knights in the process. Of the Knights that Nation B made, five remained (or that there were only five in the beginning, i’m not sure, i was cooking when they were explaining). The Queen of nation A died shortly after from wounds and exhaustion from sealing the Knigths. The King of nation B is missing and isn’t dead.

Okay, skip a few years. A group of adventurers and excavators dug and found an ancient temple, revealling four babies and one young boy. These five were the contractees for the sealed Knights, and somehow or rather, they survived (probably with magic, and or cold sleep…. replace science with magic, and cold sleep is possible). They were brought to a village, where they were raised, but something happened, and they were forced to seperate. The young boy, disappeared with one of the babies, who had already grown slightly. This boy would be main antagonist…. forgot his name. The child he took would be Kara.

One of the child was left in the care of the mayor of that mechanized town on top of a mutated turtle….. i really forgot it’s name. That child would be Ceasar. Another child would be left in the hands of a beastman who runs a store in the starting city. This boy is Lenard. The last child’s fate is unknown. It could be Yuri, it could be your character (though that is HIGHLY VERY UNLIKELY), or it could be the captain of the guards (he is an orphan as well).

So the Knights each follow a theme.

-White Knight (Lenard)
human type
sword and shield and a cape
specialize in defensive, alright with offence
The arc is a gauntlet with a dagger to slot into the gaunlet (slotting the dagger into the gauntlet activated it the first time, other times, Lenard just seems to wave his hand over the gauntlet… the animators were getting lazy)

-Black Knight (Kara)
Bird type
one sword, and a pair of wicked black wings
specialize in speed, evasion, and it’s long range is killer
The arc is a black flaming sword (drawing it activates it)

-Dragon Knight (Ceasar)
Dragon type
Trident/spear, nice dragon wings, but why pink.
specialize in long reach, offence is highest amongst the first three
Why pink?!
The arc is a…. belt…. i can’t…. say…. anymore… (…. locking, clipping the belt activates it…. lame.)

-Sun god, 　太陽王 (oni-san…. that’s what they called him at the end.)
Emperor type…. can i say it has a sunny disposition?
Cross arms, yellow, shiny, looking very boss like
Is said to be the strongest of the five remaining Knights, but when i fought it, it practically did nothing (mainly because it’s powers were being sealed by Shizuna)…. it’s powers were sealed by Shizuna so oni-san can’t use it. Too bad
The arc is a plain mask. (You put it on to activate it…. what else? Piss on it?)
The last Knight has not been revealled, and we can only guess on its theme. So two Knights are with you, and two are with the enemy, but who is the last contractee? And what are its powers? Like i said, the game ended in a Cliff-hanger, so i don’t know. Need to wait for the second installment.

let’s see the list of potential last contractee:
-Yuri
she is around the same age as Lenard, and they never introduced her parents, or foster parents, so she could be an orphan.
she is the childhood friend of Lenard.
A cliche storyline if she is the last, her jealousy towards Shizuna causes her to turn over to the bad side, letting the enemy have three Knights. Hey, it would be too easy for the good guys if they have more Knights than the enemy, even if the enemy has the freaking strongest Knight.
Probability that she is the last: 70% (the percentage is not counting overall, but rather the chances individually)

-Captain of the guards (i don’t know his name, nor do i want to know)
He was brought to the castle before the King as an Orphan
He was adopted by the King
After the King was murdered, he left the Castle and the Kingdom with four of his men, wandering around the map with no goal in sight…. even at the end, they are still wandering…. i think they’re lost…..
If he is the last contractee, a storyline would follow like this: He finds a way to forgive himself, and redeem himself for not protecting his foster father, the King, and jumps into the fight at the last minute, brandishing his power… or he would succumb to madness and just destroy a whole lot of things before Lenard comes and calms him down. Either way, even if he is a bad guy, he wouldn’t stay a bad guy for long.
Probability that he is the last Contractee: 60%

-Your character
….. really, i don’t think so….
your character is silent, neither agreeing nor disagreeing
your character is simply dragged along with the series of events…. see? This is what happens when you don’t speak! you go on a wild and stupid adventure on your first day at work!!!
It is not likely that your character is the last contractee, since this game includes online play with your character. And online play with Knights is simply cheat.
Probabilty that he/she is the last contractee: 1%

-New character
Well, it is typical for companies who release a series instead of everything in one disc to not finish creating everything, like characters, maps, weapons, etc.
Since it is a new character, nothing more to say
50-50 for good and bad…. most likely bad side and you would have to fight it/him/her/them…. (hey, who knows…. maybe the original contractee died and the replacement was more than one? Two people morph into one…. weird)
Probability that he/she/it/them is/are the last contractee: 50%

Okay, so it seems weird, doesn’t it? We’ve got a lot of strange things happening in the game, and weird people….. at the end of the game, everything supposedly goes back to normal, but we ALL KNOW that nothing is going back to normal. Oni-san is on an island gathering up new forces, the prime minister of Shizuna’s country is working with that evil oni-san, that green one eyed globin dude has the black knight (and when he transforms… he is fugly…. and i really want to kill him for killing Kara and taking the black knight for himself… i’m going to kill him the next game and fuck up his insides, take the black knight and then fuck him up overkill style.)

Another weird thing…. you can finish this game with your party around level 37…. my main character was level 39, but that’s besides the point. Training is really tough…. but i think it’s well worth it…. always train your party so that they would be at least 5~10 levels above the monsters in the lastest area you’ve been to. That way, you wouldn’t have to use health potions….. i never used a single potion…. except action potions, since they replenish AP…. and AP is hard to replenish…. either kill enemies, enemies hit you, you deal specific damage to enemies, etc. But watching your character do a complete overkill combo, ending it with an arieal attack is totally worth it.

Oh yeah, here’s a break down of weapon types:

-Single handed weapon (sword, knives, maces)
can equip shield
fast, average damage
has an amazing number of arial hits
main stat increases are:
-speed (evasion andspeed of ATB, though mainly evasion)
-weapons usage (accuracy)
-strength (damage)

-two handed weapon (Normal two handed weapons, and Katana types, huge ass cleavers included…. Higurashi anyone?)
coolest collection of weapon
slow, heavy damage
it’s cool, and deals heavy damage, but hard to stack combo…. nice damage though. Mainly berserker types
main stat increase are:
-strength
-HP
-defence

-Spear (harpoons, spears)
can equip shield
good defence
average speed, average damage (slightly lower than swords)
Very average, all rounder types, though something tells me they have good piercing damage.
main stat increase are:
-defence
-weapons usage
-speed
-spirit (magic power)

-Bow
Can attack from a distance (very useful especiall against giant monsters… run into a tunnel or something like that where they cannot enter, and shoot away.)
very Fast, low damage
don’t have much combo, but have a lot of status changing shots. Sadistic players would love this
main stat increase are:
-weapons usage
-speed
-spirit

-Axes
I don’t know much about them, since i never use them.
i would suspect same as two handed swords, slow, and heavy damage.
Main stat increase are:
-HP
-strength
-defence

-Staves/ Staffs
i never use them, nor do i want to.
averge speed, low damage
they mainly boost magic
main stat increase are:
-MP
-spirit

-Black Magic (Attack Magic)
fire, ice, air (wind/lightning), earth
has both attack and defence spells for each element
Main stat increase are:
-MP
-spirit

-White Magic (Support Magic)
healing, status change, boost magic
has curing and inflicting ailment magic
has increase and decrease attack/defence magic
Main stat increase are:
-MP
-spirit

My list is not complete, since i am writing off memory, and i didn’t unlock everything.

For the healing magic, it is a bit weird, since you cannot unlock stat increase options like the other weapons…. you must learn the magic skills first, before you’re allow to increase another stat, and it really irks me, since i have to guess which skill unlocks which…. and the advance healing is only unlocked once you have learned every single ailment curing spell (including the group healing), then increase your spirit for white magic for the second time, and then advance healing is unlocked…. that would make you lose around 20~30 points…. that’s 5~7 levels devoted completely to white healing just to get advance healing…. what the hell.

Oh well, overall the game is still nice, and worth its price….. if only that made your character stand out more…. but i know, you cannot stand out, because your character is not suppose to be there! Your character is simply following…. without much reason….. really, why are you following? You follow Lenard in the beginning because it’s your job…. you start working in that store, and then the store owner gets you and Lenard to go to a nearby village to collect alcohol for the princess’s party…. you meet Yuri there, and when you get to the castle (after knocking a giant troll down), and Lenard wants to sneak into the castle, dragging Yuri and you in as well. While Yuri goes off to pig herself on the food, Lenard goes to spy on the princess (STALKER ALERT)…. and you? Well, you mysteriously disappear.

Then crazy clowns just have to crash the party with a giant cannon on the back of a freak monster who apparently love torches and candles…. While the guards are pretty much fighting a losing battle, the King is offed, Shizuna screams and gets her voice back, Lenard rescue her before she is offed as well, Eldoa appears and guides Lenard and Shizuna into a secret passage way. Meanwhile, you and Yuri are confused at the…. confusion, and somehow are rescued by captain of the guards. Lenard then stumbles into the basement of the castle, and sees the White Knight. The giant cannon monster who has a fetish for candles, storms in. Lenard decides to put on gauntlet, Shizuna enters trance, activates the Knight. Lenard is forced to battle some sort of shadow, most likely the spirit of the gauntlet, and gains control. He transforms, and then decides that dungeons are too small and cramping his style. He decides to make a skylight roof, and brings the candle fetish monster with him. Fighting the monster outside is much better, and he whoops ass, only to find that the princess is captured by a fat rolly polly man who has too much wax and not enough hair on his head, so he uses it on his stache.

A talk with the captain of the guards and the prime minister makes Lenard, Yuri and Eldoa incharge of rescuing to the princess, much to the dismay of the captain of the guards…. you…. well, you’re standing in the background, leaning against a pillar…. i guess you’re dragged in by default…. blame yourself for not voicing your objection. The captain of the guards leave shortly after, without a sense of direction and or a map, he gets lost…. multiple times…. don’t bother looking for him, he can’t be found.

So the first place you go is to the desert. Why? Because the princess is heading there. How do you know? Eldoa has a pair of coloured fluffy weird ass owls. Apparently they act as an ancient form of holographic telephones…. yeah… i know…. weird…. so a pink one stays with the princess and projects Shizuna’s image to the blue one that follows Lenard, and vice versa…. there is the dancing scene on a lake (wait, dancing ON a LAKE? They must be high….), which is very much similar to final fantasy X…. though in FF X…. Tidus and Yuna had lungs of steel and they were dancing/swimming/syncronise diving, INSIDE/UNDERWATER the glittering lake…. i think that lake is toxic. Why else would it glitter?

Oh yeah, you fight the black knight at the end of the mines to get to the desert…. it isn’t tough, and i saw no need to transform into Knight mode…. just use arial attacks if you have them, if not, hack at those legs till it goes down. Defending constantly is key.

So you reach the desert…. no one bothered to remember to pack water. You end up in the desert town, and are ambushed by Kara, who poses as a poor village woman whose sister is held hostage to force her will… well, there are lot of problems with that story, but let’s leave that for now. So you fight Kara and a bunch of towns people, whooping their ass clean, before Kara goes ‘Knight-like’ transforming…. that’s called ‘Advent’ (and they say that before transforming too, wow… like saying the name of a move while doing it. You have 変身… and you now have アドヴァント)…. that is basically selling your life energy to transform into a hideous giant beast. Like selling your soul to the devil…. so you beat Kara, and learn that Shizuna is in the ruins nearby, but to go there, you need to get through the other gate in the town, and you need the permission of the town’s lord…. who just so happened to be a giant frog who cannot keep his slimy webbed feet to himself. He’s a flirt.

Help him send a letter to his ‘girlfriend’, who just so happened to live in an oasis…. yes, his gf is a giant pink frog (don’t believe what the servants tell you about how she is ‘the most beautiful thing in the world’… yeah, lenard is an idiot for actually believing that.) So deliver the message, and after bearing witness to some typical wife bitching, you get permission to use the other door in the town, as well as using item creation. But it cost materials, and money… a complete waste of time. Unless you have nothing better to do.

Go through the door, and go to the ruins. Where Kara’s ’sister’ is… and so is Shizuna. Rolly polly bald clown demands Lenard to drop his arc. He does, but rolly polly cannot touch the arc, because it is bound to Lenard. Kara grabds Shizuna and pulls her to Lenard’s side. Then you fight some Advant soldiers…. then Kara’s ’sister’ (who has her mouth duct-taped, so she cannot refute the claim that Kara is her sister… wait, duct tape? They have duct tape?), is forced to do advant with two other soldiers, fusing into one big ass monster. Lenard has his ass whooped, and after his Knight is body slammed into a wall, a shield is revealled. Shizuna then goes into her trance mode again, and does that holy virgin mary praying, and
the shield is activated, allowing Lenard to use it. And you beat that fused up fussball. But Kara allows Shizuna to be captured again, therefore letting the group set off once more. Kara joins you as a permenant member now…. but like i said, it’s pointless to train her since she would die… well, she could come back to life in the second game, but unlikely….

So you go off to the moving city…. the valley before this is a perfect place to train…. with narrow cravices where giant monsters cannot pass, you can take a bow and shoot them before they can land a hit…. you’ll be fighting a black dragon, who isn’t very tough, but you transform anyway…. and the black knight appears… note that Kara is gone. Defeat the dragon, and the black knight kills it. Eldoa gets suspicious that Kara is not with them after the group rests…. Kara reappears later, claiming to have gone scouting. Anyway, go into the town, and learn that to continue, you need to get the giant turtle to go to the mines, but it isn’t in season (yeah, who the fuck has heard of mining seasons? What, do the rocks need time to ripen?). So you need to convince the mayor… who just so happened to be searching for a piece of artwork called ‘The Goddess of Lepana’ (ever notice how the moment you enter town, the lord of that town always just so happened to want something, just waiting for you to gain favour)…. You have to gain entry into an underground black market auction, and you need to talk to a certain somebody for that… trade the item he wants for the entry, and go in…. and what luck…. or if the entire world’s coincidences came together for this moment….. the Goddess of Lepana just so happened to be put on show in that underground auction. Don’t worry, money isn’t an option here. It is revealled that one of the Goddess’s eye is missing. And that eye is made from a gem from a fire salamander. You strike a deal with the dealer, saying that you will get a replacement for the eye, in exchange for the artpiece free of charge.

You do this quest, kill the salamander (who isn’t very big actually), and go back to the dealer, who apparently wants to double cross you, but Kara made quick work to make him see the error in that. It would problematic, after all, should minor characters take up the main spotlight. So you walk away with the Goddess. But heading to the mayor’s residence lets you discover something…. the mayor already has it?! No way! YES WAY! But you’re let in anywho…. because Ceasar said so. Yes, you meet Ceasar. He is the adopted son of the mayor, and claimed to have gotten the goddess himself…. of course, privately, he tells you that you have the real one, and that he created the fake one. When the party sees the mayor, and the fake goddess, Eldoa notes that the fake is exactly identical to the real one, except for the colour…. Ceasar apparently has the hands of a godly artisan… he even got the salamander gems. While the Mayor is happy for the real one, he is pissed at Ceasar for tricking again (again? Ceasar is apparently a naughty child… bad boy)… but he complies with your request. Oh, and note, the mayor is deathly ill. He is nearly at death’s door. Probably rining the doorbell by now.

you leave the residence, and Ceasar tags along as a permenant member. Take this moment to train him. Train him like you mean it (Or that you have nothing better to do in your spare time…. his dreadlocks need to be styled). The mines is a good place to train. I won’t tell you what to do exactly, but just check every place…. the best training regime i have, is follow the tracks up the slope, fight the black giant, follow through the back, till you fight the Earth dragon, go across the bridge, down the stairs, down the elevator, fight the fire dragon, then go through the tunnel filled with Wizard (that is the name of the enemy organization, in case you didn’t realize it by now) soldiers, and fight the black giant…. back track, go up the elevator, and repeat the cycle. The small frys you fight along the way, plus the four giants in total should give you a good boost. Train till Ceasar is at least 25, if not, buy loads of health potions and make Ceasar hold them. Make sure that your party can withstand a long fight, because you’re going to take on 4 boss fights in a row. And rolly polly is among two of them. He can cast silence on your party, so make sure you have revival and healing stuff. When you fight the boss, first is rolly polly with a couple of soldiers. Easy, and make sure that no one is silenced…. silenced party members do NOT use items automatically (if you place healing commands in their command bar, then they would automatically use them…. same with arial attacks… they would automatically use arial attacks on a giant monster if it is in one of the three command bars)

Defeat rolly polly, and then you fight two Advant monsters. I don’t know if it’s a glitch, but while fighting one of the two monsters, my party’s MP kept draining…. it could be that one of the monsters can drain MP, but it may just be a glitch…. nah, i think they can actually drain MP… so watch it. Next up, is a pink dragon…. If you saved Lenard’s AP, now is a good time to use it. Transform into a Knight and whoop ass. The dragon can withstand a lot of damage, unlike those weak advant monsters, so it is best to save the transformation for this dragon battle. After the dragon, rolly polly does advant himself, and the dragon goes down…. it transforms into an arc, and gives itself to Ceasar. Shizuna goes trance again, and
unlocks the dragon knight. Here, Ceasar is on his own, so heal yourself if need be, but at level 25 or higher, Ceasar’s health is good enough to withstand the entire fight. Rolly polly is irritating…. don’t aim for it’s head, but for its stomach, that deals the most damage.

After the fight, rolly polly dies, killed by one eye green goblin… i hate your guts goblin…. and shizuna is gone again. You go back into the turtle town, and find out that the mayor is dead. He left a note for Ceasar telling him that if he wanted to know his past, go back to the starting town and find a certain dude…. wait, no will? Well, the mayor wanted to thank Ceasar in the end for being his son… blah blah romantic stuff… whatever. So you go back to the starting town and search for clues…. this is tricky, since the map won’t give you hints…. best way? Start from the store which you start off from, turn right from its exit, up the stairs, and the first pair of young guys who are talking to each other. Talk to them, and they’ll tell you to find the building with the blue roof (apparently, someone likes to stand out so much that he would even paint his roof a different colour from everyone else). Walk down the road, and CG time…. then the map leads you away. There, you’ll find that the house is empty…. and that the man you’re looking for is dead. What a surprise…. but he has a son. Omg, yes a son….how cliche….. wait, why not a daughter?

So you ditch the gossiping woman who has to do laundry but decides to gossip with you anyway, and head out…. note that the field has an upgrade of monsters…. though they look the same, they are stronger. And this time, the ‘Troll King’ appears as a random monster… you can get a good material drop from him if you’re looking for item creation. So follow the map…. if you did the first side mission, this place should be familiar. So enter, and you’ll find a emo looking dude being chased by trolls…. three of them. What, does this guy emit some female troll pheromone or something? Sheesh, talk about popular with the wrong crowd. So save him…. yeah, both Lenard and Ceasar go transform…. this would be the first ’semi-boss’ fight where both Knights are on the field at the same time…. but the Black Knights is in as well…. and it’s helping you. Note Kara disappears again. I think it should be obvious…. but Eldoa now seems to confirm it. So you rescue the dude who is the guy you’re looking for… And he brings you back to his place to explain things…. He then tells you that he’s been under watch by someone for a long time, and tells you to meet him at night at of the town’s exit. You can go shop or do whatever you want before going there. Once there, be ready for a bbq… bring marshmellows…. and meat.

The dude’s place is on fire…. wow, what a surprise…. so you chase an owl…. this one is grey…. it’s not yours…. it’s oni-san…. yes, oni-san…. he tells you where to go next. And apparently, Shizuna was the one who arranged the place. Why? Because this place holds a sword that can kill Knights…. ooo…. yes…. apparently, there is a dude during the great war, who fought single handly against the Knights…. that dude must be tall…. and he decided to stay in a valley…. that became known as bug valley… or something like that. Bug named…. why? Because it has bugs…. no kidding…. pack your bug sprays, because it isn’t a joy ride.

One thing to note in bug valley…. there are lots of irritating enemies. Spiders, scorpians, spitting flowers, flies, giant weird rock lizards, trolls, and treants. Spiders can shoot a web at you, slowing your speed and evasion. Scorpians can poison or paralyze, spitting flowers can paralyze you in two ways, one with powder, the other is trapping by sinking its roots into the ground and grabbing you… the only way to get rid of this, is either get another team member to attack the plant, or wait. Apparently getting attacked also works, and the plant is still stuck trying to get something. Take that opportunity to whack it. rock lizards are considered huge enemies, though they are relatively small compared to other huge ass monsters…. but they are tough, and can deal 100 damage if not careful. They can also poison.

Ceasar finds out that Kara is the black knight, and though Kara threatens to kill him, she doesn’t…. yeah, unknowingly, they actually like each other, or more like Kara is rather reluctant to admit it. So you go on, rescue a…. rabbit? Erm…. what the hell is that? Well, you’ve seen that species around before…. but still…. what the hell is that? So you save it…. with overkill knights….. but that lizard has taken a liking to Ceasar, and decides to have him to go…. too bad Kara has dips on him, and swoops in as the black knight and rescues him….. yeah…. nothing says more romantic that bird woman saving pink dragon man….

So you continue on…. ending up kidnapped by masked rabbits…. they watch too much movies…. and decide to roast you…. or blow you up…. in the middle of their town. Hmm, they must really hate their own architecture…. Oh yeah…. interesting matches to who is tied with who…. Lenard with Yuri, Ceasar with Kara (oho?), you with Eldoa…. you with the oldest dude of the group…. or …. not. Ah, so as the rabbits test their mulfunctioning bomb on you, you are rescued by…. the ignored rabbit you rescued arrives…. so anyway, you’re welcomed by the midgets…. and you can get some nice items here… You also learn of the legend of the one eyed dude who can tackle Knights. And dragons apparently. Here is a CG with just you and Lenard…. don’t be so full of yourself, you still say nothing.

The next map is when you can get to use flower-copters! Yay! I always wanted to fly by grabbing onto a giant dandelion for dear life! Look at your map, and you’ll see arrows which point in which direction do the flowers go. If there are two directions, by activating the flowers, the game would tell you whether the wind direction is ‘up’ or ‘down’ (上 or 下 respectively). Just look at the map and orientate yourself that way. Up is the direction that is ‘above’ on the map. Down is the route ‘below’.

You continue on, and you reach the end…. where Lenard and Ceasar and forced to trade their arcs with Shizuna…. but after it all seems fine, something is wrong, and just in time, as Shizuna is actually… a FAKE!!! OMG SO CLICHE!!! And apparently Shizuna has many look a likes…. So the fake goes advant, and Kara shows her true colours. It’s now a two on two battle. If you trained right, this should be easy. And then, the real shizuna decides to follow her monk ways and starts praying, revealling the holy sword…. but it can’t be touched! Why?! Then Lenard get’s it! Let’s make the statue blind! And poof, a sword…. what the hell… So you get the sword, and deal with the enemy…. Kara gets away with oni-san…. with Ceasar pleading her not to go, but she replies that she has no where to go, and so remains by oni-san’s side….. what a…. bore….

You try to escape the crumbling ruins, because your battle attracted the grand daddy of rock worm/lizard, and your rabbit friends come to help you, but apparently you ate too much. You’re heavy. You go DOWN. And guess where? On top of the giant rock lizard. But this isn’t the end. No, the rock lizard has a very nice surprise…. it has a map on it…. i mean, it is like another dungeon… a short one. There isn’t anything here, just hurry along, and make sure to equip your healers, making sure that their best healing spells are in their command bars…. the next fight is going to be irritating.

You face off against…. a…. erm…. what is that? Let’s just say it’s the brain…. note that there are multiple tentacles sticking out…. you might want to take them down. They are weak, but will cause two things…. one, if you get too close, they will make you fall. Two, they can mess up your targeting, unless you’re good at changing targets. The main goal is the large centre brain flower, the tentacles can and will regenerate. They also distract your team members. If you can balance the attacks from tentacle to the main body, you can win. It is easy to tell when it would send it’s strongest attack, so defend when necessary.

Win the battle, and you’ll go back to the rabbit village, and find…. hey! The dude who supposedly burned is alive! But ceasar apparently finds his shoe interesting. I do too…. Take note…. the shoes….

The dude then leads you towards the village where it all began, Shinka village. The next map has a lot of enemies, so be prepared. But this place is ideal for meterial hunting, and exotic monster hunting. It is also by far the largest of all maps. There is an interesting version of the cerberus monster here (you know, the three faced dog… it isn’t three headed, because it only has one head, but three faces). This version has two snake like heads sticking out from its torso…. and if those heads are there, it can use a fearsome area fire attack. Use a bow to shoot those heads off, and by then, half of it’s life should be gone. It is the easiest giant enemy in this map. The candle fetish is here as well, and he isn’t easy to beat. The candle fetish is hard to defeat using normal a normal party, and Knights would find a battle against him to be long and tiring. The third giant monster in this map, the wind dragon. That is tough, as with all dragon type of monsters. But it isn’t invincible, so it just makes battling it long and tiring. Next we have the ice dragon, and finally one ice giant…. the ice giant is easy to deal with. When you see it after opening a door, stay by the door and wait till it sees you anc chases you. Run back and let the door close. The monster can’t chase you, and you can shoot arrows like no tomorrow.

This map also has an abundant number of small creatures…. on the surface, we have jackals, scorpians and the occasional basilisks…. underground, we have wind elements, basilisks and spiders. Basilisks can drop a rare material that is basically like a feather…. it drops it about 40% of the time, so keep killing till you’re satisfied. That material is mainly used for upgrading cloth type armour, creating mantles, or cloth type armour. It is rare though.

This map is both a mix of above and below ground, and you need to have good memorizing skills, with the addition of analytical skills to make your way around. But it’s easy once you’ve reached the centre of the underground map, and unlocked all of the doors. Note, train Eldoa specifically before you reach Shinka village. If he is important to your party, then all the more.

Eldoa in my party is my primary healer, and so it was important that he was good enough. Why was the old dude my healer? Well, he has naturally high MP, and magic attack/defence. So he makes a good healer/support. Second is Yuri, since she doesn’t have access to the heavy weaponary. She uses spear, and is my back-up healer. My main character, plus the two Knights are my heavy hitters. They dish out over 100 dmg, so makes sense.

Anyway, you reach Shinka village, and the dude reveals that Eldoa is actually from the era of the great war, and when faced by the others, Eldoa disappears. Like i said, if he is important to you, you had better trained him. You won’t be getting him back for some time. So you get told about the great war, about the five children and how the Knights work.

You continue on, trying to beat oni-san to his own Knight, which is the Sun God Knight. The next place is long, and just plain irritating. I know i say that most maps are irritating, but wait till you reach the ending part. Anyway, continue on, and then you’ll stop and camp…. then you’ll be ambushed…. only that it’s not really an ambush, because your group was expecting it. Yes. You’re entire party had suspected the dude… i think his name is Seti…. finally remembered his name. And he is revealled to be…. ONI-SAN!!! OMG!!! And the clue that tipped the party off? His shoes…. i told you those shoes were something. And Eldoa comes back, saying that his absence was a good rest…. lucky SOB.

But your victory is short lived as you are dropped down into a hole, and forced to fight…. oh, a candle feitsh monster’s brother, who has a fetish for crystals…. this guy is easy, so just beat his ass down, and continue on.
The next map is clear cut, so just continue on…. notice the increase number of golems…. golems are the toughest type of two legged giant monster, especially the ones in here, since they have no element, compared with other golems who have elements for you to exploit. Go through the ruins, and there would be a cut scene, and Eldoa explains his role, and Shizuna’s true nature. No, she isn’t a monster.

The next part of the map, is the temple, and is the beginning of the irritating crap. Begin by going to the door on the left, and teleport. You have to go through the different teleports, killing off all golems and giant monsters that you come across to unlock some of the locked teleports. When you unlock most of them, and end up in a giant rectangle hall, defeat the last golem, and head straight down the hall…. if this golem isn’t the last one, take the other teleport and just keep on finding golems till they are all replaced by giant black monsters. If you can access that teleport in that giant hall, you’ll end up in the beginning place, but on the North end, a place you couldn’t reach till now. Defeat the golems there, and jump down. The other teleport is now accessible. Going through you can see two additional teleports on the map. The one further from you is the final stage, the other will bring you back to the beginning.

You might want to prepare before the final fight. It’s another four boss in a row, and this one isn’t that simple….. You cannot change members in the middle of the fight, so the best way is to get both Lenard and Ceasar into the party, and make sure they keep their AP full. When the fight begins, you will fight against the Sun God from the get go, but Shizuna has sealed its power, so it would be easy. Of course, Oni-san is pissed, and stabs Shizuna. He then runs away, ordering Kara to finish the party off. While Kara transforms, Lenard grabs Shizuna and lets Eldoa heal her. Now you face the black Knight. It has strong long range attacks, and unlike it’s previous fights, it isn’t afraid to use them. You may have to depend on your other party members to heal and attack while you are sent flying across the field.

Once you defeat Kara, Ceasar manages to convince her to join them once more, and when Kara agrees, the green goblin stabs Kara from the back. Kara tries to transform, but that fugly dude grabs her from behind, and draws the sword. So it’s a fused transformation. The result? A fugly black knight. Really, i have no other descriptions for it. I really liked the black knight till i saw this…. and really, it’s simply fugly….

Right, now this is where the battle will be hard. Even at level 39, my characters has to endure about 100 dmg with the best armour available on. And that isn’t nice…. so get Lenard and Ceasar to transform during this fight, and let them absorb the damage and dish out the pain. The last character should focus on making sure the two Knights have good health and mana left. After this, the mutated black knight is forced to lower itself down closer to your level. Now is damage dishing time. If you’re party attacks relentlessly, this form should prove useless. Relentless attacks would prevent it from attacking you at all. It would shine once in a while, but that practically does nothing to you. Just hack away.

Once you’ve defeated it, it would revert back…. but Kara falls to the ground, and the green goblin has the black knight’s arc. He disappears with it. Ceasar runs to Kara, and the two share a touching moment, before the ruins come crumbling down…. again…. why so cliche?! Shizuna is healed, and she tells them to hurry to the open. There, a giant plane…. i guess it’s a plane…. with flapping wings…. appear, and they rush inside…. but Kara is dead, and her body is left in the crumbling ruins…. chances of her returning? Well, better than if she were brought with them…. if her body is never disclosed, then who knows what may happen?

But as Lenard makes his way to the ship, he collapses, due to the fatigue of using the Knight to much. Shizuna suppports him onto the ship, and Yuri is feeling depressed and jealous. The plane manages to escape, and they all return to the starting town. There, Shizuna takes control of her kingdom once more, and everyone goes back to their lives…. well, not really. Lenard gets a scolding from the store owner, who probably wondered where the hell Lenard went (though if you talked to him before this CG, he would say something ‘going to rescue the princess? Then what are you waiting here for?’). Yuri is with Lenard, and your character simply smiles at Lenard being scolded…. sadistic you. Ceasar and Eldoa share a drink at the bar in the town, and seems good. Then you see oni-san on an island, ressurecting an army….. he claims that he cannot use his Knight due to Shizuna, and his army is mainly following him out of fear. Also, Shizuna’s minister is helping him, so we know this isn’t over. Ah….. the captain of the guards is still lost.

And that’s the end of the single player storyline for this game! While nice, it is rather short…. well, the huge expanse of the game world, and the online feature is yet to be explored….. i am still not done with this game. Time to see how far i can go.

Oh yes…. in your clear data, there is a guy in Shinka village, who can transfer data…. i think it means transferring the data from this game into the sequel when it is released.

Well, that’s all from me about this game…. i’ll write more if i can get more.

I was wondering if i could use this story in my fics…. or write a fic on this…. i think i’ll do both.

What’s up with those endings? Foul language and spoilers

I recently finished playing Fable 2 and Fallout 3. Somehow or rather, with all of the hype, i really expected more, but i shouldn’t really be like this. I’m rather satisfied with how things ended. Not really…. there should be more….

First, Fable 2. I pre-ordered a limited edition, and when it came, i was jumping for joy, but something felt amiss, and only after playing it did i realize it. I was missing the limited edition stuff! There was meant to be a special code for limited edition players, allowing them to use Halo armour, and energy sword plus an additional dungeon. Okay, so the Halo stuff is crap, and not really looking like the real master chief armour and sword, but REMEMBER!!! it is meant to be a parody! From what i heard, the sword and armour was meant to be upgraded into something SUPER at the end of the extra dungeon, though this news is rather unreliable at the moment till i get my code.

Yes, because i lack the code, i had to go to xbox.com and click and click and click till i finally reached the page where i could get microsoft to send me my code… and what do you know, they say they would send it to me within 10 business days?!?!?!?! WTF?! I’ve waited so fucking for this game and now you say wait another 10 more days?! UP URS! I hate dealing with microsoft…. their OS are easy to understand, use and manipulate, but when it comes down to technical support and ACTUALLY DOING STUFF, it sucks…. Get a Mac? HA! AS IF! The only reason why i don’t use mac is because GAMES are STILL MAINLY ON MICROSOFT!!! I’ve seen how ‘reliable’ macs are… yeah right, every single mac that a friend or family member of mine owns has known to crash, be irritable, naggy, and down-right stubborn. Apple is worse than microsoft in terms of getting the computer to DO THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO!!! So i’m sticking to Windows…. yeah, my japanese games ONLY work on Windows…. so there.

Anyway, i finished fable 2, and what do you know, we get three choices… CHOICES!!! IT IS THE WHOLE BLOODY POINT OF THE GAMES I’VE BEEN BUYING!! Too many choices, but not as bad a Fallout 3…. that game is just MEANT to tempt you EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CORNER!!!

I don’t understand why some people find Fable 2 to be a let down…. sure, we all expected more, but in my honest opinion, i think it is a stroke of genius….. maybe those guys who complain just hate Lionhead studios or something. I think the story is just poetic and romantic…. really plays alot with my feelings, and i actually like that. I felt really drawn into the game, and i down right loved the story. Of course, it would be better if we didn’t feel so guilty about doing every single bad thing. And the part of getting taller and more well-built, and having those weird blue lines on you (called ‘will scars’) just really gets to me… well, not for the male character. I played both male and female, though i have yet to go down the path of down right evilness and vile shit. I’m a righteous person by heart and i REALLY REALLY REALLY find it hard to do bad…. call it my upbringing. Anyway, when i played the female character, (and i had LOTS of fun playing the female character… oooh, you guys who stubbornly choose to ONLY play the male, you don’t know what you’re missing out. It may not be different game play wise, but it sure is fun.), i built up my character to be the ultimate fighter. And i mean ultimate. Strength and skill and will all pumped up to maximum, and since i was a ‘good’ person, with halo flying over my head, i had swarms of people running to me, asking me for autographs and wanting to f up my character. BUT!!! If you notice, female characters who are tall, muscular and have blue tattoos that make them look tribal, aren’t exactly popular in reality…. sure, they may make it onto the ‘extremist’ magazine covers…. but still…. well, it’s a game anyway.

A few bugs to work out though, had to restart the game a couple of times, and though they are exactly ‘end of the world’, they were irritating. For one, after i want to lock-out of targeting a civilian, their damn name and bar still appears on the top. I know i’m not locked on to anyway, so when i try to shoot a gargolye, the dumb civillian’s stats pops up instead of me getting a good aim! Oh, the best bug i’ve seen so far is when i jumped off a ledge, and when i landed, my character was frozen in permenant free fall animation. I could still move, but i loooked like a some sort of magician, or like Jesus crucified on the cross and hovering around…. yeah, i looked like that in the game. It didn’t stop till i restarted the game. Another bug is Garth’s tower. Moved in with my new wife since she loves brightwood, but adjusting her budget was a bug…. once set, i couldn’t change it, and so she would eat my money away every single day…. she was happy with just less than 100 gold, but i was stupid, didn’t read, and gave her 1000…. so i lose 2000 a day, don’t know why it doubles, but it does. Maybe another bug…. their math problem needs work. And getting corrupt but not evil is just too tiring and troublesome…. sleep for 7 days, another 7 days, another 7 days…. heck! It took me the entire day in real time to get my corruption from maximum pure, to just middle of corrupt!

So, i love Fable 2, and love the dog…. though sometimes, i have to wonder, aren’t there ANY better looking NPCs than the whores?! I mean, come on! I know it is suppose to be middle ages time, but there HAS to be someone better! Lady Grey? She’s dead! Call me fickle or what not, but i have my standards! Even IF it is in a game! Started on ideas for my own Fable fic. Though i have compiled a list of funny stuff i got from Fable 2, i should be posting them soon, right after my midterms though.

The dog really needs to learn to stay AWAY from danger and let ME do the fighting…. sheesh, i have to heal the dog almost everytime.

Another note on Fable 2 and their play on emotions. Since i am a storywriter, i tend to do stuff in game that would…. emulate a story…. Lucien was really a tragic enemy, though i initially wanted to blunderbuss him point-blank in the face, though i paused…. and that damn ass of a thief had to take the glory. I WANTED TO SAVOUR THE FUCKING MOMENT YOU FUCKED UP FUCKING FUCKER!!!!

Bah, so chose being all goody-two-shoes, and chose sacrifice…. wrong choice… what the fuck to i get? A fucked up statue, that’s what. FUCK THAT! I’ve got LOADS of other statues around the fucking place! You know, i think that part was the trick choice by the producers…. if you really believe that other people’s needs are before your own… THEN YOU’RE A FUCKING MORON!!! There aren’t ANYBODY who is THAT selfless! What the fuck! I went through hell, lost EVERY FUCKING SINGLE THING THAT I HELD DEAR TO ME, YET STILL CHOSE TO SAVE THOSE UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BASTARDS EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME!!! AND WHAT THE FUCK DO I FUCKING GET?! A FUCKED UP STATUE AND A ‘THANK YOU’ NOTE?! FUCK THAT AND FUCK YOU! I guess they are trying to say that even though you would save everyone, and lose everything you have in the process yet still able to be pure and selfless, then the reward you would get is simple gratitude. There is no greater reward than gratitude for those who choose such a path….. yeah well, not everyone can run a true and pure charity. Everything and everyone has a goal to themselves. Just because they aren’t benefitting themselves in the physical sense, does not mean they aren’t benefitting from it at all. Emotionally, mentally, yeah, they do that only to make themselves feel good. Whatever. My next character is going to choose the REAL ENDING… like… GETTING MY DOG AND FAMILY BACK!!! FUCK THE REST OF THE WORLD! I gave you everything, and did so much, helped so much, yet you people are ignorant, ungrateful, unfaithful, untrustworthy and just damn dumb. This time, i’m taking what’s mine, what i worked so hard to get. And NO ONE CAN SAY OTHER WISE…… dammit, got all riled up just from a game… see? They really play with your emotions.

Next is Fallout 3…. ah yes, another weird and queer game. Bathesda studios….. you know, i really love your works. The openness of Oblivion, and now Fallout 3. The controls were simply genius and classic. Sure, the older Fallout games were nice, but this one really takes the cake. The one thing from the previous fallouts that really irked me, was the fact that once i ran out of AP, that’s it, i’m dead. But now? No. With a minigun in hand, i can say ‘FUCK YOU AP’. Of course, the AP system is still handy. I can make snipe shots with that unstable hand of mine. I can do hard-core damage dealing to one enemy, using the VATS and once i run out of AP and the enemy is still alive, use real time to finish them off. Of course, the VATS does have its weakness. For example fighting multiple enemies. Once you’ve used your AP to finish off one guy, the screen doesn’t automatically go back to real time. It goes into SLOW MO as your enemy dies, or explodes if you got the bloody mess perk, which is pure genius by the way…. the original makers of fallout were pure geniuses for that. It also made searching for the body to loot much easier actually. Just find a body part, and you can loot the entire body. Anyway, while you’re going in slow-mo, the other enemies would have run up to you and gave you some damage before you can control your PC once more.

Well, watching your enemies die slowly and watching your bullet fly in slow mo is fun, so i won’t say much. But you know, Bathesda studio, your games have a strange tendecy for the oldest and most IRRITATING bug of all games…. the hang. Oh no, it isn’t just fallout 3, oblivion had its fair share of hangs…. though Fallout 3 has to take the cake. It is acting like my mother! It would hang and i would lose all data by the time i’ve played a certain amount of hours. Okay, so i’ve played long hours, but oblivion didn’t hang when i went through a 14 hr crunch time. Fallout 3? Ten hours. And that is the longest i’ve played before it went stall on me.

Oh yeah, weapons maintainence is a chore….. i had to keep finding weapons to repair my stuff with, which isn’t really that hard, unless you’re using really, REALLY exotic shit, that have REAL FIRE POWER, then you’re in deeper shit than anything else. Yeah, i’m talking about the BIG GUNS. Minigun, missle launcher, fatman, galting laser, and of the small guns, the sniper rifle. These weapons are so RARE that each time i find one, i would want to bring it home, store it and make sure it doesn’t run out. Armour is another thing….. i love the merc stuff, merc adventurer, merc charmer, merc cruiser, merc troublemaker, merc veteran. These clothes can be used to repair each other. The very first place i encountered them however, was in the capital, so before that i was wearing shit crap. Okay, so i was wearing proper armour, but like i said the merc clothes can be used to repair each other, so it is THE ideal clothing. Next would be raider armours, since raiders are almost everywhere. So yeah, repairing is a bitch, unless you have the caps to go to a shop. In most cases, NO, you don’t have enough caps.

Which brings me to the next point. Caps. Caps are the main source income, besides trading. But a lot of times i find myself strap for cash or items needed to get DESPERATELY needed ammunition and stimpacks. Look, i’m dying, dry on ammo, and strap for cash. What the hell am i suppose to do?! That is why i consort to using melee weapons and pistols to kill irritating raiders and mercs who get in my way. And then i loot their bodies, sell off their weapons that i don’t like and armour. Note, that i don’t really like the shotguns and laser weapons. I like the 10mm pistol (i used the same one that Amata would give you throughout the entire game, i just love that gun, it is my life saver many times), hunting rifle, Chinese assault rifle, sniper rifle, and the minigun. So i have five guns with me at all times. For melee, i have a ripper and a chinese sword. I have no idea why they chose China as an enemy, but i don’t really care. Sure, i may be chinese, but i’m from Singapore, not China. But one thing i love about the chinese assault rifle, it packs more firepower than your normal assault rifle. It may be different for some other people, but from what i got, my chinese assault rifle kills super mutants with one clip. Does yours? Of course, i found it really dumb the first time i saw the super mutants. Sure, they were already damaged from their fight with two brotherhood of steel paladins, but still, to go down in one shot from my pistol? PLEASE…. Well, it’s all about stats, anyway. I love that 10mm pistol….

So Fallout 3 also has a dog… dogmeat. BUT!!! The thing is i didn’t meet dogmeat immediately…. i played HALFWAY of the game before i stumbled across a disposal yard (I’m not kidding, i was already halfway done). My char was more of a scout/sniper…. who has really big firepower (my minigun ammo count was NEVER below 2000), so i wanted to snipe them from the building i was on top of, but then my perception was high enough to notice a friendly killing off the enemy. So being curious, though i was more stupid than anything, found dogmeat. He wasn’t as cute as Fable 2’s dog, but he sure was nice to have around. I love dogs, and dogmeat reminded me strongly of my own german shepard who died quite some time ago. So i immediately took a liking to dogmeat. The problem with dogmeat? HE DIES TOO EASILY. Sure, he’s a dog, and this isn’t fable 2, but STILL! I wasted half of my stimpack supply on the damn mutt and he still runs off and dies without me knowing where he went! And he tends to take the long routes, while i, being an oblivion veteran and overall monkey, tend to jump over rocks and obstacles. Note, that enemies also tend to take the long routes, so it is useful in battle. HOWEVER, the dog wouldn’t even go past a fence the same way i went! Through a gap! Bah, i spent more time telling dogmeat to stay put etc. and stuff than anything else. In the end, he died and i gave up. HOWEVER! I did get new choices later on as to who could follow me. Either the righteous paladin from the brotherhood of steel who escorted my pc’s dad across the wasteland years before, or a giant super mutant who actually has proper speech patterns and actually has a brain and manners not to shoot anything and everything that moves. Fwakes is his name, and he packs a giant gatling laser. And trust me, with him around, you never need to worry about your ammunition levels or your back. This guy is amazing. I only did one thing while in the slaver camp of paradise falls, snipe the guy with the minigun (took out his head, and his body exploded from the bloody mess perk, man! Gotta love that perk), and the entire slaver camp became my enemy. Then let my mutant buddy do the rest. Yup, that guy not only packs a punch with his handy gatling laser, and he can take alot of hits…. and i mean a lot. Since i’m a scout type character, it’s good to know he has my back. And he won’t charge out blindly, unlike dogmeat. Of course, he also tells you whether a place is dangerous or not, just like how dogmeat growls when he senses danger. Fwakes would warn you in the most obvious statements, though it is useful… sometimes. And no one seems to care about the giant super mutant with the giant weapon whenever i talk to them. Even Fwakes notes that once, much to my surprise and laughter.

Ah yes, laughter…. i really love that large robot the brother of steel uses. I gotta tape what it says down, it is so funny! I love that big metal can! I mean, i’ve never heard of such obvious propaganda in my life before! And what it says is just too funny to ignore.

And yeah, what is up with that super computer wanting to be president? I didn’t believe i could do it, but i managed to out-talk/out-wit a computer….. It went into shut down shortly after…. cool. But the whole base had to explode on me…. how typical. You know, those power armour belonging to the brotherhood of steel and the enclave…. they all look like mixes of stormtrooper and some other game…. killzone, i think. Not only that, they also look like jet-pack soldiers, with those cylinders on their back. Yeah, ready to blow sir!

Another thing about the dog….. after dogmeat died, and i went to little lamplight…. you know, the city with all kids, dumb brats….. they had dogs! I mean i saw at least five dogs! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? ARE YOU MOCKING ME OR SOMETHING?!?!?! FUCK YOU! I WANT MY DOG BACK!!!

Now, for the ending…. like i said, i fancy myself to be poetic and romantic, or whatever…. so i chose to jump into the chamber of lethal radiation to save the world. The first time i did it, however, i was clueless on what the FUCK was i suppose to do. I ran around the place, looking at all of the instruments, and finally realized the bunch of numbers on the first console…. well, they weren’t exactly blaring. And since i remembered the freaking story when i played it, i remembered the keyword to get it started. Revelations 21:6, “I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.” I can’t remember the rest, and i’m not religious, but that line was rather significant to me. Why? Because Chrono Crusade the anime had it. And because it sounds cool.

Anyway, So i got it started, and i look straight into the tank…. only to see a giant statue of…. who? Sorry, but i’m not american, nor do i take particular interest in american culture and history…. But i would think it would be a guy called…. Jefferson? Who? Mainly because the place is named after him. So anyway, my pc dies…. WTF?! EXACTLY! SHE DIES!!! (yes, i used another female character…. trust me, it’s fun to play the opposite sex, and i’ve played too many games where it is a male main character, so i think women with weapons are awesome) I WAS LIKE…. WTF?! NO CONTINUE?! And i just managed to get that bastard of a colonel’s suit…. dammit! Yeah, i was wondering about that colonel guy…. is he a clone? How did he managed to survive that chamber of deadly radiation? Wasn’t my char’s dad also in that chamber? Would daddy dear be still alive? And yeah, when daddy dear died, i was pissed to hell…. i spent three days in real time finding him, only to have him offed by radiation?! Hell no! I ain’t settling for this crap! But i continued, and at the end, facing off with the colonel, i glady took my minigun, VATS headshot him at near point-blank range…. and once more, thank you for bloody mess perk.

So anyway, at the end, i decided to be goody-two shoes once more and sacrifice myself, jumping into the chamber of inevitable doom! It was right for a storyline, after all, but i remembered something…. DON’T I HAVE FWAKES WITH ME?! He’s already a super mutant! Radiation doesn’t hurt him! He could fucking stroll in that fucking chamber and everything would be fine and dandy! BUT NOOOOO, I HAD TO GO HERO AND GO IN!!! But then again, there wasn’t an option for Fwakes to go in…. either me, or the Sentinel Lyons…. bitch, she should go in. But like i said, it isn’t right for the storyline….. STILL! YOU COULD HAVE THE DECENCY TO TRY TO DRAG ME OUT! Bah….. this is getting dumb. Right for the storyline….. dumb and wrong for the character….. sigh, oh well. By the looks of this ending, there wouldn’t be a sequel…. wait, there isn’t?!

So yeah, that’s my take on these two new games…. wish there were more for each, though…. Especially fallout 3, like somehow or rather, your character survives, and recuperates in the Citadel, being herald as the hero of the capital wastelands…. extra missions, like hunting down the remaining enclave members, storming every single one of their bases with the brotherhood of steel, bringing an end to the super mutant problem, also with the brotherhood of steel. Then there would also be an all-out war between the brotherhood of steel from the citadel, and the ‘outcasts’, that would be cool. Then as the fighting begins to reach its peak, more problems come in, like enclave reinforcements from elsewhere force the outcasts and the citadel to join forces. Or the brotherhood central decided to ‘replace’ their forces in the capital, and since they do not recognize the outcasts as well, the outcasts and the citadel join forces to combat their former comrades.  Then Arroyo, and the new republic of…. what’s that place? Bah, all of the free states and factions are forced to band together against the Enclave, who have prepared a giant army! Then we get ‘the chosen one’ from fallout 2, and our hero the so-called ‘lone wonderer’ or ‘vault kid’, would gather their forces together to combat the enclave! SEE? THERE CAN BE AN AFTER STORY! NO NEED TO FUCKING KILL OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AT THE END!!!!

But i could always make a fic…. yeah, let’s do that.

So like i said at the beginning, this game is just plain evil…. IT IS SO FUCKING EASY TO LOSE KARMA!!! You can just steal almost everything that is lying around, draw your gun and fucking headshot practically ANYONE…. they really tempt you at EVERY FUCKING SINGLE CORNER, and i KNOW i said it before, but i’ll say it again and again, no matter how many times… because IT IS SO TRUE. THIS EVIL GAME WILL FUCKING TEMPT YOU AT EVERY FUCKING TURN!!! It is much harder to stay good than to stray over to the bad side…. so those of you who wish to play hard? Stick to the good side. It’s fucking hard to stay good with all of that nice shit lying around to steal, nice places to lockpick and steal more shit. Even nicer to headshot everyone and loot their shit. That way, you won’t have to deal with buying and selling, just fucking kill everyone.

I like some of their music…. which surprises me to no end…. i actually like old sounding crap.

Another damn irritating thing about this game…. THE MAP IS JUST TOO FUCKING HUGE!!!! You can’t really expect us to walk around the entire map?! At least let us repair motorbikes! Let us RIDE THEM! I SEE THEM ALMOST EVERYWHERE!!! COME ON! This map has got to be as big as, if not bigger, than the oblivion map! and in oblivion, we get HORSES!!! WHAT THE FUCK DO WE GET IN FALLOUT 3?! FUCK NOTHING BUT OUR TWO FUCKING LEGS!!! FUCK THOSE! Fwakes! Let me ride on top of you. Oh yeah, that mutant can run…. no joke. He actually ran faster when trying to catch up with me that i thought he was on sugar bombs.

Oh yeah, another bug from Fallout 3…. when i had that brotherhood paladin tag along, whenever i turned to face her, the entire screen would go whack…. it looked as though i was watching some avant-garde painting….

Sigh…. well, now to start drawing up plot lines for my own fic…. great, two more fics to add to my lists of stories to finish writing…. great, just great….

Funny Song (If i were Gay)

This is a good, and funny song

Here we are, Dear old friend
You and I, Drunk again
Laughs have been had, and Tears have been shed
Maybe the Whisky’s gone to my head?

Chorus:
But if i were Gay,
I would give you my heart
And if i were Gay,
You would be my work of art
And if i were Gay,
We would swim in romance,
But i’m not Gay,
So get your hand out of my pants

It’s not that i don’t care (i do)
I just don’t see myself in you
Another time, Another scene,
I’d be right behind you, If you know what i mean?
cuz

Chorus:
If i were Gay,
I would give you my soul
And if i were Gay,
I would give you my whole (being)
And if i were Gay,
It would tear down the wall
But i’m not Gay,
So won’t you stop cupping my [balls] (pants)

We’ve never hugged, we’ve never kissed.
I’ve never been intimate, with your fist.
But you have opened, brand new doors.
Get over here and, drop your drawers.

Too far and too long

It’s been so long since i’ve actually touched this thing…. sigh, i never remember, nor do i have the energy most of the time….

Well, I’ve gone through a lot with my fics, though hardly anyone reads them. Who cares though…. well, okay, i do care a bit… but only a bit!!! My Ragnarok fic is going well, and i’ve started a lot of new fics, revised my Jedi knight fic to include the expanded universe and Forced Unleashed. Also started on Ace Combat fic, though if i’m not careful, i might get death threats. I’ve also started a new Gundam, but it is more like a revised of my old, and new Suikoden revised. New Dynasty Warrior fic, inspired by ReikaX, since she writes so well. A new Mahou Sensei Negima fic, though i think it needs some plot revision.

I love the sign above this storage place. Always having funny stuff. This is the latest:

-If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you tried.
-You never really learn to swear till you learn to drive.

A funny ragnarok film, and it is absolutely priceless if you understand it at all. The guy who did this and all of the related videos is pure genius. If you understand Japanese, then you should check out his website. NOTE: ALL THESE VIDEOS DO NOT BELONG TO ME!!! CREDITS GO TO THE GUY WHO MADE THEM.

http://check-it.org/

Asura strike, though over played…. still, nice to watch. Come to think of it, can monks do a kamehameha? Bah, whatever, it’s cool.

I love T.M. Revolution! They make such great beat music that fit so well with almost any battle! I play their music whenever i’m writing a fight scene. SUCH INSPIRATION!!!

CART REVOLUTION!!! SO COOL!! and so cute as well.
These videos really give me more inspirations to write!!!

SHUT UP FOO, NIGHT ELF MOHAWK

OMFG!!! THAT IS SOOO FUNNY!!!! I HAVE NEW FOUND ADMIRATION FOR MR. T!!!!!

SHUT UP FOO!!! THIS IS MY NIGHT ELF MOHAWK!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sins of our past, present and future

I have committed many sins…. and i never thought i would be committing one now, but i have no choice. I have to download [your mom] subs….. WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!

I vowed never to watch your mom subs…. but for school rumble ni gakki, i was left no choice but to dl them…… they’ve improved quite a bit, but still, i made it a policy of mine never to dl them after many incidents back then…. even now, their timing is REALLY off. Blank scenes with no subs? I can understand japanese, so lucky for me…. but i can’t archive it! It actually drags the quality of my collection down! Damn you! Wannabefansubs quit subbing already, and all i’m left is Nuke subs, but they’re random, a wild card. Nuke has good quality and decent subbing, problem lies in their release dates.

Ah well…. that is only one sin, though a large one i would not want to make again. I’ve done many other things that wouldn’t be called sanctified. I’m human, albeit a very corrupted one, so not perfect.

I have to wonder, if my greatest sin was also the greatest gift given to me? Is my existence a sin? Maybe.

First snowflake

It finally snowed. Forecasts were late. And i’m late in posting. Well, i’m lazy. That’s a fact. Time to bring out the heavy duty clothes.

Personally, i don’t know what i should do. I cannot focus. At times, my body fails. My eyesight is unable to focus (the longest time being two hours, the shortest being two minutes), my hearing goes deaf (longest being an hour, shortest being a few seconds), my sense of taste also fails (milo tastes like tea, and vice versa). I’m unable to feel cold, or warm. What should be boiling water is warm, what is cold air is mild.

What’s worse, is that my mind fails. My sense of reality is loose. I’m unable to determine what is real, and what is not. Dreams are becoming too realistic, and often, i get lost in them.

I’m unable to do anything right now. Should i be worried? I know i should, but i can’t. As i said before, i am unable to control myself. Be it physically, or mentally, or emotionally. Everything is out of control.

My “alter egos” are all just figments of my imagination and my wishes, but they’ve become more solid, more tangible. They are still me and my imagination, but they are seperate. They are not me, and also me. They represent the different sides of me, and also the different thoughts of me. They know what they are, and they know that i am unable to control myself. We understand, as a whole, that if this continues on, this body will not last. We will not last. I will not last. Losing ones sanity may be this. But then again, i’ve already lost it years ago. Maybe what i’m losing now is not my sanity, but what is left of it.

I will continue to wait, for something that will never come. Something that only occurs within my fantasy worlds. The reality of this world may have been too harsh for me, and so i chose to seclude myself within the confines of a world where nothing can go wrong. But this reality is catching up to me. I feel unable to escape it. I cannot escape it. Because this reality, is my reality. I’m unable to wake up completely. I feel like an audience member, watching a movie that has gone horribly wrong. Watching this person, who looks like me, who sounds like me, who talks like me, who acts like me….. who is me. Watching this ‘me’ stumble about, flailing about as he tries to enjoy himself, while the truth of the world is bombarding him from all sides. He cannot do well in class, he cannot control his spendings, he is lazy, doesn’t even bother to update his stories. And where am i? The person who is suppose to be him? I… am watching me.

Even the words of his parents goes through his ears. They enter mine, and their words echo continuously in my head. I know the consequences, but he doesn’t. I cannot shout at him. He cannot hear me. I cannot tell him to focus on work, because he does not see me. I cannot force him to do well, even with just a pass in his classes, because…. he does not know that i’m there.

A very bad movie gone wrong. As an audience member, can i get up and tell him to change the script? No. But this isn’t a movie. That is me, that i see everytime i need to do something. But so quickly, it changes to ‘him’. ‘He’ takes over, and i sit back, watching from the back of my own head, watching this person do things, and say things, that i find confusing, perplexing, and yet very normal. Why? Because i feel like it is simply a movie.

I feel like finding a well and just shout as loud as i can inside. Maybe ‘he’ would just…. pop out? Yeah right….

I feel lost…. and there is no one to light my road. Because no one realizes that i’m there….. even my parents have forsaken me. I guess that this is as much as they can tolerate. Well, i guess i deserve it. I cannot control myself, or him. But he is me, right? So i cannot control myself entirely. My existence is something that is an enigma to myself…. if people were to ask me, “do you know who you are”…. i would have to say, “no”.

I know that i exist, in this world, and in my own world (though sometimes, i know i don’t exist in my other world). I know that in this world, i have a name. I know that in this world, i have a home, and family, and friends. I know that in this world…. i am who i am….. but…. i don’t know…. who i am. I don’t know exactly why i am here, i don’t know who i really am, i don’t know what i am. I do not know…. myself.

Credits bore me to no end

Okay, first off, i would like to thank the guy to viewed my blog, and commented on it. Thanks. Next off, i did watch the video after the credits…. i hate credits, and i know why i skipped it… WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE CREDITS?! Nevermind…. since it is their last game… i’ll allow it.

So i took the guy’s, who commented on my blog (sorry, forgot your name), advice, and went through the long credits. And the video? Hmm… Master Chief is like a cockroach…. he won’t die even from a nuclear blast. Well, he’s still stuck in god-knows-where (cortana knows, and maybe master chief, but hell do i know), and he goes off to cryo sleep. Who knows whether their stupid beacon will even reach Earth?! And it may take years and years to find them…. does cryo sleep actually do anything? If the entire body was placed in suspended animation, maybe, but if this is just a very long sleep…. i don’t think master chief is waking up. Cortana seemed worried too. Well, as i said before, it is now up to writers to get their minds rolling.

Thanks again, guy who commented on my blog. (still can’t remember at the end.)