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May. 20th, 2011 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsI realize it's been too long. I've been feeling strangely unsettled lately, and I don't really know why...
I finished my re-play of Aria of Sorrow last week (on Friday the 13th, in fact) and have started on Dawn. I'm having some issues with the infamous "Magic Seal" mechanic, but I don't think it's insurmountable, and what's really slowing me down is the apparent fact that I would rather soul farm for ages than actually progress; I'm so over-levelled it's not even funny, but what the heck*. As I noted long ago, having watched a playthrough, the story is uncommonly silly (I still think Aria snatched awesome out of the jaws of cheesy, and Dawn didn't flirt with that borderline quite so well), but I'm still enjoying it. (I'm also noting that the titles of these two are nonsensical even as CV games go; less sorrowful than average, really.)
Last weekend I also went to see the new Jane Eyre movie; it might have been too long since I read the book, but it was in "good but not great" territory, I thought.
And I did another one of those paintings to cut up into Artist Cards.
I'm less pleased with this one than I was with the first one, but some parts came out very well; I'm keeping the lower left corner for myself.
*Re: being over-levelled, I've had this tendency since I was a child. I hate to embarrass my sister, but when we were young, Dad had some odd proverb about how Batman was a greater hero than Superman because he was doing it despite not being invulnerable, and my sister, also being a child at the time, applied this to our differing gameplay style, like my characters were less heroic because I assiduously levelled and equipped them to minimize risk. It's not her fault, but this has to some extent haunted me ever since, so I often have issues about it (I remember being conflicted about it my first time through Aria---being over-levelled is bad, but missing souls is also bad... oh...) but playing Dawn this time, I'm more relaxed about it, in part because I realized, now that I'm older and know more about Batman, that my video game characters are actually very much like him---he practiced his brains out to do this and spared no expense on his toys (although he inherited and didn't have to money-grind, the lucky bastard; at least in Dawn it's relatively easy). Now if you were using an invincibility hack or something, then you'd be Superman...
I finished my re-play of Aria of Sorrow last week (on Friday the 13th, in fact) and have started on Dawn. I'm having some issues with the infamous "Magic Seal" mechanic, but I don't think it's insurmountable, and what's really slowing me down is the apparent fact that I would rather soul farm for ages than actually progress; I'm so over-levelled it's not even funny, but what the heck*. As I noted long ago, having watched a playthrough, the story is uncommonly silly (I still think Aria snatched awesome out of the jaws of cheesy, and Dawn didn't flirt with that borderline quite so well), but I'm still enjoying it. (I'm also noting that the titles of these two are nonsensical even as CV games go; less sorrowful than average, really.)
Last weekend I also went to see the new Jane Eyre movie; it might have been too long since I read the book, but it was in "good but not great" territory, I thought.
And I did another one of those paintings to cut up into Artist Cards.
I'm less pleased with this one than I was with the first one, but some parts came out very well; I'm keeping the lower left corner for myself.
*Re: being over-levelled, I've had this tendency since I was a child. I hate to embarrass my sister, but when we were young, Dad had some odd proverb about how Batman was a greater hero than Superman because he was doing it despite not being invulnerable, and my sister, also being a child at the time, applied this to our differing gameplay style, like my characters were less heroic because I assiduously levelled and equipped them to minimize risk. It's not her fault, but this has to some extent haunted me ever since, so I often have issues about it (I remember being conflicted about it my first time through Aria---being over-levelled is bad, but missing souls is also bad... oh...) but playing Dawn this time, I'm more relaxed about it, in part because I realized, now that I'm older and know more about Batman, that my video game characters are actually very much like him---he practiced his brains out to do this and spared no expense on his toys (although he inherited and didn't have to money-grind, the lucky bastard; at least in Dawn it's relatively easy). Now if you were using an invincibility hack or something, then you'd be Superman...
