Blah, wide awake. It’s a bad sign when you end up in a screaming match with a damned cat, but Echo has somehow managed it. For no apparent reason, she started freaking out. Spitting, snarling, growling, even lashing at anyone that came too close to her. I ended up loosing my temper and chased her around the house with a yard stick. (Yeah, I’m real mature…)

Anyway, I found something drool-worthy. O_o I want to play this this! Badly.

The screenshots are absolutely amazing. The degree of customization is insane. This is just sick.

I finally updated a bit and fixed my contact form. I also left a few comments on the regular blogs out there; I’ll hit everyone’s LJ yet this evening.

We’re somehow surviving. I’m down to praying each and every night, sometimes twice for everything to turn out. I’m sure it will. Might not be the way we like, but it still will turn out.

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m off to finally toast Ultimecia so I can finally lay FF8 to rest. I have figure out how to replace FF7… I lost it ages ago. I need my fix — badly! XD

[mood : impatient]

Still waiting and I still don’t wait well. =]P

I’m getting closer to beating Legend of Dragoon, I’m inside Mayfil right now. Before I did, I went and did all the sidequests from the original dragoons, the Polter Armor, and then Magician Faust.

The dragoons were fun and so was the Polter Armor, but Faust was damn fun! What it is with me and my habit of soloing the biggest bad guy in my RPGs, is beyond me. What’s more is that I did it with Kongol, who supposedly couldn’t stand up to his magic.

Well, to be fair, he wiped out Dart and Meru only on the second turn. I’d had Kongol equipped with a Legend Casque and a Spirit Shield, and used his Bone Crush addition - which I’d already maxed out. He did a nice 2700+ points of damage every turn and then 3000+ every turn as a dragoon.

So… my favorite character ended up getting the whole amount of EXP for defeating the wizard and is now my highest level character. =) Not too shabby, not too shabby at all.

*eyes the door for another run down to the mailbox to check for his college info.*

Let this be a lesson to never trust a walkthrough.

Recently I restarted Legend of Dragoon after realizing how much I missed and how freaking far behind I was in my characters’ development. (Yes, that’s where I’ve been. In my boxers, in front of the TV, hooked up to the PlayStation.) Originally, I’d used a walkthrough in a few places to give me a clue about where to go; however, this time I went by the seat of my pants. This time around I have more Stardusts than I had before, more items, and am finding myself flying through boss battles much quicker than I originally had. Kongol is still a bad ass, but this time around I opted to skip attempting to do the additions altogether and instead stocked up on attack items and toasted his Giganto butt.

As much as I love Kongol - that was cool. XD

Further into the game, and as if to underscore my assessment that I really should continue avoiding walkthroughs, I had a stroke of genius when I went to go against Jiango (big ass monster you fight in the bowels of Hellena Prison). I’d just opened a treasure chest containing a Sachet, so I tossed it at him.

As cool as my defeat of Kongol was, this was even cooler. LOL

I can’t wait to see how much easier Doel goes down this time!

I also have managed to max out most everyone’s Level 1 Addition and am working on - or completing - their level 2s. Well, all of them save for Rose (I just can’t get the freaking timing right for her) and Haschel - who I just got anyway. Albert, though, is tripping me up. I had Lavitz’s timing down, but Albert’s different style is completely different. Strange, considering he has the same exact stats as Lavitz. With Lavitz, I had to speed him up with accessories, but I had to take them off to be able to do anything with Albert. Maybe it’s just I’m used to the less intricate movements of Lavitz and it’s those extra, uber cool flourishes that am tripping me up with Albert. Bah - who knows, right?

Tell you how bad I’m into LoD - I’ve even been playing around with a Gary Stuish “Next Gen” type fic. Maybe pull an original out of my butt, just like I did for my Chrono Trigger fic.

……. I really gotta hurry up and get myself a job.