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Little blurbs about each game (and an essay on Final Fantasy Tactics):
Silent Hill 2 -
I could go on for days about this game. So atmospheric. Everything's perfect. It's graphics surpass any 2001 vidya. I think. Off the top of my head, anyway. One of the few games I'd rate 10/10 (well, 9/10 - only cuz of the controls). Really excited to play the remake in the unlikely event I buy it.
Threads of Fate -
Haven't played it since 2004. I am looking at it through nostalgia goggles. It was so damn fun, though. Innocent, most definitely. The final boss isn't some horrible dead wife from hell, it's a giant butterfly. I think. That's how I remember it. The soundtrack was top-notch as well. Remember being so damn frustrated by some levels in this game...Still sad they didn't make a remake or a sequel of some sort. You know Ken Akamatsu was set to do a manga adaptation of this, but exchanged it for Negima? Paperface fact of the day, #001 of a series.
SMT: Nocturne -
Hours, weeks, months wasted. Just to get the "perfect demon". Who is promptly torn apart by demons in the next area. How much more fun could a game get? Love the setting and the graphics - Can't go wrong with cel-shaded. The characters are really nice as well, I just feel it'd do the game some good if there was a lot more interaction, but then again, I bounced off of Persona to this, so I guess it took some getting used to.
SMT: Persona 3 -
Kind of a shitty picture. Whatever. A really fun game. Picked it up back in 2009, haven't stopped playing it, really. I only just beat it last summer...Really like the S.Link idea. Really nice characters (some of my favorite in any type of media). "Dungeons" (such as they are) get same-y.
Pokemon Silver -
Favorite handheld game, hands down. I really think I'm clever for coming up with that. I loved Blue to death. But Silver had the god damn POKEGEAR. What innovation Nintendo blesses my youth with. Day to night, time, people calling me up, radio?! In Pokemon? Surely this is the work of a madman. Or perhaps a warlock? ...Yeah. Needless to say, I loved the original generation, I just prefer this series by that much more due to the Pokegear. And Forretress. Forretress is great. Bug/Steel means he's not beating a fire-type, but coupled with Quick Claw, Rollout and a reasonable amount of luck, I do think my Forretress can at least possibly take out your Typhlosion. I used to challenge my (two) friends to get a team with their best fire-types and go up against my Forretress. Needless to say he got creamed, but every time he actually -did- win, they were so shocked. One time, he managed to beat a Moltres. How insane is that? Granted, I think his finger just slipped, and he ended up with a useless move, but Forretress was so glorious that day. Just gotta get a good Rollout going, make sure you have a reasonably decent skillset. That's how you work Forretress back in the day. Now we've got these "Signal Beams" or whatever god damn 5th gen attack Forretress learns that he doesn't really need. Fuck that shit. Fuck it hard.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask -
Having played through almost every Zelda I can get my hands on, I have concluded in my journey that Majora's Mask is the best. I feel a deep emotional bond with this game. No idea why. It's just overall very well done - I feel as though I'd get something thrown at me for this, but I'd venture to say even more well done than Ocarina of Time, what with the whole character development actually being there (as in, you care for the citizens of Termina, as opposed to the flat, boring Hyrule inhabitants). It's so surreal, beautiful, dream-like...Shit, I can go on forever about this game. Favorite game of all time, no doubt at all. I genuinely love it so much, it's impossible to put those feelings into words.
Grand Theft Auto III -
So many afternoons wasted. I never actually beat this game. Weird to think about that. It's just fun to go on wild skirmishes with the army and stuff. Once I got my hands on the cheat codes, any hope I had of beating GTA3 went down the drain. Such a fun game, no doubt. Was the second game I bought when I got a PS2. First being Dynasty Warriors 3, third being SH2.
Final Fantasy Tactics -
The PS1 version~ I have the PSP version, which is damn near perfect, but there's something so horribly nostalgic about this version. "Defeat Dycedarg's Elder Brother" and such. I remember staying home from school just to play through the game again, when I got stuck in one part. Just huddled up in a blanket, me, Ramza and Delita out for some...horribly morbid journeying. I don't think I fully understood how dark the storyline was as a kid. When I replayed it through the remake, I found myself understanding Delita in an entirely new fashion. He wasn't just Ramza's dick friend, he's actually a very deep character, Shakespearean, almost (just with more accessible dialogue) and I actually began to understand his motivations, etc. coming from the same economic class (pretty damn poor), and having a friend very much like Ramza when I was younger (loaded family, parents kind enough to take me in for practically an entire summer). It was weird because I started to put myself in Delita's shoes more often. Made me see the game in an entirely new light. Ramza's the true hero, no doubt, but Delita's more of the tragic hero anyway. The entire game turns out very sad. Didn't give two thoughts to it when I was a kid. Beat it long after that innocence faded away, it went from "Happy-ish ending, yay!" to "Oh god the tears won't stop" (not really, but I did tear up to the ending). Everyone got what they deserved in the end - Delita, penance, Ramza, his sister. Except Ovelia. Poor Ovelia. ;_; Spend a fourth of the game trying to help her...
Oh, and Agrias~ I fell in love with Agrias when I was a kid, pretty much. She was everything I wanted in a girl (well, I just wanted to go on adventures with her). Now she just reminds me a lot of Saber. Not bad, but I never had any special affections for Saber. She's Saber with a slightly more honorable/clingy streak, which I love. And a prettier face. Those FMV's in the remake, oh lord~ Perfection. More cel-shading, to bring that to the front again. I'll also never forget the day my game (PS1 version, of course) completely glitched up, and I ended up having every job class completely mastered for my party (including the special ones like Machinist, Holy Knight, Dark Knight). That was pretty weird, because it came and went. If I was in battle with a class I didn't have prior to the glitch or something, and the magic decided to go away, so to speak, I'd end up with a frozen game. Had to restart yet again because of that, as cool a screw-up as it was.
Final Fantasy V Advance -
Playing through this via an emulator and I'm finding it to be a helluva a lot more fun that I thought it would be. It's a very versatile, fun game. I kind of hate the storyline. It's full of forced drama and general boringness. But the idea of job classes and limiting your amount of abilities really interested me (not like FF7/8, where you can just load up your characters with a bunch of game-breaking abilities quickly through proper working of the game system). It's like Tactics in a lot of ways, unlike Tactics in a lot of ways. There's even a boss called Byblos, foreshadowing the Byblos of Tactics. And that's just way too cool, man. Way too cool.
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