What’s the deal with FFTA-2 displaying elemental weaknesses in words rather than numbers!? It’s in blatant disregard of how long we’ve been trained to think about Final Fantasy stats in numbers, rather than outright saying a monster takes double damage from a certain element but absorbs another!

From what little I’m through in it it seems like it’s going to be a lot more in-depth than Advance was, which is good because it lets you personally undertake some of the ‘oddball’ missions that normally would have been resolved off-screen by a Dispatch– and speaking of which, the opposite is true and you can simply Dispatch troops to take care of boring ‘Destroy All Monsters’ quests while you work on digging around in the grass for Mushamallows.

Well, off to the cable company to prove that I exist! And need Comedy Central/Cartoon Network/History/Couple others.

Posted by Manna, filed under Rambles. Date: June 26, 2008, 8:00 am | 1 Comment »

Parish just emailed me about the old Izuna review, wherein I said:

If only Izuna had a tag-team function to let you swap spunky ninja girls on the fly.

Well, I meant to say something sooner but it kept slipping my mind, but apparently Izuna 2 does just that! Where’s my check, Success…?

Posted by Manna, filed under Rambles. Date: June 23, 2008, 6:51 pm | No Comments »

23  Jun
Yellow Hal.

Air Fortress (NES)
HAL Labs (Their minds are going.)

The Short Version: Remember how cool that escape sequence from Metroid was? What if we made a game that did that eight times with sluggish controls and a hero with none of the perks and upgrades who loses health steadily from any sort of strenuous activity like walking? TOTALLY RAD! Also, Jesus, I use too many parentheses in the course of this review.

The Long Version: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Manna, filed under Reviews. Date: June 23, 2008, 4:49 pm | 2 Comments »

16  Jun
Face & Erase

Man, it’s been way longer than I intended between postings. Stupid life! I was supposed to write about Air Fortress weeks ago. But between my personal life, my addiction to The World Ends With You, and preparing to move out- yes, that’s right- I’ve been too distracted. That and work continuing to become more frustrating and less rewarding at a pretty steady clip, though once I muscle past the next two weeks and the ordeal of moving, I really, seriously hope to bring things more up to speed again on all fronts.

Y’know. After blasting all of the pent up tension out my pores in a Saber Marionette-like burst of sake-scented steam.

Factoid I Find Amusing: The new apartment is in a historic building, so having the windows changed would require a Congressional act. Not that I planned on making wanton structural changes to the place anyway.

Posted by Manna, filed under Rambles. Date: June 16, 2008, 7:26 pm | 2 Comments »

You know, getting one last extra day of vacation time to laze about and attempt to finish up TWEWY only makes going back to the lab harder… I WILL OVERCOOOOME~

Posted by Manna, filed under Rambles. Date: June 8, 2008, 6:20 pm | No Comments »

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