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[luciazephyr]

Gave into impulse, got Disgaea DS.

Just did the combat tutorial. So far so good. It's a bit difficult to wrap my head around (I gave up FFT after the first fight), but I'm slowly learning. Oh, SRPGs, you hurt me so.

So I had to restart firefox from scratch recently. Can anyone point me to the plug-in that gets rid of LoudTwitter posts on your FList?

ALSO WEIRD THING: Anyone find it weird how geeks have this sort of trivia osmosis thing? Like, I was watching the Spoony Experiment review of Transformers 2 (I regret ever defending that movie, wtf was wrong with me? oh right, Mum loved it and her enthusiasm is contagious) and between the random mood swings from RAGE to DESPAIR to RAGE AGAIN, they mentioned Battlefield Earth and how one of the many major flaws of that trainwreck was that the film was shot entirely in Dutch Angles.

I paused and asked myself, "Now, what is a Dutch Angle?"

I swiftly recalled that a Dutch Angle is a crooked shot in cinematography. As in, instead of being parallel to the ground, the shot is tilted to the side. Good for the occasional tense shot, but REALLY BAD for an long segment, let alone an entire movie.

... WHY DID I KNOW THAT?

-Lucy

Comments

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Wait, you ditched FFT and are more willing to stick with Disgaea? I'm offended on FFT's behalf :P

(I love both for the record)

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind I tried FFT.... a least 7 years ago. It was very confusing.

And good localization gets games miles with me.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

The localization is a big part of game immersion for me too, but for the original PSX version I was able to overlook it because I liked the class system and battles so much. If you ever want to give it another go, I'd actually recommend the PSP version since they retranslated just about everything, plus bonus characters, cut scenes and voice acting added at certain areas.