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I haven't posted for a long long time, sorry about that. I am still writing and whatnot I just haven't written anything I've felt is worth posting for a long time, unless you guys want to read a bunch of potentially forever unfinished WIPs.

Who cares about that, though? I have revived from the dead purely to gush PURE UNMITIGATED JOY in all directions thanks to E3.

FF7 REMAKE GUYS. IT'S REAL.



I am so mixed up about it. On one hand, I am so worried they'll mess it up, because the task of making that entire game in HD is so enormous and expensive and while I wouldn't mind if they tweaked a few of the dated controls and whatnot I also don't want them to change a single thing and wow. Just wow. Still not convinced it's a very late, very expensive April Fool's Joke.

GUYS, CROSSDRESSING SCENE IN HD.

And if that wasn't enough, we have a release window and more gameplay footage of the The Last Guardian, which I had been thoroughly convinced was vaporware and had totally given up on.

LOOK AT IT, IT'S STILL BEAUTIFUL.



Of course, this seems like a timely occasion to relink this comic.

Oh yeah and Shenmue 3 is also pretty cool I guess, I just don't have any leftover feelings after FF7 AND THE LAST GUARDIAN HOLY CRAP GUYS, THE GAMING GOOD TIMES NEVER END.

So! Supanova Brisbane 2013 was last weekend. Or as I liked to call it, Nintendo Streetpass Palooza 2013 with a side of cosplay.

Seriously I spent at least half of the time just collecting streetpasses, guys.

( Mostly cosplay pics under the cut )

So obviously this isn’t a chapter. Sorry about that. Work has been intense, and I think it’s been using up all of my creative juices so that when I do have time for fic it’s been going slowly. Which is great for work, not so great for posting new chapters in a timely fashion. I’m making steady progress though, and I’ll post it as fast as I can, since you guys have all been wonderfully patient with the schedule stretch.

Good news is, though, I have been trying to keep in the groove by doing a little more work on the Xmas Giftfics (remember those?!) and have finally updated the Cosplay Master Post too.  Oh, and I finished FF13-2!  Oh man, LET’S TALK ABOUT FF13-2.

SO.  CONSIDER EVERYTHING HERE ON IN SPOILERS.  I’m quite late to the FF13-2 party so this shouldn’t be a problem for once.

( Spoilers and capslocking within! )

I literally just spent the entire day playing FF13-2.  I haven't had that kind of glorious gaming binge in years.  And I'm still only maybe 30% of the way through!  Although I am perilously close to maxing out all the skills in the Crystarium, which might be why battles have been way too easy recently.

I get all weepy and fangirly over Hope every time he is so much as mentioned.  I just want to say -  everyone else in the cast of FF13 , you are all horrible, horrible friends.  (But I guess it doesn't matter because Hope is badass enough to practically single-handedly change the course of history whenever Serah tells him to.  Sure, Serah and Noel deserve some credit, but really, who is doing the hard yards there?)

Also, that Caius wears purple and shared Kain's voice actor is doing weird things to my brain.  He's the best damn villain FF has seen since Sephiroth, though, and has the music to prove it.

I have been doing things other than just drowning myself in Final Fantasy, of course!  I've also been playing  Virtue's Last Reward , and  that game is off the hook awesome .  It's basically a novel game version of the prisoner's dilemma combined with the room escape genre!  It has Liar Game vibes, and conspiracy, and betrayal, and a dude in a robot suit with amnesia, and a psycho AI killer rabbit, and and and I actually shouldn't really say anything more than that lest I spoil it for people.  I'm actually only fairly early in myself though, since, you know, Final Fantasy.  And as a bonus, all Japanese voices!  Just as well, I hate to imagine what localisation would have done with Zero-III.

( Also some RL things that aren't video games )

Brisbane was so lucky as to get a second Supanova in 2011!  As next year it's moving permanently to November and the April one is moving to the Gold Coast.

I don't normally cosplay at the local con, as the people I usually go with aren't particularly into cosplay (and there's way too many people from work I risk running across).  But they weren't interested in coming to this one (or had moved overseas by this point), so cosplay was on.  Because frankly, without cosplay, Supanova is the most boring con.  There were some cool guests, but those were all rather wasted on me.

( Mostly just cosplay under the cut )

It was SMASH! in Sydney on the weekend!

( A bit picture heavy! And fangirling-heavy too. )

 Final Fantasy rhythm game coming to 3DS.

Man, fanfiction. Whenever I get about halfway through a story I always hit this point where I just want to throw it out because I’ve suddenly realised it’s utter rubbish and the glorious plan in my head is not surviving its meeting with reality. Then there’s the mental bargaining – should I just go ahead and post it regardless on the off chance the forgiving fandom will like it anyway, or should I spend heaps of time editing and trying to fix it on the slim possibility it comes good, or should I just abandon it and move on to some other idea that is inherently better?  :/

It’s hard to throw out something like 30,000 words, though. That’s like fifteen one-shots. I could grow to like writing one-shots, simply because they’re not around long enough for me to think too hard about them. Does anyone else have this problem when writing longfic?

Anyhow, enough on the perennial crises of fic-writing confidence. I want to talk about Dissidia! Spoilers within. I AM NOT VERY FAR, BUT SPOILERS NONE-THE-LESS.  (Just started Chapter 7!)

( Fangirling under the cut )

Finally!  It's been, what, almost a year?  sadlfjsldjfksalkfj.  Totally worth it.  As predicted, I forgave Eminence for the lengthy delay the second I heard the first strains of 'Radical Dreamers Symphony' again.  ;____;  My tears, they are happy ones.

Forgive me, but I needed to fangirl in someone's general direction, and LJ has become the default for such things.

You can hardly tell it's a live recording, either!  As always, they do an amazing job mastering.  I honestly don't understand how Eminence can constantly be in dire financial straits, when they are quite possibly the best in the business.  Obviously they need to get someone business-minded in there.  And some decent marketing.

( Too much detail under the cut )

I haven't made any sort of general post for ages!  I am generally behind in such things, for which I will blame FFXIII - which continues to be amazing, by the way - and move on. 

Okay, first things first - EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO SEE 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON'.

No, seriously.  I am one of those animation snobs who generally looks down on Dreamworks animated films (mostly because of this, which I think sums it up pretty nicely).  But How to Train Your Dragon was just amazing.  It was thoroughly entertaining, and though the story was in many ways cliche, it was the good kind of cliche, the kind that makes you remember why it became cliche in the first place.  I've already flailed about it to a few people in chat but I need to rec this to the wider audience.  And yeah, the adults have scottish accents and the kids have american but most importantly THE DRAGON IS JUST SO CUTE OMG LOOK AT HIM.  Here, take these screenshots!



( more flailing, bokurano, and the second best shirt ever )