Stressed Desserts

finally i finished Fire Emblem: Awakening
 
76 hours it took (although four of those hours was me failing hard on a DLC, over and over and over again)
 
i opened all the chests and killed everything
 
and met a wonderful lobster whom i asploded

so i was having kind of a bad day and a friend noticed and got me Defiance, since i'd been talking about the show and stuff and wanted to try the game (*reminds me i need to do something to make up for the sixty bucks he spent on me). 
 
but it's a fun game in my opinion. like, yeah there's a lot of doing the same thing (although, for the life of me, i can't think of a MMO/standard shooter game that isn't repetitive), but some of the bossfights have been pretty fun and the stories are neat to follow along with. 
 
i do wish there was a better chat system in the game, though i do have it for PS3 so typing quickly sorta is out of the question (i think there's supposed to be a voice thing?), but if there was an easier way to communicate with other players i think the game would jump a number of points in the fun direction.  
 
but yeah, it's fun :> 
 
(although it tempts me to try Rift again, but i always end up quitting that game so i'm gonna resist temptation)

 

:3

I've had a... well, I'll say it wasn't a very good week overall. Some drama (not here you silly nannies) popped up that upset me (but I'm over it, thus why I'm all good), had to work in a library for 15 hours of Spring Break (not that I don't like libraries, but cleaning shelves hated my back with a passion... and cleaning books... let's just say some of them were really gross and I'm a wuss), and I got into a dumb argument (no nothing here again you sillies) which... let's just say it was dumb and leave it there. 
 
and BZPower had a bit of drama go on, i think it's stupid it's even "drama" but whatever. I think my signature accurately displays my opinion. 
 
 

Last week I picked up some new games, two specifically, and I came to love both of them.
 
The first, barring the not-so-well-thought-out title, is DmC: Devil May Cry which I believe was developed by Ninja Theory.I had a lot of fun in this game, from just murderizing all the demonic monsters (which, to me, seemed very clockwork-y which was pretty neat, design-wise) to watching the cutscenes, and paying attention to the story. I had to use every button on my control (sans Start and Select) through basically every fight, swapping weapons constantly and using all of the abilities they all had, and some of the boss fights took me a while to get through, lol. (I played on Nephilim difficulty, which is basically "Hard", other difficulty modes are made available later on). 
 
Admittedly, I liked the first sequence in the game the most... and then the last sequence <.<
 
 
The second game I picked up (well, downloaded) was Journey by thatgamecompany. The exact opposite of DmC, Journey has no fighting, no crazy music (it does have amazing music, though), profanity, etc... it's an extremely calm game. The effects (mainly the sand) are incredible, and I've gone through this game four times now (meeting companions along the way, as it will put you with one other person if you play online). Oddly, I enjoyed the inability to communicate outside of small chirps/song notes and not even knowing the other person's name. The shortness of the game (which is not narrated, and is very much up to player interpretation) makes it easy to stick with one person the whole game. 
 
But, what's the best, is that this game seems to bring out the best in some players. Instead of someone trying to halt progress, getting in the way, throwing out insults or being otherwise rude, the players I've come across (one in a white cloak, which is an upgrade from the standard red cloak) were all incredibly helpful. Often going out of their way to show me where some items were, where some achievement requirements were, and would wait for me if I messed up, and celebrate when we did something right. 
 
At the very last part of my second run through, I having been with the same white cloaked character the whole time, before the moment where we leave eachother's company and end up in a walking loop (before the final cutscene), she drew a heart in the snow. I found it incredibly touching, and of course made one of my own (not even having thought this possible) before we both walked off into the light. It's sort of a bittersweet moment at the end, since you'll likely never play with that person again, (You do get the PSN ID's of all the people you ran into at the very, very end of the game though -- after the credits). 
 
(I used "she" because of the PSN ID and because the characters always make me think "female" which might have something to do with their design reminding me of burkas). 
 
 
Both were great fun, to me. (However, I would not recommend DmC for people sensitive to: Blood/Gore, Nudity/Crudeness [Dante is nude for the first sequence, and while it's all censored via environment... well, yeah], foul language/killing giant demon babies. 
 
Journey I recommend to anyone. It's a game for all ages, and has a low skill barrier (I find it just a ton of fun to run into someone else and to help one another through the journey).  -- if you don't have a PS3 though, then you can't play it. (PS3 exclusive in the PSN store). 

 

all of my money but i love this thing <3

So, I'll likely be out of the country some time late June/July. Which month I don't know yet, and it'd likely be a max of a week (likely less than that, though -- I also plan to go to Denver Pridefest this year, which is the 15th/16th... so before I'd leave, since I'd leave after the 19th). 
 
I'm thinking to go to Italy, though~
 
 
But dunno if I'll be able to go to BFair, the college I'm going to has some thing going on in August... I forget if it's early August or late August, though. 

My friend showed me a song recently that made me want to write, or just find, a story where the fate of the world hinges on Pong. 
 
And, like, the characters would challenge each other to these world-changing, mind-smashing rounds of the game with:
 
"Let us play Pong."
 
And it'd be all dark and serious and stuff. *makes ominous hand motions for dramatic effect*

Wooo, Cayne (my avatar) and Chrom reached support level S. They so cute together. (Even if I still wish we could do same-sex romancing...).
 
I'm only on chapter six, too lol. (And keep trying to fight this champion-to-recruit who has level five Outrealm units who... are not... cannot be... level... 5...)

I got accepted to a college, one I never heard of, but they're waiving a year of tuition for me completely. 

So, have a picture of a glowing shrubbery.