Of Video Games

I have been longing to post this! I looove video games, especially Japanese RPGs (and I'm posting this in hope of finding people with same interest). I grew up watching my brothers playing games, it looked so fun and there was no way for me not to want to try out playing them myself. Video games have always been a huge part of my childhood! I often had dreams where I turned to be the protagonist of my favorite game titles from my childhood (spoiler : one of them is me as Suikoden IV's Prince, being chased around by a dog ghost), this usually made me pick up the game again and have another playthrough.

Now we have next-gen consoles, I sacrificed my pocket money to obtain some new titles that keep coming out. These are some of my favorite titles!

Left to right : Final Fantasy XIII, Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, Tales of Xillia, Tales of Graces F, Eternal Sonata, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Devil Survivor 2, Nintendogs + cats: Golden Retriever & Friends.

The winner, Star Ocean 4!! I purchased it as soon as it was released, even when my PS3 was still on its way to my house. My all-time favorite game is still Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time though.

Notice anything saddening (at least to me)? Well, my SO4 box is clearly ruined there! You can see the corner of the cover art ripped and it looks like it's soaked. Normally I store my games in my room, but one day I forgot, I left it in the living room and the next day I found it it was soaked and sticky like someone spilled tea on it. It made me really upset, I couldn't find the culprit to put the blame on either.

I still prefer SO3 to this game, but SO4 is such an eye-candy, the graphic is awesome, Katsumi Enami made lovely character designs, the dungeons and the bosses are crazy as always, but the poor character development and the stupid AIs disappoint me.

Noooow, this game.

Tales of Xillia Japanese version which I treasure, this game is a present from my friend. There is only one thing that I regret, I beat the game yet I didn't understand the whole story. I'm only capable of reading hiragana, katakana, and few basic kanji. They only let you read item names, shops, characters' name and stuff. I enjoyed playing but heck, I didn't even know what was going on all along.

I bought Theatrhythm Final Fantasy when I was at Montpellier. I was looking for it everywhere. When I found it, there was only one available and it was a great deal, second-handed in perfect condition! It had warranty for six months too! I love game stores in France.

Actually I'm not going to talk about the Nintendogs, I don't even know why I included it in the photo. Yeah.

Nintendogs has--adorable fluffy dogs! Overall, it's a boring game. Well, at least it was entertaining for my mom and my brother to see me yelling out commands at my virtual dog.

And the game I have been playing recently is----

Fire Emblem: Awakening!

I never picked the Fire Emblem series before Awakening, I have heard them but never actually played one. Not to mention that tactical thing is definitely not my forte. Awakening got me.

This guy got me too.

It's a must-play. I struggled to choose between this game and Animal Crossing when browsing in the shop at Montpellier, in the end I went with Animal Crossing because it was the hype at that time.

My kind friend is lending her FE:A copy to me and I'm borrowing my boyfriend's console (because mine is Europe region, curse stupid region lock). These past days I can be found snuggling in my bed, making gross expressions and fangirling noises before a 3DS screen, trying to marry off the cute boys.

Without doubt, this game goes to my list of favorite games. It's been a long time since last time I really got into a game.

After finishing FE:A, my next target is----

Bravely Default! Another must-play game. I'm saving up for this game, I know it's going to be worth-it.

Lastly, Danbo says have a good day! (Another present from my friend--God, they shower me with presents!)

Brb getting married.