05/15/16: Ennui

What an interesting week. Finals are over with! Finally. Didn't get the grades I wanted, but at least they were satisfactory. Besides Finals, very eventful week.

Spent most of this week playing Osu! If you haven't heard already, it's a rhythm game for weeaboos and normies alike about clicking circles. Spending too much time on it honestly. At least it's paying off; I've jumped a few thousand ranks! Not actually paying me in monetary value but with pride points and stuff.. you know what I mean.

Besides that, I've also been playing Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns.

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Very interesting game. By now, you must've heard of the time limit when it comes to this title; really, it's just an illusion. There's a feature that lets you stop time by consuming one point of energy out of say 5 or 6, and these points can be easily gained by defeating enemies. Honestly, it is kind of a pointless feature. Playing so far, I extended the third day by fifteen extra hours until I finished the main quest in the area. It lightens the tension of having to do things, which is positive at least. The time restriction thing was basically the pancreas of this game. It is important to the plot, but honestly servers no other purpose than doing so.

The game plays nice. Plays like a pseudo third person action game, but moves will be limited to how much 'stamina' a certain garb has. It's just like having a party of heroes. I actually like this. I enjoy dressing up Lightning in the most ridiculous costumes, like cat eared moogle goddess, or train conductor formal wear gal. I know this is just fan service pandering, but I'm a fan and I enjoy being pandered. Especially since it's Lightning, my waifu of Final Fantasy. Oh, by the way, you don't level up. The only means of upping your stats is doing quests. I hate this; some quests are just awful grind quests to commit monster genocide, and all you get is a new set of threads and maybe +50 health points. This should be optional.

Otherwise, this game is okay. The game can get surprisingly grindy. For instance, in order to get new moves, you have to kill monsters. Everything is a random drop, so if you want to synthesize all your equipment, you have to get through a wall of monsters. The game is pretty. It does not in the slightest run fantastic on the PC, so keep that in mind.
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Ahhh what else have I done. Oh, the week of finals, I bid farewell to all my classmates who I hang out with at our student center.  It was actually really sad and I miss them all already. I'll be seeing some of them again within a couple of days due to luck having me and there being a celebration of all the honor students at a hotel here. It's nice. The girl who invited me was nice. Everyone was really nice; apparently everyone's opinion of me is that I'm smart, which is not really the case. I'm actually really average when it comes to grades. A few days prior to getting invited, we celebrated my friend's birthday. He for some reason didn't want to tell anyone it was his birthday, so when he told me, of course I'm going to do the opposite and tell everyone. We even sang him happy birthday, I think much to his chagrin. Sorry man, but I can't help myself. I like to make people's business my business. I'm going to be really annoying. Unfortunately, it was also his last day here where I lived, and he moved away a bit, so I can't bug him anymore. :( I'm glad we got to celebrate your birthday bud, let us know when you wanna go out again.

A few nights ago, I also had the pleasure of going to my friend's house for the first time. It was cool. He has a really good collection that makes me very envy. Next time I'll take pictures, it was pretty neat to see. I let him borrow one of my arcade sticks so we can play an actual street fighter match next time.

Besides that, I'm also starting my first Final Fantasy VII run. Should be good, as my friends praise it to the sky. I hope.

Man, I should really learn a practical skill.

Ah! Also I found my friend on facebook finally. I met this artist at the anime convention from a couple of months ago, and he wanted to add me on facebook. I finally found him thanks to his friend and a lot of investigation. We're going to do sets on Street Fighter pretty soon as well, so it seems Street Fighter V will be my game of the summer.

Anywho, that's it for this week. I have a lot of business to take care of, and next week I'll be able to fill you in on what it is.

See you space cowboy.