CANUCK'S PROFILE

All countries have good parts and bad parts of their history. The really bad parts don't disallow people to awe at the good parts of a country's history.

Also, I think there's no problem to get a tattoo or something you don't feel spiritually close to. Some people just like to get tattoos and enjoy getting them on whims and like remembering about when and why they got them. Perhaps that's more for people who are into getting many tattoos (sleaves and such) though.

Also, if getting a kanji tattoo (which I wouldn't recommend), beware of double meanings. For example, ? can mean "music" (cool! I like music!), but also mean fun or pleasure, which comes across a little sketchy.

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Canuck, I'm addicted to your blog.

Thanks for the compliment. I have a few things in notebooks I need to add to it.

For the SNES version, you could use weak on the Dark Elf so that he only took two hits. Did they change that in later versions?

Here's a series of silly stories I wrote in 2007. they're not very good, but fill a niche.

http://captain5.blogspot.com

I thought while Vaan wasn't amazing, he was better than all the leads since VI (Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Titus). He was a different kind of main character from those games (similar to VI) in that his character didn't really take the lead too much, and all the characters were in the forefront quite a bit. He fulfilled the role that he was supposed to fill (the blue eyed young male with a desire to fight for what's right but confused what that is), and I think it's a decent character in a video game, as long as too much attention isn't focused on it (which it wasn't). Penello complemented this very well, and the other characters fulfilled the "mature" character stereotypes. So really, there was a very varied cast of characters.

I think the games fault was that it only truly told its story with cut scenes, and the NPCs were basically useless. This was OK in the first few hours when there were long cutscenes all the time, but as the game progressed it was dungeon crawling followed by a 10 minute cutscene (the precious "story" to keep people going") followed by a new place on the map that was five or so locations away. Despite this, the game play was luckily fairly fun and it wasn't so so bad.

It does seem like all the Final Fantasy's since VII are cut scene heavy in the first 5 hours and then really drop it and become (usually) mediocre dungeon crawling with sprinkles of SHOCKING PLOT TWISTS every so often. I never finished XII, but I don't remember anything too silly or ridiculous.