I’m playing Star Ocean: Divine Force

[CrimsonGenius]

It’s better than last hope and integrity. I stopped playing integrity at some point.

 

[Daitengu]

Oh? Nice, cause I too just dropped off integrity.

 

[aToTeT]

Till The End Of Time was pretty cool at least.

I think I have PTSD for trying to fill out the maps for the bunny ‘move speed plus’ rewards.

So many maps were at 99.Number percent complete, and no amount of wall hugging seemed to fix it for me.

I hope the series has continued to be fun, and I desperately hope that all main characters are more interesting than Fayte.

Highbrow is the coolest piece of music a Villain has never deserved less; worth a listen. Motoi Sakuraba is an absurdity in live performance — like the Ado of keyboarding. Or such is my limited understanding of what is possible with keyboards… but decked out on all sides is hard to beat in my small head: (edit): reminds me of the organ player in Hans Brinker and The Silver Skates: hitting notes with his nose because his hands were busy.

 

[Daitengu]

I hope the series has continued to be fun, and I desperately hope that all main characters are more interesting than Fayte.

Integrity characters weren't even milk and buttered toast. I was so bored of the plain white bread characters and story that I fell off. I think the worst and simplest problem was that they used realistic shaders on anime style characters. The problem then become if "feels" like I'm playing with plastic figurines instead of a character. So they should have either went with a realistic style, or went with a simpler 2 tone anime shader. I mean, Valkyrie Profile 2 characters looked better and had more personality, and that was a ten years older PS2 game.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

This goes to show that some people have no integrity

/sorry needed to pun.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

A Little Bird Who Forgot to Fly, is my shit.

 

[aToTeT]

A Little Bird Who Forgot to Fly, is my shit.

Gosh that is so pretty. Wonder why I don’t remember this; it's my jam. Literally can’t find it on spotify, but youtube had me cover— OOH that’s jazz. Oooooh that’s the jazz. (It’s R&B apparently; music genres are harder for me to read than literary ones.)

Spoiler

I swear I had the original soundtrack for this back in the day, and I don’t remember this on it, but it could simply be that I was the kind of teenager that only had ears for The Cutting Edge of Notion and The Incarnation of Devil — that, or it was my first discovery of a blue lagoon. So I either bought the multi-disc sountrack a long a day ago a, or I made substantial and unrepentant efforts to steal everything I could that wasn’t nailed down.

Darn me, it wasn’t an itunes purchase, which makes sense, but cds that cost something extreme to import from playasia.

Misia is the singer, she’s just as lovely in her live performance as she was in the game it was recorded for.

Japanese R&B has got to be my favourite.

Also, F me i’m good (this took embarrassingly long, 'googled it'… thank you fans who make fandom websites <3): Back Blocks album by MISIA on Spotify.

(And thank you: for sending me down a dark and bloody rabbit hole wherein my forebears went before and never returned: locating a version of Chiyo Yano’s Time Is Changing that gives her money/credit — overall, not going well, but she uploaded a version on youtube twenty years later which is pretty nice (… 3 years ago. I blinked, and have become old) and the good news is: the CD is out of stock everywhere I can find that sells it, and I can’t find — no, I found her, but under a different name and without any joy). I give up, I have a chapter I’ve stalled getting out long enough, and an amazing addition to my playlists.)

If I only listened to a low 2K songs again this year: this is in my top hundred for next.

Thank you so much for turning me onto this! Song is straight fire, and I have a whole new artist to explore.

TLDR: Song good. Should listen: you.

Integrity characters weren't even milk and buttered toast. I was so bored of the plain white bread characters and story that I fell off. I think the worst and simplest problem was that they used realistic shaders on anime style characters. The problem then become if "feels" like I'm playing with plastic figurines instead of a character. So they should have either went with a realistic style, or went with a simpler 2 tone anime shader. I mean, Valkyrie Profile 2 characters looked better and had more personality, and that was a ten years older PS2 game.

Eww.

I am not an artist by any shade, and as such: the only time I remember *noticeable* shaders working out in a video game is Wild Arms 3 (cel-shading), though perhaps they put a ‘grainy filter’ over it? I know what I know: I liked it, and I liked it very much..

I also really liked how Valkyrie Profile looked art-wise more than the game itself.

Spoiler

I tried to play a game in that series about a year or so ago, and… it’s old, and the story really didn’t suck me in (I was probably just in an unreceptive state of mind, and the story is probably fine). I should probably give it another chance in another time when I am better primed for it.

Wild Arms 3 looks, and sounds, so very much better than it should: big success with that cell shading. Michiko Naruke, I know you must have been running the Good the Bad and the Ugly on repeat for months (The Ecstasy of Gold is, mmm), and I love your music very much <3 Why can’t I buy your things?

Jk already did… but she’s not on spotify or anything else which matters (the first Wild Arms is there, but… Alter Code: F was a significant upgrade sound-wise (THE OPENING WHEN YOU LEFT THAT THING SIT, Remorse and Promise. Holy — that thing destroys me worse than Ruined Celes from The Legend of Dragoon (another great opening), and the dreadful thing about both of those games: is that they are indisputably pretty hideous (albeit one was a much prettier remake, but heck, I say do it again: look at what Square Enix has done with Final Fantasy 7… but then, why should they remake it when I haven’t bought Final Fantasy 7’s remake? Anyway, stalling.)

Discs, discs every where,
And not a place to play them.

 

[Daitengu]

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Discs, discs every where,
And not a place to play them.

I always have to have a disc player in my PC for this reason(Had to mod my case to fit one in this last time). And I keep my emulators up to date, so I can just bust out my discs an play whatever. I can even emulate my PS4 games. When there's a PS game I'm interested in on a good sale, I still by them, even though I don't have a console anymore. I literally played thousands of hours on all of em to the point their disc drives, controller ports, and controllers died. I still try to fix my PS3 duel shocks tho, cause thems ma fav controllers of all the consoles.