joudama scribbling

I started playing Fragile--yeah, yeah, I know, nearly everyone was "Kingdom Hearts!" or "Shadow of the Colossus!", but I started watching some trailers of Fragile, and that, coupled with the fact that, as slow as I play (and the time off that WILL happen for FF13), by the time I finish, "Fragile" should be coming out in the US (the release date is sometime in February next year), and an idea of if it's good or not will help y'all decide if it's something you want to get. And I should take advantage of the fact that I get games before y'all do. :D

I've been playing for an hour now, and DDDDD: Not because the game is bad--god, no--but because it's so sad. It opens sad--the main character, Seto, talking about him having to bury the man he called "grandpa" who had taken care of him, but whose real name he didn't know, and just kept on with the stomping on your heart. The things killing me the most are the little things Seto just doesn't know--he saw a broken TV, and his reaction was, "What's this weird box? And it looks like a mirror, but it's broken" and him not understanding the katakana English loanwords the little personal GPS system he found was using...and him not knowing what a shinai was--he was like, "It looks like a stick, but is made of bamboo!" and the GPS/companion thing had to tell him what it was called.

The game takes place after the end of the world as we know it. And seeing it--all the collapsed and destroyed buildings that long ago had been taken over by wilderness, the flooded streets with lily pads and rusted cars--is just so sad.

So so far, this game is very good and very immersive. And very, very sad. I kept going "...DDDD: Waaah~! DDDD: " at it. In the good way. There are ghosts and supernatural things, so it's got horror/survival horror elements, but it's more psychological than anything. It's survival horror lite, but in the good, introspective way. It seems like a good introduction to the genre for me.

Oh, and I also started FF:Gaiden, and thank god because it is bouncy and light and happy and cute. I'm going to need it after playing Fragile for a while.

And after I finish Fragile (and FF13), I'm going to play Shadow of the Colossus. :D

ETA - OH MY GOD, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT AN ORIGAMI CRANE WAS. He was so surprised by it and the word for it the GPS companion told him.

This game is gonna make me cry at this rate, it's that sad. ;_;

Also, I'm back to writing again. I spent a bit of time on "Biological Warfare" (the Seph and a kitten fic) and am now feeling the comfortable "falling into the hole in the paper" while working on HC again. I'm adding in more scenes, since it was way too Cloud and Zack centric--Tifa is a major character, too, but there's been a whole one scene, one that was her POV, and that's a major oversight on my side. So I'm fixing that now. :D

Exercise time: 1 hr
Calories burned: 293
BMI: 29.44
Feels like: shooooooooooower~

Is it bad that my reaction to the trainer is often, "Fuck you!"? She said, "Mou sukoshi gambarimashou!" ("Try just a little bit harder!") to an exercise that made my calves want to die, and I immediately went, "Yeah, fuck you! :D"

And a lot of "...NO," too. Like when she says, "Koe wo dashite!" (Use your voice[to count]!" I go, "...NO!" and keep concentrating on not falling on my face. XD

( Today was mainly fat-burning exercise. )