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Yesterday was the first day of classes out at the community college where I was going to take intermediate algebra. I say "going to" because all the classes at decent times were filled up by the time I got to register (concurrent enrolement students are the lowest of the low on the priority list), and when I went out there yesterday to see if I could add one of the classes, there were about fifteen other people also trying to add them. So I'm just kind of screwed for this semester.
But I also went and picked up Skies of Arcadia Legends, Final Fantasy Tactics, and a PS1 memory card yesterday. For some reason, the memory card doesn't seem to like being used with my PS2 multitap, but whatever; seems to work fine when plugged directly into the PS2, so I don't really care. And the used copy of FFT I got was in excellent condition, which I'm really happy about. There were some smudges (okay, a lot of smudges) on the disc, but everything came off when I cleaned it with a damp cloth and the game worked fine when I started it up. So I'm really happy about that.
So far I haven't really played FFT yet (just started it up to make sure it worked), because I decided to play through Skies of Arcadia Legends after asking Shin(bo) which he thought I should play first. I've been playing for about five hours so far, and the game seems like it's just starting to really get going. I can't wait to see what comes next.
Right now I'm in the catacombs beneath Lower City in Valua, just after having beaten that stupid blob boss thing. (Yay for running back to save points that were just before the boss, but I need items like tents for it to really be effective.) And now I need to buy more Curia Crystals -- I swear, every time I'd get everyone unpoisoned and then attack for a round, it would do that "Poisonous Bile" attack or whatever it was called where it floods the room by throwing up, which would usually poison one or two characters. I finally managed to take the bugger down with a number of Cutlass Fury S.Moves from Vyse and normal attacks and one Tackle S.Move from Drachma, though. Aika mainly just sat back and healed, built up SP, and cast the occasional attack spell.
One thing that annoys me about the battle system, though, is that you don't always input commands in the order that they happen. You enter commands for an entire round all at once, but even though you enter them in the order of Vyse-Aika-Drachma because that's the order your party is in, Aika is quicker so she usually attacks first. This has kind of been throwing me off for planning which characters are going to take out which enemies, where I'm trying to be the most efficient and not waste damage by killing something with Vyse and Drachma that could just as easily be killed by Vyse and a weaker hit from Aika, for example.
It's nothing big, but I like micromanaging my characters in RPGs so as to come out of each battle having done the best that I could do. ... As shown by the fact that I'd come out of almost every battle in Chrono Cross with full HP because I'd make sure to have enough element levels left over at the end of the fight to heal everyone back up to full. Heh, I'm kind of anal about things like that, I guess. I've been getting used to the way it's set up in Skies of Arcadia Legends, though, so hopefully it won't be too much longer till I can accurately judge what's going to happen when.
And I really wish I had a tape recorder, so I could've recorded and typed up some of the comments my brother made while watching me play. Apparently he's not too fond of the "floating islands in the sky" thing, and he made some pretty funny remarks about it. "It seems like in a world like this, everything would revolve around throwing things off [the islands] or not throwing them off." Unfortunately, that's about the only one I can remember accurately at the moment. And I'd say, "But you get the idea," except that you really can't from just that one. They were hilarious in a crazy sort of way, and that one really just went along as part of a long rant about the Lower City's garbage problem.
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