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After church today (well, technically yesterday), me and my parents stopped off at the grocery store to pick up a few things, and I suggested getting a couple yellow cake mixes. So we did, and I ended up making a yellow cake with chocolate frosting in the evening. Anymore I'm about the only one in the house that makes yellow or chocolate cakes, so if I want one, I have to make it myself. Even though others are more than glad to help me eat it. But hey, they pay for the ingredients, so I guess I can't complain.
So yes: "Mmm, cake." If there's one thing I like for dessert, it's a good cake, heh. (Maybe I really am the Cake Eater. . . . And no, you're not meant to get that joke). And my frosting making skills have been improving each time I make one; this is the third time I've made the chocolate frosting myself. I've found that adding about three times as much butter as I think is needed works well, heh. Also, it should be better once it sits overnight and has a chance to cool off and harden up some more. And also, there might be coffee in the morning to go with it. That's always a plus.
Also of note, a friend came over after church and we played Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles some more. And I have to say, that game can get hard. When we were fighting Behemoths in this one dungeon (I forget the name), we had to be really careful. That is, until we figured out that we could kill them just by having one person (my friend) stand in front of it and attack while the other person (me) stood back a ways to constantly cast Cure on the attacker. But of course, when four ghost Flans are also thrown into the mix, that no longer worked, which is when it got crazy. It was a couple minutes of running, attacking, healing, reviving, and dodging through narrow gaps between enemy attacks for a couple minutes before we finally managed to kill all four Flans and the Behemoth.
Also, the two bosses that we fought were pretty hard. The first was a ghost dragon that had to be hit with a Holy spell before any decent amount of damage could be done to it. And of course, in multiplayer, a spell fusion of the Life spell and any of the three elementals is required to cast Holy. So in order to hit this thing, we both had to make sure we 1) had full life, and if not, we healed since both of us had a Cure Magicite, 2) make sure there wasn't a smaller monster coming after us, and 3) cast both spells at the same time, on the same spot in order to do the spell fusion. After that was done, my friend would usually attack with magic while I'd cast Cure on us. But even then, the effect of the Holy spell would only last a little while, so we had to repeat this process a number of times until it finally died.
The second boss was this big demon thing that had a shield protecting it. We still had to hit it with a Holy spell in order to do much damage, but before we could do that, we had to hit a switch on one side of the room with a Thunder spell and then a normal attack, and then do the same with another switch on the other side of the room, only with a Blizzard spell. So, since I had both Thunder and Blizzard equiped, I did that and my friend carried the Crystal Chalice back and forth while I was hitting the switches.
So after we would take down its shield, we'd run up to it and hit it with a Holy spell, then proceed to hack away at it with normal attacks. (Both of us are better with physical attacks than we are with magic). At that point, unless a smaller enemy respawned and started attacking us, my friend would attack constantly and I'd switch back and forth between attacking and healing. Yet another trick was thrown in, however; the thing would teleport across the room a short time after being hit with the Holy spell, so we had to get in as much damage as we could before it did that.
After a couple times of chasing this thing back and forth across the room, it gets its shield back, and we have to repeat the entire process over again. . . . And then again, before it finally died. And I can say right now that, if me and my friend hadn't had two levels plus that ghost dragon boss in which to practice doing spell fusions to cast Holy, we would've certainly died at least once. Admittedly, these were a couple of the later dungeons, but dang. I mean, we were only on the first cycle for them. It makes me wonder just how hard the second and third cycles are.
I guess we really aren't anywhere near being strong enough to beat the game, though. We'll probably have to go back through the earlier dungeons again at least once in order to become powerful enough to take on the last dungeon. Not that we can even get to it yet. We have a ways to go before that even. . . . Though of course, all this is talking about the save file that my character is on. My friend has a different file where he's playing through by himself, in single player mode, and he's quite a bit farther.
As always, I can't wait till the next time we can get together and play Crystal Chronicles. It's become my second favorite multiplayer GCN game I think, second only to Super Smash Bros. Melee. I just wish we could find one or two other people to play together with; three and four player has got to be even more fun.
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