FFXIII! And some PSU ramble.

(Focusing on non-immigration things is probably good for my mental health right now, so here we go!)

I am actually looking forward to Final Fantasy XIII now. For many reasons, but I think the one pleasing me most right now is that the main character is a totally badass woman. Also, the game is rather sci-fi-ish and military oriented... yeah, that'll make one think "like FF8!?!?" but... no. Not really like FF8 at all. :O

Also I have to find out more about that blond guy with the headscarf in the trailer I watched. Whut, he totally looks like some sort of mix of Shirai and Iluun. Hee~! *fangirls a bit* I was telling Jon I can totally appreciate the main char (whose code name is apparently Lightning) for being a fighgunner. :D Though technically what she wields is some sort of gunblade--except it switches between being a gun or a blade, it isn't both at once. Or something.

Man... a Final Fantasy with a femme protagonist. SO AWESOME. There's another game that's part of the trio of Fabula Nova Crystallis games that FFXIII is a part of... it's called FF Versus XIII. And has a male protagonist instead of Lightning. So fans can also have an emo, brooding guy SOMEWHERE in FFXIII world, if they prefer. :D

I'm too lazy to link scans and trailers and stuff, but they are easily Googled, and the links I post would eventually change their info and expand, anyway.

Now I am poking at PSU... I didn't get to play last night. Besides needing to take a nap (took it from around 12-4 am. Sigh, my sleep pattern is still screwed. =_=) no one was really available for playing. But they will be tonight... IF I don't end up playing in Selina's game. I would much prefer it ran on Sunday, myself... kinda hoping ADoA will run then so I can just play PSU, since I missed out on Friday. ;.;

The last update for the non-Japanese servers seems pretty cool... another new story mission, and the mission in Ryucross, too. Ryucross or Rykros in PS4 was this dark planet in the Algol system that had an irregular, elliptical orbit that only brought it close to the other planets every 1000 years. It ends up being the source of the Profound Darkness, which in turn where Dark Force/Falz (the recurring dark power in the original Phantasy Star series) comes from. In PSU Ryucross is a planet sized HIVE, basically a nest of Seed organisms. So it's still a dark planet, sorta, and is rather a neat little nod to fans of the original PS games. I like that PSU's nostalgia isn't just limited to bringing back PSO items and missions. :P

There's also new stuff in the Collector mission (that chick at the juice bar in Parum) which I might go and check out. Or maybe I'll solo the Ryucross mission, just to see what the people at PSO-World meant when they mentioned "megid turrets"... Can't be anything good. Megid turrets! @.@

Oh, and I also read on PSO-World about a game balance update that recently came in for the Japanese servers (it's not in for us non-JP people yet). It's mostly good stuff for rangers and techers, actually... particularly guntechers. :O Guntecher love! \o/ GT is my second choice class, so this is very cool. Apparently, they're getting boosts related to TECHNICs -- higher TP in general, access to S wands and also, lvl 30 attack techs. *boggle!* The thing I find odd about this is that I never really played GT to be a combat techer in the first place. So I'm mostly thinking "yay, S wands, that's cool!" but I'd probably end up sticking to bows and shotguns. I guess that makes me weird? But I'm really more of a ranger than a techer. ^^;

Oh, and for my hubby the rifleman / sniper, yay~ rifle bullets are getting knockdown at level 31+! And there are other rifle changes too... can't remember them off hand, but one is for Killer Shot, and there's a PP reduction... basically, cool stuff. I think laser cannons are getting something too (elemental % increase, maybe).

It's kinda amusing seeing people whine and call doomsday about the Chikki Kyoren-jin nerf, though. That's the slicer PA that does horrifyingly huge amounts of damage on multiple enemies. It's overpowered, and pretty much everyone was expecting the damage to be cut at least a bit. But still, plenty of whining. Haha. Especially for Acrofighters, apparently some of them were playing AF exclusively because of Chikki Kyoren-jin damage! Too bad for them, I guess. :D

Ahhh, I wish I could play PSU more. ;.; So hard to get people playing... I suppose I've been pretty distracted myself, but understandably so. Here's hoping I get to play today with Clark and Jim and Jon. :O