Yay! The first weekend since school started! ACK! Why did school have to start so soon?! Well at least I don't have school on Fridays this term =) and that's why I got to sleep for 15 hrs today. Mwahahaha! Well, it's turning Saturday morning in 3 minutes...

Oh, I also found out certain things that happen to me came in threes =P I'm taking 3 classes, I bought 3 new games (Xenosaga I, Onimusha I and III) and 3 new manga (I can't wait for the manga to come!). Mwehehe... And I'm supposed to be saving my money... Shite.

I watched The Island today with a friend in the theatre. Pretty good movie, tho' we were bout 10 minutes late. Figuring what the movie was about took a while. Haha.

OMG!!! I defeated Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts at level 73!! Oh my god... I still can't believe it. I mean, I didn't even think I could beat him at all! I kept trying for 4 hours continuous, starting with level 66. Then I figured I should level up to level 70, so I did and retried and still failed. Ack. So I continued to level up a little more and kept retrying until I kept losing for like 4 times in a row, real badly. A few times I nearly defeated him but ended up dying anyways, and it's always under that SAME ONE MOVE. I don't remember losing to any of his other moves. Guess I was lucky, the last time I tried he did less of that crazy move. That is SUCH A CHEAP move!! It depletes all your HP and MP, but leaves you with 1 HP. If you don't recover using Elixir you're DEAD in the next half second.

Anyway, now I'm officially done with the game, since I'm done with all the optional bosses!! YAY!! Mwahahaha!! I didn't even have to do all those nasty side mushroom quests and synthesis thing. Those mushrooms are like 10000x more annoying and frustrating than facing 50 Sephiroths! God, I'm glad I really didn't have to go through that. Figured I don't need Ultima weapon after all =P

Although I have to admit Sephiroth's the hardest boss, that's really just because he has that one insane move. Without that move he's really not that hard. If he doesn't have that move, I say Kurt Zisa (the machine you fight in the desert in Agrabah) is tougher. He's so damn annoying! He keeps flying here and there and he has unavoidable moves, and even worse, he locks your magic!! Defeating him took some time too since I was only level 64 when I fought him. The walkthrough suggests I'm around level 77, but dude! How can I ever level up that much!? I'm not even that high of a level AFTER defeating Sephiroth!! So what the hell!!?

The other tough one is Phantom in the Clock Tower in Neverland. That one was a pain in the ass. I can't control well when I have to fly around, going up and down as well. I'm just not used to it and camera angle can be horrible. It was bad bad bad when I started losing my teammates too!! The walkthrough, again, says it should be easy if I'm at a level of 77, but dude!! I was able to finish it at level 60!!! It was a tough challenge but honestly I'd rather challenge than wasting my hours away leveling up.

Once again it's morning 6.51am and yes I'm still awake, as always! Just finished Kingdom Hearts, finally, and remembered that the ending was hella sucky. And oh my god, there's like the word 'heart' or 'darkness' in every 5 words every character speak!! "Your heart will bla bla bla", "If our hearts are strong enough bla bla bla", "The heart emerges from the darkness bla bla bla", "My heart is too strong. The Darkness can't take it away bla bla bla". OMG shut up already!! How many times do you have to repeat those words?!?!

I also thought the story's pretty stupid. From head to toe, start to end, it's all about hearts hearts hearts and darkness darkness darkness, and the 3rd favorite word after that is light light light. They seriously need to reconsider their excessive use of these honestly boring words.

I'm still like level 61 when I fought the last boss after the Final Save and the walkthrough says I'm supposed to be right around level 65. What the hell, I didn't think I was that far behind! O_o Since I was following it and it told me to go fight that Phantom boss in Neverland's clock tower, I did, but it says I should be around level 77 then to beat his ass no problem. What the hell!! I was only at level 60 then (but I still managed to defeat it)!! That's 17 levels lower!! How the hell am I supposed to level up that much?!?! And worse, I don't have Sora's ultimate weapon, neither Donald's nor Goofy's, and I don't think I want to do that cos' I can already tell my blood, brain, organs will explode inside me. Think about all that crazy effort which is nearly impossible, at least for me, just to get their ultimate weapons. Donald's possible, but definitely not Sora's and Goofy's.

Then, the walkthrough also says that by the time I defeat Sephiroth, considering I've followed the walkthrough linearly, I'd be around level 81. Are you serious!? Against Sephiroth at a level lower than that?! Now that's something I've never heard of, ever! O_o Regardless though, I'm still gonna try just playing against him, though I'm only at level 61 now. Mwahahhaa!! I should prepare some nice soft cushion for my sore butt later on. Well I'm glad at least I don't have to fight him in air or water. Phewzz...

Well okay, in my last blog entry I complained about the game's cons, so perhaps I should mention a few pros too, tho' to me they really are the ONLY pros.

1. Changing Sora and gang’s costumes in Atlantica and Halloween Town is neat, especially Halloween Town.
2. The Mermaid Kick ability is cool, but the Glide ability is what ROCKS most!!!! Too awesomely cool.
3. Being able to fly in Neverland was cool too. It works just like how you swim around in Atlantica but this is much better and more fun since you can choose to land and walk normally as well.
4. All the Disney characters have awesome voice actors, my favorite being Hades.
5. Boss battles are fun.

It's Wednesday morning 3.36am and yes I'm still awake! Was playing Kingdom Hearts before, replaying a stupid mini-game again and again just cos' I'm too stubborn to give up the prize item. Dude, this game is seroiusly tedious and is potentially annoying!! ARGH.

Anyway, I finally completed DMC2 (Dante version) the other day, right before I started Kingdom Hearts, and damn, it didn't even take more than 4 hrs to complete it and it was my first time playing it. Man that game is pretty sad, but well I'll do anything for Dante =D And for fun I thought I should write down all the pros and cons that I think the game has.

Pros:

1. It's CG cutscenes actually look good - texturized enough and doesn't look obviously polygonal/pixelated like DMC3.
2. Dante has a nice outfit - the best in the series so far.
3. The dodge/circle button is awesome. It's actually better than running around although it makes Dante looks retarded.

Cons:

1. Environments are too pointlessly big.
2. Unexciting gameplay.
3. There's no real storyline.
4. Enemy designs are ridiculouly retarded.
5. Bad bad script. Unexciting, boring, cheesy.
6. Alternate costumes look bad. In fact, Dante's looks gay.

And speaking of cons, Kingdom Hearts has a few I feel like mentioning:

1. Cutscenes aren't cancellable/fast forwardable.
2. Certain parts of the game get repetitive and boring.
3. There're many tedious mini games and hurdles that'll require countless retries and repeats if you fail.
4. Gummi ship space travel is meaningless.
5. The music can get annoying after a while.

It's about 2AM today when I finally resumed DMC3!! Dude, that last mission of Dante Must Die is freakin' crazey!! Not that I've never mentioned that to anybody before but that was just too much!!! I really could have broken my own nervous system just playing that mission! However, playing it normally and fairly didn't work, even after numerous tries, so I ended up using DT Dante for that mission and guess what? Even with DT Dante it took 25 min 50 sec and 10 vital stars to defeat Vergil!! O_O!! What the hell!? Vergil Battle 3 in Normal mode only takes me 3~4 min at the most!! Easy mode only takes 2 min!! OMG... that goes to show how insane this battle is for Christ Allah Buddha's sake!!

Anyway, I'm now too lazy to replay it fair and square so I've decided to leave it as is. Now the sad news is, I still don't see Yamato as the rumor says. Well, I must have missed something, especially since I've not completed secret mission 12, but dude, that secret mission is also insane!!! ARGH!!

Though it's really time for me to try a new game I suddenly felt like just replaying a few missions of the old Devil May Cry game but dude, the game's gone!! I can't find it!! Where the hell did it go?! I think I might have lent it to somebody but I really don't remember lending it, though I'm very sure of who it'll be if I did. I better not have lost it!! >_<! Maybe it's a sign that it's time for me to finish Devil May Cry 2 first... God, that game is quite the insult to Dante... but I'll play it anyway, just cos' it's Dante =) Besides, laughing till I break down as I play the game can be pretty amusing sometimes. =P

First day after I watched FF7AC and my head is too full of the movie. I practically can't think of anything else but it. I had a long sleep today too - 14 hrs, which is 3 hrs longer than my usual sleep during holidays. XP

Man, the movie is too good I can't really describe it until you watch it. Lotsa insane battles with movements so fast my eyes can't catch up. However, the best thing isn't any of that for me. My favorite scenes in the entire movie have to be ANY SCENE with Reno & Rude in it. For those who know me well enough would know that Reno's my #1 favorite video game character, and that even Dante's #2. However sadly to admit, I didn't know much of Reno and Rude's personalities and such since they have very few appearances in the game. From the movie though, I finally understood their real character, which now makes me obsessed with them more than never before!! They're just too hilarious and adorable!!!! ^__^!! Kyaaa~~!!

Anyway, in my previous blog entry I said that there's no English subs available but dude, desperate fans can be super fast O_o. In like less than 12 hrs God-sama told me the English sub is available for download from the same site. I assume that if any FF7 fan is actually reading this blog entry at all, they probably would already know this anyway, no? =P

For those who haven't seen the FF7AC movie, please be warned that everything below will be SPOILERS!!

After watching the movie, I noticed several wonders of FF7AC. Very interesting.

1. Rufus's complexion is as smooth and perfect considering he's supposed to have died under a huge explosion. No scars, no handicap whatsoever as well.
2. Everyone's hair stays perfectly styled even after getting wet and or beaten up.
3. Cloud is able to grab and pull Masamune out of his shoulder and stick it into the wall behind without losing his fingers.
4. In Ajit when Kadaj commanded them, the children seemed to jump out and appear from nowhere.
5. Yazoo's ammos are unlimited while Vincent's are not.
6. Reno is able to climb even walls that are flat, and very fast too.
7. One moment the FF7 gang were on the ground, next moment they got so high up, ready to push Cloud further into the sky.
8. Yuffie can run against gravity on walls.
9. Clothes wear and tear, like Kadaj's, but their skin stays scratch-less, scar-less and clean no matter what happens during battles.
10. No matter the color of their hair, ALL of them have black eye lashes. Mascara anyone?
11. Yazoo shoots Cloud near the end, but there's no hole in his shirt. (Considering the wound might have been healed by Aeris)

Unfortunately, I also found many missing scenes in the movie that are in the trailer.

1. Cloud riding his motorbike and Kadaj standing at the end of a highway casting lighting, and later clashing swords with Cloud who's still on his bike.
2. Loz hitting Cloud with lightning speed, causing Cloud to fly far away backwards and the camera zooms in on Yazoo who turns around to shoot.
3. Vincent jumping off a tree.
4. Kadaj walking close to the man hidden in white robes, then kneels before him holding his hand.
5. Kadaj and Cloud fighting, Kadaj manages to hit Cloud's sword away and Cloud continues to swing his other sword. (Cloud still has his left arm covered)
6. Barret smiling, his gun-arm held up but not expanded.
7. Cloud walking in a dark church, later faces the camera.
8. Kadaj and gang on their bikes. With the camera close up, Kadaj later turns around and says something, his hair flowing in the wind.

Of course, there also are things that surprised me. =)

1. Rufus is alive and well, and beautiful =P
2. Yazoo has a manly voice despite his feminine looks, which is good.
3. Reno & Rude are actually a hilarious duo and they play a decently important role. (Love those two!!)
4. Vincent, who used to be optional for Christ's sake, actually plays a pretty decently important role as well.
5. Sephiroth really came back. O_o
6. RedXIII has such a soft voice!!
7. They actually have Cloud perform his limit breaks!

Along with surprises come disappointment.

1. Vincent didn't turn into his beast forms (limit break)
2. Yazoo and Loz's role is too much based on only their battles.
3. The other FF7 teammates play too small a role.
4. Omnislash didn't seem to reach 15 hits as should like in the game.

Just when I thought I was trapped in total darkness, I saw this small light of hope reaching out towards me from the depths of technology, of this online service called MSN Messenger, where at the end of it stood an old online friend, and whom I now see as GOD. (Okay, or at least, my savior)

At first, I thought I sense a threat of spoilers that will traumatize me for the whole year, but NOO!! I mistook God-sama!! For in fact, God-sama has come to release me from my suffering!! The suffering of impatience that has nearly made me insane for the past one year!! God-sama has finally brought Final Fantasy VII Advent Children to me!!!!!! O_O!!!!!

Even now, I'm still "WTF??!?!" cos' the DVD's official Japanese release isn't even until 2 days from now! I have no idea, God-sama also has no idea, but whatever the reason, FF7AC is actually, and by no lies, available for DOWNLOAD!!!

Well of course, no one can expect it to have English subs since it's ripped from the original Japanese DVD itself, but it does have Japanese subs, and I'm SO VERY willing to spend even a month if needed to look up all the words that I don't know!! However, I still need some patience... though I'm running out of it very quickly. I'm downloading through BitComet right now and it's going freaking slowly!!! How many days of downloading is it gonna make me wait?!?! AAAHHH!!

Ok... I need to relax... Oh yeah, I found out that Dirge of Cerberus is gonna be released in 2006. No idea what month what day, but since they say it's 2006, let's just assume it's on 31st December 2006. Dude, it's Square Enix, you know what you can't do - hope.

Also, I just found out that FF7 Before Crisis, the game made in honor of the Turks is also gonna be released in 2006. The crazy thing is, it's a freaking cellphone game!!!!!! WTF really!?!? Why the hell would anyone play long hrs of RPG on a freaking cellphone!?! For some reason I've thought for it to be a GBA game, and now that I think of it I have no memory why I came to think so but why cellphones of all things?! This is getting more and more ridiculous!!

Thanks to Aiko (Jennifer), I got all pepped up again about Vincent Valentine after we chatted about FF7's characters the other time. My obsession for Vincent has faded away since a while back but he still remains a very favorite character =)

And becos of that, now I so can't wait for Dirge of Cerberus to be realeased. I have no idea of when it's going to be released though, which makes it even worse. But it's Square Enix... no one can trust Square Enix and their release dates. It has the real time battle system but at the same time it feels like a mix of the olden FF turned-based + DMC real time battle, which is really cool. =D Oh, not to mention it also feels very FPS (first person shooting); I think it's made to be =P.

I saw the E3 trailer on its official site, and it's so AWESOME!! The graphics! The cinematography!! The mysteriousness to the storyline!! OMG!! I so can't wait!!! I've known about Dirge of Cerberus since last year but I was actually never this excited about it. O_o'' Well, until today I've never really seen any good trailers to the game, so that might explain why, but damn! The trailer's really really good!! It totally made me wanna play right now!! (I remember such a situation with DMC3... =D) This game actually has the same kind of CG quality for its cutscenes as Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, dude!!! I didn't think it would be!! OMG... must research when it's gonna be released...

[Vincent from Dirge of Cerberus. Ain't he gorgeous?!?!]

I learnt about this a few days ago but I only remembered it today and it's making me go crazy. Can you believe they delayed the release date for the US version of the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children DVD?!? My f*cking god!! How many times have they done that?!! Are they trying to test the patience of every FF fan in the world!? I'm so going NUTS!!! I'm even sooo tempted to just get the Japanese version and do something about the regional coding thing, but other friends told me it's better to just wait. ARGH!!! Damn Square Enix!!

And man... It's been 2 weeks since I last touched DMC3... What a miracle. Out of 100 missions from all 5 modes, I've cleared 99 of them. All I need is that one last one before I can confirm if the rumor about being able to get Yamato, Vergil's sword, is true. Just think about how awesomely COOL it'll be if Dante gets to do Vergil's ass-kicking moves!! That's like the game's best thing!!! Really tempted you know, but I might have lost the touch. Dante Must Die Mission 20 is the game's hardest mission, and of course, it'll be a shame if it's not. But well... I think I'll resume later. Been trying to finish the remaining episodes of Monster, up to where it's latest. And then there's One Piece this weekend... Hehe.

Went to Walmart today to shop for certain things.. and I ended getting myself this really really super soft and comfy blanket, which the receipt lists as a "raschel throw". No idea what that means, and I don't care if it's not meant to be used as a blanket but it's too soft and good to not be used as one. Man, if anyone of you have extra cash to spend on some 'luxury' comfort, this blanket is a must O_o I'm not really feeling rich but I totally wanted to spoil myself, so there goes my $$...

I also bought chew toys for my gerbils in an attempt to save my cage from destruction. I have no idea how effective it'll be but we shall see the results in the next few days... It's only been a few minutes since I gave them one to chew on but when I went to check on them, one end of the 'toy' was already chewed off decently bad. Gosh...

[What they've destroyed so far...]

Anyway, I'm resuming Monster again...Man, some episodes yesterday were pretty disturbing O_o I was so eeped out I had to mute the sound and cover my eyes so that I only see the subtitles and nothing else. My god, I've really never seen any other villain who can be any more manipulative than Johan... And now the anime is getting so disturbing I don't think I can rest well until I see some GOOD thing happen to those who deserve it, especially Dr Tenma!! AAhhh!!!

Read from left to right if interested. [These pics are made for fun and no other reason]

I was so eager to continue renting the next DVD box set for One Piece only to find out that again, someone has rented it out first and for a whole week in advanced!! The anime DVD rental store is only for 2 days but apparently she paid more and rented it for a week!! OMG! That's spending 3 times more than most people normally do! She must be nuts... but that was yesterday. So here I am feeling empty since there's no One Piece to watch... and ended up resuming Monster which I've stopped watching for the longest time.

Monster's a really good, high quality anime in terms of storyline. It's dark and suspenseful, sometimes sad. It may even be disturbing but it's still a great anime. I'd highly recommend this to those who look forward to good storylines, and doesn't mind it being dark. However, with a total of 70+ episodes, Monster is not one of the shortest anime so people without patience (I know many people like this) may not even consider. Ah well, I'm enjoying it nevertheless. =)

[Can you believe this guy's the most evil character of any anime I've ever seen?!]

For more information regarding Monster, visit animenfo.com

It's Saturday morning 4.21am and I'm still up, as always, busy trying to complete the other website (Animangame Oscar Awards) I made 4 days ago. Until that site is fully done I won't be completing the other pages to this site, so uh, wish myself luck, I guess. And for those who're actually reading this piece of useless entry now, I say you rock. =P

Okay, it's now 8.53pm and I'm wanting to watch the One Piece DVD that I rented today, but it's not working!! WTF?! I've been waiting one whole week for this and now it's not working?! The stupid DVD player in my computer just won't read the first disc!! And I'm not the kind of person who's willing to skip episodes. Dammit!! So I called my sister and asked if she has a DVD player so spare but as I already expected, she sounded very annoyed. I can't blame her since this is not her problem yet she has to make the effort to drive over and lend me the DVD player, but she always makes it sound like I'll destroy that player. -_-# Argh!! Why can't this DVD player just read that goddamn DVD?! It's only 8.48pm now and I've only been awake for barely 4 hours but now I have to wait for tomorrow?? Dude my whole night's plan's destroyed!! Aaaaahhh!! T_T

I'm more surprised with myself having a 'blog' than anything else. (I don't consider this a real blog cos' it's not one of those you register for free. I made this by my own hand and sweat -.-") On top of that, I have to manage everything myself. I must be giving myself unnecessary stress. I don't believe in blogs, and believe it or not I still DON'T. Really, who will ever be interested in knowing that much in detail about me, so much that they'd actually visit my blog from time to time anyway? Mwahahahaha! But, for those who're reading this right now, let't me at least say HI~~!! =) Pop around again next time.

Oh yeah! I really gotta say something bout my pet gerbils. I think they're going nuts. Last night I found out that they've chewed off the entire plastic exercise wheel in the cage. Then today, I saw that the 'door' to their plastic house has enlarged by half - they chewed one side off. What the hell is going on?? Do they hate plastic so much?? Really, I think they're plotting something wicked. They've been trying to built something with the sawdust and the cotton balls I gave them, but they don't sleep in it. Creepy... Better check on them more often.

[Vergil]		[Dante]

And argh!! The site I created 2 days ago also isn't even a quarter done!! Why the hell did I start a new website THAT soon!? Now I got 3 sites to update and maintain... The rest? They're either dead or never to be updated again. Bah.