So it has been a bit over a month since my last post. Obviously, not what I had intended when I started this blog. Work got confusing for a little while as I went from swings to days to mids to days and finally back to swings this week, hopefully for a few months. It is tough to keep a consistent sleeping schedule while you are moving shifts so regularly. That, coupled with the last minute work that my wife and I have been doing to get Lyla room and the rest of the house ready for her to come has kept me quite busy and unable to really play very much.
The story of FFI is a little confusing and seems to not make very much sense. Since I was leveling outside of Pravoka I then had to take my ship West and found an elf village, aptly named Elfheim. There we find a Elf Prince who has been put into a deep sleep for a very long time, so now we need to find a "Jolt Tonic" I don't know how to get one, so I run around and find another castle called Western Keep. Inside is a king who claimed he was deceived by Astos, a dark elf (I think), and lost his crown. He asks me to retrieve it from the marsh so that he can restore his kingdom. So I start on that quest and go find the marsh, which is the annoying level in this game I have decided. Every game has a section that is annoying, either it is completely tedious, boring, and not fun, or it is riddled with cruelly difficult puzzles, or every monster seems to induce poison and/or stone on your characters. You know the type of levels; Halo CE had The Library, Halo 3 had Cortana, Kingdom Hearts II had Atlantica (actually most "Water levels" in any game), FF IX had the Evil Forest, FF X had the Thunder Plains (especially if you were after all the ultimate weapons in the game), Chrono Cross had the Hydra Forest, and Final Fantasy has the Marsh Cave (that is kind of a fun list to make). Some monsters cause poison, some cause death, the whole area is confusing and very difficult to navigate. Getting through the Marsh Cave and back to the Western Keep couldn't have happened quick enough. Anyway I gave the king the crown and turns out he is a bad guy I need to fight, Astos king of the Dark Elves. So I beat him up and get a Crystal Lense. I am lost for a while, after talking to NPC's, something that gaming has recently evolved away from, I learn about a witch named Matoya who may have Jolt Tonic. So I go north, just near the Corneria where I started and continue north to find a cave with Matoya, luckily she asks for the Crystal Lens so I don't need to go back and adventure more. She gives me the Jolt Tonic, I go wake up the Elf Prince and he gives me a Mystic Key. I immediately remember all the chests throughout the game that have been locked. I go back through all the places looking through the chests, most of the stuff is garbage and I already have weapons and armor better that what I am finding. Some of the swords seem like they may come in handy, a couple have a specific group of people that they do more damage too, so I will hold on to a few of them. Now I don't know where to go again. More talking to NPC's, I head west, which is blocked off, luckily there is a cave entrance and some dwarves mining. I look around Mt. Dueger and find the dwarf that seems to be in charge. He asks me for Nitro Powder which I have recently obtained in the previously locked chest in Corneria. He blows a hole in the peninsula so a boat can sail through, nice. He also mentions a town called Melmond. I head west and find the town. I learn that vampires recently attacked and some stuff about the Earth Cave and meet a sage who studies ancient languages. I quickly run into an issue, while I have been plenty strong the for past few bosses i need to train some more, not for levels, but for cash, this game takes so much money to keep your team properly equipped. Which I find wird, in most recent games you rarely need to purchase equipment at all, you can usually find or craft armor and weapons that are just as good or better than the stuff you buy. And in games where you do buy weapons regularly, like in FF IX, they are mostly inexpensive, or at the very least done completely leave you broke and needing more money to afford ridiculously lavish armor and seemingly unnecessary magic that I will rarely if ever use. So that is where I am now, training to gain some cash to buy armor and junk. The fights here are okay, not as good experience or cash as the Power Peninsula, but not bad So anyway, like I said at the start of this ridiculous paragraph, the story doesn't seem to be a story yet. It is just my team trying to go new places and fixing problems in the town to go somewhere else. I have saved a princess, beat up pirates, and saved an elf prince, all because I guess we are the Crystal Warriors..??
I would like to say that I am going to start playing and writing regularly, however, I am planning a Star Wars day this weekend with some friends and co-workers, so that will take all day Saturday, next Saturday my In-Laws and coming, and after this next week my child will be due any day. I am going to try to play and write at least one more blog before next weekend when company gets here, but it might be tough. Another note, I have been reading Youth in Revolt. I cannot decide what
I think about it. On one hand it is a very clever and depressing tale about a sexally frustrated 14 year old boy who is trying to survive puberty and his divorced parents dating other people while he seems to be smarter than everyone around him. He meets an intellectual equal in a girl who lives a couple hours away and who drives him to legit insanity where he cannot be brave enough to be the rebellious man that she desires him to be, so he develops multiple personality disorder where another version of him with a stuck on mustache can pull off these acts of debauchery to get close to her only to have her move further away and seem pretty nonchalant about most of his debaucherous acts which declare his love for her. So I like the story, I just get annoyed and resentful of most of the characters, main character included, because all these 14 year olds are trying to act and speak sophisticated adults buy using over inflated words and trying to one-up each other in conversations of politics and other scholarly allusions to be the biggest braggart/blow-hard. I know and understand that it is all part of the point of the book, that while pretending so hard to be a well-traveled and french versed adult that everyone is still making extremely childish decisions from how they are revolting to how he regularly spends every dollar he has on either donuts or trying to be with this girl, all the while the main goal or driving force of the protagonist and almost every other character, male and female, seems to be sex. I get all the irony and why the author made the characters like that, it just annoys me to have to read this book where most of the characters act and speak in that way.
I haven't really put anything of workouts in the last few blogs. Exercising has been good, I got a 100 on my pt test a couple weeks ago, I ran an 8:29 mile and a half, pretty good, but still slower than I would have liked to run. Next year I would like to get back into the 8:0? times. Last week I started lifting regularly again, pretty normal split to get back into lifting after taking a couple months focussing on the pt test. But I don't want to get too into my lifting routine as I wrote a couple blogs ago; this is now mostly going to be focussing on Final Fantasy with just updates on my life in general. There is a good chance this blog has more grammatical and spelling errors than usual since I am not going to reread it to make sure it makes sense. Super excited and anxious for my wife to give birth hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks, I can't wait to be a father. That is all for now I think...
The story of FFI is a little confusing and seems to not make very much sense. Since I was leveling outside of Pravoka I then had to take my ship West and found an elf village, aptly named Elfheim. There we find a Elf Prince who has been put into a deep sleep for a very long time, so now we need to find a "Jolt Tonic" I don't know how to get one, so I run around and find another castle called Western Keep. Inside is a king who claimed he was deceived by Astos, a dark elf (I think), and lost his crown. He asks me to retrieve it from the marsh so that he can restore his kingdom. So I start on that quest and go find the marsh, which is the annoying level in this game I have decided. Every game has a section that is annoying, either it is completely tedious, boring, and not fun, or it is riddled with cruelly difficult puzzles, or every monster seems to induce poison and/or stone on your characters. You know the type of levels; Halo CE had The Library, Halo 3 had Cortana, Kingdom Hearts II had Atlantica (actually most "Water levels" in any game), FF IX had the Evil Forest, FF X had the Thunder Plains (especially if you were after all the ultimate weapons in the game), Chrono Cross had the Hydra Forest, and Final Fantasy has the Marsh Cave (that is kind of a fun list to make). Some monsters cause poison, some cause death, the whole area is confusing and very difficult to navigate. Getting through the Marsh Cave and back to the Western Keep couldn't have happened quick enough. Anyway I gave the king the crown and turns out he is a bad guy I need to fight, Astos king of the Dark Elves. So I beat him up and get a Crystal Lense. I am lost for a while, after talking to NPC's, something that gaming has recently evolved away from, I learn about a witch named Matoya who may have Jolt Tonic. So I go north, just near the Corneria where I started and continue north to find a cave with Matoya, luckily she asks for the Crystal Lens so I don't need to go back and adventure more. She gives me the Jolt Tonic, I go wake up the Elf Prince and he gives me a Mystic Key. I immediately remember all the chests throughout the game that have been locked. I go back through all the places looking through the chests, most of the stuff is garbage and I already have weapons and armor better that what I am finding. Some of the swords seem like they may come in handy, a couple have a specific group of people that they do more damage too, so I will hold on to a few of them. Now I don't know where to go again. More talking to NPC's, I head west, which is blocked off, luckily there is a cave entrance and some dwarves mining. I look around Mt. Dueger and find the dwarf that seems to be in charge. He asks me for Nitro Powder which I have recently obtained in the previously locked chest in Corneria. He blows a hole in the peninsula so a boat can sail through, nice. He also mentions a town called Melmond. I head west and find the town. I learn that vampires recently attacked and some stuff about the Earth Cave and meet a sage who studies ancient languages. I quickly run into an issue, while I have been plenty strong the for past few bosses i need to train some more, not for levels, but for cash, this game takes so much money to keep your team properly equipped. Which I find wird, in most recent games you rarely need to purchase equipment at all, you can usually find or craft armor and weapons that are just as good or better than the stuff you buy. And in games where you do buy weapons regularly, like in FF IX, they are mostly inexpensive, or at the very least done completely leave you broke and needing more money to afford ridiculously lavish armor and seemingly unnecessary magic that I will rarely if ever use. So that is where I am now, training to gain some cash to buy armor and junk. The fights here are okay, not as good experience or cash as the Power Peninsula, but not bad So anyway, like I said at the start of this ridiculous paragraph, the story doesn't seem to be a story yet. It is just my team trying to go new places and fixing problems in the town to go somewhere else. I have saved a princess, beat up pirates, and saved an elf prince, all because I guess we are the Crystal Warriors..??
I would like to say that I am going to start playing and writing regularly, however, I am planning a Star Wars day this weekend with some friends and co-workers, so that will take all day Saturday, next Saturday my In-Laws and coming, and after this next week my child will be due any day. I am going to try to play and write at least one more blog before next weekend when company gets here, but it might be tough. Another note, I have been reading Youth in Revolt. I cannot decide what
I think about it. On one hand it is a very clever and depressing tale about a sexally frustrated 14 year old boy who is trying to survive puberty and his divorced parents dating other people while he seems to be smarter than everyone around him. He meets an intellectual equal in a girl who lives a couple hours away and who drives him to legit insanity where he cannot be brave enough to be the rebellious man that she desires him to be, so he develops multiple personality disorder where another version of him with a stuck on mustache can pull off these acts of debauchery to get close to her only to have her move further away and seem pretty nonchalant about most of his debaucherous acts which declare his love for her. So I like the story, I just get annoyed and resentful of most of the characters, main character included, because all these 14 year olds are trying to act and speak sophisticated adults buy using over inflated words and trying to one-up each other in conversations of politics and other scholarly allusions to be the biggest braggart/blow-hard. I know and understand that it is all part of the point of the book, that while pretending so hard to be a well-traveled and french versed adult that everyone is still making extremely childish decisions from how they are revolting to how he regularly spends every dollar he has on either donuts or trying to be with this girl, all the while the main goal or driving force of the protagonist and almost every other character, male and female, seems to be sex. I get all the irony and why the author made the characters like that, it just annoys me to have to read this book where most of the characters act and speak in that way.
I haven't really put anything of workouts in the last few blogs. Exercising has been good, I got a 100 on my pt test a couple weeks ago, I ran an 8:29 mile and a half, pretty good, but still slower than I would have liked to run. Next year I would like to get back into the 8:0? times. Last week I started lifting regularly again, pretty normal split to get back into lifting after taking a couple months focussing on the pt test. But I don't want to get too into my lifting routine as I wrote a couple blogs ago; this is now mostly going to be focussing on Final Fantasy with just updates on my life in general. There is a good chance this blog has more grammatical and spelling errors than usual since I am not going to reread it to make sure it makes sense. Super excited and anxious for my wife to give birth hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks, I can't wait to be a father. That is all for now I think...
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