EEEE PIRATES
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gogmagogOkay, so I abandoned my shortlived feud with Gamers because I wanted Suikoden: Tactics and they had it in. (Yes, I am easily angered but quick to cool down as well. Plus there's no other game store in town. I am both forgiving and pragmatic!)
So, without further ado, a SuikoTactics gameblog! :D
Okay, first off, the game is EXACTLY what you'd think of if you imagine Suikoden crossed with Final Fantasy Tactics. Gameplay, battles, even the music sounds like a cross between FFT and Suikoden. (It's Suikoden motifs, but it sounds like it was arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto with the harp arpeggios and suchlike.) Also, if you've played SuikoIV, you will squeal like a schoolgirl - this game caters to the Suikoh0's nostalgia wang.
Anyway, the game begins seven years before SuikoIV, in the town of Razril. It opens on a certain rich boy with flippy white hair and his poorer companion. The rich boy, of course, is Snowe Vingerhut, and his companion is the not yet Hot Pants-ed eventual hero of SuikoIV, referred to here as "Local Boy." They're playing around fighting furballs and "keeping the town safe" when suddenly a gigantic fishman runs past them. Snowe is freaked, but tries to brush it off. Then a band of folks comes running after it. It's led by a man named Walter, and includes his son Kyril (who's not much older than Snowe and Hot Pants), an archer named Seneca, a magician named Andarc, and a goat-girl named Yohn. Snowe demands that he and Hot Pants go along with them to find the fishguy, and Walter's too harried to fight him on it. XD
Anyway, you fight a battle. It's pretty cool - characters will leap to each other's defense and assist them much more than in previous games (I had Snowe protect Hot Pants twice and they both assisted each other once, and Seneca defended Walter). You get some fun in-battle dialogue when Snowe attacks and is all "aren't I cool, Walter?" and Walter's kinda "meh, whatever, kid." Then Hot Pants attacks a bad guy, Walter's all "that's a damn cool two-weapon technique" and Snowe grumps and sulks. XD
Anyway, after the battle they discover the fishguy, who it turns out was turned into a fishmanthing by a pirate's Rune Cannon. They leave Snowe and Hot Pants to their own kiddie devices and head to Middleport to find out more about Rune Cannons. There they hear, in town gossip, two things:
a) Sigurd (OMG SIGURD), who has the "handsomest face in town", is all pissy because "of some cute young man strutting around like he owns the place." Clearly they're setting up the Ambiguously Gay Pirate Duo already - damn, but Konami works fast. XD
b) Schtolteheim Reinbach II (yay, another returning character!), the head of the town, is selling Rune Cannons.
Walter and co. go to Reinbach's house, where they're palmed off by Sigurd, who's actually quite snotty. Walter knows he knows something, and asks him whether the Pirate Steele is involved, but Siggy stonewalls him. And once they leave, pissed off at their lack of success, Reinbach shows up and tells Sigurd to dispose of them on their ship. (Ooh, he's EBIL!)
Anyway, they're out in the Middleport port complaining about their reception when they're interrupted by OH MY GOD IT'S HERVEY! And he's cute and cocky, all, "Yeah, I'm Hervey of the High Seas...you must be silent because you're too THRILLED to speak!" (When informed that they have no idea who he is, he gets a bit disgruntled.) Anyway, he offers to take them to meet and fight the Pirate Steele.
"So you want us to fight your battles for you," Andarc snarks.
"With me, with me," Hervey says. XD
And they agree, since they don't really have any other angle on this investigation. And that's pretty much where I left off.
My thoughts about the characters:
Walter: He rocks...he's a kinda gruff, hotheaded softie. XD
Kyril: Kinda a nonentity so far, despite being the eventual main character. x_x
Andarc: Aww, he's a Walter fanboy. He's a glasses-wearing bishonen with kinda bad hair (a bowl cut, but not like a Salome in SuikoIII bowlcut, if that helps).
Seneca: She seems cool, and her voice actor sounds exactly like I imagine Queen's in SuikoIII would.
Yohn: Mostly just seems cute and weird, although she has some weird "listen to the dead's last thoughts" ability apparently.
Snowe/Hot Pants: EE EE EE SO CUTE
Sigurd: He has a different VA from SuikoIV - he's higher-voiced and just in general more stereotypically gay-sounding. XD
Hervey: He's also got a new VA, who's kinda boyish-sounding and perfect for the cocky tardness of Hervey. XD
I worry about the different VAs for returning characters, though...I really want some of the characters to have the same voice when they return. *cough*Kika*cough*
Anyway, if you played and liked SuikoIV then pick up SuikoTactics! I'd totally say it seems less gay than the previous Suikodens except, well, it doesn't. XD
And more BPAL reviews, as if you're not tired of them already:
DRAGON'S MILK
A truly fae nectar! Dragon's blood resin and honeyed vanilla.
In the bottle: Wow, it's very red! It smells like cinnamon and vanilla.
Wet: It even goes onto my skin red! :O
It smells spicy (that would be the dragon's blood, I guess), sort of like cinnamon but deeper and richer and not as biting. It's sweet and very nice...I can distinctly smell the vanilla, too, and it just makes for a great scent all together. (Oddly enough, when I get a whiff of it from a distance it almost smells cherryish.)
If I hadn't just tried Dorian this would be my favorite vanilla scent, and as it is it's kind of what I wanted Snake Oil to be. It's kinda weird seeing red oil on my skin, though. XD
Dry: Pretty much the same as wet. It's very very nice, especially in winter - it's a very warm, comforting scent.
Verdict: I definitely like it a lot...maybe a bottle a few orders away, but there are a few others I like more and want to buy bottles first of so for now I'm happy with the imp.
WHITE RABBIT
Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen.
In the bottle: Strong black tea.
Wet: A kind of fresh-ish leafy scent which is probably the linen note(?), with a strong under-/aftertone of black tea. The pepper I can't really smell, but the catch at the back of my throat tells me it's there. I CAN smell the ginger a bit, just a tinge of zing. It's very acerbic and kind of astringent, tart and brisk and not at all sweet.
Dry: The tea strengthens, but it's definitely unsweetened tea and so while it's less cuttingly tart it's no sweeter than it is when wet. The pepper is a bit stronger too.
Verdict: I dunno...it's a very interesting scent, but not one I find hugely pleasant per se. I'd love to be able to find a set of circumstances for which it would be perfect to wear, but in the meantime I don't imagine I'll use it much.
SAINT-GERMAIN
"A man who knows everything and who never dies." Said to have lived for centuries, the Comte de Saint-Germain is truly a man of legend and mystery. He was an aristocrat, master alchemist, adventurer, magician, artist, and seer with a lust for exquisite jewels, and was reputed to have attained knowledge of the Elixer of Life. His knowledge was so vast and all-encompassing that his claim to have lived hundreds of years - he allegedly knew Jesus and was present at the Council of Nicea - was widely accepted as true. He is a Hermetic Magician's hero for the ages, and his scent is an elegant, timeless, truly refined cologne, bold yet classic: gilded amber, hypnotic lavender, brash carnation and deep mosses.
In the bottle: Kinda mentholy, like Vicks Vaporub.
Wet: Oh, this is nice. I can smell the moss and the amber, but the lavender (which is probably the predominant note) grounds it a bit. It's warm and not particularly heavy but not particularly light either. It seems very peaceful and serene.
Dry: The lavender takes over a bit more, but the amber and moss keep it from getting too feminine. It smells kind of...I want to say musty, but in a good way - like finding an heirloom in the attic or something.
Verdict: Very nice, and I'll look at a bottle eventually way in the future maybe, but not for a while.
And a quiz:
You are Hinata Fuyuki. A little bland, quite calm,
and fairly reserved; you are the everyman. You
oftentimes fall victim to someone else's gags
or shenanigans. You've gotten used to it by
now-- putting up with goobers can actually be
fun sometimes. Besides, what's a little
harmless joking, right? So... can I have my
kero ball back?
Which Keroro Gunsou Character Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
Well, I kinda wanted Tamama, but I'll settle for Fuyuki. (I'm like a bastard cross between the two.)
Let's Positive Linking!
- Okay, so Harry Potter teaches Satanism by perverting the Immaculate Conception. Featuring Voldemort as God, Harry Potter as Jesus, Lucius Malfoy as the Angel Gabriel, and Dobby as the evil stem cell researchers. (No, I'm not joking.) Oh, and let us not forget the Tempting Gay Ankle of DOOM.
- A Freudian slip? (Both this and above from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enkiae.) And I bet you never thought you'd see me post anything Dragon Ball Z-related in this journal. XD
- SEXTERMINATE SEXTERMINATE. (Fromjokersama.) Yes, it is an article about Dalek pr0n. XD
So, without further ado, a SuikoTactics gameblog! :D
Okay, first off, the game is EXACTLY what you'd think of if you imagine Suikoden crossed with Final Fantasy Tactics. Gameplay, battles, even the music sounds like a cross between FFT and Suikoden. (It's Suikoden motifs, but it sounds like it was arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto with the harp arpeggios and suchlike.) Also, if you've played SuikoIV, you will squeal like a schoolgirl - this game caters to the Suikoh0's nostalgia wang.
Anyway, the game begins seven years before SuikoIV, in the town of Razril. It opens on a certain rich boy with flippy white hair and his poorer companion. The rich boy, of course, is Snowe Vingerhut, and his companion is the not yet Hot Pants-ed eventual hero of SuikoIV, referred to here as "Local Boy." They're playing around fighting furballs and "keeping the town safe" when suddenly a gigantic fishman runs past them. Snowe is freaked, but tries to brush it off. Then a band of folks comes running after it. It's led by a man named Walter, and includes his son Kyril (who's not much older than Snowe and Hot Pants), an archer named Seneca, a magician named Andarc, and a goat-girl named Yohn. Snowe demands that he and Hot Pants go along with them to find the fishguy, and Walter's too harried to fight him on it. XD
Anyway, you fight a battle. It's pretty cool - characters will leap to each other's defense and assist them much more than in previous games (I had Snowe protect Hot Pants twice and they both assisted each other once, and Seneca defended Walter). You get some fun in-battle dialogue when Snowe attacks and is all "aren't I cool, Walter?" and Walter's kinda "meh, whatever, kid." Then Hot Pants attacks a bad guy, Walter's all "that's a damn cool two-weapon technique" and Snowe grumps and sulks. XD
Anyway, after the battle they discover the fishguy, who it turns out was turned into a fishmanthing by a pirate's Rune Cannon. They leave Snowe and Hot Pants to their own kiddie devices and head to Middleport to find out more about Rune Cannons. There they hear, in town gossip, two things:
a) Sigurd (OMG SIGURD), who has the "handsomest face in town", is all pissy because "of some cute young man strutting around like he owns the place." Clearly they're setting up the Ambiguously Gay Pirate Duo already - damn, but Konami works fast. XD
b) Schtolteheim Reinbach II (yay, another returning character!), the head of the town, is selling Rune Cannons.
Walter and co. go to Reinbach's house, where they're palmed off by Sigurd, who's actually quite snotty. Walter knows he knows something, and asks him whether the Pirate Steele is involved, but Siggy stonewalls him. And once they leave, pissed off at their lack of success, Reinbach shows up and tells Sigurd to dispose of them on their ship. (Ooh, he's EBIL!)
Anyway, they're out in the Middleport port complaining about their reception when they're interrupted by OH MY GOD IT'S HERVEY! And he's cute and cocky, all, "Yeah, I'm Hervey of the High Seas...you must be silent because you're too THRILLED to speak!" (When informed that they have no idea who he is, he gets a bit disgruntled.) Anyway, he offers to take them to meet and fight the Pirate Steele.
"So you want us to fight your battles for you," Andarc snarks.
"With me, with me," Hervey says. XD
And they agree, since they don't really have any other angle on this investigation. And that's pretty much where I left off.
My thoughts about the characters:
Walter: He rocks...he's a kinda gruff, hotheaded softie. XD
Kyril: Kinda a nonentity so far, despite being the eventual main character. x_x
Andarc: Aww, he's a Walter fanboy. He's a glasses-wearing bishonen with kinda bad hair (a bowl cut, but not like a Salome in SuikoIII bowlcut, if that helps).
Seneca: She seems cool, and her voice actor sounds exactly like I imagine Queen's in SuikoIII would.
Yohn: Mostly just seems cute and weird, although she has some weird "listen to the dead's last thoughts" ability apparently.
Snowe/Hot Pants: EE EE EE SO CUTE
Sigurd: He has a different VA from SuikoIV - he's higher-voiced and just in general more stereotypically gay-sounding. XD
Hervey: He's also got a new VA, who's kinda boyish-sounding and perfect for the cocky tardness of Hervey. XD
I worry about the different VAs for returning characters, though...I really want some of the characters to have the same voice when they return. *cough*Kika*cough*
Anyway, if you played and liked SuikoIV then pick up SuikoTactics! I'd totally say it seems less gay than the previous Suikodens except, well, it doesn't. XD
And more BPAL reviews, as if you're not tired of them already:
DRAGON'S MILK
A truly fae nectar! Dragon's blood resin and honeyed vanilla.
In the bottle: Wow, it's very red! It smells like cinnamon and vanilla.
Wet: It even goes onto my skin red! :O
It smells spicy (that would be the dragon's blood, I guess), sort of like cinnamon but deeper and richer and not as biting. It's sweet and very nice...I can distinctly smell the vanilla, too, and it just makes for a great scent all together. (Oddly enough, when I get a whiff of it from a distance it almost smells cherryish.)
If I hadn't just tried Dorian this would be my favorite vanilla scent, and as it is it's kind of what I wanted Snake Oil to be. It's kinda weird seeing red oil on my skin, though. XD
Dry: Pretty much the same as wet. It's very very nice, especially in winter - it's a very warm, comforting scent.
Verdict: I definitely like it a lot...maybe a bottle a few orders away, but there are a few others I like more and want to buy bottles first of so for now I'm happy with the imp.
WHITE RABBIT
Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen.
In the bottle: Strong black tea.
Wet: A kind of fresh-ish leafy scent which is probably the linen note(?), with a strong under-/aftertone of black tea. The pepper I can't really smell, but the catch at the back of my throat tells me it's there. I CAN smell the ginger a bit, just a tinge of zing. It's very acerbic and kind of astringent, tart and brisk and not at all sweet.
Dry: The tea strengthens, but it's definitely unsweetened tea and so while it's less cuttingly tart it's no sweeter than it is when wet. The pepper is a bit stronger too.
Verdict: I dunno...it's a very interesting scent, but not one I find hugely pleasant per se. I'd love to be able to find a set of circumstances for which it would be perfect to wear, but in the meantime I don't imagine I'll use it much.
SAINT-GERMAIN
"A man who knows everything and who never dies." Said to have lived for centuries, the Comte de Saint-Germain is truly a man of legend and mystery. He was an aristocrat, master alchemist, adventurer, magician, artist, and seer with a lust for exquisite jewels, and was reputed to have attained knowledge of the Elixer of Life. His knowledge was so vast and all-encompassing that his claim to have lived hundreds of years - he allegedly knew Jesus and was present at the Council of Nicea - was widely accepted as true. He is a Hermetic Magician's hero for the ages, and his scent is an elegant, timeless, truly refined cologne, bold yet classic: gilded amber, hypnotic lavender, brash carnation and deep mosses.
In the bottle: Kinda mentholy, like Vicks Vaporub.
Wet: Oh, this is nice. I can smell the moss and the amber, but the lavender (which is probably the predominant note) grounds it a bit. It's warm and not particularly heavy but not particularly light either. It seems very peaceful and serene.
Dry: The lavender takes over a bit more, but the amber and moss keep it from getting too feminine. It smells kind of...I want to say musty, but in a good way - like finding an heirloom in the attic or something.
Verdict: Very nice, and I'll look at a bottle eventually way in the future maybe, but not for a while.
And a quiz:
You are Hinata Fuyuki. A little bland, quite calm,
and fairly reserved; you are the everyman. You
oftentimes fall victim to someone else's gags
or shenanigans. You've gotten used to it by
now-- putting up with goobers can actually be
fun sometimes. Besides, what's a little
harmless joking, right? So... can I have my
kero ball back?
Which Keroro Gunsou Character Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
Well, I kinda wanted Tamama, but I'll settle for Fuyuki. (I'm like a bastard cross between the two.)
Let's Positive Linking!
- Okay, so Harry Potter teaches Satanism by perverting the Immaculate Conception. Featuring Voldemort as God, Harry Potter as Jesus, Lucius Malfoy as the Angel Gabriel, and Dobby as the evil stem cell researchers. (No, I'm not joking.) Oh, and let us not forget the Tempting Gay Ankle of DOOM.
- A Freudian slip? (Both this and above from
enkiae.) And I bet you never thought you'd see me post anything Dragon Ball Z-related in this journal. XD- SEXTERMINATE SEXTERMINATE. (From
jokersama.) Yes, it is an article about Dalek pr0n. XD
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Date: 2005-12-01 12:10 am (UTC)WHUT?
They're mobile pepperpots with plungers for arms!
Sinister? Pfah
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Date: 2005-12-01 04:09 am (UTC)All their scents pretty much are named for historical or literary or mythological figures, which is nice. I think it's got quite a following in the Goth community, but the company itself isn't particularly Goth, and even if you're the farthest thing from Goth possible (like, say, ME) there's still plenty to enjoy.
And really, even discounting their entire line of Voodoo and Tarot and Sephiroth oils, where else can you get perfumes named Nyarlathotep or Sacred Whore of Babylon? >D
In fact, they recently (earlier this year) had a limited edition collection of H.P. Lovecraft-inspired perfumes called "Springtime in Arkham." Some of them had great names, like R'lyeh and Shoggoth and Mi-Go Brain Canister. XD
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Date: 2005-12-02 01:54 pm (UTC)Still, what's hysterical is that she's completely serious. It's almost like the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal pics: http://ruthlessreviews.com/top10/10blackmetal.html, http://ruthlessreviews.com/top10/10blackmetal2.html . They appear completely ridiculous, but they're totally serious. Oh, and FYI in case you need it, black metal music stems from dismal and cold Scandinavian countries like Norway and is all about angry Satanism.
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:35 pm (UTC)And those metal pictures are hilarious. Protip: flabby middle-aged men should not wear gut-baring bondage gear.
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Date: 2005-12-03 06:10 am (UTC)My favorite of those black metal pics is the dude from Mayhem posing with the pig head.