taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Cheren+Bianca / What strength means)
First things first. I revamped my domain despite the fact I haven't worked in any sites forever. Mostly because it had been so long with the same layout and most images were broken and that's sad. So here it is, a little dull but at least it's clean and a fairly good practice to some CSS3.


mercury-retrograde.net


If I ever get less lazier, I'll make the avatar-ish image in the sidebar a random image of fandoms I like. And maybe make skins in different colors. But so far it's enough as it is.

Fandom-wise, I haven't been up to a lot of stuff. I've kind of been really active on plurk but mostly because a lot of friends from the RP are over there. I've been limiting my time on Tumblr because it's a fucking black hole for visual magpies, but I still check the dash and update my blogs at least twice a day.

New anime season, other shit I've watched, me failing as gamer forever )

ETA: I did buy a HDD in the end. It's a 1TB electric blue WD which I named TARDIS.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Obligatory Star Wars icon)
Confession time. You know how I've said that the ones at fault for me liking snarky het pairings were Han Solo and Leia?

...Today I realized it goes back further in my childhood. I shipped Han/Leia because it was an instance of this. How embarrassing!

And maybe, things like Howl/Sophie and Tamaki/Haruhi made me prefer the instances where the girl would be the one saying the variations of "excuse me, princess!" to the guy. No wonder I ship Klavier/Ema.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Yotsuba / WTF did I just watch...?)
Goes to show how much of a weird freak I am. I actually enjoyed 3 minutes of music video of canon AU (with hip hop BGM) better than 27 episodes of mecha and attacking with galaxies and OMGSOGAR.

You know why? Because it's a fucking ZELDA RIPOFF. No, really, it is. And I'd play it if this was a videogame, but only if it was an action-with-puzzles in the lines of (of course!) Zelda/Okami.

Honestly, guys. Slithering through guards hiding under bushes.



I've done it... in OCARINA OF TIME. And one of the Oracle games too, I think.

But really, honestly, I'm broken because I find this more epic. THE LEGEND OF NIA: A DRILL TO THE PAST. I'm half serious with this. SIMON, HERO OF SPIRAL, PIERCE THE HEAVENS WITH YOUR MASTER DRILL. Or something.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ammy and Issun / slicing fruit)
I am, I am. ♥ ♥ And there's no one to fangirl about this game around, and it's driving me nuts.

I'M SO, SO HOOKED ON OKAMI it's not normal on me. I haven't loved a game this much since, uh, Ocarina of Time or something. It's amazing how this game, quirky and obscure as it is, manages to do what three Final Fantasy's and two Zelda's couldn't: glue me to a console and have me play daily.

I'm lazy when it comes to videogames, what can I say. But I'm addicted to Okami. It gets me off the Internets. Inconceivable!

The story is an artistic license of Japanese mythology. Incidentally, the fact it pretty much rapes several myths doesn't bother me much. I mean, I buy the Matantei Loki manga, for crying out loud. And I've seen it 'worse' in Disney movies anyway. It's still fun to recognize names of Japanese figures I've read about. And since the story is interesting (BTW, I already spoiled myself the ending :D), the names of the characters don't matter that much.

Now, the gameplay. Here's the thing: it's a Zelda. Yes, a Zelda. I'm playing a fucking Zelda. Even the producers admit they were inspired on Zelda.

No, I'm not saying it because you play as a wolf like in Twilight Princess, or it uses cel-shading graphics like The Windwaker. No. It's the same style of doing stuff, although with more random encounters. And when you get to the ruins in Agata forest, which is your first "dungeon", things are starting to look quite familiar. I mean, you're in a dungeon in the middle of the forest, trying to rescue someone, and you're like jumping on plants (and fungi, too) because the whole building is like too organic, and flying on pink flowers. You have to solve tiny puzzles to pass to other rooms. And the final boss? A spider queen. Yeah. I know it's mythological and shit, but come on. Your first boss is a spider.

I could go on and on about the similarities between the Zelda saga and Okami when it comes to gameplay and roles (aka, Issun is Navi/Tatl/Midna; Sakuya is the Oracle games' Deku Trees; Waka is who, Sheik? and so on) But see, I LOVE that it's so much like Zelda. And hell, the more spoilers I read, the more things I see to make parallels of.

Now, the characters. I love how expressive Amaterasu is without speaking. And she's so damn cute, like a big, glompable husky dog :3 I dig Issun's personality, so bratty. I normally hated when the navigator/guide characters from Zelda looked down on me (Link) and pulled the snark, but it's funny with him. Maybe it's because most of the cast insult him back XD And he's just shamelessly childish.

But well. I have a crush on Waka. A HUGE, stupid crush on Waka. I started looking for info about him on the Internet after I saw him for the first time. And now that I've talked to him three times (and fought that motherfucker twice), and I spoiled myself, I so love his character and I understand why my intuition told me to obsess over him.

Because yeah, he's painfully and embarrassingly dorky. True that the embarrassing part comes from the English translators themselves, who thought it was a good idea to give his speech a touch of fangirl French (WTF?). But if you ignore the French thing, or even if you include it, he's lol-worthy and intriguing. I don't know, he reminds me in some aspects of Kujaku (prophet, random popping in and out of the plot, in the end being a major character), and Ling ("hay do you guys know anything about ___? eh? oh well, I'll try to kick your asses just because ^_^"), and Sheik (musical instrument, purple prose as introduction, and leaves in a rush). So yeah, I see why I like him.

And the fact he doesn't look bad, especially in fanarts, is a bonus~

Youtube link: First appearance of Waka. Fear the lack of mouth and the French and the weird visual machine of Okami.

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