I've Bought Too Many Games...

In the past couple of months... It's ridiculous! Oh well, I'll go over the ones I've gotten...

PS2:

I always hear a lot of good stuff about Disgaea... And after I tried Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, I had to get the second one... Don't ask why. It was the first game I bought online with my recently acquired uber online purchasing powers...

I've always wanted to try this too... Connie-sama has it, and said she would let me borrow it, but I don't see her nearly enough to even begin to borrow it... And considering my current backlog, I'm not even sure when I'll ever get to play Radiata Stories. XD

I'm bad, I know.

YAY! PERSONA 3! I've actually wanted to play this game for a while... It's love so far... I really like it. I actually already am sold on the series... I know, I'm crazy.

I've always heard good things about Okami... Then I heard directly from Aya-chin that it was good. So I thought, what the heck, I'll just get it and try it out! :D

Wow, Guilty Gear. I never thought I would get this game. But after hearing about it from a lot of online friends, I thought, I have to see this. Actually the only reason it was mentioned was because a lot of them thought Chroche was Bridget... Which she most certainly is NOT. But, it's an interesting fighting game nontheless.

PSP:

Wooo~ Star Ocean! IN 2-D! The game was made RIGHT after Tales of Phantasia by the same team. The team quit because Namdai made some changes they didn't like, blah blah blah. I already explained this in my Infinite Undiscovery post... Since Tri-Ace is the one who made the Star Ocean series, and they were branched directly from the original creators of Tales of Phantasia. Anywho, I can't wait to try this game! Although my PSP is dead... So I can't... Hopefully I can get it back soon... T__T

I've heard a lot of good things about this SRPG. Domination said it was good, so I'm assuming he is! He and I have similar tastes anyway. And I generally do like SRPGs... So, yeah. I could have tried it if my PSP wasn't dead... T__T

XBOX 360:

Had to re-buy it because my other disc got killed... Sadly... T__T

Wheeeeee~ The first Sonic game I bought since Sonic Adventure 2: Battle! I heard bad things about this game... But I might like it just because of Silver and his telekinesis! I'm sure I'll enjoy that part of the game. XD Hopefully I like it... If I like it, I'll probably get Sonic Unleashed. Curse you Aya-chin and Starry-chan for making me want to try more Sonic games! *blames them*

Yep, that's all of them... I think! I'll post future releases that I've already preordered...

Yay Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World! I actually refuse to call it Tales of Symphonia 2 now, because I realized that if they really wanted to call it Tales of Symphonia 2, they would have. Like with Tales of Destiny 2. Hopefully they'll eventually make a Tales of Symphonia 2! With a different cast? Maybe? :D I still want a Tales of Vesperia: Flynn side in a way though... :D

Persona 4! Yes, I've put Persona 3 and 4 on the same post... Meaning, I've preordered 4 and I'm playing 3. I'm so insane. This is why my backlog is sooooo huge. :[ I'm kind of sad that P4 won't have Japanese Voices though, because Horie Yui, Koshimizu Ami, and Kugimiya Rie are all in it! D:

Yep, Kingdom Hearts: RE-Chain of Memories! I'm kind of excited about it actually. I never thought that I would be able to play this in English... I already beat the GBA version, but playing it again in 3-D should be fun! :D

Surprise! I actually preordered this... Now Thunder-kun won't have to tell me if it's good enough or not! XD I'm not sure whether I should call it Poison Pink or Eternal Poison... But I think I'll go with Poison Pink for now, because that's it's original name. I hope it's goood~ It's another SRPG! XD

Last but not least, my most look-forward to game for like ever (Besides Tales of Vesperia). I preordered it on Rosenqueen and I hope it gets here ASAP! Because, I really, really, really, really want to play it. CHROCHE-SAMA FTW! *ignores English names* *shudders at Jakuri's English name, "Jacqli" and Gengorou's English name "Goro"* I hope the release will be fine... I'm worried about the JP voices and the translation... But hopefully NISA will pull through as they usually do... Although they've recently taken a liking to changing names and stuff... It's all very disappointing...

Anywho, the only huge English Boxart for AT2 out right now is on Amazon, and I couldn't save it to show you guys... So sorry! I like the Japanese one better anyway...

Anywho! The next game I was going to post was Star Ocean: Second Evolution, but I haven't pre-ordered that yet... I will eventually though, probably. Along with Star Ocean: The Last Hope. You know... I probably should play and beat one of these before I buy more... Because, what if I hate it? I guess I think that since it's by the people that made Tales of Phantasia, that I'll like it... Who knows? I never actually beat Phantasia myself... But I do like the game and the concepts... Oh well! If ONLY they released Tales of Phantasia: Full Voice Edition here. *shakes fist at Nintendo*

OH YEAH! AND THERE'S TALES OF HEARTS! *wants anime version* However, I don't think I'll be getting that just yet...

And wow, that's a lot more games than I expected... Lots of money... Wow... I'm a horrible person. XD This is what happens when I have too much power... I mean seriously, online purchasing powers are unlimited! Unless you have no money of course... And I technically don't... Err... Thank you Financial Aid! :D

And this post took me a LOT longer than I expected!

Tales of Rar's Fandoms; Tri-Ace

Yes, I know. *gasp* It's midnight and I'm not playing Vesperia! In fact... I haven't played since... like 4 PM! Okay, I know... That's STILL not very impressive... But hey, I got a new game~ Which I still haven't even put into the system... But, I'll probably play it eventually. Or hopefully...

Anywho, that game is Infinite Undiscovery developed by Tri-Ace and published by Squeenix. Anywho, as very few people know... Or if I'm wrong and a lot do... Tri-Ace was originally the Tales of Phantasia team that started what we today know as the Tales series! The top Tri-Ace developers and writers did help out with Tales of Phantasia, but a lot of their stuff got changed by Namco, so they got mad and left after Phantasia was published and made a contract with Squaresoft. Thus they created their company, as well as the Star Ocean series that many people know and love today. Myself not included yet. Apparently, the original Star Ocean had many similar gameplay mechanics and stuff to Tales of Phantasia... Which is why I kind of think it's worth checking their games out.

Most people know their games, and they are pretty popular from what I've seen. Their most prominent series is Star Ocean, which most of you probably have heard of... Technically, Star Ocean is the sister series to Tales. Although it seems to be more Sci-Fi based than Fantasy. I only own one of the titles though, and that is the third one. Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Thankfully, the English version didn't come out until the Japanese version got fixed... Apparently the original Star Ocean 3 was dreadful somehow... Though I'll never be certain! But yeah, we got the Director's Cut... Which included additional features that were added in from the original Star Ocean 3.

Unfortunately, I haven't had the heart to play it too much yet... Only thirty minutes in so far. I'll get to it eventually though! Mark my words! I will beat every RPG I currently have! No exceptions! Unfortunately I'm really slow though... So that probably will take a while, considering how slow I was with Vesperia. Okay, I wasn't really slow, as I beat it in a little more than a week, and it usually takes me much longer to do that. Considering that Vesperia was considered to be around 40-60 hours long without sidequests... Me taking an extra 40+ hours to beat it with sidequests means that I AM slow. XD

Anywho! Back to Infinite Undiscovery... I heard different things about it in different boards. The one thing I heard that stuck to my mind was... "If you played Tales of Vesperia first, Infinite Undiscovery will feel very weak because Tales of Vesperia beats it in almost every aspect." Okay, that wasn't really a quote from anywhere, but it's pretty much summing up one of those topics made on GameFAQs... Of course, after seeing that, I got it anyway, because I know that I can't judge anything unless I play it myself. I learned that through Ar tonelico...

One of my secrets is that at first, I wasn't a very big fan of it... I played through the intro of it, and thought it wasn't as good as the Atelier Iris series. Of course, I only played through like... the first 30 minutes. Mind you this was like 2 years ago, so I don't think I was thinking quite like I do now. I grew a lot in the past year because of my first year in college...

But anywho, yeah I judged Ar tonelico at first because it just seemed like it wasn't my style of game... At first, it just felt VERY Sci-Fiey, yes I just made that word up. Of course, the beginning definitely WOULD feel like a Sci-Fi game, I mean Shurelia-sama looked like an android (and she technically really IS one, considering Reyvateils are artificial beings, although Reyvateils are a lot closer to humans than robots)... The Tower was VERY mechanical, and Lyner ended up flying a spaceship to the bottom of the tower... So yeah, very Sci-Fi so far. Also, viruses = more Sci-Fi. Anywho, since I was probably distracted by some other game, I stopped playing from after Lyner landed next to that village in the forest, both names which escape me... (feels ashamed to call himself an Ar tonelico fan now.) And I didn't touch the game until the fall of 2007. Yes, last year. Surprisingly, I wasn't such a big fan of Ar tonelico a year ago... If someone had mentioned the name "Chroche" to me last year, I would have no idea what they were saying. Of course, I did start playing it slightly before the release of Ar tonelico II in Japan... I know I beat Ar tonelico the first time in December of 2007 for sure. So yeah, my fandom for Ar tonelico steadily and rapidly grew as I played it. And here I am, today, a huge Ar tonelico fan, with my favorite character EVER being Chroche Latel Pastalie of Ar tonelico II: Sekai ni Hikibu Shoujo-tachi no Metafalica fame. XD Wow, things sure can change fast...

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Like this post... Gah! I am RAMBLING! Goddess Martel, I keep getting off topic of what I was originally meant to post! Anywho, Infinite Undiscovery. I got it. The most interesting thing I noticed about it first... Was the heroine's name. Aya. Yes, that's right, her name is Aya. I INSTANTLY thought of my Tales-fanatic friend AyameMajikku. It doesn't really help that she's an archer either, because Aya-chin LOVES Chester. Who is, obviously from Tales of Phantasia and is the Archer of the group... Anywho, I found this hilarious and felt that I needed to tell her right away... Which I did. Just because of the heroine being an archer named Aya made me want to play Infinite Undiscovery a bit more. XD

Hopefully I can enjoy Infinite Undiscovery despite my great love and bias towards the Tales series now. I was looking quite forward to it, despite it coming out a week after the amazingly awesome Tales of Vesperia. I thought it was very pretty the first time I've heard of it! I didn't even know it would come out so close to Vesperia's release... Considering I was already a huge Tales fan, and that my fandom for Tales and Gust RPGs have greatly overshadowed that of Squeenix's RPGs (although I shouldn't group Final Fantasy and Tri-Ace's games together, because they are developed by different teams) Infinite Undiscovery coming out AFTER Vesperia, really hurt it's chances of me playing it sooner. I'll play it eventually though, I know it. Possibly sometime this week! I still have just about two weeks before school starts after all! XD

I honestly don't know how I got into so many different fandoms... I know I said Chroche-sama is my favorite character of all time. But Nefertari Vivi from One Piece isn't forgotten yet! I'm still a uber fan of her despite my current... lack of Viviness anywhere. Or One Pieceness for that matter. o.o

Oh yeah, and I made a new banner for Connie-sama! I made her an Avatar too, she seems to like them. Check them out at her blog okay? XD

Anywho, I think that's enough rambling for now, because I've gone on wayyy too long enough, considering I was supposed to be mostly talking about Infinute Undiscovery rather than my fandom for everything... /swt