drawn Feb 15, '06
posted for Aug 4, 2007
(237)
Now
I turned my attention back to the wonderfully fantastical game Fire Emblem
9: Trail of Blue Flames. By this time I had gotten to the part where Reyson,
the heron prince, was betrayed by his friend Naesala, king of crows, and
sold to the human (FE9 polite: beorc) Duke Tanas, Bishop Oliver. Reyson,
despite being, as all herons are, frail-boned, also has a temper so he bashes
Tanas in the face when he finds out! I always liked drawing the shape-shifters
(laguz).I ought to mention that in the process, he breaks all the bones in the back of his hand (as well as Tanas' nose). Good thing he's skilled in healing as well.
I need to do a picture of Ranulf because so far all I've done are birds. Birds rock, but Ranulf the giant cat rocks too. As Hail-NekoYasha said, that hat is utterly boss and worth about 49 coolness points. I'm more interested in his blue tail...
To continue, I tried to make Tanas's villa look opulent to the extent my poor skills would let me, so there're tapestries and oil portraits and landscapes and bits of valuable pottery, and masses of guards - oh, wait, they're not opulent. Anyway, I wanted a crowd, but my patience gave out after the second one. No matter. My brother likes the 'landscape' on the left.
Fooling around with our dumb old Star Wars action figure voice projector thingy, we came up with these conversations.
"Meesa Jar-Jar Binks!"
"Chewie, get us out of here!"
"Gungans no liken outsiders."
"There's one. Set for stun." (fzzhiw)
Ahahahaha. ^_^7
My brother beat the Phantom Menace RPG for PC this morning, and the end was a little anti-climactic. For all that it took us several years to get past level 3, and then a couple more before we got stuck on the podrace level, the game is not very long and rather unrewarding. Even when you don't cheat (Iamobi). Kevin likes Panaka because he gets a super-reflecting-bolt gun, but likes Obi-Wan because he gets a lightsabre and he gets to double-jump (though pretty uselessly, or maybe it's just that the guys in Battlefront have super-spring-legs) and he gets tons of ammo that Qui-Gon doesn't (heehee, repeater Nerf-gun). The voices are completely off. The viceroy sounds like Panaka. But a challenging game for people a) unused to Zelda and b) scaredies like my brother and I USED to be.
We're doing all this Star Wars stuff because he's trying to make a Star Wars board game so he's playing and reading everything looking for planet names. He played through a great deal of X-Wing, and he's even reading Timothy Zahn's trilogy, which he hasn't before. He finds it oddly amusing in places. Me, I just cheer on Wedge and cringe when Timothy Zahn gets the squadron members 'wrong' - i.e. Rogue 10 is implied to be male and human, but in fact he's male and Gand. So sue me for being a bigger X-Wing fan than a TZ fan. And I disapprove of Luke labeling everything he does a 'technique'. But I can hear Leia and Han saying their lines in my head, which oddly enough doesn't happen on the rare occasions they appear in X-Wing.
Yay! Wedge!
I think I would like to listen to Fire Emblem music again. Some time I'll just sit down with it and listen to it. Perhaps when I'm in bed, waiting to go to sleep. 8 is, as I've said before, proportionally better than 7 although 7 has more songs, and 9 beats 8 by having a really real sounding digital orchestra. And it has lots of tolerable to good songs as well. I only can't stand the ones about the bad guys because, of course, they make them disturbing in harmony. That's 7's problem - too many bad guy songs.