KH3D hesitations

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance releases today in America.  But as awesome as the story, gameplay, and everything else is, I find myself hesitating to buy it.  Very odd.

I asked around the gaming stores, and they had no news of a Nintendo 3DS bundle pack for KH3D.  ;-;  Not that I really wanted to spend that much money for one game, but now knowing that I'd have to buy a less awesome, regular 3DS system---a whole other system!---I just couldn't take the plunge anymore.  x_x; 

My sister asked why I couldn't bring myself to buy a whole other system, when I already did so for Birth by Sleep.  A very good question.  But if I had to explain it...I guess it's because I already did it once for Birth by Sleep.  And I have a much tighter budget these days, than I did back then. 

But the PSP turned out to be one of my most valuable purchases.  I didn't realize how much I'd enjoy portable gaming.  I had always carried manga in my purse before, but the PSP allowed me to game AND it could hold doujinshi scans for me to read, much like a book of manga.  Gaming is nice in a public place, especially when I'm trying to take a breather from the stress of interacting with people.  But for some reason, people see you with a book and think that the quiet is just as boring to you, as it is to them.  Nevermind that you're trying to enjoy your book.  But no one interrupts you when they see you absorbed in a videogame.  ^-^  I used that to fend off the annoying flirty guys at a party once, and annoying chatty people I've had to stand in line with.  By the time I bought my PSP, I could use it for Birth by Sleep, Final Fantasy Dissidia, and Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core; it wasn't just for one game.

But with Nintendo's library---let alone the further limitation of the 3DS---I don't know what else I would buy the 3DS for, except for Dream Drop Distance.  A whole other system, just for one game?  Without any other interesting games for the forseeable future?  I just can't do it.  Not now.

So my sister suggested I wait a year or so, for the system to get cheap.  Maybe if I wait long enough, they'll port the game to a home console... *.*  Ha-ha, right.

manga from 07/27/2012 mail

Some of my favorite series came in the mail today!  ^U^

wishes for more Devil May Cry anime

Re-watching the Devil May Cry anime right now. 

When it first came out in 2008, I remembered not expecting the anime series to cover the main story that we all wanted:  Dante and Virgil.  The Devil May Cry videogame series was still going with its original storyline, so there was no way that the anime could cover that same storyline.  If they did, it would either spoil the videogame's story, or they'd run into contradictions.  (Even though the Devil May Cry 3 manga managed to cover the game's storyline, without any conflicts...)  The only logical options for the anime would be to use the DMC novel stories, or, in the same vein, do a bunch of side-stories that have nothing to do with the main story of Dante and Virgil.  So I kept my expectations realistic.  The anime series not only used references from the DMC novels, but they also used the "broke freelancer" genre type of plot (similar to Get Backers, Phantom Quest Corp., Green Drug, etc.), wherein each episode (or set of episodes), could almost be watched as one-shot stories, without the entire series as a whole, acting as an unbroken, overarching plotline.  You could basically, go in, watch any episode, in any order, without really missing anything.  The advantage to the writers, about these one-shot, anthology type of series, is that they focus more on the one-shot characters of each case, rather than on the background conflicts of the main protagonist.  (Also see Mushishi, Nightmare Inspector, Ballad of a Shinigami, Category Freaks, Mermaid Forest, Petshop of Horrors, etc.)  The DMC anime did just that. 

But now there's a reboot of the Devil May Cry videogame.  Sure, the gameplay looks awesome---I practically drool over the gameplay trailers.  But as a fan of the original storyline, I'm already invested in the previous version of Dante.  If the DMC fanbase that shows up at conventions and online is any indication, the DMC fanbase is made mostly of girls.  That equals "fangirls".  And fangirls are obsessed with storyline and characters.  Even if the rebooted DMC takes off, I hope that there's still something for the original version's fangirls. 

In fact, if the DMC videogame series settles into the reboot's storyline, that would create the perfect opportunity for another medium to tell the original storyline!  *o*  I wouldn't have to feel guilty about playing the reboot, if another medium took over telling the original version's story.  Sure, the manga-ka who drew the Devil May Cry 3 manga dropped the project, but Madhouse anime studio has seemed so eager to pick up pre-existing, non-manga, licensed titles, lately:  Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy VII Last Order, Supernatural, Batman: Gotham Knight,...  If a second Devil May Cry anime series was created, covering the storyline that we fangirls all came to love, then I'd buy it in a second.  (And if they re-released the first series with Kari Wahlgren dubbing Lady, like she did in the videogames, then I'd re-buy that too.  ^.~ )  Oh, to dream...*_*

Disney USUK event for 2 weeks

Right now, I'm getting caught-up in a LiveJournal community's summer event:  A Disney themed, USUK fan-work, everyday for 2 weeks. 

The challenge, I'm discovering, is realizing how unfamiliar I am with Disney.  ;_;  So far, each time I've read the day's theme, my mind just goes blank.  ~_~;  "Adventure Is Out There"?  "True Love's Kiss"?  And tomorrow's "I See the Light"?  Thank goodness for search engines and YouTube.  It's so sad that I can't just instantly know what movies these songs are from, as I'm sure everyone else can.  I'm so behind.  x_x; 
But the challenge is exciting.  I feel like, with each day, the difficulty is raising, for each new level of this game.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII cancelled?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPR1qQCQBo&feature=g-u-u
And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth...

Thankfully, the cancellation of Final Fantasy Versus XIII is just a rumor, for now.  Kotaku said they had 2 good sources that say the game is being cancelled.  But Square sounds tentative to call an official game cancellation.

 Maybe the fan support for FFvs13 can turn the tide.  With just the trailers, these past 6 years since FFvs13 was announced, there's been so much fan-art in Artist Alleys, as if FFvs13 was already a released and established FF game.  Even with just the small sample of opinions, through comments on the above video, I was surprised to learn how many people bought a PS3 in anticipation of FFvs13.  I mean, so did I, but I also got it for Kingdom Hearts and Devil May Cry 4.  I guess I wasn't the only one, drooling over the idea of a Final Fantasy action-RPG.  *.*

 But if Square really is cancelling FFvs13, my hope is that they're just doing away with the name.  The fail-safe scenario, in my opinion, would be for the name "Final Fantasy Versus XIII" to be scrapped, and for this game to get its own roman numeral in the Final Fantasy panthenon.  For all I know, FFvs13 could be the FF15 that the development team is being rolled into.  Maybe it's just wishful thinking.

 I just hope Noctis's story and that awesome action-RPG gameplay we saw in all those trailers comes true.
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UPDATE 07/26/2012:

So glad to find out that the cancellation of FFvs13 was _just_ a rumor.  So often these things can turn out to be the wiff of something real, but this time, we all got lucky.  ^-^

Though, some part of me wonders if this was part of someone's elaborate scheme to bring Square's attention back to working on FFvs13, instead of their current focus on making more FF13 sequels.  A big publicity stunt to garner public outcry and rekindle demand for FFvs13, to the Square executives...!  *o*  A conspiracy theory!---I need to lay off the Code Geass...  ~.~;

kowai!

You know that feeling when people threaten to throw out your collection, when you're not looking, just because it's not important to _them_?

07/18/2012 update

Recently uploaded video of Anime Expo 2012's 2nd Hetalia gathering.  Sorry I was late!  ;.;  I dashed from Artist Alley as fast as I could!

Today was all about re-organizing my room.  Which is how I ended up with this awesome column of plushies! 

Instead of doodling one Nekotalia drawing, I doodled a fancomic page. Though it's supposed to be a stand-alone, with the option for later pages, I've already started imagining what happens next.  Americat finds an orange tail, then Iggycat asleep in the rose bushes.  But with the way successive comic pages can loom over me for months (like "Alter Ego"), let's call this a stand-alone page for now.

Now, back to painting decorations and Photoshopping pics for my mom's fundraising party.