Virtual Adept

Been a while since I posted up some movie reviews, so here’s some from various movies and DVD’s we’ve seen lately:

Casanova - I was kind of expecting something quite different than what this actually was. For starters, it has an R rating, but where is the nudity? I mean, this is a movie about the legendary lover Casanova!! Come on, show some skin! Secondly, this is really a comedy, and not a historical piece. The history is pretty much all wrong. But as a comedy, this movie is pretty frickin’ hilarious. I laughed a lot while sitting through this. If you like romantic comedies with quite a bit of sexual innuendo (but no actual, you know, sex), and comedies about identity hijinks, you will probably like this. If you’re a big fan of Venice, you will enjoy the scenery in this movie, which was pretty beautiful. 6.5/10

National Treasure: Book of Secrets - basically, not much to say here. A typical action/adventure/mystery type thriller. if you like things like Tomb Raider, The Mummy, Indiana Jones, or especially the first National Treasure movie, you are in the target audience. It is basically eye and ear candy for 2 hours with some humor and thrills and amounts to basically nothing at the end of it. It will not change your life or make you think or give you any new enlightenment about this crazy thing called life. But it probably will entertain you, if you like that sort of thing. I liked it, and overall only 1 or 2 things bothered me, easily overlooked (that I can’t mention without spoilers). Not sure as it’s “must-see-in-the-theater” type movie, probably if you’re not sure about it save it for a rental. 7.5/10

RV - Robin Williams takes his family on a road trip in a rented RV. Hilarity ensues. Really not much to say here except I was laughing pretty much non stop for the whole movie. None of it was dirty humor or druggie humor or stupid ass humor either, just clean, rolling on the floor humor. If you liked National Lampoon’s Vacation, The Great Outdoors, and movies of that sort, you will most likely find this movie funny and charming. 8/10

Bobby Z - this movie is quite possibly one of the worst movies I’ve seen since Syriana. It’s not even a “so bad it’s good” kind of bad, it’s just, bad. The ending totally sucked. Could have been a decent story without such a cop-out ending. Fishburn writes in his role here, I was disappointed, he can act way better than this. Then they try and throw in some huggy feely shit near the end, which ruins what might have been a great little balls-out action movie if they’d have put a few more cajones into it. Blech. 5/10

Good Night and Good Luck - Great A+ level acting, I couldn’t even tell who half the actors were they were so authentic, even Clooney didn’t stand out as his typical Clooney persona. This film is 100% black & white, to get the feel of the era, which was off putting at first but eventually I got to like it that way. This is the story of how a TV news show team takes on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the infamous communist senate hearings era. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you need to read up on this era in US history, it is highly relevant today and serves as a warning as to just how perilous freedom really is, even in the so called Land of the Free. A few bits of this could have been cut out to make it shorter and more to the point. It clocks in at 93 minutes which is short by today’s standards, but I feel a movie of this nature needs to be short to keep people focused on the issue. 8.5/10

The Sopranos, Season 6 - Well, this was… an ending, I guess. I liked about half the episodes of this season, the rest just seemed like WTFiller. If you asked me what I think about Sopranos I have to say I absolutely love this show overall, but I didn’t really think that Season 6 added much to the whole thing. There are a few key moments that really had that awesome Sopranos edge to it, and those are must-see for any fans of the series. Unfortunately the whole season isn’t like that but it’s still worth a view for sure. If you’re expecting everything to get all wrapped up nice and neat with a earth shattering finale, well, don’t expect that, you’ll just be disappointed. If you have never watched Sopranos you should start with Season 1 Disc 1 because you absolutely can not start in the middle and know what the fuck is happening. This is the most realistic authentic feeling mafia show you’ll ever see in some ways, and in other ways it’s ridiculous, but it’s a wonderful ride. Overall series gets a 10/10 for me, I gotta be loyal to “the family” ;-P, but this season, especially with its “ending” gets a 8/10

Fred Claus - Vince Vaughn is Santa Claus’s older, forgotten brother and he resents St. Nick’s good nature and how his parents love little Nick more than Fred. This movie is pretty much fluff, but it’s a pretty funny popcorn movie to go see if you just want a light laugh having something to do with Christmas. There are better Christmas movies out there and there are better comedies out there. Vaughn is fairly low-key in this, not his usual over-the-top assholishness (ala The Breakup). If you hate Vince Vaughn, this movie won’t change your mind. Overall we were more or less entertained, but not wowed. 7/10

Firewall - harrison ford, predicatble plot, he did this same movie already in an airplane i think. family is taken hostage, he’s a bank security guru and has to help the thugs steal 100 million and keep his family alive. too many dull moments talking about boring computer security shit that isn’t even real computer security shit. i am glad we waited to rent this instead of going to see it at the movies like she wanted. oh well, i watched one of her movies so i get to pick next. oh and the blu-ray version of it isn’t impressive at all, looks about like a DVD. 6.5/10

The Aviator - i wasn’t really surprised at this, because i always thought he was an above average actor, but Leo DiCaprio does a smash up job as airplane/movie mogul Howard Hughes in this biographical movie. supporting acting is also top notch. This movie was long. 2 hrs 50 min. A bit too long. And they concentrated a bit too much on his mental illness (they lingered too long on those scenes is what I mean). the scenes involving airplanes and aviation were fantastic. the babes are all pretty hot also. the movie doesn’t cover his whole life, tho, and really only concentrates on a short window where he made his fortunes and ultimate decline in health. his later years after 1947 are not covered at all, and the movie doesn’t explain how he learned to fly or how he knew so much about aviation. some time spent on his formative years would have been nice, and maybe some bits on possible triggers for his mental illness which began to impact his life dramatically later in life. all in all, he was a man of strong character (or is portrayed as such in this film) in some ways, and not in others, but most of all his life was very interesting. 8.5/10

Black Hawk Down - saw the Blu-ray of this yesterday. pretty intense, lots of cool urban warfare stuff. lots and lots of killing. pretty hard to believe our military did such a clusterfuck on that thing (if the movie is a true interpretation of the events). what seemingly should have been a simple smash and grab turned into a day/night long battle. lot of testosterone and people doing stupid things in the name of honor and bravery. overall it was well worth watching again, especially since this is the first time i saw it in HD. 8.5/10

Kung-Fu Hustle - i almost turned this off after about 20 minutes of it seemingly going nowhere and just being really stupid. man am i glad i didn’t. this is one of those really slow starters but once it got going it was absolutely hilarious and the action was over the top of cool. completely unrealistic, sure, but awesome. really a neat little movie. i think the dubbing in places was pretty awful but other than that it was well worth a view. 8/10 (could have been higher if it hadn’t been such a slow starter)

My latest reviews at Game Chronicles:

Alpha Prime, first person shooter for PC.

Conan, action beat-em-up for PS3 (it has a 360 ver also).

My Spanish Coach - learn to speak Spanish on the DS.

My French Coach - learn to speak French on the DS.

My Word Coach - learn to speak English better (bigger vocabulary) on the Wii. Also on the DS.

Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa - the latest adventure for the comedic duo, for PC.

I wrote a review of the horror first-person shooter Clive Barker’s Jericho for Playstation 3 for the web site GameChronicles a couple of weeks ago, forgot to mention it but now I did so go read it and let me know if you liked the review or not. There should be a review of Conan coming up pretty soon also.

A few weeks ago I signed up for a new online rental service that lets you put both games and movies in your queue for one low price. It’s called GamezNFlix.com, and for 3 at a time (anything, games or DVD’s) you pay $16.99, which is cheaper than Netflix’s 3 at a time and cheaper than GameFly’s 2 at a time plans. This all sounds really good, but there are some problems with the service.

First of all, the selection is nowhere near the level of Netflix. Expect to have to wait for a lot of movies before you get one sent. Even their game selection is poor compared to GameFly. Maybe that’s because this is a new service, so hopefully they will build up their library fast and have a better selection soon. I was able to get a few newish 360 games and a few fairly new movies so it’s not horrible, but just don’t expect it to be on the level of the reigning champs for movies or games.

Secondly the interface is really poor. The browsing seems to be completely random and useless. Movie genres are all mixed together, with anime showing up in action along with TV shows. The “coming soon” and “new releases” list old movies that happen to have a new reprint coming, even worse, it only shows you 60 titles on those lists, and so it’s only a small sampling of the new releases or coming soon titles. Most of the movies and/or games don’t have much of a description to tell you about it. Managing your queue is a pain, it’s hard to move things around in the queue compared to Netflix or GameFly. Even if you click the “move to top of queue” button I’ve found that it doesn’t always work. The queue doesn’t have a “buy it now” button for the things you have out. Heck, the queue doesn’t even tell you if the item is a game or a movie or what platform it’s on, it’s just got the title.

My recommendation at this time is that this service is just okay and not really worth the hassle just to save a few bucks. You’d be better off getting Netflix and Gamefly and paying more. If you’re on a tight budget you might give this one a look, however. If only Netflix would start renting out games, my problems would be solved.

I have put in enough hours into Saint’s Row to finally write a few things about it. First of all, Saint’s Row is the only Xbox 360 game that I have bought new when it first came out. I paid $55, because I had a $5 off coupon at Best Buy. In my estimation, this is the only 360 title truly worth spending full price on. The game is essentially a next-gen high-definition clone of the Grand Theft Auto series, but it is a very well done clone, and it does offer some new things to the genre.

Make no mistake, this is a M rated game, for adults only. Please don’t let you kids play this game, it is extremely violent, has strong sexual themes, has lots of foul language, and the whole game is filled with criminal activities. You don’t want your kids imitating this. At all. As always, what age is responsible enough to play this game is dependent on the kids and the parents. I think anyone younger than 15 is probably too young but YMMV. The ESRB rates it for 18 and older only.

The basic goal of Saint’s Row is to increase the standing of your neighborhood gang, the 3rd Street Saints. The Saints are called that because their base of operations is an old abandoned church that is on 3rd street in the section of town called “the row”. The Saints are a mixed race gang, which is good, because with the very excellent character creation system for the game, you can make a character that is pretty much any color, any style, nearly anything you could want.

Saint’s Row has one of those facial morphing things that lets you change all kinds of things like how far the eyes are appart, the color of everything on your body (eyes, hair, skin, etc), a bajillion different hair styles, etc. If you want to make a character that looks like you, it’s probably doable with this face maker. During the game you have a lot of customization over wardrobe but you have to earn the cash to buy your hreads and some of them are excessively priced so for the really sweet looking styles you’re going to have to work your way up to them.

There is a story of a sort to this game, which you learn more about by completing missions. Most missions are blocked to you until you earn enough reputation points to unlock them. A lot of the missions and activities in Saint’s Row have a black humor to them. It’s funny, but in a sort of crude way. The radio stations also have a black satirical humor feel to them, much like they do in the GTA series. In addition to a fantastic soundtrack offered by the built in radio stations, Saint’s Row also lets you play playlists from music you have stored on the 360 hard drive.

Many missions will result in the Saints taking over more neighborhoods in the city. Controlling more neighborhoods will increase the amount of money going into the gang’s coffers. Sometimes rival gangs will try to re-take the neighborhoods you’ve already won, so you will have to go back to those neighborhoods and defeat the gangs that are invading it.

The controls for driving in Saint’s Row are extremely intuitive and work very well. It only took me five or ten minutes to get the hang of driving with the Xbox 360 controller. This is unlike GTA for PS2 which I never could get used to. The way you shoot out of vehicles works a lot better than GTA does, you can actually aim and shoot pretty much like normal, you don’t have to swith to some goofy side view mode and only be able to shoot out the sides. All in all the driving just feels right in this game. The streets also seem more realistic, especially the freeways which really did feel like driving on a freeway.

Saint’s Row has a lot of little touches that make an overall big impression. The water effects look amazing, with realistic reflections and wave patterns. Neon glow of the street light reflecting in the puddles of rain water, the rain effects feel realistic as well. Every building in the game looks unique. The city just feels alive, like a real city. The attention to detail of the artists and coders is amazing.

Sound effects and voice work in Saint’s Row are all exceptional. The game has a killer soundtrack which you hear by listening to the radios in your cars, much like GTA series. The cars all have a realistic sound to them. Weapons fire sounds good, and has that satisfactory feel to them. Wrecking and explosions all sound right. The rumble in the controller is put to good use here also.

While you’re out driving pedestrians will try to jump out of the way, cursing you as they do if you get too close to them. There are a finite number of character models used for the random pedestrians, but it’s a pretty big number because unlike in GTA games, you never see two identical pedestrians walking around in the same area. Even the cops that come when you start being bad will be unique. The AI is pretty good, also. Opponents will take cover if available, and will try to flank you so they can get you in a crossfire.

The gameplay revolves around story-focused missions, pick-up-anytime “activities”, and just freeform gameplay. Activities are kind of neat because you can do them over and over if you want and get more money if you need it. One of the early activities has you rounding up hos for a pimp that is sympathetic to the Saints’ cause. You drive around shooting rival “bad” pimps and getting their hos to go back with you to the ”good” pimp’s crib. If you need health you can eat food that you buy at the fast food joint “Freckle Bitches”. You get the food to go, but you can only carry four meals at a time with you. If you need ammo, head to “Friendly Fire” gun and ammo shop. Guns cost way more in Saint’s Row than they do in real life, but that is more of a game balance thing to prevent you from equipping extremely potent weaponry too early in the game. Your ride got all smashed up or you want to pimp it out? Visit the mechanics shops for repairs or lots of customization options.

A lot of activities and missions have you blowing up, stealing from, or otherwise killing rival gang members. While doing missions or in freeform mode when you kill a gang member your hostility meter with that gang goes up. The higher it gets, the more they come gunning for you when you’re in their turf. Same goes for the cops, which are essentially just another “gang” in this game except they also protect “neutrals”. You kill cops and that makes more cops come after you. Your hostility meters go down slowly over time if you stop killing rival gangs or cops. If you’re in a hurry to get them to zero, drive up to the nearest “Forgive and Forget” and for a donation they will put you back to zero on all hostility meters.

Several new-to-the-genre features in Saint’s Row eliminate much of the frustrating aspects of the Grand Theft Auto series. First of all, being killed, which is called getting “smoked” in Saint’s Row as opposed to “wasted” in GTA, puts you back at the nearest hospital and fails your mission. But you only lose some cash, your weapons are not taken away from you. Same thing with getting busted by the cops. You end up at the police station with some fines taken out of your cash, but you still get to keep your weaponry. This is pretty important because weapons cost money in SR instead of being power-ups like many of them are in GTA. 

Another great feature is that if you fail a mission, it will ask you if you want to restart or just quit. If you say restart, it takes away any weapons or reputation points you earned, and puts you back to the point where the mission started automatically. But if you say quit you keep the weapons you found and any respect you earned, but you have to drive back yourself to the mission start point and restart it. This gives the players a choice so if they want to restart a failed mission more quickly, they just pay a little price for it and don’t have to spend a lot of time driving back to the starting point.

Another great new feature of Saint’s Row is the crib and the garage. You have cribs all around the map (but you start with just one). Your crib lets you change out your wardrobe. Your crib also has a garage, where you can store a bunch of cars. I’m not sure yet what the limit is but the starting crib will let you store at least 8 cars or so (which is about how many I have in mine now). You walk up to the hot spot next to the garage and it brings up a menu asking you which car you want to drive, then you select it and the garage door opens and that vehicle is waiting for you to take for a spin. Another really nice feature is that if you blow up or somehow lose your car, you can still get it back by going back to your garage. Blowed up cars cost some money to replace but you don’t have to go find a new one and re-customize it.

Saint’s Row also lets you save anywhere, anytime. No more having to run back to a hideout to save the game. You can save and quit and be on your merry way. When you load the game, however, you won’t be in exactly the position you were when you saved. For one thing, you will appear back on the map at the closest “save point” from where you were on the map when you saved. Additionaly, if you were driving a vehicle you won’t be in it anymore, you’ll be on foot. This is a minor inconvenience, and if you want to just stick with driving back to the crib to save you can do that, it’s got a save point there too.

In sum, Saint’s Row is a superb game, well worth your time if you enjoy “urban crime themed” games like the Grand Theft Auto series. The game has a different feel to GTA but it still feels and plays similar enough that fans of that series will feel right at home here. The difficulty level of SR is lower than the GTA series, so casual gamers will like this game better than they liked GTA. Keep this one away from the kiddies, however, it’s definitely too racy and too violent for the little ones. Saint’s Row is simply the best game for the 360 so far, go buy it, now!

Final Grade: A+, a must buy!

One of the best games I have found so far for the Playstation Portable is Burnout Legends, a racing game developed by Criterion Games, published by Electronic Arts. While I don’t really like EA, at all, I do love the Burnout games (which, btw, EA bought into). Burnout Legends feels a lot like Burnout 3 Takedown for the PS2, but it’s all in the palm of your hand.

Controls for Burnout Legends are pretty solid. You use the thumb stick to steer, and you gas with X and brake with [] and turn on boost with the right shoulder button. You fill up your boost meter by doing dangerous things, like smashing into or performing a “takedown” on your opponents, near-misses with other vehicles, drifting, powerslides, and driving against oncoming traffic. Boost makes you go really fast, and is important for being able to catch up when you fall behind and to more easily takedown opponents.

There are a bunch of different game modes and when you are doing the World Tour you will need to earn medals in all of them to progress to the next levels. You start off limited to compact cars, then when you complete enough objectives in that you can move up to muscle cars, etc. The faster the cars are, the harder it gets because you have less time to react to what’s going on. 

One of the modes you will play is Race mode, which is a straight up race where you just try to be the first one across the finish line (by any means necessary, so takedown your opponents whenever possible). There is also Pursuit, which places you in a cop car and you have to takedown a difficult-to-stop bad guy. There is a mode called Road Rage where you have a set limited time and you have to do as many takedowns as you can in the time available. There is also a mode called Burning Lap where you have to do a lap around the “track” and make it under a set time limit. In Face-Off mode you race against a single opponent and if you win you keep that car model. Eliminator mode is like Race except that after every lap the last place racer is eliminated from the race.

Crash mode is what sets the Burnout series apart from every other racer. In this mode, your object is to cause a spectacular crash involving as many vehicles as possible and wracking up as much collateral damage as you possibly can. You will be given a car and shown a little glimpse of the road ahead and then you will drive and try to cause as much mayhem as possible. Along your short drive you will pick up as many bonuses as you can by running over little icons. Crash mode is a really cool addition to the game and is one of the most fun aspects of Legends.

What keeps you playing Burnout is that every time you do an event you earn points, and the more you wrack up, the more cars you unlock. Also doing as many takedowns as you can helps you earn more cars also. And some events just unlocked new cars, new tracks, new events, etc. Every time you earn a medal you are unlocking something new, and this keeps you wanting to play more and more.

So, what about negatives? Well, I’ve found that pursuit mode is insanely hard compared to the other modes, so I hate those missions. The handling is pretty difficult at times, there are certain tracks that just seem almost impossible to do well on because the AI cars seem to be able to navigate them with ease while I crash almost regularly. I’m sure this is just a matter of me needing more practice. I haven’t tried the multiplayer yet because I don’t have a wifi connection at home, but hopefully I can test that sometime.

Production values in this game are great. The graphics are amazing for a portable, by far the best graphics of any portable game I’ve played except possibly Daxter and Syphon Filter. They look almost as good as Burnout 3 Takedown on the PS2. The sound is killer, it has a great soundtrack with lots of good tunes and the engine and crashing sounds are spot on. 

If you like racing games or even if you are just a casual racing game fan like me, you need to get this game if you have a PSP, it’s just that simple. My rating: A+, Must Buy!

One of the more quirkier titles I have snagged recently for the Nintendo DS is Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! This passes itself off as some kind of brain training program by a virtual brain doctor of some kind (he has a name and I think it is based on a real person but I forgot the name).

The program keeps track of stats for up to four people. You first take a Brain Age Test, which is a series of logic puzzles or math puzzles or memory games that will estimate your “Brain Age”. Your Brain Age can range from 20 (the best) to 80 (the worst). When I first started I had a Brain Age of like 70 or so. Now I’m down to 42 I think but at one point I was down to 33 so it varies every time you take the test.

In addition to the test, you can do Daily Training, which is a series of routines that you should do every day to keep the brain fresh. This is stuff like doing 20 math calculations as fast as you can, or 100 of them, or reading aloud, or other little memory games. The program tracks how well you do at these daily training sessions and charts your progress over time, even allowing you to compare your charts to other people using the same cart.

 The cartridge also has sudoku games on it, and you can play those independently of the brain age checks or daily training. It keeps track of which ones you complete and how fast you did them. This was my first time to actually learn how to do sudoku and it is pretty fun. I can’t compare this game to any others however, since this is the first computerized sudoku I’ve played. It is kind of nice in that it lets you write in “temporary” numbers in the spaces to help you remember things you’re not quite sure of, like if you know it could be a 4 or a 7 you can write those as temporary numbers in a block and then when you figure out which it is, write 4 in big as a permanent answer.

One flaw with the game is that the voice recognition isn’t perfect, and neither is the hand writing recognition. In one of the brain age check games, you have to say the color that is flashing on the screen, like it might write the word “black” but the color it’s written in is actually yellow so you are supposed to say “yellow” but it doesn’t always understand what you say every time. The word “blue” seems to be the biggest one it hangs up on. I don’t know if it’s just my hick accent that it can’t get or what. Also, when writing numbers, you will have to possibly retrain yourself how to write the numbers in a way that can be read correctly. When I first started the game thought I was writing a 1 every time I wrote 7 until I changed how I was writing it. I still sometimes miss questions because it doesn’t read my numbers correctly. And there is a word memory game where you have to write down words that you saw on a previous screen, and that game is attrocious as far as being able to consistantly understand what letters you write. That one seriously needs work and practice on the part of the player to write your letters a specific way so that they are read correctly. All of these recognition problems add up to some frustration, but once you do get the hang of it the game becomes a lot more fun.

At the bargain price of $20, Brain Age is seeking a wide audience. I think it has a lot of mass-market appeal. I got Kim doing it and I think it appeals to the non-gamer quite a bit. She loved the sudoku so much that she bought another sudoku game just for that (which I’ll review later). This game was entertaining enough to keep me doing it steadily for three weeks, and I still have it as my main cart for the DS although I’ve slacked off a bit in using it. I think for the price that’s a decent amount of entertainment. Your milage may vary, of course!  I’d give it a B-. Could have been higher if the letter/number/voice recognition problems had been worked out better before release.

I may have to buy a new DS Lite for Kim to use.

Two of my reviews have been posted to GameChronicles. The first one is for 80 Days, an adventure game. I give it 5.7 out of 10. Would have been a lot better if some of the technical glitches had been resolved.

The other review is for the Xbox game, Crime Life: Gang Wars, an “urban violence” game that tries to mimic games like Grand Theft Auto 3. Do not buy it. Please. This is the lowest score I’ve ever given a game, 2.8 out of 10.

Finished the first game in Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls, the original fantasy in a great RPG series. It was a pretty fun 30 hours of entertainment. The story is pretty thin, really, but it was fun exploring. The endless random combats got in the way of fun a few times. I spent a lot of time playing the game in front of the TV watching superhero cartoons on our DVR, and I’d glance at the game to give new combat orders occasionally. I’m sure if I had paid more attention to the game, I could have finished it a lot quicker.

Final Fantasy is the easiest game in the series that I have played so far. I never really went looking to level up just to level up. I did very little exploring that wasn’t motivated by some goal. But the goals in the game are not entirely clear all of the time. It is extremely important to talk to people in the towns, that gives a lot of clues, but even then it isn’t always clear. The couple of times I had to look at a walkthrough, it was because I was confused about what the goals were.

By the end of the game my characters were level 85. The Monk (evolved to Master) was the weakest character throughout the game, but at the very end of the game I finally found a new kick ass katana that he could use, and he started dealing out the most damage (by far) of any of my characters. That was helpful in the final boss battle, but I’m not sure it was really worth having to put up with his poor performance for the first 29 hours.

The Red Mage/Wizard is a pretty decent character, I could see it possible to play the game with a party of four Red Mages. They have very good melee skills, for when you’re running low on mana, and can do most of the black and white spells. They can’t use that great of armor, but you would just have to spend a lot of your money on potions and heal up after battles. The lack of some of the most powerful white and black spells might become a problem in the latter part of the game, but maybe not. A hasted Red Mage with an excellent sword can dish out a lot of melee. Most of the good swords in the game were weildable by the Red Mage/Wizard.

I’d still recommend the 2 Warriors, Black and White mages party for a starter. I haven’t tried the Thief tho, it might be better than the Monk. Even by the end of the game I’d only killed 75% of the monster types. I am not sure where those other critters are. But it would be fun to explore and try and find and kill them all. Some day I might replay the game using a party of Red Mages and try and kill every critter. The Bestiary shows you how many you’ve killed of each kind and their stats and a picture. It’s like Pokemon! Gotta Kill ‘Em All!!

I’m not going to start Final Fantasy II for a while, I’ll give myself a little break from FF and try some other type of game for a while. But I’ll definitely pick it up in a few weeks or so.

Final Score 7.5/10