"I'm here waiting for you."
Such a good song, no? This morning, being awoken by a friend, I couldn't go back to sleep even though I only had five hours of sleep. I was dreaming when he called, but I don't know if it was a nightmare instead. Ever since I started playing Silent Hill 4: The Room all of a sudden my nightmares began to shoot out replicas of Ghosts, which are these zombie like creatures that somehow crawl out of the walls and they float. They don't physically attack you, but my character is sensitive to the aurora they give, so he loses health. Besides that, it took a good fifteen minutes and a glance at the walk through to definitely get over the fact that it really was just a game. I never really thought I would be so terrified of something that had good graphics... for a PS2 game, haha.
In other gaming updates, I finished Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus which had great gameplay and I loved the automatic targets (until I had to defeat one of the mechanical bosses with surrounding soldiers, then it got annoying). The graphics were pretty nice, a little stiff, but I'm not complaining, not with the smooth, dark and mysterious Vincent Valentine keeping me company. I was going to add something to that, but I didn't want to be the reason for the spoiler. That's your fault, my friend.
So after I finished Final Fantasy, I went to Gamestop to check out other games, deciding whether or not I was going to get another in the series or perhaps something else. Scanning the games, I finally see an old, but extremely popular, Devil May Cry 3. I think to myself, and I wonder if it's as good as its popularity upholds it to be. Putting out 8 dollars, and saying goodbye to getting some more Final Fantasy, I buy it and come home. When I began to play, the first thing I can think of how complicated the controls are. It's the complete opposite of Final Fantasy, and if I have to compare, I do say so myself I enjoy FF's controls more than DMC's. Though if it's one thing I'm impressed with, it's Dante's badass fighting style in the cutscenes. With a Rock n' Roll edge in the beginning, the cutscene is opening to him getting done showering and coming out to eat pizza in a deserted, still refurnishing shop. When you're in the tutorial, you learn things as you go, and when you get to your first mission, it's difficult to find out what to do. I'm not giving up hope, though. But DMC is the most tedious out of the three, and I suggest that if you're interested in this sort of gameplay, to be fully aware that it's a definite time suck. But the pro? You have better hand-eye coordination for those hobbies called "sports".
With my closing statement, today was the day that the Bulgarian's defeated the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan, the emporer barely escaped! It's also Independence Day for Indonesia. Happy Independence Day!
