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lly it s kind of funny how equipment was almost redundant by the end of the game since armor didn t do anything against enemy spells which bosses used against you almost exclusively and weapons didn t factor into your own technique damage now that i ve beaten persona 4 i can t decide whether i want to go ahead and play a 2nd cycle on expert difficulty perhaps i played on normal the first time so i can get the hidden ultimate persona and fight the special boss or just do something else even playing persona 3 seems like it might be a better way to spend my time at this point though i remain a bit put off by it maybe the real reason i beat p4 before getting serious about p3 was just because i preferred the looks of p4 s protagonist actually there are all kinds of games i have sitting around that i should probably finish off first sacred blaze comes to mind i m not even sure whey i never finished that game things just worked out that way it would be good to complete srwz and srw alpha 3 some time as well since that wouldn t be the least bit difficult as a final note i recall dying twice in p4 during random encounters but never against a boss actually the two things that happened are worth noting since they re the only way you re likely to die as long as you play carefully the first time i died was because i used mazionga mid level group attack thunder spell with seiryu against a large group of enemies the max might be 5 but it could have only been 4 who all reflected electric attacks i m not sure why seiryu nulls wind instead of electric but after that point i was more careful to either not use group spells for exploratory attacks or to only do so when my persona could absorb the attack the other time i died was from a barrage of group attacks that my character was weak to which of course allowed the enemy to keep attacking and prevented one of the other characters from taking the hit for me i imagine that s one of if not absolutely the most common ways to die but after the mid point of the game you can get persona who aren t weak against anything almost all of the initial special fusions as opposed to the maxed arcana special fusions are like that that enemies will have to avoid that i would have died from the special death skill of the final boss who gets two straight attacks no matter what but i had gone to great lengths which i don t recall to get enduring soul onto the persona yoshitsune who i was using i had it on a few of the other personas i took with me into that fight and it was worth it but if you just happen to find and equip one of the null fear or null ailment accessories then you d be fine too of course the regular endure skill or the accessory would also work in that situation but i don t know if endure dark would or not hmm actually i had been miffed that i couldn t manage to fuse arms master onto yoshitsune no matter how many times i reset the fusion so i kind of settled for that skill but it worked out pretty well one response f monday jun 8 2009 roger federer and sports and tennis roger federer sports tennis reuche 9 58 am i ve recently lost the will to write it s not that everything i ve been involved in recently has been meaningless instead it s just that i really don t care about any of it i do want to somewhat belatedly mention that roger federer finally won it all at rolland garros i wasn t dissatisfied with nadal s chumping of everyone else there the past few years though i was tired of nadal v federer in the finals but federer taking the title was just something that needed to happen so people could stop talking about how he d never won it i don t think that federer will ever win the grand slam but there is a reasonable chance that he ll win wimbledon and the us open this year perhaps even the masters and then the australian open next year to get the fiscal year slam i just made that term up but i wouldn t be surprised if someone else is saying it right now too so far federer has been pretty solid psychologically but if ever he was going to have a break it would be after finally winning this title he s chased so long i m sure he wants to win all 4 titles in one year but winning all 4 in his career is already a feat that only 2 other men have accomplished in the past 40 years at this point i m sure that even federer has to feel like this is the best that s ever going to come so he should just be happy with it hell there s even a chance that he ll never be ranked 1 in the world again eh this writing is horrrible today horrrrriiiiibbbbbllllllle as to whether or not any other players have a chance at the grand slam i thought that nadal had a shot this year within the next few years there might be a certain window between federer dropping off and no one else really stepping up but whether he can take advantage of that or not is open to speculation i m not that impressed with anyone else in the men s field right now but there are guys in the top 10 who have won a major before and have the potential to do it again the potential from 1 10 to win any given major tournament is of course the main reason that no one has won the grand slam since the second time rod laver did it in 1969 for some reason a lot of people thought that federer was going to stand atop the world unchallenged until he was on the downslope of his career but there were guys that got into his way and then up popped nadal like some sort of fated rival i honestly can t remember the last time there were two guys battling it out like that on all surfaces there have been plenty of high profile battles among top ranked players but for some reason a lot of guys could never win in one spot or another and others couldn t even get to the finals so yeah well i already said absolutely nothing so i ll sink back into my feet now did i even spell nadal s first name right leave a response キャシャーンsins wednesday may 27 2009 anime and anime reviews and casshern sins and criticism and opinion and shakespeare and writing anime anime reviews casshern sins criticism opinion shakespeare speculation tatsunoko pro writing reuche 10 00 am i rarely use a series title as a post title probably but i rarely examine a work from the perspective of a writer either i m choosing to do so today after watching the first episode of the 2008 anime tv series casshern sins the work is something of a re imagining of an old anime series from the 1970 s which has been remade on two other occasions once in live action with heavy digital effects and it takes full advantage of its nature by not wasting time if people want to get into the work at all they can easily find out who casshern and luna are and why it s significant to the series mythos that casshern is said to have killed luna in this first episode we don t know whether that s true or not and we also don t know whether this action has truly set about the ruination of the world and its robotic inhabitants however this is actually intriguing symbolism for how the idea of casshern killing luna ruins the entire image of the relationship that the two built up in the original series the other thing that stands out is that the exposition flows naturally characters and their natures even the general plot and the formula that the rest of the show will likely follow becomes apparent to the viewer through the course of the episode without a lot of prodding this feeling of commonplace occurrence during introductions is what most serial longer works strive for but honestly such scenes tend to end out being too contrived normally the introduction of casshern would fall under that as well but it s self evident that what s happening really is the everyday for this world one mark that i was ready to strike against this work was that of its dicey believability after all in a world of robots why the hell would they speak to each other communication would theoretically be useful or necessary but why human speech even this matter was quickly brushed away by the one self evident truth of writing if a logical person can think of a plausible explanation then you don t need to give them one the one i came up with is that these robots were created in a certain spirit of romance such that their programs mirror humans rather than surpass them perhaps you can think of one alternately the robots as a whole are probably allegories for humanity so that s why their manner is human well i think that the trend of not including forced explanations will eventually be spoiled later in the series by supreme wordiness as casshern searches for understanding so that s a bummer on that note the amnesiac protagonist is usually an asinine premise but for a robot it actually makes sense that if they d been through trauma then their program and memory would be messed up right that goes back to what i was saying about the reader being able to do the job of the writer i wasn t happy that ringo didn t just get destroyed since that seemed out of tune with the relentlessness of the rest of the episode but obviously that s the kind of tone they wanted to set for the work that puts me in mind of how most of the characters die in the vampire hunter d stories unless they can contribute some kind of feeling to the ending by being alive well honestly it s usually the same thing every time the character who remains reflects upon d and or calls after him while he rides away by himself his left hand notwithstanding perhaps ringo will similarly be used as a device at the end of the show that would be in keeping with the idea that everything introduced at the start should be either disposed of or present at the finish i don t plan on writing about this series again once i ve worked through it more or completely since i don t want to have to castigate something that i ve already complimented so i ll leave it up to you readers to research on your own whether my speculation about ringo holds true in the end or not to finish up with the idea about examining things as a writer i suppose some might argue that i was looking at things as a literary critic instead let me suggest that if one wants to be a good writer not that i necessarily am they should cultivate their critical skills and mitigate their technical knowledge to the point that they would be competent as a reviewer editor and instructor as well in theory the reverse holds true as well but in practice those whose trade is anything less than the purely creative have a hard time breaking through all the way perhaps it s just fate since a lot of good writers are lousy students who need solid editors to clean up their messes and critics to keep them from getting too far ahead of themselves there s a bit too much fawning and simpering down in the trenches for my tastes these days but i suppose that s due at least in part to there being such a wide range of writing to choose from that reviewers and teachers can focus only upon what they truly appreciate you might have noticed that i try to expand my attention across the spectrum perhaps i should balance out this ramble with another about a work that failed on so many levels that it actually pissed me off instead i ll just say that i fucking hate shakespeare since i consider it absolute tripe from a writing standpoint leave a response may blizzard monday may 25 2009 20460256 and 20461435 and anime and anime reviews and full metal panic and gaogaigar and gonzo and gunbuster and gundam and kaze no stigma and macross and mecha and otaku and yukikaze anime anime reviews betterman full metal panic gaogaigar gonzo gunbuster gundam kaze no stigma macross mecha otaku yukikaze reuche 4 35 am this post was inspired by the realization that i misunderstood the lyrics of almost every abba song and italian mushrooms 戦闘妖精雪風 sentou yousei yukikaze aka yukikaze literally battle fairy snowy wind the yukikaze is clearly meant to be a name rather than a word to be translated also yukikaze does not necessarily mean blizzard is a 5 episode ova series based on a two part novel that was finally collected at the same time ova started production at the time the anime was being released i was struck by how inordinate an amount of time the whole thing seemed to be taking the first episode came out in japan during 2002 but the last episode didn t come out until 2005 abroad the releases were apparently strung out in any country that started releasing the work before the final episode came out in japan which i m sure was confusing and frustrating to casual viewers for my part i ve had the show for the past few years but i only got around to watching it now yukikaze does have a proper plot involving high tech fighter planes artificial intelligence alien life separate dimensions worlds it strikes me that dimension is a word often misused in sci fi but a more convenient term eludes me at the moment angsty protagonists immoral commanders and public isolation from combat on far off frontiers this naturally leads to the exploration of various philosophies and themes that i could be expected to have a lot to say about however i m not going to write about any of that since i ve already explored all those ideas in the past the reason i ve previously written about those ideas is because they are staples of the distinct mecha sub genre of japanese sci fi the thing i find interesting about that is the question of whether they weren t first raised in the 1982 yukikaze novel or if they didn t become prominent until the 1999 one off the top of my head the yukikaze anime struck me as a cross between the plot of macross plus without the love story and the overwhelming alien force that was faced down in a huge battle seen in gunbuster other works that sprang to mind were betterman the i have control thing was clearly the same routine but i don t know which work did it first gaogaigar final another gonzo novel adaptation full metal panic being a relationship between an ai and a combat machine like pilot and some works that i saw before but which were produced after so aren t worth bringing up the yukikaze s extreme data processing abilities seem to remind me of something else maybe ghost in the shell but the memory eludes me well whoever borrowed ideas or happened to come up with similar premises and in which order will have to remain a mystery for now since i m not that interested in delving deeply into the matter there s a rumor that the novel version will be released in english next year so if i get hold of that then i will certainly speculate on this matter more at such a time after that digression i do think it s worth reflecting a bit on the style used in the show a lot of scenes that were heavily sytlized nonsense were probably meant as either symbolic or mood setting but to me they seemed stupid like when the characters imagined being by a fairy in a cage which was supposed to set the mood or even everything that took place on earth that was supposed to relate to the feelings of isolation that the characters 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