Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Sorry, I got the link wrong. It's www.folye.net or whatever - swap the l and the y. As to what it is, it allows you to load up the models and characters and NPCs etc in FFXI and move them around and view them on screen, if you needed to do that, you know, to draw them or something. You can also load it up for animations and record with Fraps (google it) and do something like the FFXI AMC Opera thing (google it)

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Kingdom Hearts II is so legend. [spoilers] About the only letdown thus far is that they didn't seem to be able to get the rights to the Lion King music and as such a lot of the cutscenes are really bland and poo - just goes to show you the power of music :) Sora is really cute as a tiger..cub? Is that the right word? And then apparently there is some old-school as Disney movie called Tron or something, must wiki it sometime, and then there's Pirates of the Carribean...the graphics are rather spectacular. It's amusing to see Sora and his friends plus the heartness in all their pastely bright cartoon-style right next to a realistic 3d world with more muted colours, and pirates. Also, the graphics engine itself has obviously had an overhaul - manages to support 1000 characters on screen, and there's a nice "distancing" effect that's more noticable in this second installment. (is it mip mapping? I forget)

The addition of the "reaction command" has been a great improvement in the gameplay too, mainly in terms of being visually impressive and adding freshness to battles. Unique monsters have unique reactions and counters Sora can use against them, mostly to his (huge) advantage - eg monsters that shoot projectiles can be grabbed and used against the enemy etc.

Gummy ship system has been improved too, just gotta see it compared to the first to know what I mean - lots more 3-d feel. Yeah.

And limits! Drive! Both are cool combat bonuses. I can see where some people get annoyed that the game is too easy - there are lots of tools at your disposal to fight your way through the game, reaction commands, Drive (where Sora combines with Donald or Goofy or both to become stronger), Limit (where Sora and the unique party member from the world (eg Jack Sparrow or Mulan) team up for special combination attacks), Summons (where the non-Sora party members get replaced by a summoned ally (eg Chicken Little, Stitch or Genie) etc etc

Costume design for the FF characters is pretty nice. I like the clean textures of Cloud and Tifa's new costumes, and y'know how it is with black. :D

KH2. It's great. If you enjoyed the first, you'll like the second. And...it has Jack Skellington in a Christmas suit. Yay.

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Dear http://angry-365.blogspot.com/ (a.k.a Mr Angry)

Who are you? What the hell? How did you stumble across my blog? Do you randomly visit blogs? Isn't that kind of creepy? What are you, some sort of word or thought vampire? What are the odds you will grace us with your presence/presents again? How's the weather in FREAKING AUSTRALIA?

Love, Henry

[For those confused check comments]

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Sitting next to some freaky guy in the info commons. Ack. He is laughing. Arr. A moment ago he was listening to the backstreet boys and laughing ;_;

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Haha, only one person has gotten it right so far. I'm so mean and secretive etc that you will never know the right answers. Even if you got it right, I won't tell you, cause I'm a downright bastard. Relish in the knowledge! (or perhaps your sandwich)

Okay now I'm just wasting time in the info commons typing really loudly on these clacky keyboards.

Final anecdote:

Did you know someone got told off at the Tamaki Campus computer labs by a demonstrator for typing too loudly? They got yelled at and told to "change their typing ways" ahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaahaha.

Good luck trying to type silent and swift on any keyboard.

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