RMNF by the numbers 2008
To everyone on the eastern side of the Prime Meridian, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that 2009 brings you lots of joy (at least more than 2008 did, anyway)!
I, Overlord Zenon, will knock you all down…not!
I think it’s been over a year since I last played Disgaea 2, so I figured I’d borrow the PlayStation 2 from my sister to give it one more go and put it to bed. I previously finished the game and got the Mid-Boss ending (a side battle with no bearing on the game’s canon), but I’d been sitting on the second-to-last chapter for a while, and wanted to see the actual ending (without looking it up on YouTube). It’s a good thing I spent all that time boosting Adell’s power to match that of Zenon’s, with the ability to do about 3,000 damage to him per turn by himself.
Are you kidding me? Playoffs?
God, I love that sound byte.
And just when almost all the local sports media (and I) had mostly written off the Eagles’ playoff chances, they end the regular season with an epic 44-6 win against the Dallas Cowboys. On top of that, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears both lost their games, allowing Philly to sneak in the back door and scoop up the last wild-card playoff spot. Talk about having ridiculous amounts of luck when it counts, huh?
Fanfic plus two
Two more entries have been added to the fanfiction archive since last night: Dark Wave (Final Fantasy IV) and Pucker Punch (Street Fighter, Karin/Sakura). It’s weird…I was told by one reader that Dark Wave sounded like a good intro to a longer story. I responded by saying I’d think about doing it, but I didn’t know where to start. It’s also been a while since I’ve added to my Karin/Sakura story, so I wrote Pucker Punch in hopes of getting something jump-started in my brain.
A touch of class
Last night, I got my first taste of Class World in Disgaea 3. It’s similar in concept to Item World from the previous two games, except you’re, uh…diving directly into characters rather than their weapons. The experience and money payouts for this mode are much, much higher than in the Item Worlds, at the expense of not being able to earn any items. A fair trade-off, I suppose. I was able to boost a newly-acquired Beast Tamer from level 5 to level 17. It’s much easier to go through Class World using a low-level character, since monsters and Geo Blocks are scaled to that particular character’s level, even if the character actually participates in the battle on that level (TIME PARADOX?).
