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Assume spoilers for all of Tales of Rebirth. The ending, any bonus/hidden content, etc.

6/11/2010.
Aaand I played Tales of Rebirth more. Nobody ever tells me about bonus dungeon stuff in Tales games unless it's Barbatos or English, so I have no idea if ToR has interesting things at Cyglorg's place, but I want to see. :( Um, but yeah. Progress. Eephon was an asshole to me, killing everyone all the time. And... um... Hack looks like Lezard. Did I ever mention that? I think I meant to but I never got around to it. But I've thought that ever since I first played it. Anyway, and then there was the cactus that one jerk threw at Tytree in Pipista... I don't know little cactus sprites being thrown around seems very hilarious to me.

Now I am at The Burning Tower! And I just... Mao's name still gets me every time. Before I had actually played Rebirth, I always thought Mao was a little catgajuma friend of big panther guy Eugene. Mao is just... = cat. Always. But then he's just some attractive young girl--I mean young boy who, if he must be associated with an animal, would be associated with a phoenix? Man what is this game. It's like they knew that people don't understand how Chinese works and how Mao can also be feather. And there isn't enough "KUREAAAAAA DAIJOUBUUUU." "H-HAI. VAYGOO... CHAN." "OH... OKAY I GUESS." Really. They've been almost totally ignoring her ever since we started this information hunt. There was like, ONE skit. And otherwise she did not speak, and no one spoke of her.

Now: KUREAAAA: 138. Claire: 122. Saleh stop being fabulous: 21. Chichinpuipui: 7 (yes I have been counting this in secret). Creepy screaming noises: 3.

6/13/2010.
Bullets because it's a good way to not have to deal with organizing my scattered thoughts:
• I love the interaction between Mao and Hilda in skits. Especially when the whole skit is just the two of them. They're just so hilarious.
• AGARTE LOOKED LIKE A BEACHED SQUID ON THE SHORE. I do not feel that more explanation of this is necessary.
• Speaking of Agarte, I like how nobody even recognizes her. But only for this part of the game. Before and after, everyone is like "OH HEY YOU LOOK LIKE THE QUEEN. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT."
• Everything is KUREAAAAAA again now that Veigue's... kurea sense is tingling. And by that I mean she officially exists as part of the story again. Yay.
• I need to like, skip all the dialogue if I ever do a third playthrough. All this tonikaku everywhere drives you insane after a while. USE A DIFFERENT WORD. :(
• So on my first playthrough the hiougi I saw most was Ryuuko Metsugazan (Veigue+Annie). Now that I'm uh, using the same exact party but with Mao where Annie would have been, it's Embrace End (Veigue+Mao). >:( It's like the game is trying to tell me that I should stop being so specific about where people go when it doesn't even matter. Like, I always put a healerperson in the fourth slot in Tales games unless I'm not even using a healer, in which case there's probably still some sort of pattern. :(

6/17/2010.
All the kurea stuff that happens at Kyogen still makes me sad. But at least Tytr--I mean Veigue punches the jerk who caused it. And then he apologized for it later in a skit when Tytree was complaining about how he wanted to punch the guy himself. :( What Tytree does not realize is that he can punch anything that shows up in battle. Or randomly pull out a crossbow thing and shoot lasers from it. He's just that awesome. All Veigue can do is throw ice everywhere.

ANYWAY. Tower of Nereg. I have no idea how I did not realize on my first playthrough that the voice is the same as Saleh's. When I first played Rebirth I beat it ten days after starting, without any sort of break day. So surely his voice would have been much fresher in my mind than this time, since I randomly didn't play the game at all for like four days and haven't met him since this break began. Oh well. Veigue has said KUREAAAA 156 times now.

6/19/2010.
• "YOU WANT ME TO SHOOT MY FORCE OF THUNDER INTO SOMEONE'S CHEST?!" Jeez, Hilda, can't you say it in a less weird way? Just the "shoot" part makes it sound silly to me.
• So Wontiga wears what appears to be a scarf. IS THERE A PURPOSE TO THIS. I understand that you live in a cold, snowy region, but... you're indoors, furry, and special. And Annie, who is lacking a scarf, fur, specialness, and a real shirt, is totally fine in the same exact place? Makes no sense! And then Mao makes up stories about his mask in a skit... The scarf was more mysterious to me. :(
• AND WHILE I'M ON THE SUBJECT OF CLOTHES. The only main characters that don't wear pants in this game are Claire and Agarte, and neither of them are even playable. That's kind of creepy when I try to think of other RPGs where this is true.
• So when Suzy got her, uh, new maid... I think her father was trying to tell her to use her a sex slave or something. HOW ELSE CAN YOU "USE" A "PERSONAL MAID" TO "TAKE YOUR MIND OFF OF WHAT HAPPENED." Or maybe my mind is just lost in a gutter somewhere.
• I don't understand how Veigue still hasn't figured "it" out after talking to Claire alone in Belsas. She just makes it so obvious. I hope he feels terrible once he finds out, since it's not like he ever talks about how he feeeels even after he does learn the truth.
• I don't know I still really like the speech scene in Belsas. And not just because of piichi pai.
• I feel so sorry for Agarte even though she's completely to blame for... well, everything she gets accused of. I just sympathize with her silence since I've actually been in a different but similar situation before (though, um, obviously less fantastical and whatnot... and my situation only hurt me in the end). And as for the stuff I don't sympathize with, she just makes it so convincing. And, well, it's just hard to not feel sorry for someone when just about everyone is against them. :(
• I hate having to go through the Climbers' Cavern every time I want to get to Babilograd. Just because I hate the zombiegas.
• 178 KUREAAAAS. CALM DOWN VEIGUE I HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED THAT MUCH SINCE THE LAST TIME I POSTED AND IT'S GONE UP BY LIKE 30.

6/21/2010.
• So once upon a previous entry I mentioned that Veigue has said KUREAAA 178 times. I have since then done a single dungeon. A. Single. Dungeon. Now guess what the kurea count is at!! ... it's 213. That was an extremely kureaaa dungeon. No joke. I can only assume from this number and how far I am in the story that Namco can, in fact, count, and that he says her name 256-whatever times. But to compare since that was part of the point of this, the number of times everyone else combined has said her name at this point is... 168. Yeaaah. I think you should calm down for a few seconds, Veigue.
• I don't understand how a tea kettle can be cute. Stupid Babilograd. >:(
• "Aren't you Claire?" "OH MY, VEIGUE IS TELLING A JOKE. THIS MAY BE A SIGN THAT IT WILL RAIN TOMORROW RIGHT ZAPIE?" I don't know who that was since the whole dungeon is filled with confusing scenes like this, but I wanted to slap whichever person said that because they're being mean. >:(
• When Veigue just yells out in the middle of the dungeon "YOU'RE NOT CLAIRE!11" and then... tries to explain to her that he was not talking about her. That's not how things work, Veigue, and you're gonna make her cry if you keep this up.
• TYTREE IMITATING EUGENE IS GENIUS.
• This part kind of made me want to cry. Veigue's in his delusions, seeing everything as he wants it to be. And he's so happy. So happy. But then he comes back to reality and sees Claire and... asks her something like "Didn't you return to--" But then she speaks his name, basically giving him his no. AND THEN VEIGUE STARTS YELLING ABOUT THINGS AGAIN, WANTING TO STAB SHAORUNE FOR THIS MINDFUCK OF A TRIAL, and then Claire starts apologizing and... :( Veigue tells her it's not her fault, that he's the one that's being a jerk here, and he apologizes, but... Claire's making crying sounds man. :( And then it just ends like that.
• And then, well, Shaorune raped me. As usual. I just can't get over all the lasers and stunlasers (seriously those stagger you for like ten seconds!) and Aquarius Sphere always killing everyone. And the constant line-switching! What a jerk. I ended up getting annoyed at all the stunlasers, so I left the close combat flailing to the AI and Mao'd the place up with Burn Strike and Blazing Hearts.

6/23/2010.
I've played this game for 100 hours. I hate having a time counter that remembers how long I took on previous playthroughs. :( Anyway, I beat the second to last dungeon, so just throwing out the KUREAAAA numbers while I take forever to do the bonus dungeon before actually, you know, beating the game. I mean my computer could explode during that time and then I'd lose count! Veigue: 285 (okay, Namco was wrong). Anyone: 208.

I'm totally a fan of the scene where Hilda's complaining about everything, then Claire's like "what" and Hilda slaps her, and Claire slaps her back without hesitation and tells her what an idiot she's been. I don't know it just seemed cool coming from Claire and someone had to do it.

But yeah I've been having fun with Houryuu Mueiken this time. Since I never really played as Veigue before I didn't know which of his attacks were cool, so I never had enough... SP, was it? to actually set Houryuu Mueiken. It's totally awesome aside from the long startup time. But then it confuses me when it randomly shoves me to the opposite side of the screen if the enemy happens to die in the middle of it. :( Though, I'm pretty sure that's happened to me a couple times with Houryuu Zankouken, so I dunno. OH, AND I GOT LOST ONCE WHEN I USED IT DURING FRIGID COFFIN'S SILLY CAMERA-MOVING STUFF.

Anyway, when I was SUPPOSED to be sleeping I suddenly realized how odd Agarte looks for a Gajuma. She has the face of a non-animal! No other Gajuma in the game had a non-animal face. :( Seriously, the only thing about her head that's animal-like is her ears and eyes... and that looks far closer to Hilda and Militsa than anyone else (and those two are Halfs. Or uh... should the plural for that be Halves? But that sounds silly...) so it's really weird.

And a few small things before I stop talking: There sure are a lot of suspiciously-named armor sets in Belsas's shop... Lonikyle (written ロニカイル SO THERE'S NO DOUBT THEY MEANT THAT), リューダス (all I can think about for this one is Judas but that's good enough), ミートス (guessing this is Mithos, though I'm not sure why they'd reference Tales of Symphonia and I'm not certain how they spell his name in Japanland), and ジョニレイス (this couldn't possibly be about Johnny and a certain ToD city, nope).

And Tytree keeps looking like he's kicking Hilda in the face in victory poses. He should stop that! A-AND RAKIYA WINKED WHILE MARCO WAS TELLING VEIGUE HOW THE TWO OF THEM MET. THIS WORRIES ME WITH ALL OF ITS POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS.

6/26/2010.
NO MORE AQUARIUS SPHERE.

Just a few minutes ago, I completed Cyglorg's Chambers. IT FEELS GOOD. Probably because I've been playing it all day today, and only took a break to play cello because there was a really bad thunder storm starting and my PSP was conveniently low on battery life. A-and I'm paranoid about leaving expensive electronics plugged in/on since people always tell me that terrible things can happen during power surges or whatever. I've never had anything like that happen with fans or clocks or anything else I don't bother to turn off, but I'm not going to take that kind of risk with expensive things. :(

Anyway, it was coool. The boss fights, that is. The dungeon itself is just cute. The cutest music is playing, and then there are like stuffed bears waving at you and tilting their heads cutely all throughout it. And the enemies (other than the fake chests and the bosses, of course) were basically random assortments of enemies from all over the game, with a few new ones. I probably got a ton of grade from this place, though, because on later floors it kept throwing former boss enemies at me. And, well, they still give insane grade.

I will admit, though, I am a bit disappointed with the boss of the final floor. Since it was, um, two sets of the four stars at once, I expected something amazing. :( But in the end it was just the meaning of the word "crowded." Chaotic probably fits too, but I only ever felt like I was in danger when someone randomly pulled out Maxwell Roar when everyone was at kind of low HP.

Didn't use any Life Bottles though! Which is good, since most of my Life Bottles were spent on the floor 40 boss... I can't handle having someone who spits moons everywhere (and... cuts them? whatever Gessenkou is supposed to be) and even has a hiougi HIDING BEHIND GEYORKIAS, where it's like extremely difficult to hit her and you're getting lasered or Divine Sabered the entire time. And then I found out that Houryuu Mueiken could hit her back there, and that killed her... but it took me so long to realize that so she had used Shade Moon Rebellion like twice already. :(

But anyway, now that I have the best accessory ever, Esoteric, I believe it is time to have Hilda spam Frigid Coffin, Ground Dasher, and most of all Divine Saber. And completely obliterate the final dungeon. Also, just a random note... One time, when Veigue and Hilda were using Celsius Caliber, I heard Tytree randomly say "ZANKUUKYAKU!" after Hilda said "danzai no tsurugi"... It was so hilariously random and I still have no idea how/why that happened.

AND ALL THROUGHOUT THAT DUNGEON I KEPT GETTING THIS ONE VICTORY QUOTE. Where Hilda says something like "It's over already?" and then Tytree says, in a really hilarious voice, "KYUN KYUN~ ONEE-SAMA~" I wanted him to stop, it was just too weird for me to handle. :(

Final KUREAAAA counts. Veigue: 286, Anyone else: 212. I love how even though he only says her name like once in the final dungeon, he still beat everyone else by a long shot.