Jun. 19th, 2011

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Yet again, I haven't updated for ages. So I'd better get on with it.

  • Final Fantasy Tribute Game - We saved the world and we didn't kill Shirley. The latter of which being the big surprise. It turned out we were involved in a multiple timeline mess caused by a wizard on Earth who wanted to save his true love whilst being "helped" by a being that wanted to end the universe (think Necron). We managed to sort it out. Mostly (one version of the wizard lived happily ever after, while the one that wanted to destroy everything got taken down by us). More to the point, we got through it with our original identities intact and got married.
  • Books: Rats Saw God and Storm Front - The first is by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and, unsurprisingly, it's a High School story. Unlike VM, this is a straight life story rather than a mystery/murder story, but still engrossing and easy to get into. Storm Front is one of the books that [livejournal.com profile] al_fruitbat and [livejournal.com profile] _alanna put me onto - the first in a series about a detective who happens to be a magician. I'd been warned that it was slightly sexist - and it is, I guess - but I found that didn't bother me and I enjoyed it immensely. I'll be buying the others when I finally get through the huge books backlog I've built up.
  • Films: The Losers and Tears of the Sun - The first of these I loved. Fast, pretty, decent bad guy (with an actual plan!), reasonable plot. Plus it's got the Dad from Supernatural / Comedian from Watchman as the lead. The second of these was rather dismal. The film comes across as wanting to be meaningful, but I felt it had no soul. About the only plus is that it's got the Haitian from Heroes in it. Oh, and Bruce Willis is OK, but not nearly good enough to save the film.
  • Games: Portal 2 and Titan Quest - The first was fantastic. Really fun, lovely puzzles, awesome dialogue. OK, it's not quite as good as the first one (although the post-credits dialogue makes it very, very close), but what could be? And I still have the co-op mode to look forward to. The second of these is something I'm playing on-line with [livejournal.com profile] bateleur and AJ at the latter's suggestion while we all wait for Diablo 3 to debut. And, it's rather good. It's very like Diablo 2; it has a worse map and less epic-feel to the plot - but it's also much longer and seems to handle some items rather better. Plus characters get two "careers" (ie. skill sets) and related powers.
  • Twin Peaks - Back in 2002 I bought the first season of this. We watched it, enjoyed it and waited for the second season to come out in the UK. And it didn't. For years. However, some months ago we finally got it and now, post-Veronica Mars, we saw the first episode last night. Despite the nine year gap, we've mostly remembered the plot. No spoilers please!
  • Revolution - [livejournal.com profile] bateleur's first regular table top in ages is going strong. We're five sessions in and, while most of the plot still seems deeply mysterious and our notes contain huge lists of hard-to-pronounce names, we have finally bought the House With Multiple Gateways.
One final thought - has everyone else seen this? I thought it was great. Particularly the bit at the end.

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