Spencer9997

So, a few days ago, Kingdom Hearts 3D (Dream Drop Distance) came out. Well, here I am, three minutes before midnight on the third day of it's release writing a journal because I just finished it... Damn. It was a pretty great game in the Kingdom Hearts series. Flow-motion and the Reality Shifts, to me, gave the game a lot of the Kingdom Hearts "reaction command" type of combat without letting me cheat by tapping triangle until I beat the boss's face in.

Several times in the game did I go "Arggh!" and get mad at losing to a boss. In most cases, it was a simple, leave for a bit, level grind, get pissed at the drop system, level grind again and go back to the boss and rape it. Like one particular boss towards the end of the game during a long Riku sequence. Not going into any spoilers, but the game finally ties in all the itty bitty plot games that we've been getting for the past several years.

Time to discuss the new "drop" system, for those that don't know. So, the game goes like this. You take turns playing as Sora and Riku to complete the plot. Cool. I like them both, but Sora is my favorite. Plus side, you get to play as both and you can use the same Spirits with them both to get them to level up really fast. Now... The minus side. Here's an example:

"W00t! I'm Sora! Gonna go find Riku and save some guys! Hello, new friend!" Classic Sora. Then, find a boss. Rape boss because of new flow-motion system. About to land finishing hit. "So... Sleepy..." Drop to Riku. String of curses. Immediately, drop back to Sora. Restart boss fight. Rape it again.

That's the downside. If it, say, couldn't drop us right out of a boss fight then I would be happier with it. Many a time has this happened to both Riku and Sora throughout the course of my journey. Okay, it was probably only once or twice. Riku got dropped out of Hockomonkey fight and Sora dropped out of __________ fight. Saying the name, would be spoiling. Hockomonkey fight isn't spoiling. It's in the demo. Dropping isn't, fight is.

Flow-motion. Personally, I felt it removed the need of including powers such as high jump and glide, they were added in anyways and proved useful sometimes, but it seemed kind of like giving me a shotgun with infinite ammo then giving me a pistol with six shots. Just seemed not so great. Unlike in the others, where I was more like "F*** yeah!"

My only other real issue was the length vs level. Normally, I'm a pretty high level by the time I've reached the end of a Kingdom Hearts game and then I occasionally go back and train them. I'm about 91 in KH and 93 in KH2 or something? Haven't gone back in a while. However, in this one, Sora and Riku are both around level 36 or so. Riku was in the final part of the game with Sora at a level below 30. His attacks did crap compared to Sora who was about level 31 at the time. I think Riku was 25 and we were in the final world. The world's combat level was only 40, by the way, which still put Riku pretty low on the scale. Not sure why Sora got so much higher, but he did. (Probably because I wanted to play as Sora more.)

Now, Riku... I am so much happier with him. He follows through what he vows at the end of Chain of Memories. He follows through on, as put best in his own words, "to walk the path to dawn". That is not spoiling anything. So, I can say it. That's about the only way I can sum up Riku now and that he finally acts more like a friend to Sora. Things between them finally seem so upbeat.

Anyways. Had to talk. Apparently typing that took nineteen minutes to do. Considering I started at three before midnight. Well, I'm gonna finish before it goes up any higher. I will answer any questions about the game. Including those that contain spoilers, but only through... Twenty minutes. Anyways, only through notes will I give spoilers. I don't imagine I'll have many, if any, of those. Now, good night, before that damnable number rises again like a phoenix.

I have been really annoyed with certain types of people in my life lately. I can explain my annoyances to anyone who asks. Also, sorry for not being on in so long. It was kind of a series of unfortunate events. Internet was down at my home for about two weeks before I went to visit family where they don't have internet... Series... Of... Unfortunate... Events... Lemony Snickets. I do not know the guy's actual name. Said like that. Will google it later. Back to the point. =>

Annoying people. Ever have those days where human interaction is a chore rather than something to be enjoyed and treasured? I have. My birthday. Three friends to hang out with me for my birthday. One, my closest friend, was still totally awesome and fun. Other two, however. It's kind of like this. Friend 1 comes over and it's fun. Friend 2 arrives. Friend 1 and Friend 2 play music that my other friend and myself do not enjoy and constantly discuss their "juggalo" stuff.

Let me explain. A "juggalo" is a fan of ICP (aka Insane Clown Posse), a group of clowns that rap, which somehow makes the fan group, seeming to very highly compose of pot smoking teenagers, to all be insane and awesome in a way that I call pseudo-insanity when a person decides that they are insane and freakish. It's annoying. I, as someone who has had a close friend of mine commit suicide after happily talking with me one day and dead the next, am someone who will get annoyed by some of this pseudo-insanity.

That's the major part of the annoyances. I feel that they don't know the slightest thing about insanity. Here is a quote from one of them. "I'm f***ing insane!" Listening to clowns that rap does not insanity make. Nor do people who proclaim themselves insane. People who are truly insane, in my opinion, which feel free to argue with, are people who are lost within their own minds. People who can't tell the difference between something that is real and something that is fake. I guess insanity could also apply to people like Ted Bundy, famous American serial killer, whom was in law school when he started committing his murders.

I rant a lot. I realize that. I can put my rants into words and put them out into a space where people who sit down and read this actually pay attention to what I say. Sure, in life, people listen, but not always willingly. Here, anyone who actually reads what I typed here and considers it and discusses it is someone who pays attention and cares about what is being said here. To those people, I say thank you. I apologize once again for my internet fail.

Also, feeling annoyed with... suicidal tendencies? I don't know. I was talking with a friend today... Kinda... More like me and some other guy... Wait, it was a she. Some other girl and my friend were all minecrafting together. We were all talking. He says stuff about suicide. I found diamonds. (Awesome.) And while he's talking about thinking about committing suicide, I can't help but think. In all honestly, I've subconsciously yet very consciously divided my personality into different parts I can name. I think that comes from roleplaying or writing or something. Just made me think more. Anybody semiconsciously divide their consciousness?

Sorry, sorry, sorry guys. I know I haven't posted anything new, but I have been writing, just I haven't been typing it up for it to go up on DA. So, it's here with me, but it's not able for me to post just yet, just give me a bit more time. I've been so distracted by Skyrim. I have been playing that game much more than I probably should be. The Assassin's Creed series has also been holding my attention hostage. Plus, I bought myself a Kindle and the amount of reading i have been doing is astronomical. So, please forgive me, but I am working on it.

In related news, I finished the first book of The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Colllins today and have already set in to Catching Fire. Now, personally, I thought that since The Hunger Games was just so mainstream and I've heard so many people say it's great, including people who's opinions I can't trust, it threw off my desire to read it. However, I got around to it and... I am appalled by my letting my reasoning get in the way of judging this series without reading it. Mind you, I had planned to get around to reading it, but the more mainstream it seemed and the more 'untrustables' who gave opinions on it the less I wanted to read it, but I still did want to.

Anyways, after setting into the book, I almost immediately fell in love at the very beginning of The Hunger Games series. Katniss and the struggles that her family and everyone goes through is a heartwrenching experience that I would wish on no one. Then, as the games truly begins, I get the real idea of the Hunger Games are played. Her romance is an interesting one even considering how indecisive she is over her own lovelife. However, in the end, that wasn't the thing that made me set down my Kindle and say to myself, "This is beautiful." One of the most powerful scenes that gripped my heart was with poor, twelve-year-old Rue and what Katniss did for her.

I actually love the first book of this series and can't wait to read more.

Kind of... annoyed, I guess, is the most simple way to put it. Throughout my daily life, I see that many people in my life are either extremely egocentric or just someone that won't listen to others that well at all.

  However, that's part of the reason that I'm typing this currently. I have the habit of liking to debate with people about things, but right now... Anyways, I would like to debate with someone, but on the subject of religion right now.

  I find it extremely difficult to locate someone to debate with me that can hold even a slightly unbiased opinion. Most people are either completely for religion or completely against it. Mostly, I am against religion, but I have many reasons for that, some pertaining to the religions in specific and others about my feelings towards God. It was and still sort of is a very... touchy kind of issue. It involves... many things that aren't quite appropriate to discuss out on a journal. Not that I care about things like appropriateness, but more for my own sake, I won't currently delve into it.

  Anyways, I'm hoping someone who can work with at least somewhat unbiased opinions and focus on more of what we can prove to argue with me. If anyone wants to try this, I personally find this very fun, just send me a note. It can be on just about any subject, I'm not picky. Gay rights, abortion, racial equality, SOPA, etc. Even things that have already been settled if you want, such as woman suffrage, I can't think of many examples here.

  Of course, some of these wouldn't make very fun argumentative material. I'm just feeling very... Not quite unhappy, perhaps unsettled would be a better phrase.

Ok, so I haven't been dealing with Wars Heroes because I've been so busy and so distracted by reading Inheritance. I just haven't been able to focus my mind on writing anything of my own with Paolini's story swirling through my mind, but now I'm done with it so I can get back to working on Wars Heroes again. Now, however, I really wish that they would remake the Eragon movie after they did such a horrible job with the first one. I would absolutely love for the whole series to be made into a series of movies that included every single detail that the book itself had. Okay, maybe that's a bit much, but at least don't leave stuff out and severely change things like the original movie did.