Ok so my birthday was over a month ago (June 7) but I'm on dial up at home and just don't think to post!
Went to the mall to pick out my birthday presents, saw 3 games in the first store we went to but I wasn't sure that's what I wanted so I went through the whole mall looking at clothes and whatnot... and came back to buy the 3 games.
I ended up with Dragon Quest VIII, Suikoden V, and Radiata Stories. And I even forgot that Dragon Quest came with a demo for FFXII so I was plesantly surprised when the guy at Funcoland switched the game box he was going to give me because it didn't have the demo.
I first played through Radiata Stories because it seemed the most original and the one I was most interested in. I went through completely on the human (and what many consider to be the bad) side, then completed the post game dungeons (some twice), then started it back up from the beginning to beat it on the fairy side. Needless to say it was a lot of Radiata for a while. Got me a little wound up near the end too... really sorry about that sweetie.
Then I went through on Suikoden V. I read there were 4 main endings and multiple ones that finish the story prematurely. At first I was going to go through on my own and see how many characters I could recruit all on my own... but I didn't want to have to play through so many times so I ended up gettin a little help to make sure I only recruited those I had to... and a couple characters I had previously picked out that I wanted (namely Norma and Ernst... what can I say? I'm a cat person!). Let me tell you it was NOT easy! The war battles were the hardest because at points I couldn't even make full groups because I just didn't have enough people. I finally did finish and most of my deaths actually came from the final boss fight until I found out that Ernst can unbalance all the final boss monsters which gave me about 8 turns with the boss not being able to hit me! I was debating on playing again for the next ending, with 61-107 people, but didn't want the same thing that happened with Radiata to happen again, so now I'm on to Dragon Quest VIII!
I just got the boat and am getting along pretty well, kinda mad that Jessica gets all these different outfits depending on what she equips while I just gotta stare at the same hero. I'm not saying I want the hero to be in a speedo or anything, just if she gets to change it up so should everyone else! I know he has like 1 other outfit, but lets be fair and equal people! If Jessica gets a bunny outfit then James (the hero... named after my boyfriend :oops: ) should have... like a cat outfit... or a tiger... or... or... SOMETHING! Jessica gets a dance outfit then so can James, or if he isn't into dance then give him... a football uniform or something! I'm not saying they have to be all showing like Jessica's are, just... give the guys some dress up too! Ok I've ranted enough for one night!