2 in 1

I just finished up with Halo 2 tonight and I finished Final Fantasy 3 this morning. Haha! Halo 2 was awesome! I am really looking forward to the Halo 3 now. Final Fantasy 3 wasn't all that great, but I felt obligated to finish it. Well, now that I have those two titles under my belt, I can rest easy tonight. I need the rest after 12 hours of video gaming. Goodnight! ;-)

Souls of Rebirth

After about 5 hours of game play I made it through the GBA Final Fantasy II bonus game, the Souls of Rebirth. It wasn't too tough except for the beginning part. Sometimes the game would force me to fight monsters that I couldn't defeat. I would have to save often and reload in these cases.

I noticed in the Souls of Rebirth that Blink is an awesome skill. I realized that it stacks! It can be cast repeatedly until the characters evasion is so high that they can't even be hit! Unfortunately, most monsters use spells at the end of the game, but the most devastating spell, confuse, doesn't effect the party much either because even the other party members can't hit each other.

Final Fantasy II defeated!

I finally beat Final Fantasy II for the GBA. Man it took alot longer than I thought it would. I had went through the game before on a translated Famicom rom, but the GBA version is much better.

It took me 35:42 hours to go through the game but I went really slow, and even fell asleep a couple of times when I was playing. :-) Final Fantasy games always put me to sleep when I play for some reason. All of my characters where basically tanks. I used one handed weapons and a shield except for the rare occasion when a bow was more powerful. I only cast spells when I needed heals or when a monster had really high defense and was weak against a spell.

I think that this game is a BIG improvement over Final Fantasy I. The story is much more developed and the spells, weapons, monsters, and characters are much more interesting. I thought that the music and graphics were alittle bit better to. The only problem I had was that it took TOO long to level up spells. I wanted to see all the level 10 spells but it just took too long for me to level them up that far. All-in-all this was a very fun game and it definitely kept me busy through Christmas. Oh yeah, I still have the bonus game, Soul of Rebirth, to do too!

Looking forward to Final Fantasy III on the DS!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

XNA Beta 2

XNA Beta 2 just came out! Lucky for me I'm on my vacation. :-) Can't wait to look at what was added.

Supreme Commander

Supreme Commander beta came out the other day. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on it soon. This will definitly be a must buy for me.