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Aug. 14th, 2006 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tammaiyaOoooh sleepy. *yawn* I'm enjoying staying at Marie's, though the first night I sleep somewhere different I never sleep well, so Saturday night I went to bed at 1am and didn't get to sleep until 5. Slept much better last night, but I still haven't caught up on a week of sleep dep.
Marie only moved into this house a few weeks ago. It's about three streets away from my house, and it's really nice. The only things that are a little weird to get used to is not having broadband wireless internet and the heating coming from the ceiling instead of the floor (my feet get cold sometimes).
The last 2-3 days have been quite productive being largely without the internet. I got a draft done for my Japanese sakubun, finished my japanese phonetics & phonology assignment (well, okay, I just needed to fix something minor on that), did the international law reading for today and read the beginning of the Hamdan v Rumsfeld case that my international law assignment is based on. I did go on the internet briefly to print off the question for the IL assignment and check some stuff for Narikiri dungeon yesterday, but not for long.
As for Narikiri... well, I did the last dungeon. It was 28 floors of randomly generated hell. No, I lie, several of the floors weren't randomly generated because they were puzzle floors. XD It was mostly the fact that it was very time consuming that bothered me, and the amount of life bottles I used reviving Mel. Ironically, she was wearing a Mint costume and thus was the only character who knew Raise Dead, but I don't think that Dio or Kuruuru died more than once or twice, because they had much more HP.
Anyway, one of the 'puzzle' floors wasn't actually a puzzle floor. It showed you scenes with all the Phantasia characters. And it made me CRY. They were all fairly depressing, but the one with Arche did me in because it was set 100 years after Tales of Phantasia (the present, for Narikiri Dungeon) and it was alluding to the fact that Chester has died and left her all alone, as does everyone eventually. Which is something I've wondered about before. OW MY HEART.
But after taking 27 floors to get to the final level and going through hell to beat my dopplegangers only to discover there is the final boss straight after (you get healed in between), damn if I was going to do it AGAIN. Seriously. I was already on level 72 so it's not like I was way under-levelled. And maybe some different combination of costumes could have worked or it would be easier with a costume I was missing (which, you know, out of about 120 I was only missing 16 special ones and 4 or so of them you can't even get without finishing the game), but if it was the latter I seriously didn't want to have to go back to town to make it and then go through the cave again. Noooooooo. So while I was printing off the IL assignment I went to check for strategies and costume data and the like. Couldn't find a specific strategy for the last boss; found a strategy for beating bosses generally on a low level but it involved a costume I didn't have and was also just time-consuming. In the end I found some gameshark codes to max out Mel and Dio's HP. I refuse to feel guilty about this and instead choose to feel smug about actually being able to find them in Japanese. *g*
So in conclusion technically I've finished Narikiri Dungeon 1 (even if I cheated to accomplish this) but there is now a Tower of Druaga dungeon. The perfectionist in me of course requires full completion, but the rest of me cringes at the memory of the Tower of Druaga in Tales of Destiny. *shudder*
Connected to the above, last night before bed I also listened to the first track of the Tales of Phantasia Anthology 1, which is about 40 minutes long. It's about Klarth's history, and it also made me cry. DAMN YOU, TALES OF PHANTASIA.
On a sidenote, I am now in fact at home (at Marie's, I mean, not the lepar colony as the family has taken to calling it) having had to catch the bus. My foot is KILLING me, which I really hope is related to the way I've been walking to avoid the coathanger stab wound and not tetanus, and also I had a hypo before I went to catch the bus, which is annoying because my readings have all been between 5 and 6 since, like, dinner last night which is amazingly good for me. Still, better low than high.
Sleeeeeeeepy. Should go log off the net and do some work. *sigh*
Marie only moved into this house a few weeks ago. It's about three streets away from my house, and it's really nice. The only things that are a little weird to get used to is not having broadband wireless internet and the heating coming from the ceiling instead of the floor (my feet get cold sometimes).
The last 2-3 days have been quite productive being largely without the internet. I got a draft done for my Japanese sakubun, finished my japanese phonetics & phonology assignment (well, okay, I just needed to fix something minor on that), did the international law reading for today and read the beginning of the Hamdan v Rumsfeld case that my international law assignment is based on. I did go on the internet briefly to print off the question for the IL assignment and check some stuff for Narikiri dungeon yesterday, but not for long.
As for Narikiri... well, I did the last dungeon. It was 28 floors of randomly generated hell. No, I lie, several of the floors weren't randomly generated because they were puzzle floors. XD It was mostly the fact that it was very time consuming that bothered me, and the amount of life bottles I used reviving Mel. Ironically, she was wearing a Mint costume and thus was the only character who knew Raise Dead, but I don't think that Dio or Kuruuru died more than once or twice, because they had much more HP.
Anyway, one of the 'puzzle' floors wasn't actually a puzzle floor. It showed you scenes with all the Phantasia characters. And it made me CRY. They were all fairly depressing, but the one with Arche did me in because it was set 100 years after Tales of Phantasia (the present, for Narikiri Dungeon) and it was alluding to the fact that Chester has died and left her all alone, as does everyone eventually. Which is something I've wondered about before. OW MY HEART.
But after taking 27 floors to get to the final level and going through hell to beat my dopplegangers only to discover there is the final boss straight after (you get healed in between), damn if I was going to do it AGAIN. Seriously. I was already on level 72 so it's not like I was way under-levelled. And maybe some different combination of costumes could have worked or it would be easier with a costume I was missing (which, you know, out of about 120 I was only missing 16 special ones and 4 or so of them you can't even get without finishing the game), but if it was the latter I seriously didn't want to have to go back to town to make it and then go through the cave again. Noooooooo. So while I was printing off the IL assignment I went to check for strategies and costume data and the like. Couldn't find a specific strategy for the last boss; found a strategy for beating bosses generally on a low level but it involved a costume I didn't have and was also just time-consuming. In the end I found some gameshark codes to max out Mel and Dio's HP. I refuse to feel guilty about this and instead choose to feel smug about actually being able to find them in Japanese. *g*
So in conclusion technically I've finished Narikiri Dungeon 1 (even if I cheated to accomplish this) but there is now a Tower of Druaga dungeon. The perfectionist in me of course requires full completion, but the rest of me cringes at the memory of the Tower of Druaga in Tales of Destiny. *shudder*
Connected to the above, last night before bed I also listened to the first track of the Tales of Phantasia Anthology 1, which is about 40 minutes long. It's about Klarth's history, and it also made me cry. DAMN YOU, TALES OF PHANTASIA.
On a sidenote, I am now in fact at home (at Marie's, I mean, not the lepar colony as the family has taken to calling it) having had to catch the bus. My foot is KILLING me, which I really hope is related to the way I've been walking to avoid the coathanger stab wound and not tetanus, and also I had a hypo before I went to catch the bus, which is annoying because my readings have all been between 5 and 6 since, like, dinner last night which is amazingly good for me. Still, better low than high.
Sleeeeeeeepy. Should go log off the net and do some work. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-08-14 02:45 pm (UTC)DreadDruaga if only because Narikiri is portable and I might get bored at uni. *cough*I'll have to try and let you listen to Anthology 1 without, you know, the skipping. I really love Klarth and Mirald ♥ although when I think about it it's a little creepy that Klarth practically BECAME Magnus. In a sweet kind of way. Er.
Did the Narikiri cd dramas have the thing about Klarth's father?