...but quite possibly undead.

Mostly I'm posting because I'm tired of seeing something dated 2007 on my main page.

Playing Crisis Core. It's a mixed bag of heart stopping nostalgia and horrible, horrible dialog. I never knew Aeris was supposed to be RETARDED. "Incomplete sentences? Yes! Omit words!" It is pain to my ears.

Tseng made out rather well, as has Cloud, at least so far. Sephiroth did well until the Nibelheim scene, where he revealed that he was also retarded. Genesis took away all the fun surprises by introducing human experimentation and the notion that SOLDIER = Monster so early in the game that the only way Sephiroth could possibly be surprised by his back-story was if he was indeed mentally challenged. Or had been bludgeoned with a brick to the head immediately following the aforementioned revelations. Sephiroth: "You mean all my 1st Class SOLDIER buddies were products of human experimentation? Well, clearly. But my crazy super powers by no means put me in the same boat. This silver hair is completely natural 100% homo-sapien baby!"

You know, his mom Lucrecia was only filling the Shinra Science Department's prerequisite for female employees to get knocked up for fetal experimentation. All the ladies have to do it. Really, it's right there in the fine print. Guys get it easy. They just have to take their chances with Hojo's coffee. Sometimes it glows... and communicates in binary. I've heard it's hell on one's digestion.

Oh, and Vincent almost had a cameo as the 5th Wonder of Nibelheim (because we eat, drink, and breathe, sidequests!) "Bloodcurdling moans" in the basement indeed. Vincent, you really need to cut back on all that moaning... it'll wake the neighbors.

Other than that, and a few hundred other little painful details, Crisis Core is nice. The music in Aeris's church is beautiful. Zack is modeled perfectly. And Midgar never looked so good. Except in that FFVII Tech demo. Holy lust-monkeys, that looked good. Pity the story has been f-ed with a chainsaw in all the compellation material. I don't think they could put the original plot back together if they tried. There's too much J-pop and idiocy mixed in with all the broken pieces.

Ah well... if you're Jonesing after some FF7, play the original game.

:::End Rant:::


Things of interest:

Clubs! Because FF7 stuff is cool:



The FF7 Magic the Gathering Card Project has moved because deviantart was silly and deleted all of altairabove's cards.

Artists I have commissioned and recommend:

did this beautiful dragonfly painting for me. She's also done a wonderful quail family painting for me, but I don't think she's posted it yet... If you like her style, she's got prints and she does commissions. I'm especially fond of her birds, and of what I've seen of her insects.