Paws says:
*EFG* I'm betting the standard American answer to this would be "It's a governmental conspiracy!" (which they seem very good at), but I'll nust nod my head sagely and be glad Canadian politics can be ignored.

Paws says:
No, I'm dating the big demidemon thing in the corner. Leon is my 6th cousin 3 times removed, but since I haven't played SO2 yet, I can't really confirm that. As for the disease part, it is a disease. Highly contagious, and it's incureable. Even better, when people don't know what it is, they treat it like a disease. Woo!

Paws says:
Geenral rule of thumb: remakes only show up in one coutry. That means we're not getting CT, as much as we may want it. I think it's a dumb move personally since Iwould even buy it, but I can't tell the company what to do ;). While I'm on the subject of rules of thumb, I've been getting Qs as to wheteher or not CC will be ported to the PC. My consensus: don't hold your breath. Ports to another game system are rare, to the PC is even more rare. I can think of only 3 (those being FFVII, FFVIII, and Lunar:SSSC). So expect a no and be pleasantly surpised for the yes'es. You can always check our news files and games pages for PC releases.

Paws says:
Hi Ben. Yeah, I got to play a couple of hours finally :) It's a lot like the original game so far. Of course since you've moved to a new continent the dungeons are different , but the combat system is teh same, and it's a good thing because it's a neat system. I'm learning the new color coding system and some new items, and I'm currently training in a, wow, training dungeon. All the characters from the first game are included in this one with a few new ones as well. The best part is, I don't know who the bad guy is ;) Unlike the last one, when you could guess just from the lecherous looks he gave Linear o.O

Paws says:
Ooh, something I can really get my teeth into! Okay, lots of stuff to cover here.
-My first suggrestion is to go away from the main plot battles and fight some random ones to raise your levels and skills. It sounds like you need to diversify and gaining some extra levels will help your overall oomph. I find I spend as much time fighting non plot battles as I do significant ones, just to keeop up. It's similar to training oin TO or the Museville dungeon in Evo2.
-Keep the ratio of warriors to non warriors to about 3:2. That way you won't have 5 wussy class guys trying to take on big clased guys.
-Make sure you swap around the chemist job frequently. You don't want to be stuck with one guy that knows everything but other guys who can't even use hi-potion. As a general rule I myself tend to keep at least 3 people who have itme as their primary or secondary skill. I con't often use white magic because I find since I fight so many random fights I can afford 99 of everything ;)

My suggested party goes as follows: First, a geomancdr. Preferably with equip armor, and a secondary skill item. He'll be your hang back guy who can deal some nasty long distance efects and heal too. Secondly, a knight with equip crossbow and something like throw. Again, long distance is the key here. Thirdly, a lancer with squire skills. Accumulate to your heart's content. Fourthly, the pirest. Swap off his iitem if you want, but it's good to stay. If you change it, make it something like time magic for haste and slow. Finally, Ramza can be anything you want, but he should have items. Try making him a samurai, they're good for group damage.

Have fun, and good luck :)

Paws says:
GTyler! I'll have to tell Cookie you wrote in to me ;) Anyway, you're right, there's no way to get an English copy of certain games. However, that doesn't mean it's imnpossible to get a Japanese copy in North America or for someon in Japan to review it. If course some things like localization won't apply but the revciew basically stays the same and it's filed under an import review. I'm sure if you really wanted a copy of a Japanese only game you could find it on Ebay or at an import store.
Unfortunately, even though I want a review for every gae on the site, I have to admit there are a couple I don't excpect one for, such as the 2 hanjuko hero games which aren't well known. I feel bad I have to turn away emu reviews, but it was a decision that had to be made.

Paws says:
But, but, I like Evolution's dungeon crawl type dungeons. That's why I like Time Stalkers and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 (and I think I'm the only person on staff insane enough to say I do like it so nyah :P) I'm actually playing Evo2 as I write teh column, and I came up to the first boss. yay! As for inside info, no can do, it's all top secret. Trust me when I say I feel *incredibly* lucky to be in on this project! But now everyone will have to beat the game to see my name at the end of the credits...I think I'm in there :)

Paws says:
1. I had surgery on my toe, because it was ingrown. It was supposedly totally cleared out in December when I had the original surgery, but it started growing back. Yummy, eh? I went back to the doctor and he decided he'd do it again because he missed the very edges. Unfortunately, I did not know he was going to do this so I ended up cancelling 3 of my shifts at my RL job and having to dump a half-done update on poor Google. It's taking longer to recover this time because the stitches have to stay in longer becauset the cuts were deeper. The stitches make the toe stiff which means I have problems walking/croching/moving the foot and standing for large periods of time, but they're out soon so no sympathy letters please :P
2. I have marble cheese, but there's only enough left for my next pasta dish!
3. I did get to play about 6 hours of LoM while I was visiting a fellow staffer last week. It was cool so far. I'm not quite sure what your sex entails differently in the game except for stats perhaps. Maybe weapon proficiencies vary from sex to sex? Or how people react to you? Experiemnt ;)
Beer != Paws. Vodka much better. I'm legally abler to drink it now too, yay.

About the Squaresoft Series. They do seem happy to make sequels.Everyone seems to forget that Squaresoft has three main series. Final Fantasy,Seiken Densetsu, and SaGa. The only reason why we might not see them as seriesso much is because we only got the other two under their real namesrecently (and we missed out on one Seiken game and three SaGa games). Hopefully Squaresoft will make Chrono their third.

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Regarding the sequels from square and wanting to see some of your favorite characters in another game, square could feasably create a prequel for one of my favorite characters. I mean really, am I the only person who has wished for a Sephiroth prequel?? Seriously, it could be done. They could have him fighting the war in Wutai or something....of course we would all know how it would end...

What youre favorite class is final fantasy tactics? (if you've played)

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