I was woken up at like 7:30 this morning by my mom's alarm clock, downstairs, behind a closed door. She slept until 11:30. For the record, that's about 5 hours of sleep for me. What do I wake up to? A lack of Brad's column. I'm going to assume he's face down in a ditch bleeding to death or pinned under some debris or something though since he isn't the type to mysteriously disappear without notice. Still, Between that, the resulting lack of letters, lack of sleep, and a few other things that don't concern you, I've had a massive headache all night. It's starting to get better though, so I'm no longer clutching my skull in pain.

On a lighter note, I spent the entire weekend playing Front Mission 3. I absolutely love this game. I'm also the official reviewer, so I'm going out of my way to find flaws in it. Heck, I figured I'd be done by now, but it's nice and long. Plus I'm totally imersed in the mechanics now so any questions in that regard, gimme! 8)

Googleshng:
Like I've been saying, I sincerely doubt that Fox will really show Escaflowne. As for the dub vs. sub thing in regards to RPGs, well, that came up not too long after I started this job and stuch around forever. The general consensus reached was that it really wouldn't kill the developers to release dubbed and subbed versions of games. They really should dagnabit.

Googleshng:
Well, the fact that it works at all with Xenogears is a total fluke. They just happen to store their movies the same way. It also works for Lunar itself. Might work for Vanguard Bandits too. As for your Alundra question, well, I've never played Alundra and my eyes aren't focusing due to sleep deprivation, but there's always the good ol' fashioned save and reset trick, yes?

Googleshng:
OK, I have J-Pop blasting into my ears so my eyes are wide open these spots are a bad sign though, think I'm blacking out. Anyway, no, there isn't, but while you're doing so you wind up getting all the cool secret characters. 8)

Googleshng:
Heh, while FM3 is addictive enough that I can see Brad playing it all day instead of doing the column and wouldn't blame him one bit, I think he'd pop in to tell me so. His motherboard probably just spontaniously burst into flames or something. 8)

Googleshng:
It would be great if this signified the end of my getting tons of FFT questions, but I doubt that's going to happen.

Googleshng:
Yeah, they've both done some really great work, but Mitsuda is a bit more consistant in the level of enjoyment I get out of all his songs, Uematsu has kind of a hit and miss thing.

So... Brad wants to be a time mage... and I agree with him! I'd cast SLOW and finally get around to beating Grandia...
I'm also concerned about the astounding number of people who want to be summoners... who the heck would need that kind of destructive power? Anyhoo, what kind of mage would YOU be?

-Zero

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