Inadvertently Tagged by cause I laughed at *THE GREAT AND SEXY ZELOS WILDER*
1. Fill up the blanks with your favorite characters or OCs / Put their names by the numbers, too.
2. Answer the questions, or try to.
3. TAG 3 people.

1 - Zanos Typhon
2 - Ne'X Ekho
3 - Toshiko
4 - Chie Satonaka
5 - Zidane Tribal
6 - Xalce Farnen
7 - Me, Myself, and I (Ctrl C, Ctrl V 8D)
8 - Raine Sage
9 - Rita Mordia
10 - Zeae Trivanal

1. What if 7 (Me) and 4 (Chie) kissed?
We'd be re-enacting a scene from a kung fu movie that would end in several feet going through the shoji...

2. Where would 2 (Ne'X) bury a treasure?.

Not bury, but lock it his safe of anti Zanos

3. 6 (Xalce) and 10 (Zeae) get into a fight. Who resorts to violence first?
Zeae, she can be vicious when she wants, I feel bad for Xalce...Although the only thing they'd fight over would be the cake...

4. 1 (Zanos) is kidnapped and their kidnapper demands a ransom of 1,000 gil from 5 (Zidane). Do they help 1 (Zanos)?

He doesn't need a reason to help someone! Also, he's an expert kindnapper...sort of, so he'd steal him back and he'd be 1,000 gil richer

5. Who is stronger? 6 (Xalce) or 8 (Raine)?
Ruin mode Raine...maybe...

6. Who is 3's (Toshiko)’s secret love?
Err...Chocolate?

7. Can 8 (Raine) juggle?
Sure she can, she's a half elf. Juggling is relatively the same as kendama, which half elves invented

8. 1 (Zanos) is asked on a date by their favorite actor/actress. Do they accept the date?
Well, no. He's human, and married and getting on a bit

9. 1 (Zanos) and 8 (Raine) try to make a porno. How does it go? (LMAO)
It turns into an educational video, from various aspect of orentation. Or Raine Kills Zanos for offering (Which wouldn't happen because he's queer). Or Zanos freaks out (Because He's queer). Or they jokingly laugh at who they would cast.

10. A Meteor is about to hit the planet, can 7 (Me), 2 (Ne'X), and 10 (Zeae) stop it?
Sure, I god mod and give them super power to eat meteors 8D

11. Is 9 (Rita) single?
Yes, anyone hitting on her is toast ^_^

13. Does 1 (Zanos) wish this TAG was over?
No, he's still loling at question 9


14. 8 (Raine) and 7 (Me) are dancing to the waltz. 2 (Ne'X) comes in and sees them dancing. 2 (Ne'X)'s reaction?
He doesn't care, he doesn't know them. He does wonder why they're on his ship though...

15. 9 (Rita) and 5 (Zidane) go to the movies. What movie do they see?
Zidane would take Rita to a horror film so he could put his arm round her when it get's scarey. It ends in Meteor Storm

16. You are attacked by 1 (Zanos), 3 (Toshiko), and 9 (Rita). Can you survive?
Oh hell no! One, I couldn't move cause I'd be frozen in time, with a busterish type sword wedged in my face with a Tidalmeteorviolentflaredasherrollmysticc atastrophe going on aswell

17. What is 4 (Chie)'s favorite color?
Uhh...Blue for bufu?

18. Can 7 (Me) sing?
I like to, people say I can

19. A vampire bites 2 (Ne'x). 4 (Chie) sees this, what do they do?
Ne'X is an android, so it doesn't really work. Chie doesn't know this and tries to drive Suzuka Gongen through his heart.

20. All the OC's get into a battle Royale. Who will win?
Well, I'm already dead from question 16. So Zanos and Toshiko are going at it as normal, while Rita is trying to kill Zidane for hitting on her, but her fireball spam is getting canceled out by Solution 9 spam. Ne'X is epically shooting Chie for trying to anti Vampire attack him, but Chie is so fast she doesn't get hit. Xalce is wigging out at so may enemies, fire is going everywhere. Raine and Zeae are spamming Revitalise so they survive till the end, because they're clever.

Toshiko tries to stop time, but she gets hit by a stray meteor from either Rita, Xalce or Chie at which point Raine bops her on the head knocking her over, at which point her cutlas goes flying through the air impaling Ne'X in the back of the head and he dies. As she tries to get back up, she's Hit by Zidane's Tidal Flame that was aimed at Xalce, but had missed like usuall and hit something else. Raine is caught by the splash damage and starts healing again.
Zidane Trances and the jumps way up into the air to start using scoop art. He doesn't see Rita going into Overlimit and casting Meteor Storm so he get's knocked down and ploughed into the ground, defeated.

With Ne'X down, Chie takes her chance to Power Charge. Whiles't attempting to doge meteors Zanos gets hit by Zeae's Arc Light and then 5 meteors, defeating him. Xalce goes into W.O.O. mode but get's slammed by Raine's Divine Saber and TidalPainDasher, going down.

Rita unleashes Mystic Drive on Raine While she's recovering launching her into the air while Chie lets lose her Agneyastara, defeating her. Agneyastara hit's Zeae 3 times interupting her Revitalise and leaving her very weak but suddenly everything goes black...

"O' power that lies in the root of all creation, O' memories inscribed in ages past, hear my call and arise before me...ANCHIENT CATASTROPHE!"

Rita Wins! TBF you probobly all saw that coming ^_^ TAGGING ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DO THIS

Hey there, I'm sort of back!

Sort of as in, well, let me give you the lowdown. First off, you may or may not know that whenever I was on the internet, I was at my aunts. Well recently her computer buggered up and I haven't been able to get on for ages. That's on top of my other hiatus reason. Anyway, I've finaly got the net up at home so I can get on. Hurrah. Now, because I haven't had computer use for quite a while, alot of homework has built up. So I'll proboly be sorting all that out. Also, I have to upadte or Sin is going to have a right strop. So yeah, nice to be back. I have a bet with myself that I'll get a comment from maybe 5 people about this, haha.

~Zanos

Well I'm going to be off for a while. I'm need some tinme to catch up on work and not failing sixth form. My AS results were kind of crap, so I've got to do some extra work and what not. What's really annoying is that the project in Art I've worked harder on than anything else in my life only got me a C, which then got pulled down to an E after the other half got a U. Then with Technology, the test pissed me to no end. That test was easy and it was the only test I've ever revised for in my life. Result? Worst grade I've ever got on a test ever. So AS results Engligh: B Art: E Technology: E Information Communication Technology: No AS grade (You only get an A level for it.) Also, in doing the math. I'd need to get an A grade at A2 to average art or tech into a D and a perfect score to get a C. Yeah. I have only myself to blame, I mean I never did any work. I'm annoyed at the fact that the things I did work hard on only got Cs. That is really annoying. Well I'm not going down without a fight, so we'll see just how strong I am. See you again someday, not like many people pay attention to me anyway.

~Zanos

First of all, if you've no idea about Final Fantasy, this may not interest you, second, if you haven't finished FF VII Crisis Core and or don't want spoilers, then look away now.

Eh hem

OH MY GODS! I mean seriously, squenix just tore out my heart and handed it to me! I mean I knew Zack was not going to make it out alive, but I wasn't expecting that! I thought Zack was gonna have some generic Death tbh, you know somone shoots him from behind with there dying motion while he's weak and that's the end of him. I did not expect to see him gunned down like that and then with the Infantry man standing over head, and for the first time hearing Zack scared as the gun barrel points at him, that was just heart breaking. What was most painful to watch was the DMW (Even though it was being as un helpful as ever). Watching Zack's mind deteriorate like that was horrible, losing memories of friends is just something that would kill me inside. What really did it though, was when the DMW broke in the final section with those three infantry men. That is the most saddest scene I have ever seen in a game ever. Watching Aerith on the right reel slipping up and down as Zack's mind shut down, I wanted to cry. Watching him trying to hold on to those last memories of Aerith as he was dieing, then the DMW whiting out, that was just so painful. Throughout the game, I gusse I got the imprseeion that Zack was just invincible, I never thought he could be broken like that. I gusse at some point, without realising it, I fell in love with him (Yeah I don't care what you think, I'm a geek and Lame to the max already.) I'm not going to review CC, i think it may be too biased towards the ending if I did. Well, thats the end of it. I'd like to hear someone elses opinion on CC's ending. I'm going to finish FF VII one of these days, and when I do, at the end of the credits, I'm gonna say: In loving memory of Zack Fair.

~Zanos

Game: Tales of Vesperia
Format: Xbox 360
By: Namco
Price:£45.00 (got mine at £40.00 though, woo launch day sales!)

I’d been really looking forward to this one; I mean really looking forward to this one. I have to say that the Tales series has become my favorite; Symphonia just did it for me. Now Vesperia is an entirely different kettle of fish, but just as charming.

So, first we start off in the royal imperial city Zaphias, where main character Yuri Lowell lives, he is an ex-imperial knight. Yuri quit due to the empire’s greedy and selfish nature. Anyway, someone has stolen the Aque Blastia from the fountain in the centre of the lower quarter and Yuri Goes to do something about it. Blastia are used to power everything in this game, they were created by an ancient civilization (surprise, surprise). They cannot be created with the current technology and must be excavated from ruins etc. Back to the story, Yuri chases down a thief to the royal quarter and breaks into his house only to have him escape. Continuing his pursuit his is captured and thrown in jail. While in jail a mysterious old man helps him escape. As he tries to get out of the castle he runs into a noble named Estellise who is being chased by the knights. Agreeing to help her escape the castle, she tells Yuri that she is trying to find Flynn, a member of the knights and Yuri’s childhood friend. He agrees to help her and together they escape the castle to find Flynn.

From the outset, Vesperia plays like a regular tales game. You have your standard attacks and can set 4 artes (Attack skills) onto the artes button and the 4 shortcuts on the right analogue stick. A welcome addition to the game is free run (bear in mind Abyss didn’t come out over hear, it’s the first console Tales I have to include free run) where by holding the left trigger down you can break out of the Linear Motion Battle System and run wherever the hell you like! To be honest, I don’t know why they’re sticking with LMBS, for the most part I found myself just holding down the left trigger for every battle. I mean they could take a leaf from Star Ocean 3’s book and just have default free run, SO3 works like a Tales game in semi-auto anyway but with free run. It got to the point where I was actually holding down the trigger on the map to walk around! Anyway, the big thing to talk about here is Overlimit. Working much like the Overlimit gauge from other tales game, Vesperia over powers it to ridiculous ends. You fill the gauge up by giving and receiving damage and then trigger a level 1-4 Overlimit using the D-pad, during which you can link artes and normal attacks continuously and use spells with no casting time. This can make the game ridiculously easy, (Rita’s Tidal Wave spam can just destroy any boss with ease.) or ridiculously infuriating because enemies keep interrupting your combos. Overlimit may seem broken to you, but it’s a necessity in some of the later boss fights, especially on unknown difficulty. This is my only complaint though, I actually quite like Overlimit and it makes you feel like you’re on equal footing with a boss by being able to dish out some violent pain on them (Pun not intended fans).

Like Symphonia, Vesperia is cell shaded and I think it looks great. If you’ve watched an artes exhibition on YouTube, I have to say that the internet does them no justice. Watching them on your own TV is a sight to behold; Rita’s Mystic Arte is absolutely gorgeous to watch in full quality. As usual, the characters portraits in the menu are done in anime style and skits make a welcome return, but now fully voice acted! The game also features a lot of good music by Motoi Sakuraba, notably Furnace of War and Fury Sparks. The opening theme song is Ring a Bell by Bonnie Pink which is one of the better game songs of heard as of recent.

I have to say I’m very impressed. Vesperia does a wonderful job of just being awesome. What does it for me is the characters, except Estelle. She’s terrible; I would so much rather have Raine or Mint. What she does to annoy me is not heal you, she would much rather spam attack magic or (if you turn all her offensive artes off) just attack the enemy regularly. Then when she does get round to healing you, it’s always the most ridiculous spell, like nurse because one person’s hurt. WTF!? I practically had to scream at Raine and Mint to use something other than first aid. The second thing that annoys me is her character, which is also partly Yuri’s fault. Periodically through the game, you always get the scene:
Estelle: What should I do?
Yuri: Decide for yourself
You can always see it coming that she’ll just stick with you, it annoys me so much and is a really bad scripting flaw in my opinion. The other characters, I love. Rita = Win, that attitude and “blah blah blah Tidal Wave!” just makes her rule. I also quite like Karol, out of everyone; he seems the most real person like. I recommend this, highly. You won’t find a better Tales experience in my opinion, not even Radiant Mythology.

3 Good points
Fierce battles, Blah Blah Blah Tidal Wave, Yuri’s infinite mystic arte combo, epic story this game is extreme to the max!
Characters that will really make you laugh a lot, I mean alot
Lots of bosses, I really appreciate the shear number of bosses and the nostalgic cameo bosses too.

3 Bad points
A bit hit and miss Overlimit, you’re only stagger proof at level 4 Overlimit
Rare materials. WTF!? Only 1 Rare Metal per playthrough!? WTF!? Chegal Fur is found in a drained lake that was only accessible for 3 seconds before the game ended!?
Estellise. I’m sorry but if there was someone like Raine to heal you properly then I could live with her but she’s just terrible

Overall
95%