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la_belle_laideA little fanpoodling I had to do when I saw the scenes from Crisis Core. I can't believe how far the animation has come over the years, and even though nothing compares to the original FFVII, this stuff is beautiful. I do hope they remake FFVII one day; it won't take away from the original, because we will always have the original. Square Enix can keep milking this particular cow for all I care. I love it. :D The music is Vanessa Mae's "Storm."
For those who aren't familiar with any of this, basically what I was doing in the video was juxtaposing the old stuff with the new. The first game was just a bunch of badly translated polygons, but with faceted characters and a twisty, turny story that took me three games to finally understand backwards and forwards. It seems that if you didn't play VII first, before all the cool graphics came out, then chances are you aren't going to want to and probably won't get the beauty of it anyway.
The new graphics come from follow-up games and one huge movie. Those games and the movie had flashback sequences that beautifully animated parts we'd only seen in block graphics, finally giving it the visual emotion and depth we always knew was there. Why, I'd sit there playing the game and say, "I wish they'd render this scene so we could all see the expressions."
And Cloud Strife wasn't a huge jerk or a loser: he was a kid who spent his formative years being tormented and experimented on in a lab, and for his troubles got to watch his best friend get murdered and therefore was mentally destroyed, emotionally dead and completely insane through the duration of the game. ♥
And the Turks were hot. :D
Wow, I feel so vindicated!
Questions about the games/movies? Just ask. ^_^
And because I don't really take it too seriously...
That is Jo-chan laughing along with me in the background and admonishing Cloud to leave Aerith alone. ^_^
And more fun with names.
Lulzies.
Well shoots, while I'm here.
Okay, this is at a totally different end of the topic spectrum but I realized I never told about the Hula seminar that was out here on the island last week. Lucky me, it was with Auntie Kau'i, one of my favorite people in like the entire world. I made her a lei of Long Island flowers, and she taught four Hulas. The first three were easy (for me,) and the last one was a really fast 'uli'uli number that was all crazy. I did manage to get it though. Auntie only had to beat down two girls (she dos actually hit students when we get things wrong) and fortunately neither of them were me. In fact it was great: when we turned to the back and I was in the back row, she would say, "Just watch Jules!" That made me feel awesome. ^_^
Afterwards my Mom and Dad and Jo-chan came out to where the seminar was, and we took Auntie, her Alaka'i Kanani, and Olivia out to dinner. It was awesome.
Pictures!
This is the lei that I made:
This is me with Maria:
The whole class:
(Unfortunately, a girl I used to dance with--some of you might remember how I used to dread having to dance with her because her attitude sucked and she was so mean--was there, but we ignored each other beautifully.)
And Mom, Dad, Jo-chan and me with Auntie:
All in all it was so lovely.
Also random: NOTE TO SELF! Never, ever, ever again take up Dad on offer to bring weedwhacker into garden. 2/3 of beautiful, old, beloved and patiently tended wisteria tree is gone. Remember: Weedwhacker sometimes = "chainsaw."
For those who aren't familiar with any of this, basically what I was doing in the video was juxtaposing the old stuff with the new. The first game was just a bunch of badly translated polygons, but with faceted characters and a twisty, turny story that took me three games to finally understand backwards and forwards. It seems that if you didn't play VII first, before all the cool graphics came out, then chances are you aren't going to want to and probably won't get the beauty of it anyway.
The new graphics come from follow-up games and one huge movie. Those games and the movie had flashback sequences that beautifully animated parts we'd only seen in block graphics, finally giving it the visual emotion and depth we always knew was there. Why, I'd sit there playing the game and say, "I wish they'd render this scene so we could all see the expressions."
And Cloud Strife wasn't a huge jerk or a loser: he was a kid who spent his formative years being tormented and experimented on in a lab, and for his troubles got to watch his best friend get murdered and therefore was mentally destroyed, emotionally dead and completely insane through the duration of the game. ♥
And the Turks were hot. :D
Wow, I feel so vindicated!
Questions about the games/movies? Just ask. ^_^
And because I don't really take it too seriously...
That is Jo-chan laughing along with me in the background and admonishing Cloud to leave Aerith alone. ^_^
And more fun with names.
Lulzies.
Well shoots, while I'm here.
Okay, this is at a totally different end of the topic spectrum but I realized I never told about the Hula seminar that was out here on the island last week. Lucky me, it was with Auntie Kau'i, one of my favorite people in like the entire world. I made her a lei of Long Island flowers, and she taught four Hulas. The first three were easy (for me,) and the last one was a really fast 'uli'uli number that was all crazy. I did manage to get it though. Auntie only had to beat down two girls (she dos actually hit students when we get things wrong) and fortunately neither of them were me. In fact it was great: when we turned to the back and I was in the back row, she would say, "Just watch Jules!" That made me feel awesome. ^_^
Afterwards my Mom and Dad and Jo-chan came out to where the seminar was, and we took Auntie, her Alaka'i Kanani, and Olivia out to dinner. It was awesome.
Pictures!
This is the lei that I made:
This is me with Maria:
The whole class:
(Unfortunately, a girl I used to dance with--some of you might remember how I used to dread having to dance with her because her attitude sucked and she was so mean--was there, but we ignored each other beautifully.)
And Mom, Dad, Jo-chan and me with Auntie:
All in all it was so lovely.
Also random: NOTE TO SELF! Never, ever, ever again take up Dad on offer to bring weedwhacker into garden. 2/3 of beautiful, old, beloved and patiently tended wisteria tree is gone. Remember: Weedwhacker sometimes = "chainsaw."
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Date: 2008-07-11 12:25 am (UTC)Now I'm gonna go make my way to ebay and contemplate buying a PSP....
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Date: 2008-07-11 12:55 am (UTC)I didn't buy a PSP or Crisis Core yet! (Though I am ridiculously tempted. OMG, just look at Cloudy!) Just go here (http://www.silenttweak.net/index.php?file=cc/ccvideos) for a youtube link, and option to download every cutscene!
Also go for almost every scene in the original game. (http://bluelaguna.net/movies/ff7/fmvs.php) No, not every cutscene: every scene. O_o
I knew you'd be all over this. Thanks. :D And I love your icon. :D
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Date: 2008-07-11 01:16 am (UTC)There goes the rest of my evening hours. You're awesome. :D
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Date: 2008-07-11 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 01:04 pm (UTC)LOL -- great video (even without the music)! And it looks like the hula thing was a lot of fun!
See you around the interwebz! :)
Help! I seem to have contracted the dread virus exclamationitis! Now I am doomed to sound chirpy for all the rest of my days!! Oh noes!
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Date: 2008-07-11 02:44 pm (UTC)That blows that you don't have your game stuff; I'd be going mad!
Thanks for watching that video, one of these days you're going to have to hear the song because it's chill-inducing. :) Thanks TJ!
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Date: 2008-07-11 05:52 pm (UTC)That is a fair bit of why I like TP - it's full of nostalgia for the older games. And I dare say that if Nintendo did a revamp of OoT for the Wii I would buy it.
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Date: 2008-07-11 06:54 pm (UTC)I would buy a remake of OoT also, but that's one game where I don't think it's necessarily time for a remake yet. The graphics on that one were really good to begin with, and there's not much they could do to make it better aside from minimal visual tweaking.
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Date: 2008-07-11 09:09 pm (UTC)A continual thought I had while playing TP was that the engine had reached the point where everything in it just fit together, to the point where I have spent hours just exploring and riding around Hyrule Field. I caught myself once watching the sunset outside Hyrule Castle and thinking "this would make a good photo".