Love, and Life. Hello, and Goodbye. It’s all an Everlasting Train.
Phew, took forever. It was painful, but not through WordPress’s fault. It was my $&%$ router and my $%^# internet connection that made this a total nightmare. I should’ve realized sooner because power cycling the router seems to have solved my connection problems.
I’m back! I’m back! I’m back from the dead!!
Thanks to the new FFXIII trailer :D
Okay, I haven’t been watching anime since I found it a chore to wade through the last portion of Xam’d, so there’s been no motivation to post.
Then, two things happened.
1) FFXIII, which piqued my interest like over a year ago because it was the first FF to star a non-traditional female main character, released a new trailer with, oh my god, one of the hottest baddie female characters evar! ^^;;
2) I discovered (and promptly marathoned 9 eps of) Phantom Requiem of the Phantom, a most satisfying anime, which put me in a really good mood.
Anyway, about FFXIII…
This is Lightning. Non-cute, non-mage, female and utterly kickass gunblade-wielding ultra-cool main character. Coolness is good, hence, this is a good and desirable game.
Played the demo, and while the graphics were amazing, I thought the battle system was too anarchic and confusing. The stats were displayed in 3 corners and the damage takes place in the center, which means that I don’t know where to look to take in all the information I need. So I kinda left it at that.
Then, E3 rolled around, and I checked the official site for the new trailer. Which looked very cool.
And then, I saw this.
And this…
And this!!
ZOMG!! Okay I’ve always been a sucker for long hair, but usually it’s long black hair. The woman in this scene though, wow! She’s gorgeous even with the glasses! Man, must be the uniform and the badass attitude :D
But, seriously, after doing the screencaps, I’m looking at these pics and the detail is just absolutely utterly amazing. Look at the hair!! The detail! The individual strands! Look at the renders on the jacket fasteners! Look at the eyebrows! The eyeshadow effect! The graceful arch of the nose, the perfect angle of the jaw, even the minute textures on the lips… Square-Enix really outdid themselves. What an incredible model of the human figure. I can’t get over how real yet idealized it is. In other words, detailed enough to be real, but not realistic. At last, the right balance between CG and anime.
In awe dude, in awe. This is truly a labour of love, and only the obsessed could produce something like this. Suffice to say, I am really looking forward to FFXIII.
