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In Nocturne: I am in the Mantra Headquarters. I am afraid to go into the Amala Labyrinth, but I remember feeling like this before. I don't even know if I'm going to look at it/do the True Demon Ending at this time.
In P2: In Carcarol, failing badly at the first boss fight in there. Also running out of healing items, but that is par for the course for me. Of course, there is no way out of this dungeon past a certain point, I don't think, so I may have to go back to a previous save so I can get items and return *sighs*
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Also hey did you know: I learnt the other day that the reason the Persona games exist and are, to some degree, easier than main SMT games, is because they're aimed at younger players? Like I think SMT exists for everyone who grew up on Nintendo Hard stuff, and they certainly started as such (and continued, lol), and then Persona is for those who maybe started playing stuff later on. Maybe.
But I found that interesting (and I suppose it explains, maybe, why the Persona games are more popular? That's the feeling I get within what fandom stuff I see. I mean I like all the Megaten games I've experienced (though DDS is my favourite), but Persona seems to be the part that gets the most coverage fan-wise (also because, I guess, it's had more translations - all the games have been published in English, whereas SMT only recently had the first game translated for a port to the iPhone, and II hasn't been translated at all*. III/Nocturne/Lucifer's Call was the first to be translated into English, by which time we'd already had two Persona games. So, essentially, the SMT games are trying to catch up, and it's not quite happening. At least, that's my feeling on things).
*Apart from a fan translation.
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There's a new show on TV called River, about a Swedish policeman living in London, and he can see dead people. This is totally not a spoiler, though I think from the way the show framed it that it was meant to be, but Trailers Always Spoil, so.
I think it's interesting but: it feels very Hellblazer-like in inspiration (esp if the way the dead people thing is going to work the way I think it is), and very like Felix Castor (because that's Felix's Thing - he is an exorcist - but also he is 100% John Constantine, just with the serial numbers filed off).
Also I was convinced the actor was doing a very good accent for whatever reason, only for me to see in the cast at the end that it was Stellan Skarsgård, so he wasn't "doing an accent" at all. That's just how he talks. Head, meet desk. In my defence, I didn't recognise him, because I've seen him in approximately two things, and the most recent was, like, three years ago.
I think I'm going to keep watching, because I want to see where it goes (hopefully it'll pan out better than the last thing I watched).
In P2: In Carcarol, failing badly at the first boss fight in there. Also running out of healing items, but that is par for the course for me. Of course, there is no way out of this dungeon past a certain point, I don't think, so I may have to go back to a previous save so I can get items and return *sighs*
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Also hey did you know: I learnt the other day that the reason the Persona games exist and are, to some degree, easier than main SMT games, is because they're aimed at younger players? Like I think SMT exists for everyone who grew up on Nintendo Hard stuff, and they certainly started as such (and continued, lol), and then Persona is for those who maybe started playing stuff later on. Maybe.
But I found that interesting (and I suppose it explains, maybe, why the Persona games are more popular? That's the feeling I get within what fandom stuff I see. I mean I like all the Megaten games I've experienced (though DDS is my favourite), but Persona seems to be the part that gets the most coverage fan-wise (also because, I guess, it's had more translations - all the games have been published in English, whereas SMT only recently had the first game translated for a port to the iPhone, and II hasn't been translated at all*. III/Nocturne/Lucifer's Call was the first to be translated into English, by which time we'd already had two Persona games. So, essentially, the SMT games are trying to catch up, and it's not quite happening. At least, that's my feeling on things).
*Apart from a fan translation.
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There's a new show on TV called River, about a Swedish policeman living in London, and he can see dead people. This is totally not a spoiler, though I think from the way the show framed it that it was meant to be, but Trailers Always Spoil, so.
I think it's interesting but: it feels very Hellblazer-like in inspiration (esp if the way the dead people thing is going to work the way I think it is), and very like Felix Castor (because that's Felix's Thing - he is an exorcist - but also he is 100% John Constantine, just with the serial numbers filed off).
Also I was convinced the actor was doing a very good accent for whatever reason, only for me to see in the cast at the end that it was Stellan Skarsgård, so he wasn't "doing an accent" at all. That's just how he talks. Head, meet desk. In my defence, I didn't recognise him, because I've seen him in approximately two things, and the most recent was, like, three years ago.
I think I'm going to keep watching, because I want to see where it goes (hopefully it'll pan out better than the last thing I watched).
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Ooh, based on that description, I'm going to have to check River out! It should still be on iplayer, right? (Felix Castor is totally Constantine - I think Mike Carey must have become a little too attached to him while he was writing Hellblazer and didn't want to move on? XD I'm still a little sad we never got the sixth book in the series though. *pouts*)
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Yup, it's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06jkmtf/river-episode-1
Oh man, I am SO GLAD you agree about that. It's hard not to get attached to John, let's be honest ;) but not so much so your original character is actually him. I thought there was supposed to be a sixth book! I was thinking about it recently, but then thinking I must have been mistaken, and was thinking of The Naming of the Beasts (I'm glad I wasn't, though). I wonder why he never got around to writing/publishing it.