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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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Pfft, my copy of SMT 4 proves them wrong anyway. :p
Now I want to watch LPs of other games in the series! That might be how I spend my weekend!
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The two I read are on the Let's Play Archive (by Luisfe), though I'm sure by now there's video LPs.
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Fandom elitism is so strange...
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even if they're not canonically connected, well, neither are most of the Final Fantasy games, but even the spinoffs are still considered Final Fantasies.
EXACTLY! I've never heard an FF fan say, "Oh well, you can't call THIS an FF game because X, Y, Z!" and yet Western fans (it seems to me) are so snitty about what is and isn't an SMT game. SMH. (I honestly think some of it is to do with how much more popular the Persona games are, because those are the ones I hear it about the most. And people seem to say this even if they like them? I don't understand fans sometimes...)
Isn't it just?
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Admittedly, I did hear a lot of people talk about how Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within shouldn't have been called part of the FF series, but very rarely did any of them actually say why. I figure they were expecting moogles and chocobos and other long-running series favourites, and what they got was a decent CG sci-fi movie with a plot of its own (much like each of the games), that actually kinda tangentially ties back to a couple of other games (much like each of the games!).
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Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that! And I do remember people saying that, too. And I watched it, and went, "Pffft! It's TOTALLY the same thing!"