Another day spent playing FFVII all day.......I can't help it!!!!! I feel like it's easy to forget how gripping older games can be- even for me, a person who loves retro games. But damn if the PS1 version isn't still so fucking fun. I spent a solid hour grinding for gil because I was gonna buy the lifetime pass for the Golden Saucer only to not end up doing that lmao and it felt...I mean, not like no time at all, but like the time flew by.


real talk the most embarrassing part is that I wanted to quit but I got peer pressured by Liz and Pat into getting MORE than 30k gil (you know, to have an extra buffer lmao)

( don't worry I have even more gameplay pix from the past couple days )

So that's my entry about my day XD

jk jk I have a little more~

I'm trying to fix my sleep schedule, since I've been staying up until 4am (or even later) every day/night/whatever you wanna call it. So I woke up when Liz did (around 8 am) and...damn I'm wiped XD

HOWEVER.

Pat's brother is coming down tomorrow because he's traveling to a bachelor party further south, and it's far enough away that it would really help if he stayed at our place for a nice. Which is totally fine! But he was really unclear about when he was actually coming; we thought it was Thursday or Friday. BUT NOPE. We found out today that it's tomorrow. So we've been doing a lot of SUDDEN CLEANING to make sure he has somewhere to stay.

Liz is currently kicking ass cleaning out the living room couch...I love them....

THE ENSTARS MAINTENANCE WAS EXTENDED MY LIFE IS OVERRRRRRRRRRR

okay now that that's out of my system...I'm not gonna lie, I'm very sad to have to wait an additional 24 hours to play around the with the new UI...at least there's a lot of good stuff going on in the ENG and CN servers - particularly my favorite anniversary event!!!! - so I can play with that, but still ;w;

Anyway, all I did today was play FFVII and get lost in enstars on my phone. Uh. I live a productive life, I swear XD


Cloud went on a chocobo date with Aerith (and kept fucking it up in very autistic ways, not helped by all their friends tagging along)

( more ff7 screenshots in here! )

tbh I feel like I accidentally burnt myself out on icon making for the next week or so. I entered a bunch of challenges for like...a month straight? Which was a ton of fun!! But now I'm kinda overdone on it I guess? Or more like my creativity is fried, probably because I made so many in such a short period- for me at least. idk I know some people make a lot more faster, but not me! The fact that I've made around 200 icons this year is a lot for me, and it's something I'm quite proud of! I guess I just need to chill out for a bit.

BLUH.

ANYWAY. Ending this on a more positive note: I managed to get Kohaku's newest 4* in CN!!!!


I love that he looks so fucking cute and it's all because it's Mayoi vision XD thx Mayoi, for making Kohaku seem so precious ♥


also, the newest worldwide mission outfit dropped in CN today, and it is delightfully fruity- it looks like a mix of "gay sailor" and "little Victorian boy", and I'm here for it ;D

"I don't wanna shell out $50 for the next part of the FFVII remake" I said, fully believing the lie was telling myself.

Anyway.

I picked up FFVII Rebirth on Sunday and I basically haven't put it down since XD It's so much better than Remake it's honestly incredible; they very clearly took feedback into consideration with this one. The gameplay is tightened up and modified just enough that it's fun instead of clunky, and while I still prefer the traditional turn-based experience, this is massive improvement over the last one. I still think Crisis Core feels a bit smoother because it leans more into the hack and slash nature of it, but I'm not dying in every fucking fight like I did in Remake.

ALSO THE FEW SECONDS OF ZACK IN THE OPENING IN AN ALTERNATE(??????) TIMELINE GOT ME RIGHT IN THE FEELS. I think because I just finished playing Crisis Core it hit particularly hard, but holy shitttttt, I was about ready to cry ;w;

Cloud looks so good too, like...they really have nailed "anime spiky hair bullshit" mixed with realism...it looks so soft and fluffy and also well spiked. It's just. idk. It manages to nail a lot of the stylistic things that fell short in Kingdom Hearts 3, and while I'm delighted it did...it also makes me sad for what could have been in KH3. It was ALSO an amazing game, but I'm still fussy about the style changes between KH3 and literally every other KH game ever :T

MOVING ON!!!

For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm playing a game that was made for the PS5. Besides Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, everything else I own for the PS5 is on at least one other system (usually a fair amount), because everything is made for every damn system now!!!! It makes it feel like.....why do I have this system if it's just like everything else on the market?

BUT NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFVII REBIRTH FEELS LIKE IT'S USING THE FULL CAPABILITIES OF THE SYSTEM!!!!!!! And not just like, oh the graphics are fancy, isn't that enough? No!!! There are so many little details that pull it all together and make it a richer experience *w*

I have a lot of other thoughts about it, but tbh I just wanna go back to playing....


so here's a majestic picture of Cloud with a dolphin XD

( few more screencaps under here! )

OH ALSO!!!! We had to go out to get more food for Lumos, because she's currently on "only the fanciest food money can buy" for her sensitive tummy...which is definitely hitting us where it hurts (the wallet). But we also picked up some groceries, including this absolutely necessary ceramic figure of a balloon animal. What animal? I have no idea, but I love him ♥


I put him on top of the TV with my son who has every disease (the green pumpkin)
BACK TO MORE FFVII I have a mini game I actually like (rhythm game)~

( KH meme - stolen from...someone )

I've been fangirling over FFVII these days because I'm replaying it. Right now, I'm cruising around in the buggy and training before going to Gongaga. I'm having fun leveling up my materia XD

On that note, I want Crisis Core really, really bad. But I'm going to need to buy a PSP to play it...ah well. I guess I should start saving now! ahaha I'm such a little fangirl.

And ummmm I think I'm going to try to use this more often :)