My opinion on the “Last Exile” ending: Meh! The whole series is pretty in the beginning, unengaging after that, then really good for a while and ends with meh! GONZO needs script-writers… Desperately!
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He’ll be my Hero
Nintendo / Sega ought to get their asses in gear and publish an F-Zero GX soundtrack, the music is awesome! Until that happens, you can get some very nice game-rips here. FilePlanet needed a bit of convincing to give me all the files, but after circumventing their subscription / bandwidth-limitation system (which blatantly tells you that the requested files cannot be found although they are there!) with a bit of URL-fiddling, all is good.
SSX3
Been playing quite some SSX 3 on my Gamecube. At first, I felt very lost as the game expects you to have played SSX Tricky beforehand, but after playing for a while (and setting the controls to “Pro” ;)), it’s really good and very polished.
Japanese Food
Went to Abeno Okonomiyaki in London today (next to the British Museum) to have lunch with Chris, Lindsey and Nick. I had an excellent time and the food was very nice. Next we strolled off to Chinatown, where some sort of Moon Festival was happening which involved Lions eating (and spitting) cabbage and money… (?)
It’s a shooter!
Got myself P.N.03 and “Skies of Arcadia – Legends” for finishing the dissertation on time. So far, P.N.03 is good fun (if you know what to expect) and I’m slowly getting to the stage where my playing looks nice (having a fully upgraded Intera Guardian helps — Autofire!!!!)… Oh, and I love the music (Techno-ish).
The Wind Waker
Finished “Legend of Zelda – The Wind Waker” yesterday (after about 50h of play-time). Excellent game, very much reminded my of a Miyazaki film…
Ian Banks’ Formula
I’ve been reading quite a bit of Ian M. Banks lately (“Consider Phlebas”, “Excession”, “Inversion”, and currently “Look to Windward”). Quite nice, but the books are too short (taken me 2 days on average for one of them) and seem too focused on providing a semi-memorable non-happy ending.
I still prefer Vernor Vinge as he has – in my opinion – more of a plausible technological backdrop and vision. And more dread… 😉 But until his next book comes out, Banks is a very welcome distraction.