Ico

A long, long time ago, back in the Playstation 2 launch days, there was a game called Ico.

I had always wanted the game, but never got it. By the time my pal let me borrow it like 9 years later, I was too busy with other games and had probably played Shadow of the Colossus for like 60 hours (game takes about 16-20 hours to beat. I did all the extra stuff and still played).

But anyways, I recently got the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus HD collection and finally played through Ico yesterday in pretty much one sitting.

I loved it. And they did an amazing job with updating the game to HD. Yeah Ico's face is still pretty ugly, but since most of the time the camera is zoomed out it doesn't matter. What does matter is that all the scenery and the animations look fantastic. So anyways, I was going to put this piece up here as a two-for-one Cool Dude Tuesday and Wonderful Women Wednesday piece featuring Ico and Yorda. But I think that's pretty lazy so I'll update later with a real WWW piece.

Not particularly happy about how this one turned out, but sometimes you just gotta work through things and get it done and hope you do them better next time.

Until later!

The Return

So, I spent the week in Utah visiting my grandmother. I never, ever though I would enjoy my stay there as much as I did. The scenery out there is seriously amazing. The mountains and cloudscapes were pretty insane. Nothing like the smogfest that is the Inland Empire. It's always nice to get a view of what the Earth was like pre-civilization. Very cool.

While I was there I kind of stayed off the internet, but you know how it is in this day and age, I gotta have my technology. So I was playing Final Fantasy VII on my psp. I miss this game so much. Probably my favorite RPG ever with my favorite characters. I especially like playing through after playing through most of the follow up games (Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core, though I never beat either), and watching Advent Children a billion times. I just love seeing the characters in their original setting, and now that I'm grown and can appreciate the game design and narrative a whole lot more. Even though there are some bad translations here and there, the overall script for the story of the game is so modern and fun. I totally forgot how much cursing and just flavorful language there is. It's more relatable then all the medievil old english fantasy we're so used to.

Also It's cool to go back and appreciate characters I originally didn't like, like Yuffie. I don't know why but back when I first played through the game I didn't like Yuffie, I thought she was annoying. I guess I just wanted her to be more of a badass ninja, but now she's probably my favorite character just because she's so fun. Plus her Limit Breaks are the shit, who knew? I have my ancient Brady Games guide from back in the day, so I'm gonna 100% the game, FO SHO.

ANYWAYS!! Since I missed out on Wonderful Women Wednesday, Martial Theory Thursday, and Fanart Friday. Not to mention today is also Sequential Saturday. So because I'm totally nerding out on FF7 (if you couldn't tell by my rant above), I decided to make up for each day that I missed, plus today by drawing a quick sketch for each day!

For Wonderful Women Wednesday, Yuffie!

For Martial Theory Thursday, Cloud Strife!

For Fanart Friday, Tifa!

And for todays Sequential Saturdays, Cloud vs Safer Sephiroth!

That's it, until tomorrow.