Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

This post was going to be about Lolkick Sims, but then my mood changed. So I thought, "Hey, Pirates 4 was AH-MAY-ZAH, so I'll review this instead." Yeah, seriously.

You could say that was a kind of thesis statement; the movie was certainly amazing. Going into the theater to see the movie, I wondered how the movie would be able to compare with its predecessor, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I thought that movie was also AH-MAY-ZAH. I remember the epic battle at the end of it, the way the plot tied everything together, and the way that the fates of Will Turner, his father, Davy Jones, and Jack Sparrow all intermingled into a beautiful web.

I can easily say that On Stranger Tides lived up to the greatness of At World's End... but perhaps just that much.

Doorsey and the Insano Day

Today was insane. Simply put.

I finished my final exam yesterday for this year of courses. Now I have three months off to enjoy no notes, tests, exams, or late night studying. So I was expecting that the first day of this great break would be lazy and peaceful.

Oh, how wrong I was. The funny thing, though, is that the events of this day actually start last night... kind of. As a result of my late night exam studying Wednesday night, I was exhausted on Thursday. I crashed after eating something... at 6 PM. However, my body was so in need of long sleep that I slept all the way until 3 AM. I awoke lying on top of my bed, no sheets or covers on me, with the lights and fans on. After a few minutes of lazily laying there, I realized it might be a good idea to actually get some real sleep, not fully understanding that I had just accumulating a whopping NINE hours of sleep.

Final Fantasy Type-0: A Preview

"You spoony bard!" "There's not a thing I don't cherish!" "We live to make the impossible possible!" "I, Garland, will knock you all down!" "Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men!" All of these are somewhat infamous quotes from one of the most successful and well-known video game series ever: Final Fantasy. For years, the Final Fantasy series has graced its audiences with such recurring icons as its rebellious protagonists, fluffy, pom-pom-bearing Moogles, large golden Chocobos, gelatin-based enemies, and the greatest swordsman of all.

 However, such a bright and lifting description is more fitting for the most early entries in the Final Fantasy series, in which you fight as characters wearing humorous onions as armor and are assisted by old man and five-year-olds as magicians. Let's also be sure not to forget cheese, biscuits, AND mashed potatoes! In contrast, more recent entries in the Final Fantasy series have been far from so whimsical and for some gamers, pleasant. Starting in Final Fantasy VII, the plots became more Gothic, the characters became darker and more negative, and so forth. Hopeless and failure became more common in the stories. Thankfully, we still had our cute, cozy, fluffy Chocobos and Moogles to make us feel some sense of familiarity.

But not anymore.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Log III

Welcome back; time for another exciting episode of logging Kingdom Hearts Re:coded. This one is late because I spent the last week submersing myself in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. That game is amazing, by the way, I highly recommend it.

Okay, Wonderland. This time around, Sora's looking for completely unexplained items called "Inklings", which no character bothers to fully unveil or clear up for us. However, Sora looks just behind him to see something sparkly and shiny and possibly star-transcending. Once Sora found it to be an Inkling, he discovered it had two of these qualities. Then Sora reminds a girl who looks to be at least in early teens what her name is... only you, Kingdom Hearts, only you. Anyway, off to collect more delicious Inklings.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Log II

The story so far: this is the story of a man who continues to defy logic. After Sora's adventures with Xemnas and the Organization had come to their end, Jiminy begins to find cryptic messages in his initial journal. To discover their meaning, Mickey Mouse and two squirrels code the journal and create a very often confused data Sora. After fighting through the glitches in Destiny Islands, the data Sora was sucked into the world's darkness looming above, which took him to...

Traverse Town! Sora does indeed discover that he saved Destiny Islands from the glitches. As commanded by the overlord of his existence, King Mickey, Sora meets up with Cid, former Gummi Ship expert. Cid reveals that Traverse Town is no better than the islands Sora just left--the blox are here too! Sora knows he must go and debug this world too--only because that Overlord Mickey politely orders him to--though Cid offers an extra task. Apparently some triplets have gone missing, and it's up to Sora to save the day! And you guessed it, it's those pesky duck brothers: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

... I swear, if I have to play Ice Cream Beat again, I might just quit this game right now.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Log I

I'm back from my trip! Where this trip was to you shall not know until I write a blog post about it, but just know that after much waiting, I finally have Kingdom Hearts Re:coded!

The last game in the Kingdom Hearts series that I played was easily one of my favorite games ever, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Due to the sheer massiveness of the game, I only finished it completely under a month ago. Great game, and the ending effectively got me back into the series. However, Square Enix, know this: if you make me buy another spin-off before Kingdom Hearts III that is some sequel of that game, our relationship may go into a state of violence and instability as of yet unbeknown to this world.

And so now, here we are. After playing as Roxas in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and then three entirely new protagonists in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, I'm finally playing with Sora as the main protagonist again, for the first time since Kingdom Hearts II! Let the nostalgia begin! Except for nostalgia of the Summons. Those never happened and they shall never be spoken of again. If they ever are to appear in a later installment, here is what I have to say: THEN WHO WAS SUMMON

Lolkick Sims Log II - The Tragedy of Hexed Magica

Where we lest left off, Hexed received an ominous call from another member of the Lolkick Household, Door. Door explained that a terrible reaction occurred at work, affecting him in some way. While nothing could be seen immediately by Hexed, he detected that something was definitely up...

As Door slept that night, Hexed tried to take his mind off it by playing some computer games. Tabris was especially angry at this. He had been working extra hard at work to try and catch that criminal he met the other day, and could really have used some destressing from some computer games. Trying to solve this, he bought a TV for the house, but the video game consoles were far too expensive for the Lolkick Household's ~$1,000 budget. So instead, he made spaghetti. Then he watched a TV program about making spaghetti at 2 AM.