I know I'm supposed to talk about that writer's block thing in the next post, but screw that. And I know people probably won't give a rat's ass of what I'm going to talk about, so screw them. I just found out from my friend that a new Fatal Frame is in development!! I checked the internet, and sure enough, there's the news, staring at me in the face: the next Fatal Frame has been announced!!... YES! Thank you oh God!! ...for the Wii!! YES!!! ...wait a minute, what?!
For those in the not-know, Fatal Frame is a Japanese horror game that have you fighting ghosts with a camera. Okay, I know that doesn't sound very scary, but let me explain. The series takes place in a Japanese settings, and the theme of the horror is very heavily in the style and nuance of that culture. You always play as a young girl trapped in some big mansion haunted by insane hostile ghosts, and the only way to defeat them is to use the mystical camera you have to exorcise them. Ever since the first game, I already fall in love with it, and ever since have been an uber-fan of the series. IMO, it's the most frightening and immersive horror series I've ever played.
The last game was released way back in 2005, and I've been scouring the internet
since looking for the tiniest bits of information for the next game. Imagine my excitement upon hearing this news! But... why for the Wii? The series have only been released for the PS2 and Xbox before, why Wii? Most likely, the creators have found a new way of utilizing the Wii-mote to create a wholly new gameplay for the series. It would be interesting to use the Wii-mote as a camera, or shake your hands wildly to release yourself from a ghost's grip.
Another thing that interests me also is that the game will be developed with the help of Grasshopper Manufacture. Yes, the very same company who made the outrageously weird and totally screwball-ed but stylish game Killer 7. This is very intriguing news. Who knows how the next Fatal Frame game will turn out when it's finished?
I have no plan to buy the Wii console before. But now... God, if there's one game that will make me buy a Wii it will be this game. I LOVE the series that much!! I don't care if I have to fork over $250 to buy a Wii console, but I WILL play this game!! Thankfully, it won't be anytime soon for the game's release (I predict early 2009 at best here). So now would be a good time to whip out good ol' piggy bank and start saving!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
(mutters to self unintelligibly)
...officially, it's pretty much safe to say that updating my blog has become one of the many sad excuses I have for putting off my work. Assignments. Papers. Readings. (yawn)
Like now, for instance, I have 3 papers (and if my sense of foreboding would prove true in the following week - 4) coming up in the next 3 weeks, and I have done... shall I say, unsatisfactory, attempts to get them done. I'm still waiting for the proverbial sledge hammer to hit me in the face (not the head) as my wake up call just so I could get a grip with the situation in hand.
Considering said situation, however, I would need more than a sledge hammer. Inspiration and energy have been fleeting at best lately. Maybe a train or a capsized ship. Hmm. Or maybe I could just tie myself to a chair (it would be quite a feat, that) in my study room at the library and throw away my apartment's keys into a fissure in the ground somewhere that ran all the way through the other side of the earth.
Argh, what the hell am I rambling? For the next 72 hours I'm planning to spend all night at the library doing these papers. And if THAT won't help either, then may academic judgment fell upon me and roast me to cinders for being lazy as a grad student. Seriously. It's not enough that I have to combat my laziness, now the very elements has risen to test me too. Fall's chilly wind starting to blow again, and I could swear it brought along some of the sandman's sleeping powder to my eyes. The wind-blown tree leafs outside the windows are trying to shoo me away from the library and whispered that it's better to stay in the warm inside of my apartment. But a metaphorical siren has perched herself on my bed's head, luring me to sleep whenever I looked at my bed. And always, like an entranced sailor, I submit to the song and crashed myself into the rocks. Arr, she be a devil, that bed. Monsters! There are monsters everywhere now. Life's always hell when you made it out to be. I rarely can concentrate on studying now in my apartment. I need to get out of here.
I'm rambling again. Anyhow, I should consider myself lucky, considering the horrifying writer's block I had a couple of weeks back. Oh yeah, trust me. There ain't nothing more horrible in this world to a grad student than a writer's block. I'll write up about it in the next post (shivers...), this post is already too long.
(later note:)
I should stop writing pointless posts like this in the future.
Note to self: more studying. Less (and I DO mean LESS, me-idiot!) rambling.
Like now, for instance, I have 3 papers (and if my sense of foreboding would prove true in the following week - 4) coming up in the next 3 weeks, and I have done... shall I say, unsatisfactory, attempts to get them done. I'm still waiting for the proverbial sledge hammer to hit me in the face (not the head) as my wake up call just so I could get a grip with the situation in hand.
Considering said situation, however, I would need more than a sledge hammer. Inspiration and energy have been fleeting at best lately. Maybe a train or a capsized ship. Hmm. Or maybe I could just tie myself to a chair (it would be quite a feat, that) in my study room at the library and throw away my apartment's keys into a fissure in the ground somewhere that ran all the way through the other side of the earth.
Argh, what the hell am I rambling? For the next 72 hours I'm planning to spend all night at the library doing these papers. And if THAT won't help either, then may academic judgment fell upon me and roast me to cinders for being lazy as a grad student. Seriously. It's not enough that I have to combat my laziness, now the very elements has risen to test me too. Fall's chilly wind starting to blow again, and I could swear it brought along some of the sandman's sleeping powder to my eyes. The wind-blown tree leafs outside the windows are trying to shoo me away from the library and whispered that it's better to stay in the warm inside of my apartment. But a metaphorical siren has perched herself on my bed's head, luring me to sleep whenever I looked at my bed. And always, like an entranced sailor, I submit to the song and crashed myself into the rocks. Arr, she be a devil, that bed. Monsters! There are monsters everywhere now. Life's always hell when you made it out to be. I rarely can concentrate on studying now in my apartment. I need to get out of here.
I'm rambling again. Anyhow, I should consider myself lucky, considering the horrifying writer's block I had a couple of weeks back. Oh yeah, trust me. There ain't nothing more horrible in this world to a grad student than a writer's block. I'll write up about it in the next post (shivers...), this post is already too long.
(later note:)
I should stop writing pointless posts like this in the future.
Note to self: more studying. Less (and I DO mean LESS, me-idiot!) rambling.
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