"But I Don't ~Want~ To Kill The Colossus... :::sniffle:::"

[merimask]

Just checking in briefly (I know :::gasp:::  but I can be brief from time to time) to say that "Shadow Of The Colossus" totally owns my soul.  Is so pretty, just like "Ico" (developed by the same team; Sony Computer Entertainment)  Also, just like "Ico", it's toying with my emotions.  The more of the Big Guys I kill, the worse I feel about it!  They're so pathetic.  None of 'em are asking for it; I'm just making my little hero dude wander into their territory, provoke them, and then kill them.  I have to.  It's how the game goes.  Apparently it's how I save my girlfriend.  But I hate it, and the music is so damn sad each time I kill a colossus (and they squeal pitifully like a harpooned whale, and they die in slow-mo), I actually teared up when I offed the "horse-whale-cow" colossus.  Wah!  Life is sad enough without being intentionally traumatized by your entertainment.  Sure is a pretty game though.

In other news, I failed to mention all the cool stuff Charlotte got from us (which is good 'cause she's a good kid and she shares).  For example, Greg got her A DVD of "Moonchild", a Japanese vampire movie featuring Hyde (from L'arc En Ciel, they do fun J-rock stuff including the theme song Ready Steady Go for "Full Metal Alchemist") and Gackt.  Gackt is supposedly the prettiest man in Japan.  Though, after seeing this movie I have to say Hyde is certainly adorable (has a strong sort of Asian David Bowie thing going on).  Those guys are a couple of real live bishonen. 

I got her NintenDogs (cute!!), Dragonquest, a new handmade rice bowl, and loads of strawberry Pocky (her fave).  The Pocky source has dried up since Media Play took a crap, so now I guess I'll have to buy the stuff online.  :-/ 

Oh well.  Back to slaughtering innocent giant creatures!

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Too pretty. Gackt is five foot eleven and he has a freaking twenty-seven inch waist. Really, it's on a website with his musical info stuff that I went to to figure out why everyone was going on abouthow puuuuuurdy he was a while back.

I could break the little bugger in half. Just snap him over my knee, like. That's not a man. :P Who wants a man who's daintier than you are? Yuk.

Just my opinion, of course. I just find it hard to imagine that here are really girls out there who'd be comfortable with that. Blah.

He's got a nice face, though. But from the comments he's quoted on making, he really KNOWS he's good-looking, and that's a turn-off, too. Long story short, Goldie no like Gackt.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Eh, my daughter and I are of the same mind on that. We think Asian guys who are so good-looking that they're pretty are kind of cool. They look ethereal, almost. Anyway she's sort of stuck on the Gackt thing right now. No surprise really, since she's nuts about Yuki from Fruits Basket and he's a tall thin boy too. We just have to accept that we will tower over (well, not me. I'm 5'2") and lumber around Japanese men. Your average Japanese guy is 5'6, or so I read somewhere. They're pretty little bird people. Makes me wonder how the heck they drew their katanas, much less used them. I practice with mine but my arms are too short to draw it smoothly.

You can see L'arc En Ciel here, by the way. I have to say I really do like some of their music. Also, you know...pretty. :-)

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I've seen ppl that size in person and to me they just look like they need to be hospitalized. In body type, the only ones I've seen that I find attractive are martial artists, who bulk up. I like Yuki too, but because he's a cartoon, I can imagine him whatever size I like :) And Gackt isn't short, he's either 5'11" or six feet tall.

My dad is six feet and weighs 220lbs. He's got more on the belly than he needs but he's got nothing to spare anywhere else, really, and he's highly solid. He'd look weird if he went under 190. I am used to BIG. Going from B-I-G to teeeeeny just isn't a good transition. :) Hell, *I* am actually fairly big. I've got shoulders like a linebacker (as my dad once said) they're broad and straight and actually I like em, and my ribs are seriously ginormous. My hands are the size of my father's. Teeny men would make me feel ungainly, and I equate size in men with manliness to some extent, no matter how unfair that may be. (I've met skinny guys who overcame this by being extremely strong in spite of their puniness but I still wanted to urge them to gain twenty pounds.)

I actually have really strong feelings about it, lol, not that I'd ever rant ;) (I just get so offended when men are SMALLER than me by such an unreasonable margin!)

Yeah, Gackt is nice to look at. I LIKE the pretty ones...but they've gotta have size and muscle, too, or I ain't interested. It's kind of like guys liking girls with big boobs and tidy but round butts...AND a head of golden hair with faces to shame...er, who's pretty?...I dunno, let's say Elizabeth Hurley. I think she's beautiful, so she'll do for an example.

Hehe, if men can be shallow, so can I. Especially since I only like looking anyway and don't want one for myself. If you're only gonna look, they've gotta be just right. :)

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

OMG Shadow of the Colossus is too sad! I killed two of the creatures and got so upset I couldn't play anymore! They don't even attack you at first, you have to pull out your sword and threaten them! How upsetting. And they're damn pitiful even when attacking. I mean the game is pretty and all, but just so depressing! Wah!

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Oh good! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one, I thought I was getting a little crazy there. ;-) It IS sad! Though, in a way, I suspect I'm doing a good thing 'cause every time I wake up on the floor of the temple after I kill a colossus there's another shadow standing around me and a new white dove on the altar around my girlfriend. The number of doves corresponds exactly with the number of dead critters. I think I'm freeing their souls or something. At least that's what I hope. I also worry that maybe the "big voice" that tells me what to kill next is misguiding me. Oh well, time will tell.

I'm up to ten, btw. Just six more to go. I have to hurry up and finish this game so I can have my life back.

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

Let me know how it ends because I was too much of a weeny to finish the game. XD And that big voice was just sinister, I didn't like it's tone at all...

[firegazer.livejournal.com]

I've gotten to the point where I prefer outright fighting games. That way there's no conscience and you can ALSO beat up on your best friend. Win-win situation.

Plus, I'm a perfectionist, so RPGs always end in me staying up three days straight to get every little thing.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I got "God Of War" for my husband (can you tell we love our video games in this house?) and he's playing it right now. It's a good game but he's like you, in that he has to do ~everything~ just right. Me, I just like to see what happens. :-)

Good thing about "Colossus" though is it's like "Ico" in that it's more of a puzzle-solving game than anything else, so you really can't progress until you solve the puzzle anyway. Think "Myst" but with huge monsters.

And I'm SO stuck on the 14th colossus! I just can't quite figure it out. Grr...

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks? OMG so much fun! You can either fight your friends or co-op and beat the crap out of all the other characters with the story mode.