Crystals for Life

So Crystals for Life is over now, and we raised over 33,000 CAD. I'm very happy with this! My own run went pretty well, and everybody I met was fun and having a good time.

While I was feeling a bit ill, I did a segmented run of Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition and got 1h40! Was very happy about this, then I hear that Lenophis has managed 1h27. Oh well.

I'm back in New York for now, there's a few days before I get back to England.

Also hahaha, Emily won the NES copy of Final Fantasy as a prize from C4L.

IFKTUP

Oh yeah, that means my Backloggery Unfinished percentage is now 80.6% oops

PSN Freeness

Forgot to mention, there were three other games that were free on PSN before.

• Patapon which I've heard is pretty darn good.
• Piyotama dunno what this is
• Patchwork Heroes or this

America and Stuff

So I'm in America right now, partially to go to Crystals for Life but also to hang out with friends. I've mostly been working or practicing Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition so there's not much excitement on the gaming front, but here's what I have to report:

• Wild Arms is currently free on US PSN for some reason! Go download it, I did. Haven't played yet (of course).
• Got a bit further on Lord of Arcana - took a few tries but I beat Bahamut and now I'm in Chapter 4.
• Just before I left England I downloaded Path of Exile and played it for a few hours. It's very Diablo 2-lite but the amount of customisation is pretty crazy. I bet my build will suck soon.

Resolution Update #2

I finished reading From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries, and it was pretty good, but sadly I've read most of it before. I used to read around a lot in college, things connected to my subjects and not (I learnt a lot of philosophy at this point for example) and there were only a few things that were truly novel. I guess it's meant to be more of a reference than a read-through book anyway.

Finished Naruto: Rise of a Ninja yesterday. I still think it's a pretty good game, but the controls were really starting to grate on me at the end. The last few races / social missions are also very strict, which would be okay if it were possible to decide what Naruto will do at any given moment. Definitely want to speedrun this game someday.

Still practising Final Fantasy: Anniversary Edition. I have a bunch of modifications to make because Lenophis has managed an excellent time with some route changes.

Not submitted a speedrun yet. I should probably focus on FFAE until Crystals for Life is over.

Made a neat website for Crystals for Life! It'll be live soon.

I updated a few game statuses that were wrong, so now my Backloggery Unfinished percentage is 80.5

Resolution Update #1!

• Read all the books I got for Christmas

Read a few pages of From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries.

• finish Final Fantasy X-2, XII, XIII for Emily to watch (even if she doesn't want to)

not played any FF at all except practicing FFAE.

• submit speedrun of Klonoa 2 / Majesty / a game that is not Arcomage to SDA

not played any of my speedrunning games so far

• go to Crystals for Life and be happy

well that's in a month so I have an excuse

• get my Unfinished percentage on Backloggery to be <65%?

81.2%

MR EFFICIENCY STRIKES AGAIN

So about that resolution

Nah I haven't broken it already, but some more presents have arrived, this time including games! Here they are:

• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (360) - I bought Sean this for Christmas and now I get it too. I loved the older games and this seems a worthy successor.
• Kirby's Dream Collection (Wii) - This is a great collection of games! We also got the 'Special Edition' so it comes with a soundtrack CD and an artbook. Lots of fun in one box - Dream Land 1/2/3, Adventure, 64 and Super Star.

That's all. We also got plenty of beef jerky, and three films to watch.

• The Dave Clark 5 are "Having a Wild Weekend" - wha
• Lisztomania - huh
• Moonrise Kingdom - well it has Bruce Willis in it?