tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77085529462071204612011-11-26T22:20:11.351-06:00My personal game and art log for the Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions video game. (on hiatus)insomnielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11171811218607514817noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708552946207120461.post-57182904984989302682008-09-23T22:31:00.002-05:002008-09-23T22:34:33.822-05:00

(cross-posted to my livejournal)One of my (shameful) new obsessions is A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. I picked up the first book at my library in the shelf of books donated for sale. It had no dust jacket, but I thought it seemed pretty interesting from the first page and even if it sucked, I would only lose 50 cents. Well, I read it and the following books with

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This is probably the last update for Japanese fanart sites that are hopefully link-free. Again, if you have other sites to recommend, please let me know!Sky Lodge by maiyueFFT, FF12. Beautiful watercolor and digital paintings in rich colors. I guess technically this is not a Japanese site, but it is a must-see!ジャポニカラクガキチョウ by アスパラFFT. Graceful painterly sketches, plus a game blog with sketches of

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http://pumpkin.sakura.ne.jp/This is a Japanese oekaki board for Final Fantasy Tactics related fanart. I love looking through their giant archives (back to 2000!), there are tons of talented artists and super cute artwork about all of the Ivalice games, plus random stuff. People in Japan are ridiculously talented and goofy.Errr sorry, I haven't been updating much. I haven't actually succeeded in

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Now it's a gorgeous FMV with Delita and Ramza in the church, speaking of important things, of course. I think I would die of happiness to see a movie of Tactics in this form. Although I wonder why they still use Ramza's chapter 3 armor instead of his blue and white butt-pad armor in chapter 4.My thoughts on the plot so far? Delita is still being vague in his words, but I believe he thinks more of

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I have been poaching, questing and leveling my special characters, nothing too interesting. However, I died miserably when attacked by 6 ninjas once. Held out as long as I could, but I had my weakling characters at the time and they weren't enough.Soon Ramza and company will be girding their loins to enter Zeltennia Castle.

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Worker 7 get, yaaaay! Oh man, that cutscene always cracks me up! Ramza's panic is just so hilarious.On another note, I also obtained the Tynar Rouge in the Agrias subquest. Mustadio is a darling. I do wonder if he actually has a crush on Agrias or something, it's adorable in either case. But you know, I think everyone loves Agrias.

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I'm sure everyone in the party now thinks Beowulf is some kind of pervy weirdo, hah hah. But I am touched by how this game decided to turn the dragon and knight relationship upside down, so sweet!I finished the third battle at Gollund Colliery (what's a colliery?) and enticed a cute widdle pig and blue dragon into my party. But when I signed Reis and Beowulf up, I had to dismiss 2 other monsters!

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On my way to get Beowulf!!! What a studly stud.First, I fought the battle with 7 chemists. Easy enough with Beowulf in my party. I pretty much just rushed them, stole a couple of Lambent Hats (what were there original names?) I suppose. Chemists armed with guns are annoying, I must admit, but not so hard.The second battle at Gollund, I decided to get Agrias, a summoner and an orator in my party.

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Well, many of these sites haven't been updated in a while, but they still have lots of pretty art for those of you who are looking for more Tactics fanworks.89 by ひたきTactics, Advanced. Cute sketchy style with soft colors, be sure to check the logs for tons more funny doodles.okoanism by おこあんTactics. Very bold semi-realistic style, like graphic design. Lots of character and generic class sketches

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That Meliadoul is a sassy girl, completely immune to Ramza's cuteness. But then again, most of the females in this story are. They're clearly not like me! Anyways, that battle at Bervenia kicked my butt all over the place and then kicked my face in as well. I decided to just gun for Meliadoul and to hell with stealing or whipping up on the other female soldiers. The rend ability in the hands of

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My brother and I are going through and writing out whether our attempts to get bonuses in the propositions work out well. So far... they haven't! But well, we try to write down the hints and tips the tavernmaster occasional says for future reference.

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At last, we find out why this chapter was called "The Valiant."Second battle at Riovanes: defeating Wiegraf as Belias, the blue and white ram using the Aries stone. That was a while ago so I don't remember exactly what I did, but it included Ramza versus Wiegraf, mano e mano. Ramza had to keep running just out of reach of Wiegraf's wicked holy sword skills to heal, all that while dealing as much

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Sorry, I've been busy with finals these past few weeks and haven't gotten further in Tactics. My brother and I also decided to buy Puzzle Quest and well, that is one fun game. Even though it kicks your ass. Well, it kicks my ass!I did fight the first battle in Riovanes, where Rafa and Malak do nothing for a bit and then teleport away to God knows where. I was left to deal with the evil female

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I just fought the battle at Yuguewood, not too hard. I still have difficulty enticing characters in, but I suppose that's a tricky skill to use. Also, I have a dancer now, and that is way amusing watching her dance. Still haven't made much headway in the mage path, though. I just finally got a summoner, how long until I get a calculator and a bard?!Here's a fanart of Ovelia. I drew the lineart on

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Have some hideous oekaki fanart of Cardinal Alphonse Delacroix and Cuchulainn the Impure. Nasty fellow, but love the Scorpio demon design, so disgusting.I know I'm missing a few deaths, such as Gustav, Bart and umm... people we suppose to be dead. Maybe later. I don't even know who's next, who's next? Anyone?Since it will be a while before the next deaths, I guess I'll do some of the living

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Note: READ PREVIOUS ENTRY if you haven't already!Oh man, the exploding frog always surprises me!Anyways, fixing to get me the two most useless characters in the game, Malak and Rafa. I don't hate them, but man, it is difficult to justify keeping them in your battle party. Who here keeps Malak and Rafa? My brother always gets rid of Malak and keeps Rafa for treasure hunting purposes. I believe

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Gaea Studio by Mos (Chinese)Tactics and XII. Elegant lineart with a beautiful painterly style, reminiscent of antique watercolors. One of my favorites, from China.Wistarial by TouruTactics and Advanced. Gorgeous set of b/w oekaki with striking and stylized flair, lots of pairings.Mitsuboshi by 星風スイTactics Advanced and XII art with a little Tactics thrown in. Humorous and lovely watercolor style,

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Heya fans, I haven't been updating much because things have been hectic, but now I have Luso into my party! He's a cutie, with his little notebook and super bright clothes! And I love his CG introduction, Ramza's all like, "I'M A NINJA, I WILL SAVE YOU!" My baby's all grown up. *wipes tear*I got the Dark behemoth into my party, hoping to breed it and poach some cool items. The King behemoth died

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The CG scene with Delita and Ovelia is full of drama. How many times does he use the word "endeavor" anyways? "Try" is a real word as well, you know. But in all seriousness, it was really sweet and just a little chilling for him to speak to Ovelia in such a way, that manipulative bastard. I would fall for it, too. No doubt.http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/uentries.php?u=13506Sketch of Ramza in his

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WHAT THE HELL, I had to restart the battle 3 times. Yes, I'm a girl and I suck at strategy, but come on, I had 3 healers and Ramza was a dragoon, punching away with his lance at a safe distance. How could I possibly die? VERY EASILY.I finally had to follow the FAQ's suggestion of bringing in Agrias and aggro at Wiegraf before his bitches got to the rest of my party. Ramza still got KOed, but

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Well, you should know how I feel about the re-translation of the names by now. I feel that "Nightblade" is even less relevant than "Knightblade", but whatever.This was a hard battle before and it didn't get any easier now. I had to restart the first time because I chose to put Ramza in as a ninja, and I'm sorry if you like ninjas, but that was a weaksauce move. Then I figured dragoons was the way

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Circle: KARYear: 1997Pages: 26 pagesCharacters: Ramza, Agrias, Mustadio, Delita, Ovelia, AlmaRating: PG (a little blood)Summary: A very pretty and clean style, quite detailed. The first story is my favorite, a gag story of Agrias getting decked out in dancer attire. A few more with Agrias beating everyone up, and then another funny one about Ovelia's married life. The last story is of course,

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My friend and I dressed as Moogles from Final Fantasy 12 and Tactics. Here I am as a gunner in my terrorist sniper ensemble! I have no idea why we decided to do these costumes, but they turned out really super cute for being ghetto and crafty. I made those bullets out of cardboard, paint and tape.So here are some English links for those of you who habla ingles. Not a huge collection, as you can

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Drawing from Tegaki-e. I like to know who orders milk at a bar. That seems like ultimate in suspicion to me!My brother has the PSP today, so I'm playing some Tactics Advance at the moment. I'm at the last battle now, but I haven't finished all the missions yet, so I'm wasting several years waiting for the right ones to pop up. Very annoying...

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Urgh, last night I started the first round at Orbonne Monastery and it was killer! I had to restart a couple of times because I stupidly left some characters equipped with random "optimize" items. Finally I forced myself to stick with the battle and eventually won with everyone intact.First off, the 3 dragoons were seriously powered up with mythril spears and of course, my healers kept on dying

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This is for my own reference, some banner links to Japanese sites with Tactics/Advance/XII fanart. I was hoping to find other overseas fanart sites, but apparently not. For any of you who want to view these sites, have Japanese fonts available and of course, don't take any artwork w/out permission. The last thing I want is for these sites to close down because of my linking to them.Ensemble by

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I'm not sure what a postern is. This battle, we fought Head Inquisitor Zalmour and his knights and monks. Alma accompanied us, and of course, did her awesome Aegis spell on Ramza that unfortunately did not last the whole time. I did get her killed once, whoops. But overall, an easy battle, since we were so juiced up on powerful accessories and Zalmour kept missing his cure spells. I mostly took

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Tietra Heiral. I had originally intended this to be an artblog as well, so I am trying to memorialize as many of the characters as I can, in my own... unique... style. I clearly need to plan my pictures out better.

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Just finished the battle at Gollund in which you have to protect Orran. I kinda botched this one up and missed stealing the orichalcum. At least I managed to get the mythril guns and avant gauche. My problem seems to be that Ramza as an Aries has terrible compatibility with every enemy in the entire game, ever. And I should have increased the jump of my team, since I knew it was going to be a

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Title: TIME AND REALITY (Toki to Jitsu?)Circle: tsuki no dango (to the best of my knowledge)Year: 2000Pages: 34 pagesCharacters: Ramza, Cloud, Elmdor, Delita, Ovelia, Alma, generics, some Vagrant Story artRating: PGSummary: This is a fairly nice doujinshi with a lot of guest art in the middle, kinda amateurish style but probably better than my art, at least. The first 2 stories are pretty

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Oh snap, I seem to have forgotten about my Ramza cosplay. As if I'm not already horribly obsessed! Anyways, I made this costume in 2004 for Project A-kon and managed to bully my friends and brother into cosplaying with me as my devoted generic team.(click for more photos!)It was really really fun and I just wanted to share some photos because having huge groups from Tactics equals instant win! I

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Urgh, I didn't know that there were going to be three battles in a row at Lionel Castle. Finally offed Gaffgarion at the gate, which wasn't too hard if you have auto-potion on Ramza. Stole the Ancient Sword as well! On the other hand, the team outside the gate had some difficulty despite being levels ahead of the enemy. For some reason, the enemy knights had extra-good compatibility with everyone

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This was a difficult battle on the PSOne and it still is! That Gaffgarion and his Blood Sword, I should have stolen his sword the first chance I got! At one point, I had 2 people down, poor Mustadio took some extreme damage. I managed to rally back aggressively and did not retain any casualties, but it was darn close. I sure was tickled by the fact that they actually made a different icon for

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Because I'm so utterly lazy, I'm going to review one of the Tactics doujinshi I bought off of eBay. Title: Flower BarrowCircle: Kyofu no Miso Soup, Kiriri AmasawaYear: 2000Pages: 38 pagesCharacters: Ramza, Delita, Alma, Olan, Balmafula, Izlude, Meliadoul, Mustadio, cameos of pretty much every speaking characterRating: PGSummary: basically an adorable collection of gag stories, plus fanart from

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Here are the fronts of the four Final Fantasy Tactics doujinshi I currently own (scaled down). These cost me quite the pretty penny, but I managed to snag some of the prettiest or least offensive ones I could find on eBay. I don't go for the DelitaXRamza yaoi unfortunately, even though that is the most prevalent kind of doujinshi out there. I prefer cute or gag doujinshi, in case anyone reading

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Over spring break, I managed to get into chapter 2, where Ramza is now 17/18 years old and working as a mercenary under Gaffgarion. Man, that extra F in his name is extra gay!I love the CG cutscene with Delita and Ovelia by Zeirchele Falls, that was gorgeous. Delita is kind of a douche, with his vague and dark comments about everything, but I guess that's how he gets things done, by not letting

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Finished chapter 1 last night. That battle with Argath was grueling, I still don't understand the utter and shameful weakness of my buffed up characters. But trying to steal items always makes an easy battle much more difficult.The CG movie afterwards was lovely but rather anticlimactic. I seemed to recall the original explosion at Fort Zeakden having much more impact. But that may have just been

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I like the translation of the two Milleuda battles, the exchange between Delita, Milleuda and Ramza flows a little better now. Do you think Milleuda and Wiegraf are low-born knights or high-born? They do talk so very posh, it seems out of place with their supposedly low-born background. Not that I'm expecting some Shakespearean-fool accents, but clearly some of the truly low-born characters have

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Those silly leaf whistles will always bring tears to my eyes!The voice acting of both Delita and Ramza kinda crack me up, since they're trying to pitch their voices so high, but I very much approved of this CG scene. The animation is so eerie and beautiful, with cross-hatching and an antique color scheme. I think one starts noticing Delita's desperate search for the meaning behind the past events

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Ramza is at level 8 right now and I am about to fight the Brigand's Den battle with Mileuda. Unfortunately, my thief hasn't gotten the "steal" abilities yet, so I think I will level up some more even though the items I want to gank may be available after the battle.I noticed the introduction has changed from a slideshow of the zodiac stones to a somewhat eerie animation of black and white

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Greetings, noble reader! I just wanted to start off with a warm welcome to whoever is reading this, if anyone at all. Probably not...My brother and I, with great cost to our pocketbook and grievous injury to the truck, purchased a refurbished PSP just for this precious game. At this point, I have logged in several hours and leveled Ramza (an Aries) up to level 7. The gameplay is as delightfully

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