January 29, 2006
Fandom Love

You know you're probably really out of a fandom when reading fic for it feels both totally nostalgic and rather surreal - I think part of me is convinced that I dreamed Nukume Dori 10 or something. And AB 06 may end up being the first con in three years I'm not doing a Seishirou costume for, I think (in favor of RE4!Ada, who is utter sex).

Anyway, on the video-game front, I've finished both Leon scenarios in RE2, and Claire A (will probably do B when I finish RE3 - was gonna kill something if I did the RPD section for a fourth time in a row, though). I totally <3 RE2!Leon, with his burning idealism and occasional idiocy, and the world utterly fucking him over. I want to take him home and give him a hug or something. Although, uh, I kinda want to know what happened to his jeep. He just sorta...leaves it there. Someone is going to be pissed about that later. Claire is pretty awesome too, particularly when she kicks the heads off of zombies. Wonder what happens to Sherry at the end of the game - you don't really find out. Birkin wins the 'Craziest Mad Scientist Ever' award, though. He even beats out Hojo, because Hojo has many moments of snarky sanity in the game before he finally snaps, while Birkin is all 'My precious G-Virus! *pets*' and I go '...Dude, you're weird.'

As for RE3, I'm nearing the end - I think I can probably finish it tomorrow afternoon. Jill totally wins, particularly as she can dodge and doesn't need X to climb stairs (I think someone listening in to me playing RE2 would think I was really strange: "Climb the stairs, Leon! Climb them! ...Good Leon."). And Carlos amuses the hell out of me, particularly with the kind of fake sounding accent, although Mikhail's is worse - he kind of wanders between Russian and Irish. And Nemesis is really fucking annoying. Particularly because he shows up every ten minutes argh. I will sing and dance for joy when I finally kill him for good. Much like I did with Seymour Flux (actually, that was more jumping up and down screaming 'Yes! Yes!', but you get the idea).

I haven't had a chance to play much SE yet, as I keep fucking up the controls and when I went to see what I had them set to the first time through, I found Ben had taken my memory card, but I can tell I'm really going to love the style move. That teleport trick drove me crazy playing as Dante, and now it is mine, ahaha. Although Vergil doesn't do the pole trick that Dante does, which makes me sad. Because that was really amusing.

...Yeah, I have kinda become Capcom's cheap whore, haven't I.