See, Tiina, I am writing.

I finished Kingdom Hearts last week. It is a really nice feeling when you manage to play through a game. Not to mention that the game was too pretty! Especially the ending. Sigh. *And* especially the hidden secret ending! That was so cooool. I want to see it again, but then I would have to play through the last boss once again. It isn't that hard, but it would take an hour. Just to see those few cooool (yes, the word actually has that many 'o's) minutes.
(You get the secret ending if you lock all the worlds, gather all the dalmatian puppies and win all the tournaments.)

I got into a bit of a power gaming frenzy with Kingdom Hearts, I have to admit. I just had to gather all the twelve items from the clock tower and synthesize all the weapons (I had Ultima Weapon, yeah!) with the moogles. I didn't beat those voluntary bosses, though. I tried to beat Shadow, but it took too long. I hated it when I kicked his ass slowly for over half an hour and then always died over something stupid. I think I will still try to win Sephiroth, I have an earlier save just so that I can try that. I get halfway through, but then he does that nasty halo-attack thing that drains all the mp and leaves one point of hp. *_* And then he hits me once and I die. Gah.

My next gaming project will be Final Fantasy VIII. I was at disc three when I started to play Kingdom Hearts about six months ago. ^_~ I am slow. I hope I can still remember what I'm supposed to be doing. Then waiting for me are Shadow of Memories, Shadow Hearts, Shenmue I & II, Grandia II, Skies of Arcadia, Vagrant Story, etc. Yes, I do have something "better" to do, and that's why it will take me AGES to play through them. At least I'm a happy camper 'cause we have a working Dreamcast.

I'm also very happy about some manga news. Next year, Viz will start publishing Angel Sanctuary and Tokyopop will have Fruits Basket. I can't wait! ^_^ I want them all now! At least Furuba will probably come quite quickly, but it usually takes Viz really long to put out to those albums...

Btw, the korean manwha Under the Glass Moon (published by Tokyopop) is just beautiful. I want to draw like that! The first album was great, but the characters sometimes had these really scary and ugly expressions. But issue two... I didn't think it was possible to draw any more pretty than in the first album (+ there was only one scary face - perhaps the artist will get rid of that habit completely in the next album, I hope), and I still can't understand how the artist has managed to become better in between two albums , but... man! I'm having a beauty-seizure. All that Kingdom Hearts and Under the Glass Moon will be the sweet death of me.

Oh, some real news: I will do the illustrations to a Finnish role playing game that will be freely distributed. It's this guy's project who contacted me on the basis of my Elfwood scifi gallery. There are people all over Finland working on the game. I will do the character classes. I would like to do some space monsters, too, but we will see. ^_^ I've done nothing yet, but if you understand Finnish, you can visit the rpg's site here.

This was such a geeky entry.