I really shouldn't have started my last post with "I'm feeling pretty good lately" because about a week later, I wasn't feeling that way. I started to experience hunger feelings with some slight burning, sharp pains around where my heart is, and numb to occasional sharp headaches everyday. It wasn't as bad as all the other times I felt ill in the past year, but it did affects during the time my sister was visiting. I always seem to fall ill around the time I see her.
Anyways, Summer ends in 3 days and it makes me feel a bit sad. I'm not sure what to look forward to nowadays other than release dates of games I really want. Summer has all the events I'm excited for and it's always a bit sad to see it end each year, so it's been the one season in the year that I'm usually excited for now.
It's been a crazy 3 weeks since my last post, and it all passed by so quickly. I had found some VSTs that mimic the soundchip used in the NES and decided to experiment with it and create an original song inspired by Mega Man using the VSTs:
I started up my remix of Elegant Summer right before my sister came home. I wanted to finish and upload it before the Summer ended, but I don't think that's viable anymore unless I rush it, and I don't want to rush this one. I also got word back from the company I applied a job position for and was declined and won't be making it to interviews. I did mention in my last post that I certain I wouldn't be getting the job, but it was still worth it and I really liked the mock-up I created from it. There's another position open that I could apply for, but it's not exactly what I want to do. Still, it's an opportunity and I'll take it. So I'll be working on that in the following weeks.
In the first two weeks of September, I mainly spent it composing Swift Man, starting up the Elegant Summer Remix, and playing lots of God Eater Resurrection. I forgot to mention last post that I had started with God Eater Resurrection that came free with the purchase of God Eater 2 Rage Burst. I am up to 68 hours on GE:R so far and have a bit more to go before completing all missions. I really like the game. It has a good story, fun characters, exciting combat, and lots of depth in character builds. And then in the past week, I spent time with my family with my sister visiting us. We went out to dinner a few times, watched half a dozen movies, played some games, caught up with each other, and went shopping (well, they went shopping while I just walked around with them). I haven't watched movies in a very long time, and so this is the most amount of movies I've watched in years. We watched X-Men Apocalypse, which I didn't like very much. I requested to watch Red Cliff since I've always wanted to watch it but never did. It was split into two movies and each one was 2.5 hours long. It had some slow moments, but it really immersed the viewer into the world of Ancient China. The battles were well choreographed and exciting. I enjoyed it. My sister wanted me to watch Pop Star and Spy. Pop Star was not only funny, but is a great critique in our modern day society. Spy was hilarious and well worth the watch. I also wanted to watch Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. It was pretty much what I expected. The graphics were incredible, but the story was typical and the pacing was slow. My sister left yesterday to go back to her home in SoCal and got back to work today. She seems really stressed about work, even when she was home with us during her visit. I hope she can finish what needs to be done in the next 3 months so that she'll be able to relax during Christmas time.
Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics released last week and I've been waiting for it all Summer. The game has some stuttering problems, can't be closed in-game (gotta Alt+F4) among other problems, but the extra content and a more updated/polished graphics are worth it. The game's still a lot of fun as the original One Way Heroics, but there's some aspects from the original that I still like more (such as status of other players, the retro-like charm, and smoother map scroll). Besides continuing God Eater Resurrection, I'm still playing Resident Evil Revelations 2 and just finished my 3rd run of campaign about 2.5 hours ago on Survival difficulty. Bosses and certain enemies would kill me between 1-2 hits. It wasn't too bad, but decently challenging. It unlocked another difficulty level after that one, but I'm not too keen on playing through it. I might consider playing Countdown mode. Otherwise, I'm going to play Raid mode a bit more and finally call it quits on it. Resident Evil Revelations 2 exceeded my expectations and I really enjoyed it.
As sad as it is to see Summer come to a close, I'm looking forward to playing more fun games and working on new projects. It's been a rough year, but at least the gaming side of things have been great.
