Your favourite Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts song is..?

New poll! Excitement! This time, it's all about the songs! I personally love Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts sound tracks, and me, being a piano player also, I do have the whole Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections. Ok, enough about me bragging... lol >.>
Soooo What is your favourite Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts song?! There.... are lots... Soooo if you don't know some of them, go to Youtube and listen!

Actually... I'll add a few videos on here so it doesn't look that boring, but it's not all of them!

This poll only covers the main Final Fantasy series and Kingdom Hearts songs. So Dissidia and Other Final Fantasy spin off won't be here unfortunately... Sorry if your favourite song isn't included in this poll.. Feel free to leave a comment on other FF songs that is your favourite! 


Final Fantasy IV - Tsuki no Akari (aka Theme of Love) - Ida Emi
Final Fantasy VIII - Eyes On Me - Faye Wong
Final Fantasy IX - Melodies of Life - Emiko Shiratori
Final Fantasy X - Suteki Da Ne (aka Isn't it Wonderful) -Rikki
Final Fantasy X-2 - 1000 Words - Jade
Final Fantasy X-2 - Real Emotions - Koda Kumi
Final Fantasy XI - Distant Worlds - Megumi Toyoguchi
Final Fantasy XII - Kiss Me Goodbye - Angela Aki
Final Fantasy XIII - Kimi Ga Iru Kara - Sayuri Sagawara
Final Fantasy XIII - My Hands - Leona Lewis
Final Fantasy XIV - Theme Song (Name of song unannounced yet.. >.<) - Susan Calloway
Kingdom Hearts series - Passion (English Version - Sanctuary) - Utada Hikaru
Kingdom Hearts series - Hikari (English Version - Simple and Clean) - Utada Hikaru


Kimi Ga Iru Kara                                         Passion

Theme Song FFXIV                                   Distant Worlds

Real Emotion                                              Eyes on me

VOTE ON!

                                                                  Poll will close 13th October.

Birth By Sleep leads to No Sleep.

Now since it's been a few days since I last posted something, and the poll is closed now. Firstly, lets congratulate... Xion, Roxas, and... Kairi! Sorry Axel, you didn't make it! you got beaten by Kairi thats why you got... uhhh failed-photoshopped-out... Anyhow, these three awesome characters got even votes! Congrats to Ax... I mean Kairi, Roxas and Xion! 

Now about Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

Like the title, while playing Birth By Sleep while university is still going on, bad idea. I ended up playing almost all night and hardly got any sleep until I had my next class. so bad >.> I am currently at 76 hours into the game, 94% completion on everything. Just need to beat the last hidden boss, Mysterious Figure and collect some commands and items. One thing I want to say to Mysterious Figure... !@$#$^ you! you are too damn hard! Can't kill you after you turn invisible and create too many invisible clones of yourself to ambush me... ahhh! Anyways...

First off, I want to say that this game is AWESOME fun. The battle system is well designed, lots of varieties and combos you can create, endless customization depending on your play style and a really complex Command Melding system where you can upgrade your abilities and skills. 

The General battles are like all Kingdom Hearts games but this time with more new (and sometimes annoying) monster, the boss battles are innovative and really fun, where each requires a different strategy and are all very challenging on Proud or Critical mode! 

spoiler alert 

About the story, there are four parts to it. One main story for each of the main characters, Terra, Ventus and Aqua, and then there is the Final Episode which is unlocked after beating all three characters story and collect all Xahanort's Report, where you play as Aqua. You will also see many familiar faces in this game, many many familiar faces!

The first character I chose to start with was Ventus, as he looked too much like Roxas, and it seems to be appropriate to start with someone thats... rather familliar. After going through and completing his story, I was a little confused, as things were jumping too fast, and there were things that I just couldn't figure out... like why was Aqua standing in the middle of Radiant Gardens after the battle against Trinity Armour? Why did Terra appear in the Land of Departure with the power of darkness? 

It was just a little confusing, but as soon as I started the second character's story (Aqua), I knew that everything will make sense after I finish all three characters. The story is told in three different perspective, and it is so well told that nothing is really repeated, and every character's story was fresh and entertaining like a brand new game! Really well designed and thought out I have to say! Every character took me about 12-18 hours, Ventus' too me the longest because he was the first character that I played, and Aqua was the hardest to beat in my opinion because of bosses. Also, the Disney characters are awesome and was blended into the game extremely well! (maybe with the exception of Peter Pan and his crew... but Tinkerbell is awesome though!)

For me, the best part of the story, was the secret ending that you can unlock by beating all stories including the Final Episode in proud or critical mode. You can unlock it in normal mode but you need to complete the Report section for all characters, and that is really hard... so choose Proud mode if you are interested in the secret ending. The secret ending tells you so much that is otherwise left unresolved in the normal endings, and it is a delightful one because after watching it, I'm certain that there will be a next Kingdom Hearts game, and hopefully we'll get to see Aqua, Terra and Ventus again! Really hope they will all appear or have some sort of relation with Sora in the next game.  

Another awesome thing about this game is that you learn quite a bit about the past of Organisation XIII, when they were all still human, and you even get to fight some of them! 

                                                End of spoilers

Well, I will still be playing Birth By Sleep until I beat Mysterious Figure... or until my thumb falls off while trying to beat him... hopefully not the latter since I want to play more games and the piano... lol.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is overall an amazingly well put together, well thought out, and extremely fun game. Oh it is also really beautiful, but it does lack CGI cut scenes... sigh.. the limitations of PSP... But if you only finish one or two character's story, you probably won't get the whole package of fun and experience. 

A lot about my recent Kingdom Hearts accomplishments

Since I can't play Final Fantasy XIV (sad face... really sad face...) I will talk about a little bit of my recent gaming accomplishments, or simply, my recent Kingdom Hearts accomplishments since the games I've played recently are Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

These two games, I give you one two words! Awesome, Beautiful, Epic. (Here you'll see Roxas or Zack or whoever encounters Phil counting...) lol (my failed attempt at an inside joke...)

I have finished both games almost 100%. Just need to kill Mysterious Figure, collect a few more items for Birth By Sleep, and do some challenge missions for 358/2 (the latter which is unlikely unfortunately...) And for the next post or two, I will talking about my experiences with these games.

Firstly I'll talk about 358/2 Days. This game... it is something that you should not miss if you are a Kingdom Hearts fan! Wow! The battle system is fun and engaging with up to 19 playable characters in mission mode, the character development system is deep with lots and lots of possibilities. The graphics on the game is of great quality for a NDS game, and the mission styled progression system is fun, but it does get repetitive after some time, but it's not necessary to do them all so it's up to you if you want to complete the game fully. You might be wondering why I haven't talked about the story yet, even though that I am more of a storyline person. Well, the reason it is because... the story is the best of the game and it is sooooo good.

The story was so epic, with morales and a lot of touches of sadess and sorrow (hence my favourite original music from this game is called 'Musique Pour la Tristesse de Xion' or Sadness and Sorrows of Xion). 

            a little (major) spoiler alert here

Xion, a new character that is introduced in this game, yet you should be very familliar if you know the Kingdom Hearts character Sora, Riku and Kairi. Roxas, Axel and Xion. Any resemblance? But! it's not as obvious as you may think! Xion is actually a part of Sora, and if Roxas is Sora's Nobody, then what is Xion?! A created replica of Roxas, who eventually develop a 'Heart' for herself. This is something that a 'heartless' can't do, but obviously they are Sora's (hence why she can wield the Keyblade as well). She then discovers the truth of where the flashbacks and memories comes from, then she began to think and develop 'feelings' that she should give these back to Roxas and finally Sora. The consequence is obviously that she has to sacrifice herself. For me, the story was developed so well within the game, in the end, even though you know it is going to be something similar, when you actually see and hear the dialog, it is really heart breaking and I had tear drops in my eyes almost wanting to escape while I was watching the scenes towards the end of the game. I have to say the story is one of the best in the series, definately one of the saddest Kingdom Hearts story line.

                                                                      end or spoiler

For those who haven't played the game, you must play at least for the storyline. It's something that shouldn't be missed if you like Kingdom Hearts. In the next post, I will be talking about Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. 

For this week's poll, I'll be posting something KH related! Who is your Favourite Kingdom Hearts Character?! Main Characters only however, and does not contain any Disney characters unfortunately... (Sorry Mickey!) 

Poll closes 3 October.

SEPHIROTH! dum dum dum dum SEPHIROTH! (as heard in One Winged Angel)

I have a HUGE surprise for you. The winner of the 'Who is your favourite main Villain' poll is... ok I lied. It's not a surprise. It is the all obvious SEPHIROTH! All hail Sephiroth before he cuts you up into pieces, well either way, he will still cut you up into pieces. 



Make sure you listen to the epic 'One Winged Angel' played by Eminence Symphony Orchestra as you celebrate the epic domination of Sephiroth.

FFXIV releases tomorrow! It's on the way to my doorsteps now!!

I can't believe it has been more than 2 months since I pre-ordered the Collector's Edition of Final Fantasy XIV, and the wait is nearly over!!!! I recieved and e-mail today, and it said...

'Your order of Final Fantasy XIV - Collector's Edition has been shipped.'
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'Your order of Final Fantasy XIV - Collector's Edition has been shipped.' 
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'Your order of Final Fantasy XIV - Collector's Edition has been shipped.' 

IT IS COMING TO MY DOORSTEPS WITHIN 24 HOURS!!!

ok a little dramatic here.. lol Either way, I'm half super duper excited, since it is finally coming, but... I won't be able to play it until I get a computer that will run it >.<;;;;;;;;; /sadface... 

so sad lol. But at least, I know I will have it and play it soon. 

Also, the new CGI trailer of FFXIV is truly epic. Adventure, friendship, epic fights, gorgeous graphics and sound... what a Final Fantasy should be like :D

Here it is! Watch it and you'll love it!

Badass needs to be loved!

The Badass villains strikes! And you know it, you love them! Who is your Favourite villain?!?!?!?!
dum dum dum...


Do you love Kefka's insane yet godly, crazy maniac personality?



Don't you just love Sephiroth's owning everything up as 'One-Winged Angel' plays in the background?


Or do you adore Kuja and his tail?!



Or you love that Seymour stole Yuna's first kiss?!?!?!?!?

Which villain is it that you love? Vote NOW!




Poll will close 27th September

Congrats Vaan!... uh I mean...

As my second poll closes, I want to firstly say thank you to all who have voted and visited the site :D

This time we have 2 times more people voting! Thats a major improvement! Good to see! Hope it will just get better and better :D

We have a winner!!! for being the least liked main character in the Final Fantasy series.... 

Is that a good thing? or bad thing?!?! well.. Here it is!

 

Ok I have to admit. This failed paint-job is pretty disturbing.. but as we can see, VAAN from FINAL FANTASY XII won in all his glory, 3 time more vote than all other characters that got voted and a whopping 50% of all votes went to Vaan. He should be happy! At least he was a character that everyone remembered because he... was useless in the game, so congrats Vaan! Majority of the people don't like you! (I myself don't particular like or care about him too XD)

I'm surprised that there are people who voted the retro Cloud and Zack as their least favourtie character. Good to see that not everybody is all Final Fantasy VII XD

Next poll will be coming up shortly! Hope to see you on here often!