Touhou Project "Fires of Hokkai"

[mintywolf]

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I was going to post this on tumblr a little while ago because I thought AuronLu might enjoy it since she liked the other video I posted of the arrangement of "Bad Apple" with traditional Japanese instruments. (Same arranger and shamisen player as this one.)

Then all of a sudden, several months after I had posted it, that video suddenly went viral and while that sounds great, it pretty much ruined my tumblr experience for a solid week by flooding my dashboard with notes. (It has over 16,000 now and still going.) I installed an xkit widget to hide them but it takes a few seconds to kick in and doesn't work on mobile. I don't know how actual tumblr-famous people manage to use tumblr.

I didn't want that to happen again, and then I remembered that Dreamwidth is a thing, so here it is. :)

(And after all that I didn't even get that many new followers because Touhou isn't the usual subject of my blog. :/)

In other news, I've started playing Final Fantasy VII, at last and in earnest. I'm really enjoying it now that I have time to actually sit down with it without distractions, which was part of the problem I had getting into it before. I'm keeping two save files, one for playing with my cousins, currently chronicling the adventures of "Cumulus," "Arm Gun Man," "Knockout," and "Aeristh," and another one that I am playing by myself without any gratuitous silliness. (I don't know what happened to the save file we had where everyone was named after fresh produce, but there was one. If I ever do a second playthrough, all "let's play this game properly" rules are off and Eggplant and friends will probably make a glorious return.)

Comments

[melchar]

FF7 is still my favorite game [of all time] for the plot ... and more plot - and ALL that story / back story / interactions.

My -first- console game was FFX - and it sucked in my brain and allegiance because of the beauty, characters and story. But FF7 fully grabbed my attention. It was also my first experience with an unreliable narrator/main -game- character with memory problems. [Plus I liked that Cloud was assumed to be the competent one and explained to others how the game mechanics worked in several places ^_^].

Hugs! And enjoy. [And I can't believe I go back and replay FF7, FFX and some of the Shin megami Tensei games so often!]

[mintywolf]

It took me a few tries to get into FFVII but now that I have I'm really enjoying it. :) It's also fun watching my younger cousin, who is mostly unfamiliar with Final Fantasy (he watched me play some of X and XIII) getting really excited about things that are well-known to the fandom but new to him. He read the instruction booklet and gleefully told me that "There's this one guy who has a machine gun for an ARM! And this girl who fights just USING HER FISTS!"