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Alien vs Predator was fun. You could sum it up as Final Fight 3 with lots of guns added: it has Street Fighter-style command inputs, and you can jump while in a grapple. At least one character has an air-grab. They mostly solved the problem where you'd repeatedly swap weapons at your feet when trying to attack. Instead of →→/←← to run, your directional jump launches you across the screen. The characters all look ridiculously cool in motion, and it's neat to see how much Capcom had evolved their brawler formula since '89. The only thing I can fault it for are the low-effort Engrish story but it's an arcade game so who cares and the music, which if we're comparing to FF3, sucks ass. It sounds a lot like the D&D brawlers and Knights of the Round. Not awful, but not even as good as the original Final Fight, which is weird because apparently the same guy composed both.
Soul Reaver: the worldbuilding is impressive. It seems like the writers drew inspiration from Tolkien and Anne Rice. I appreciate Tony Jay explaining to me how Hell works. It's a lot of exposition, but it's quality writing. The action is clunky, unfortunately: you're supposed to throw certain enemies into obstacles to kill them, and this would've been easier Mario 64 style instead of grab+throw being a single input. The camera is frustratingly inert and slow to manually adjust. Many such issues.
Tales of Rebirth has retarded baby writing, which I guess is typical of the series, but is refreshingly easy to read with my retarded baby level of Japanese. The guy who played old man Joseph Joestar and Jet Black RIP voices what I assume is one of the main characters, which for me is the main draw so far. Hopefully the combat gains more depth than mashing O to win, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that.
>READAN
About halfway through Dracula. I remember an analysis that pointed out how the older characters die off, leaving the younger characters to fill their places. It's true. There's a lot of coming-of-age in the midst of a vampire plague. The cast is more colorful than I remember and the epistolary format enhances the horror by giving an otherwise straightforward narrative a kind of "found footage" quality. It must be pieced together through the eyes of various people rather than being directly explained to you. I'm up to the part where Van Helsing realizes that Lucy has returned as a vampire.
>EATAN
Fasting.
>DRINKAN
Tea.
>LISTENAN
Perturbator albums.
>FEELAN
Sickly this week, hence fasting. Not actually sick or throwing up, but I guess eating garbage and not exercising have caught up with me.