Forum Overview :: Final Fantasy X :: You don't know me.

[quote name="Zseni"][quote name="Moesha"]That game is <A HREF="http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/" TARGET="new">Cloud</A>. In it, you play a terminally ill asian child with blue hair wasting away in a hospital who finds happiness in his final lonely hours by dreaming about flying through the sky and playing with the clouds. Goals in the game range from reshaping the clouds into pretty shapes to gathering the white clouds into a huge ball, katamari style, and using it to safely precipitate away industrial pollution. The pace is slow and languid, your ball of clouds will break apart if you move too fast, and there's no time limit to stop you from drifting around and enjoying the pretty pastel watercolor beauty of it all. Anyway, we all know what game truly is a <A HREF="http://www.progressquest.com/" TARGET="new">Zen</A> experience.[/quote] Zseni cries real tears at the thought of being a fake invalid. Zseni can't handle the emotional tension in a Celine Dion song, so Zseni certainly can't deal with anything as stiff as weather control wish fulfillment. It is <i>precisely</i> FFXII's promise of everlasting ease and perfect health that allows me to quell my permanent installment of anxieties even momentarily; without its effortless ebb and flow, I would just be biting my nails to the quick again, nervously plucking the hairs from my eyebrows and rocking myself in the corner of my basement, arms wrapped around my knobby knees, the perilous finiteness of my existence a crushing millstone about my neck. But YOU can't accept that Japan ever produced anything good - not as long as more than 15 people have ever heard of it. The important thing is to keep it foreign and rare. Games are <i>never</i> popular for legitimate reasons. A distressing attitude for a future counselor, but not an uncommon one. You think you're so much better than us, don't you. DON'T YOU.[/quote]