The Day My Living Room Stood Still

Tick…
Tack…
Tick…
Tack…
Tick…
Taakkkkkkk *Clock breaks down after someone threw something sharp at it*

Believe it or not, I’ve been bored for about… five hours today. This is amazing, I’m usually never bored. I am so unused to being bored that I’ve actually walked around in circles wondering, is this boredom or am I just going crazy for real this time? Kind of hilarious to see my self afterwards pacing back and forth doing nothing in particular.

The strange thing tough is that I’ve been to the toilet about… once every fifteen minutes. And the only thing I’ve drank today is one cup of tea. And amazing how that would turn out to about ten visits to my porcelain friend. Well, whatever…

After mostly just walking around thinking about what to do and what I should have done and what I need to do I finally did neither of those things I came up with and sat down on the sofa playing Persona 3 instead. It was a while since I played this game… maybe four or more months so I need to re-familiarize myself with it again. And soon I realized what made me stop last time; I’m stuck. Or actually, I’m not stuck; it’s just going slow since I have a really annoying optional boss-fight I want to do before a certain date in the game. I could just skip it if I want and just focus on levelling up and build up my social links. So well, I’ve come close to beating this boss today about three times, but I think I need some more equipment. Better defence and better melee attacks so I can kill it faster. Not to mention that I need some protection against fire. One solution I found to beat him quite easy would be to level up to 55 (7 levels) and gain a persona which is completely resistant to all of the bosses attacks. Then I could just bring my strongest characters and stand there reviving them when the fucker killed them.

But I don’t know if I want to grind that far. So my plan will probably be to upgrade my armour. I haven’t done it the past two months (in the game) which is quite bad actually. Each month you are expected to upgrade or at least find upgrades since every main boss is stronger than the previous. The annoying thing tough is that the main bosses are actually weaker than the optional bosses, but in the end I need to beat both sets of bosses if I am to finish the game. Well, still it’s a pretty amusing game, and I want to play the sequel so I think I will return to the game later. Right now I’m taking a break to eat and to regain some will to play since I’ve been beaten again, and again about twenty times over. I guess I also have myself to blame when choosing the hardest difficulty. If I would have chosen easy mode or even normal the boss would been dead now.

I hate bosses with direct kill attacks, it’s annoying to completely relay on chance. But if I only could completely control my party then it should have been easier. Unfortunately I can’t more than say if they should attack, stand back, support or only use melee attacks. I can’t chose their attacks or even support spells which is one of the reasons to why I’m loosing. When my healer or support character should revive, she heals someone who doesn’t matter and when she should heal me she nullifies status effects. Well, 3 out of 4 times she actually does as I wish but those times the boss manages to take out half my party with his instant kill attacks and if I’m unlucky he just manages to strike only me down, and in Persona 3, if your main character is knocked unconscious then its game over. That is one good thing in Final Fantasy games, where that doesn’t matter.

Well, well… just wanted to write something and it seemed that entire post went to complain and explain about Persona 3. Well, days like this is good I think. Being bored makes it so much easier to appreciate the moment I’m not bored, even if that is most of the time. Well, well… maybe I’ll even write something interesting… well, if anyone want me anything I’ll probably be online on my secondary MSN which I will have next to me while playing PS2.

BTW, the title of this post is kind of a joke towards the movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, it’s an pretty okay movie. But with a lot of BS to solve it. Tough I got a campaign idea from it, well, well…

Best regards,
Herid Fel