「Ｂｅｈｅｍｏｔｈ」

Guohh, man. I had a good day, but I am still kind of reeling from a therapy group last night. Touched a real live wire there, brought up some old energy, hard to bracket things properly.

Got FFVIIR2 in the mail today, installed it while I was working. I ordered it last week, on a whim. Been hearing good things about it, which make it sound like this one will be more up my alley than the first one. I got like... 75% of the way through that game and put it down. Hoping that the open world thing will make for a better fit.

Started it up after work, just barely got into the intro in Nibelheim, and it's very fun so far. But... I am considering just shevling it until later. Mostly because I know it's going to be a very long game, and there's another game I'm more excited about comin' out next week (Unicorn Overlord).

Watched the first couple episodes of Shogun, that new FX show that everyone says is so good. And they're right! It is quite good. Seems weird that they changed all the names, I guess it was more of a thing in the 80s for historical fiction? Makes it kind of confusing, sometimes.

It is endlessly amusing to me that the protagonist of this show is based on William "Anjin" Adams, who is also the protagonist of Nioh. That game is straight-up historical fantasy, where Adams leaps off his wrecked ship, kills a hundred bandits and a giant demon, and then learns ninjutsu from Hattori Hanzo himself. He's a samurai-ninja-wizard who is running around meeting and killing all kinds of important historical figures.

It's just very funny that these are the two adaptational extremes, which I've experienced. From Japan we have the "everyone knows the story of the Sengoku Jidai, what if it had more MAGIC" and from America we have "what if there was court intrigue... in JAPAN! And there was a WHITE GUY there!!"