dragosteel loaned me two Phoenix Wright games last Sunday, and I've been plucking away at the first one cheerfully. I guess these confirms what I've always known -- I can't help but love things entirely over-the-top. If you've never played them, or heard of them, you've apparently been living under a rock -- but in any case, they're a courtroom legal drama based on detective work and the infamous cross-examination scenes... well, I only hope I've managed to accurately express how the games are just plain out there. Between the kickass theme music that bursts out every time Phoenix is kicking courtroom ass, and the back-and-forth OBJECTIONS! that have mutated into a meme... yeah. It rocks.

Edgeworth: "OBJECTION!... I was hoping to come up with a question while I was objecting. I didn't."
Judge: "Oh. Well, then --"
Edgeworth: "OBJECTION!"

Which was even more awesome in the game.

...yeaaaaah. I'm just a sucker for anything over-the-top. I really am.

I also picked up the DS Remake of FFIV. That's one HELL of a nostalgia trip: Final Fantasy II was the first RPG I ever really played, barring Crystalis which was really an ARPG so I don't count it, and the memories linger in my brain even now. The voice acting is decent (...Cecil = Sasuke, apparently...), the music is remixed to be better but still very much its old self, and the 3D remake looks pretty nice so far. I still think "Cecil" should have a long E, though I knew it wouldn't before I even picked it up. Oh well; I can't have everything.