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Good Lord.

I need Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II like BURNING. Like, RIGHT NOW. So much so that I'm looking forward to it much, much more than Persona 5. Or FFXV.

Second in line in my NEED list is actually Tales of Berseria because it looks great and Eizen is droolworthy I can't even.

Not saying that I'm not interested in FFXV or Persona 5. It's just that they're not really high in the NEED list. In fact, I'm not really in too much haste to get FFXV (The only reason for urgency is that my PS4 is SERIOUSLY lacking in games and unfortunately FF Type-0 doesn't entice me as much as I had hoped since I'm more of a turn-based JRPG gamer (except when in comes to Tales of games) so I might get them once they're on sale or something.

Thank God Persona 5 and Tales of Berseria are only out next year.

On another note, I'm shedding my completionist tendencies. Decided that my time is worth more than that. Which is how I managed to finish Cold Steel I back then.

Maybe I should get down to FFX and Tales of Xillia now. And the long-abandoned FFXIII-2.

Plus, I've gone too far into Tales of Vesperia that I've pretty much blown probably >50% of its sidequests into oblivion. A pity.

As for Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness, reviews on it are pretty much average. In other words, considering all the hype surrounding it before it was released, it bombed. Another pity - mainly because I liked the title. And blue-haired swordsmen.

At least I can push it way behind in my NEED list. Especially since I'm barely even a quarter into Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope.

Need. More. Time.

Damn it.

Star Ocean 5 is bloody tempting.

It'd better be much, much better than Star Ocean 4.

It'd better not make me regret it if I ever purchase a PS4 along the way.

...and I'm biting off more than I can chew.

My backlog is massive as ever, and I'm neglecting my gaming.

My anime.

My reading.

My studying.

What is this I can't even.

...I'm not getting into it. Sure, I'm barely scratching the surface, am only 30 minutes into the game, and it just irked me.

The graphics are terrible. One might accuse me of being too accustomed to the eye candies that are the Tales series, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy but...there was a time I was able to stomach the graphics of Star Ocean III (on the PS2). Never mind that in the latter the characters all looked like china dolls but in SO4...they still looked like dolls. More lifelike, but dolls all the same.

Which makes it pretty scary, come to think of it.

And the only thing more atrocious than the graphics is the characters. Why do the girls have to have squeaky voices? And do they have to move a lot just to show how 'cute' they are?

Ugh.

And the voice acting? Thank God I could switch over to Japanese voice overs.

...Reimi is still a pain. At this point, Sophia Esteed (of SO3) is more tolerable.

SO5? Please don't disappoint me. I still have yet to finish SO1 and SO2 though...