It was such an eventful week I really don’t know where to start! SRWZ came out last thursday and I went to watch the much hyped Final Fantasy Distant Worlds Orchestra on the 15th.

I Have to begin with Final Fantasy (Sorry SRWZ!) because its not that it’s more awesome or anything, but SRWZ is still in progress I can elaborate that more in the future. Last friday I attended what could possibly be the best orchestra I’ll ever watch in my entire life. Final Fantasy finally came to sydney and performed at one of the most amazing halls in the world – The Sydney Opera House! Not only that but Nobuo Uematsu himself was there – That really made my day and as the music started playing I felt like I wanted to cry.

I really love the setlist as it began with my favourite song – To Zanarkand. Yeah no wonder I wanted to cry (but just to make it clear, I didn’t shed a single tear =)) Now I wouldn’t want blurry eyesight because I really can’t miss a second of all the exciting stuff happening on stage! As they played through each song, a large screen behind would display clips of various FMV’s and in-game clips. After Intermission a guest vocalist by the name of Kanon was called to stage to perform Suteki Da Ne. I didn’t know what to expect as I never heard of her before and in Japan there are alot of mediocre female vocalists, but as she sang the first few words she instantly won my heart. Her voice is soft/soothing and above all VERY powerful. So good that I thought she nailed Suteki Da Ne which is a really hard song to sing. I could go on and on about her voice but lets move on, there’s alot to cover and I have to play SRWZ right after writing this entry.

Another interesting song was the chocobo medley, this medley had the chocobo theme all the way from the first FF’s all the way to 14, very interesting to see the enhancements of graphics as it progressed through the different FF’s, I really enjoyed this song =). The last song for the ending credits was Terra’s theme and they took the 3D night scene from the intro to be used as the clip – I rekon Markuz wouldve gone crazy if he saw it…too bad he didnt get to go.

Last but not least it was time for encore, and was there a song which i have yet to mention? that’s correct, they saved the best for last (tho not my favourite) – One Winged Angel. I thought the crowd just went mad when they announced it because Nobuo was on stage too at that time. Arnie Roth (conductor) asked Nobuo out to sing the chorus, Nobuo’s responce was like “yeah sure thing…..no as if dudeeeee” hehe really funny guy! It was just a really fantastic way to end the night, they used the cloud vs sephiroth fight from advent children for the entire song which was really epic. I just really wanna thank Arnie and the sydney symphony Orchestra for delivery such a great performance, pretty much flawless and also the one and only Nobuo Uematsu living legend for writing these amazing songs =)

This was also my 4 year anniversary gift to my Bhibi. We enjoyed every second of it ^^

Shot taken from our seats just before it started

Now onto Dai-2-Ji SRWZ – OMG!! its soooooooo good!!!! 100x better than the previous SRW games on the PSP. Because this one was actually made for the psp! not just a dodgey direct port or anything like that. OMG Gurren Lagaan Giga Drill Breakerrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! Just having Gurren Lagaan in the game makes this game one of my favourite SRW’s, he’s just so fun to use, so incredibly powerful and his moves just look soo good. I’m extremely impressed with the way they excecuted the Giga Drill Breaker, it looks very very similar to the anime, See below for a quick example..

 

Giga Drill breaker from the Anime
 

Giga Drill breaker from SRWZ (very crap video but best I could find)
 

So as you can see this is indeed a hell of a game! I think its time to get right back to it, keep you posted as I drill through all the enemies with my 500 ton drill.

Dissidia 012 (sequel to Dissida) is finally out, and I finally have my hands on it! Having high expectations (as the first game was so good) I was really dying to play the game, and now…what do I have to say about it? 4 words – It is amazingly good! exceeded my expectations and for good reasons. First Yuna from FF10 is re-modelled in todays CG technology and she looks so good… Then there’s Lightning from FF13, enough said, Lightning is in the game. Hard to describe how good this is, watch the opening/into and you may get a glimpse why:



I also recently got this amazing Dissidia 012 poster. This was before I got the game so you could probably imagine how excited I was. It looks amazing on my wall, its about 1.8m x 1.2m.

After all that I haven’t really talked about the game, I might leave that for another entry =)

As I was one who grew up playing Final Fantasy, this game just brings back so much great memories. Makes me really glad to be born in this generation.

And before I go, I’d just like to share this awesome Dissidia soundtrack with you. Its Epicness on a whole different level.

Download: Dissida 012 Duodecim Heroes.mp3

You know you love the game when you missed a train you were waiting for as it just departed in front of you without you knowing – did that make sense?

Heres what happened:

Today i left work pretty late, and when i got to wynyard station to change trains, i arrived at my platform and learned that my next train arrives in 9 minutes. So i took out psp,  standing on the edge of the platform yellow line playing Dissidia.

Since then, my mind was focused on Cloud slashing and bashing Tidus with his huge Buster sword!…hmm but something didnt feel right, it feels like im actualling in the game… I was dashing and smashing and then there was a gust of wind, i thought it was due to the massive sword swing. Then i looked up, looking confused….. The next train arrives in 11 minutes…?

Woops…think i just missed the train