Status Update

I have not blogged in a while so I feel like writing about what has been going on even though the people who read this already know. Anyway I feel like adding some commentary. First thing is I am on a ranger binge. This is due to Skyward Sword and Skyrim. Whenever I play a Zelda game it usually means that I am on a ranger binge or will put me in the mood to do one. This does not really make sense because Link is a master of all martial skills not just a ranger. I guess he looks more like a ranger because he is an elf and uses a bow and is in chain which depending on which game counts as light, or medium armor. On the other had he uses a heavy shield which is definitely says warrior. As for Skyward itself I have one more flame to get and then what I would assume the final battle/dungeon. Over all I like the game they changed and added a lot of mechanics and still had the classic Zelda feel to it. Also it is harder and longer than Twilight Princess. Somethings I did not like was the bow and hookshot are the last too weapons you get. This is way to long for classic Zelda items. Also there was no huge blunt object to hit people with. This is a classic that they left out.

Now lets move on to Skyrim. I would say would be roughly half way through this game. This is a hard game to judge how much progress you have made in the game because there is a large amount of it that is optional quest lines. So you have to make a decision on what quests lines you want to do. However the reason that it has put me on a ranger binge is because of the skills/play style I am using. That is two handed, bows, and light armor. I did this combination because I wanted to test a play style and it ended up not going the way I intended and by the time I figured that out I did not feel like rerolling. In the end once you get stagger on bows and movement speed perks in light armor you can kite anything very easily. This helped push me into a ranger phase. As for the game one problem is that the thing the game is supposed to be about, dragons, are way to easy to kill. The tactic I use was run up to its flak and hit it with a two handed axe. I have only gotten one dragon that actually turns so this works very well. Even when it turned it did not do that much damage. The only time that they did that much damage was magic damage otherwise they fly around doing random crap then they land and I run up to its flank and hit it. But Elder Scrolls has never really had that great of an AI system anyways and is more about the emersment. For that I am a racist redgaurd because fuck everyone else. One more thing that I hate. Why the fuck can you not climb mountains anymore. I mean what is this a return to Guild Wars where you could not fucking climb a slight slope. If you do not want people to climb up mountains than fill it with things that are hard to kill to discourage them and make people want to take the path instead.

This brings me to my next topic Ao no Exorcists. I started reading this a couple days ago out of Borden and because I heard it was good. To me it seemed like your typical battle manga, I would give it a 3 out of 5. It is not like it is bad but it is not great either. There was nothing that made it stand out. It is the simple formula of protagonists that has powers that no one else does with some side characters. One of which is a Yoko nock off, and another that is a hilarious fop. It gets great revues but apparently the anime sucked. Also it seemed that the drawing was not quite there yet. So I looked up the artists and it is done by a women, which seemed weird to me because the characters that seem to need the most work are the female ones. She has done a 5 volume piece and a couple of one shots before this. So she is fairly new to the game. Hopefully she continues to work and improve and puts out another piece after she is done with this one.