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heavenly_pearlSo, the day after Christmas, Mom and I went to Wal-mart after she got off work to take advantage of the post-Christmas sales on seasonal items. There really wasn't much left so late in the day -- although I did get some cute cards for next year -- but they did have a bin of video games on sale, so I picked up Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, along with Yoshi's Island and Sonic the Hedgehog (for nostalgia's sake) for my GBA. Since I had already played the two other games before, I decided to play the Harry Potter game first.
And guess what? I managed to beat it in a day. Granted, it was incredibly easy, except for the Occlumency lessons with Snape which gave me a renewed sympathy for Harry in the books -- talk about infuriating! -- but I do believe that's a new record for me for finishing a game. I didn't even play it for the entire day, since I was also taking breaks to reread Half-Blood Prince. (I'm almost finished, BTW. I should be done by tonight, then I can finally get started on Deathly Hallows. Yay!)
In other news, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Yesterday, I finished watching X the TV series, which I've been renting from Netflix, and absolutely fell in love with it. The problem is, the boxset at Right Stuf is very expensive -- about $113. Normally, when I consider an anime series too expensive to buy, I decide to get the manga instead (like with Ultramaniac), but in this case, it probably would be cheaper to buy the anime, since the unfinished manga is, I believe, about eighteen volumes long and on indefinite hiatus in Japan. Plus, I do like the fact that the anime has a definite ending, and it's supposedly a little less gory than the manga. (I was so glad that they didn't actually show Subaru losing his eye, but just enough to know what happened. *shudders*) Still, I really loved the characters and the story, so it might be nice to read the original version and see what was changed and left out...
Ugh! I can't decide!
And guess what? I managed to beat it in a day. Granted, it was incredibly easy, except for the Occlumency lessons with Snape which gave me a renewed sympathy for Harry in the books -- talk about infuriating! -- but I do believe that's a new record for me for finishing a game. I didn't even play it for the entire day, since I was also taking breaks to reread Half-Blood Prince. (I'm almost finished, BTW. I should be done by tonight, then I can finally get started on Deathly Hallows. Yay!)
In other news, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Yesterday, I finished watching X the TV series, which I've been renting from Netflix, and absolutely fell in love with it. The problem is, the boxset at Right Stuf is very expensive -- about $113. Normally, when I consider an anime series too expensive to buy, I decide to get the manga instead (like with Ultramaniac), but in this case, it probably would be cheaper to buy the anime, since the unfinished manga is, I believe, about eighteen volumes long and on indefinite hiatus in Japan. Plus, I do like the fact that the anime has a definite ending, and it's supposedly a little less gory than the manga. (I was so glad that they didn't actually show Subaru losing his eye, but just enough to know what happened. *shudders*) Still, I really loved the characters and the story, so it might be nice to read the original version and see what was changed and left out...
Ugh! I can't decide!
