Notes and Errata of Mark of the Asphodel

So, Nintendo came up with a way to reward the suckers loyal customers who bought the 3DS prior to the price cut. They dubbed us "Ambassadors" and gave us free downloadable NES and GBA Virtual Console games.  One of the twenty games chosen as a reward was... FE8.  

So my shiny 3DS has a magical copy of FE8 on it now, which I guess does lessen the sting of backward compatibility issues.  I thought about playing it, then remembered what slow going the first few chapters are and played LoZ: the Minish Cap instead.  As to why they chose FE8 over FE7, you've got me, but I was actually a little bit pleased by the decision.  It could be a way of introducing people to Fire Emblem without having the whole tactician thing be their initial experience.  OTOH, if they think world maps, grinding, and monsters are what Fire Emblem is about, then they're in for a... oh, wait, FE13 has a world map, doesn't it?  Interesting.

I'm still pissed we never got translations of the SNES Virtual Console games, though.

Thanksgiving went well.  Small splashes of drama, but nothing too bad.  

The spouse and I provided the following:
Sweet Potato Gratin (me)
Cornbread Stuffing w/ sausage and chestnuts (me)
Cranberry-Orange Relish (him)
Innkeeper's Pie, which is a sort of "cake batter poured in a pie crust with sauce underneath" thing.  It's a favorite in my mother's family. (me)

I was literally baking cornbread at two AM to get all this staged, so I'm glad it turned out well.

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Zelda: Skyward Sword is probably the most engaging Zelda console game since the 2D era.  We're about 2.5 hours in, and I'm genuinely excited to see where it goes next.  I don't think Ocarina of Time really aged that well (I have been trying to play the 3D remake, and... snooze), Twilight Princess just seemed overly serious and honestly quite dull, and I liked the aesthetic and feel of Wind Waker but wasn't enchanted by it.  Skyward Sword is just hitting on so many ideal points for me already that I can't wait to see where things are headed.  It's sweet, and sly, and has already thrown up out unexpected creepy dark moment, and the bird thing is wonderful.

[Never got far in Majora's Mask because our version was buggy and kept crashing.]

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So behind on NaNo that it's not funny.  I am also behind on correspondence and laundry. Sigh.