Oh God.
Its been forever and a day since I've done anything with my life, let alone this account XD
Between work and club meetings I've been using all my down time to just relax and browse the internet.

But recently my roommate and I bought 'Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World' for the Wii and we've been playing it nonstop. Its so addicting @__@.
The new characters, Emil and Marta, have this agonizingly horrid romance going on in the story. Maybe they get under my skin so horribly bad because I'm older now and teen romances(especially really badly portrayed ones) just don't appeal to me. Anyway, my point is they can go die in a fire for all I care.
The fact that we dreaded character interaction between Emil and Marta so much that we'd spend 10+ hours leveling up in a quest dungeon before actually going on to complete the task says a lot... especially considering that we'd do 6-7 quests in a row.
If I ever have to visit the Sandy Wind Cave again I think I'll just cry.

But the game makes up for the characters by giving you those fancy quests and letting you catch monsters to level up and evolve Pokemon style!
We got to level 50 just before the halfway point in the game, and our favorite monster-wolf --named by the game 'Quenstedite', who we affectionately call 'Wolfie'-- was at level 95 by then.
Oh the pure ownage. I don't think I've spent so much time leveling up, synthesizing or item hoarding so much in a game that wasn't a MMORPG.

So that's basically rekindled my love for Tales games. Technically I've only ever played two, not counting Dawn of the New World. Those were the original Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss, the latter being (in my opinion) the best RPG in the history of the world... storyline wise.
So yeah, I've been visiting fansites, reading articles, saving so much fanart I don't know what to do (I have 976 files on my TotA folder D: ) and being an all around nerd.
I plan on playing all the other Tales games one of these days, but part of me is afraid that one will replace TotA in my heart and I don't want that to happen.... I keep hearing people compare one Tales game to another, saying their favorite is the best one. It doesn't help that TotA seems to have such a small fan base even though it was so good. I've heard talk that it was because it was made for the PS2 exclusively and most Tales fans only owned Nintendo consoles.

Argh, when will people learn to get over this lame console war and just but all of the systems! That's what I did and I look forward to playing Tales of Vesperia once I save up enough for the 360 and complete my console collection.
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I'm going to stop rambling now since I really don't have the patience to write this much XD