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tracker7 ([personal profile] tracker7) wrote2006-03-21 08:55 am

Only When you Leave

First full day of spring.  32 and cloudy, winter storm watches and snow advisories all around.

Further weekend-related news:  Loose spark plug wires can make you believe your engine is about to fail completely.

Started playing Shadow Hearts: Covenant (PS2) last night.  It's very pretty.  World War I fantasy, with an Imperial German Army investigator, a spellslinging Vatican priest, and a shapechanging fellow who was the protagonist of the first SH game.  The game uses a mechanic called a Judgment Wheel to determine success or failure - when you want to perform an in-game action, the wheel comes up and you have to activate when the needle sweeps through a colored section of the wheel.  There are smaller areas for critical successes, and you can get various and sundry power-ups throughout the game to make the success areas bigger, gain cool effects, all that.  There's a third Shadow Hearts game coming in the next few weeks, and I'll throw it onto my Gamefly queue.