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	<title>Valerie&#039;s Writings</title>
	<link>http://www.valeriema.com</link>
	<description>Whimsical thoughts on games, anime, the world, life, and whatever else crosses my path</description>
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		<title>FFXIII Part Six: It&#8217;s Over&#8230; Finally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished FFXIII tonight. It&#8217;s harder to grasp my feelings about it than I at first thought. A strange mix of joy, relief, disappointment&#8230; and a strong yearning for something more, much more. (It&#8217;s hard to think straight when it&#8217;s this bloody cold, too! Is this really June? Feels like March? Damn Vancouver!)
I still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/ffxiii-part-six-its-over-finally/</link>
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		<title>FFXIII Part Five: Disappointments Galore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting off the month of June with yet another &#8220;disappointment.&#8221; I put it in quotes because I already knew it was coming; and it&#8217;s really not so so bad. But nevertheless I&#8217;d been praying fervently that it wouldn&#8217;t happen. That somehow, someone somewhere was actually watching over this project and making sure it didn&#8217;t become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/ffxiii-part-five-disappointments-galore/</link>
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		<title>FFXIII Part Four: The Beginning of the End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; I haven&#8217;t written about FFXIII in a while. I don&#8217;t want to pronounce any kind of &#8220;final judgement&#8221; on the game just yet, but&#8230; judging from everything I&#8217;ve seen so far and the fact that I think the game will probably be ending within the next 5-10 hours (being generous), I&#8217;ll say it. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/ffxiii-part-four-the-beginning-of-the-end/</link>
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		<title>FFXIII Part Three: Splitting Up Made This Game Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Warning: This post WILL contain major spoilers. Please do not read if you do not want to be spoiled!]
 I&#8217;ve just gotten to the point where you find out &#8220;what&#8221; Cid Raines is and are forced to fight against him (didn&#8217;t beat him, though). Honestly, I was expecting him to be a shifty character from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/ffxiii-part-three-splitting-up-made-this-game-better/</link>
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		<title>FFXIII Part Two: Unorthodox Pairings&#8230; &amp; My Guilty Obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;m writing this after getting to Disc 2, in Palumpolum, after Hope goes through with &#8220;Operation Nora&#8221;)
Planning too much kills the fun out of any pleasure. Anticipation often actually makes the experience worse. And there’s nothing worse than being disappointed. It’s best to always have somewhat low, or non-existent, expectations, so that you’ll always be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/ffxiii-part-two-a-unique-game-and-more-about-hope/</link>
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		<title>Final Fantasy XIII: Impressions from Disc One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now I feel so propelled to play Final Fantasy XIII. I&#8217;ve always tried to act nonchalant towards the FF series, claiming not to really like any of them that much, but the fact is, I really do owe so much to these games. I tried to deny it for a time, but FFX really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/final-fantasy-xiii-impressions-from-disc-one/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Tales of Symphonia OVA (Sylvarant Side)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot believe how amazing this “new” Tales of Symphonia animation is. My God, words cannot describe the surge of emotions running through me now and for the past few hours as I watched the first two OVAs (hours that seemed like endless, eternal, unconditional bliss).
At first it seemed there were some cringe-inducing moments, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/thoughts-of-tales-of-symphonia-ova-sylvarant-side/</link>
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		<title>Spectral Force 3: A taste of how things can go wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just had a taste of what I might be able to call &#8220;the worst RPG I&#8217;ve ever touched.&#8221;
Yeah, I don&#8217;t want to be too harsh since I only managed to play the game for about 45 minutes &#8211; far too brief an encounter to really pronounce final judgment &#8211; but seriously, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/spectral-force-3/</link>
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		<title>Grandia OST Music Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Composed by Noriyuki Iwadare
 
Disc One
Orchestra Side
01 &#8211; The Theme of Grandia
02 &#8211; Ganbo&#8217;s Sandy Beach
03 &#8211; Delightful Adventure
04 &#8211; The Parting From Sue
05 &#8211; Ancient Illusionary Castle
06 &#8211; Mullen
07 &#8211; The Beautiful Woman of Alent
08 &#8211; The Ghost Ship
09 &#8211; The End of the World
10 &#8211; Approaching Crisis
11 &#8211; Leen~Love Theme
Total Time:
46&#8242;25&#8243;
Disc Two
Synthesizer Side
01 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/grandia-ost-music-review/</link>
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		<title>The Black Mages Music Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tsuyoshi Sekito, Kenichiro Fukui
This review will be a little difficult to compose, as honestly the rank of the arrangements often depends on the quality of the original composition. Keeping this in mind, let’s see how each of these tracks stands with me….
 
01 – Battle Scene (FFI)
Definitely a heart-pumping opening to this piece. Tension is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriema.com/2010/158/</link>
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