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Q: Riona, do you really have time to write mini-reviews of every game you've ever played?
A: I absolutely don't.
Q: And yet.
A: And yet!

Some of these are more just reminiscences than reviews, but I've said at least a line or two about every game. Possibly. I've almost certainly forgotten about some.

For the most part these are listed alphabetically, so you can easily track down any games you're interested in, but games in a series are listed together, so, for example, 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, Virtue's Last Reward and Zero Time Dilemma are all under Z for Zero Escape, and World of Final Fantasy comes under F. I've put a (LP) next to games I've only experienced through Let's Plays. Flash games, text adventures and electronic versions of card, tile or board games are not included.

Games I first played after originally posting this entry are marked with an asterisk.

( Thoughts on every game I've ever played, or close enough. )

I'm glad I've put this very important and necessary entry into the waiting world.

Crossposts: https://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/469022.html

Things are a bit stressful at the moment (you know the Mitchell and Webb theory that housemates fall into the categories of 'people who are annoying' and 'people who become annoyed'? I am an annoying housemate; the friend with whom I live is an annoyed housemate, and she is at the moment actively annoyed, and when people are annoyed with me I tend to get very upset and run around trying to cook them meals and buy them chocolates (please do not exploit this knowledge for chocolates)), and so, seeking a distraction, I invite you to share extracts from silly things you wrote in your childhood. (EDIT: Silly things you drew are also very welcome!)

For my part: recently, looking through some of the things I drew and wrote when I was a child, I stumbled across the following poem I'd written about my name:

H is for all of the harvest fruit
A for all the apples on the tree
R is for the redcurrants on the bush
R is rabbits for you and me
I for ice cream
E for eaves
T for Tutancarmoon* the egiptians believed

* lol

I clearly sort of gave up halfway through. Eaves, Little Riona? Eaves? Really? You genuinely couldn't think of another word beginning with 'E'? Tutankhamun was really something you associated strongly with yourself?

There's also a card I've written to my dad. It says, 'Dear Daddy. Happy Birthday! I hope you like your Presents. Love From Reepicheep.'

I had completely forgotten that I used to pretend to be Reepicheep when I was younger. I'd walk up and down the house, pretending that I was on the Dawn Treader and had to keep my balance. (He's a swordfighting mouse; who wouldn't want to be him?) The idea of my dad fathering Reepicheep is a tiny bit alarming, frankly.

Also: 'Daddy has his article that he is reading titled "Becketts Bass ruling proves the fallibility of convential wisdom". It does not seem to make sense at all. Why dosen't he just read the Beano?' I concur, younger self; who needs newspapers when you could be reading comics? Honestly. (Ooh, a search turns up the article in question and therefore allows me to date this particular pearl of wisdom! I would have been just about to turn nine. Bit appalled by the fact that I couldn't spell 'doesn't' at that age, although I'll let 'convential' slide.)

And there are the beginnings of a made-up language! To my amusement, 'fic' meant 'shut up' and, although the language had only thirty-four words, one of them meant 'pretend to be a mouse'. I knew where my linguistic priorities lay.

Oh, dear. I keep wanting to update, partly because I am bored and partly because finding myself confronted by the twin stares of Derren Brown and his Jigglypuff every time I visit my journal is starting to seriously unnerve me, but my fandom of the moment is this ridiculous imaginary universe in which Derren Brown is the Doctor's companion, and I don't want to ramble about that too much for fear of giving away everything that happens in the fic.

Perhaps I could write a few snippets in which Derren and the Doctor pop into fandoms that aren't going to show up in the actual story? Yes, I believe I shall.

"I've worked it out!" the Doctor announces. "The cliff face on the left is allergic to feet!"

There is a pause.

"The cliff is allergic to feet," Derren says.

"I thought maybe it was sunglasses, but it's definitely feet. See, all the Zoombinis with feet are on the other side."

"The cliff," Derren says. "Is allergic. To feet."

"Humans," the Doctor says, rolling his eyes. "Show them a species that's born wearing rollerskates and they'll still have trouble with a little allergic cliff."

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"I'm sure there are more interesting places to visit than contemporary New Mexico."

"Contemporary for you, maybe," the Doctor points out. "I haven't been in 2008 for aaaaaages."

"I see," Derren says. "And is there any particular reason we've come to a school?"

The Doctor grins. Somewhere inside the building, a bell rings.

Derren's mind goes suddenly blank, and the next thing of which he is aware is dancing in a huge group of brightly-clad teenagers, singing enthusiastically about the end of the school day. He is more than a little perturbed by this. The mildly worrying issue of involuntary singing and the embarrassment of being twice the age of his fellow dancers aside, Derren is not particularly enthusiastic about the end of the school day. The end of the school day means there are many more Channel Four watchers on the street to stop him, making any sort of journey five times longer. The song is a highly inaccurate representation of his feelings.

When whatever has induced this (hopefully) temporary insanity forces him to drop to one knee and serenade the Doctor, however, he decides that accuracy is overrated.

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Derren has a vague feeling that bursting into giggles may not be the wisest thing to do, given the circumstances. The circumstances, of course, being 'Derren is at present concealed in the undergrowth, downwind from a vampire with incredible speed, strength and senses, who has recently ripped the head off a still-living deer and is probably entirely capable of doing the same thing to Derren'.

But there are only so many reponses possible when a deadly, terrifying predator stands in the sunlight and sparkles.

Speaking of giant mechanical spiders, I have been rewatching the first season of One Tree Hill with my housemates, and I find myself massively 'shipping Haley/Peyton this time around. They would be adorable! Please tell me that there is Haley/Peyton in the future, One Tree Hill watchers.

Why, hello, Toph! I haven't yet seen enough of you to make a judgement, but it's nice to meet you at last.

'ZUKO ALONE' MAKES ME SO SAD. But wee Zuko may be the cutest thing ever to grace my television screen. Bless him! (I think I said 'OH, ZUKO' about five times during that episode. Zuko! I adore you! COME TO MY HOUSE; I PROMISE I WILL LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. THERE WILL BE ROOM FOR YOUR CHOCOBO SOMEWHERE, I AM SURE.

...'Chocobo' sounded like a horrible euphemism there, but I can assure you it was not.)

I totally started singing 'Gotta Go My Own Way' from High School Musical 2 at the end of 'Avatar Day'. I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself.

'I need to find my own way.'
'OH, I'VE GOT TO MOVE ON AND BE WHO I AM...'

Have I mentioned how incredibly pretty Avatar is? Because it is. It's absolutely beautiful. Also, it has eight billion fighting scenes, and somehow they never get boring. I have no idea how it has managed that, because fighting scenes usually bore me senseless.

(I just realised I was absently singing 'Secret tunnel, secret tunnel...' to myself. Hooray! I think this is something I shall now have to do every time I go through anything remotely tunnel-like.)

This time, when I opted to restore the entry draft, what appeared was 'So, if a Zoombini knew Waterbending...'

I am not sure where I was going with this, but I suppose the Titanic Tattooed Toads stage would be a lot easier. In fact, if the Zoombinis had a Waterbender, an Earthbender and an Airbender in every team, very few of the stages would be a problem.

Of course, now I am thinking about what Zoombini Katara, Aang and Toph would look like. Airbending Zoombinis totally have propellor feet. Katara, Aang and Sokka would all have blue noses; Toph would have a green one. Zoombini Zuko has a red nose. I suppose Zoombini Zuko would find disguising the fact that he is from the Fire Nation much more difficult than non-Zoombini Zuko. (EDIT: And I have just realised that Zuko's scar would totally translate to cyclopism, were he a Zoombini.)

I need to stop doing things like this.

INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE REAL THING, I THINK YOU'LL FIND.

I should not be this fascinated by the idea of Avatar characters as Zoombinis.

So here's what happens: I click on 'Update Journal'. The 'restore draft?' dialogue box comes up. I click 'OK'. What appears is this:

MAKE AN ENTRY IN SOME WAY RELATED TO AEROPLANES JUST SO YOU CAN TITLE IT 'I ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR PLANE'

IT'LL BE AWESOME

...oh, self.

This entry is probably not going to be about aeroplanes. It is, in fact, going to be about fanfiction.net, which I am visiting for the first time in... a couple of years, I believe. But I am going to title it 'I Acknowledge Your Plane' anyway. Because I can.

...why does fanfiction.net have a Final Fantasy XIII section? The game doesn't even come out in Japan until some unspecified time next year. Why is there fanfiction for it already?

I am actually really really excited about Final Fantasy XIII, despite knowing very little about it and despite having no idea how long I'll have to wait for it to reach these shores, because it is a Final Fantasy game and my inner Final Fantasy fangirl is blazing so brightly right now. Also, the main girl looks freaking awesome. And the girl with pigtails is gorgeous. I, er, don't have a console for it, but I can worry about that when it comes out.

...WAIT. WAIT.

FANFICTION.NET HAS A SECTION FOR THE LOGICAL JOURNEY OF THE ZOOMBINIS.

THERE ARE TWO STORIES IN IT.

ONE IS SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND WORDS LONG.

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER DISCOVERED. HELLO MY CHILDHOOD.

...I - I can't stop reading it. I went to this site to look for Final Fantasy VIII fanfiction, and I ended up trapped in an epic novelisation of a kids' logic game.

How did this happen?

(As one of the first summaries I saw upon entering the Final Fantasy VIII section was 'What happens whe Selphie gets her way and Zell is dressed like a pig and who has to kiss the pig? Slight yaoi', perhaps my being distracted by Zoombinis was for the best.)

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I'd Also Written A Thank-You Letter To Myself From The Zoombinis.

Had The English Won At Senlac, We Would Have Less Diverse Daleks.

You Do Always Come Back!

I Acknowledge Your Plane.

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