New year, new possibilities~

I always feel so positive when I write that, haha.
Happy New Year everyone! 2011 feels like a good year - it's easy to say (2010 felt so complicated with all the t:s), and it's only just begun. I had a good start of the new year - everything just felt so positive. I just hope that the rest of the year will continue like this. I have a few New Year's resolutions, but I decided to just chose the ones I knew I could keep. Having to give up candy for a whole year? Not gonna happen. I've decided to concentrate more on my ongoing fanfic (which'll soon have it's tenth chapter, gonna be a long fic for sure), and of course also draw more. Now that I've gotten a new computer mouse and my own printer - combined with my lovely scanner - it feels a bit more tempting to actually get things done.

To go over to something completely different, I can mention that I'm still working on my newest round of Kingdom Hearts. Also, in my frustration over not being able to play Code: Veronica on my Dreamcast, I've played through all but the last chapter of Game Of Oblivion in Darkside Chronicles. And yesterday, I tried going through a round in RE5 Mercenaries as Sheva Tribal all on my own. I've been playing Duo a lot lately, and I figured it'd be fun to play alone for a change. Though, I'm way too used having someone watching my back, so it didn't go as good as it could have, haha. I've been better in Solo, but that round just didn't work at all. But I didn't give up, I decided to play a round in Mercenaries Reunion as Excella. I got a much better score, but the round itself was quite the same. I'll have to be stubborn enough to get an SS-rank with all characters on every stage all by myself. Ugh, now I got a lot to do, haha. I'll see how this works out.

~Mlie-Redfield

Returning to Bright Falls~

My stepbrother was here during the holidays, and he wanted to see me play Alan Wake. So, I started a new round on a new profile on my xbox, since I didn't want to lose my previous progress. The lights were out and the door was closed during the first chapter for the best effect. I stayed as close to Alice as I possibly could when we walked up to the cabin. After all, I knew exactly what was to come.

We only played for about an hour or so, since it was starting to get really late. I still have the whole game fresh in my memory. Alan Wake was, without a doubt, one of the absolute best games I bought this year, I don't regret for even a second that I also bought the Collector's Edition of it. I look forward to the next time I can return to Bright Falls.

~Mlie-Redfield

Wishful thinking / Merry Christmas!~

I had everything prepared for a great videogame-playing evening - I had a Resident Evil T-Virus Antidote that I got from my Secret Santa Fredrika, chocolate, a can of Coca Cola Vanilla, and I game I'd been looking forward to test. My Dreamcast had found its way home to me, and I was going to play Resident Evil Code: Veronica for the first time. I had been playing Code: Veronica X on my PlayStation 2 lots of times before though. This would without a doubt be perfect evening for gaming. At least, that's what I thought - my Dreamcast couldn't play the discs, I tried both of them. This was yesterday (or two days ago if you count this as a new day. Almost 2:30 in the morning. Guess I should sleep soon, haha!) I drank my Vanilla fairly quick, but luckily, I'd decided to save my Resi-energy drink, so it's still not opened. So instead of Vanilla Coke, T-Virus Antidote, chocolate and RECV yesterday/two days ago, I got Coca Cola Cherry, chocolate and Kingdom Hearts.Even though I've played that game several times before, it was of course a lovely reunion. I just hope I'll get the chance to try Code: Veronic soon too. I'll have to wait and see~

Also, Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to you all! =D Hope you'll have a great time =)

~Mlie-Redfield

Confessions of a fangirl~

Do I get points for the cool title? Haha!

I admit it - I've been a real Albert Wesker-fangirl since 06 or 07. Before that, it was mostly Claire, even if I wasn't as much of a fangirl then as I am now. I think I'll have to mention now that I'm a "voice-person" - that I for example mostly choose music after hearing the singer's voice. Like when I first heard The Poet And The Muse when I played Alan Wake the first time. I'd never heard any of their songs before, but I instantly felt that the singer's voice was special. So, I looked for information about the band, and I now have all of their cds, hehe. But back to the subject - voices are important to me, which is why I wasn't really happy when I found out that Richard Waugh wasn't going to voice Wesker in Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles. Waugh had voiced him in Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil Code: Veronica and Resident Evil 4, and I really loved his voice.

So when Umbrella Chronicles was released to the Wii in November 2007, I'd decided that no matter how much I wanted to play the game, I couldn't get used to a new voice for one of my favourite characters. I wasn't going to buy Umbrella Chronicles. That boycott actually lasted fairly long - I bought my Wii in June 2008 to be able to play Resident Evil 0 and REmake. Even though I now had the right console, I had no thought about buying the game. Until August the same year, that is. My first impression of DC Douglas, who was the new voice-actor, was that he sounded like he had a cold. It wasn't at all as good as Richard Waugh's version, the one I'd gotten so fond of. But I understood that this was Capcom's choice, and what could I ever do about that? Well, I could sign an online petition to get Waugh back, which I also did, even though it never really changed anything in the end. But I had at least done something.

Then, Resident Evil 5 was released, and even though I still didn't like Douglas's Wesker-voice, I couldn't deny it had improved. But still, he wasn't Richard Waugh. Mind you that I can be really stubborn at times, haha! I don't know how many times I've thought to myself that Douglas wasn't right for Wesker at all, that Waugh was the only one. A little fanservice of a shirtless Wesker sadly wasn't enough to change my mind. But just as I eventually learned to accept the Resident Evil-movies, after defending Afterlife when I'd read a review that - according to me - wasn't fair at all. I'd never thought I'd admit that yes, the movies are good, even though they obviously could've been better. It's the same with this - I'd never thought I'd change my mind about DC Douglas. But that was of course before I was linked to a site where you can get Albert Wesker as a voicemail for your phone. Before I found his website and learned more about him.

So here I am, the day after I got the link, and I'm following DC Douglas on facebook and twitter. I've also to 100% accepted him as Wesker, and I've already had time to fangirl him quite a lot. Sure, Richard Waugh will always be Albert Wesker's real voice for me, but hey - Douglas sure does an amazing job!

AI-Chris vs. Wooden Box

The title says it all, really XD I was playing Resident Evil 5, out on a treasure hunt (as usual. Need to upgrade my weapons on the PS3 too). I played as Sheva, and I had Chris set on "Attack". I had no idea that a simple wooden box would be that much of a challenge XD I managed to film his struggles, and the results can be seen on youtube. Just follow the link! ^^

AI-Chris vs. Wooden Box - on youtube!