Final Fantasy XIII English Theme Song

English version of the latest Final Fantasy XIII has been announced last Friday. The game will come out on 9th March 2010. Excited, definitely, but at the same time, a bit sad.

You see, the English Theme Song, titled 'My Hand', is sung by one Leona Lewis. I have nothing against the song or Leona herself, but what's unfortunate is that the western theme song is not Final Fantasy XIII exclusive. It is not written specific for the game. Instead, SquareEnix opted for something that is commercially available. Kind of like 'off the shelf' song. It will mark the first time that us western audience will not be hearing the work of FF's music father, the legendary Nobuo Uematsu.

Check out the English theme song at YouTube, then check out the Japanese theme song. Which one do you like better?

Final Fantasy XIII theme song

Final Fantasy XIII Theme Song is out! on radio at least. Titled Kimi Ga Iru Kara, it is composed by the famous Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and sung by Sugawara Sayuri.

You can find the mp3 at Final Fantasy XIII.net, and the lyrics is here.

I like FFXIII already ^_^

Final Fantasy XIII is finally coming

I was just browsing Play-Asia, and found the Final Fantasy XIII English version is slated for June 2010 release! Yipee!, after such a long wait, it is finally making an appearance.

For those who can't wait for the English version, there Japanese version is coming on 17 December 2009. Why does it take so long in between the Japanese and the English?

Anyway, I watched a 7 minutes trailer of FFXIII, and I must say, it has damn good graphics, probably one of the better graphics on the PS3. The game play looks a little like FFXII. I just hope it will be as good as FFXII.

Finally, a PS3 game worth getting.

If I were the main protagonist in a H-Game turned Anime...

• I will only enroll in a co-ed school where the proportion of girl vs boy is 5 to 1.
• My best friend will be the only other male character in the series.
• I will make sure that I bump into and be introduced to no less than 3 girls in the first episode, and will continue to do so until midway through the series.
• If my parents are meant to be alive, I will check on them every day to make sure that it remains the case. If they are on an extended overseas trip, I will call them everyday just to say hi. Too often, parents are forgotten in anime such as the one I am in.
• My best female friend will be someone I have known since kindergarten.
• My best female friend will be living within five minutes walking distance from my place. Preferably, she will be living next door literally. Better still, we live in the same place.
• I will try my best to keep eye contact, rather than starring at my female friends' beasts, even though they are all more well developed than they should be at the age that they are in.
• Whenever I am feeling down, my best female friend will be the girl who knows my trouble. After all, she is the only one I can fully open up to.
• I don't need to impress anyone, there will be at least one girl in that group of girls that I met who is fond of whatever that I am good at.
• Even if I am good at nothing, I will not need to worry about not getting a girlfriend, because there will be at least one girl in that same group of girls that I met who will find me adorable, attractive and is willing to become my partner.
• I will get used to the complaints that I get from my best friend about how all the girls are flocking to me and not him.

Finally, I have a PSP, albeit phat

I was went window shopping yesterday when I spotted a PSP with Media Manager Pack selling for less than half price. Curiosity got the better of me because a) this particular department store that I went to is not known for cheap stuff, b) I don't really know what the Media Manager was, and c) the other PSPs were selling at retail price.

So I had a closer look at the box and discovered that the package contain the actual PSP + the value pack + media manager. The model number PSP-1000 printed on the box basically gave it away. This is the PSP phat. But I don't really care whether I have a phat PSP or the new slim PSP.

Excited, I went home and made sure that it is what I saw. With the good news confirmed, I happily went back today and bought the last one they had (there were two yesterday).

So now I am an excited owner of a PSP. I still love my DS. But now that love will have to be shared. Can anyone suggest any good 'must have' games on the PSP?

Old Games

Recently, I suddenly have the urge to play old games, like those made in the 90's. Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventure being one of them. I still remembered playing that, but can't remember exactly what happened in the game.

So here I am, playing it all over again on my 2 years old PC. There are plenty of old ones I wanted to re-visit as well:

- Gangsters
- Theme Park
- Theme Hospital
- Syndicates
- SimAnt
- SimTower
- Indy and the Fate of Atlantis
- ...

Man, I can't believe I've actually played that many games. Even more unbelievable that I wanted to play them AGAIN.

PlayAsia 15% off till Friday

PlayAsia is having another one of their irregular sales. This time it is their 15% off sales. Looks like with the economic crisis everywhere in the world, everyone is in a bit of a pinch here. PlayAsia seems to be feeling the crunch too, I'd say.

But someone's loss is another one's gain. Maybe I can finally get Metal Solid Gear 4 Special Edition.