I hope you all had a great easter!
We had last week off school because of easter, and even though I couldn't afford to travel home to friends and family I was sneaky enough to get them to visit me instead. Well, not all of them of course. A Swedish friend of mine travelled by train across the border and came to visit a few days, and my dad came over for two days. A friend of my bf's stayed with us from Friday to Sunday. It was great to see them all again!
The weather, on the other hand, decided to give us all a swift kick in the butt. At the beginning of the week it was sunny and nice. It almost seemed like spring had arrived. Thursday afternoon it suddenly started snowing like crazy and during the night we got 20cm of snow. It's been snowing ever since. Don't think that snow is all pretty and romantic like in Hollywood either. I'm not kidding when I say that it's snowing -sideways-. Today we had to fight the door a bit to get outside, only to get hit by instant snowblindness. Getting to school when you are up to your knees in snow, affected by a snowblind debuff -and- a strong wind should not be legal. Alas, I must brave the weather again today, because we need to shop food. If you don't hear from me again, you know I've been overpowered by the evil Father Winter and his various debuffs, like Snowblindness and Frostbite. I can only hope that my 22 years in this country has given me enough Frost resillience to make it there and back again.
I have to admit there is a slight positive side to this weather: It gives me a good excuse to stay in my warm livingroom. I -finally- got my hands on a copy of SMT: Persona 3 last week and I've been spending all my spare time with it since. I've been waiting for this game for a long while and last month it was finally released in EU. No stores I have been in has the game yet so I eventually had to import it from England. I really hate to be an EU gamer. Not only do we have to wait for ages for games to be localized (almost 2 years for Persona 3 and Rouge Galaxy) but our stores seems to only get in the hottest titles. I'm happy that the DS and PsP are regionfree, and I hope that all consoles may one day follow that trend. I know it's too much to hope for, but one can always dream. I don't want to sound childis, but it doesn't seem fair.
Back to the point: Persona 3 is one amazing game. Quirky with it's life-sim, but I like it. I find myself enjoying that part more than the dungeon crawling. The music sounded a bit weird at first, but it turned out to be surprisingly addictive. I've been playing for nearly 40 hours and I'm still not entirely used to see my characters shoot themselves in the head over and over. I'm on the last disc in Lost Odyssey, enjoying side quests in Rogue Galaxy and I still have to play DMC4, but I haven't felt like playing any other game since I got Persona 3.
It's like I always say: "It doesn't matter how long it takes you to beat a game, as long as you have fun while doing it." So I will take my time with Persona 3, and pick the other games up again when I feel like it, not because I "have to".
That's it for now. The sun just peeked out from behind the clouds, and that is my cue to go shopping. Wish me luck ^_^ Stay tuned for a short story about how my dad actually spent some minutes with a PS2 this holiday (you might remember how much he hates gaming). Ciao!
