This is Halloween, This is Halloween

It's finally arrived, one of the holidays I looked forward to the most as a child. My mom usually made my costumes, so I was a silly looking ghost or tiger in elementary school. Extremely silly. The ghost costume was basically an albino Big Bird after a gang fight. The tiger costume was a bit short. I definitely shot up in elementary school, so the tiger costume's pants stayed around my shins. Highwater hell.

Beginning in 7th grade, my mom started making me costumes fit for the Lord of the Rings, since I was in love with those movies, along with Pirates of the Caribbean. So I was Arwen, a pirate, Arwen again, and.... a zombie. Before zombies were cool.

I'm making *** play board games and old games with me while we watch Hocus Pocus, the Addam's Family Values, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Black Cauldron, since I've never seen it.

Perhaps the Pagemaster? I forgot what it's about.

Fortitudo

We will tell the children to go away, because the candy is all ours and they tried to hit my dog with a bike, so they deserve none. Or I'll just throw plastic spiders at them.

Bayonetta's a great game to play during Halloween. It's also a great game in general. It definitely reminds me of Devil May Cry, and it's so outrageous and high paced her near-nudity is tough to notice. The graphics are beautiful (We're playing the first one right now.) and the enemies are terrifying. I like the way the bosses are structured and based of various mythologies. The statuesque faces are really creepy and add a biblical air to the monsters. Angels. Seraphim? I believe the seraphim were supposed to be draconic angels.

Anyway, Fortitudo is the hardest boss ***'s fought so far. It was pretty gnarly.

I like how each verse of Bayonetta is scored somewhat like DMC, where the combos and deaths are taken into account for each score. *** did so badly with the Fortitudo fight that he got a stone statue at the end... whoops.

I really love the music chosen for each area of Bayonetta. The song "One of a Kind" made the bloody fighting and over-the-top combat seem extremly girly and romantic, in a way. I loved it. The film-reel cutscenes, too, give the game a unique twist and romantic, possibly noir feel.

I don't know. I'm not a professional reviewer. That's just how it seems to me.

Bayonetta as a character is probably one of my greatest role models. She's sexy, she knows it, she flaunts it. She's a badass fighter, she knows it, she flaunts it. A woman with such a strong character and so much self confidence isn't often seen in video games or movies, and I'm glad PG introduced her. She rocks. She is a fine woman.

The other two games we've bought rec
entely are Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 2, both mainly for ***. I love how beautiful each of them are. So far, Sunset Overdrive seems like a Dead Rising/Saint's Row combination with more snark and an 80's color scheme. my favorite part of FH2 is the stupid physics - if you hit a haybale with a sports car, it will not go flying. You will. Through the windshield.

*** allowed me to help him design his car, though. It's ooze green with purple splatters. It represents him well.

It's too sunny for Halloween. GO AWAY SUN.

This is basically me.

I started a couple more classes in Fantasy Life - Blacksmith and Tailor. Since I'm a blacksmith, I need carpentry to make beams for the items I have to smith. So it looks like I'll have to start that. I love, love, LOVE that you don't have to switch Lives in order to practice a skill. The only time you have to switch is when you need to turn in challenges.

I'm an idiot, though. I thought you leveled each life separately. Now my Focus is off the charts and I have no strength or defense. Whoops. Better start working on that.

I have so many memories of Halloween, and they're all so magical compared to how it's been the last few years. It must be the nostalgia. I remember starting at my Granny's house and going all over the neighborhood, my old friend ***'s brother dressed up as the killer from Scream and jumped out from behind their grandma's house. Getting popcorn balls from the lady who's garden seemed like a maze. Having two sacks of candy at the end of the night and my mom picking through everything to make sure nothing looked tampered with. Sprinting across darkened yards with my cousin and his friend, through leaves and up small hills - I believe the house my parents rent out, now, is near there.

Carving a pumpkin with my dad at the elementary school, it was called "Pumpkins with Pops" I believe. That was in first grade. Years before that, when we still lived in the first house since I was born, my mom had a witch she kept in the hallway. I was extremely afraid of it as a baby, and my dad told me to wait til my mom was home so she could shut it off. When our current house was finally built, she bought a light up ghost, and I couldn't wait to get home from the football game to see it lit up. I fell asleep next to it.

My aunt had the best decorations, little porcelain haunted houses that lit up and flickered. I loved those. My grandma gave us little treat boxes, also porcelain, to decorate the house with for Halloween. She always found decorations for each family. I believe I got a pumpkin box. I wanted the ghost more.

Everything orange, purple and black, the Halloween parties in elementary school, before the "My child is allergic to everything!" fad and any treat was allowed. Jello shaped like pumpkins and bats at my only Halloween party. All my friends in the suburban as my mom drove us around looking for haunted houses, and one girl crying her face off when my cousin and sister jumped out to scare us. It was hilarious. We had a "touch and feel" exhibit too, with a rubber glove filled with four and frozen, and peeled grapes as eyeballs. I think a spaghetti ball was supposed to be a brain. Of course, *** had to tell everyone what he thought they really were and ruined everything.

He also thought it was my birthday, so he was the only one in costume and brought a present. My mom wouldn't let me keep it. Boo mom.

Haha, geddit? I said boo.

Ah, to be a child again.