So I finally started playing Final Fantasy XII. (My car has broken down, and I finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, so I really have nothing better to do, sad to say.)

The first thing I noticed was that they managed to screw up the Prelude music. That takes a certain kind of talent. Instead of starting at the beginning of the theme, it just kind of starts in the middle of a phrase in the middle of the theme.

So then it's time to start a new game. Here the Postlude plays. Generally, the Postlude would play at the end of the game. That's why it's called the Postlude.

So I finally got Final Fantasy XII.

So far, I'm up to Episode 3 in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Final Fantasy VI Advance is out!

I'm not going to review it quite yet, since I'm only a good two hours into it, but I will say this:

• New translation. Gil is gil again, and many items/spell names have been retranslated.
• Sound seems to be a little off. I'm blaming that on the DS speakers, though - it seems closer to what I remember with headphones. Given that the GBA SP I had seemed to drop channels when used without headphones, I bet it sounds REALLY off using that.
• Characters now have job names listed. Terra is "Magitek Elite" (blech), Locke is an "Adventurer" (to be fair, Treasure Hunter just wouldn't fit in the space available), and so on. Meh. Useless, but, whatever.

(Warning: if you're expecting something serious...)

So far, for the past three or four times I've started my iPod playing a random playlist, it's started with Depths of the Soul from the Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia soundtrack. (And, in case you think that it may be some especially profound music, it's the dungeon party battle music - the music that plays in Chains of Promathia areas while you're in a party and in "Attack" mode.)

Not that I don't like Depths of the Soul, it's an interesting song - but I don't need to hear it every time I start up the iPod..