The Great Transfer - RPGs

I've finished going through my current manuscript and changing it into the active voice. Not all that bad; 136k+ words edited in 8 days. I've spent a lot of my spare time in a concerted effort to enact my writing and I feel pretty damn accomplished to have gotten it all done in such a short period of time.

I started to play a game called The World Ends With You for the Nintendo DS and I would really recommend it to anyone; it's fun, interesting, original and stylish, a strange thing to say about a video game, really. I can't say too much about it for fear of spoiling anything for you, but it's really touched me, grabbed my interest and excited me, the first time I can remember being genuinely excited by a game in quite some time.

It also tells a really good story, which brings about the point of how much of a storytelling medium video games can be. I personally think that you can tell powerful stories through gaming because of your involvement with the game; either as the main character or the emotional attachments which you generate with the named, specific people which you meet during the story.

I have been seriously influence by Final Fantasy 7, which I believe was the first RPG I ever played; it predated Pokemon and Diablo, two games which I played to death as a child. The vast story, world and intricate characters and battle systems really set my mind alight and really explains why I love RPGs so much... every one of them reminds me of that first adventure with Cloud, Tifa and Aeris, out of Midgard.

You could easily argue that this game and its scope and plot had a huge influence on me and explain a lot about my gaming preferences and history. I still have an unopened copy of FF7 upstairs, enshrined against the world like some kind of demonic jar that holds the greatest possible succubus.

For once, I don't have a point; it's just an expulsion of kinds. So, there's no punchline, I'm afraid.

Or is there...?

No, no there isn't.