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You give the game your all...you stay up latenights...you've hunted around on the web...and still
you just can't get past that point in the game. Not all is lost!
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Journey to the Promised Land Warning: include(inc-ffwNav.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /web/sites/hustler/tipstricks.com/features-FFW-May10.php on line 43 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'inc-ffwNav.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /web/sites/hustler/tipstricks.com/features-FFW-May10.php on line 43 May 10, 2007I unwisely wear shoes with a slight heel when traveling around Shinjuku with fellow video game journalists, the rest of whom are male and wearing sneakers (with one exception who is wearing dress shoes.) My feet are very unhappy with me, but I don’t care, since I immediately snap up the first pink PSP that I see in a video game store.
One of the other journalists leads everyone to his favorite sushi restaurant, which is right around the corner from the hotel. The sushi circles around on a conveyer belt set at eye level, each tiny plate color-coded according to price so the wait staff can easily tally up your total by the end of the meal. I only manage to stack up five plates, but most of the others have plate towers at least nine or ten plates high. Why does everything taste better after it rotates?
The Square Enix press conference at 3:00 PM is looming nigh so we start to head to their offices, which are in a building with a huge Pfizer logo on top and a statue of a globe in the front courtyard. Like most official press conferences where a string of executives make speeches, it is incredibly boring except for that moment when the Chocobo mascot accidentally fell over. I fully support the integration of mascots into every speech given at all official press conferences from now on. There was also a little announcement about Star Ocean 4...but there were no details whatsoever aside from the fact it exists.
After the press conference, a few interviews are conducted (you can see the one I did for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII in the August issue’s Final Fantasy World column, and the one I did for It’s A Wonderful World in the October issue’s Japan Report column), and people peel off in different directions in search of sustenance. The last thing I’ve eaten since lunch was a cup of coffee that I paid almost five dollars for, and it’s getting close to 9:00 PM. Square Enix generously takes some of us out to dinner at Tsuki-No Shizuku. The food consists of seafood, fried food and some type of shabu-shabu cuisine that included five kinds of mushrooms. Without any prompting, some of the wait staff show up and give the two non-Asian people at our table big bowls of ketchup. The Square Enix PR staff also comments that their bosses are super pissed off that Tecmo is having a press conference the next day, in an attempt to poach coverage on the one day off that all the video game journalists have between the Square Enix press conference and the actual Square Enix Party.
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