Category: Niko’s Soap Box

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What Happened?

If you’ve been wondering were all the content has gone, we were working behind the scenes here. Re-organizing the office. And, we’re not even half-way done. But, It’s just something we have to do from time to time. Not just re-organizing, but we painted and got the carpets cleaned. And now it smells better.

Well as you might have heard, we will be hosting a pre-release event, but the date might be different than what we had planned. From what I here there is a delay in the shipments. Not by Square-Enix or the distributor, but if you watch the news at all, you would have seen that there are over 80 Cargo ships waiting to enter the Port of Los Angeles. We’ll make the announcement as soon as we know when the kits will be coming in.

Speaking of which, the Shinra vs Avalanche Dual Decks are coming out this month. If there is a delay on those we will know for certain that there will be one for Crystal Dominion as well.

War of the Visions you ask?

-Spoiler Alert-

Like I said before the game has started to grow on me. Mont has just become King. That is where I am at, at the moment. The scene between Mont and Sterne, in my eyes, was the end of the Prologue. The war that will start between the two brothers looks to be interesting.

There are plenty of characters that I like. Dorando and Gargas. Who would have thought that these two would be taking care of a little boy, and entrusting him with one of the ancient relics?

Gilgamesh, the Winged one. Such a powerful card in FFTCG, you can see why they made the card the way they did.

Helena, the Black Rose. Presumably dead. I haven’t seen much of her after she died as the Queen, but whenever I use her as a companion she annihilates the opposition. I can have just Helena on the battlefield and she’ll take care of everything for me.

-End Spoilers-

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Third Times the Charm

It looks like it sucked me back in. Yes, I’m talking about War of the Visions. And, no it wasn’t just because it was featured in Opus XIV. It wasn’t just because of the Final Fantasy VII Collaboration going on. Although it did help. And it sure as hell wasn’t because I thought Mont was a great character. But, for some reason I gave it one more shot and it looks like this time I might actually play it for a while. I’m actually grinding the FFVII events right now. On Auto.

I just don’t have enough time to focus on games right now. With school starting and driving the kids to school. Working at the restaurant all day, and then working on Kardboard Korner any chance I get. The little free time I get I just don’t have the focus to put into a Strategy game at the moment. But, with the Auto-Battle I can see the story, and put my phone down till the battle’s complete. Rinse and Repeat.

On Chapter 3 and Marche, I mean Mont, without spoiling anything, for those that haven’t played it yet, Mont is still … meh.
He almost started to grow on me, but Sterne who’s only been in a handful of scenes, already seams like the better Protagonist, even though I did say he was just a big crybaby last time I played. “Wahhh!!! Mont This! WAHHH!!! Mont That!!!” That was my impression I got of him when I first saw Sterne. And Mont wasn’t too far behind.

I think I’ll finish it this time. As long as the Auto-Battles get me through. That way I can still grind and do whatever else I need to do at the same time.

One thing I do like, is that just like Record Keeper, and Opera Omnia, is that you can slowly build your Final Fantasy Dream Team. It’ll take months, possibly years for them to release the exact characters that you want. After that you go to town, and kick some Fennes Butt!!!

I do know that I missed some great characters as I seen Kain, and Orlandeu. But, that doesn’t mean they’re gone forever.

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Need a Hand?

I couldn’t stop thinking about that Willy Wonka. I really wanted to have bought it, but it wasn’t for sale. I kept looking it up on eBay. Saw the prices it was selling for, and just kept wishing I had bought it to flip it.

Next weekend came around and there was a community wide garage sale in Worth. Garage sales on every corner every street. Now, most of these were senior citizens trying to clean out there attic, with things that nobody wants anymore. Or at least I didn’t. But, some of the items we found were something that we didn’t expect to see. Like a sealed copy of PS2 Death By Degrees for 2 bucks.

As we kept driving around there was a little one, I said probably won’t find much but, might as well. As I walked up I saw it. There he was laying there. It was meant to be. Willy Wonka all 18″ of him laying on the table … Eh? … That doesn’t sound right. Let’s try this again.

There it was, on the table laying next to a couple of different action figures was Willy Wonka. Minus the box, but it had all the pieces. (All the pieces is just his cane.)

I was happy also picked up a Marv from Sin City, cause he offered me that one for 10 bucks.

We get home, and we had a long night. Ended up going to bed bright and early in the morning. Kids woke up, and started playing I paid them no attention. I just needed a couple hours of sleep. And, I did sleep.

I wake up, and I see a mess, the kids were playing with their toys, no big deal, we’ll just clean it up, but not till I get my coffee. Make myself a cup of Joe and head over to my desk. And, I notice that the mess made it’s way over here. And what I had picked up yesterday at the garage sales was all over the floor.

 

At least they didn’t break the cane.

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“That’s Not For Sale, Man”

I was looking up the Garage Sales on Craigslist. And, I stumbled upon a listing that seemed too good to be true. This guy was selling all these collectables, old Vinyl, Video Games, Action Figures, you name it, he had it.

I figured I had to go there as soon as he opened at 8:00am. It was a Thursday morning, and I had to take my daughter to Summer School. I’ll drop her off and head on over. It was about an hour away from where her school was, but what else would i do that morning.

Off I was, I had my little daughter in tow, and I had to keep her from dozing off as we rode out to Frankfort. When we finally got there, I looked around and nothing seemed to be the same as what was shown in the pictures. Still, I looked around.

What was displayed at the Sale was mostly junk. The 80’s metal records from the listing were actually those old worthless records that no one wants. I had seen some Motley Crue records on the listing. Where were those?

And then I turned to a bookshelf and saw the good stuff. I was like, ok this is what I was looking for. I grabbed an 18″ inch NECA Willy Wonka figure. Price tag was $5.00. And as soon as I was about to say, “I’ll take this” He said, “That’s not for sale, man”

I looked at him.

“But, you got a price on it.”

“That’s what I paid for it, at a garage sale.”

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My Very First Kit.

Well, I definitely had the itch.

I started heading to the card shop, to learn how to play, but it was mostly hit or miss. Plenty of times, there was no one there to play with. But, I still had to find myself some packs. I would keep buying a couple here and there, from the card shop.

I would start looking for local game stores around my area that would sell Final Fantasy TCG, but sadly there weren’t that many. Most of them didn’t even know FFTCG existed.

I stumbled upon The Gaming Goat, in Tinley Park. Great place.

Walked in and noticed the booster boxes behind the counter. I had found a new place to shop. And, sitting right next to the boxes was an Opus VI Prerelease Kit. Now, I got excited. This was the first time I ever laid eyes upon it. It was like a mini booster box, but better. I quickly picked it up and drove straight home.

Sat down and got ready to open up the kit. The tape was cut, but I didn’t mind I still would have the packs, the promo card and the sleeves. I pulled back the top cover and all the packs were open! What happened here? Why is there a Yu-Gi-Oh card in here? I called them up, and I guess they figured out what happened, but they exchanged it and made my day.

Now, looking back, I think the opened cards were better than what I pulled from the packs.