I've lost my motivation... mainly because, the site looks like utter crap. The design is incredibly dated, and incredibly uninspired-looking. I just don't really feel like working with it anymore.

I suppose I'll ask... anyone out there want to completely redesign the page for me? I have a poor imagination. I'd like the new page to look more modern, more user friendly, and have a more Tales + tri-Ace mix theme design. A great looking design would certainly increase my motivation. Something a bit more professional... if you're interested, email me.

Well, I guess the thing that motivated me in the least to do this update were the newly emerged Star Ocean 3 screenshots. The new main characters are Fate and Sophia. The first screen is the game engine and the second apparently an FMV sequence.

Tales of Destiny II, aka Tales of Eternia (in Japan) was released in the US a couple weeks ago. OPINION/RANT: (this is gonna get long and rambly. You may or may not agree with I'm about to say. If you don't care about other's opinions, don't read on) I'm a bit disappointed by it, from what I've played (about halfway through disc 1, at Inferia castle). Namco redubbed the voices with an english cast, albeit with a flat and uninspired one. Even though they did that, they censored the face chat feature, once again ala Tales of Destiny! There goes an entire dimension of character development and personality... not to mention that some of these are also very funny, even IF you don't understand the language (Rid and Farah's arguments were great). This made me furious. I don't understand why since they completely redubbed the game! Because of this, I believe that some of the Titles are now also ungettable... too bad for completionists. Hmm... and I've also noticed that all the Tales of Phantasia questions in the quiz game have been replaced with general namco questions, so you diehard Tales fans will have a hell of a problem with it. (It was originally a questionaire only about the previous two Tales games. Now you've got dumb questions like "who is the mascot of namco?", and "Which game was not on namco museum vol.3?" and so on... sigh.). What else to ramble on about ToD2 thus far?... hmmm... dunno. Inevitably, the opening song was changed to an instrumental like ToD... not a bad song, but I still kinda liked ToD's better. None of them come close to the original songs though. In any case, once I've absorbed the story and secrets of ToD2, I'm going back to the Japanese ToE. ToD2 is just another hack-job. /END OPINION/RANT