I went to the Art Museum for the first time since I started my life as a BSU student. I felt really dumb because I had to use a map to get there. I walked by so many classrooms multiple times that I'm sure somebody noticed I was lost. I saw Tyler Trosper in one of those classes too. From what I saw, it seems that he is the type of student who usually sits in the very front (That's now my impression of you, Tyler XD.). I also snuck up on him later that day in the library. I caught him hanging around his usual area on the second floor so I thought I'd stop and say hi.
Ooops, I got off track there. Back to the part where I went to the Art Museum. I found it to be a very interesting visit. Everything was perfectly aligned and sparkly clean (OCDOCDOCD!!!!). My goal during the visit was to gather information about certain works of art for the paper I'm supposed to write for my Intro to Art class. I did some intense speculation and cited the minor-est of details. One thing that totally bothered me, though. The people that were working there kept following me around. I'm sure it's for security purposes and whatnot, but I felt very uncomfortable because they were "watching my every move." I felt very awkward writing down some notes on the floor and looking at objects at many different angles. I would really hate to work there. It's so quiet all of the time and the only thing you do is walk around art galleries which would seem interesting at first, but then bleh.
What else can I say? Oh yeah. I pretty much spent the rest of the day playing Mother 3. I really got so hooked onto that game. It's got one of the most interesting storylines of any game I've played. It starts with 3 chapters of prologue featuring the different points of view of some of the main characters. Every character you play has an important role in the plot. What's more is that they have managed to somehow coordinate each of the character's behaviors (every person in the game O_O) to a point that you could probably identify them even more so than other games that feature high definition cut scenes. Considering that the characters are basically sprites, this is quite an achievement.
One thing that I do have to point out about this game is that it WAS NEVER RELEASED OUTSIDE OF JAPAN. Which is sad, because people here in the United States will never get to see its glory. Although, playing through 4 chapters in the game, I understand why they wouldn't want to release it outside of Japan. There are some parts in the game that would offend a lot of us westerners. For example, there's a part where you get into a hot spring with a transvestite and he holds your head under the water for a couple of seconds. When my friend was watching me play behind my back, he thought it was a sex scene.Considering how 4kids almost never shows an episode of anything dealing with hot springs, I would think that is one of the reasons why Nintendo never released it outside of Japan. Another reason that I think this game was never released outside of Japan is that the game started out as a terrible tragedy and playing through it, I feel like this would produce an intense emotional response among players to a point that it creates some sort of controversy considering Nintendo's reputation of "rated E for everyone."
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