{"id":75,"date":"2006-07-19T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/19\/tales-of-symphonia-has-recaptured-me\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:36:52","slug":"tales-of-symphonia-has-recaptured-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/tales-of-symphonia-has-recaptured-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Symphonia has (re)captured me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging much recently due to a slight barrier to my online time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gamecube\/rpg\/talesofphantasia\/index.html\">Tales of Symphonia<\/a>. I&#8217;ve owned this RPG for almost two years now, but haven&#8217;t had the time and\/or desire to actually continue it. I recently acquired the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gba\/rpg\/talesofphantasia\/index.html\">Tales of Phantasia<\/a> remake for the GBA, and when I learned that Symphonia was actually created as a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_Of_Symphonia#Links_to_Tales_of_Phantasia\">unofficial &#8220;prequel&#8221;<\/a> to Phantasia, I forced myself to jump back into the game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying now to figure out why I stopped playing it in the first place. I&#8217;m now roughly 30 hours into the game, just about to enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.gamespot.com\/features\/6104219\/p-20.html\">Toize Mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is to finish this game sometime soon and then pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/batenkaitos.namco.com\/\">Baten Kaitos<\/a> now that it&#8217;s down to about $20 at Target. I&#8217;m such an RPG addict.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been. Pathetic? I think not.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging much recently due to a slight barrier to my online time: Tales of Symphonia. I&#8217;ve owned this RPG for almost two years now, but haven&#8217;t had the time and\/or desire to actually continue it. I recently acquired the Tales of Phantasia remake for the GBA, and when I learned that Symphonia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[328,329,53,330,331],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-gamecube","tag-namco-bandai","tag-nintendo","tag-symphonia","tag-tales","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}