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I want to go to there...

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#QUEENAPPRECIATIONWEEK DAY 6 → WHAT MADE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH QUEEN?

...I had been listening to Greatest Hits for a while, but one day I just decided “I am going to learn everything about this band - I want to know more than just a few songs,” And it only escalated from there, with documentaries, song browsing, etc.  I was particularly struck by three pieces: Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen, and The March of the Black Queen.  One day near Christmas, we visited a light show, and on the way I listened to The March of the Black Queen on repeat endlessly, and just fell in love with the song in every way.  I imagined seeing the band perform it just as it was written, and I was completely mesmerized.  And that was how I knew it would be Queen for life.

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#QUEENAPPRECIATIONWEEK DAY 2 → FAVOURITE VOCAL & (OR) INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

Part (2/2) The March of the Black Queen - Favorite Instrumental Performance

One of the Mercury Masterpieces: operatic and completely brilliant, where Freddie demonstrates his piano mastery and composition ability.  It tells a story without even needing words, and every instrument speaks for itself.

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June 13, 2007 was when comic 69 was posted. I had to think of a reason why Margaret picked an “evil” card, aside from the fact that Margaret so far has been shown to be a bully.  She’s not as bad as the comic makes her out to be, or rather, she’ll grow into a better person if I let her.

The Golden Nugget is exactly what the fortuneteller says it is...an item given to the player for no particular purpose other than to be sold. Ogre Battle has a lot of items like this, even though one can easily earn enough money while playing normally without having to worry about running out. Also, since one’s inventory is fairly limited, keeping the Golden Nugget can be a liability in the long term, since there are about 20 unique items one has to have in one’s possession to secure the best ending.

As for the sprite of the Golden Nugget itself, it comes from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, courtesy of Renagadez.

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June 8, 2007 was when I uploaded Comic 68.  The star icon from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was captured by the user known as “Cloud Strife” and submitted to the Spriters Resource years ago. This comic also contains a big mistake from an accuracy perspective.

You see, I had intended the (un)Amusing Adventures of Margaret and Friends to not only be a retelling of my Ogre Battle fanfic and a parody of the game in general, but I also wanted it to serve somewhat as an abridged guide to the actual game itself.  For those who aren’t willing to either watch videos or read FAQs, one easily follow along with the pictures.  Already I’ve shown the location of one of the hidden towns in this stage.

The problem is the Star of Heroes (a.k.a. “Herostar”) is an item that can only be retrieved from this temple while one is liberating a stage, not after….and it is a key item.  If you’re looking for a good ending and don’t have it, you might as well reset your game. There’s no way Michelle shouldn’t already have it.  Part of me wants to redo the comic entirely to reflect this – especially since I established she loses things very easily – but the other part of me realizes as big of a mistake is, it’s funnier this way.

Also, as you can see, I tried to resize sprites from Tactics Ogre: the Knight of Lodis again.  It didn’t work, so I’d have to make proper Ogre Battle-sized sprites of these classes if I were to continue making comics.

I'm still working on it.

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Comic 67 was posted June 1, 2007.  Background provided by Renegadez.

In Ogre Battle, after you complete a stage, you can revisit the stage to talk to the people you liberated. However, when you return to the stage, you no longer collect money from the towns you liberate. Since deploying a unit costs money, this means that revisiting a stage can end up breaking the bank.

The official strategy guide had one great piece of advice, which is to get a Gryphon, put your Opinion Leader (in this case Michelle) into the unit with the Gryphon --since your opinion leader’s unit automatically “deploys” when a stage begins -- then use that sole unit to visit all the towns. Since the unit has a High Sky movement, it will move very quickly, allowing one to go from one town to the next.  Also, since Gryphons are among the cheapest beasts you can get, the cost to revisit stages is very, very low using this method.

The only downside to this is in later stages, if you don’t level up the Gryphon, then in a Neutral Encounter the enemy you encounter will likely kill the Gryphon.  If you happen to be in “High Sky“ terrain, that is an instant Game Over, but I don’t think there are any Neutral encounters in the sky.  There’s also the risk of forgetting to remove the Gryphon and reinsert the old members of the unit before going to the next stage.

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May 25, 2007 was when I finally got around to posting Comic 66. Don’t ask me what the delay was, this time, although it was likely due to me not being able to find a background.  This Final Fantasy Tactics Advance background is courtesy of Renagadez.

Anyway, when I shoehorned Princess and Angel into the storyline, I actually did forget to have Michelle make her rounds.  However, since the Opinion Leader can’t do this until after the stage has completed, and one always re-enters a stage at noon, this forgetfulness was rectified in time...mostly.

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May 11, 2007 is when I posted Comic 65.  This comic is pure filler, and one of the visually static comics I put together in a while.  However, I needed to update and this comic was the third comic that week.