My Heart Skips a Beat

Back in 1997, it was New Years Eve, and as with every NYE, me and my cousins and friends were sent upstairs away from the drunken parents and ended up playing video games. This year was special, I had just got my PS1 for Christmas and had been playing it for ages, my parents loved the silence.

This New Years was a unique experience for me, you see, this NY, my cousin Paul had brought around what HE had got for Christmas. Namely, Final Fantasy VII.

Now I don't know if you've ever had a religious experience, but I'd say this is as close as I could have come at the time to one. The beautifully rendered...

Lisa Pacifist (リサ・パツィフィースト, Risa Patsifīsuto) is one of the main characters in Final Fantasy: Unlimited. She was born in Russia to Tsar Pacifist and her Chinese mother, who taught her the ways of Kigen Arts, being able to use her spiritual energy in the form of defensive attacks. At the age of 22, in the series, she helps the twins Yu and Ai search for their missing parents Joe and Marie Hayakawa as well as protecting them. It was only in the finale, she revealed that she was looking for the Hayakawas herself, working for the C2 Organization headed by her father. She...