Vagrant Story is a Japanese-developed console role-playing game
developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony
PlayStation video game console in 2000. The game was released in Japan
in February 2000, in the United States in May 2000, and in Canada and
Europe later, at the time of Square's promotional "Summer of Adventure"
game package, and in PAL territories in June 2000. It was largely
developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics, with
Yasumi Matsuno serving as producer and director. The game takes place
in the fictional kingdom of Valendia and the ruined city of Leá Monde.
The story centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a
Riskbreaker, who must travel to Leá Monde to investigate the link
between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke
Bardorba. In the prologue, Ashley was blamed for murdering the duke,
and the game discloses the events that happened one week before the
murder. Vagrant Story is unique as a console action/adventure
role-playing game because it features no shops and no player
interaction between other characters; instead, the game focuses on
weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving
and strategy. Overall, the game received positive reviews from gaming
magazines and websites.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1628:
The Swedish warship Vasa sank after sailing less than a nautical mile
into her maiden voyage from Stockholm on her way to fight in the Thirty
Years' War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_%28ship%29>
1675:
The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the
basis of the Prime Meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory%2C_Greenwich>
1792:
French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries
Palace, effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in
1814.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_of_August_%28French_Revolution%29>
1846:
The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an
educational and research institute and associated museum complex.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution>
2006:
British police arrested 25 people suspected in an alleged terrorist
plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10
airliners travelling from the UK to the United States and Canada.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fizzle (v):
1. To splutter or hiss.
2. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end
less successfully than previously hoped
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fizzle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when
none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in
times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in
jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner
resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they
will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the
things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our
race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire
ourselves in turn.
--Laurence Binyon
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