Another top notch game from Vanillaware. Sure there's pretty much great RTS on the console but most of them are just port cousins from PC. Instead of the usual isometric view, we have the traditional 2D view that Vanillaware is famous for these days (see Odin Sphere).
Likewise with Odin Sphere, the interaction of the game is through books except it's a bookshelf and individual chapters are books. Upon completion of story mode, you can access to another row of books, bonus stages of added fun to make up for the lack of diversity in appearane and gameplay of the story mode.
Lillet Blan is the latest student to the Tower of Silver Star (think Hogwarts). The Tower of Silver Star is not without woes and danger as Lillet Blan finds out. Eventually something really bad happens and Lillet (like Harry) meet the Main Event Villian, the Archmage Calvaros (think Lord Noseless). When Lillet is about to meet her maker, she was mysteriously returned to five days earlier, the day which she just arrived. Thus began her journey of running in circles, resolving the problems of Silver Star and eventually defeating the Archmage. Kind of like how the game stages of Odin Sphere is set, much to my amusement.
Insteads of playing via races/factions, GrimGrimoire employs a Magic System scheme. You can pick and mix what you learned in your Grimoire to fend of oppositions. Power balance is quite fair, so it's a matter of preference on how to play that game (althought certain things are quite clear....Dragons are bitching....)
Sure, playing without mouse is pretty hectic but luckily the controls are pretty easy to learn and there's a pause when you are making selections in runes so you are chill out abit to make the right decisions (making it a fact that this wouldn't be a multiplayer game).
http://www.nisamerica.com/games/grimgrimoire/
Showing posts with label PS2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PS2. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Played: Odin Sphere
My experience with consoles is this, I always buy it after it's reaching the last leg of the race when the manufacturer declared: Your Successor is due.
But that's when the real fun begin. In fact, most of the time, games that are launched during that moment are giving the quality you been waiting for, pushing the hardware to the MAX.
It's strange that during the last leg of PS years back, I played a Norse Mythology based Valkyrie Profile that stars a daughter of Odin.
Once again.....if you are thinking I was going to write about Valkyrie Profile 2, you ought to be looking at the Title.
Odin Sphere is another kind of interactivity. You do not play as a party of 4 with a main protagonist. Rather you unveil events of the Last Days of Erion with 5 different characters.
Gwendolyn
Protagonist of Valkyrie
Daughter of the Demonlord, Odin.
Gwendolyn returned to Ragnanival, after her sister Griselda fell in battle in the wasteland of Valentine. Witnessing her father's indifference to news of Griselda, Gwendolyn concluded that dying in the battle field will probably be the only way to win her father's approval. Little did she knows...
Cornelius
Protagonist of The Pooka Prince
Prince of Titania.
Cornelius is in love with Velvet, a mysterious Princess of a Lost Kingdom.
Their relationship was forbidden by his father and little did he know that the odds will be against him as a dark conspiracy descends upon him.
Changed into a Pooka, a rabbit like creature and left in Endelphia, the Land of the Dead, he will have to find a remedy and stop the conspiracy in time....
Mercedes
Protagonist of Fairyland
Princess of Ringford
Ringford is constantly at war with Ragnanival over the Cauldron. One battle concludes with Odin mortally wounded the Fairy Queen, Elfaria. Mercedes is to be Queen but she's not ready for it.......Someone, however, IS READY to descend upon the throne....
Oswald
Protagonist of The Black Sword
The Shadow Knight of Ringford
Found abandoned as an infant, Oswald was raised by Melvin, newphew of Elfaria.
As the Shadow Knight, Oswald fought valiantly for Melvin. Little did he know the power he is having is actually a result of an arrangement between Melvin and Odette, Queen of the Underworld....
Velvet
Protagonist of Fate
Princess of The Lost Kingdom of Valentine
Velvet and Ingway are twins born to the Princess of Valentine and Odin.
Velvet was set to deactivate the Cauldron, in which was a part of a prophercy of it bringing Armageddon to Erion.
Ingway, meanwhile, had other plans.....
Armageddon
The Last Book that will bind all 5 books together, it allows you to choose your 5 playable characters to pit against 5 bosses which puts up the Armageddon and the End of Erion. It's easier if you played it to Order of True Ending but nevertheless there are certain nice BAD ENDINGs for some characters if you choose to use them against a certain boss. However using the WRONG PERSON has consequence of different magnitude such as a harder fight or a really mundane ending.
It's not a hard game but even on an Easy Setting, things are still hectic to throw any inexperienced player into a frenzy. The game also didn't give an easier way to train your character or gather items as replaying the same book does results in carrying out the character in Armaggedon but you still have to go through the storyline and take whatever that's being offered via the storyline rather than the usual UNLOCK ALL situation which players are being spoilt by these days.
A unique part of the game is that the game starts with you controlling Alice, a girl in an Attic with her cat Socrates. On the floor, you will find a book which you can promptly pick up to start reading (hence starting the game). Alternatively you can pick up Socrates (a bizarre logic to the function) to allow Alice to "recall" (view the cutscenes) what she read. A new book will appear when you finish a story until the Last Book Armaggedon appears. A Good Ending will ultimately give you an idea to how "You" are involved in the game itself.
In short, if you own a PS2 and enjoyed Action RPG, this is one game you cannot afford to miss.
http://www.atlus.com/odinsphere/
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Ar Tonelico (PS2)
http://www.nisamerica.com/games/artonelico/
Oddly this game should be for the PSP. Really. If it isn't memory constraints or such, this is a pretty good game for those on the go. The dungeons are painfully straight forward, the 100% fleeing ability (I think. Since I never got a backlash for fleeing). You are not forced to do everything and you don't get penalised for a slight mistake. This is a very forgiving game (at least for me). The setup is so forgiving, leveling up is like some what non existant since you level so often, you don't pay attention to it some what like FF VIII.
The only thing you need to pay attention are:
- Weapons and Equipments. The best weapons are through Grathmelding which is the "usual mix the inventory" routine. Believe me, you can roughly ignore the rest of the other stuffs. A good equipment setup (enhancement..yes..insert so-so crystal effects) and you get thru any fights using just Blue Magic alone.
- Diving. Yes. It's going into your Reyvateil's cosmosphere (mind) and then create Song Magic (song bo brother!). AkA the Main Minigame which is the AVG. 3 Reyvateil to choose from and craft between 7 game endings. No SUPERHAREM ending however.
The rest are tibits. I complete it on 31 hours which is less than what I expected (45hrs is my ETA). I do think I lose out on alot of things.
Oh ya if you wish to complete your hymn collection, you do have to play about 2 times depending where you last saved. There's 2 variation of certain 2 hymns which is up to you to choose when you are at near end of phase 1 and start of phase 2 (misha or aurica mission).
Overall due to the AVG elements, everyone else other than the Reyvateils are cookie cutter stock characters. The storyline is fair. Standard without too cheesy (despite a good amount of sexual innuendo can either be viewed as yucky or sexy. LOL). Kind of Lyner, like how his name was pronounced in the game (LINER), straight forward. Good music with the Japanese vocals retained (but I played it with the English voiceovers. No. My ears didn't bleed althought there are the few mishaps going on). Highly recommend for gamers who are lazy and got 2 hrs a day to play games. Strongly recommend for gamers who got enough with epic titles that takes you 99 hours just to see a generic happy ending.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Played Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army (PS2)
http://www.atlus.com/devilsummoner/
I can't tell since when that I skipped acclaimed stuffs for niche titles like the SMT titles.
Devil Summoner: RKvSA is a chip of the old block with some spins threw in.
Is it really an actioner?
Yes. Hit a few buttons and just chop chop chop (and shoot) in hmmm...4~5 moves??? in a quite small arena with a demon partner. Considering the heritage of the SMT series, quite a hefty of familiar faces returns.
Then there's the issue of difficulty. SMT: Noctune was so overly sadistic that anything seems wussy. Except this gets somewhere between brain numbing easy and slap in your face hard. The lenght of the game lies between 30+ hours (I attempted the game skipping some minor sides and 1 MAJOR SIDE in 35hrs with only like 5~6 game overs.) and is short if you compare to RPG titles of these days.
However I don't really considered this as a normal RPG taking that the storyline progression gives you a linear progress. If the encounter rate is anything like Ar Tonelico (review later), man, the game might be even shorter. It's more a digital novel concept. Each chapter's lenght varies according to what's the objective and there's even a chapter which is short like 0.5~1hr. The enjoyable part is that while the map is pretty small, the amount of unrewarding sides do take away the dullness of slashing and shooting.
Here's the skinny (or the fatty. Depending on how you look at it) on the storyline.
It's the year Taisho 20 and the capital of Japan has a new champion, Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th. Having proven of this title after his training, he was assigned to work with a PI called Narumi who will assist Raidou in keeping the Capital safe from the Supernatural along with a guardian that took form of a cat called Gatou. However the latest assignment brought in by Kaya,a strange girl which might just be their last.
It's almost one track, solving the kidnap of Kaya and the mystery surrounding it. Script is almost like a real novel except for sequences that simply says go there, bring this to another place and then bring it back and then talk to that guy and it goes on.
The inventory system sucks since they keep a cap on the items (healing item? Max: 9pcs) however the reward comes in pretty easy as the progress and of course the drawback is there so that you need to exploit the fusion system regularly (which led me to believe this game...is a part of the plan to drew new players in the whole SMT franchise). However up till a certain amount of progress, somehow it's possible to skip the most fun (yet tedious) part if you just want to complete. If you want to complete your demon collection, you might be spending like up to 45hrs or more I guess.
Replayability is a low since the expansion isn't up by a notch to motivate and it hardly impress anyone to play it continous for the second time. However the game is fresh because it moves fast and if you love games that moves with a simple storyline that isn't some epic RPG, this is the title. Then again. Random encounter is a pain and let's say the encounter rate can be annoying.
I can't tell since when that I skipped acclaimed stuffs for niche titles like the SMT titles.
Devil Summoner: RKvSA is a chip of the old block with some spins threw in.
Is it really an actioner?
Yes. Hit a few buttons and just chop chop chop (and shoot) in hmmm...4~5 moves??? in a quite small arena with a demon partner. Considering the heritage of the SMT series, quite a hefty of familiar faces returns.
Then there's the issue of difficulty. SMT: Noctune was so overly sadistic that anything seems wussy. Except this gets somewhere between brain numbing easy and slap in your face hard. The lenght of the game lies between 30+ hours (I attempted the game skipping some minor sides and 1 MAJOR SIDE in 35hrs with only like 5~6 game overs.) and is short if you compare to RPG titles of these days.
However I don't really considered this as a normal RPG taking that the storyline progression gives you a linear progress. If the encounter rate is anything like Ar Tonelico (review later), man, the game might be even shorter. It's more a digital novel concept. Each chapter's lenght varies according to what's the objective and there's even a chapter which is short like 0.5~1hr. The enjoyable part is that while the map is pretty small, the amount of unrewarding sides do take away the dullness of slashing and shooting.
Here's the skinny (or the fatty. Depending on how you look at it) on the storyline.
It's the year Taisho 20 and the capital of Japan has a new champion, Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th. Having proven of this title after his training, he was assigned to work with a PI called Narumi who will assist Raidou in keeping the Capital safe from the Supernatural along with a guardian that took form of a cat called Gatou. However the latest assignment brought in by Kaya,a strange girl which might just be their last.
It's almost one track, solving the kidnap of Kaya and the mystery surrounding it. Script is almost like a real novel except for sequences that simply says go there, bring this to another place and then bring it back and then talk to that guy and it goes on.
The inventory system sucks since they keep a cap on the items (healing item? Max: 9pcs) however the reward comes in pretty easy as the progress and of course the drawback is there so that you need to exploit the fusion system regularly (which led me to believe this game...is a part of the plan to drew new players in the whole SMT franchise). However up till a certain amount of progress, somehow it's possible to skip the most fun (yet tedious) part if you just want to complete. If you want to complete your demon collection, you might be spending like up to 45hrs or more I guess.
Replayability is a low since the expansion isn't up by a notch to motivate and it hardly impress anyone to play it continous for the second time. However the game is fresh because it moves fast and if you love games that moves with a simple storyline that isn't some epic RPG, this is the title. Then again. Random encounter is a pain and let's say the encounter rate can be annoying.
Monday, February 26, 2007
QCF + P!!!
Anyone who understand QCF + P???
It's a quarter circle motion of a joystick from down to front.
P denotes the Punch Command Button. It's a MUST KNOW motion for Fighting Games since Street Fighter II (SF is painful to play unlike SF II).
Here's a short game review on the last 3 Fighting Titles I played since Dec '06.
K.O.F 2006 (A.k.A KOF: Maximum Impact 2)
Fans of the franchise already knew that the Arcade game is no longer ordered as in Years but rather by numbering (starting from XI after 2003). Nevertheless, the latest console incarnation picks up from where the Garou Densetsu (Fatal Fury) spinoff left it, is awkwardly fun for it's button mashing easiness and of course brightly designed characters that is good enough for any Costume event (I will try to refrain using the word Cosplay since Cosplaying involves in mimicking the character you costumed. Hmmm. How to QCF + P???)
Storymode (I am a 1p mode player) is pretty good considering pre-fight quotes changes depending on the in-game relations so it does motivates the player to slightly attempt to got through the whole roster. It's set in the "FUTURE" KOF/Garou:MOTW setting where you get a Rock Howard (son of the Geese). Rock however is not the main protagonist. Alba, the new boss of South Town took centre stage. The usual Baddie Sponsor the KOF continues, revealing a new kind of direction.
Garou Densetsu is a simple plotline of Kung Fu & Revenge (Geese killed Terry and Andy's foster father.) while KOF is about the world being threatened by ancient evil presence follow by ancient megolomania, Alba's story eventually will GO TO SPACE AND BEYOND.
Yes.
Rather tackling mythology up front, this storyline will warp us to space and reincarnation of aliens.
Far-fetch?
Yes but seeing what kind of storyline Tekken is giving us, this is still pretty ok considering we aren't going to see a live action version of it.
Other game modes includes a Bonus Stage mode consist of 3 different skill testing mini-games (similar to what we got from SF II and World Heroes.....not A.O.F) and Mission Mode where a new player like me is given a chance to train for a better fighting personality other than spamming the same moves all over.
Character wardrobe is BIG with each character having 2 basic look models (Orignal, Alternate) and 8 variation per model (require unlocking for the last 4 variation).
You also know where the design of the game is going, judging the spilling cleavages especially from Lien, the new fatale femme of this game. Her presence is probably a need by SNK to retire tired Famous poster girl, Mai Shiranui who incidentally might be the most identified character from the KOF/Garou Densetsu.
Anyway after unlocking and completing the whole Storymode and half way through the Costumes, it's best to play something that's more into my liking....2D Arcade Fighting.........
Fighting system is simpler tag alikened to X-men vs Street Fighter with the tagged out player regaining health. The uniqueness of the game lies with the arcade mode whereby player is given 300 seconds of game play which after follows by a boss fight (whereby proven unpopular on the arcade level, I guess, judging the non-existence of the machines). Performance determines the boss you be fighting.
There's not much of a storyline more of a reference to one of the reasons for the decline of Neo Geo. Original characters are Yuki and Ai whose moves are company product inspired are to defend the Neo Geo World from Goodman the sponsor of the tournament and owner of the WAREZ (got it?).
Boss Fight is considered perverted by SNK standards since NOT ONLY you got penalised by how the power gauge charges and the choices of evasive moves , AT THE SAME TIME avoiding awful spams of damaging moves by the boss WHO is given priviledges of REGAINING HEALTH (base health not included) which makes most of the number combo useless because by the time you finish with the last blow, he is regained most of what you took.
Solution? Simple. Hit and take out the base health (red ) with a Team Up special. Provided you get close enough, That is. Other modes are standard fare however.
The Real Last Boss Goodman....oddly resembles Unknown from Tekken Tag with a Beast on set aflames as a "companion".
Capcom vs. SNK 2
One of the last few great titles before Capcom put a lid on new games from their SF heritage and the last crossover offered by Capcom.
- Eagle from the Original Street Fighter
- Maki Genryusai from Final Fight 2
- Kyosuke Kagami from Rival Schools
SNK roster includes Last Blade's Hibiki and Samurai Shodown's Haohmaru (Nakoruru appeared in the 1st game). Strangely we got a pair of Choi and Choy rather than a single entry for each individual character.
For arcade mode, Capcom did away the previous Point Ratio Assignment to Fighters and introduced a free selection of characters first before you set ratio points to them.
Obviously this game is meant to be for competitive play given the amount of pre-game set up option available, making it almost no 2 players can play almost the same game.
Other than character selection, ratio assignment, the first option is Groove Selection. Unlike what's on the first Capcom Vs SNK, which you are given only 2 option, you got 6 options now, each with a distinct advantage. Skill level is strongly tested as different groove can greatly influence the game plan. The controls are however still had a distinct Capcom to it hence players very familiar to the SNK controls might be punished to relearn in order to play their SNK characters. This game requires some patience in order to play hence I admit the number of machines in the arcade is dwindling and rare.
Bosses fight are pretty the table turned for the Capcom fans.
Hencefore it's easier to have M.Bision as a sub-boss than Geese Howard.
Regular End of Game boss are Akuma and Rugal.
Getting good scores will enable you to fight True Bosses, Shin Akuma (double Air Fire Ball Bastard) and Ultimate Rugal (Bastard. Nuff say).
Ultimate Rugal is ridiculously the harder boss to fight. Beating both S.Akuma and U.Rugal gives you access to them and a Boss Mode in the Arcade Mode.
However unlocking the True Bosses does nothing to aid the game since they balanced out the health for that extra broken boost. Trying spam double aerial and you can see the difference on the punishment dished out by your opponent.
With these 3 games out of the way for the moment, I will be resuming with Raido's adventure in the Capital in Atlus's Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raido vs The Soulless Army.
It's a quarter circle motion of a joystick from down to front.
P denotes the Punch Command Button. It's a MUST KNOW motion for Fighting Games since Street Fighter II (SF is painful to play unlike SF II).
Here's a short game review on the last 3 Fighting Titles I played since Dec '06.
K.O.F 2006 (A.k.A KOF: Maximum Impact 2)
Basically a repackage attempted to break into the Next Generation of Fighters, K.O.F:MI fails to be anything but an Impact on the American/Europe market. Perhaps as a business direction to confused the layman, Maximum Impact 2 was given a simple title....simply K.O.F 2006.
Fans of the franchise already knew that the Arcade game is no longer ordered as in Years but rather by numbering (starting from XI after 2003). Nevertheless, the latest console incarnation picks up from where the Garou Densetsu (Fatal Fury) spinoff left it, is awkwardly fun for it's button mashing easiness and of course brightly designed characters that is good enough for any Costume event (I will try to refrain using the word Cosplay since Cosplaying involves in mimicking the character you costumed. Hmmm. How to QCF + P???)
Storymode (I am a 1p mode player) is pretty good considering pre-fight quotes changes depending on the in-game relations so it does motivates the player to slightly attempt to got through the whole roster. It's set in the "FUTURE" KOF/Garou:MOTW setting where you get a Rock Howard (son of the Geese). Rock however is not the main protagonist. Alba, the new boss of South Town took centre stage. The usual Baddie Sponsor the KOF continues, revealing a new kind of direction.
Garou Densetsu is a simple plotline of Kung Fu & Revenge (Geese killed Terry and Andy's foster father.) while KOF is about the world being threatened by ancient evil presence follow by ancient megolomania, Alba's story eventually will GO TO SPACE AND BEYOND.
Yes.
Rather tackling mythology up front, this storyline will warp us to space and reincarnation of aliens.
Far-fetch?
Yes but seeing what kind of storyline Tekken is giving us, this is still pretty ok considering we aren't going to see a live action version of it.
Other game modes includes a Bonus Stage mode consist of 3 different skill testing mini-games (similar to what we got from SF II and World Heroes.....not A.O.F) and Mission Mode where a new player like me is given a chance to train for a better fighting personality other than spamming the same moves all over.
Character wardrobe is BIG with each character having 2 basic look models (Orignal, Alternate) and 8 variation per model (require unlocking for the last 4 variation).
You also know where the design of the game is going, judging the spilling cleavages especially from Lien, the new fatale femme of this game. Her presence is probably a need by SNK to retire tired Famous poster girl, Mai Shiranui who incidentally might be the most identified character from the KOF/Garou Densetsu.
Anyway after unlocking and completing the whole Storymode and half way through the Costumes, it's best to play something that's more into my liking....2D Arcade Fighting.........
Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
Probably a better answer of Capcom's Fighting Jam (Evolution), this In-Company Big Basher consists of characters of Neo Geo's famous characters from various titles.
Fighting system is simpler tag alikened to X-men vs Street Fighter with the tagged out player regaining health. The uniqueness of the game lies with the arcade mode whereby player is given 300 seconds of game play which after follows by a boss fight (whereby proven unpopular on the arcade level, I guess, judging the non-existence of the machines). Performance determines the boss you be fighting.
There's not much of a storyline more of a reference to one of the reasons for the decline of Neo Geo. Original characters are Yuki and Ai whose moves are company product inspired are to defend the Neo Geo World from Goodman the sponsor of the tournament and owner of the WAREZ (got it?).
Boss Fight is considered perverted by SNK standards since NOT ONLY you got penalised by how the power gauge charges and the choices of evasive moves , AT THE SAME TIME avoiding awful spams of damaging moves by the boss WHO is given priviledges of REGAINING HEALTH (base health not included) which makes most of the number combo useless because by the time you finish with the last blow, he is regained most of what you took.
Solution? Simple. Hit and take out the base health (red ) with a Team Up special. Provided you get close enough, That is. Other modes are standard fare however.
The Real Last Boss Goodman....oddly resembles Unknown from Tekken Tag with a Beast on set aflames as a "companion".
Capcom vs. SNK 2
One of the last few great titles before Capcom put a lid on new games from their SF heritage and the last crossover offered by Capcom.
This outing includes a wider range of fighters with Capcom diving it deep into their titles and fetched New Fighters:
- Eagle from the Original Street Fighter
- Maki Genryusai from Final Fight 2
- Kyosuke Kagami from Rival Schools
SNK roster includes Last Blade's Hibiki and Samurai Shodown's Haohmaru (Nakoruru appeared in the 1st game). Strangely we got a pair of Choi and Choy rather than a single entry for each individual character.
For arcade mode, Capcom did away the previous Point Ratio Assignment to Fighters and introduced a free selection of characters first before you set ratio points to them.
If you select 1 fighter, all 4 points goes to him/her.
If 2 fighters, split 2:2 or 3:1.
If 3 fighters, 2:1:1 .
Obviously this game is meant to be for competitive play given the amount of pre-game set up option available, making it almost no 2 players can play almost the same game.
Other than character selection, ratio assignment, the first option is Groove Selection. Unlike what's on the first Capcom Vs SNK, which you are given only 2 option, you got 6 options now, each with a distinct advantage. Skill level is strongly tested as different groove can greatly influence the game plan. The controls are however still had a distinct Capcom to it hence players very familiar to the SNK controls might be punished to relearn in order to play their SNK characters. This game requires some patience in order to play hence I admit the number of machines in the arcade is dwindling and rare.
Bosses fight are pretty the table turned for the Capcom fans.
Most of the time, Capcom bosses are quite within the line with the only exception of the Shin Gouki(Akuma).
SNK bosses are usually broken and crazy spammers of fire balls and anti-air and reversal.
Hencefore it's easier to have M.Bision as a sub-boss than Geese Howard.
Regular End of Game boss are Akuma and Rugal.
Getting good scores will enable you to fight True Bosses, Shin Akuma (double Air Fire Ball Bastard) and Ultimate Rugal (Bastard. Nuff say).
Ultimate Rugal is ridiculously the harder boss to fight. Beating both S.Akuma and U.Rugal gives you access to them and a Boss Mode in the Arcade Mode.
However unlocking the True Bosses does nothing to aid the game since they balanced out the health for that extra broken boost. Trying spam double aerial and you can see the difference on the punishment dished out by your opponent.
With these 3 games out of the way for the moment, I will be resuming with Raido's adventure in the Capital in Atlus's Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raido vs The Soulless Army.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Playing : Mai-Otome: Otome Butou Shi
A fighting game that consist of Mai-Otome goodness???
Definately not. The Fight Engine is wose than Psychic Force and the gameplay can stretch but the bonus is coming in fast enough to hold my attention down. Will I spent another 1 hour on it???
Probably not.
But there are some really neat extra waiting to be unlocked so if you are a real fan , you shouldn't be complaining (I do since I am a fighting game fan too. Press Circle x4 and once guage is full, get into position and press Triangle. Oh damn. )
Here a tip for 3 seconds of cheesiness. Just play with the vibration option in the option menu. LOL.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Eureka Seven Vol.1 New Wave
http://bandai.namco.com/games/eureka.html
http://eureka-game.net/newwave/index.html <---- Japanese The American Edition is out but regretfully like all other anime titles, the OP sequence is a musical rather than a vocal track. Mecha combat in New Wave plays like Gundam Tactics except you get to change mode from vehicle to humaniod. There's also the Lifting game (airborne surfing in E7) and a personal mode where you had to fight outside the LFO (harsh but not surprising since MSG: OYW features a stage where you play a security officer on the White Base fighting off Zeon invaders). The game plays like an anime with you spending more time watching than actually playing. Ep 1 (stage 1) takes a long time but luckily save sessions comes often so you can go throw your Ben&Jerry once you finished it. Ep 1 is basically an extended tutorial with storyline. The LFO fights are easy since opponents are basically on the same class with you and the Map is roomy small and comfortable to fight in. Currently finished Ep 2. The game gets a straight away boost in difficulty as you had to handle more than 4 or 5 opponents all at once with lock on missles and coming at you at all angles. You also get to team up with Cpt. Holland of SOF (yes. Holland of Gekko State). The game is nothing special or really new apart that TR1: New Wave (that's wat they called it in Japan) is designed by the original crew who made the Anime which is a plus. While being a prequel, it didn't make a different from playing any other Mecha Sims/Shooter except it's 80% narration and the rest...game. The only part is that if there's a Situation mode where you can have a bit more action but it wouldn't do much other than unlocking more situation scenarios. Get this game if you like Eureka 7 very much and would like to fully enjoy the next game, Tr2: New Vision which is a direct sequel. Here's the trailer (with Realise by Flow) for the Japanese edition. Game looks more fun on trailer than playing it myself. Strange.
http://eureka-game.net/newwave/index.html <---- Japanese The American Edition is out but regretfully like all other anime titles, the OP sequence is a musical rather than a vocal track. Mecha combat in New Wave plays like Gundam Tactics except you get to change mode from vehicle to humaniod. There's also the Lifting game (airborne surfing in E7) and a personal mode where you had to fight outside the LFO (harsh but not surprising since MSG: OYW features a stage where you play a security officer on the White Base fighting off Zeon invaders). The game plays like an anime with you spending more time watching than actually playing. Ep 1 (stage 1) takes a long time but luckily save sessions comes often so you can go throw your Ben&Jerry once you finished it. Ep 1 is basically an extended tutorial with storyline. The LFO fights are easy since opponents are basically on the same class with you and the Map is roomy small and comfortable to fight in. Currently finished Ep 2. The game gets a straight away boost in difficulty as you had to handle more than 4 or 5 opponents all at once with lock on missles and coming at you at all angles. You also get to team up with Cpt. Holland of SOF (yes. Holland of Gekko State). The game is nothing special or really new apart that TR1: New Wave (that's wat they called it in Japan) is designed by the original crew who made the Anime which is a plus. While being a prequel, it didn't make a different from playing any other Mecha Sims/Shooter except it's 80% narration and the rest...game. The only part is that if there's a Situation mode where you can have a bit more action but it wouldn't do much other than unlocking more situation scenarios. Get this game if you like Eureka 7 very much and would like to fully enjoy the next game, Tr2: New Vision which is a direct sequel. Here's the trailer (with Realise by Flow) for the Japanese edition. Game looks more fun on trailer than playing it myself. Strange.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
KoF XI PS2
Considering the amout spent at the arcades, a small investment is necessary I guess to curb the up-going expenses ( I spent a dollar or two everyday on KoF XI. I remember I start playing around November...thats....8x30x2 = 480. WTF. No wonder I hate doing the sums for my hobbies. $480 and I am still the noob bot guy at the arcade T-T)
Anyway I lack of a KOF title in my collection. I already had the Orochi Collection (95-97) for the Saturn and the rest on RoMs. Honestly speaking Maximum Impact looks crappy, I rather Tekken or Soul Calibur if I want a 3D game.
The arcade mode is like the same but the ps2 actually loads faster so I was pretty happy with the game. To top that Magaki can be lowered to more a retarded stage (but the rest of them are very much retarded too if you lower to difficulty lvl 1). BGM had re-arranged tracks and you get a few more match platforms mostly out doing the regular platforms.
Extra modes of play includes a Challenge Mode to challenge and hone your skills (good for people like me) and Endless Mode (kind of survival but Health Regaining is based on finishing move.)
Go search the youtube for videos...there is trailers that will bound to make you go out and get this title if you are a Fighting Fan.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
~What if you lived but no one remembers?
Just making up for lost time, (also due to free time)
Shakugan no Shana
This is the 2nd anime I watched that had the female protagnist having a thing for melon buns and I don't get it!
I must get one!
Overall anime quality is pretty ok althought initially shana looks like she got a belly. Storyline is based on an interesting premise without having to gradual to kind of just shonen manga style of story telling where the storyline is revolve mustly upon Fight of the Day.
Throw in Campus Style Romance Triangles and you pretty much get an interesting anime. Anime Quality can be improved of course.
Shakugan no Shana is the type of anime that had quite a bit of everything to be hook about. However the pacing is awkward making the general viewer bored if the fan-boyism (girlism) isn't strong.
Melanchony of Suzumiya Haruhi
A must watch.
A DIE MUST watch if you are a fan of Shakugan no Shana.
I refuse to write anything! There's just too much writings out there about this anime.
If you really want to read, there's some done on Vanilla's (Bernie).
Genji: Drown the Samurai
SCEI's inhouse game makers always had something good to offer.
Genji is beautiful and exquisite when put aside to the Onimusha (Yes! Even the Later released Onimusha:.DoD)
Gameplay however is pretty shallow. Either beat the enemies to death or score more points (and finish them fast) with ���kamui���.
My boss strategy is X + Triangle till can do no more. Haha.
I thought to play till 3am in the morning but apparently I saved at a point that gave me less than 2hrs of gameplay.
I was shock. LoL.
Decisions
I realised that life's decision had to do with pride alot.
Sometimes you know if you got the lift, you get to reach the place faster. Yet you rather take your own sweet time and walk towards it. Will you reach it?Will there be another ride? I don't know. I just know that Regrets is for people who wants to live in the past. Who wants to live in "What Ifs" rather than "right now".
Just that,
What's is "Living" right now?
I ponder.
Shakugan no Shana
This is the 2nd anime I watched that had the female protagnist having a thing for melon buns and I don't get it!
I must get one!
Overall anime quality is pretty ok althought initially shana looks like she got a belly. Storyline is based on an interesting premise without having to gradual to kind of just shonen manga style of story telling where the storyline is revolve mustly upon Fight of the Day.
Throw in Campus Style Romance Triangles and you pretty much get an interesting anime. Anime Quality can be improved of course.
Shakugan no Shana is the type of anime that had quite a bit of everything to be hook about. However the pacing is awkward making the general viewer bored if the fan-boyism (girlism) isn't strong.
Melanchony of Suzumiya Haruhi
A must watch.
A DIE MUST watch if you are a fan of Shakugan no Shana.
I refuse to write anything! There's just too much writings out there about this anime.
If you really want to read, there's some done on Vanilla's (Bernie).
Genji: Drown the Samurai
SCEI's inhouse game makers always had something good to offer.
Genji is beautiful and exquisite when put aside to the Onimusha (Yes! Even the Later released Onimusha:.DoD)
Gameplay however is pretty shallow. Either beat the enemies to death or score more points (and finish them fast) with ���kamui���.
My boss strategy is X + Triangle till can do no more. Haha.
I thought to play till 3am in the morning but apparently I saved at a point that gave me less than 2hrs of gameplay.
I was shock. LoL.
Decisions
I realised that life's decision had to do with pride alot.
Sometimes you know if you got the lift, you get to reach the place faster. Yet you rather take your own sweet time and walk towards it. Will you reach it?Will there be another ride? I don't know. I just know that Regrets is for people who wants to live in the past. Who wants to live in "What Ifs" rather than "right now".
Just that,
What's is "Living" right now?
I ponder.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
The usual mix pack^%$#
ICT is good in a sense that unlike retail work, you do get weekends for yourself.
Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams Completed!
Managed to beat this game finally!
Storyline isn't too deep. It's just one hero moving on to prevent a massive takeover (or rather the Reborn of the Genma God...but why is he a Westerner???) from the Genma but he is not alone.
Basically you get to use a traditional swordman (Soki looks like He-Man in some angles), a quick draw swordgal (Akane Jubei Yayju...she is cute...the usual cheer gal.), gunner gal(Ohatsu is a niece to Nobunaga...but she got Genma blood??Heritage aside, she plays the 'meat' gal factor in the game.), Warrior Monk (Tenkai is actually the Red Oni,Samanosuke Akechi.He is the one with the staff. Not really the one I will like to use.) and finally the Brute (Roberto is quick and strong. However his controls are slightly different from others especially evade). Gameplay is quite strong on variety althought the tendacy to launch into O,O,O,O,O is very high.
Boss Fights packed a variety, from having Large Enemies to quick and fast ones. Compulsary Fights for characters also make sure you at least distribute your points and items and experiences among them. Puzzles are pretty straight forward and doesn't really require FAQs and plus side is that you don't have to go to one side of a huge map just to get a key to the other.
Cut scenes and stages are pretty well done. Althought some of the narration scenes had the dolls moves in repeated fashion especially Akane,Arin and Ohatsu.
Replaying factor is pretty ok with enhance difficulty unlocked, New Game+ features, a duel mode and unlocking costumes (yet to be done).
I will recommend this to a gamer who is into visuals and quick rush but have little time (but you need some time for the last chapter and Dark Realm).
ICT
Funny. It's the 1st time I eat crabs in the Base. Most likely the last time too.
Overall still ok. Left only 1 week. Or 5 days to be precise.
Sianz. Had to go back to work already.
If you had 6 hours left
Someone asked me this question. Oddly I think I will just go home before I decide anything even if I had 6 hours left.
Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams Completed!
Managed to beat this game finally!
Storyline isn't too deep. It's just one hero moving on to prevent a massive takeover (or rather the Reborn of the Genma God...but why is he a Westerner???) from the Genma but he is not alone.
Basically you get to use a traditional swordman (Soki looks like He-Man in some angles), a quick draw swordgal (Akane Jubei Yayju...she is cute...the usual cheer gal.), gunner gal(Ohatsu is a niece to Nobunaga...but she got Genma blood??Heritage aside, she plays the 'meat' gal factor in the game.), Warrior Monk (Tenkai is actually the Red Oni,Samanosuke Akechi.He is the one with the staff. Not really the one I will like to use.) and finally the Brute (Roberto is quick and strong. However his controls are slightly different from others especially evade). Gameplay is quite strong on variety althought the tendacy to launch into O,O,O,O,O is very high.
Boss Fights packed a variety, from having Large Enemies to quick and fast ones. Compulsary Fights for characters also make sure you at least distribute your points and items and experiences among them. Puzzles are pretty straight forward and doesn't really require FAQs and plus side is that you don't have to go to one side of a huge map just to get a key to the other.
Cut scenes and stages are pretty well done. Althought some of the narration scenes had the dolls moves in repeated fashion especially Akane,Arin and Ohatsu.
Replaying factor is pretty ok with enhance difficulty unlocked, New Game+ features, a duel mode and unlocking costumes (yet to be done).
I will recommend this to a gamer who is into visuals and quick rush but have little time (but you need some time for the last chapter and Dark Realm).
ICT
Funny. It's the 1st time I eat crabs in the Base. Most likely the last time too.
Overall still ok. Left only 1 week. Or 5 days to be precise.
Sianz. Had to go back to work already.
If you had 6 hours left
Someone asked me this question. Oddly I think I will just go home before I decide anything even if I had 6 hours left.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Trapt (PS2)
Oh well....
Another boring day so I try to get myself preoccupied lest I want to just sit around thinking about unnecessary stuffs.
Trapt looks pretty ok to me. I mean whats kills time better then slaughtering dozens and dozens of bad people who wants to harm a girl.Haha.
I wasn't too comfy with this title from the start actually. Otherwise known as Kagero 2: Dark Illusion, it's a direct sequel of Kagero (which is the 2nd in Tecmo's Deception series), the lack of system in traps (as in compare to Deception 3, the other Deception I played) and the rather ridiculous costumes of the characters (which somehow follows..FF X2??Honestly they got the same tailor who made clothes for Tidus.)?
And it was quite short. Althought I took the easy way out and had a lousy ending...haha. But putting those AI jokers into combos of traps is nevertheless entertaining. And to top that the replayability is actually good because you can never complete your inventory in one single play (but if it is so bad....do you think you want to continue?That's the only flaw in this game). Also the sub-title of the game is actually the draw of the whole game. Dark Illusion is the ultimate trap of all (but only limited to certain stages) that wasn't really mentioned in-game (but there's always the FAQs).
Story wise....the story is bad. Deception 3 is way better. At you felt something for Reina. Allura? Damn. She just some princess that kills with a tap of a button (or buttons.LOL).
Overall if you had some spare time, try this out. Cannot say if it's really good but it ought to be good if you didn't want to start on another time consuming rpg.
Another boring day so I try to get myself preoccupied lest I want to just sit around thinking about unnecessary stuffs.
Trapt looks pretty ok to me. I mean whats kills time better then slaughtering dozens and dozens of bad people who wants to harm a girl.Haha.
I wasn't too comfy with this title from the start actually. Otherwise known as Kagero 2: Dark Illusion, it's a direct sequel of Kagero (which is the 2nd in Tecmo's Deception series), the lack of system in traps (as in compare to Deception 3, the other Deception I played) and the rather ridiculous costumes of the characters (which somehow follows..FF X2??Honestly they got the same tailor who made clothes for Tidus.)?
And it was quite short. Althought I took the easy way out and had a lousy ending...haha. But putting those AI jokers into combos of traps is nevertheless entertaining. And to top that the replayability is actually good because you can never complete your inventory in one single play (but if it is so bad....do you think you want to continue?That's the only flaw in this game). Also the sub-title of the game is actually the draw of the whole game. Dark Illusion is the ultimate trap of all (but only limited to certain stages) that wasn't really mentioned in-game (but there's always the FAQs).
Story wise....the story is bad. Deception 3 is way better. At you felt something for Reina. Allura? Damn. She just some princess that kills with a tap of a button (or buttons.LOL).
Overall if you had some spare time, try this out. Cannot say if it's really good but it ought to be good if you didn't want to start on another time consuming rpg.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Month End report...lol...as usual
Ah late reports but what gives....
Karaoke on 2nd and 7th
On 31st I got a sorethroat so bad I lost my voice. Big deal. I believed it's something that some people wanted so I cannot disturb them and probably being make light of. Or maybe as what the song "When you say nothing all" reminded me of a thing someone told me (something that is close to a reject). I don't need to open my mouth since nothing nice comes out.
Anyway I planned a karaoke with the lads (and lasses) from sgcafe on the 2nd, so it was indeed an unfortunate change of events.
At any rate I did went.
As usual Yuki got early. She is always early and very early.
And I got late. Always late and not so late.
What do you get from a superhero??He is always late but not too late. LOL.
This time round, we be rejoining with the lads from last year karaoke session (lol. minus the lasses. Xy&Ny and joyce). So Seiya and Tanaku Yuki is there too. It's funny but we ate at the very same foodcourt the last time.
Then the late party comes with everblue. violet, yukino, sk and charsaur. Stee-van came along because I asked him to. I realised maybe we bored him because karaoke might not be his thing.
So we went to partyworld. We lads sang some songs. With the lasses not wanting to sing. Well talk about shyness.LoL. Yuki got something to say about my singing and she wrote it on her blog so just I wouldn't be writing. I just thought I can sing and most likely I presume it's because I am drunk. Oh well. That's karaoke anyway. Keon (everblue's friend) can sing but we jerky boys decided we can sing without mike and covered him up (LOL.)
After song it rained so we just zig zag around to the MRT to PS.
Met up with Hajime & Shuuichi for dinner. They were like some engross with their own shopping, they delayed Violet from reaching home on time. Eh. Gals.
Haven't seen Shuuichi for a while and she looks kinda different and reliable sources hints she got some rather positive changes lately (of course I didn't know back then but my instincts for certain things never changes.LOL.Serene say I am a red nose reindeer but I am a red nose sniffer dog. Always sniffing for scoops). In any case, whatever happiness, must share so don't let me see submarine. Just declare your boat and I will let him sail in free without worries. Keep it submerged and I will start shooting. LOL.
Ate Pasta Mania. No idea what to eat so Crap and walk around. Crap and walk around.
Which reminds me to buy the Hentai Enterprise coconut because the photo I took was bad.
Finally we ended up on the kopitiam. As usual the cinderallas had to meet a certain timing so once Inova reached, the rest all go (because there's school the next day for the lads too) save Yuki. Lol. So we just sit and talk till it's about time.
7th Jan karaoke is a make-up session for Inova. Despite his quiet appearance online (or at sgcafe that is), he is quite rowdy and.....showwy. Lol. He is good singer of course (better than me). Charsaur (he is quite enthu) is asked only because he enjoys singing as much and only because he is available in short time notice. The rest, we might missed out because we didn't spoke about until late night the day before. Yuki as usual is paying to be punished. She is kinda tired and after some torment...curled into a ball (Look at the picture at the previous previous entry).
My throat got better but I still sing like a cow on blue cheese.
Wallace & Gromit : Curse of the Were-rabbit
It's a wonderful piece of clay animation. There's some usual English humour. Strangely due to the late release, the King Kong reference in the movie seems to be on cue (funnier than it should be). No. It's not one of those movies which can change your life but definately it's worth of it's ticket price to watch. Great stuff.
Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy
If you love The 40 Year Old Virgin and Starksy and Hitch, you will love Anchorman. Steve Carell is in this before 40 Year Old as someone they describes on the cover "Eye in the Sky, Head in the Clouds". He was hilarious whenever he was to be involved.
Anyway the star is Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy. Top rated anchorman and beloved by the whole of San Diego. The meat of the story comes with a new girl in the team. Back in the 70's, female news reporter are unheard of and being sexist pigs they are, the channel 4 news team, they tried to prevent her from staying.
It's a laugh a riot but the humour might get across as either crass or weird (there's a love scene...that wasn't quite a love scene. See to believe. LoL.) or primary school (name calling games...lol).
And the best part?I got it from the bargain bin! Damnit I am such a cheapskate.
DQ VII: The Journey of The Cursed King
Sorry to Violet. I got to apologise for the other day I just sign off that sounds angry and rude. Not that I am mad with you over the whole group chat thing but I am just eager to play this game. And sorry to others who felt neglected. I am like that when I got a bit caught up with things.
This is a very old school turn based rpg that didn't cut corners with being old school. Sure there are things that doesn't look old school (alchemy pot, tension system) but the graphics and the sound effect sure adds to it. Toriyama is doing the character designs and it was great althought some of the characters resembles from previous works. Storyline is almost linear just this game is tough. Levelling is slow. For FF series, a good 25hrs is already a gauge that you are about level 30 or more but over here, it's little more than level 25. Is it me?The random battles are tough, there's always too many and too many surprise the enemies can offer. Each character can utitlise more than one type of weapon but there's only enough skill points to distribute. It all boils down to choices and more choices. Earning money is slow too. While you doesn't need to buy herds after a while, weapons are expensive and not always the type you trained for. Ahhh....more money = more battle = more time.
And it was say it can took 100hrs just to complete. I think I gonna take longer then.
...........................
I got some free time so I went to Aunt Peggy's place for a haircut...I prefer this one over the past few she did for me. Perhaps solving the problem from a previous barber is easier for her.LOL.
And 3 days later
the shop she rented for her business kana caught fire.
I felt sad but there's nothing much I can do except to express my sympathy to mum. I don't think I am good with helping her coping with her loss. In fact she spent so much time running between the shop and household, I kinda felt upset too. For something to happen before CNY was really bad especially when all her goods were gone and some of the CNY goodies she suppose to deliver are all gone. She happily told me the other day the extra cash she got for selling the Pineapple tarts while I carried them for her. Now I cannot imagine how she felt because not only she had to refund but because of how disappointed the other party might be. And I know she was the responsible type so it's not going to be easy to face them.
I just hope everything got better for Auntie Peggy here after.
Karaoke on 2nd and 7th
On 31st I got a sorethroat so bad I lost my voice. Big deal. I believed it's something that some people wanted so I cannot disturb them and probably being make light of. Or maybe as what the song "When you say nothing all" reminded me of a thing someone told me (something that is close to a reject). I don't need to open my mouth since nothing nice comes out.
Anyway I planned a karaoke with the lads (and lasses) from sgcafe on the 2nd, so it was indeed an unfortunate change of events.
At any rate I did went.
As usual Yuki got early. She is always early and very early.
And I got late. Always late and not so late.
What do you get from a superhero??He is always late but not too late. LOL.
This time round, we be rejoining with the lads from last year karaoke session (lol. minus the lasses. Xy&Ny and joyce). So Seiya and Tanaku Yuki is there too. It's funny but we ate at the very same foodcourt the last time.
Then the late party comes with everblue. violet, yukino, sk and charsaur. Stee-van came along because I asked him to. I realised maybe we bored him because karaoke might not be his thing.
So we went to partyworld. We lads sang some songs. With the lasses not wanting to sing. Well talk about shyness.LoL. Yuki got something to say about my singing and she wrote it on her blog so just I wouldn't be writing. I just thought I can sing and most likely I presume it's because I am drunk. Oh well. That's karaoke anyway. Keon (everblue's friend) can sing but we jerky boys decided we can sing without mike and covered him up (LOL.)
After song it rained so we just zig zag around to the MRT to PS.
Met up with Hajime & Shuuichi for dinner. They were like some engross with their own shopping, they delayed Violet from reaching home on time. Eh. Gals.
Haven't seen Shuuichi for a while and she looks kinda different and reliable sources hints she got some rather positive changes lately (of course I didn't know back then but my instincts for certain things never changes.LOL.Serene say I am a red nose reindeer but I am a red nose sniffer dog. Always sniffing for scoops). In any case, whatever happiness, must share so don't let me see submarine. Just declare your boat and I will let him sail in free without worries. Keep it submerged and I will start shooting. LOL.
Ate Pasta Mania. No idea what to eat so Crap and walk around. Crap and walk around.
Which reminds me to buy the Hentai Enterprise coconut because the photo I took was bad.
Finally we ended up on the kopitiam. As usual the cinderallas had to meet a certain timing so once Inova reached, the rest all go (because there's school the next day for the lads too) save Yuki. Lol. So we just sit and talk till it's about time.
7th Jan karaoke is a make-up session for Inova. Despite his quiet appearance online (or at sgcafe that is), he is quite rowdy and.....showwy. Lol. He is good singer of course (better than me). Charsaur (he is quite enthu) is asked only because he enjoys singing as much and only because he is available in short time notice. The rest, we might missed out because we didn't spoke about until late night the day before. Yuki as usual is paying to be punished. She is kinda tired and after some torment...curled into a ball (Look at the picture at the previous previous entry).
My throat got better but I still sing like a cow on blue cheese.
Wallace & Gromit : Curse of the Were-rabbit
It's a wonderful piece of clay animation. There's some usual English humour. Strangely due to the late release, the King Kong reference in the movie seems to be on cue (funnier than it should be). No. It's not one of those movies which can change your life but definately it's worth of it's ticket price to watch. Great stuff.
Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy
If you love The 40 Year Old Virgin and Starksy and Hitch, you will love Anchorman. Steve Carell is in this before 40 Year Old as someone they describes on the cover "Eye in the Sky, Head in the Clouds". He was hilarious whenever he was to be involved.
Anyway the star is Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy. Top rated anchorman and beloved by the whole of San Diego. The meat of the story comes with a new girl in the team. Back in the 70's, female news reporter are unheard of and being sexist pigs they are, the channel 4 news team, they tried to prevent her from staying.
It's a laugh a riot but the humour might get across as either crass or weird (there's a love scene...that wasn't quite a love scene. See to believe. LoL.) or primary school (name calling games...lol).
And the best part?I got it from the bargain bin! Damnit I am such a cheapskate.
DQ VII: The Journey of The Cursed King
Sorry to Violet. I got to apologise for the other day I just sign off that sounds angry and rude. Not that I am mad with you over the whole group chat thing but I am just eager to play this game. And sorry to others who felt neglected. I am like that when I got a bit caught up with things.
This is a very old school turn based rpg that didn't cut corners with being old school. Sure there are things that doesn't look old school (alchemy pot, tension system) but the graphics and the sound effect sure adds to it. Toriyama is doing the character designs and it was great althought some of the characters resembles from previous works. Storyline is almost linear just this game is tough. Levelling is slow. For FF series, a good 25hrs is already a gauge that you are about level 30 or more but over here, it's little more than level 25. Is it me?The random battles are tough, there's always too many and too many surprise the enemies can offer. Each character can utitlise more than one type of weapon but there's only enough skill points to distribute. It all boils down to choices and more choices. Earning money is slow too. While you doesn't need to buy herds after a while, weapons are expensive and not always the type you trained for. Ahhh....more money = more battle = more time.
And it was say it can took 100hrs just to complete. I think I gonna take longer then.
...........................
I got some free time so I went to Aunt Peggy's place for a haircut...I prefer this one over the past few she did for me. Perhaps solving the problem from a previous barber is easier for her.LOL.
And 3 days later
the shop she rented for her business kana caught fire.
I felt sad but there's nothing much I can do except to express my sympathy to mum. I don't think I am good with helping her coping with her loss. In fact she spent so much time running between the shop and household, I kinda felt upset too. For something to happen before CNY was really bad especially when all her goods were gone and some of the CNY goodies she suppose to deliver are all gone. She happily told me the other day the extra cash she got for selling the Pineapple tarts while I carried them for her. Now I cannot imagine how she felt because not only she had to refund but because of how disappointed the other party might be. And I know she was the responsible type so it's not going to be easy to face them.
I just hope everything got better for Auntie Peggy here after.
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Just summing it up....
Corpse Bride
After the movie, as usual, i walked from simei to home. Along the way i saw Selena walked pass me. I wasn't quite surprise about her living in the east. It's just that i expected to see her in kino bugis rather than anywhere else.
Huh love in the air?Nope. It's just that she was the 2nd girl that i actually checked what's written on her name tag.(the first was Kaori Zhu who i believe is one of those goth loli cosplayers....and who i mistaken her to be 'kaoru zhu'...ok my bad)Why i checked her nametag? Bcos i expected something japanesque, Turn outs to be selena (thus i didn't notice if there's a surname.Was I disappointed?I am not sure if I am. LOL)
Anyway back to Corpse Bride
Hey.....it's the 1st time i watched a movie with someone and not really finished with the popcorns. LoL.
Yuki thinks it is because we ate before we went but the truth is that i got too engross while watching.Haha a fine amount of popcorn is wasted at the end. The finale is really well executed. This is the kind of cinematic experience that will impress you,no matter what kind of unkind reviews it got from snobbish film-goer.
The storyline wasn't too filled up althought I find that it's alright because there isn't a need for a killer tonne of back story. In a sense, Corpse Bride is a simple story that didn't want to go too complicating.You just want to watch Corpse Bride because it features a corpse bride, it's the right movie. There are minimal details to distract, just enough material to keep it going. I find that a good thing because nowadays, all i get are some oddity material that does nothing but to gain a sequel or a spin-off.
Casshern
Japanese makes beautiful pictures. Especially ani-manga film features.Absolutely fascinating. Casshern is an anti-war movie that disguised as a manga-sque action film.Fights are breath-taking.The CGI meticulously made to the fine details almost like demostrating that cinema is the NEXT EVOLUTION of animangasque that Hollywood can never offer.
Except it got a ridiculous ending that spirals down to nothing that matches to the begining.It's the kind of movie that makes you go WTF!!!! when the credit starts.
There & Back Again
Sometime back, I gave this book to someone as a birthday present. In an odd twist of FATE, it's THERE & BACK AGAIN!!!
When I bought it, it's 10% off the usual price. (Oh so sorry, if the truth hurts you. Yes. I am a cheapskate)
Now I somehow used the 10% I saved to buy the book.
Wasn't it surprising? And I didn't meant to browse!I was there to pick up cotton bud to do some clean up! And there it was! Exposed amount the heap of assorted books like it was waiting for me! Darn! Was there something that FATE wanted me to tell me through the book???? And so I begin reading...nope I am not finished yet.
On one fine Saturday Noon
Oh ya the other day, Joyce brought her newly acquired Boyfriend to show off. Not the best of temper And not enough sleep, I just go and on ridiculing her & her boyfriend. I don't really care how they felt about me. I just want to make clear to her that between me & her, I can take all her nonsense. If there's someone else, she ought to know her limits. if not she had to take "your problem not mine" for an answer later on if there's any over the board jokes.
Cold Bed & a Slightly Warm PS2
What's warming the PS2????DBZ Budokai 3. This is one game that brings the DBZ out of the box. Pity it's a game that had a damage system that can be easily abused but definately suitable for the average Everyman (me).
After the movie, as usual, i walked from simei to home. Along the way i saw Selena walked pass me. I wasn't quite surprise about her living in the east. It's just that i expected to see her in kino bugis rather than anywhere else.
Huh love in the air?Nope. It's just that she was the 2nd girl that i actually checked what's written on her name tag.(the first was Kaori Zhu who i believe is one of those goth loli cosplayers....and who i mistaken her to be 'kaoru zhu'...ok my bad)Why i checked her nametag? Bcos i expected something japanesque, Turn outs to be selena (thus i didn't notice if there's a surname.Was I disappointed?I am not sure if I am. LOL)
Anyway back to Corpse Bride
Hey.....it's the 1st time i watched a movie with someone and not really finished with the popcorns. LoL.
Yuki thinks it is because we ate before we went but the truth is that i got too engross while watching.Haha a fine amount of popcorn is wasted at the end. The finale is really well executed. This is the kind of cinematic experience that will impress you,no matter what kind of unkind reviews it got from snobbish film-goer.
The storyline wasn't too filled up althought I find that it's alright because there isn't a need for a killer tonne of back story. In a sense, Corpse Bride is a simple story that didn't want to go too complicating.You just want to watch Corpse Bride because it features a corpse bride, it's the right movie. There are minimal details to distract, just enough material to keep it going. I find that a good thing because nowadays, all i get are some oddity material that does nothing but to gain a sequel or a spin-off.
Casshern
Japanese makes beautiful pictures. Especially ani-manga film features.Absolutely fascinating. Casshern is an anti-war movie that disguised as a manga-sque action film.Fights are breath-taking.The CGI meticulously made to the fine details almost like demostrating that cinema is the NEXT EVOLUTION of animangasque that Hollywood can never offer.
Except it got a ridiculous ending that spirals down to nothing that matches to the begining.It's the kind of movie that makes you go WTF!!!! when the credit starts.
There & Back Again
Sometime back, I gave this book to someone as a birthday present. In an odd twist of FATE, it's THERE & BACK AGAIN!!!
When I bought it, it's 10% off the usual price. (Oh so sorry, if the truth hurts you. Yes. I am a cheapskate)
Now I somehow used the 10% I saved to buy the book.
Wasn't it surprising? And I didn't meant to browse!I was there to pick up cotton bud to do some clean up! And there it was! Exposed amount the heap of assorted books like it was waiting for me! Darn! Was there something that FATE wanted me to tell me through the book???? And so I begin reading...nope I am not finished yet.
On one fine Saturday Noon
Oh ya the other day, Joyce brought her newly acquired Boyfriend to show off. Not the best of temper And not enough sleep, I just go and on ridiculing her & her boyfriend. I don't really care how they felt about me. I just want to make clear to her that between me & her, I can take all her nonsense. If there's someone else, she ought to know her limits. if not she had to take "your problem not mine" for an answer later on if there's any over the board jokes.
Cold Bed & a Slightly Warm PS2
What's warming the PS2????DBZ Budokai 3. This is one game that brings the DBZ out of the box. Pity it's a game that had a damage system that can be easily abused but definately suitable for the average Everyman (me).
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