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Yeah, finally finished the game and collected all 1001 light orbs. Oh god the ending so BAAAAAAAAAAAAW I shat bricks. Now they’ll probably start remilking the franchise with this new characters.

Also unlocked the prototype skins. Prince looks less colorful but more buff. Elika’s skin = Storm (X-Men) LOL.

Now all we need is just the n**e mods for the game, hahahaha.

God damn, I’m addicted to the game now. It’s… pure platforming fun. Sure you can’t die and the battle system can be annoying, but the jumping, swinging and climbing around really gets to you. Every time I play the game though, my hands and feet start getting cold sweat though….

One thing needs to be said though… OH GOD ELIKA IS HAWT.

God I love Japan(ese fanart).

In the meantime, I’m still waiting for the mods for RA3. The game has gotten a bit too boring and the micromanagement is killing my interest in it.

It’s the reason why I’ve not been posting anything the past few days, except for Saimoe and CLANNAD.

It’s actually way better than I expected, and I’m thankful that my worst fears of EA LA screwing up the game didn’t come true. Japan is still rather hard to get used to for all their transformation units. I suck at micro’ing in RTS’es. Their naval units are pretty awesome though.

Just finished through the campaign, and let’s just say the story is a bit subpar compared to RA2, but there are a bunch of crazy missions to balance it out. The Mount Rushmore one was pretty damn whacked as well as the reverse Pearl Harbour one too. At the least the sense of craziness is still there in the team, hahaha. In terms of storyline, the Soviet one was rather lame, since the twists were almost similar to the RA2 campaign. The Allied one was quite spiced up a bit nearing the end and the most original one is the Japanese campaign. Even the acting was better in it.

Trust me though, the FMV’s in RA3 have really subpar acting, generally though. In both the Soviet and Allied ones, I really didn’t feel any connection to the story at all, since the acting was rather wooden all the way. I think I mentioned somewhere that I hated the new Tanya, and yeah, I still hate her. Thankfully no Yuriko actress in the game though, LOLOLOLOL.

Finally, HELL MARCH ROCKS FUCK YEAH.

They’ve revealed a new class, the Wizard, which is a logical advancement of the original Mage and DII’s Sorceress. I personally don’t care for much of the spellcasters, but Wizards do look like they have interesting skills.

Of particular, Disintegrate sounds fun to use. PEW PEW Divine Busters anyone? There’s also Arcane Orb, Temporal skills and the whole Conjuring skill tree that may make playing a Wizard a lot more hands-on than the Sorceress and Mage. One minor thing I notice is how much the skills sound like they come from DotA in terms of the effects and descriptions.

In any case, I wish for a solid release date for DIII, like every other fan. I’m currently hedging my bets for a 2010 release date.

Finally finished Devil May Cry IV Human mode. Damn, this game is fun.

The best part of the game for me was getting each of Dante’s Demon Arms from the mini-bosses. Not only it gives a way better sense of accomplishment, the accompanying cinematics when Dante first gets them are such bloody bad-ass as well. The one when you get Pandora was just pure utter pwnage and I bust a gut laughing at Dante when he gets Lucifer. Special mention has to go to Lucifer, it’s UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS!!!

Now, back to beating Devil Hunter mode and earning more Proud Souls. Still got quite a lot of the game I haven’t explored yet too, especially those darn Secret Missions.

Group G4

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　418票　八代菜々香＠Myself;Yourself [Yatsushiro Nanaka @ Myself;Yourself]
2位　391票　天宮学美（まなび）＠がくえんゆーとぴあ まなびストレート! [Amamiya Manami @ Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight]
3位　201票　神楽ひなた（神楽ほたる）＠H2O -FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND- [Kagura Hotaru @ H2O ~footprints in the sand~]

Group G8

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　685票　三千院ナギ＠ハヤテのごとく! [Sanzenin Nagi @ Hayate no Gotoku!]
2位　259票　若月朱里＠Myself;Yourself [Wakatsuki Shuri @ Myself;Yourself]
3位　220票　赤羽くれは＠ナイトウィザード The ANIMATION [Akabane Kureha @ NIGHT WIZARD]

Group G12

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　825票　柊つかさ＠らき☆すた [Hiiragi Tsukasa @ Lucky Star]
2位　209票　コーネリア・リ・ブリタニア＠コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ R2 [Cornelia li Brittania @ Code Geass R2]
3位　175票　高槻やよい＠アイドルマスター シリーズ [Takatsuki Yayoi @ Idolm@ster Xenoglossia]

Two big hitters, Nagi and Tsukasa pass through today. Not much of a surprise, but the stage is slowly getting setup.

Next Round 09/17:- ▼

Just installed and played Devil May Cry 4 for the PC. Pretty fun game to play, and even more awesome now that we get PC versions of it. Gotta say though, god damn cutscenes are so over the top. I wonder if I can enable the Japanese voices instead of the English ones, not saying the English voices are bad, but just a matter of preference. Yes I am a total newb at the series. Stop laughing!

I’ve been playing Spore and isn’t… that fun as I hoped it would be. Maybe because I really, REALLY suck at designing things from scratch. I died like mad when I played Cell stage for the first time as a herbivore until I learned that eating others was the way to go. Of course, then I HAD to add legs and horns and ears and mouths and learn how to dance to impress other animals. Had to replay again when I got pwned by some big monster creature that. Now at my third replay and I’m still stuck at tribal stage. The controls are really quite finicky and the lack of in-game instructions DOES NOT help, especially on how to establish relations or whatsoever.

Anyways, it’s not a bad game… but it could’ve been more fun to play. I haven’t really gone through it all, but Spore isn’t as fun as the Civ series for me.

Here’s how my current “creations” look like.

Well… at least they’re not totally phallic.

I think the Ars Technica review puts it best,

“Perhaps the whole concept of Spore is just too high, when all is said and done. I honestly had more fun with the rather middlebrow The Sims series. But one also gets the uncomfortable feeling that each phase is now just a shell to be filled in with upcoming expansions and for-pay content packs. Imagine an expansion pack release for each phase, adding in the depth that’s sorely missing. It’s not a fun thought.”

“The Ugly: The possibility of waiting two years and spending $200 on expansions to play what Spore should have been at launch.”

Well, I better get past Tribal and see what the last two stages offer me.

P.S. Fuck. I reached the Space stage. It’s 9am here now and I woke up at 12pm… YESTERDAY. Space stage is… pretty fun, orz.

Finished plowing through Hinano’s Renai Blogger, and it made for quite a good laugh and enjoyable hour for me.

While I appreciate the effort she put in it, I have to say the game doesn’t meet up to my mark due to two things:

1. It’s too short. All the romantic development happened so suddenly. It does make me wish that real life emulates the game more though. So easy to score with girls!
2. No Impz route.

Seriously, why no Impz route? S/he was easily the hottest character of the game! T.T

Impressions on the other girls:

• CJ: Pretty normal, pretty cute. Gotta lol at the volleyball part and also nice Nanoha cosplay there.
• Natsuko: 16 IS NOT LOLI, OKAY!
• Jen: Second hottest girl after Impz. Probably because I prefer older, mature ladies. Her route was kinda bland though.
• Hinano: Typical tsundere character. Took me a while to get her route flag up, but hers was the most entertaining route of the game. I lol’ed at the karaoke, Hinano sure loves her Mosaic.wav.

It would’ve been funny to see a j1mone route in it too. Hahahaha.

P.S. Forgot to add, but the School Days-style bad end in Hinano’s route was pretty awesome.

Finally, EA has revealed the unit all us weaboos have been waiting for, namely the Empire of the Rising Sun’s special commando unit, Yuriko Omega, purported to be a psychic school girl. Ha ha ha.

In retrospect, the name YURIko should’ve cued me in to in, but her attacks are kinda lame. Her primary attack mostly seems to be a overpowered version of the Magnetron, and the secondary attack is just a direct copy of Yuri’s Psychic Blast too. And most importantly, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER IN-GAME SPRITE. IT’S TOO FUCKING YELLOW DAMMIT. I KNOW YOU WEABOOS LIKED KILL BILL, BUT THAT’S NOT THE WAY TO DO IT, DAMMIT.

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