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I finally decided to watch Hayate No Gotoku, after hearing about it several several times. I had no clue what is it about and I can’t really bring myself to watch something which I have no clue about (aka I always have something else better to do).

So I watched. It’s a Love/Comedy genre, with a fuckton of anime/game references. I always liked Love/Comedy genre, since it mostly involves two idiots trying to get together in some strange way. The latter reason obviously appeals to me; it’s the reason I watched and liked Lucky Star. This kind of anime usually brings about randomness, calling the /b/tard in me.

So now it has, what, 52 episodes and already 18 episodes into the second season. Looks like I missed alot in the anime world. I haven’t even watched Soul Eater, Beserk, and many others either.

If anyone got any of these anime, feel free to send me a message. Examples include Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh.

While I’m at the topic of anime, I can’t seem to find (or rather, I’m lazy to find) good shonen animes (Naruto, Bleach, Gundam series, etc). Again, feel free to inform me about it.

I just realized one week ago that I haven’t been following the FMA manga. So I went ahead to read it. What can I say? Now up til chapter 97, it hasn’t disappointed me one bit. It could ever well be my favorite manga of all time…

On the side note, I need to start cleaning up the blog abit. The categories are either overused, or under utilized.

Finally, a Hatsune Miku game has been released (over a week ago) on the PSP. Although it is in japanese, everything on the main menu is relatively easy to navigate (just click and try). In other words, you don’t need to know japanese to play the game.

Project Diva is yet another rhythm game (duh!). PSP buttons like triangle, circle, square or cross will fly from outside the screen to an allocated destination on the screen itself. It’s pretty self explanatory. Press the corresponding button when it hits the destination. Like most rhythm game, such visuals are only meant to be a guide. What and how you press (ie the rhythm of pressing) will be mostly based on the song itself like most rhythm games.

But to me, that game itself is just a sidetrack from the real deal. When you play the music game itself, the background will actually be the PV of the song (think MTV). Unlike most rhythm games, in Project Diva, you actually want to see the background more than the game itself. To unlock the clean PV (without the notes flying all about), you must score rather high on the song itself, which a large portion comes from “Chance Time”. While playing a song, you will come upon a “Chance Time” section of the song, where the more you chain, the score you get will exponentially increase. I repeat: Exponentially. So if you break your chain, especially in the middle, your Chance Time score will be crap. This makes the rest of the game rather redundant; olher than to survive the song, there’s no real bonus for chains.

The PVs that were created were actually very good. Hatsune really feels alive in all the songs. Her dance moves are great, her flow is smooth, and they even got the detail down to her facial expressions. Just like the really good youtube.com Hatsune Miku videos.

Since this game is ALL about Hatsune (ultimately), you get to dress her up, customize her room, and alot of misc stuff I probably haven’t explored yet (still busy unlocking PVs and songs lol). There are even popular Hatsune Miku songs like Melt.

This game is definitely for Hatsune Miku fans.

Wtf Haruhi 2 got like 3 episodes basing on Endless Summer. They are all the same, will different angles and visuals. Are they on budget or something?

Impromptu Blazblue tourney vids are up here.
I need to change my playstyle. I’m obviously fucking humji turtle.

I’ve researched a bit here and there about what I’m expecting to do. I haven’t touch XML loading before in my life but I always thought it is very useful, so I’m probably going to do it.

Other than that, what stops me is only my incompetency due to the long break I had from programming.

I hope we can do it. :p

Nice game to play when you are free imo, espacially since it’s free and I find it more fun than Maple Story.

I’ve been watching animes again. Haruhi 2, FMA: Brotherhood, and even old ones like Dokuro-chan, Gintama and Blood. K-On is a pretty nice show imo. It’s like Macross Frontier; you only watch it for the insert songs.

On the side note, there are a bunch of games I haven’t reviewed yet. I’ll just briefly go through them:

GTA:Chinatown Wars – What GTA4 could’ve been. If Gamespot rate GTA4 as a 10/10 game (which is rubbish), I would rate it a 15/10. It’s a solid game, with side missions which is not redundant to do. If you remember when I reviewed about GTA4, I mentioned that it has too much gimmicks and unnecessary side jobs that are not worth the money.

Soma Bringer – Think MMO. Actually, think D2.

Rock Band Unplugged – It’s four buttons BUT has instrument switching. The mechanics is genius. And best of all, I’m playing expert and I don’t feel it’s a mashing game (unlike DJMAX series).

On the side note, Josh Anime Music website has K-on piano sheet musics. He uploaded himself playing and they all sound very good

http://www.phoanime.com/anime?v=451

Thanks to karlson for informing me.

Episode was pretty awesome, was almost exactly as I imagined when I read the light novel (translated of course) @ Baka Tsuki.

Best party ever! Thanks everyone who came and attended. Thanks for shin kiat for the collared shirt (which my wardrobe lack, and how the hell you know my size? lol), thanks to my NS pals for all the great fun you gave me (and yourselves) and the StarCraft board game present. I’ll try my best to figure out the rules. And most espacially, thanks to all those who chipped in for the unexpected surprise present, which I believe was Kalvin, Weilian, Trevor, Minfu(?), Yuzhang (1314!), Zhaohan(?), heck no one told me who chipped in man lol. And thanks John alot for coming up with that surprise. Was really not expecting that. I kinda forgot what game I really want to play on that console.

For the SMS’s, thanks to those that msged me but couldn’t make it. Boonkin, hope you go through JCC safely. Minfu, hope you get well soon (or not, if you want Attend C rofl). Howle, hope your mum gets well soon.

Overall it’s a great chalet, seeing everyone play SF4 over the night. Star Trek was pretty nice show, although it has too much talk and too little action. John getting drunk. Cake smashed on my face. Twice. The weird stuff you all did on me with that stacking game.

I really appreciate everything everyone did to me. It was all fun Thanks for the great 21st :p