[C81] 妖々剣戟夢想 – Youyou Kengeki Musou Review

Happy new year! Just in time to enjoy the releases from Comiket 81. And so, to initiate the first post of the year 2012, a short review on Kengeki Musou, a doujin game made by the circle Annkake-Spa.

Swimming in cash – a short post on Recettear

Recently got around to playing Recettear. Overall, it certainly was an enjoyable game and I don’t think this game needs much introduction. Or rather, for those unacquainted and are interested, here’s the link to TvTropes.

"My wife was nagging me to pick this up" - Actual dialogue from when the man purchases this from you

A quick browse through blogs and forums also showed favourable comments towards the game. So instead of echoing the same praises, I’ll instead comment on what I think are the flaws and how it could have been improved.

Battle Moon Wars – videos of cut scenes

Unlimited Blade Works, Fate/Zero, Fate/Extra and Carnival Phantasm (also Kara no Kyoukai which was not too long ago). Looks like this year is the year of TYPE-Moon, making this an appropriate time to bring back a rather old doujin game. For those who don’t already know, Battle Moon Wars is a tactical RPG done in the style of the Super Robot Wars franchise and is entertaining in how it brings in all the characters from various TYPE-Moon works and dump them all together. So we have another Grail War intersecting with the various plot points of the other titles.

In general, the posts aren’t exactly strategy guides; the main purpose is more of to show off the interesting cut scenes in the game, but I thought it would be too plain to just dump videos. Anyway, I’m basically just going to be putting more details and attention on Acts 3 and 4, as that is when things get really interesting. Acts 1 and 2 were well, not as intense, not facing off against powerful foes that often.

Fate/Zero – Ep 01

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I was drawn to ufotable only because of Kara no Kyoukai. I haven’t really watched much of the studio’s productions. Of the few I have seen, they were rather forgettable; not bad, but neither memorable. That aside, the first episode of Fate/ Zero certainly looks really promising and it resembles Kara no Kyoukai in more ways than one, which is a good thing I hope. At the very least, I already know that the music in this series will be (is) fantastic. Here’s to hoping an adaptation done right.

Now, of the series itself, well the frustrating thing about watching prequels is that sense of impending dread otherwise known as dramatic irony. You know who are going to win or lose – you can’t help but want to root for a certain character even if you know said individual is doomed to fail and as much as you hope another character to fail, you know it’s not in this one. On a concluding note: GILGAMESH!

Also, I look forward to GSC releasing that figurine of Saber on a motorbike.

Carnival Phantasm OP Single – Super Affection

Satsuki only had like less than 5 seconds of appearance in the OP and none in the scans of this single.

wo-oh, wo-oh, wo-oh yay yay~

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You know you’re too obsessed with Touhou when…

You look at your data output for your Econometrics assignment and is asked what does it suggest to you, your first thought is “hmm, looks like Easy Mode to me, there probably isn’t a need to Bomb”.

Anyway, a Touhou post to revive the blog with. Yes, the contents of this post is old news by now, but still it’s Touhou, so what the heck.

Nichijou – ep22

Bro dog is bro.

Gintama – ep 218: Nostalgia’d

Oh wow, an Ikkyu-san reference? Even though Gintama has been known to have shout-outs of a whole bunch of obscure stuffs, it is still kind of a pleasant surprise to see such an old series being mentioned. Good times, I used to really enjoy that series – I even had the VCD set in Chinese dub.

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 2nd Season – episode 2

This episode was disappointing.

Play-Asia Contest – Photo Gallery

As previously mentioned, I recently submitted an entry to Play-Asia’s figurine photography contest. Anyway, now it’s time for the voting… so long story short, vote for Shiki!

Click the above image to voting page

kkthxbye.