Tuesday, November 29, 2011

CHIA IRASSHAI


...so yeah, this is the front of a local Japanese restaurant.

Took this picture because lolwut.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Gensou Shoujo Taisen Kou (2)

So for whatever reason, I started up Reimu's route in Gensou Shoujo Taisen Kou on Saturday.

Was just dicking around because why not, but then I got to the mission where Sanae shows up, beats the crap out of Reimu, and then leaves... and my soul of a gamer went all nutty figuring out a way to surround and defeat her before she retreated.

And then I remembered that Yuuka is another boss who does the exact same kind of thing... but to a far worse degree.

I'd given up on beating her my first time around because I assumed that it wasn't possible, but I looked up videos on Niconico anyways to see if anyone had actually managed to beat her and get the Taiyou no Hana that she carries (10% EN regeneration!), and lo and behold, it is in fact doable.

So cue me spending the next two days and two stages figuring out a way to get Reimu and Keine's stats high enough to actually stand a chance of beating her... she runs away at 7500HP, which is very much UGH WHY.

And then... I did.

First try was a bust as my max damage was like 7450 or something similarly bullshit, so I tried shuffling around some character skills and yeah. VICTORY with like 50-ish HP to spare.

...and now I am completely mentally exhausted, as this crap has been consuming my every thought since Sunday night and yeah. Zenigame brain hurt.

BUT HELL YES I ACTUALLY BEAT YUUKA.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Shirokoi (1)


Been playing Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun lately, hereforth shortened to "shirokoi" because I am too lazy to type out the entire title every time.

It's pretty nice so far, though the beginning was reeeeally technical. Random medical terms EVERYWHERE. Fortunately, they have a popup glossary thing for most of the uncommon terms, which really helps out. Haven't played a game that had one of those since Alicematic.

Mainchara Kaori was a bit annoying at first, since she had a tendency to freak out every time someone mentioned something like the importance of not mixing up drug names and whatnot, which is aagh because DID YOU NOT GRADUATE FROM NURSING SCHOOL HOW THE HELL DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS STUFF!?

I mean, shit. I know most of the stuff they talk about (I do have like five nurses in my immediate family, but still), but there should be a better way to bring it up in-game than making the protagonist seem completely incompetent.

But meh, her dumbness level has steadily gone down as I've progressed, and Sayuri's really been getting at her about it now that she's shown up.

My main issue thus far is that I started the game with no opinion as to who to go after, and then the kansaiben-speaking Yamanouchi won me over... but I found out upon some poking around that she doesn't actually get a route to herself. >_<

BAH. I hate it when shit like this happens, now I'm probably going to get a Bad End.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

...and all of my anger

So I had a few dollars to spare a couple of weeks back, so I decided to start on the first on my "to get" list on the sidebar over there- the Noblelige volume 1+2 boxset.

I've had my eye on the series for almost a year now, and was all "yay im finally gettt" and so I downloaded the demo to help ease the anticipation.

But then this bullshit happened.



FUCK YOU VISUALART'S GOD DAMN IT

I mean, shit. This is some bullshit when it's on eroge BUT THIS ISN'T EVEN ONE SO WHY THE FUCK AGHAGAHGAHAGHAGHAGH

And worst part is, if it actually was an eroge, the pirate horde would have made a patch for it to bypass the region lock by now... but yeah. It's bullshit.

BUT A ZENIGAME SHALL NOT BE DETERRED.

Whenever I get around to building Gospel 4, I'll be putting a Japanese copy of Windows on it just in case this bullshit protection spreads.

Seriously, though. FUCK YOU, VISUALART'S.


So instead, I moved on to the second item on my list- Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun.


Came in last Monday, but I'm not starting it until I clear Sora no Kiseki FC.

...which should be in the next hour or so. Wahoo.

Friday, November 4, 2011

千影~ (*゚∇゚)ノ

Got Chikage back from the shop on Wednesday, a full week earlier than they said the repairs would be done.

The back monitor panel was replaced on account of being kind of broken, and the fan got replaced because it turns out that the old one was ground to hell.

So in all, the parts for this repair job were like $90, and with the replacement battery and piece of shit AC adapter I got a while back, the warranty pretty much paid for itself. Yay.

So yeah, MY CHIKAGE HAS RETURNED TO MEEEEEE.

Just in time too, since there's going to be construction going on in the room where I keep Gospel and so it's going to be out of commission for a while. >_<


And now for a declaration.

I SHALL 1CC TOUHOU CHIREIDEN BY THE MONTH'S END OR GO MAD TRYING.

I've had the game for well over a year now, and I would really like to be able to move on to Seirensen already.