CHIA IRASSHAI

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

Took this picture because lolwut.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

Chikage~ ;0;

Chikage, my laptop, has had a really annoying issue where its fan would rattle like mad whenever it gets too hot. This has been going on since around March, probably earlier.

So I took it back to Best Buy back in July, since I have a two-year warranty on it... and found out that they'd have to send it into the shop and I'd probably lose all my saved whatevers.

Now, the only things I actually keep on Chikage are games and random episodes of whatever that I've downloaded and have yet to watch, but yeah. It took forever for me to back all my shit up, and then I kept dicking around for months since the prospect of not having a laptop for a prolonged period of time is kind of ugh to think of.

But yesterday, I finally got around to taking it back to the store... and the fan would not fucking rattle, despite having done that shit right before I left the house.

So yeah, bullshit. And the guy at the store said that they'd end up charging me $30 if they couldn't reproduce it themselves so bah.

So I left the damned thing on overnight, and then ran Youyou Kengeki Musou at full specs since that is a CPU-killer... and yay.

Went into the store, the guy at the counter was a total bro and gave me no hassle at all, and now I am out a laptop for at least two weeks.

I MISS YOU ALREADY, CHIKAGE. ;0;

Gensou Shoujo Taisen Kou CLEAR

I cleared Marisa's route in Gensou Shoujo Taisen yesterday.

Friend of mine decided to download it because he is a dirty pirate and so that shamed me into clearing the last four stages, on account of me having owned this game since June and yeah.

All spellcards captured, all wifepoints GET.

Last stage was Flandre, which took me two fucking hours to complete.

Pictures...

Here's my team, sorted by level. Marisa is seven kills from making Ace. Next closest is Nitori somehow, and then Alice. (though this is not reflected in their levels)


Aaand here are Marisa's stats. Highest of any of my characters, and she's also the only character I have who learned Nekketsu. Combined with Master Spark, the strongest attack in base damage for any allied unit, I was able to finish off Flandre with like 12000 damage worth of overkill.


And now I get to wait until Spring for You to come out, as it got delayed again. Whee.