NDRider's Blog

Oct 24, 2008 10:37 PM
The new season started I guess, and I started watching a bunch of new anime, but I think I started too many again. Last time I did this, I sizzled out about 1/4th through and maybe got around to finishing 1 or 2 after much catching up. I'm afraid that I'll probably do the same thing again this season, because I don't have the willpower to drop an anime unless it is really ecchi or really bad (though those 2 usually seem to go together...)

I'm thinking I could easily drop Macademi Wasshoi and Kemeko DX, maybe picking up Kemeko again a year from now if it turned out well. I could never drop Chaos;Head, I love the psychological ones, and definitely couldn't drop Toradora, that one seems like it will definitely turn out well (I was addicted after the second episode...) Clannad was one of my favorite animes just because of the comedy, so I probably couldn't drop the new Clannad anime either.

I'm sad that I missed the anime convention near me, completely forgot about it. I don't think that it would have mattered even if I remembered though, since my schedule is so messed up (I go to sleep past 6AM every night, and don't wake up till like 5PM.) I really need to fix that schedule, it is getting annoying.

I finally sent in an email about my broken ps3, about 1 month before warranty expires, but like 5 months since it broke Procrastination to the max, that will probably cost me upwards of 100 bucks. Eh, at least I finally have money to spend on expenses like this nowadays, for a short while at least.

I bought many new games recently, I decided that since I never had money to play games when they came out, I would buy them now that I have money. I bought Disgaea, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Dirge of Cerberus, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, and Persona 3. I also bought a few new ones, like Star Ocean: First Departure, and the new Sonic game for the DS. Haven't gotten around to beating any, but I'll talk about a few that I have played.

Shadow of the Colossus, at first just seemed like an open map with nothing to do. It wasn't until I looked at a strategy and found out how to find the colossi did the game become interesting. The graphics are great, and just the experience of taking on something 100 times your size is exhilarating to say the least.

Resident Evil 4 is the first horror survival game I ever bought or played. Honestly, I was freaked out just 1 minute into the game. Sadly, I have been unable to go further than 1 screen because I find it too hard to take out any townsfolk that attack. The game looks like it can be good, but I have yet to be able to find that out for myself yet.

Star Ocean: First Departure is a great game, and breaths life into the old SNES Star Ocean game. The graphics are great, never boring, and the gameplay is addicting. I enjoy the story as well. I am near the end of this game, and am only now running into problems with battles, but I guess it is supposed to get harder the further you go along.

Persona 3 got me hooked with the animations at the beginning, but once the game actually started, I lost interest. I'm into a more linear gameplay that what it provides, giving too many options and things to have to pay attention to. It seemed like I was playing a game of Sims, with having to do stuff to get my dude feeling well enough to go through maybe 5 floors of the dungeon. I will try to complete this game, but I hope it gets more captivating later on.

Final Fantasy X is just as good as I thought it would be. X is the Final Fantasy that I always wanted to play after watching an AMV of it. The story doesn't feel tired like many others, and it constantly gets you hooked on it. It is exactly what you should look for in a Final Fantasy game, but probably the last one that will have it.

I also bought a few Harvest Moon games, because I needed something to occupy my free time with, and nothing is better than a mind numbing repetitive game that is like crack to the brain. I got Island of Happiness (or whatever it is called) for the DS, but I really do not like it. It just doesn't seem like a Harvest Moon game. I also got Magical Melody for the Gamecube. I like this one alot more, but I feel like it lacks alot and requires too much effort. So I still just stick with my favorite ones: Mineral Town for Game Boy Advance, A Wonderful Life for the PS2, and the original one for the SNES.

I got accepted into the Public Beta for Resistance 2, which I can still luckily play on my broken PS3. It seems like it will be a really good game, I like the varying difficulties in the enemies this time, though some seem almost god-like in power, taking 20 minutes to slay. I can't complain about competitive either, it's like a refined version of the last one, which I enjoyed. I feel like it doesn't match with Halo competitive wise, but it is still enjoyable.

As for all of my projects, well all of the data for all of them were deleted by my mom's inability to use a computer, so they are all on hold. I have started a new Harvest Moon fanfic and a Novel, but that is all that I am working on right now.

I am trying to play more Visual Novels. I played Planetarian, which was AMAZING SUPREMELY. I was in tears by the end of it. It is definitely one I will play a million times in my life. Just today, I started playing Wanko to Kurasou, but I will probably not complete it because it seems like it will get a little too perverse for my likings (love girls with ears and tails though...) Waiting patiently for the new patch for Fate/Stay Night, it is almost complete. I bet I know every surprise that will happen in the Heavens Feel path before it happens, but I still want to play it.

Well, I should probably get back to the nothingness that I do, having not started college or gotten a job yet. This is all for now, PEACE.
Posted by NDRider | Oct 24, 2008 10:37 PM | Add a comment
It’s time to ditch the text file.
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