Gallian Liberation Front - Fight for the Localization of Valkyria Chronicles III!

Gallian Liberation Front is a group fighting for the localization of Valkyria Chronicles III in English. Join the cause and spread the word to help bring the third game in this awesome series over here!

Petition

https://www.facebook.com/GLFront

http://gallianliberationfront.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/glfront

New Tales of game to be announced

http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/list/taleschannel/newtalesof/

Yay. I really don't like how they're announcing a new game or port so soon after Xillia was released. Too soon.

Update: It turned out to be a Vita version of Tales of Innocence. A re-imagining of it. But there's more than just one Tales game. Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave is a Dynasty Warriors type action game. Surprising.

Obligatory "I'm Still Alive" Post

Despite saying that I would update more often as of last August that never happened. I've been occupied with top priorities such as school. Not that there's too much to talk about.

1) Regarding my recent gaming life: I beat Pokemon Black over Spring Break. I got a bit depressed and disappointed over the ending. I've been playing through some side quests but most of my post-game time has been used capturing various Pokemon to begin my work on the National Pokedex and grinding for the Elite Four rematch. Overall, Black/White are typical Pokemon games. They've improved over time as new features are added. Also, I should have gone with White instead considering how a number of my favorite Pokemon (Ralts, Misdreavus) are only available on that version. Oh well. I could just trade for them from someone who has White. Next time I'll care more and do my research.

I've been playing a bit of Hyperdimension Neptunia as well. The battle system is something that I find enjoyable and something that keeps me in the game. However, healing in Neptunia is not very good at the start. Item Skills take the place of Potions and can only be activated in battle by certain conditions and the chance of the skill even being used is effected by the number of points that you put into it. Overall, it's a pretty bad design and it would have been better to go with the traditional way of healing by potions and combat skills.

Dungeons can get tedious after a while due to their similarity in design. The way to travel through the four different regions is a pretty interesting concept even if it's by dungeon. There's no way to sell items back to the shop, a notable RPG staple omission. Overall, Neptunia is a pretty decent and easy game. I love Nep-Nep and especially busty Green Heart. Oh Green Heart, if only I could have you in my party right now. Compa and IF aren't good enough for me. ;A;

I preordered the limited edition of Record of Agarest War: Zero for the PS3. I figured I might as well since I've been meaning to play at least one game in that series. The playing cards, soundtrack, and especially the small artbook that come with it were enough to draw my interest.

I have just as much interest in Meruru no Atelier. The $139.90 price tag on the premium box scares me. It's more than what Rorona's and Totori's boxes went for. I guess it can be justified by the Nendoroid Plus that comes with it in addition to the crystal weight this time.

2) I placed a Play-Asia affiliate banner at the foot of the page. It's in one of the worst spots it can possibly be but it's there. Why? I like money and I wanted to see what would happen if I placed one here. Hopefully I'll get something out of it even if it's a small amount. If not, oh well.

3) Finally, changes could come over the next two months regarding the design and layout of the blog. How this blog is laid out is far from the best it can be and it's two years old now. As amazing as megane Chroche really is it has gotten stale and the blog needs a face lift. I'll be working on it once I stop being lazy and get onto it.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Confirmed For North American and European Releases

Nice hard discs you have there Neptune! :3 *is shot*

Old news is old, I know. But I'm very excited about this.

Press Release

Tenma gets a Suppotail

She's cute, neh? Left hand side above my short bio.

As you've probably noticed I haven't updated this blog very often at all this year. For those of you who don't know my goal is to become a freelance artist. I've been spending a lot of this year focusing on getting better at drawing the human anatomy and doing a lot of drawing. I've also been developing a special relationship with someone here in this "real world" place. I want to spend as much time talking with her as I can. I've put plenty of things on the back-burner as a result, one of them being this blog. That's what happens when things capture your heart and you want them badly enough.

I've gained a bit of interest in this place back lately so hopefully I'll pick myself up and update more often now. I'll share more random stuff that I find interesting so stay tuned. ;D

Finnel Dakimakura :O (18+)

WARNING: 18+
Awesomeness
The cover itself
Yes, it's real. An ero Finnel dakimakura is being sold on Dakimakura Honpo for the price of 10500 yen. Made by artist Tonbo, the sales for it started on April 7th and end this coming 23rd. I really hope to order one sometime tonight as I would love to get my hands on it to add to my growing collection.

Ar tonelico 3 +1

Epicness has arrived. The artbook came along with it too.

Ar tonelico II = IGN's PS2 GOTY

Nice...err...assets! ^^ *is kicked by Chroche-sempai*

It's IGN, yes. The PS2 is in its twilight, yes. But this is a nice surprise nonetheless.

http://bestof.ign.com/2009/ps3/best-playstation-2-game.html

Credit goes to Rar for posting the link to this on his Twitter.

Naraku's Twitter...

...is right here.

Yeah, I finally decided to get one. Why? Because I felt like it. Follow me. I know you want to. ;D

International Saimoe League 2009: Help save Kyou!

A zettai ryouiki goddess.

http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/

Please vote for Kyou nao to keep the dream alive~! Also, it's not fair that I had to choose between Misuzu and Mai. Gao.

Ar tonelico III - It lives!

!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. Hell. Yes. YES! It took nearly two years of waiting for me but ATIII's existence has finally been confirmed to be real! I seriously cannot wait for this game that I need to import asap. Heck, I may even go as far to get it off of Gust's official shop so that I can get the bonuses off there if I can find them anywhere else. =D Anyway, here's some info.

The game will take place in a region known as Sol Cluster. There, the higher classes are ran by reyvateils and humans work for them as slaves. The central location for reyvateils in Sol Cluster is Clusternia, where humans are brought into to help further enhance reyateils and humans who hate Clusternia are brought into it so that they can be "cleansed." The game features a white haired protagonist named Aoto, a ß reyvateil named Fennel, and a reyvateil named Saki. I think I'm already in love with Saki. <3

Aoto is the main protagonist. Headstrong and hasty, he is the apprentice of a construction worker. He is good at accomplishing tasks. He had a dislike for Clusternia which strengthened once he met Saki. He can also jump, which is something that Chroah couldn't do. >_>
Seiyuu: Sugiyama Noriaki

Saki (<3) is a reyvateil who was born in a research lab created to help bring change to the world. She ended up escaping before the completion of the project and her whereabouts had been unknown for years until she met Aoto.
Seiyuu: Gotou Mai

Fennel is a loli ß-type reyvateil who works for Yokkora, a restaurant built on the Eternal Road. She seems to have a connection with Clusteria's existence. She is also very clumsy.
Seiyuu: Kitamura Eri

Diving is the same as the first two games in the series only this time you will meet different personalities of the reyvateils within their cosmospheres. Their apparence and personalities will be different from the real world. Song magic differs from personality to personality.

The song magic system in this game is known as RAH. Through synthesis players are able to create their own song magic, which is a pretty cool feature within itself. Not only that but players are able to change the background music of fights depending on whatever actions they decide to take.

Bamco of Japan has scheduled January 28, 2010 as the game's release date. The trip to Sol Cluster will be fun, exciting, and epic and that's for sure. ^^

Credit goes to Lazy (ARM), Siliconera, and PS3 News for the compiled info. Scans from Siliconera.

Atelier Rorona coming to North America in 2010

My-my-my Rorona!

The summer of 2010 to be exact. NISA officially announced the game's localization in their most recent newsletter. Seeing that NISA is doing it I'm a bit worried about it due to past mistakes by them, but knowing that the traditional Atelier games in the series are finally getting attention (along with Rororina-chan. <3) makes me a happy Tenma. ^^ I'll be playing through Rorona a while before its released here in America so playing through the English version should be an interesting experience since I'll already know what's going on. Regardless, I can't wait for Rororina-chan and friends to make it stateside.

Horray for Rorona! ^^

Official press release

Jakuri mug

What are you looking at boy?

Horray for another edition to my ever growing Ar tonelico collection. ^^ I won the official mug that Gust sold on their online shop off of Yahoo! Japan Auctions a month ago and now I own this wonderful piece of merchandise. They chose to have the right expression for Jakuri (sarcastic FTW) and color for it for this. I love it. I won't be taking this out of the box often until I finally get a glass case to store this and my figures in.

In other news, my birthday is tomorrow. Yay? I already recieved my gift from my parents: Fate/Unlimited Codes for the PS2. No special edition however as I have no real interest in the Saber Lily figma that came with it. Although the game was bought new the disc came out of its place in the case while it was being shipped and thus it got plenty of scratches on it. Fun. -_- Hopefully it still works.

A happy belated birthday

Vayne Aurelius's birthday was two days ago. I ended up becoming so busy that I forgot all about it. ;_; I'm sorry Vayne and happy late birthday you wonderful alchemist!

*gives Vayne a muscat sorbet*

Hey, a Fate RPG!

It's fate that this game was created. All right, I admit that I made a pretty bad pun. xD (Image credit: Sankaku Complex)

I swear, the Fate franchise will never die. Not that I'm complaining. Imageepoch has been devolping a Fate/stay Night RPG for the PSP for quite some time called Fate/Extra. The graphical style looks very similar to that of Fate/Unlimited Codes. I'm pulling for a battle system similar to that of the Tales series. Regardless, this game is looking like a day one buy for me so far.

Also, Saber looks good in red.

See this?

I want this. Badly.

━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━

Why? Because I do and it has Lisette in it. Oh Lisette...

Science has never been so cute. <3

This is also pretty awesome. It's a science study guide based off of Atelier Rorona. If there was an English version of it then I would definitely try to convince my university to endorse and use these for a class. >=D

A Marie version has also been confirmed.

I'm not too sure that I would want to learn from a student like her though... :O

Atelier DS 3 - Atelier Lina!

Nyaa~!

Gust has announced a third installment in the DS Atelier side series. Lina's pretty cute but she's not as cute as Lisette or Rorona.



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Wha? I'm sorry! ;_; Anyway, it's being released in Japan on the 22nd of December for 5040 yen. If there's a premium box like there has been with the majority of the games in the series then I'll buy that.

Also, I like the song on the main page. I have high hopes for the soundtrack as usual.

So I collect figures and stuff...

I <3 hungry ghost girls.

http://myfigurecollection.net/profile/NarakuTenma

So check it out and stuff. I'm going to start collecting figures semi-often again starting with the one in the picture. >D Horray for Yuyuko!

Mana Khemia 2! <3

^^

I got my copy of Mana Khemia 2 in the mail today! <3 Yes, this is the Alchemic Art Collection version of the game that was, and still is being sold at RQ. I was quite surprised by it's packaging. I expected the game to come in me in the same form as Mana Khemia's did and for everything else to be seperate. I'm glad that it wasn't the case and that I can keep everything in one spot.

The artbook looks pretty sweet and it has the art used for the box art minus the logos in it which really made me happy. The poster is just screaming for me to post it upon one of my walls but I've decided to spare it and do the job if I end up getting another one since I don't want to risk doing damage to it. The soundtrack is...well, it's a soundtrack. Unfortunately it only has 32 songs out of the 77 in the original OST. Well, I didn't expect it to be a full soundtrack.

I'm going to start playing this tonight. I'm interested in seeing what it's like compared to MK1.

The case containing the game and the OST case.The back of the AAC case.

Guess what came in the mail today?

After nearly nine months of waiting and forgetting about its existance I finally got the bonuses for completing the Tales Brigade's "preorder ToS: Dawn of the New World" quest in the mail. Unsurprisingly I got the DotNW shirt that they shipped out as a replacement for the Tokunaga heads that they claimed to have a shortage of. This would be the second one that I acquired, the first from leftover gald that I spent towards the end of the Brigade's existance. However, that was not all. There was something else that awaited me in the package. Something that was a huge surprise to me that has really made my night.

Behold!


The one that I thought would never come. Tokunaga! ^_^

I don't think that they're going to remain on my shelf though. I'll be moving them near my gaming setup soon enough. xD