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

Thoughts on the Tales of Vesperia PS3 demo

Aww...isn't this a wonderful scene? <3

I played through the PS3 Tales of Vesperia demo today, and I've got say that it was pretty...interesting.

The demo skips the opening movie and it takes you directly to the start screen, which meant that I didn't get to hear Ring a Bell. =( I pressed start and I was underway.

Instead of starting from the beginning of the game the demo takes place in the Forest of Keiv Moc. The party, consisting of Yuri, Estelle, Rita, Repede, and the PS3 exclusive character Patty Fleur are all level 25. Raven is also with the party but he remains an NPC throughout the whole demo. You get plenty of items to play around with, which consists of mostly gels and other random items.

There are plenty of opportunities for combat, which means that players can spend enough time playing around with Patty. Not in that way. >_> Although her panties are visible during one of her victory poses.

Despite the fact that Patty's in your party throughout the entire demo, you don't actually meet up with her until the middle. Umm...paradoxes FTW? Yuri rescues Patty from being assulted by a flying enemy, then picks her up then drops her. Way to go Yuri. >_> Patty returns the favor by beating the crap out of a looming mantis soon after.

The demo continues on with some more encounters and even a Mimic along the way? Yay? The final boss of the demo is the main boss of the Forest of Kiev Moc, Gigalarva. After its defeat after a long and hard fought battle you get the usual results screen and then a black background with the words "Coming Soon" on top in white text with a small icon of Repede on the top right corner of it.

All in all it was a pretty good demo. Its average playtime is around 30-40 minutes, so it kept my attention for a good and short period of time. I only played as Yuri so I cannot say whether or not Patty is good under manual control. She did do a decent job as a CPU.

I may import the PS3 version of ToV when it comes out since I've never gotten a real chance to play through it. And it's a Tales game, which means that I must play it. :P