Wonderswan Color First Impressions/Short Review (FINALLY)

Ok, after waiting a crap ton of time for my Wonderswan and keeping it a bit of a secret here, it is finally in and the secret is out. For those of you who don't know what a Wonderswan is, it was basically Bandai's response to the Gameboy. I'm guessing that since Bandai owned a lot (yes, I realise that up until today I have been using a lot as one word and I just now caught my mistake... so shut up...) of famous anime at the time, or at least I'm pretty sure they did, then maybe they thought they would have a broader appeal in Japan alone what with anime not being as popular in America yet, which could be why they only released it in Japan but that is just my guess. Anyway, since it is a Bandai system there are plenty of licenced anime games for it, however, only one of the games I bought with it was licenced. Since I wanted to do a little review of the system I figured that if I wanted to buy two games with it, I would get a color game and a black & white game and I wanted to get a licenced anime game and just a regular game, so the two games I got were Klonoa: Moonlight Museum (probably the main reason I wanted a Wonderswan in the first place) and One Piece: Swan Colosseum (this is the color game). And so far, I actually like both, but if I had to choose right now one to play more of, I would say Klonoa, not because the One Piece game is bad, certainly not that, it's just that I haven't gotten used to the controls and whatnot yet so I'm sure it'll get addicting once I get the hang of it, but until then, Moonlight Museum is so far just like the first gameboy game so I really like, but we'll see how challenging those puzzles get later on in the game. Oh, also I scored this system and these games for pretty cheap, I got em on eBay from... hmmm... what was his name? I think it was game agora... or maybe there was an underscore between the words (like this game_agora) or something, I don't remember. Ok now let's get to the interface... or whatever you call it of the system, or just basically the system itself... whatever let's just get down to it, so it is A LOT smaller then I thought it would be, I mean for some reason I was expecting it to be the size of my Gamegear, but it's like the size of a Gameboy Advance. Oh and speaking of Gamegear, it has that weird screen lighting problem the Gamegear had but to a lesser extent with Klonoa, I guess that's because it is just a regular Wonderswan game. Also, the buttons are a bit weird, like it has the standard b first, then a like an NES controller, but instead of a d pad with just like arrows for buttons or whatever, the d-pad buttons are x buttons, like up is x1 and down is x3, then on top of that d-pad is another one with y buttons, where up on that one is y1 and down is y3, however I am guessing that with most games you use the x d-pad since so far the two games I played used them as the d-pad. Oh and it only runs on one AA battery, I don't know how fast the batteries get drained but it only runs on one of em so that is pretty convenient. I don't know what else to say... Hmmm... I guess that's it, and so far I am loving my Wonderswan, hopefully you can begin to look forward to some Wonderswan game reviews by me in the future. Oh snap, before I end this post, I just started a level of Klonoa where the screen turns sideways and you use the x d-pad as regular controls and the y d-pad as, well, a d-pad... so forget what I said about not using the y buttons I suppose.

Monster Hunter Tri Online First Impression

Ok, so I was gonna type up this post yesterday after all of my friends left... but oh big surprise there was a freakin power outage... So yeah sorry about today's post being late and all. Sorry if this post is a little short, the uhhh... thing I was planning on doing my post about came in the mail but they couldn't just leave it at my doorstep apparently so I have to pick it up at the post office since I wasn't home when it arrived and I had no other post ideas besides this. Anyway, I tried Monster Hunter Tri's online mode the other day, and allow me to tell you what I thought of it, or rather just my experience for my very first online playthrough. Well, it started off with a really long like 10 minute unskippable (or at least I'm pretty sure it was unskippable) cutscene showing off how apparently amazing the city is, then you pick a server... or wait... I think you pick a server first... well, it doesn't matter, since it was my first time online, I just picked a newbie server and decided to join a party that said "all welcome". The first thing I realised, well either due to my bad luck or maybe just the fact that it was a newbie server and the party I joined was just an "all welcome" party, was that I was the only one with a Wii Speak Mic... I was just like "am I the only one with a mic? Or do u guys just have em unplugged?" and I got no response so I said something like "I know you don't have mics plugged in but dammit I'm sure at least one of you can type a message" and still no response, so I just looked around the city, no teammates in sight and then I went to the "tavern" and started a quest by myself. I picked a level 1 mission where all you had to do was kill Jaggi or something but I realised that it took like 4 times the regular shots (yes I use a bowgun now if I never mentioned that before) to kill them and at first I didn't know why, but I think I actually know now... every enemy is probably alot stronger online since you are supposed to be fighting them with four players... so yeah going solo was a bad idea sort of... Oh also, I could have sworn that Tri was a pay to play game where it would cost you 500 Wii points (which is basically $5) for a month, but it didn't ask me to pay for anything so... yeah... maybe it's just like free for the first month or something... I don't know, but either way I still have that 500 Wii points card for pre-ordering the game so I'm set either way. Anyway, like I said sorry this post was a bit shorter then you guys are used to but I am seriously running out of ideas here.

Little Kuriboh Video Time!

I am barely awake right now and am super tired from testing but I took all of last week off so this is better then nothing... r... right? So here are some new videos from Little Kuriboh, two of which are music videos that I have been watching excessively.

First off is a charity video where LK will be auctioning off some Yu-Gi-Oh cards, as well as signing them himself for whoever wins and he will also donate the money he got from bidding the cards. The auction ends the day this post is uhhh... posted or whatever, but it ends at like 10pm pacific time if I am not mistaken...


The next is a rap battle between Yugi and Jaden, in my opinion regular Yugi's rap kinda sucked... but Yami's was freakin awesome.


I don't know what to comment about this one, it is awesome though, at least in my opinion it's pretty awesome.

Random Recommendation Post!

Ok I'm gonna be honest, I had plans to talk about something import related but... It hasn't come in the mail yet and I want to keep it a little secret sort of so... I am just gonna be recommending a game I have been playing lately when I haven't been studying and dealing with RL... things... Ok so, out of all of the Ape Escape games, Ape Escape 2 was the one I played the least since I only used to rent it and up until some time last year I never officially owned it, so I remembered very little of it. I jumped into the game with virtually no memories of it and it was alot more different then I thought it was... It is certainly not bad at all, but out of the Ape Escape "Trilogy" (well it could be a quadrilogy... or whatever you would call it if you count Million Monkeys... then there is also Big Mission... but let's just not count that one right now either) it is certainly the odd one out. Why, you ask... well, that's sort of a tough one to answer... Hmmm... Well, first of all the look of the game... or more important the look of the monkeys is just a bit... strange... I don't know maybe it's just me. Also, the last few gadgets just kinda seemed like... I don't know... like they didn't belong in Ape Escape, I mean a water canon and a big magnet... like... really? However, I will admit that magnet gadget made the Specter stage alot funner. I also really liked the bosses in this game, even though I found some of them a bit to easy (for example: I beat the Pink Monkey battle in practically record time since she was so damn easy) but I did enjoy the Goliath battle, reminded me of Good old Ape Escape 1. I have yet to fight the real final boss since I stopped the game after Specter's Moon Base so I have no comment on that boss, but the Red Monkey battle was pretty awesome, I mean he has an attack where he throws a dinosaur at you, yes you heard me right, he literally picks up a dinosaur and SLAMS IT BACK TO THE GROUND, so that should be a pretty big selling point since it was so badass. This sort of turned into a short review of Ape Escape 2 didn't it? Well, sorry if this was sort of small for my first post after like a week, but I am so tired right now and I need to be getting proper sleep or whatever for testing and whatnot, so sorry... If I can think of a good list idea I might post a list this week, but I can't read this week's Weekly Jump since I am getting an actual copy of it from my dad's friend in Japan, and this time I am more sure that he will get it for me then last time...

Last Week in Weekly Jump

Ok I am a week behind, and how appropriate since there is no Weekly Jump this week, so let's get this outta the way.

Naruto Chapter 492

Current Fight: None

- Ok so we left off as Naruto met Killer Bee on the boat ride over to the island.

- Naruto greets him with a "hey, yo" as Killer Bee checks his "Rhyme Book" and we see that "hey, yo" has been crossed off.

- Killer Bee sings a bit of "Enka Rap" which is Enka singing (I'm gonna be honest I do not know what Enka singing is) with a Rap beat, I only brought this up because I found it interesting and hope to actually know what it sounds like when the anime gets this far... or wait... are we at the Killer Bee part in the anime yet? Oh well...

- They are greeted by an angry giant gorilla (of course named "King-chan"... might I remind you that Nintendo got sued for Donkey Kong before... well, then again Universal lost that case horribly so maybe they learned their lesson) which Killer Bee simply calms down by saying the leaf ninja are with him.

- Apparently the island is where Killer Bee learned to control his Biju and he actually also tamed all of the animals on the whole damn island as well.

- Naruto asks Killer Bee to train him in controlling the Kyubi, but he does not like Naruto's "attitude" so Naruto tries to great him with an Enka Rap and it was actually pretty funny... Killer Bee also liked it.

- They bump fists and Killer Bee asks Naruto to give him a beat, he utterly fails at that and pisses off Killer Bee so he tries the Harem Jutsu as a last resort, and Bee just shuts the door on him...

- Naruto asks one of the Kumogakure ninjas to help him find out the secret of controlling Biju and he decides to help Naruto out after hearing that he bumped fists with Bee.

- He takes Naruto to a waterfall and tells him to sit in this area near the falls with no water in it and close his eyes.

- The chapter ends when he opens his eyes he is confronted with an evil version of himself [insert Evil Dead reference here].

Bleach Chapter 401

Current Fight: Ichigo Vs Gin and Isshin Vs Aizen

- I previously read these chapters earlier in the day... And I am gonna be honest, this is gonna be a bitch to explain... Or maybe it will be.

- Ok so Aizen says he is on his last rope as a Shinigami but the Hogyoku is starting to... uhhh understand his will or something like that...

- He says that the Hogyoku has a consciousness and that Kisuke was wrong about what the Hogyoku's purpose was.

- Aizen says that it's true power is to make real what is in the hearts of those around it, which explains why Ichigo got so much of Rukia's power (she was still not over Kaien's death or something) and why Chad and Orihime got their powers.

- Aizen explains that the reason Kisuke thought the Hogyoku was for controlling the boundary between hollows and soul reapers was because that was what he wanted it to do in his heart.

- Aizen also says that hollowfying the Vaizords was just a test to see the Hogyoku's limits, and since they are Vaizords and not just simply Soul Reapers (sorry if you prefer Shinigami but I did see the dub first... so yeah...) he realized it had it's limits.

- Aizen and Isshin's talk is interrupted by Gin's Bankai crashing into the building.

- Just as the Hogyoku is like... fusing with Aizen or something, Kisuke shows up and blasts right through Aizen... Oh and that is where the chapter ends.