Higurashi When They Cry Original PC Game First Impression/Short Review

Ok, so this game is basically just a sound novel... like a book with music... well it has pictures... sort of... so anyway, it may be a little difficult to review, and I skipped school today since I'm feeling sick so I don't know how long I can keep up this typing since I really just want to rest, but I feel bad for taking so many days off earlier. Well, where do I start? Hmmm... I got the official English translation of the game from a company called mangagamer, which is a company that you would probably only know if you are a pervert or a Higurashi fan since a lot of the PC games they translate are apparently... uhh... not for kids... luckily though, they now have an all ages section AND an adult section, instead of having it all in one website like it used to be, which is way better because even though the website still looks suspicious, my parents will at least... I hope, not think I'm buying anything adult... Which would suck, and just to clarify Higurashi is not adult but I wouldn't say it's exactly... "all ages", there is kind of a conversation between Keiichi and Mion in the beginning that is sort of... suggestive, and it is like a MURDER mystery game so yeah. Anyway, some of the music had to be replaced, I'm not sure how much and I did hear a few songs that got taken out and from what I heard of both versions the new ones are certainly not bad at all. Also, there was some stuff in the games that were taken out of the anime, and I noticed a lot of them but most of them where little conversations that seemed like they were what would regularly be cut, but I hear they cut a few important things but I'm not sure yet. The game so far is hilarious and downright awesome, and when my carpel tunel acts up (possibly from typing these posts) and I can't play Galaxy 2 without being in constant pain, I just play Higurashi because all you need to do is click... Anyway sorry if this was short... or... was it short? I don't know, but I'm gonna go back to taking a nap, then maybe I'll play Cannon Spike, which yes actually came in on Tuesday, and I ordered it on Sunday... Awesome right? Anyway, like I said... feelin sick... gonna end the post here...

My thoughts on Dragon Ball Z Kai

Ok so Dragon Ball Z Kai aired in America on Monday so let me just give you my impression on the dub, and Kai itself since I hadn't even watched it until it premiered on Monday. I don't mean I haven't seen Dragon Ball Z because I grew up watching DBZ and original Dragon Ball, I just haven't seen Kai before. So like the first thing I noticed was that the intro was in English, which certainly isn't a bad thing, in fact I like it having an English lyric version since... I don't know it feels more like the original Dragon Ball, but right after I heard the intro for a few seconds I thought... "wait... is that Vic Mignogna singing?" and I don't even know if it was I mean I could be wrong, but if it is... then the intro just got like 10 times cooler. Anyway, I think a few people MIGHT have gotten voice actor changes but I'm not totally sure if those characters showed in the first two episodes, however I think that since Christopher Sabat played like half the cast of DBZ most characters getting new voice actors are those who were played by him, but it's ok because I mean he is still playing Piccolo, but I don't know if he is gonna still play Yamcha, Shenron, Kami, Zarbon, Burter, Recoome, or Mr. Popo. Anyway, I thought it was really good and I can't exactly compare it to the original since it has been AGES since I saw the original. However, I can say that those old fashioned "parodied to much super dramatic reaction shots while the really shiny background is constantly moving" things really brought back memories as I had practically forgot that they really were used, and used like that in older anime. Anyway I am writing this post before the other two new episodes air on Tuesday so I have yet to see those... so I guess... oh wait, I almost forgot, a lot of people might bitch about this, but honestly I don't mind that much I actually found it kinda funny, there is a scene in the first episode where Master Roshi is drinking beer, but in this version, he was drinking milk, I totally thought they were just gonna make it orange juice or water, but milk was just funny. There was an edit that kinda bugged me though, they took out Bardock's scar... which is kinda weird... you know since Avatar was RIGHT after Kai and Zuko (a character from Avatar for those who don't know) has a huge freakin burn mark on his face, but whatever I'm just glad Kai is on TV so I'm gonna be grateful and not bitch about every little edit. Well, sorry if this post was kinda short, thankfully I have an idea or two for future posts, and after tomorrow I will be able to read weekly jump chapters again so yeah, like I said sorry if this was kinda short.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 First Impressions

Ok, I seriously have no idea how I pryed myself off of my bed from playing this game to go on my computer and type this post. But somehow I did and here I am, well Galaxy 2 came out today... or yesterday since these posts come out the day after I write em, well anyway it came out and to me at least it seems like everybody was to busy playing their PS3s or 360s and whatnot to even notice this badass game even exists. And even though my friends might be playing their Left for Dead, Modern Warfare, or in my brother's case Red Dead Redemption, I still show some love to the good ol' turtle killing, mushroom eating, goomba stomping red hatted plumber. So as you can obviously tell I love the game, and with new additions like Yoshi, a few new power ups, and that... drill... thing... how can you not love it? Anyway, I hadn't realised until I read it in a gaming magazine (either Game Informer or Nintendo Power or something like that) that you weren't able to ride on Yoshi for like any of the 3D platforming Mario games besides Sunshine, but as I previously mentioned that changes now that you can ride on Yoshi in Galaxy 2. Oh, and the Yoshi parts are just freakin awesome they are really fun. I almost forgot to mention how the game starts you out, which is pretty interesting, for like the first bit of gameplay you're on a 2D plane as you learn the basic controls, which is kinda cool. The core gameplay is the same as the first Galaxy game, so if you played the first one, then the constant reminder in like every other level of how to spin will only get in your way. I really don't know what else to say and to be honest I really just want to get back to playing it right now so, sorry if this post was kinda short, but the game is awesome and yeah I gotta get back to it.

My Weekend Wishlist... Or whatever

I am tired, want to relax and out of ideas, and cannot read the weekly jump til like Monday, so this post is probably gonna be pretty short. Ok so basically I am just gonna talk about the three... no wait, four games I will be getting on Sunday. Sorry but no pictures... I may add them in later... but that's not a promise.

Ok, so first off is the only game on this list that I will actually be buying at the store, and that of course is Super Mario Galaxy 2. Alright, I fondly remember staying up for at least a day and half doing nothing but playing Super Mario Galaxy, only stopping to eat and use the bathroom, when the game first came out. However I later thought during one of my vacations, "hmmm, was the game really THAT good?" and decided to replay it and should have been ashamed of myself to even consider it not being as amazing as I remembered. So obviously that means I am super psyched for Galaxy 2, especially with games like Super Mario 64 practically defining my childhood (well, that and Ape Escape and Digimon, but whatever). So yeah I seriously can't wait for it to come out.

The second game is something that I might set aside an hour or two to play on Sunday if I can even get myself to somehow stop playing Galaxy 2 at all, and it is the English (Mangagamer) version of the original Higurashi game, well the first 4 arcs in one game that is. Since I had all of my questions about the game answered (quite quickly) on the Mangagamer forums I am now 100% sure that I will get the game now. I really don't know what to say at all about the game... uhhh, well for those of you who don't know, it is the sound novel (sound novel is what it's called right?) that the famous Higurashi anime and manga are based on, so the games are Higurashi in their original form, that's pretty much why I want to get them, especially since people say that the anime and manga took out a lot of important stuff out for some reason. Uh, I guess that's it... on to the next game then I suppose.

The third game I will most likely be getting is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure for the good ol' Dreamcast. I am buying this game for several reasons, 1: because I need a good fighting game for my Dreamcast since I have like no fighting games on that console at all and I simply cannot afford to buy Marvel Vs Capcom 2 since I'm not filthy rich and 2: I have been curious about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure games for quite the long time and I have been always saying "oh yeah I'll get one later" but screw that I have the freakin money so I wanna get it NOW. I seriously have yet to play a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure game and I feel bad, plus I totally just wanna learn every single combo possible with Dio and pwn my friends with my... you know what attack...

The fourth and final game is one my friend seems to remember fondly as one of his favorite games of all time, Cannon Spike. After he told me how awesome the game was and that you can play as B.B. Hood, a Darkstalkers character, I just saw like one gameplay video and I was SOLD! But, whenever I set aside the money to try and win a bid on the game I always lost, so since I am tired of losing bids on this game time and time again, I'm just gonna get a buy it now... I really hope there are still copies by Sunday... Anyway, for those of you who have no clue what Cannon Spike is, well it's like a shoot em' up by Capcom for the Dreamcast and is quite the rare game. Since I am a big fan of both Capcom and shoot em' up games... well you can tell where I am going with this.

I suppose this post wasn't... THAT short... but if you think it was then uhh... sorry, I already said why it was so short at the beginning of the post so yeah...

Naruto Arena Tips and My Current Obsession

Running out of ideas sucks... so, I just decided for today's post to give you two of my preferred teams on Naruto Arena (an online game... SORT OF like a card game I suppose, you can find it here on this website) as well as a few Naruto-Arena tips and a link to a creepy yet awesome Japanese song I seriously can't stop listening to. Ok so first let me give you the team I use, and yes both teams I will suggest are starter characters:
Team 1:
Kankuro
Hinata
Obito
Strategy:
Ok, so this team might not be like Hokage level awesome, but I'm pretty good with them. I usually rely a lot on chip type balancing, meaning that you don't want characters like young Kakashi on your team while you have Hinata for two major reasons, 1: young Kakashi uses the same chakra chips as Hinata for one of his attacks (or possibly two if I'm not mistaken) and so you will most likely just push one character aside for the whole match and 2: Hinata already uses two chakra chips for one of her attacks, and Kankuro uses 3 for his really powerful attack, so your third character in this team would need to have at least one attack that would use only 1 chakra chip to do extra little damage along the way, which thankfully Obito has. Anyway, the strategy with this team is that if you hopefully don't go first, and you get... I think it was a bloodline chip, or something, you prepare Kankuro, use Hinata's Byakugan, and either use Obito's fire attack (Gokakyu no Jutsu right? or am I misspelling it?) or if you can use his Sharingan. Then you pretty much just rely on affliction damage, and I think one of Hinata's attacks even steals chakra but I can't recall. But like I said this team isn't amazing and in fact the next team I will be telling you about was the team my friend used to totally kick this team's ass the other day.

Team 2:
Shikamaru
Neji
Choji
Strategy:
Ok this strategy is gonna be a lot shorter then what I wrote about the first team, because the way this team works is simple, Shikamaru stuns, Neji steals chakra, and Choji is there for nothing but brute strength. And the thing about it is, well people seem to underappreciate Shikamaru and fear Choji, as well as see him as a vulnerable target, just so long as you use that first turn to take an Akimichi pill or whatever they are called, so while they fire all they have at Choji (like I did... oh stupid, stupid me...) Neji is stealing chakra and Shikamaru is stunning, so then when they are stunned and out of chakra, BAM! hit em' with all you got using Choji.

Ok so like I said at the beginning, there is this song I just can't stop listening to and I wanted to share it with you all, I actually wanted to embed the video into my post but either my computer is acting up or youtube is acting up so I can just link you to it. But to be fair, it is a little creepy... and gruesome... not that much but still... so maybe I don't really want to embed it, so I warned you, I mean it is called Alice of Human Sacrifice... so... yeah if you're still interested then click here, but if you get nightmares then don't blame me because I warned you.