August 31st, 2009 omo
Long time no blog it seems.
I’m going through a verbal drought of some kind. Need some time to introspect, recharge, pray or whatever.
And a Nintendo DS is also partly at the heart of the problem. So the DS came in. Took about 2+ weeks for it to ship and get here. I ordered a R4 type thing, or a acekart 2.1. After light research I found a place that sold it for $20, and I’m kind of satisfied with the typical Made-In-China quality, and yet it’s a shade better than I expect. This place I got the stuff from is definitely “good” for a shady consumer enhancement. Shady in that no reputable store sells DS hacks, yet this is just as reputable as any other…
At any rate, it even came with a micro SD card reader and a couple screen protectors. I put one on. Botched it a little. So I highly recommend that store. Ships fast, not too pricy, omake for new owners; what’s not to like?
First game I played was Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation – Endless Frontier. The only cross-over element of it is KOS-MOS and T-elos and couple other guys from previous games. So there’s not a whole lot going on–the entire series of these games ride on fan fumes anyways, but I was surprised the number of boob jokes in the localization, and I guess also the plain amount of boob-age in the game. I mean, there is one token pettanko character (voiced by Mamiko Noto no less) and two guys, which leaves the other 4 characters delicious boobage material. That’s on top of all the enemies you fight (which adhere to the same ratio of boobs:guys:others as your party).
The visuals are as expected; things dash and flash like a pachinko machine as numbers scroll and pop across the screen like 1-yen metal balls falling off the display. Boobs jiggle–lightly and heavily and everywhere in between–when special attacks and supers are called. If you really pay attention, there’s quite a bit of fanservice, but all tampered with some amount of cute or cool, so it’s mostly tolerable. More importantly, it’s toned down so it has a proper ESRB rating, so no clothes come off or undergarment really… but they do wear some pretty sexy costumes. Also, so much furries…
But seriously, this is a kid’s game. So liberal, Japan!
That said, I think I’m playing this game because I’m 18 hours into it and already 2/3 the way through. If I was more on top of it I could have finished it in 3 days…. part of the reason why I bother.
Next up is probably Fate Stay Night, but I will have to finish Revelation Space first. Which, so far, is a definitely good change of pace.
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