Well, after an over a year long hiatus I'm finally back.
I was planning to make a comeback in May 11th, to make it exactly one year break, but I'm quite busy and didn't have the time until now.
To tell the truth, my otaku culture motivation is still a lot less compared when I first began this blog, and nowhere as much as it was in my consumerism peak (in the early to mid 2000's). Compared with myself 10 years ago, now I hardly watch anime (one series per season at most), almost stopped to purchase manga at all (when once I was following over 20 titles monthly), and the time I spent in videogames became less than 10 hour per week. The global economical situation doesn't help either, and the time when an euro was 170 yen was long ago...
Perhaps I must be growing too old for this, but that doesn't means that I no longer have stuff to show in this blog! In fact, the list is too large that I'm sure I'll be missing things.
I'll try to sort it by genres, the fist being:
VIDEOGAMES
The games I purchased since my last update, 15 in total.
For PC, the English version of
Saya no Uta published by
Jast USA. Is my favorite VN and I was planning my purchase back when I was living in Japan but was too expensive for such a short game. I decided to buy it in English when was first announced to support western publishers when they release quality titles... they
only took 2 years for an already translated and short VN...
For
PS2, the regular edition of
Melty Blood Actress Again. I
purchased the limited edition years ago, but because the regular edition had another cover it was on my wishlist for a while.
For
XBox 360,
Muv-Luv Twin Pack. I was planning to purchase the
PS3 release of
Muv-Luv and
Muv-Luv Alternative, but then I found the
XBox pack with the same price for ONE of the
PS3 games and includes a
Figma Kagami Sumika as well. And since my
XBox is my most underused console ever (purchased only to play
iM@S) is a nice way to add value to it.
For the
PSP, the limited box of
Fate/EXTRA CCC. The game is still unwrapped, so I can't say much...
For the
PS3:
428 Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de,
Aquapazza,
Dream C Club Complete Edipyon! and
Dream C Club ZERO Special Edipyon!.
I already bought 428 for the Wii several years ago, but I was unable to play it with my unmoded PAL
Wii. I was interested because of the bonus scenario written by
Nasu and drawn by
Takeuchi that surprisingly was the weakest scenario of the game
. I really wanted to do an extensive review + summary when I just finished it (a year ago), so maybe I'll decide to do it sometime now that I'm back.
Aquapazza is a fighting game featuring
Leaf/Aquaplus characters, so is like the official version of
The Queen of Hearts doujin games by
Watanabe Seikakusho (now
French Bread). I used to like
Leaf a lot and I like fighting games, so it was a no-brainer purchase.
I was interested in
Dream C Club games back when was announced for the XBox, and the games where way better than I expected, if you put aside the somewhat creepy setting of a hostess club simulator. Maybe I will do a review as well...
For the
PS Vita,
Fate/stay night Realta Nua. With this I bought
Fate/stay night for the 6th time (3 for PC: limited, regular and DVD versions and 2 for
PS2: limited and budget versions) despite not having a
Vita nor planing to buy one anytime soon. At least I was able to play the extra game included as a bonus,
Tobitate! Chojikuu Toraburu Hanafuda Daisakusen, in the
PSP.
For the
PSP, the 3 versions of
The Idolm@ster Shinny Festa.To tell the truth I didn't play any of them that much and the only interesting bit besides the OVAs included (that act as an opening for each game) is the brief appearance of the
iM@S Cinderella Girls idols as a collectible boosts.
And finally for the
NDS two games;
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and
Love Plus +.
I was interested in
999 mainly because the designs of
Nishimura Kinu and because the writer was
Uchikoshi Kotaro (writer of the excellent
Ever17). I ordered it when the sequel was announced (fearing that it will became hard to find) and I ended with a reprint version. I liked a lot the whole premise and some of the fictional themes of the game, but for me the ending was a bit lacking and the "plot twist" was too similar to the
Ever17 one...
And
Love Plus +,
that caught my attention before the release date. I've been playing this every day a bit for almost one year and it became the permanent cartridge in my
NDS. My girl of choice was
Manaka.
And to finalize my videogame review, last September
Kubooka Toshiyuki visited Spain. He is one of my favorite character designer (I talked a bit about him
in this post).
I was struggling what to bring to get it signed, and finally I decided on the first
iDOLM@STER for the
XBox (the cover for the second one was not made by him):
BLU-RAY & DVD
Not really that much I bought this last year, and most of it is still unopened.
-Fate Zero Blu-ray Disc Box II.
Still unopened.
-TYPE MOON Fes. Blu-ray Disc Box. Also still unopened.
-Gurren Lagann Movies DVD's. Spanish edition, unopened.
-Evangelion 1.11 Blu-ray.
I already bought it in DVD, but since now I have 2.22 and 3.33 in Blu-ray I bought this one in Blu-ray as well)
-Evangelion 3.33 Blu-ray. After the hype I had with the previous movie, I'm not sure if I liked this one. I need to see the last one to properly judge.
-Zettai Junpaku: Mahou Shoujo Blu-ray Disc.
RAITA's self published short movie based in his original doujinshi series. Too bad is so short (less than 6 minutes), because the voice cast and the animation is great. PV below.
And that's all for today. I'll keep posting more as soon as I can.
