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One of the Best Ever.

On the topic of anime, this season lacks a lot of something. Fall usually bring something good. While Summer was usually the weakest in term of offer. Summer 09 had Bakemonogatari, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and Umineko. Fall? Not so much. With the exception of Darker than Black, IF you liked the first.

It’s Touhou 12.3. Demo or what’s not should be out by august 15th. Three characters, two new and one returner will be added. Now my main concern is whatever they fix the wrongs of Hisouten or not.

You killed my will to play the game.

On the bright side, the bullshit “Vit LK with no AGI hitting 190 aspd” is gone. But at what cost?

Two-Handed Quicken + Berserk Pot

No Buff.

Is it some kind of fucking joke? My pre-renewal Knight hit 183 ASPD with 80 AGI and 2HQ, 80 AGI pre-renewal would be something like 100-110 in Renewal.

We get -15 ASPD penalty for wielding a shield, that is the heaviest penalty of all class. We are talking about a class designed, from afar, after knights in real world. In other words, professional and trained soldiers. To add to the injury, its specialization, two-handed swords, get mediocre to average ASPD. We are talking again about a character class supposed to be WARRIORS, not your pencil-armed scholar. I am really starting to believe that someone, in the Gravity staff, hates the Knight class with a burning passion.

To give you an idea, Guilltone Cross class (the assassin evolution) can hit 180 with as much AGI as the RK in the screenshots AND less buffs than a Rune Knight.

As a AGI Knight player, I am MORE than angry here. I am even more angry when others serves me the LOL FRENZY argument. It’s fucking bullshit, no LK/RK in his right mind would activate Frenzy unless he knows he is going to die and that he needs an extra boost before the death. Moreover, Frenzy get OWNED by Dispell. So, here you go FRENZY and suddenly LOL you are down to 0SP and 1HP.

Then I read “lol get a ASPD song Minstrel”. Are you fucking kidding me? Have you seen the current party mentality of RO? Even with Renewal, it have not changed that much.

Just remember when the 3rd classes were announced:

“Looks like a fast attacking type.”

BOLDED AND UNDERSCORED.

What do we have now? Our class, two-handed swords specialists, HAVE TO DISARM THEMSELVES AND PUNCH THE FOES TO HOPE TO REACH 190 ASPD! What kind of shit is that? Seriously, fuck, I want to be able to hit 180ish ASPD with at least 90-100 base AGI with 2hQ and berserk potion SOLO. Hitting 190 with frenzy only serve to ice the cake. Leave the 190-193 ASPD to the extreme ASPD Full AGI High Dex RKs!

What we knight players get now is the equivalent of being bitchslapped while we are all chained, gagged and shackled.

Fuck that.

Plants vs Zombies is one of the most addicting tower defense game ever.

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I have been trying it, thanks to the magic of bittorrent.

I have been messing around a lot, especially Sanae Kochiya A. For a very stupid reason:

Her spellcard

Yes, a motherfucking huge snake. Of course, her other mode is as fun, her spellcard B is like FROG NUKE! In other word, she let something that looks like a vortex go. Then after roughly two seconds, the thing go off like a nuclear explosion.

The game is not really forgiving, you tend to lose a lot when you lose your life, the scoring system with the ufo is rather fun to do in the middle of a heated grazing session.

More about the UFO system thanks to Phean:

Gaining life/bomb
It’s quite new and it can be a blessing or a hell. First you need to gather the coloured UFO’s and if you have a three of a kind ( 3 red/blue/green ) you’ll get a big UFO on your screen to get shot down. Depends on the colour it drops different things.
Red: this one drops a 2/5 life and release everything that he had gathered. If you let him gather up to 100% he’ll drop another 2/5 life
Blue: Everything he gathered he’ll drop and you’ll get point bonus depends how many he had gathered.
Green: Same as the red one, but with bombs

You also can have three different colour in that case the power item he gather with have double value.

At this point, depending on the character, and the challenges you set yourself, it is more profitable to go for bigger score, more life or more bomb. As example, Sanae’s shots tends to be on the weaker side, but it is offset by her bombs, especially Frog Nuke; therefore, going for bombs and lives first over scoring may not be a bad idea.

The UFO system pushes the player to be a little more audacious and daring. Especially when you are in need of those life, bomb or score bonus and seek a special combination. More than often, you’ll find yourself in trouble for grazing in a bad spot while you were pursuing the ufo that switched to the color you wanted.

On the bosses. One of them, the headtowel wearing trap/reverse trap makes me wonder what the hell ZUN has been drinking again. So now Gensokyo is welcoming folks from 1001 Nights? Oh well, after lunar aliens and vampires, nothing should surprise me anymore.

Oh yes, TITANOBOA and Frog Bomb. I liked Sanae a lot already, thanks to Happy Flame Time‘s doujins, but now I am liking her even more. And Sakuya’s absence does not appear to me as much of a big deal. Maid already have like four games for her.

http://kourindou.exblog.jp/9703480/

New Touhou in progress. Who in pooshlmer said ZUN gonna leave Touhou 4eva?

Among the good news, Sanae is a Good Girl playable and bombs as we knew them from EoSD ARE BACK.

Yeah, and Sanae is a good girl. Apparently we are having three playable characters. I somehow wished for Sakuya to be in, if not for matching the top 4 of the Touhou 6th Saimoe. But having the Wind Priestess joining the gang is a BIG recognition. I guess the effort of doujin artists have paid.
Not if only she joins Scarlet Weather Rhapsody in a patch…

EDIT!

Japanese artists are FAST

In before South Park jokes.

The announcement of the release of the doujin anime by Maikaze have not gone without a word from ZUN himself.
There are a translation in Sankaku Complex. However, its translation set a different tone that could be taken wrong; in my point of view, it is a case of “Tradutore Traditore” or “Lost in Translation”. The reactions as you have guessed matched the tone of Sankaku’s translation, defensive or extreme.

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Other than the lame pun in the article, here is the Source.

This is the kind of news that pulls me out of the DC Washington Wasteland, yet leaves me with mixed impressions. Maikaze, a doujin studio known for these videos, have apparently brought their announced project to completion.

This was drawn by a fanartist some weeks ago. Yes, be very afraid by how accurate it was.

They even announced the following voice cast:

Hakurei Reimu – Nakahara Mai (Mai Tokiha (HAX SIGN BURN EVERYTHING), Ryuugu Rena (Scary Yandere), Nagisa Furukawa (Dango Girl))
Kirisame Marisa – Sawashiro Miyuki (Shinku from Rozen Maiden)
Shameimaru Aya – Fujimura Ayumi (Ayano who always get her skirt blown in Kaze no Stigma)
Patchouli Knowledge – Takahashi Mikako (Caro from Nanoha StrikerS)
Izayoi Sakuya – Tanaka Rie (Suigin Tou, Maria (Paddo Ja Nai!))
Remilia Scarlet – Tsuji Ayumi (Guchuko from Potemayo)
Ibuki Suika – Toyosaki Aki (The green haired female lead from Umisho)
Hong Meirin – ???
Narration – Inoue Kikuko (Do I need to say more?)

If you guys have o effing idea of how they sounds like, here is a nicovideo link.

I like this voice cast better than the one from the video I posted some months ago.

Now that I think about it, the biggest unknown about this project is the genre. Will it be a slice-of-life like flip-flop? Badass action like Tohonifun? A mix of both? Trailers seems to point to the mixed genre option?

All the western fans needs now is to wait and see. C75 seems to be so far.

Something I have found some days ago

They are the choices of the japanese fans.

For those who don’t want to pause, the list is below:

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A recurring theme in my livejournal was the Alphabet with random images, one a month.

So let’s begin the one for October 2008:

A like

Alice Caroll from the Aria series. Just because everyone woud like to have her as Junior. And I still like her better than Hinagiku.

B like

Bunny girl. I have written a small article trying to grasp their appeal. Maybe you’d need to dig it to read it.

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