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I recently bought 4 games on Playstation Network for my PSP.

Lunar Silver Star Harmony
It's a remake of a game developed by GameArts(Grandia) originally released in 1992 for Sega CD. I've wanted to play this game for some time.
It's really cute, and very fun. A bit slow going from screen to screen, wich is a bit annoying. Most PSP games are kind of slow, i think. I don't know how much they changed this from the original, but it's looks very ahead of its time. It has that same fun overworld map type i really liked in Atelier Iris 2, where you don't have to plow through annoying random battles all the time. There are no random battles either, as you can actually see the enemies before you decide to fight them, like in games like Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and Paper Mario.


Me & My Katamari
I thought it would be fun to have a portable version of Katamari. I was a bit concerned about the controls, but they're fine. Not as good as dual sticks though.


Cladun
Action RPG from NIS, the maker of the bestest SRPGs on the Ps2.
It's fun. But i haven't played it much yet.


Ys Seven
It got good reviews, and i'm still a bit curious about Ys, after the Virtual Console game.

Viz to release "Dragon Sword and Wind Child"!

Omg! It's from the same author who wrote Good witch of the west! One of the very, very few fantasy-things i actually enjoy. Actually it has been avaliable in english since 1993, and been released several times, i just haven't noticed anything.
I like the new cover better, so i'll wait for that.

Old cover from 1993

New cover coming 2011

Dragon Sword and Wind Child consists of 3 books. It's probable that the 2 sequels aren't released in english, but since the new edition says "Book 1", i believe Viz will release those also.


Maybe they will release the rest of good witch from the west too?
Tokyopop cancelled good witch of the west, releasing just the first 2 books. It made me very sad ;_;
It went really bad for tokyopop back then. They cancelled everything that's good.

Noriko Ogiwara is a really good writer, yes?

I watch Clannad After Story, being confused and a bit wtf with huge SPOILERS

What is written here, contains huge spoilers for Clannad: After Story.

It's been some time since i blogged, so i'll just write some brief thoughts on the ending of Clannad: After Story.

It made me a bit confused and wtf at first.

Nagisa gets pregnant, and because of her illness they worry a bit about her giving birth. Nagisa gives birth to her child at home because of a snow storm. She dies.

Tomoyo's sad, and leave the baby (Ushio) with Nagisa's parents. When Ushio's 5, Tomoyo decides to take care of her himself after going on a trip alone with Ushio.

Tomoyo's acting annoyed towards Ushio.

But after a trip to the flower field they become like a real father and daughter!

When winter comes again, i think, Ushio pees herself and gets sick. It becomes clear that she has the same illness as her mother. Ushio wants to go on a trip with her father again, and asks him over and over again. He wants to wait until she gets better, but finally gives in, in the end because it's her only wish.

On their way to the train station, Ushio insists on walking herself. She struggles to hold herself up, collapsing in the end. Then she goes blind, asking if they're already on the train, and if it's nighttime, and dies in her father's arms.

He curses the town, accusing it for making people happy, just to take it away again.

Then it happens.

We suddenly go back to the time where Tomoyo first met with Nagisa. Unlike the first time he choose not to approach her, regretting alle the sadness that happened. But as she walks away, he forgets all regret, and call out for her. She then says she's relieved that he didn't regret meeting her.

Then he's suddenly at the scene where Nagisa gave birth to Ushio. Although this time she didn't die!

Then they all live happily, and the most tragic ending that is, turned into a happy ending.

I was confused. How could he just travel back in time like that, and everything's fine again?

The ending wasn't really the last episode either. There are 3 or 4 extra episodes containing alternate what if-stories. The very last episode was a summary episode, and that one cleared up my mind, and everything made a bit more sense.

The town is magic! It's been there since the first episode. "Shall i take you to a place where wishes come true?" or something like that. Catch a light orb, and your wish shall be granted. It's a story Nagisa had heard, believing she had heard it when she was a child, but wasn't sure from where. Her parents had also heard about the story, but didn't know where from either. BORABOM!

It's been so long since i stopped watching Clannad, so i didn't remember clearly.

Then i will watch AIR next, maybe? Or maybe i should just watch more stuff i haven't finished.

Eden of the East is so awesome!

It's so awesome i have to write about it again.
It's so awesome i can't watch anything else because it's so awesome!
Just like Read or Die, it makes you feel awesome. But it's much more in depth than Read or Die.
This is a really big surprise coming from Production I.G, the king of boring things.
Actually i found the first episode to be bit boring, and laid it off for a while, because it looked kinda like a Production I.G show. I wondered how something that looks so cute can be a Production I.G show. Gone are the expressionless faces.

They feel stuff!

And here is a screenshot from Sky Crawlers, also made by Production I.G:

They look like dolls

Look at their eyes. They look like dolls, and you won't ever see anyone have any other expression than what is shown here. Actually they're meant to look and act like dolls. Thats one of director oshii's signature stuff. Probably because he don't like to feel stuff. Sky Crawlers is based on a novel by the same guy who wrote "The Girl who Leapth Through Time" and "Paprika". Both Paprika and "The girl who leapt though time" are made into great movies with lots of stuff that make you feel awesome. And that's why i watched Sky Crawlers. If The Sky Crawlers were made by Madhouse or something, it would probably have been made into something really great.

It's not Oshii who directed Eden of the East. But other things directed by Kenji Kamiyami looks pretty much Production I.G. to me. He has only directed the Ghost in the Shell tv-series before though. Maybe this is the first time he had the chance to really show what he can do, and take a step away from traditional Production I.G-stuff. And the Ghost in the Shell tv-series are a lot more fun than the movies.


I've been playing Fallout New Vegas lately.
The game locked up again, and i decided to blog about how awesome Eden of the East is.
And i was hoping that the game would unfreeze again, but it didn't. A lot of lagging in Freeside, suddenly it just froze up. The game has been freezing on me quite a lot, but not as bad as Fallout 3 did. It's fun. But i get the feeling that american developers love to release games before they're finished... Of course it's huge, but it's still no excuse for releasing a broken game. And there are still people without internet! I've gotten to some broken quests too. One of them were fixed in the last patch though.

I watch Eden of the East on Blu-Ray

Blu-Ray's very nice.
But DVD's are nice too, and most of the time i can't see that much of a difference. I can see the difference on my laptop, but it's not as easy on my 42" Plasma TV.
Dvd's look super-sharp, and so do blu-rays. Actually Dvd's look as sharp as blu-rays do on my computer, when i watch DVDs on my tv.
I still choose blu-ray over DVD's because i know they're better.
I can't really hear much of a difference with the super awesome truehd surround sound either, even if i have a super awesome homecinema-setup (I use my headphones most of the time though).

Eden of the East is very nice.
Things made by Production I.G is almost always boring. They make the most expensive super awesome tv-series and movies, but they're so boring. In movies like Ghost in the Shell and Sky Crawlers, the characters are just like dolls with just one face expression. They have absolute no feelings, acting all philosophical, quoting famous philosophers and so on. Mostly it's only some people talking about philosophical things in Production I.G shows.

It's a mystery how Production I.G can actually make something that's not boring.
Eden of the East is not boring. It's actually very fun. And it has a really strange episode count of 11 episodes.
It's about a guy waking up in front of the white house, and he's nude and holding a cellphone in one hand, and a gun in his other hand. And he has lost his memory.
I'll just post some picture from the internet, since i can't take screenshots from blu-rays.

He saves some girl from the police who's throwing rocks at the white house. The policeman was alot more interested in the nude guy wandering about. As a thanks she gives him her jacket. But she forgot to take out her passport, so she can tavel back to Japan! And that's how the two main characters meet, and their quest for getting his memory back.

He get contacted by some mysterious woman, telling him he has 8,2 billion yen left on his account, and that he's part of some game, probably set up by the government. The 8.2 billion yen can't be taken out as cash, but has to be used through services through the phone. And he can ask the phone to do absolute ANYTHING. Actually the phone tells him that it was he who ordered to have his memory taken. With the phone he has complete control over the japanese government. He can for example get the prime minister of Japan say something completely random on tv, sneak in a queue, get someone arrested, make a traffic accident and so on.
It's very fun, and it has a lot of mysteries that you just want to know the answer to!

Phone magic!

Of course, it being a Production I.G-show it has to be somewhat philosophical too. But not as hardcore as other production I.G-shows. The big message of Eden of the East, is that we should pity those poor NEETS, people who shut themselves inside because they can't bear the pressure from work and/or school (wich is a big problem in Japan, having almost a million shut-ins).
Is life too much work? Yes, it is. Maybe more so, in Japan.

Eden of the East was very, very fun for me. It's almost as fun as Read or Die, but overall i think this is the better series, maybe. It's super awesome that Production I.G, with their big budgets, made something fun!
I saw it all in one sit.
Now it's so late i have to get in bed. The clock is 00:48 right now. But that's only 23:48 when November begins!

Ace Attorney vs Professor Layton

Wtf are they thinking? =P

Level 5 announces Ace Attorney vs Professor Layton for Nintendo 3DS.
http://ds.ign.com/articles/112/1128842p1.html
It's a really, really strange mix. I don't think it's possible to find any flaws in the professor's logic in court. =P
I'm really looking forward to how this turns out.
It looks really epic in the trailer.

Today i got this...

But i'm so stupid ;_;
I forgot about region locking, and i only got a region A-locked blu-ray player ;_;
Europe getting Ghibli on blu-ray before the US is a bit strange, yes? My other alternative was getting the super-expensive japanese edition.
Time to get a region-free player soon, maybe?
Fortunately i can use my ps3 for playing it, but it's still annoying.