Category Archives: Games

Recettear (ルセッティア) Review

Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a Japanese indie (Doujin) game that combines RPG-style shopkeeping with dungeon crawling. The game was first distributed at Comiket, I believe the company that made it or at least license it in Japan was Easy Game Station. and then later translated into English by Carpe Fulgur. It gained popularity when it was put up for pre-order on the digital distribution services Steam, Impulse, and GamersGate.

As of September 28, 2010 when Carpe Fulgur and others released the game, there have been 26,000 orders in 4 weeks time. Pretty good for a indie game.

When I first heard about the game I was interested in it, though only the part about doing retail was interesting to me as that is my current job. But when I started playing the game there was much more to it than expected and I enjoyed playing the game after some initial frustration lol. Tomoyo enjoyed it as well, a little too much ^^;;, which you will see later.

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Starcraft 2 Beta

I’m currently a beta tester for Starcraft 2 Beta. Which is where lots of my time would go if I didn’t have a life lol. Initially I wasn’t picked for the first batch of beta testing, that made me sad lol. Then one day I got an email saying that I was selected and boy was I happy, though it took a while for me to download the game with my average internet connection ^^;;. Even worse, I couldn’t play it until after my midterm which was today lol. I’m enjoying the game and learning all the different changes as everyone else is as brand new strategies are coming out because of the new units and buildings.

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NES Games, toughest of the tough

As you can see in the following video, NES game cartridges are pretty tough and the chip inside is pretty resilient as well. Even separate coding in the games make one game survive a hole in it while keeping the other alive xD. I think the only thing my game CD’s might survive is the drop and the drop in alcohol ^^;;. Though I don’t want to test that theory out ^^;.

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Birds who hate Chocobo’s and some hardcore Gamestop employees

You know someone hate’s another when they start “pecking” at the other like this bird is to the Final Fantasy XIII can with a baby Chocobo on it lol, probably jealous that the baby Chocobo is cuter xD. The bird goes straight for the eyes too, what a killer lol.

These are a couple of hardcore Gamestop employees here. You have Rios and Salem from Army of Two working at Gamestop and doing things in “unconventional” methods. I love the CGI for these ads. I hope they keep coming out with more and more of these funny ads. Please don’t pay your games with change ^^;;.

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Princess Robot Bubblegum

Princess Robot Bubblegum is the newest anime coming to a video console you own, assuming you buy GTAIV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. In GTA IV your character can watch anime on a television and what else but a stereotype anime including it being based in Japan, giant robots, bosomy female characters, scantily clad women, bad and incomprehensible dubbing “dead body freezing bob stellar phone”, and more including vending machines that dispense panties and transforms into a robot. Ahhh, nothing like anime. Btw, that’s gotta be merchandising for 18+ ^^;;.

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Do You Want to Date my Avatar?

This is a pretty interesting video I learned about through a friend, with the video asking if you want to date my game avatar? The video is done in a very professional manner, in my opinion. I find it pretty funny, only because some of the points they bring up is hilarious like, “she’s hotter than reality” xD. I know there are some people out there who do actually date online and I know there was a couple who met online and had an online in game wedding with their minister being an officially licensed minister in real life. The video makers have their own online series, The Guild, where their virtual world becomes reality as they meet each other offline. Hope they upload more soon as it’s a funny series to watch.

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Newest Final Fantasy XIII trailer

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The newest trailer to come out for the new Final Fantasy XIII game coming out looks pretty awesome. I like how Square Enix is really using the PS3′s capabilities. The CG cutscene part of the trailer looks awesome, the different amount colors and smoothness of everything makes the video look awesome. Game play wise I think it’s pretty cool how angles from all over are used, even 360 degrees at times during the video. They also show timed the moves with the angles really nicely, zooming in and zooming out when it looks like the right time to do it. Overall I’m impressed, impressed enough to go out and buy a PS3 lol. Which is good because I hear the PS3 is dropping in price later this year, though bad because it’s also rumored that Final Fantasy XIII won’t be released in America until next year around April :P . I look forward to more trailers in the future ^^.

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