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This post relates to: Chrono Trigger

When the school semester started, a friend had just bought Chrono Trigger for his Super Nintendo (about $60 for the game I think) because I had mentioned that I wanted to play the game for some time now. Well, it seems that he got the game for me to play since he doesn't play much of his SNES. Before I go on, this all takes place at my favorite hangout on campus. So, I started to play it and had only clocked in about an hour. Then, school work got in the way, and I barely had enough time to play it. It wasn't until Thursday night of this week that I had picked up the game and just played it. As of now, I have clocked in 6 hours and 22 minutes, and I've been having one of the best RPG gaming experiences with this game. Wow. Now I wish the Sega Genesis had something like this. LOL  In case you're wondering how far I am, I have just acquired the pieces to a broken Masamune, and I'm in the process of trying to find a Dreamstone so that it can be repaired. So, I look forward to continue playing this game. I just thought I'd share it with all of you. =D

TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON DA

That's right. November 14 marked my second year on Deviantart. If you're interested in seeing the drawings that I received, be sure to click on the link that will take you to the journal.

Two-Year Anniversary Journal

Until next time! 8)

This post relates to: Final Fantasy VI, The World Ends With You, Tales of Phantasia, Bleach: Dark Souls, Bleach: The Blade of Fate, Bangai-O Spirits

You know the deal. It's time to give you guys an update of what I've been up to.

THE FINAL STRETCH OF THE SEMESTER

Mid-terms have come and gone, and I'm happy to report that I did well with all of them. All that I have left to do is do a final group project in my Interaction for Gaming class and a final paper for American Literature. The rest, including American Lit., are just final exams. However, my Principles of Interaction class won't be having a final because our professor was out for a week due to stomach problems. That makes me happy we won't be having a final in that class. :D

HALLOWEEN

There's nothing much to say about this year's Halloween..... at least from my perspective. One of my friends wanted four of us, him and myself included, to be the main characters from The Big Bang Theory, and I was supposed to be this guy. If you haven't seen the show, you should check it out. It's really funny. Anyway, the reason it was so disappointing was because the friend who came up with the idea had to be somewhere which left our group kind of pointless if it wasn't all of us together. So, I pretty much stayed who I was while the one that played as Sheldon went home while the one that played Howard left to change into Max Payne. Oh well. At least I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas with a group of friends. It's been a long time since I've seen that movie, and I never realized that sang so much. :P I wouldn't mind getting the soundtrack though.

GAMES

During Halloween, I had my DS with me, and I played some of Tales of Phantasia (GBA) since I've yet to finish that game. Now I've been playing it on and off along with Bangai-O Spirits (DS). Speaking of which, I have finally finished all the levels that the game had to offer. Now I'll have to check out the levels that others have designed since the game features an Edit mode which I may check out someday. As for Tales of Phantasia, I'm in one part of the game where I'm in a colessium, and I'm trying to obtain a title and a special move by beating all the monsters you face. However, I'm having a rather difficult time with that. My main character has leveled up so much that he has exceeded the rest of my party. So, I'll have to keep working on that and then move onto Final Fantasy VI and The World Ends With You once I'm finished with the Tales game.

OUT WITH ONE TREASURE......

And in with a new one! :D If anyone is confused as to what I'm saying, that's okay because I was never good with explaining my point. :P What I'm referring to is Treasure, developer of games like Bangai-O Spirits, Gunstar Heroes, Ikaruga, and Astro Boy: Omega Factor. Well, they had released the sequel to Bleach: The Blade of Fate called Bleach: Dark Souls. I must say I'm quite impressed with how much it has improved. Sure, the tweaks in this one are kind of minimal, but it's still a fun game even if there are a few minor things that kind of irritate me like some of the voices in the game aren't as loud as the others. Also, the story mode is much better in this one because you go through events where as in the first game you just go through one fight after another. So, I'm really glad they put some variety in this sequel. :)

TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

DeviantArt, that is. Once it arrives, I'm going to be showcasing artwork that others have done of my fursona to celebrate the milestone. :) I may even showcase my best even though I haven't drawn that much. :P We'll see about my artwork, but I'm definitely going to be showing other's artwork of my character. :D

BONUS VIDEO

I'll be closing with a video I found on YouTube.

Until next time, GameSpotters! 8)

This post relates to: Gunstar Heroes, Bleach

Like I said in my previous video blog, I was going to show you guys what gifts I received from my mom's package. Well, here it is! =D

Yeah, I know I didn't receive that many gifts, but I'm just waiting on the late birthday cards for birthday money. You can't go wrong with that. :P

Also, I happened to come across a Japanese ad of this game. 8)

I was surprised that a commercial of it actually existed, and now I feel like playing it. =D

Enjoy the videos! Until next time, Giant Bombers! 8)

This post relates to: Max Payne, Bangai-O Spirits, Drill Dozer

Here it is. Another video blog by me. =D






Hope you guys enjoy! 8-)

This post relates to: Bleach, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Pokémon, Game Freak, Inc., Bangai-O Spirits, Astro Boy, Ōkami, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Bleach: Dark Souls, Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift , Final Fantasy VI, Drill Dozer, Tales of Phantasia, The World Ends With You, Contra 4

Whew! This is the time of the semester I've been waiting for. Like I said in my video blog, this semester seems to have gone by real quick for I'm surprised that my fall break is already here. Anyway, you guys may see me from time to time during the break since I'll be doing stuff with a friend over the break. Even though I'll be relaxing, I do plan on playing some DS and GBA games like The World Ends With You (still need to finish that one), Contra 4 (time to work on the Hard setting), Final Fantasy VI (again, still need to finish it),Tales Of Phantasia (I doubt I'll be playing it since it's kind of boring), and Drill Dozer (new game I got from my mom for $10 at Wal-Mart). Other than gaming, there's a 2-3 page paper I'd like to get out of the way, and that shouldn't be hard to do. :) Plus, I need to finish that comic for a friend on DA. I'm long overdue on that, but I don't think he will mind if I get it in late. Anyway, it's time to go into detail about a few things I'd like to mention.

DRILL DOZER

When I first heard about this game back when it was released, I shrugged at it despite it getting good reviews. I mean I didn't doubt that it was a good game. It's just that it didn't look very appealing to me. Then, my mom called me last month telling me that Wal-Mart had some games that were on sale, and Drill Dozer was one of them (I hope she got Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii since that was one of those games). So I told that I had heard good things about it and decided to try it out. After receiving in a package full of goodies (candy, gaming magazines, and T-shirt), I popped in the game on my DS, and I was impressed with how the game plays. What really amazed me was that this game is developed by Game Freak, Inc., of Pokemon fame. As I play this game, I think to myself, "Wow. These guys could try games like this other than Pokemon." I know there are a lot of you that continue to play Pokemon, and I really have nothing against that......well, you could say that I'm tired of Nintendo continuing the franchise. Anyway, it's just that after seeing this game I would like for them to try new things out other than the Pokemon franchise. I know that they have done other things before Pokemon, but it wouldn't hurt for them to experiment with new ideas. :)

DRAWING

Like I said earlier, I still need to finish that comic for a friend. I'm almost finished with the third page, and the fourth one is going to be my last for the comic. I hope he likes it. I've already shown him the first one, and he liked what he saw. So, it shouldn't be so bad. :) Other than that, I hope to at least do some serious drawing such as doing some gift art as a way of thanking those that have been helpful and have been such good friends. Keep in mind that this is mainly for the ones in DeviantART. :) Also, I've discovered something that could help me give some color to my artwork. I've tried doing the traditional way by using colored pencils, but it has proven that I would need more practice to get the colors to where I want them. So if I want to get things out of the way quickly, the only thing I can rely on is Adobe Photoshop. Take this for example. I was told by one of my professors in the digital media department to try using the wand tool to highlight a spot I want to color. I know that it's not the best method, but I'm sure that he wanted me to experiment after I got the hang of it. Thanks to SciFiCat for telling me a better method of doing digital color with Photoshop, I went back to give the same drawing another try. This time I'm applying line-art over the sketch, and I'm rather pleased with how it's turning out so far. After I got all the flat colors I wanted for it, I showed it to my professor, and he showed me how to use the burn tool for shadows and the dodge tool for highlights. I was amazed how much better my picture turned out. So, I plan on doing using those tools in the near future. :D Don't worry, I'm not going to be cheap by showing you guys the final product with his work by using those tools. I'll be sure to go by that example though. If you guys are curious about my gallery, you'll be able to view it if you go to the hyperlink that shows the colored version of my fursona I used for this part of the blog. :D

NEXT FRIDAY

Yep. It's coming. Right now, I'm not so sure if it will be a good or bad thing. We'll just have to wait and see. :P In case you guys still don't know, I'll be turning 21 next Friday. I'll be sure to post something on that day just so I feel more special from you guys. :D I wonder what I'll end up getting. Here's my birthday list as of now: