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pow(2.0f, 3.0f) > pow(2.0f, 2.0f)

While I'm busy blogging, maybe I can write about a few things I did a long time ago.Last month, the stock buttons on my Mad Catz Fightstick broke. It was the really old standard edition of the Street Fighter 4 stick, so the parts weren't t…

They want to eat a nut of Laerma

I keep thinking my next post will be about AWA 2014 or my Japan trip, but I'm way too lazy to go through my pictures. But I feel like posting something now.Very rarely, I'll decide to pick up a really old game and play it. One time it was …

Freedom Wars: First impressions

With the demo of Freedom Wars out, I figured I'd give it a spin to see how it played. The game could be pretty good, but there's some things that based on what I saw, could make me enjoy the game more.First off, the game plays... well, you…

ものまね当てに超うぅっ弱っ!

If any of you have heard of the game Casting Voice, it's Bandai Namco's new production game where you raise voice actors instead of idols. Kind of a nice concept, and the preorder bonus was a couple of download codes, so I decided to go fo…

PS Vita's left analog stick bugginess

So, I was playing around in God Eater 2 yesterday, and I got hit with the most annoying bug. Pressing up on the left analog stick's up direction didn't make me run at full tilt. I was like as if I were running at half speed.It looks like t…

I am gooooooood (eater)!

Seeing as I've just picked up God Eater 2, I figured I'd do a review on the first games. I actually picked up the original God Eater before Burst came out, and the changes between each were pretty... dramatic.The first God Eater was Namco …

I need a new name

I actually did a bit of spending before the new year, but I guess I haven't gotten to saying what all I got.For a while I've been thinking I'd get a Vita as there are a few games for it that I want, and last December I finally decided to s…

Support Mighty No. 9!

Okay, normally I don't do things like this, but today I'll make an exception. Why? Because I think it's worth it.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9Ever since Keiji Inafune, the creator of Mega Man, left Capcom, Mega …

Mistaking difficulty for complexity

Alright, well... I guess now that I've properly commented on everything Otakon, it's time for a review. Maybe the first of a few (and no, this is not my opinions on OreImo), but I think the tone for this is going to be largely negative. In…

Getting tired of foot dives

For a while now, a guy on Nico named R-KY has been going through Devil May Cry 3, in a tool-assisted run. Rather than actually going for time or rank, he's going for whatever just looks cool though. So, this is a Tool Assisted Stylish-run,…

Dragon punching dragons in the face

Okay, so not only did I get the e-Capcom limited edition Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, I got the Sega Store's limited edition of 7th Dragon 2020-II. It was a little pricey, but the Sega Store edition came with all the best goodies, so I jus…

Time is running free

Well, I got my copy of the e-Capcom limited edition of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen finally. There's actually a story behind my acquisition of it, but I'm really not up for telling it right now as it involves a lot of angst.So, I'll just sh…

EMS and DHL bring joy to my life

Finally, the last of my stuff from Japan came in last week. Celga can be a bit slow, though to their credit, I did sit on my purchases for a week or so before telling them to send it to me.Essentially what my run boiled down to was getting…

7th Dragon 2020-II characters: color variations and new voices!

We kinda got to see it in the last trailer, but this time they made an official trailer.Now I only wish they had four-person parties...Either way, it looks like the list of voices you can give your character has increased from 30 to 40. I …

Luka Appreciation Month in April

So, every year I think about the games that I'm going to play which actually will come out that year, seeing as that doesn't happen too often and I'm just fine with playing games that came out for the original Playstation back before the m…

Japan trips are not good for your stack

Hmm... so, lately I've been wondering about my game playing. I got a nice hefty stack lined up, and while I've been making progress through it, I admittedly am having a bit of trouble keeping up with it.Ether Vapor Remaster - Very nearly 1…

7th Dragon 2020 review

So, I've finally beat 7th Dragon 2020, and when I say beat, I mean completely beat - I've pretty much got a feel for all the classes and how they work as I went through six different team configurations (playing each of the five classes at…

Owning the Tokyo Tower is the in thing to do

So, apparently I spoke too soon when I said the Music Bomb shirt was too large for me. It's size XXL, yeah, and I assumed that no matter where you go, that's the size of giants in whatever area of the world you're in. However, in this inst…

Opinions on Grand Knights History

So, after putting in more hours in Grand Knights History than I care to publicly disclose, I finally beat the game. Part of what took so long was my absolute refusal to beat the game with anything less than a top tier team. In order to mak…

I'm spending moneys!

So, after not spending money on anything cool for the last since new years, I finally got fed up with things and spent a bunch of money. With my contributions, maybe the yen will go up to 80 yen to the dollar instead of 83.612 like it is n…

Rinse and repeat

So, I'm two games down. I'm whittling this backlog down, one game at a time. The only one I have immediately pending is Grand Knights History.Demon's Souls is the one of the games I packed away. I said I'd talk about its flaws and so I wil…

One step to the end

So, I guess I should update my blog, but guess what? Nothing's really changed. About the only thing to happen lately is some minor progress through Devil May Cry 3, having just beat Mission 18 (the hard way - take out every single chess pi…

It's bad for the community

So, just for kicks, I decided to play a little bit of Devil May Cry 3 again, seeing as I stopped on Very Hard at Mission 12. That stage took me quite a few tries, and before, I never got past it. Something about two boss fights in a row, a…

Should've cheesed him to death

So, I screwed up my Demon's Souls run, and now I'm realizing I'm going to have to go through a New Game + if I want what I missed out on.There are certain items you can get (and events to see) in a world based on its tendency. In Pure Blac…

And a happy new year?

So, like how long has it been since I updated this blog? It's been a while.Lately, I've been playing Demon's Souls. The game's pretty good, but at the moment I admittedly find PvP to be... annoying. Maybe it's because I can't really do any…

俺のバトルフェーズは(ry

Okay, so this has been in for a while now, but sometime around... I dunno the 7th or the 8th, I got a nice little package from JShoppers. I ordered both limited editions of Weiss Schwarz Portable and 7th Dragon 2020, and they came in then.…

You know how to make me look good!

So, I beat Devil May Cry 4 on Hard mode the other day.The amount of challenge in that mode was pretty good, I think, except for the mission everyone hates (Mission 18). Fighting the Savior is just so dumb. Other than that, most missions di…

Taunt more as a lure...

So, I started another run through Devil May Cry 4 the other day, hoping to get through it on Hard. Hard is a challenge, yes, but as of right now, I would say it's not that difficult per se...... Except when the game throws a surprise Blitz…

Always pushing, never popping

Alright, I finally did it.I preordered the Limited Edition of 7th Dragon 2020, and the Limited Edition of Weiss Schwarz Portable Boost Schwarz. Not too sure why I got the second one, probably because I know someone else getting it and don'…

Grab the torches, we're off to war!

Okay, so now that I realize that alignments have all but rendered my Totomono run useless (it may be a game, but I still have issues with killing things that don't want to attack me to change alignments), I'm thinking of stepping off the g…