Loot (27th April 2013)

Robotics;Notes, clear

It was good but the ending kind of sucked what with a whole lot of shit not being resolved. Ah well.

Edit:
とりあえずなんとなく日本語で書いてみたくなったんでとりあえず書いてみた
いつも通り（と言っても日本語でこれやるの初めてだっけ）、ネタバレはハイライトで

とりあえず不満点を挙げると：

 ・５～８章、キャラ別に分ける意味あったのこれ？
一本道だろ？たまに見る、基本的に同じことが起きるがエンディングだけヒロインと結ばれるifならともかく、これ完全に一本道だよね？

・攻略が面倒くさい
かなり面倒くさい。ツイぽ面倒くさい。遊ぶだけなら結構面白い（まあ返事が来ない場合が多すぎるが）。が、攻略に必要となるとかなりうざい。君島レポート探しもそうだ。つか今時ピクセル・ハンティングって……３０年前のポイント＆クリックアドベンチャーじゃあるまいし何考えてんだよ。

・最終章がいまいち盛り上がらなかった
phase１１は結構燃えたのにな。ちなみに一番気に入ったのは７話のサイバーパンク的なノリ。犯人の洗脳とかはありがちな展開なのに鳥肌が立った。

・フラウのどもり具合と昴のテンパり具合がちょっとわざとらしかった
うんまあそういうこと。

・未回収の伏線が多すぎる
 澤田とか明らかな続編への伏線はまあよしとして、７話のあとフラウ野放しとかありえないだろどう考えても。エンディング後のミサ姉も。つかミサ姉への伝言どうなった。昴のことも消化不良で終わったしモノポールも結局ただのマクガフィンだった。

・エンディングが微妙
エピローグくらい付けろよ。

・ロボメインのはずなのに何故かロボ成分低め
どちらかといえばARのほうがメインだったんじゃね？結局ロボが目立ったのは１話だけだったような……


勘違いはしないで欲しい、何も糞ゲーとか言いたいわけじゃない。むしろすごく熱中したし点を付けると１０点満点では個人的に８～８．５くらいになると思う。ただまあ、好きな作品だからこそ不満点が余計目立つ、そしてその不満はある種のストレスになり、それを発散しないといつまでももやもやした気分になる。つまりまあストレス発散のために俺はこんなのを書いてるわけだ。

オチはないよ？

Edit:
Eh might as well put this up in English as well.

What I didn't like:
・Was there any need to split chapters 5-8 into separate routes?They all take place in the same timeline successively. Hell, they're even numbered that way. What the hell was the point of splitting them up?

・Conditions for unlocking the routes was stupid. Playing around with the twitter-ish thing is kind of fun (I especially liked being able to follow news and the responses to it), though it was kind of disappointing how a lot of the things you say don't get answers.. But using it to unlock routes? Hell no.

・Final chapter kind of sucked. I don't know, it was kind of a bit of a letdown after all the buildup towards it. Hard to describe why, it just was. Chapters 1 and 7 were the best bits, personally.

・Too much stuff left unresolved. Way too much. (This is of course not counting the stuff that obviously leads to a sequel.)

・Ending sucked. Too abrupt, could've used an epilogue or something.

・Not enough robots. Why the fuck? I'm not complaining about all the AR stuff, I loved that, it's just that despite the supposed focus on robots there just didn't seem to be much in the way of them at all.

Not saying it was bad, I loved it (on a scale of 1-10 I'd put it at around 8/8.5). It's just that the stuff that bothered me kind of really bothered me.

This week's loot (30th June 2012)

Loot and stuff (28th June 2012)

Robotics;Notes is out! Don;t They;Love Semi;Colons?

And yeah, I ordered two display cases for my figures and stuff. Unfortunately one came over defective and the guys brought it back and will be sending a new one over later, so for now I only have one. Ah well, haven't unpacked most of my figures anyway.

Unpacked a few more just for this case, in fact.

Layout could still use some adjusting, but I'll do that when the second case arrives. Can also fit another two in addition to that under my window here.

Also Beach Queens Chihaya in that funny position because I kind of broke her foot peg. Eh.

This week's loot (12th May 2012)

In addition to that stuff I also got a (second) ticket to this year's Idolmaster anniversary concert. Couldn't find the original I got. Also, I was too late to get a seat and ended up with a standing ticket too this time. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I'll keep searching for the first ticket.

Among the games here  I've already cleared Operation Raccoon City and the single player mode of Starhawk. ORC kind of sucks. Starhawk is kind of fucking awesome but the multiplayer's potential is kind of squandered because the players all kind of suck.

Eh.

As for the previous batch of games, I've cleared Monobeno and most of Yukiiro. Monobeno was mostly good but the ending (or rather the entire fucking final route) was kind of anticlimatic. Abrupt, even. Cleared Maru, Akira and Chitose's routes in Yukiiro. It's alright but personally I liked Sorairo and Ramune more. A lot more. Mizuiro's about on the same level I guess.

Today's loot (27th October 2011)

Today's loot (23rd October 2011)

FYI, the "today" in my "today's loot" entries are meant to mean "stuff I'm posting today", not "stuff I bought today".

But anyway yeah, stuff. Watched Captain America on Friday and enjoyed it somewhat, and then saw the post-credits trailer for The Avengers and realized that I'd totally forgotten to watch Thor. Remedied that today.

Both Ironman movies > Captain America > Thor. Even without my powered armour bias.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (5)

Just some of my armour schemes.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (4)

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (3)

Getting somewhat better.




My current loadouts:

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (2)

Cleared single player mode. I don't know, I found it pretty disappointing. It had its moments, but even then those moments could've been a lot better- More Titan action, perhaps seen from further away, would've been nice, and more drop pods in the bit where the Blood Ravens showed up would've been awesome. Hell, they should've had the Blood Ravens come in on drop pods damn it. Also wasn't there a Dreadnought in one of the early trailers, because there aren't any in here. Also not enough weapons (what the fuck no flamethrowers and lightning claw and power fists) and it would've been nice to have Terminator armour and eh the list goes on and on and on so I'll just leave it at that.

Anyway. Story was meh, gameplay was kind of repetitive, bosses were fucking crap.

Eh.

Ah well, I'm still enjoying multiplayer, at least. Getting a bit better, too.




Speaking of multiplayer, what the FUCK is up with the voice chat shit. It's set to on by default, and there's no way to switch the default to off. Plus I don't have a headset, but apparently they decided to fix how people without headsets can't hear the people on voice chat by cranking the volume up FIVE MILLION PERCENT. One of the matches I got into had some dumb whore going WOW I JUST GOT A VENGEANCE KILL OH SHIT I DIED AGAIN OH SHIT OH SHIT OH YEAH I KILLED A GUY WOOHOO HEY I GOT A THUNDER HAMMER BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH shut the fuck up. Also some guy with a weird accent and bad English going all "ME CHAOS I KILL YOU HUR HUR".

I don't have a headset for a fucking reason, damn it, don't give me this bullshit.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

So, started on Space Marine.

Single player is kind of eh. I don't like playing as a tactical marine all that much, it would've been more fun if you were able to choose your class and play as a devastator. Or terminator. Or dreadnought. And be able to customize your armour like in multiplayer.

Finding gameplay a bit repetitive, to be honest. Not enough weapons, not enough ammo for the fun weapons, and melee and executions get boring after you do them a few million times. Eh.

Multiplayer is great fun, though. I suck at this sort of thing but am still enjoying it tremendously, and that's saying quite a lot.

Adeptus Astartes Grisaia

The unlocking bullshit is... well, bullshit, though. Want to customize your guy? Reach level 4 first! Oh hey, reached level 4? HAHAHA YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WEAPONS OR ARMOUR OR ANYTHING, GO GET 500 REVENGE MELEE HEADSHOT SAVIOUR ASSIST KILLSTREAKS ON A RAPTOR IN MID-AIR WHILE PLAYING AS CHAOS FOR 30 GAMES AFTER DYING AND BEFORE RESPAWNING FROM LONG RANGE WHILE STANDING ON ONE LEG AND REACH LEVEL 500 TO UNLOCK THE NEXT PERK.

Being able to copy the loadout of the last guy to kill you is cool and all but it's meaningless if they have loadouts adapted to playstyles you aren't good at or just don't want to use. It's just silly, really.

Edit: Also

Loot (14th September 2011)

Still playing Xillia and thus haven't started on any of these yet, though.

Today's loot (4th September 2011)

Watched the Hayate (+Negima) movie today. Hayate was good, Negima was plain fucking terrible.

The PSP trunk thing was a prize from a crane game at the game centre I hanged out in while waiting for the movie. Spent about 2000 yen getting it, and about 1500 on a Kamen Rider (Ryuuki) toy that I ended up giving up on. Totally not worth it.

Mass Effect arrived a few days ago, been playing a bit of it. It's... Alright, I guess, but not great. I'm not enjoying it anywhere as much as I did Dragon Age, at least. The story pacing is just terrible and I don't really like the battle system. Also I'm playing a vanguard and my biotic abilities are as far as I can tell totally useless. Ah well.

Loot (24th August 2011)

Today's loot (22nd July 2011)

Got Super IV Arcade Edition

Can't be bothered to take a photo but yeah, got a hard copy (thinking of avoiding buying downloads from now on thanks to the whole Sony thing).

Also, just noticed that the blog's hit counter is past 10,000 now. Cool.

Loot (20th June 2011)

Steins;gate FD, clear

Just cleared the Steins;gate FD.

Whoops, wrong image.

Here.
Playtime includes times I left the thing on while munching on lunch or showered or suddenly decided to mess with the Seravee/Alteisen/Dendou/Shinkirou/Takemikaduchi's pose or you get the idea, actual playtime is maybe around 16 hours which means roughly 2.5 hours per route (after you exclude the prologue).

So yeah pretty good (except for Ruka's route which kind of sucked) but wayyyyyyyyy too short.

Pity it's all parallel, too. I really would've liked to see something taking place after the true end.