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PSP Game Shining Blade PV

YoU — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:08:29 +0000

After a long time of waiting, the promotion video of PSP game series Shining Blade finally comes. The 215-minute video was streamed on Gamer featuring the battle system and character introductions. If you are a fan of the Shining series from SEGA, you should already familiar with the characters since the new game will be feature characters from the previous series with an really old story and plot. And perhaps Tony Taka’s great illustrations and all the exciting cast staffs’ performance will be the only selling points this March.

Apart from the PV, the an Anime of Shining Hearts is also scheduled to air this Sping in April. For fans who didn’t play the game before, check out the review for more. The Shining Blade game will be released on March 15, you can start the pre-order now.

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Shining Blade PSP Game to be Released March 2012

YoU — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:55:18 +0000

We’ve just mentioned the announcement of the upcoming Shining Hearts TV Anime a couple of days ago, now we have another great news from the game maker of the series. After the long wait, finally SEGA has announced its latest work of the Shining series Shining Blade (シャイニング・ブレイド) to be released on March 15, 2012. Like the previous series Shining Hearts, Shining Blade will still be running on PSP and we fans are happy not to line up for the upcoming PS Vita this weekend. SEGA has already announced the price tag (around 7,000 JPY) and it’s available for pre-order online. For those who order the retail version, a fan disc (Sakuya is so cute…) will be included featuring collection of movie, songs, card game, art book (guess that’s what most of us eager for) and so forth. SEGA has already streamed the opening Animation of the game since last month. Pretty much the same style as the previous work while it should be considered as good for a PSP game of this quality.

As for the story and setting, Shining Blade appears to be a collection of previous famous characters from the Shining series. You can choose few among 20 characters to become partners joining you during the battle, and we are able to see lots of familiar faces in Shining Wind, Shining Tears and Shining Hearts. Luckily, as I mentioned in my previous review of Shining Hearts, we finally able to team up with characters like Hayane and Maxima who lack of appearance in Shining Hearts. And surprisingly (really?), I am more than happy to learn that Sakuya (who renamed as Maxima, the future version of Sakuya in Shining Hearts) will become one of the female protagonists of Shining Blade.

However, by simply giving a new identity and description of previous characters without even redraw won’t necessary create any attractiveness for newcomers. Luckily, we have a brand new battle system featuring 3D technology and bunch of other surprises. The effect of the battle scenes is quite good as you can see below.

The game has already in my must-play list since the mention early this year, will sure to bring up review after clear the game next year. Check out the opening below.

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Fate/Apocrypha: New Project of TYPE-MOON

YoU — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:57:27 +0000

Source reveals that in the upcoming 7th volume of TYPE-MOON ACE, a new project named Fate/Apocrypha will be announced on December 15. As you might not have learned, according to ANN, Fate/Apocrypha was firstly revealed as an online game set during the story’s Holy Grail War but failed to be released. The latest volume of the magazine will also include a demo of the upcoming Mahoutsukai no Yoru (魔法使いの夜, Witch of the Holy Night) (well, I think it has been delayed for quite a while since 2009) and a mascot figure (which is what I really want).

So far we don’t have any clue about the new project. Well, it could be a great online game and image you can fight for your own Holy Grail. But from what we can see in the below images, it could either be a PSP battle game or similar kinds. But what surprises me is that neither Takashi Takeuchi (武内崇) or Hirokazu Koyama (こやまひろかず, visit blog) is the illustrator of the new project. Which also means we can have a lot to expect.

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One Piece Kaizoku Musou Game for PS3 Confirmed

YoU — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:55:47 +0000

Recent rumor of a One Piece Kaizoku Musou (ワンピース海賊無双) game for PS3 was finally confirmed. According to a full-page campaign on the latest issue of Shonen Jump (Vol.39), it is said that Bandai Namco Games will release action game for the PlayStation 3 console in Japan. Further promotion video and footage will be available during September 17 to 18 at TGS2011 (Tokyo Game Show 2011) event at the Makuhari Messe center. Bandai is running a countdown on the official website till Monday. No specific release date was announced.

To all the One Piece fans with a PlayStation 3 console, this is a great news. We used to have Shin Sangoku Musou (真・三國無双), 戦国無双 (Sengoku Musou) and Gundam Musou (ガンダム無双). As you can tell from the look of Luffy, the game will set the stage after the two-year period in the Anime and Manga series.

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PSP Game Valkyria Chronicles 3 Released

YoU — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:44:30 +0000

There were several big events today. The early announced of the second generation of PSP2 (NGP), and two PSP game Valkyria Chronicles 3 (戦場のヴァルキュリア3) and PSP AVG game Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Portable (俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがないポータブル). The previous two were covered earlier on Dannychoo.com and you can check them out on Kotaku also.

Riela Marcellis

Imca

Like the game, you can now get it on Play-Asia.

Who do you like better? Riela or Imca? Watch the cute video below before making a choice For who don’t understand Japanese, it’s just some normal story happened in common Anime series. But she’s so cute! Tell us who she is. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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PSP Game Shining Hearts Review

YoU — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:24:27 +0000

Shining Hearts, the first game of Shining series from SEGA I played, also the first PSP RPG game I played. Released back at the end of 2010, the quality of the game, judging from the details released at the official website and over populated “illustrated by Tony Taka”, is just awesome and there could be tens of thousands of reason that I will need to give it a shot. So I did.

The Overview

Hands on and it works like a charm. The opening video offers a good quality as a Kyoto Anime (and maybe we can anticipate one in the future like Shining Tears X Wind) does and the first impression is worth the waiting. Continue to the story and you will have to choose from three heroines. Of course, Neris (ネリス) is my favorite though they have the same CV’s back: Kanae Itou (伊藤かな恵). Not a very popular voicer in my opinion but I love her voice a lot, especially in the game. The story starts and the flow is fine in total.

The System

To clear the game, I used about 40 hours. Probably a reasonable time for a RPG of this time. I used to spent around 60 hours to clear the PS2 RPG Grandia III and it is still my favorite RPG game of all, and around 100 hours for Final Fantasy XII. Back to the Shining Heats game on the Portable device, it has a great quality in terms of all the illustrations and a great battle system in my opinion.

To point out, the Pan system is unique and the official website has already promote it a lot. In the game, you can collect different materials and make Pan for any characters in order to please them or help them out. In this way you collect different sorts of Hearts and these Hearts will be helpful if you want to use Skills in the battle system.

So much for the battle system and I did enjoy the game in this way a lot and it didn’t make me bore. But the enemy is so weak that you don’t even need to clear all the dungeons in order to level up. Even though the battle system is great but the boring enemy makes the fight meaningless.

The Story

One thing I have to point out is the story itself is way below my expectation. In other words, I would totally recommend the writer to consider rewrite the story since it’s just way too common (and nothing to expect) and I really can foreseen what will happen in the next story (guess that what I feel when I was watching the Shining Tears X Wind Anime).

The Character

And about the character. If you have checked the official website you will find there are not many characters in the game, but half of them could join you during the battle. But I only spent 40 hours on it. What does this mean? There are so many characters there in terms of the game hour and you can only see them from time to time. Apart from Rick and Neris, you can only ask two more partner to join you during the battle.

However, each character has their own stories. In order to have more fun, the game also offers different stories to other characters and you can finish all the submission of each characters. Though these tasks have no direct connection to the main plot of the game, it does give us a chance to interact more with your favorite characters. It also occurred to me that there are some plots been hidden, say how Queen (クイーン) became a friend of Kaguya (カグヤ) and helped her to escape (ok, I expect an Anime). And would very much appreciated that Misty (ミストラル) can join the party.

And about something very disappointed to me, is some most popular characters cannot join your party and only showed up in those submission. For instance, Hayane (ハヤネ), the silver-color hair girl, only shows up during the submission of Rouna and if you have never tried to accomplish one task, you will never see her face if you see her a lot on the official website or other printed magazine. The similar applies to Maxima (マキシマ), the girl with black hair and has a Katana in her hand. Will, I never see her actually fight (even though she appears from time to time) and guess the Katana is just a decoration and will sure to have all kinds of excuse to buy her figure . And at the final stage of the game, she reveals who she is and this makes me pale. It’s a really strange and I have to say, please give me another scenario I think I read this before back in 1990.

The Music

There are few soundtracks in the series but are very good to me. You can get the Soundtrack from the PSP Game package (only?). And among all the good points of the series, the CVs’ hard work were greatly appreciated. We can see all the familiar names in the staff list and it’s a enjoyment to ears. And again, Neris’ voice feels like an angel to me.

Conclusion

Finally the series offer different endings and of course I picked Neris’ one. That’s the detail parts and for the rest you will have to play the game to find out.

I will say, despite all the pain and suffers above, it is still a good game but never expect it to be outstanding. And my rating for it will be 7 out of 10. The series is great if you don’t look at the story itself and guess it could lie in the reason that the illustration and game system are so great that we have over expected the story to be at the same level. And my wish is, to make the series an Anime and it will be awesome.

Interested in the game? You can get it on Amazon (EN, JP), Play-Asia and CDJapan. Visit the official website to know more about the series.

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PSP Game Shining Hearts Rocks

YoU — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:37:24 +0000

Another Shining series after Shining Tears, Shining Wind and again this time, as always, the characters are illustrated by our favorite illustrator Tony Taka while on PSP instead. The latest COMIKET (C79) is on the way and guess we should have a lot to expect this Winter.

Fans familiar with the series can call so many names, sure, with the great illustrations by Tony Taka, and the unique game systems. I personally tried the Shining Wind on PS2 for some time and it was quite good. Though it doesn’t stand out among all those fancy games like .hack series, GTA, WE11, it does do what it good at. And it’s worth playing. I even purchased a PSP to play this series and so far so good.

Interested in the game? You can get it on Amazon (EN, JP), Play-Asia and CDJapan. Visit the official website to know more about the series. Also you can join in the official campaign to win some beautiful illustration and CDs.

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Gameloft AdventCalendar Gift: Driver

YoU — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:16:15 +0000

Gameloft has put everything ready for the 24 days before Christmas (including Christmas) and you can get free games (usually for a few bucks) for iPhone/iPod Touch simply by following @Gameloft and check out their latest updates on Twitter to get the free gifts. And today, the December 1st of 2010 you can get a free copy of game Driver. Hurry up since it only lasts for 24 hours.

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Starcraft II facts & WoW Guestpass

Snow — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:12:36 +0000

Hiya people, I’ve got two guestpasses to spare for SC2 and WoW.
I’ll post the keys up here but please, please leave a message if you take a code.
Not only do I know that they are taken and can close this post down but also that others don’t have to waste their time on trying.
If you don’t know what Starcraft is, well here’s a nice fact chart. Interesting read I should add.

Thanks to the people @ http://www.onlineschools.org for this fact chart.

Here they are:
Starcraft 2 [TAKEN]
“Play Starcraft 2 for 7 hours of game time or 14 days from activation (Whichever comes first)”

KCNPK2-RKCC-9CYFMG-WE6Y-V7VVTP
VVRNM2-PPWX-62J4VD-P76N-4VCZ7Y

WoW
“10 day guestpass key”

NXN2PJ-2YNK-DTNNKJ-EXDJ-MK29NG
GFVVY8-X8CJ-NWYGHM-PCN6-7P6NEY

Not sure if these passes are only for Europe but you can always try.
( I’m to lazy to upload a new thumbnail xD)

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Snow — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:38 +0000

Starcraft 2, probably the most anticipated game of this year by many gamers out there has been released on the 27th. This post is a little different than the other posts on the blog, don’t think there has been a game post on here at all. Anyway, I had a chance to play through the campaign and actually finished it in a day.

The Swarm is back and even fiercer than ever, with the Queen of Blades as the leader of the ferocious beasts the battle heats up again as the Terran and Protoss try to stop her. In this first chapter/part it’s all about James “Jim” Raynor and his Raiders.

It took less than a day to finish the campaign and I’ve got to say, it was fun. I have played the Beta before but the units you can build in the campaign mode are way different than what you can build in the multiplayer. For example some starcraft 1 units: Goliath, Vulture, Wraith and Medics (not medivac). There are a lot more units and structures which don’t appear in the multiplayer. Blizzard did a fine job, only thing that kind of bothered me was the voice acting of the units, Wraiths/Vultures/Goliaths/Siege tanks doesn’t sound as cool as they did in the first game, it had some “badass-ness” to it but now.. they sound like wimps. The campaign made has also added some extras, you can upgrade your units with credits, which seems weird though. You can upgrade your refinery to harvest gas without SCVs or have Ghosts cloak without using energy =s…
Other than that, the graphics are great, sounds/music is good, gameplay has remained the same (which is a good thing imo).
I don’t like the singleplayer as much as I like the multiplayer though .

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