Rather than simply spew forth any nonsense that took place during my play through (DEATH! So much DEATH!), I shall instead provide a comic. Because I care.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Ghosts 'n Goblins 'n Grammar, oh my! An apolocomic
Rather than simply spew forth any nonsense that took place during my play through (DEATH! So much DEATH!), I shall instead provide a comic. Because I care.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
*Blows the dust off the the old blog*
Hello hello!
The past week or *mumbles incoherently* have been a bit too crazy for game playing, regrettably, as I have been focusing on the craftier side of my life. This unfortunately cuts into my time.
Gaming time, that is.
I have taken a few *cough* hours *cough* to check out the new updates to the Steam game Terraria, which I suggest EVERYONE play, and today starts the Halloweening festivities in Guild Wars 2, so more Mad King shenanigans!
Swing by tomorrow, cause I'm back with Super Ghouls and Ghosts!
Animes in general have been getting more and more...well, gorgeous recently. Better art, smoother animations, fancier effects, the whole shebang and more.
A few that stand out specifically are The Devil is a Part Timer and Sword Art Online (both of which you should go check out, like, right meow), but decisively I'd have to choose Attack on Titan for no other reason than watching people zoom around on 3D maneuvering devices. I get a jab of adrenalin and motion sickness just watching these guys spin like overzealous tops mid-air at roughly a billion miles an hour, with nary a case of whiplash in sight.
What show has the best animation to you?
The past week or *mumbles incoherently* have been a bit too crazy for game playing, regrettably, as I have been focusing on the craftier side of my life. This unfortunately cuts into my time.
Gaming time, that is.
I have taken a few *cough* hours *cough* to check out the new updates to the Steam game Terraria, which I suggest EVERYONE play, and today starts the Halloweening festivities in Guild Wars 2, so more Mad King shenanigans!
Swing by tomorrow, cause I'm back with Super Ghouls and Ghosts!
Anime Challenge: THE SIXTEENTH DAY:
The show with the best animation
Animes in general have been getting more and more...well, gorgeous recently. Better art, smoother animations, fancier effects, the whole shebang and more.
A few that stand out specifically are The Devil is a Part Timer and Sword Art Online (both of which you should go check out, like, right meow), but decisively I'd have to choose Attack on Titan for no other reason than watching people zoom around on 3D maneuvering devices. I get a jab of adrenalin and motion sickness just watching these guys spin like overzealous tops mid-air at roughly a billion miles an hour, with nary a case of whiplash in sight.
What show has the best animation to you?
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Super Ghouls and Galled / Day 15
For the month of Scaretober Dark Souls is being usurped for my Monday Madness rage needs. Replacing it is Super Ghouls and Ghosts, for the Super Nintendo.
Now, when Aaron told me this was the Dark Souls of the retro world, I thought he was merely exaggerating. An attempt at cleverness, if you will. But hooooooooooooooooooooooly cow omg he's right omg he's riiiiiiiiiight!
While dying isn't so much a part of the game play as it is in Dark Souls, you certainly do alot of it. More even, I'd say. Even on the 'beginner' difficulty setting I die faster than a snowflake in Mount Doom. Nine lives wasn't enough to so much as reach the checkpoint in the first level, let alone beat it, and this is even after I watched Aaron play through it. I knew what was coming, and still I failed. Hard. Right on my face.
The game begins as any medieval story involving a knight should: In a castle with a princess in his arms. But of course our brave knight wouldn't get his chance at second base, for a flying demon...thing...hopped through the window and filled his damsel-stealing quota for the month. With nary a cold shower in sight, our brave knight sets off on his quest to save his fair maiden.
Level one: A graveyard, of course, but a graveyard that's either built directly on a fault line or suffering from a nasty case of the giant moles. The ground raises as you run and hop your way through hellhounds and zombies, one hit from which will reduce you from a glorious warrior in shining steel to some guy in his underwear, and a second of which kills you dead.
A game over under my belt in under ten minutes. A new record, even for me.
This will be a loooooooong month.
(Most) animals are absolutely adorable by their nature, albeit sometimes quite scary. Anime animals crank that cuteness up to eleven. Ein is an example of that cuteness in action.
Ein (or Einstein, because of course it is) is the super intelligent corgi companion in Cowboy Bebop. Why?
Because like the queen of England, I have an obsession with corgis. They're the big dog in the iddy biddy doggie body. And they're awesome.
So how about you? Which animal costar would you rather scratch behind the ears?
Now, when Aaron told me this was the Dark Souls of the retro world, I thought he was merely exaggerating. An attempt at cleverness, if you will. But hooooooooooooooooooooooly cow omg he's right omg he's riiiiiiiiiight!
While dying isn't so much a part of the game play as it is in Dark Souls, you certainly do alot of it. More even, I'd say. Even on the 'beginner' difficulty setting I die faster than a snowflake in Mount Doom. Nine lives wasn't enough to so much as reach the checkpoint in the first level, let alone beat it, and this is even after I watched Aaron play through it. I knew what was coming, and still I failed. Hard. Right on my face.
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Level one: A graveyard, of course, but a graveyard that's either built directly on a fault line or suffering from a nasty case of the giant moles. The ground raises as you run and hop your way through hellhounds and zombies, one hit from which will reduce you from a glorious warrior in shining steel to some guy in his underwear, and a second of which kills you dead.
A game over under my belt in under ten minutes. A new record, even for me.
This will be a loooooooong month.
Anime Challenge: THE FIFTEENTH DAY:
My favorite animal companion
Ein (or Einstein, because of course it is) is the super intelligent corgi companion in Cowboy Bebop. Why?
Because like the queen of England, I have an obsession with corgis. They're the big dog in the iddy biddy doggie body. And they're awesome.
So how about you? Which animal costar would you rather scratch behind the ears?
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Slendy and Friends / Day 14
Slender Man is the biggest douche I have ever encountered. Well...Maybe not the biggest... That's a title that changes hands about once a week. He's certainly the skinniest.
Seriously, every time I start to make ANY progress, he tails me long enough to get his rocks off, then grabs me, whips me around, and game over.
The good news is I've realized the game isn't random, at least not entirely and not in the way I thought. The start area is always the same, and I'm getting a better feel for the landscape, but the page locations do seem random.
With this astonishing revelation I was able to up my personal best to four whole pages!!! Yay me!!! But Slendy wasn't having me steal the fanfic or poetry or whatever he keeps hidden all over the woods. *REEEEEEEEEEE*PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH* GOD DAMN IT YES YOU CAUGHT ME!! Maybe you can be a bit QUIETER about it! *Clutches chest and exhales slowly*
Contrary to my previous thoughts, the game is actually a little scarier with the lights on, and with friends on Skype. The lights make it harder to see once the flashlight starts to go, and the odd sounds made over the speakers at random times caused as many jumps as Slendy himself.
Has anyone else played Slender: The Eight Pages? How many could you get?
I am a person who does not like new things. It's part of the reason I started this blog, to force myself to play something other than Skyrim or Legend of Zelda. The same goes for movies and TV shows. I will happily watch the same movie again and again and again, hissing at the mere mention of an unknown title, so I guess you can say there are ALOT of shows, anime and otherwise, I can watch over and over and over.
Seriously, every time I start to make ANY progress, he tails me long enough to get his rocks off, then grabs me, whips me around, and game over.
The good news is I've realized the game isn't random, at least not entirely and not in the way I thought. The start area is always the same, and I'm getting a better feel for the landscape, but the page locations do seem random.
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| Yup, gonna count that one as a loss |
With this astonishing revelation I was able to up my personal best to four whole pages!!! Yay me!!! But Slendy wasn't having me steal the fanfic or poetry or whatever he keeps hidden all over the woods. *REEEEEEEEEEE*PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH* GOD DAMN IT YES YOU CAUGHT ME!! Maybe you can be a bit QUIETER about it! *Clutches chest and exhales slowly*
Contrary to my previous thoughts, the game is actually a little scarier with the lights on, and with friends on Skype. The lights make it harder to see once the flashlight starts to go, and the odd sounds made over the speakers at random times caused as many jumps as Slendy himself.
Has anyone else played Slender: The Eight Pages? How many could you get?
Anime Challenge: THE FOURTEENTH DAY:
What anime never gets old
I am a person who does not like new things. It's part of the reason I started this blog, to force myself to play something other than Skyrim or Legend of Zelda. The same goes for movies and TV shows. I will happily watch the same movie again and again and again, hissing at the mere mention of an unknown title, so I guess you can say there are ALOT of shows, anime and otherwise, I can watch over and over and over.
But the anime I can (and have) watch a million billion times is Cromartie High School.
Cromartie follows Kamiyama: a normal, well behaved teenager who happens to attend a school for delinquents. Among his classmate are a robot, a gorilla, Freddy Mercury, and an adult plane jacker posing as a teenage boy.
The show doesn't make a lick of sense...Which makes it one of the most awesome things...Well, ever.
Fire up your streaming provider of choice, what anime can you watch for the rest of forever?
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Is that a tentacle on your back or are you just here to murder me?
DOM........DOM............DOM..........DOM.....
Slender: the Eight Pages. Lights off. Headphones in, volume up. All alone. Lets dance, Slendy.
The forest is dark, the sky clear. I catch the occasional glimpse of stars between the branches. All is quiet save for the occasional cricket song or gentle gust of wind. I click on my flashlight, dim as it may be, and head what I can only assume is North.
Ahead I can make out a clearing with a large tree in the middle. I walk around its base, and find a piece of paper with the words HELP ME in large crooked letters.
DOM
DOM
DOM
The music changes, the subtlety replaced with a deep pounding base. Mkaaaaaaaaaaay, my nice walk through the woods got a little bit more...Creepy.
I got lost quickly, with nothing but trees for as far as I can see, which with the fog and dim flashlight isn't far. I go a good five minutes without a single landmark to speak of, let alone a page or Slendy.
An old pickup truck with a red cab comes into view, with a page tacked to it's tailgate. Progress! But as I plunge back into the trees I am suddenly grabbed and swung around to the right, coming face to face with his Slendiness himself. SUNNUVABEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The blood in my veins was suddenly and violently replaced with needles. God damn it!!!
Ok, get it back together....Focuuuuuuus. I don't know if my spawn point is random each time, or if my bearings are truly screwed, but I don't find the tree again. Or the red truck. Instead a large tank looms into view, one of many in a group. I zig and I zag among them, but no page. There is a building just beyond them, surely somethings in there...
Nope. Just Slendy, scaring the bejeezes out of me with a loud GONG in my ear as I turn a corner. Nope nope nope nope nope I think I'll take my chances OUTSIDE where I can run (or walk, as the case is) instead of getting cornered, thank you!
The next several minutes would seem boring in any other game. Just me walking through the woods, nothing really happening, save for a single page, found on a large silo, that just so happened to have the Slend on the other side of it. But the whole time the hair on the back of my neck was standing at attention. I knew I was being followed, I could feel it. Occasionally I would turn to look behind me, the crackle of static telling me he was still on my tail. Sometimes my curiosity would be rewarded with a quick, sharp change in music and a glimpse of Slenderman.
Then my flashlight died. Balls. Balls balls balls balls. Balls.
I bumbled around the darkness for about 10 minutes until I bumped into a large blue tanker truck. A page! Score!!!
*Tap tap tap tap* Oh hai Slendy. No, you don't have spinach between your teeth, you don't need to shove your face in mine when you catch me.
*Sigh*.
Check back in tomorrow, I'm not done with this skinny bastard. DOM!!!!!
Slender: the Eight Pages. Lights off. Headphones in, volume up. All alone. Lets dance, Slendy.
The forest is dark, the sky clear. I catch the occasional glimpse of stars between the branches. All is quiet save for the occasional cricket song or gentle gust of wind. I click on my flashlight, dim as it may be, and head what I can only assume is North.
Ahead I can make out a clearing with a large tree in the middle. I walk around its base, and find a piece of paper with the words HELP ME in large crooked letters.
DOM
DOM
DOM
The music changes, the subtlety replaced with a deep pounding base. Mkaaaaaaaaaaay, my nice walk through the woods got a little bit more...Creepy.
I got lost quickly, with nothing but trees for as far as I can see, which with the fog and dim flashlight isn't far. I go a good five minutes without a single landmark to speak of, let alone a page or Slendy.
An old pickup truck with a red cab comes into view, with a page tacked to it's tailgate. Progress! But as I plunge back into the trees I am suddenly grabbed and swung around to the right, coming face to face with his Slendiness himself. SUNNUVABEEEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The blood in my veins was suddenly and violently replaced with needles. God damn it!!!
Ok, get it back together....Focuuuuuuus. I don't know if my spawn point is random each time, or if my bearings are truly screwed, but I don't find the tree again. Or the red truck. Instead a large tank looms into view, one of many in a group. I zig and I zag among them, but no page. There is a building just beyond them, surely somethings in there...
Nope. Just Slendy, scaring the bejeezes out of me with a loud GONG in my ear as I turn a corner. Nope nope nope nope nope I think I'll take my chances OUTSIDE where I can run (or walk, as the case is) instead of getting cornered, thank you!
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| ....Where oh where has the little *wince* Slendy gone....Oh where *choke* Oh where can he beeeeee *sobs* |
The next several minutes would seem boring in any other game. Just me walking through the woods, nothing really happening, save for a single page, found on a large silo, that just so happened to have the Slend on the other side of it. But the whole time the hair on the back of my neck was standing at attention. I knew I was being followed, I could feel it. Occasionally I would turn to look behind me, the crackle of static telling me he was still on my tail. Sometimes my curiosity would be rewarded with a quick, sharp change in music and a glimpse of Slenderman.
Then my flashlight died. Balls. Balls balls balls balls. Balls.
I bumbled around the darkness for about 10 minutes until I bumped into a large blue tanker truck. A page! Score!!!
*Tap tap tap tap* Oh hai Slendy. No, you don't have spinach between your teeth, you don't need to shove your face in mine when you catch me.
*Sigh*.
Check back in tomorrow, I'm not done with this skinny bastard. DOM!!!!!
SCARETOBER!!!!!!! / Day 13
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG IT'S OCTOBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!
Know what that means, right? CANDY! Also PUMPKIN! MORE CANDY!
Also scares. October is basically a 30 day Halloween's eve, and Halloween means scares. Lots of scares.
So for this month I'll be playing horror games, or games with a Halloween theme. As a result, many of my posts may not get put up until pretty late, since horror games are best played in the dark, eerie loneliness of the night.
For my first night of terror I'm going with good old Slenderman. I've never played it before, or any other horror game, really, so I'll be sure to give a play by play of exactly how badly I piss myself. Yay!
In the mean time I'm hard at work with other artistic endeavors, namely that of preparing to open my very own Etsy store.
Wish me luck!!!
Know what that means, right? CANDY! Also PUMPKIN! MORE CANDY!
Also scares. October is basically a 30 day Halloween's eve, and Halloween means scares. Lots of scares.
So for this month I'll be playing horror games, or games with a Halloween theme. As a result, many of my posts may not get put up until pretty late, since horror games are best played in the dark, eerie loneliness of the night.
For my first night of terror I'm going with good old Slenderman. I've never played it before, or any other horror game, really, so I'll be sure to give a play by play of exactly how badly I piss myself. Yay!
In the mean time I'm hard at work with other artistic endeavors, namely that of preparing to open my very own Etsy store.
Wish me luck!!!
Anime Challenge: THE THIRTEENTH DAY:
What character am I most like
Ooooo this one's kind of a doozy.....After all, most anime characters, even the side characters, are generally more interesting than I am...
I think I'll have to go with Chi-Chi, from Dragonball Z. Like Chi-Chi, I can be a bit...Well, a bit of a control freak. I also happen to have a significant other with their head in the clouds.
Who's your double in the anime universe?
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