Game: Persona 4

Just realized that my last post was written on 7th July, which is Tanabata, a certain day in Japan. I am not gonna say more about it so wikipedia if you're interested. Wahahaha...

So, one of my best friends told me that she played Persona 4, and she played it twice. And said that she loved it. And the main character is handsome and blah blah blah. So my first reaction was: "See? Told you it is fun."

Indeed, Persona 4 is a late ps2 game. And it is certainly the game that will make you regret that you got rid of your ps2. To me my favourite RPG were the Shadow Hearts series. Which is then taken over by the Ar Tonelico series. But now the Most Favourite RPG throne belongs to Persona 4.

I am always in a state of fantasizing things. In this fantasy of mine, I am a student, but at the same time I am also in an adventure of some sort. Like, day time student, night time super hero, kind of stuff. And Persona 4 actually fits that category. Kind of a very free game.
You play as silent protagonist with a name that you gave him. In the manga he is called Seto Souji(瀬多 総司). Due to his father's work, he has to live with his uncle in Inaba. There he attends school and made some friends. But then there is this strange occurence in town, and he and his friends are pulled into this mess. With their new found powers, the Persona, Souji set out to find out the mastermind behind these mysteries, while attending school in the morning.

Other than typical RPG play styles, this game also have the Social Link system, which is the raised by socializing with people corresponding to a certain arcana. As the social link levels up, persona that belongs to that arcana with become stronger. Through this system, Souji can date certain female characters through answering the right choices. This system makes Persona 4 an RPG that is also a dating sim.

Making new persona is the fun part of the game. Each persona has their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. In the Persona series, the main character is always the one that is able to change to different persona, while the other characters can only have one persona, which compensates for the fact that if the main character dies, its instant game over.

This game has events that a school normally has, such as trips, festivals, so on. These events are fun to watch and often cracks me up. Makes me think that our school should set up more of something like this.

I really like this game, I think that everyone should play it if they have a chance. Personally i think the english version ruined the characters due to the voice acting. Mine is the japanese version, and hearing the voices that i know makes me happy as well.

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Touhou

What is Touhou? People like me who have gone deep into this particular culture of Japan will probably know about it.

Touhou is a game series very famous in Japan. What kind of game? A vertical danmaku shooting game. What is danmaku? Bullet hell! It means that most of the time the screen is covered with bullets. So you have to survive through that. For experts, they can get away without a scratch.

I first discovered Touhou due to some of the characters, but I didnt go too deep into it. Wasn't too interested in it at that time. It was during an anime party in Uni that I saw a fighting game based on Touhou characters. I found the game that night, and start playing it. I got hooked!

After that I downloaded the whole game series(excluding the non-windows ones, yupe it exists before windows). It has pretty high difficulty, so a bit of practise is inevitable. The bullet patterns are creative for some, and beautiful for others. Beautiful but deadly can be used here. This game already had 9 games for windows, with the tenth one releasing soon I think. Including the 5 non-windows games, 14 games are currently released.

Why is this series popular? For a game of its kind, the cast of characters is huge. Up to the most recent game it has more than 30 characters. All the characters are lovable in their own way. My favourite is a vampire named Remilia Scarlet.

It has spawned a lot of fan work. Doujins, music, anime, videos, other games, they are everywhere! well, in Japan =.= This shows how popular it is.

Its difficult to tell you all about it, thats just a glimpse of it. For more information, go to the Touhou Wiki. To end this post, I will put a picture with the most casts. (I think you can click on it to enlarge)

Reason to start a blog?

I was thinking of starting a blog some time ago. Now I finally did. You know why? One is because I'm a lazy bum, now finally got into doing it. The other reason?
Check out the girl on the side of the page. She's the reason!

There is a game called Ar Tonelico. And in there exists a race of humans that uses song magic, called Reyvateils. I am a big fan of the game series, so I checked the website often. They created something called a Supporteil. And she is one of them.

She is Maya(might change her name some time later), and she is created the moment I created this blog. You can chat with her if you want, but its in Japanese, or some people called it Moonspeak. I can understand a little, been learning myself, so I am not bothered. As her owner, I can do a lot of stuff with her. Well owner is not a good word to use though...

Well actually I can create her even without a blog. But it feels better when I can show her off to people through a website or blog. Need to spend some time to get her new clothes and stuff, but she does them herself anyway. You just have to tell her to do it.

If you are interested, go to Supporteil_Guide and it will guide you to make one.

But remember, she is not your pet. Treat her nicely!