So I’ve been putting a lot more time into Devil Survivor as of late. Still on Day 3, but that’s because I’ve been spending a lot of my playtime cracking skills.

It’s an awesome system, and what I didn’t even think to do was have characters who can’t use the skill once it’s cracked go crack them. I may not be able to use them that battle, but then I can go switch the skill to a character who can afterwards. But it’s so simple. Before battle just select a character, select a skill to crack and then select the enemy to crack it from. If that player’s team kills that enemy, you have unlocked the skill. Now any of your human characters, but only one, can use the skill.

The level of customization I get from being able to chance skills at any time outside of battle and to have mini-goals of accumulating lots of skills really adds a “Gotta catch ‘em all” kind of addiction to the game. My only issue is that as of right now I only have four leader characters and it looks like you can only have four parties. I really wish the number was higher but I’ve got a feeling that won’t change.

Mar 042009
 

It seems if I write an article on my iPhone WordPress application, it gets saved as the date I started writing the article. What I posted yesterday showed up only half completed and in November of last year. That’s a tad bit disheartening.

Well, that learns me to not start writing an article and finish it months later.

 

I’ve been living in Japan for over a year and a half now, so I tend to forget what is going on in the gaming world in the States.

I have a rough idea because I still chat to some gamers and they tend to live in not-Japan. They also tend to as of late bitch about what Nintendo is releasing or more precisely what Nintendo is not releasing. Continue reading »

 

So, so busy.

Put a lot of hours into Street Fighter 4 this week. Have finally been winning some ranked matches. I kinda “figured out” how Rose is meant to be played, and that is defensively. So it’s tough, but I prefer the challenge. While I was waiting in Osaka last night for someone, I got myself a card to rank my arcade SF4 battles, but I found out I can’t actually access the card’s information unless I have a Japanese cellphone that isn’t the iPhone.

Goddamm I hate the iPhone sometimes.

Been making mild Devil Survivor progress. I spent a lot of time working on new demons for my parties because the jump from Day 2 to Day 3 was pretty damn difficult. Now I’m ready to progress, I think.

Other than that, it’s been pretty light. I’ve started delving into a book. That is to say, one without pretty pictures. Actually, it’s The Neverending Story so it does have nice pictures at the beginning of each “book-in-the-book” chapters, but as this version is Japanese, it doesn’t line up quite like it does in English (or the original German for that matter.)

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