プリムラの庭

Lately I have been quite busy with many different things. I have been watching some anime which I am still writing up some drafts so I can post on them, but for now… I will leave you with one of my favorite nonsense verses and its variation.

One fine day in the middle of the night,

Two dead boys got up to fight.

Back-to-back they faced one another,

Drew their swords and shot each other.

One was blind and the other couldn’t see,

So they chose a dummy for a referee.

A blind man went to see fair play,

A dumb man went to shout “hooray!”

A deaf policeman heard the noise,

And came and shot the two dead boys.

A paralysed donkey walking by,

Kicked the copper in the eye,

Sent him through a rubber wall,

Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.

(If you don’t believe this lie is true,

Ask the blind man — he saw it too!)

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i see said the blind man to the deaf dog

free admission, pay at the door

pull up a seat and sit on the floor

i’ll tell you a story i know nothing about

in the middle of the morning

in the middle of the night

two dead boys got up to fight

back to back they faced each other

drew their swords and shot each other

a deaf policeman heard the noise

and came and killed the two dead boys

a paralyzed donkey came their way

and kicked them over a 10 foot wall

into a dry ditch and drowned them all

(if you don’t believe this story is true,

ask the blind man, he saw it too!)

Lately I haven’t really been watching too much anime. Sad day – I know, but on the other hand I have been playing a bit of Mabinogi and a whole lot of Resident Evil 5. So I guess first off I will just list what anime you can expect to see a review for in the near future here.

• Clannad ~After Story
• Kurokami
• Toradora
• Shugo Chara

When will I have a review done for them? That’s a good question, because I am not to sure my self… eh hehe.

Now as for Resident Evil 5.

I spent nearly all of Friday the release day playing this game and nearly finished it. I started out on the normal difficulty and can say I am quite impressed with the game. The difficulty of the game is set quite nicely, where normal will give you quite the challenge without making it to incredibly easy. I still have yet to play it on the harder difficulty, but will be sure to post a bit of info on it later.

The graphics and lighting are outstanding. The rendering of light and reflection looks so great in this game. I could say that the graphics have greatly improved from Capcom’s norm. The controls work out quite well too. I would also like to say thank you for finally putting in the ability to strafe. Though you still cannot move while aiming, but isn’t that supposed to be apart of the Resident Evil series?

To me I felt that your partner AI lacks some actual intelligence, which can make the game quite frustrating seeing as your AI will not assist you when you need help or when you need to lure a zombie into a trap, rather your AI feels that it should go attempt to have a conversation with it, thus killing your partner making you retry it over and over again. This game was definitely designed for two physical players. One of the most interesting things about the split screen Co-op was the game doesn’t truly split the screen; it more of minimizes two screens and off sets them leaving portions of the screen unused. At first it bugged the crap out of me, but after about 45 minutes of playing I seemed to actually enjoy it more than having the screen split in half.

There was a level souly devoted to Gun on Rails, which I can say was the most frustrating level. I found many times where during this level the enemies would end up outside of the boundary box of the rails system or that during the reaction scences (like press ‘x’ to duck or dodge) the game didn’t really want to respond to your button press. I felt that the boss on that level made that portion of it even more frustrating seeing as it was purly built around the reaction buttons.

Overall, I would say any Resident Evil fan needs to play this. It will be everything you want and so much more satisfying all your Resident Evil needs. There is a large assortment of weapons, the lack of ammuntion like there should be, new types of zombies, and so much more.

The other day I was browsing Youtube and came across a video with many variations to it. The song for the video is called Kumikyoku. In a nutshell you could say it’s just one giant medley of songs. And it just seems some people just have way too much time on their hands. I will post 3 versions of the song. First version will be of a mixed version of the original Kumikyoku. The second will be the original. The thrid will be a mario paint version.

Lucky Star Remix

Original

Mario Paint Version

Song List ▼

I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did. It was quite entertaining. I tried to see how many songs I could pick out before looking up the song list. I got about 15 of the songs right. Well hopefully I will get some anime watching done this week so I can start posting on that.

I guess I should blog about my latest game addiction. Which would be non other than Mabinogi. Coming from playing Ragnarok on a vast number of servers (iRO, Xile, WolfRO…) and playing a few WoW private servers; Mabinogi has been an overall great experience. There are a few pieces to Mabi that feel like I have seen before in another game, but hey… what game hasn’t shared at least an idea with another? In Mabinogi there are three classes which you can be; Human, Elf, or Giant. I have one of each, but at the moment completely focused on my Human character. This game has many things for you to do than just grind (and I can’t stress enough how much I hate grinding, but that’s is another topic for another day). To just name a few; you can cook, compose and play music, Weave, Fish, Cultivate, and many more. There are more quests than I know what to do with. The quests are split up into different types of quests. You have hunting quests which require you to hunt a specific monster. You have exploration quests which can be as simple as finding a given statue to sketch or as hard as finding your way out of an underground tunnel filled with some very hard monsters. You also have the Mainstream quests. These quests are the story line of the game. It requires you to go through a series of tasks to complete to unlock more details on the story.

There is just so much to this game that explaining it all would take a whole days worth of writing. Again as I said before the overall experience has been great. Though the game has been great it has had its low points. Most the low points just end up giant headaches and frustration. The battle system for the game is a bit confusing at first, but if you’re willing to spend the time and learn it, it becomes second nature to the game. One of my main frustrations comes from the ‘I hate grinding’ mindset, as much as I love leveling and running dungeons…. I feel that all the dungeons in mabi are nearly identical. Minus the frustrations I can sadly say,

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I have however been able to pull myself away from Mabi long enough to watch some anime. The main things keeping me playing mabi right now are the friends I have gained, and the vast amount of cute outfits in the game. Here are a few screenshots I have taken (click on images to see full size):

My Main Character ▼

Left to Right: Zyg, Me, Roobz ▼

Guild: Onigiri in Paladin and Dark Knight form ▼

Guild Photo ▼

Oh the things I have missed. First off I wanted to thank Zyg and the owner of this domain for allowing me to be apart of it ^^. I guess it is time to get back in the swing of writing anime reviews again. Here I will start anew and revisit a few series I have reviewed before. In addition to anime reviews I will also be reviewing games and on that slim occasion; write a review on a manga series I might have started. For now I am laying the landscaping of my blog so I can start planting some seeds and hopefully have a full, beautiful garden.