Monthly Archives: March 2015

So, I finished Skyrim

Killed the Big Dang Dragon, saved the world, fulfilled my destiny as the Chosen One, brought balance to the Force, all that good stuff.  Took 68 hours, which I understand is a pretty quick run by Elder Scrolls standards. To … Continue reading

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I Can Stop Playing Music Games Now

…because I’m almost certainly never going to out-do this: Sadistic Music Factory is the “Boss Fight” of Project Diva ƒ, and in keeping with series tradition it’s yet another super-high-BPM cosMo@暴走P song.  It was also the last song keeping me … Continue reading

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In Which, I Try Another Elder Scrolls Game

I have not had a particularly good history with the Elder Scrolls games.  The first one I tried, Arena, was so long ago that I actually had to install it from 1.2 MB 5.25″ floppies, and my experience with the … Continue reading

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I’ll feel guilty about this once I stop giggling.

Occasionally, I find a move in a fighting game or brawler that is so insanely silly that I can’t help but try to use it at every opportunity, even if it makes little to no sense. For example, in the … Continue reading

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The Enemy of my Enemy or something like that

I’ve watched a lot of truly irredeemable love-polygon anime over the years.  You know the sort – hapless nice guy sort of character finds himself surrounded by cute girls who are occasionally also mystical creatures or aliens but who are … Continue reading

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Demon Gazed

I finished Demon Gaze last night, and according to the in-game timer, it took me a hair over 42 hours.  I started it back in mid-December, so I’ve obviously taken some breaks from play here and there.  Some of that … Continue reading

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The Eternal Spinning Maid

So, there’s a bit in the opening credits of The Familiar of Zero where several of the secondary characters are doing this little hop-spin thing, and I decided that Siesta’s pirouette needed to be made into an animated .gif.  You … Continue reading

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I Bought This Game for the Plot

Lot of Dead or Alive posts recently, sorry about that. I could talk about The Familiar of Zero instead, since that’s the show I’m currently using as a distraction from spending 90 minutes a day on the exercise bike. I … Continue reading

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In Which, I Purchase Cosmetic DLC

So, there’s apparently a bit of a kerfluffle going on right now in the competitive fighting “scene”, as it were, where fans of the Dead or Alive series are concerned that their punching simulator of choice is not taken seriously … Continue reading

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Well, that was unexpectedly brutal

It turns out that playing through DoA: Dimension’s tutorial has boosted my confidence enough that I’ve decided that I’m actually going to try playing a fighting game online, and I had a bunch of PSN credit left in my Japanese … Continue reading

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