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Old games and the hidden truth

6/3/2011

Good morning! You know, after countless HDD crashes, data losses and other troubles, I actually managed to get a backup copy of my first completed game. It was a not-so-special RPG with cute graphics. However, when I tried to play it I remembered something- it's Japanese, so all the text now looks like this

making a translation completely impossible.
And now I have to tell you people the horrible truth- Disillusioned Journey is a remake of the above mentioned game! There you have it. I decided to update the game to add more to the gameplay and make it playable for those with no knowledge of Japanese (or gibberish). I'll try to be as faithful as possible, but still expand on the original storyline (which was quite lame) and make it longer than two hours.
Oh and in case you're curious what the scene looks like now...

Well I sure hope I won't disappoint. G'bye~!

ZHP and Cheap Tricks

1/3/2011

Why, hallo thair! I know I haven't been updating for a while, so sorry! (I still flooded my Twitter account, but who cares?) And again, I have to say that there's nothing I could update about! I haven't touched Disillusioned Journey in, like, forever and have been sucked in by work. Buuuut I can still share my opinion about games, which has already overtaken RPG Maker updates here.
Sooo, lately I've been spending a lot of time into one of Nippon Ichi's newest games:

Zettai Hero Project: Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman! (Bleh, what a mouthfoul) So what's this game about? It's a dungeon crawler! But being from NIS there's more to it than that. It's not one of those 08/15 stock games with boring dungeon and hours of unrewarding grinding. Oooh no! This game is a humorous masterpiece with deep mechanics and rewarding gameplay.
The story's all about a superhero getting run over by a car during a mission to save the world- and in a last act he hands a completely normal bystander his authority and passes away. The problem? You're weak. You're a nobody. You're weak. You've got no experience. Did I mention that you're weak? And what's the solution? Train, train and train. And once you're done training, train some more! And pay living expenses to your wife.
There's a lot to the gameplay- much more than I feel like explaining, actually, so you'll have to check out this awesome article for more details.
The game offers some bonus dungeons, which will let you fight and eventually unlock secret characters. Characters from various anime and manga series, to be precise. These dungeons are naturally much tougher than the others. I only beat one of them so far, and I probably wasn't even supposed to. I used a really cheap (or intelligent?) trick to do so. I pulled myself through until the boss stage- there I equipped a Prinny Hat (more to that later) and threw everything I had at the boss and WHAM- she was defeated before she could even reach me! How was this possible?

Prinnies are sinner-penguins (eh, it's complicated) who explode upon impact. Equipping the Prinny Hat in ZHP will make everything you throw explode, which deals ridicolous amounts of damage. Really, you could throw the last piece of garbage to deal ~300 damage. But wait, of course there's a drawback: If you equip it, you yourself will explode when thrown as well. So if there's any enemy with a throwing ability around? Run for it or unequip this thing! Oh and the character I unlocked would be this one~

Yeah, she's from a really retarded (but definitely enjoyable) anime that's all about bloodily murdering an innocent boy.
And well, that's about it. But before I leave...

Adios~