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Taiko No Tatsujin
I was able to purchase an original Taiko no Tatsujin Import from the dealer's room during Fanime from Japan Video Games. A really nice one indeed, pretty pricey but hey, Namco did not decide to bring it here to America and just translate it, so might as well buy it.

Its a really fun game, moreso when i asked a friend of mine to test out the multi player mode thru Wi-Fi with his cart. It works!! We were finally able to figure out the buttons under the wi-fi menu how those buttons work, even if I can't understand the characters. First button is the leader, and the second button is for players to come and join the leader :) With the multiplayer mode there's a questionmark note that when you hit on time pops a random effect for either yourself or your opponent. Really fun.

Oh and not to mention the 'daily letter challenge' or so what i can translate from my basic Nihongo, or 'Mainichi Tegameshi Gamu-' and whatever that last word means. it challenges you to play a certain song, the blue button is for practice, and the red button will be for the actual challenge itself. So in one day you will have to try and pass the daily challenge and the game will give you some sort of expertise rank that will be stuck under your name. oh and you can only have one music per day, after finishing that challenge that's when you'll move up to the next one. Once accomplished you receive a 'tegami' or letter next day in the mailbox with either a new song, sound effect, mode or accessories.

Just for plugging for those people who want to buy imported japanese games inside america I'm typing down Japan Video Game's Flyer here:

Japan Video Games
www.japanvideogames.com
9548 Las tunas Dr.
Temple City, CA 91780
Phone# 626-287-7850

Summon Night:Twin Age

I was able to purchase the game last Wednesday. However, due to my recent lack of strength and vitality, I fell asleep and was only able to pop it into my DS last friday. And I was overwhelmed by the gorgeous graphics. Its may be Sprite-y but its well color coordinated.

The Initial reason why i bought this game in the first place was because of the boxart. I was able to recognize one of my favorite artist's signature drawing/coloring style, Sunaho Tobe.
Sure enough, when i checked her website, under her works section most recently was indeed this game i'm referring to. Secondly, I enjoyed the first Summon Night on the GBA and thought that it wouldn't hurt to see what's this baby's gonna look like. Indeed its as enjoyable as I have imagined it to be.

My observations from it is that it has a lot of menu's to take a look at, a huge skill tree and so on... Its like a mix of the palette and skill system from Ragnarok Online,the use of summon monsters [espers] from Final Fantasy: Revenant Wings, and the old Create Items and Upgrade Weapons system that was introduced in the Summon Night 2 GBA game. Pretty ingenious. Not to mention the loooooong conversations during cutscenes of events where you see the characters heads talk with balloons on top change expressions (kinda like how the new NPC's in Ragnarok Online's Recent Updates do)

So far, i'm really hooked into the cuteness. And I couldn't put down my DS while playing the game for hours and hours. Really worth it to play the game.


Aaaaaand back to life stuffs:

I've recently been trying to finish little by little all my unfinished works. Hopefully they are done in time to be sold as prints in SiliCon. I uploaded something new yesterday in my DeviantArt Gallery and hopefully you like it.

Girl Sketch 075 by *rainbow010101 on deviantART

References:
Taiko No Tatsujin DS
Summon Night: Twin Age

Until then see you all again next time ^__^

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