Vacation time
This week was the last week of summer school and I have been a bit busy… but today was the last day so no more late updates until the actual school year starts again(er.. I hope). E3 also took place this week and I was angry I missed most of the live E3 coverage at summer school this year. However I did at least manage to catch up by looking back at 1UP’s live-blogs - which are hilarious(start from the bottom). One announcement that caught my eye at E3 was Sega’s announcement to bring Bleach DS 2nd to the US. You see, I did a review for the Japanese version about a month ago thinking the game would probably never make it to US shores, and to make it worse the site I did it for hasn’t even launched yet! So maybe it’ll be considered obsolete soon, who knows, but I don’t want to risk it so I’ll link right to the article and encourage you to read it now. (hint for the lazy: It’s good, buy it!) The thing that worries me is the review could have been better if I had used a more thorough translation guide and took the time to look deeper into the card system. But I took a “who cares it’s a fighter” approach and reviewed it pretty much based on the basic elements of gameplay.(so it goes…lol)
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This week I’ve been playing a variety of randomness: Truxton2 , Advance Wars DS, Power Stone, and Blue Wish Resurrection -some much more than others. At school someone loaded the school’s shared drive with Halo1, and so during lunch you can find upwards to 30 people in the computer lab all playing Halo on the LAN at the same time(16 per server of course). Me being not so fond of halo sit-out on the sidelines and watch. I played around with the hardware a bit and got some shmups working, but I came to the conclusion that the graphics drivers are very buggy(Intel integrated… I didn’t even think they made them anymore) and can’t run a Dreamcast emulator despite being dual core(no Ikaruga for me). I wanted to get a picture but the day I brought the camera the computer lab had a class in it during lunch(middle schoolers) so the halo players had all been kicked out.
I’ll be playing a crap load of DS tomorrow though *looks at a clock* -er… today, when I take a long road trip with my parents and one of my good friends. I’m traveling south-east to check out a ghost town called “Bodie”, along with a few other land marks such as Devil’s Postpile and some other randomness I can’t think of. It’ll be fun and I’ll make sure to take pictures! I will Be back on Tuesday. Until then:
-NPC out