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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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12:06p - Meltdown
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) johntv tipped me off about a store breaking the street date for this week's games by a whopping three days, so I dashed over and picked up biohazard 4 and Catch! Touch! Yoshi! after work. The trains had stopped because there was an accident in 中華街, which made things painful, but I got home eventually. Also bought a new webcam so the RamCam is once again active!
 Couldn't find the AC adaptor for my GameCube so started to play some Yoshi instead. For those unfamiliar with the game, the idea is that Mario and Yoshi make their way along the course by themselves and you draw clouds to guide them away from danger. As John TV puts it, it's more like an action-puzzle game than a platform game, though the environments are definitely familiar to fans of the Yoshi games. There's a lot of things going on in the game and you really have to multi-task to succeed. This page describes all the things you can do - drawing cloud platforms, drawing rings round enemies and coins, tapping Yoshi to jump, tapping elsewhere to throw Yoshi's shells, blowing the mic to blow the clouds off the screen. It starts to get very stressful because you only have one life on the strolling Yoshi section. Anyway, good to know my DS still has a reason to live (^_^);
More Fantasy Earth info
Lots of new screens at Game Watch. Incoming info this time is regarding the characteristics of each nation along with the basics of the fort system. There are five nations all battling to control land, it's pretty unusual to see this level of PVP in a Japanese-made MMORPG. Each of the land masses has 15 areas, and if an opposing country is controlling that area, you can build a keep there, from which you start your offense. Gameplay goes: choose your fort, choose where to build it, declare war, countdown, battle starts. After declaring war, a screen shows the number of players on each side, and new people can join. It looks like 50 vs 50 from the screens. Obelisks are used to expand your territory little by little, watch towers can be placed to alert you of monster attacks while initiating a bit of defense. There's also dragon summons and warcraft shops that you build to give you summoning powers. Different warcraft shops allow you to summon different monsters.
A couple of the jobs are looked at too - sorceror and shadow walker. The sorceror has access to summons and other powerful spells. The summon system seems to be very different from the FFXI system though. Summons include giants, wraiths and dragons. Shadow walkers have the stealth moves and can attack with critical strikes. The pics are pretty nice anyway, so have a look if you care for this kind of thing.
More Frances news
Leaked version was 76:29 five tracks, Kerrang says 76:55 single track, the band says "one million hrs" suggesting the album loops and that the end of the last Sarcophagi, which probably loops into the start of the first Sarcophagi, was missing from the leaked version.
current mood:  コーヒーちょうだい
current music: UNKLE "Reign" (Evil Nine Mix) (12 comments |comment on this)
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