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  • Trip Report #1: Persona 25th FES in Osaka

    Trip Report #1: Persona 25th FES in Osaka

    (“New” series! But this might be the first and last one because I don’t know what else is going on for me to visit 😂)

    I may not be the biggest Persona fan… but I’m still a big fan! I happened to be going to Osaka when I first saw the announcement on Siliconera, so I had to do whatever I could do go, even if it meant going immediately after spending most of my morning in another city. It was a looooong day, lol. I think the way it worked was that you had to get tickets the day of, so that morning I went to a Lawson convenience store and bought my ticket there. I wanted to get the limited edition goods, so I went for the more expensive option (~$30).

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  • RE: April

    RE: April

    pictured: HYUKOH, “Wanli万里”

    What is blogging? How do I Photoshop? Long time no see to whoever is still reading my blog. I had a really busy April for mostly school related reasons, but I am free (for now). Some tings:

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  • Now Playing #2

    Now Playing #2

    Since I last talked about my adventures in gaming, I bought and finished Dual Destinies 2 Ace Attorney 6 – Spirit of Justice. Like Dual Destinies, it didn’t get interesting until the last two cases… which is unfortunate because I personally really loved the subject matter: birth secrets, JUSTICE, occultism… yaaas. The graphics were also more beautiful than I thought they could be and it almost makes me want a remake for the original trilogy… almost. And because I love the Ace Attorney series so much, I bought a Japanese 2DS just for Dai Gyakuten Saiban! When I beat it depends on my dedication to learning Japanese properly, but I hope to make it my summer project. I’d at least like to get it over with before Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2 is released!

    I also bought Pokemon Moon which remains unfinished. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cute and fun but my interest just kind of petered out after a few weeks… because I bought a PS4! I’m currently “playing” Final Fantasy XV and having a fun time with it so far even though I’m SHIT at battles and feel like I only understand what’s happening 65% of the time. If you asked me what the story’s about I honestly couldn’t tell ya. 💁💁💁

    Around the time I bought Pokemon and a PS4, Persona 5 was delayed from February to April. At first I was pissed (there goes my romantic Valentine’s Day plans!), but then I realized that this is the perfect opportunity for me to beat some CONSOLE games for once. The plan is to play through/finish FFXV all February long, finally (FINALLY) finish P4 in March, take spring break to play a bit of new Zelda, then drop everything for P5! I’M GONNA DO IT

    And a fun story about the featured image (at PAX West 2016): (more…)

  • Don’t think… max out social links!

    click to enlarge!

    “Persona!” If you couldn’t tell by my tweets, I gave the game another crack after trying and failing to beat Shadow Mitsuo who, as far as I’m concerned, is an irrelevant flop. That boss battle gave me so much grief and I’m happy to see him gone — bye, Mitsuo! Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!

    A huge chunk of why I love this game is because of the ability to form bonds with others that affect what they’ll do for you in battle (e.g. “Yosuke will now die for you!”) and because my friends ingrained in me the habit of getting through dungeons quickly, I had ample time to relax. Soon realized I was being far too complacent about my progress in the game. There’s obviously a ticking calendar in this game, which means there will obviously be a point in which I can no longer level up my social links (side quests who??). For all I know this whole adventure could end in October, and here I am just loafing around in early September with only three social links maxed out. None of which are in the Investigation Team. CATCH ME WHEN I’M INEVITABLY FLOPPING IN THE FINAL BATTLE BECAUSE I HAVE NO MEANINGFUL FRIENDSHIPS

    I had to be careful at this point, and I had to out-calendar the calendar! Cue: your girl taking a good hour and a half to figure out how to make color-coded and separate calendars for each character link. YES.

    Day view.

    I plan on removing the dates for characters whose social links I’ve maxed out, but I have a lot of work to do. I barely just saw Naoto on the Midnight Channel, and if Shadow Mitsuo’s difficulty was any indication of how much harder this game is going to be… womp womp womp.

  • I am thou, thou art I, blah blah arcanas

    I’ve been playing Persona 4 (ペルソナ4) for the better half of the year, and it is an amazing RPG. A rural murder mystery — equal parts occultism and human psychology, with a generous helping of Japanese/Greek mythology, greeaaaaat dialogue (seriously, the localization is fantastic), and high school shenanigans. I love a lot of things about P4, but the most exciting about it is the almighty social link, which is an additional way for the player to strengthen personas. Oh my heck. Who knew establishing bonds and fostering friendships in a video game could be so stressful?

    Going through and trying to max out social links is most fun when you have the input of your friends. Things finally came to a head when I maxed out Ozawa Yumi’s social link (of the sun arcana), and the results are* hilarious.

    * Guess which one we went with! HAH.