Well tis official that I've finished my first game this year, AND on a new console as well. The fisrt of my knock offs this year was Mirror's Edge for the Xbox 360. I was so excited when mirrors edge was coming out, I actually considered buying it for PC... but I thought fuck it. It's a console game, I don't think it would be right on a Mouse and Keybaord set up.

Hopefully I can get through a couple more. I'm planning on giving Metroid Prime: Hunters on the DS a go on the weekend, that's if I get around to it. But it's a long weekend and we all know that I love them.

Other than that, new job seems to be going well. I get left alone for the most part and seem to have full reign over the internets, which is good because there's a few things daddy needs to get some prices on at the moment and I can't be bothered doing it at home... plus you know they don't pay me to do it at home. LOL

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One of the few things that get me excited nowdays is a annoucement of a new Sakura Taisen Game. It just so happens the Nippon Ichi of America have made this the most exciting year since 2005 for me.

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Basically I came in my pants when I heard this. I've been waiting so long for an english localisation of ANY Sakura Taisen game I have up hope a long, long time ago. There were hopes and rumors when Sakura Taisen ~Atsuki Chishio ni~ came out in Japan, not that I waited. I just buy up the special limited edition versions or any ST game released and horde them like a madman. 

Sakura Taisen 5 was one of the best PS2 import games that I played. Graphics were good, story was excellent (easy to follow even though I don't know Japanese) gameplay was outstanding. For those of you that don't know Sakura Taisen games blend Strategy, Dating Sim, Anime Storybook and Action games togother in one magnificent gameplay experience. The basis of the games are that you go around sweet talking chicks to make the battles easier against the Steam Punk evil Robots that you have to lay smack down on. Epic Boss fights thrown in for good measure and Combination moves are abundant. The more the girls like you the better there fighting abilites are. If your super nice to one girl in particular you get her special lovey dovey ending, that's well worth the effort for replay. With some clever saving, resetting and strategy you can see all the ending in about 2 full sittings.

It's also interesteing to note that a Wii version is going to be released as well, of course I'll get both, that's just what I do when it comes to Sakura Taisen stuff. Wii Controls + Sakura Taisen might even be enough to warrant me purchasing a US Wii... cause I don't think my region hack is going to last forever. Region encoding is so 2005.

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It's always a little dissapointing when series get around the 5 or 6 sequel mark. Perfect eaxample is Bleach: Heat The Soul on PSP. I swung past shinTokyo last week and pick up this new release all excited when I got home to plug it in and start Soul Reaping some Espada ass all over the graphical floor on the PSP.

Let me start by saying I love the Heat The Soul series on PSP. I've had a lot of great times beating the crap out of friends via WiFi in the first game. Then 2-4 came and they trumped each other fantastically. 5 introduced a bunch of new characters and tag mechanic and hollow ichigo (awesomeness to play as).

Then comes six. I really hope this isn't the end of the series (HTS:7 anyone?) becuase it's a bit of a low point. Wright with exploits and a pointless story battles with stupid rules. The tag mechanic it's ok, but essentially you have to pick between having 2 characters tht you can swap, change and absorbe damage with or 1 beefed up character with a crappy power up special. As you guessed it 2 characters in tag nearly always win. The AI can be punishing as well... too punishing in some parts. It jumps from being "walks into punches" to "harbringer of death" mid way through the game.

I'm happy I got it. But just wanted to share with you. If your not a HTS fan, don't get this as your first game, get 3 or 4 (cheap mind you from play-asia).

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All I wanna say is fuck yeah PS3 FTW!

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Ok. So I finally bit the bullet and decided to get a full next gen gaming console. Was a tough choice between a PS3 and the Xbox. But ultimatley the cheaper option won out.

This is all well and good I hear you say but what games did I get?
- Mirrors Edge
- Beautiful Katamari
- Assasins Creed
- Blue Dragon

All these found their way home with me.

Ok, not minding the bogging from phone but I can't upload pics... Anyone know of avoid blogging tool for iPhone? At moment all I'm using is a mvable type plugin.

Street Fighter IV

Now I thought that this was pretty exciting. Finally a proper sequal to Street Fighter III. I'm glad it's not another "Edition" although I'm sure if the game is any good there will be a lot more Street Fighter IV's to come...

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Now I think this is one of the most interesting game idea's that I've seen in a long time. AND a really good use for the DS and the tylus system. I'm thinking it's going to be something like Mii's for the DS. Now there's an idea...

Oh well it's called Drawn to Life and the basics are that you drawn your own games character as well as a few other things. Pretty fun. I say bring on the dick guys, naked chicks and poo monsters. I've already got a name for my rocket. The SpaceShit... you can guess what it will look like.

MWHAHAHAHAHA

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Well another week has gone by in the life of me. There's been a fair bit happening as well. For starter my host, hostrocket, has been hacked, yet again. As before I've been left unscathed. This time at least I still have access to everything, for the time being. Funnily enough it was even my server that was targeted and still nothing of mine has been effected. Fuck you script kiddies, get a life. It must make you feel so tough being able to exploit peoples security holes and piss them off. Remember, your NOT a hacker, your a fat loser that's never been laid.

Well in other news the engagement ring has had to be resized. Seems like Zamels at Ingle Farm are fat useless whores, oh yes, I'm naming and shaming. Hell I even went in with Jessy to get the finger sized up and they got it wrong. The sales girl there was completely unhelpful, so much so I'm tempted to set her on FIRE. Maybe that will give her the motivation to get her job done properly.

In my forever growing gaming pile I'm about to add the new .hack//G.U. Vol. 3 //Redemption to the collection. As well as a set of various other things I've really go no intention of playing anytime in the next 1-8 years. However, as I haven't yet played Vol. 2 I've got a few weeks of things to do before I can ever start the end of the series. I will however look at getting a few other things from the wonderful US:

- Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of The Lions
- Brave Storey: New Traveler
- Wild ARMs 5

Crap, I'm sure there's something else as well. I can't remember at the moment though, I'm sure it will come to me. My main question is when am I going to get to see the awesomeness that Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core!

Bowser is also getting a plethora of "upgrades" over the next few days. My new front end has arrived today, late model goodness. I just need to get it painted. Also still waiting on the Glass High Beam housings, hopefully they should be here sometime this week and then everything can go on. I've just ordered a set of whiteline Adjustable Sway Bars and a set of RDA Slotted Rotors.
I've also got a new Decal coming, (^_^!)

That's about it... I think. Looks like I've got a fair bit to get done before my "room mates" get back from the US of A. Somehow I don't think it's all going to be done though... Oh well.

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Well I finally took the plunge and decided to hack my PSP firmware so I can emulate some of the super cool SNES games I have and hopefully some PS1 games.

As it turn out I needed to upgrade to the offical 3.50 firmware then downgrade to 1.50 then upgrade to 3.52 M33. All with a slight chance of turning my PSP into a shiney white brick. As it turns out, all went off without a hitch and now I can run Super Metroid among other calssics like EVO: Search for Eden, Super Mario Kart & Chrono Trigger. If I can just the the PSX emulation working for Chrono Cross (I know there's problems with it) and some of my other "awesome" PSX games I'll be all set!

BUT there's an "update" that I need to get installed and extracting files from offical firmware, although not out of my capabilites, is all starting to get too hard for a console that a rarely play. Still I'll perserver. Nothing like getting paid while sorting it out at work.

Another milstone last night was that I've also finally manged to get through all 111 episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journey's damn it was a memorable ride. So hopefully I can finally get into doing something else before bed time now. I've got about 10 books backed up that need to be read in the near future. As always so many games as well. I don't think it will ever be possiblt for me to play everything I have...

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I just won myself a Wonderswan Color from ye old eBay. It comes with the Special Edition Final Fantasy 2 box set, (so the Wonderswan itself it special edition Final Fantasy one. (^_^) ) as well as Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy IV. Yes, I know that's all I need, more final fantasy's that I'm never going to play, but come on, it's a Wonderswan!

I'd also like to get myself a GP2X, purely for the emulating goodness, as my PSP it's up-to-date with firmware upgrades. I just like the browser and stuff, and to be honest I'd rather it be all shiny and spiffy than old and crappy with a bit of emulation software.

I guess that's where the GP2X comes into play. It looks specifically designed to play all the SNES emulation that I could ever want, and although it's a little on the expensive side for what it is, it doesn't even have a Lithium rechargeable battery, it doesn't look too bad. Sadly though, like the Wonderswan, I'll probably have to wait a while to get one. At the moment I'm looking a HUGE tax bill for this financial year, damn government always wants me money, as well as a steadily increasing credit card bill for all the Japanese gaming goodness I've been purchasing. Bleh, makes me want to go to bed...

On a plus side I think my fir Dreamcast game, Sakura Taisen 3 [Limited Edition B], comes with another Sakura Taisen VMU, should be arriving tomorrow, it's going to be hard to guess what I'll be doing tomorrow night.

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