音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

2015-Dec-04 (Fri), 22:03@GMT-7

✯ 絶望なんかしません

Someone said I looked stressful yesterday. Really? I myself know for sure I was not. But why others thought so? In this sense I might be, as to keep a poker face is always one of my life style mottoes.
Perhaps it's because the unknown (?) virus invaded me over the past week and almost drained up all my HP. At least my hard working immune system managed to annihilate them and thus I didn't end up with being another source of biohazard.
The nature is the most mysterious! No need to explain further. Every such time I strongly feel it, and appreciate that as a single and independent unit, my system is running well.
↓ Twisted 18+ contents. Hover at your own risk.
Meanwhile, I also tend to think about the opposite. That a single base change could result a completely different life being. In the wild world, they are most likely being discarded and soon return to the earth. While in the more advanced homo sapiens realm, they're protected as long as it's possible. However, for quite a lot of times I keep thinking, is there a reason for that? Depending on the situation, it's absolutely a worth-doing if the targets are only affected in the physical body; limbs can be replaced, brains can't. But if that's the very very important "mind-sphere" got interrupted irreversibly? It's not Sci-Fi, we can't yet restore body functions at this level, why waste time and energy for them? Just because they're born as a person? Try to think from the malfunctioning one's view -- here I have to overcome that they might not even be able to think -- with a human form, but a not-more-complicated-than-any-single-cellular-organism life. Nothing won't be fun without a good brain, and by the end their existence is merely helping researchers to reach for the yet-still-far-away goal of being an ultra-saviour. In this sense, even cyanobacteria has a more meaningful life span! By keep doing such anti-nature things the currently only-one earth is going to be unbalanced day by day.
So that why Sibyl System only stores human brains is reasonable. << no, I'm never intending to have a dark comedy.
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As to think for other possible reasons:

死にゲー祭り!! (゚∀゚#)

Yomawari clear! And htoL#NiQ Hotaru no Nikki clear!
Both are quite short in story, but still cost plenty of time till the very end. I (perhaps most others) simply kept dying and retrying.
Yomawari's ending theme is a true beauty, which must have deceived lots of people buying it. I'm happy with that game though -- experiencing all the silent time in Silent Hill series, I won't complain anything regarding to its BGM-less-ness.
Even it's a game in which players are supposed to die a lot, the loading is fairly quick, and every item you got is auto-saved so you can just get everything by piling up your bodies. The sound effects and the stamina system were both realistic (I think my running status would be similar to that in real world). Anyway, Alice is cute. Cute girls in a horror game (like Zero series), which is enough to satisfy me.
Plus this is a death game, I like this type (that I did all Ao-Oni versions!).
↓ Some "sweet" memories:
The more I look at him, the more I hate dogs. lol
The so Silent-Hill-otherworld-ish moment!
She does show a cute face.
As I said before, I want such a cushion~
The Path of 1000 Torii (Moe-Mode)
Die!! XDD
↑ If they all happen in the real world, I'll of course be scared.
Later on, as the person who streamed his Yomawari gameplay mentioned, that although he didn't expect Yomawari didn't have a real bad end, anyone who wanted an even darker story should try htoL#NiQ, which was a way of self-killing. So after seeing the moe-moe Mion-chan, I couldn't resist to step into that fantastic ruin.
However, the first impression of this game I had was "what? you can do back-touch on PSV?" << Apparently I never read my PSV's user manual. ^^;
Yet the back touch was too hard to control, so I switched and stick to type-B.
And the first thing made me to get a screen capture was... a corpse!
Corpse x4...
Corpses again... let's have a corpse party!
The traumatic stages... of course they belong to the two irritating mini-mazes!
While noticed many people compared this to Limbo, I got curious too and took a look at it. The result was, I could save some money as I'm not interested in controlling a shota at all.
Again, cute is justice!
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A long, long way to rank S in Code: Veronica

Only do Silent Hill when you're in a bright mood, as it may decrease your lightness. But you can do Biohazard at any time, as it always gets your mental state more delightful. And the very best action I like is, to shot down the dog with one handgun bullet, and then stab it to death. Nothing can be more joyful. Annoying things should just go to hell! (← Dark soul full open.)
Trying to revenge the rank E I got after my first time play, I did it over the last weekend. My memory wasn't clear yet in the second time, especially toward the end. At the end, out of my expectation that I'd spent like 6 hours, I actually spent 7 hours and half!! @@
How evil is Code Veronica! But looking at the B rank, you'll know how tough it was for the first time players.
Not only the route is long. Some difficult stages, like Tyrant 2nd, Nosferatu, hunters, and Alexia 1st. So many instant deaths. And aiming for the S rank meaning NO SAVE within 4 hours and half.
Thinking about I got S after 8 rounds in Biohazard 3, Veronica still has a long way to go. u_u
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Just watched Steins;Gate 0's PV. I wish they could animate it! As I'm an even worse novel game players than being a horror/action player.
(It shouldn't be the end as I feel like there's still something I need to write, but can't recall it right now..)
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2015-Nov-25 (Wed), 22:48@GMT-7

✿ The Half-Sleeping Week Was Over

Even though it's still "Shimotsuki", recent days were rather like "Shiwasu" that everything was crammed together. Over the weekend to Monday, my brain was in a semi-freezing state after going over 24 x 2 meaningless reports. And after all sessions on Tuesday were done, my brain was finally exploding that I couldn't keep myself awake.
So I had to leave it to tonight, after a refreshing link-up between "Psycho-Pass film" and "biohazard 4". (´∀`;)
★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*
Why a dog was born as a dog?
When I heard the dog barking in the yard tonight, this question slid into my mind. What made you enjoying life after all?
It won't help anything even if I happen to figure that out; I never expect it though, such things are way too complicated than understanding why gravity exists.
★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*

Time leap will solve everything, as long as you're not having a infinite loop

Just because Lia and Maeda Jun the combination was back, I watched "Charlotte" over the past week. The first half was so great -- while I was aware of any kind of unexpected development. Yet the real development was way beyond my thoughts.
Everything up to they went to the live was perfect. The pace was going smoothly, no rushing, no slowing down. Beginning with the "remaining memories from the other 'world-line'", the story was going absurd. I personally don't dislike time leap and this sort of story, that I love Steins;Gate so much, but the combination of alien power destroys the good taste contributed by all previous episodes. Moreover, there're some isolated flags needed to be taken care of. I'm still wondering how Nao's brother will be after the time leap; he was brought to the secret base and thus had no chance to meet the singer -- don't tell me in a Steins;Gate's style, that the world will converge!
The ending is even absurd. No need to think, this is impossible. (well, since he's the main character, he's perhaps protected by the scripter's holy aura?)
★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*★☆*

Alice in Nightland

"Yomawari", featuring another nameless girl (refer to "jinrui wa suitai shimashita") who doesn't want to accept the truth that her dog is already dead due to her (or the game's tutorial's requested) action, goes exploring the night town to look for her lost dog and sister.
However, for lots of reasons, your name is Alice and "yomawari" becomes "Alice in Nightland".
I'm quite aware of my bad game play skills, that quickly in chapter 2, I got the trophy for "dying 30 times" (while one of my following players got it way after in chapter 4. orz). But in such an instant killing game, I believe I can die for over 300 times! I wonder whether the game actually counts your deaths and show it after game clear like how Silent Hill 0 shows how many times you've opened the map. -- Different from RPG, I don't mind dying at all!

↑ and is it a crazy idea that I want such a cushion? Like a crab, it's cute kimokawaii! xD
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After looking around for a good note taking app, I decided to not rely on any of them. Eventually the "analogue" notebook wins. Take out and write on it, no pass-code, no wait for response, no risk for app crash; for this straightforward task, stuff from a dollar store is way better than anything from google play (apparently I'm not complaining about the old spec of my X-Arc).
Besides, typing on a keyboard had made my brain vague. I need to train it again for how to write some (common) kanji properly.
2015-Nov-17 (Tue), 23:14@GMT-7

♢ For Chopin's Sake

Right now, it's complete whiteout outside. Earlier this day, the forecast said there'd be snowing in the evening; as the temperature was above zero, I thought it would be merely sleet, but it did develop into real snow. The first "serious" snow finally made its late arrival (that I should probably switch the unmatched "wokashi inst. version" to a "colder/whiter" track since tomorrow)! Too bad that I believe neither my phone or even the digital camera can handle the low lightness well, so I gave up to take a shot.
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Trusty Bell


>> No, for his sake, please not ask me to bring up its subtitle, nor its English equivalent.. orz
I haven't played such a great RPG for a long while (partially because I didn't play so much RPG at all). Like I said 2 (?) weeks ago, now I'll give a section for it, filling up with my compliments, complaints, and complex.
  1. The graphic is extremely beautiful (the character design is cute too). Every single scene. For a lot of times, I stopped and just stared at the screen, doing nothing else but enjoying the beautifulness.
    1. Polka's "black-and-white" costume is my favourite.
  2. The music is good enough to be played individually -- Of course I'm not saying the "Chopin Selection".
    1. Need not to mention the "Chopin Selection" can be used as an introduction to people who're not familiar to him. I like the background narration inserted in each chapter.
  3. Battle system is fun and exciting (at some point). It's basically a turn-based-action hybrid, and it has a guard feature, which is crucial to whether you can survive even when your HP is fully tanked.
    1. Due to this, the battle is also evil enough. Time allowing you to respond the guard button is way too short (less than 1 second?), and once you fail, your HP goes down like mad. I assure this is the top 1 game that I die for the most of times (including normal battles!). Many boss fights I spent in this game were much longer than fighting Nosferatu (BIOHAZARD CODE VERONICA; 2 hours) and Salazar (BIOHAZARD 4; 2 hours).
    2. I like the setting about skill change under light or shadow.
    3. Other party members are actually blocking your way while moving, which is tricky to bring close-ranged characters to desired location in time.
    4. The camera angle is fixed, so it's (very) hard to know whether the character is at the right place in order to punch (endless complaints about chapter 3's boss).
    5. I never figured out how to let the long-ranged skill hitting onto the exact enemy I want to target.
    6. The "photograph" feature seems useless. I'm not doing Fatal Frame!
    7. Harmonic chain sounds delicious but is hard to activate.
  4. Most importantly, the story. I'd say this will be a good plot if removing the identity of the main character -- you know whom I mean, don't you...
    1. While ignoring this, it's a great fantasy a brighter version of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" (which I figured out at the end of chapter 6), even including the sort-of-hard-to-understand final chapter.
    2. I don't really see a point of how each chapter fits the concept of Chopin's works. To me, it's more like dragging the two together with a little force. As "side contents", they're not bad though.
  5. A few poke-in's:
    1. As a person who checks the cast voice before actually playing a game, when I was watching the "prelude" cutscene, I laughed out that "Hirano Aya voices quite a lot who jump off" (while that part is so much like Fatal Frame 5).
    2. Also because of the cast voice, from the beginning to the end, I only referred Allegretto as "Satoshi (Corpse Party)".
    3. Again, during the "prelude" cutscene, I was disappointed by what Polka's mother said, and kept complaining "don't teach your child weird things, waves form because of wind, NOT moonshine".
At last, I looked up online before doing the game, that most other players said they spent about 25 hours to finish the first round, but why I spent 40 hours (NOT including re-try after death)?? Am I this bad (I even had a walkthrough site beside to make sure I don't get lost)?? LOL Sometimes, it's not a bad idea to do a CERO-A rated game! However, perhaps I'll never be able to complete the second round (endless die isn't fun!), and the best RPG in my mind is still Shadow Hearts series. ^^;
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Because of Veronica, I got to know "Nosferatu", which is an almost 100-year old film. I didn't know it's a silent film (my history is bad), and earlier was even looking for a subtitle. But later on I noticed, the subtitles are integrated by the makers already, there's no need for any additional subtitles (except that English printed in old German font was really hard to read and thus a subtitle would help).
I'd say the original Nosferatu is for sure marvellous, although the film itself isn't that horror (as I've been so used to this kind of matter?), while in my mind, the plague-scenes are much more terrifying than Nosferatu.

"NosferatuShadow" by F.W. Murnau - screen capture around the 1hr 19min mark. Licensed under PD-US via Wikipedia.
↑ I do love this scene!
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Now I'm a zombie!

Here's the certificate!

But why an operator? Ain't I supposed to be a researcher zombie (for example, the doctor zombie from Code Veronica)?
And Raccoon Park! I know it well. I died miserably due to the jumping out frog-hunter! xDD;;
I shall be looking forward Biohazard 0's HD remaster ← haven't even started Bio1 HD and Bio 6 though... orz
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Only looking at the track list, I didn't have any desire to buy, but...

The CD jacket is too moe to not buy!
The most possible scenario is I'll get it together with Biohazard 0 in the end of next January.
("tSoLE" is beautiful! ><)