NINTENDO DS WORLD TOUCH! TOUR
Alright, so this past Sunday I went to Osaka for the Nintendo DS World Touch! tour. It was free, and it was awesome. I tried out so many unreleased games and honestly, after looking at the DS first hand and playing around with it, I want one even more. It is funny how North America is getting the DS before Japan, but the games on the DS in North America suck. Ok, here are the following games I tried out:
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories(GBA): Awesome, very fun. The card system thing works out pretty well I find and it adds new strategy to fights. Also the leveling up system is new, where when you level up you choose to increase a bonus to either your HP, Card power, or attack power, along with the normal increases of stats.
Gundam Seed:Destiny(GBA): Good game, I like gundam, and it was fun. pretty impressive graphics for the GBA
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap(GBA): Great Zelda game, I love how the cap talks to you. The graphics are great, and the gameplay is very smooth. Lots of fun
Tales of the World(GBA): Lots of fun. All the characters from past Tales games make apperances, and you can make weird parties, like Lloyd and Sheena from Tales of Symphonia with two characters from other Tales games. But fun
Super Mario 64 DS: Very good, of course, it is Mario.
Eggmonster Heroes (DS): I really hope we get this game, because it is a lot of fun. Battles are really fun, because you get to drag stuff around the bottom screen and then it shows the close up of the battle on the top screen. It was just lots of fun.
(This one is for you Mike) Rockman.EXE 5: Team Proto and Team Colonel: The previews were the same, so there was no difference between them at the beginning, which is what you play. I like the music, and the graphics are better. I do not really like the new battle screen, but as with every other Battle Network game, it was hella fun.
Ok, I am running out of time and I want to say other stuff other then just talk about games, so here are the rest of the games I tried out: Bomberman DS, Fire Emblem (GC), Metroid Prime 2 (GC), Dragonball (GBA), I played around with some of the mini-games which are already installed in the DS, and I watched presentations on the touch screen, message writing, and recording messages, etc. Of, and the size of the games are like data chips, and are not even the size of half your finger. Overall, very fun, and I can not wait for some of these games to come out.
Anyways, I am really sorry I haven't updated in such a long time guys. It is a lot harder then I thought keeping track of emails and updating and stuff. I am roughly a month because emails and stuff. This is mainly because I have homework from Canada to do online, plus I do not get home from school until around 6:30 usually, so by the time I eat dinner, take a shower, write in my own journal, etc etc, I have no time for anything else. But, Japan is still super hella fun, and I wish I could stay here forever.
Japan is so beautiful. You can read about it in books and look at pictures, but nothing compares to when you are actually here. I have been to a lot of places, and seen lots of things. Sightseeing is awesome, lots of temples and shirnes (although they are almost always on huge hills in which you have to climb 50-60 metres to get to), and different prefectures. Each prefecture has something unique about it, like Nara is known for the leaves changing, and Shiga has the Biwa lake - which is like the Rideau Canal since it was totally man made, but of course smaller. Just, man, I wish I could write everything but if I did my hands would fall of or become dead due to carpol tunnel or something.
Anyways, I hope you guys are all doing well. How is Japanese class by the way guys? Oh yeah, and I heard The Grudge was pretty good, and I am glad you liked it Robbie - but it is another one of those movies that is based off a Japanese horror. Maybe you have heard of it: Juon - man, those two movies were awesome, I love them. How is work Robbie and Mike, oh, and Josh, is Loeb still the same as usual? Any new supervisors yet or anyone else quit? Oh, and speaking of Josh, how is FOTR? And make sure you set up a day for our awesome heavy deathcore grudge metal pop emo grind rock show for the week that I come back. of course, no rehersal or practice, just total improvisation like we talked about - it's be awesome.
So, I will definetly try to update more often and I will see you guys in three months, later.
P.S: One last bit of gaming news for Mike - cool Rockman.EXE game for the GBA called Rockman.EXE 4.5 Real Operation. You can basically use any Navi, but it actually has a story to it, and there are lots of tournaments but they are set up by specific days and times, say Saturday at 8:00 a.m. So you actually have to play the game and do the tournament on Saturday at 8:00. Also it makes use of the chip gate, which is pretty cool. It is just meant to give you the feeling of using a real PET. Anyways, it is cool, I'll show it to you when I get back.
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories(GBA): Awesome, very fun. The card system thing works out pretty well I find and it adds new strategy to fights. Also the leveling up system is new, where when you level up you choose to increase a bonus to either your HP, Card power, or attack power, along with the normal increases of stats.
Gundam Seed:Destiny(GBA): Good game, I like gundam, and it was fun. pretty impressive graphics for the GBA
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap(GBA): Great Zelda game, I love how the cap talks to you. The graphics are great, and the gameplay is very smooth. Lots of fun
Tales of the World(GBA): Lots of fun. All the characters from past Tales games make apperances, and you can make weird parties, like Lloyd and Sheena from Tales of Symphonia with two characters from other Tales games. But fun
Super Mario 64 DS: Very good, of course, it is Mario.
Eggmonster Heroes (DS): I really hope we get this game, because it is a lot of fun. Battles are really fun, because you get to drag stuff around the bottom screen and then it shows the close up of the battle on the top screen. It was just lots of fun.
(This one is for you Mike) Rockman.EXE 5: Team Proto and Team Colonel: The previews were the same, so there was no difference between them at the beginning, which is what you play. I like the music, and the graphics are better. I do not really like the new battle screen, but as with every other Battle Network game, it was hella fun.
Ok, I am running out of time and I want to say other stuff other then just talk about games, so here are the rest of the games I tried out: Bomberman DS, Fire Emblem (GC), Metroid Prime 2 (GC), Dragonball (GBA), I played around with some of the mini-games which are already installed in the DS, and I watched presentations on the touch screen, message writing, and recording messages, etc. Of, and the size of the games are like data chips, and are not even the size of half your finger. Overall, very fun, and I can not wait for some of these games to come out.
Anyways, I am really sorry I haven't updated in such a long time guys. It is a lot harder then I thought keeping track of emails and updating and stuff. I am roughly a month because emails and stuff. This is mainly because I have homework from Canada to do online, plus I do not get home from school until around 6:30 usually, so by the time I eat dinner, take a shower, write in my own journal, etc etc, I have no time for anything else. But, Japan is still super hella fun, and I wish I could stay here forever.
Japan is so beautiful. You can read about it in books and look at pictures, but nothing compares to when you are actually here. I have been to a lot of places, and seen lots of things. Sightseeing is awesome, lots of temples and shirnes (although they are almost always on huge hills in which you have to climb 50-60 metres to get to), and different prefectures. Each prefecture has something unique about it, like Nara is known for the leaves changing, and Shiga has the Biwa lake - which is like the Rideau Canal since it was totally man made, but of course smaller. Just, man, I wish I could write everything but if I did my hands would fall of or become dead due to carpol tunnel or something.
Anyways, I hope you guys are all doing well. How is Japanese class by the way guys? Oh yeah, and I heard The Grudge was pretty good, and I am glad you liked it Robbie - but it is another one of those movies that is based off a Japanese horror. Maybe you have heard of it: Juon - man, those two movies were awesome, I love them. How is work Robbie and Mike, oh, and Josh, is Loeb still the same as usual? Any new supervisors yet or anyone else quit? Oh, and speaking of Josh, how is FOTR? And make sure you set up a day for our awesome heavy deathcore grudge metal pop emo grind rock show for the week that I come back. of course, no rehersal or practice, just total improvisation like we talked about - it's be awesome.
So, I will definetly try to update more often and I will see you guys in three months, later.
P.S: One last bit of gaming news for Mike - cool Rockman.EXE game for the GBA called Rockman.EXE 4.5 Real Operation. You can basically use any Navi, but it actually has a story to it, and there are lots of tournaments but they are set up by specific days and times, say Saturday at 8:00 a.m. So you actually have to play the game and do the tournament on Saturday at 8:00. Also it makes use of the chip gate, which is pretty cool. It is just meant to give you the feeling of using a real PET. Anyways, it is cool, I'll show it to you when I get back.