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Rainbow - I can't let you go

Chrno Crusade OST - Seiken he no Kibou

The Killers - All these things I've Done

FFVII for me. First Final Fantasy Game I ever played and it was also the game that brought me into RPGS.

Great thing about winter: Hardly any bugs and clementines At Least until all the ladybugs come and swarm our buildings. Yeah Another dumb update

Grandia Megaman Zero 3 Day of Defeat Counter Strike 1.6

Game: Summon Night Swordcraft Story System: Game Boy Advance Emulators: VBA ------------------------------- Summon Night Swordcraft Story takes place in the town of Wystern, which is nicknamed the City of Swords, where a tournament is being held to find the next Craftslord. You take control of of a boy named Cleru, or a girl named Pratty, who takes part in the tournament. The protagonist's father was the previous craftslord who mysteriously disappeared, and as the players moves along the tournament, he/she finds out more about his/her father's past and experience several events that happen during the tournament. To compete in the tournament, the hero/heroine needs to construct his/her own weapon by finding raw materials in the dungeon with the help of a guardian beast. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Controls:9/10 There are two sets of controls that you encounter while playing the game. First, you start off with traditional "Overworld RPG" controls, which are simple to learn. Basic movement controls as well as easy to navigate menus. So nothing really special nor complicated here. The second set of controls are set in battle since the gameplay has a battle system similar to "Tales of Phantasia". The controls and moves are easy to master and usually, you won't find yourself furiously jamming a button because your character didn't move out of the way or block an attack. (If you do, it's cause of weapon delay) -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Gameplay: 8.5/10 As I said before, the battle system is similar to "Tales of Phantasia". If you never played "Tales of Phantasia", the battle system lets you control the character in real time battle. You get full control of your character, able to move him/her around only in a two dimensional battle field. Your character can walk, dash, jump, crouch, attack, guard, and call on a guardian beast during battle. There are a total of five weapons you can craft: Sword, Axe, Drill, Knuckles, and Spear. Each has its own advantage (with the exception of sword being the most balanced) as well as different attacks the player can perform during battle. For example, the knuckles weapons is good for hitting enemies and quickly running out while the axe is good for dealing huge amounts of damage. All weapons have a certain amount of durability, meaning once they break in battle, you have to make another one. The durability is a good idea to keep in mind when you fight in the tournament, and by simply breaking the opponent's weapon, you can win the battle. You are also not limited to carrying only one weapon; you can carry up to four weapons and one accessory, but you can only bring one weapon in the tournament itself. Every event that occurs allows you to craft a new weapon, which is usually stronger. You can also gain new weapon crafts by completing mini quests and breaking a bosses weapon (this defeats them also). The Guardian beast is a pretty nifty idea. You can call your guardian beast up to 5 times during battle depending on how much spells the guardian beast has. Your guardian beast can level up and learn more spells as well as more spell uses. The great thing about this is that all spells are pretty much useful throughout the whole entire game. When you call a guardian beast, you can sometimes move it around to direct the attack into the opponent. Unfortunately, when your opponent calls his/her guardian, you cannot block or move out of the way which is pretty lame, but neither can they. So in a way, the guardian is pretty cheap in the tournament. You get your guardian beast (4 different ones) based on the decisions you make early in the game. So choose wisely. The dungeons serve as the main place where you get materials as well as gain exp for yourself. You can open barrels to randomly gain materials and open chests. There are save spots as well as instant restore hp/mp points and guardian spells (Cheap!). During the game, you usually get stopped at a certain point which is bizarre in my opinion. Soon enough the dungeons get really repetitive and you'll find yourself just rushing through them in the latter parts of the game. If the dungeons were repetitious, the gameplay was pretty repetitive as well. I used only two tactics every battle. It was either equip the knuckles and run in and out, and then use the sword for heavier damage, or it was just calling the guardian beast. I probably should have changed weapons at some point, but when you're trying to finish up 50 dungeon levels, I think rushing through it is a better idea. ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Sound:8/10 Not really sure what to say for sound. The music was ok, and sometimes intolerable due to being in the same dungeon for almost the whole entire game. The same battle theme was used throughout the whole entire game as well, which wasn't that fun to hear after my 821th battle. It'd be nice of them to include some more battle effects or different themes, but there wasn't really much. Otherwise, not much here to say here. ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Graphics: 8/10 The graphics features 2d sprites in the overhead view and the battle mode. Personally, I thought they were pretty well done. Animations were pretty smooth for the most part. There were only some recycled sprites, but the enemies were usually new in each dungeon. ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Additional Comments: Overall, I had a pretty good time with this game. The story was pretty in depth and well done, although some parts were predictable. One thing that was nice that after every day, you can converse with your Guardian beast or the other sub-characters to learn some side story. I'm not sure if interacting with them more makes them appear with you in the ending sequence, but its a good guess. The extras after the game which include beating 50 more dungeons levels, an incredibly hard boss (High Hp and you weapon will break), and fighting in the tournament fighting every human boss in a time trial (which lands you a new weapon craft). You can also play through the game with the other character and a different Guardian beast if you feel up to it. Controls: 9/10 Gameplay: 8.5/10 Sound: 8/10 Graphics: 8/10 Overall Score: 8.4 Overall Grade: B I give this game a Fun Facts About this review: -First Review of the Year -I started writing this review on 10-15-2006

Ayumi Hamasaki - Seasons

"Small Update" added

Winter break is over. I enjoyed every minute of it, and it's time to go back to school. Just a little recap, my skiing trip got cancelled over the weekend due to weather problems, So boo to that. Also, I decided to accomplish something over the break so I didn't feel like I didn't do anything. So I learned about hexadecimals and binary. I also Added two links to my signature that allows you guys to connect to both IRC 1emu channels via Java IRC client (Thanks pjirc). That's all

The Fray - Trust Me

Time goes by fast for me everytime I'm on the computer, but that's usually because I'm doing something rather than just sitting there.

Sublime - Wrong way

Basically just continuing what I started a few months ago, lessen procastinating, study harder, cut down a bit on gaming, learn new things, be more social, get more music, etc. I usually end up breaking my NYR when it get's put to the test, but for the hell of it, I resolve to find a job for the summer

The SNES Version is way better. One big thing is not being limited to three buttons. Actually, It would be 6 buttons. (We're off topic lol) PS: Woot 5000 posts

Here's to another year to 1emulation.com

Maple story is a sidescrolling online RPG whereas Gunbound is an artillery Tank game.

If you want to play Snes via kaillera, you'll have to use snes9k

Happy New Year Everyone! Now To goto sleep.

Pretty easy if you've played the game before. That's the only tank game I know that you can destroy blocks with and destroy AI players. It would have taken the cake if he mentioned guarding an Eagle (HQ)

The Decemberists - The Sporting Life

Rammstein - Du hast Took a break from listening to new music

Sonata Artica - Misplaced

I'm still playing psx games on my comp via emulator so I'll add some Action ----------- Brave Fencer Musashi Colony Wars Future Cop LAPD Einhander Grand Theft Auto 2 (Yeah I know I know) MDK Megaman X4 Megaman X5 Megaman X6 Megaman 8 Raystorm Resident Evil 3 Soul Blade Syphon Filter Series Team Buddies Twisted Metal 2 Wargames: Defcon 1 Misc ------------ Parappa the Rapper Racing ------------ Chocobo Racing Wipeout 3 RPG ------------ Grandia Legend of Dragoon Lunar TSS Complete Lunar EB Complete Parasite Eve

PS1: Orge Battle/Tactics Orge Kartia Arc the Lad GBA: Shining Force