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[25 Apr 2009|11:26pm] |
Dang it's been a while since the last update, but figured I should finish my recount of the trip after all this time!
So after we left tokyo, we took a shinkansen (express bullet train) to kyoto prefecture, then a train to Joyo city to meet our host families.
We arrived at the Joyo station and it was empty! Big change compared to Tokyo...you could tell that the town wasn't exactly bustling, but it was all good. The manager guy of the exchange company (JIEE) that arranged our homestays greeted us at the station and helped us make our way to the meeting room where everyone was at. And by everyone, I mean our host families and... I think that's it.
So we get there and everyone claps for us as we enter the room, woo! There is a table in the middle of the room, and our families are seated in a circle along the walls. There is tea on the table and we are told to get some, so we do, although I didn't like it (not a tea guy) so I set it aside :P.
My family was an older couple in their 60's. Seko Yaeko and....the dad guy, I forget his name! They also had one of their grandchildren with them who ended up staying at their house for the next 2 days, his name was Shinya. I glance over at my friend Kobe's host family, which consisted of a couple in their 30's or 40's, with a teenage daughter still in her school uniform. :O
Anyways, our Japanese teacher and the JIEE guy both make speeches we can't really understand, but it was kinda cool to see our teacher talk in her native language about serious stuff for an extended period of time. Then we chat as a group a bit, and my own host dad goes "i've heard about Vancouver once, it looks nice, like the rest of Canada" (or something like that). Even in Japan, Vancouver, WA gets no love! He is politely reminded that it's the Vancouver in WA state, and not Washington DC either!
So then we say goodbye to our classmates for the next 3 days and get driven/walk to our host family houses. Shinya was pretty dang shy around me at first.
My host house was a sort of small 2-story house. As I walked in, the living room was there, and the stairs to the 2nd floor immediately to my left. the stairs were narrow! The living room had a couple cushions on the ground around a small table and kotatsu (underground heater thing), a laptop near the wall on a desk, and a bookshelf thing with a small TV on it. Past the living room was the small kitchen and a nearly empty tatami room, great for relaxing!
Upstairs was the 2 bedrooms, mine was on the right in the small hallway. Inside was a tatami floor, buddhist/shinto altars, a fan, AC machine, and my futon bed on the ground already made! All of the doors in this house are of the sliding type.
The first order of business was a little get-to-know-you chat in the living room. It was hard explaining my family tree due to my parent's divorce and mom's death which is a little uncommon in Japan, but eventually with the aid of pictures I succeeded :)
Then it was decided that it was time for me to experience a public bath (sentou). So we drove to the border of Joyo where there was a sort of replica of fort vancouver there (Joyo is the sister city of Vancouver, WA). Behind that replica was a playground of sorts (!). Anyways, near that was the public bath. Basically the bath's are split by gender (duh), so we go inside, strip (the dad and shinya were not embarrassed in the least, luckily there was no one else there until the end), and relax. There is another authentic shower thing there (where you sit down on a stool and wash yourself off with a hand-held sprayer, a hot tub, a colder pool, and a sauna, with real burning rocks or whatever inside :).
After the public bath, we went home and talked some more before having my first real dinner in Japan. Tempura! There was sooooooooooooo much to eat, and Yaeko said they bought extra milk and juice because they figured I would eat/drink a lot (which I did, I think i surprised them with how much milk I drank!). There were a few strange foods like eggplant, but once I tempura-ized them it wasn't so bad. I can't stress enough the variety and quantity of the food! But it was good! After dinner it was almost time for sleep, and they gave me a little article about Buddhism and stuff and said I could read it if i wanted to before I went to bed. I did and it was pretty interesting.
I had an interesting time sleeping...It was still so hot and humid, I couldn't get the AC to work right even with the remote, so i opted to use the fan next to my futon, but it automatically shut off every 60 minutes or so...so i woke up a few times that night, but overall, a good sleep.
to be continued...
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[05 Sep 2008|10:19pm] |
Our last days in Tokyo were upon us.
The day before we left, we had one last class at the language school. After a short lesson, all the classes met together in the meeting room and we all had to do a little speech in front of everyone talking about all the times we had. one of the students even said they thought one of our girls was cute, haha. After that, the teachers handed out "certificates of completion" to all of us USA nubs, mostly as a formality, but it was a high quality looking certificate! Then, they handed out a sheet of paper with lyrics to a japanese song. At times of parting in Japan, like graduation and stuff, it's popular to listen to a performer sing a song, or sing a song together, and that's what we did, after the teacher brought out the stereo. it was hard to keep up with the words, of course, but it gave most of us a mushy feeling, it's like they really appreciated our company and efforts to learn, even though it was really hard at times.
After this, we ate some lunch together and said goodbye a final time. Joshua got a gift from one of his new friends from china, nicknamed "BMX-san" because he likes to ride bikes.
After heading out from the school for the last time, we ate some lunch and had one more day to wander around - although we were to be in bed early, because we had to wake up early to go to Kyoto and Joyo the next morning.
All of our suitcases crowded the entranceway to the dorms before we left. when we got the the train station to Kyoto (on the way to Joyo, for now), BMX-san caught up with us to help carry some suitcases. it was pretty nice of him.
After a 1 hour bullet train ride to Kyoto, we took another half hour local train ride to Joyo, a small town where we were about to do our homestays. for the next few days, we would have no contact with our teacher or eachother! in the case of certain classmates, that might have been a relief! anyways, once we got to the town, we got our first taste of small town japan. the train station had NO ONE in it for once! it was really quiet. after arriving there, the guy in charge of the Joyo International Student Exchange program greeted us and showed us where to go to meet our host parents.
inside the building, all the parents were sitting in a circle, and they clapped for us as we walked in and told us which family was ours. I found my family and sat down. it was funny when my classmate Kobe found his family. we knew he was staying with the youngest family, a mom and dad under 40, and a 16 or 17 year old daughter (kobe was 18), so when he sat down with her, everyone gave him a funny glare. she even had her school uniform on, haha.
after getting to know eachother, the families and some students talked about their respective cities, and my host dad even got our vancouver mixed up with canada's and when we said "washington" he thought of DC, LOL! right off the bat! it was pretty funny. we had some tea/orange juice and then drove off to our host families' houses. my family consisted of a husband and wife, in their mid 60s, and for half of the stay, one of their grandsons was with us. he was in elementary school.
more later
a day or two later, it was time for us to leave Tokyo! Sure it was really busy and humid, but as soon as we left, we missed it
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[14 Aug 2008|07:58pm] |
OK the next few days were pretty much "do whatever you want" days. So that was good.
Me and Josh got lost a couple more times. The farthest we got was probably an hour from our dorm. we were actually in the next town over, i think. so we stop at a convenience store and ask the girl and guy there how to get back. they pull out a map and sort of point to where we are, and we try to understand each other to make sense of it. We were constantly apologizing for not knowing more of english/japanese - it was pretty funny actually.
so after stopping at a grocery store to grab some laundry detergent and use a bathroom along the way back, we finally get back to the dorm and start washing some clothes. it took 100 yen to wash and 100 yen to dry, although it never dried well on the first (and sometimes second) go, so it was usually 3-400 yen to get some clean clothes. luckily, i brought enough clothes so that i only had to wash/dry them twice.
the next day i went with about half of our group to Odaiba, another city in tokyo. the main thing there is the tokyo tower, but we didnt go there until 2 days later. this time, we stopped in a few places. the first one was this mall that had a few cool things. one of them was an arcade for kids, much different than the cigarette-smoke smelling game centers in the city. some of the games were pretty neat, like a snare drum music game for kids, a few quiz games, and this other simple music-based game from nintendo. it had like 50 mini games in it, based on sound. one of them had an archer shooting this arrow with old school nintendo type graphics (even the control panel was a giant NES controller scheme). when the archer shoots the arrow it plays a little jingle, and the last beat is the sound of the bow shooting the arrow out. then it shows a ninja guy standing in front of a civilian, and it also plays the jingle. basically, you have to press the left or right button right on that beat at the end of the jingle and he deflects the arrow with his sword. it's hard to explain but it was addictive for a kid's game.
they also had a really expensive mall with a european theme, but it was mostly girls' clothes, so i headed to this other novelty shop. they had a bunch of american stuff there, like star wars things, old playboys, american movie posters, and stuff like that.
another cool thing in odaiba that one of my classmates was really pumped about was Muscle Park. it's basically like an indoor fitness mini-game place. it makes working out fun, supposedly. it's a series of rooms with colorful designs, where you do certain physical activities, like sit ups, putt putt golf, simon says, pull ups, jogging, baseball, and other strength testers. each place is manned by an employee, and i guess the better you do, you get points or something. we didn't have time to play it, but we watched some other people do it. this was also where the Sasuke physical challenge station is. my classmate said it was on some TV show. inside muscle park was this really cool burger place (go figure!) called Monster burger. basically it was like eating a square hamburger on very lightly toasted sandwich bread. and their "fries" had 2 styles. animal shapes and smiley faces (!). they had their signature item, the monster burger, probably a foot tall, and you can buy it in a pyramid shaped box for 12 bucks (the big burgers all have a slightly pyramid slant to them, maybe so they don't tip over).
also in odaiba was this old fashioned mall, with a lot of older (90s) merchandise. it was pretty cool, but it's hard to explain what we did because we just looked around a bit :) so after that we headed back to the dorm.
the next day, me, 2 other girls, and one of their roomates went to odaiba again to go to the Ghibli museum. sadly, they didn't let you take pictures inside, but the inside was definitely cool. lots of optical illusion type displays, artwork shown on the walls, props, and everything you could want from the director of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and others. they also had a mini film that was about 30 minutes long, directed by the same guy. it was pretty cool as well, and i think that's the only place you can see it, but not sure. Oh yeah, some other things about the area, on the way there we got some KFC. you can buy flat-ish boneless fried chicken patties to eat on the go, pretty yummy. also, you can buy beer at KFC. but i didn't get beer, and instead got a melon soda. when you get fast food in Japan to go, and you get a drink, they wrap the cup up in a bag and tape it. when i got my food from the counter i had to ask where the drink was, because i thought he forgot it, but he said 'it's just in the bag' and im like 'ohhhhhh!'. also, outside the ghibli museum was a conbini (convenience store) and it was all decked out in studio ghibli designs and merchandise.
after that, we headed to the tokyo tower to meet up with some more classmates. there were a lot of tourists there from other countries, like the US, but there was still our fair share of Japanese peeps. it looked really cool up on the tower, looking down at the city at night. this is where 2 of our classmates pretty much hooked up. im sure they would have done so without being at the tower, but the view, it has that power :O unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries after taking 3 pictures up there, so i'll have to grab pictures from someone else! after the tower, we head home again.
more later
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[24 Jul 2008|01:55am] |
PART 2
so during those first 2 weeks we had the afternoon and evening to travel to where we wanted within tokyo, soooo the first place we went was the edo museum. but before that we had to get tickets for the train. the train ticket buying station had and english version of the map, sort of, which was lucky, since not all of them do (gotta memorize certain kanji). we put our money into the machine and it gives us a ticket...take the ticket to the gate and stick it in, walk through the gate, and take your punched ticket out at the other side of the gate. it's super fast, and people with cell phone there can just hover their phone over the gate sensor to pay for the ticket.
so we take a train to the edo museum and make our way to the doors, along the way we meet some elementary school kids who wave at us as they go by. inside were tons of miniture town models, life-size kabuki theaters, and relic displays of tokyo's history (it used to be called Edo). we got an english guide tour which took about 2 hours, but was pretty interesting. im not a history buff, so i dont remember the details!
the next day we go to akihabara. our group finds the right train stopping point and waits to get on. the train to akihabara is pretty crowded in the afternoons, so we end up standing up and getting squeezed in. 10 minutes or so later we are in akihabara...after we get our english maps, we split up into groups of 2 and wander around...
josh and i went to an arcade first, and i saw some cool games as usual. then we went looking for an electric dictionary, which would be handy in class next year. joshua buys his in 5 minutes or less...i take my time, relatively, and get mine in 15. we both would end up havin the same problem, but more on that later.
so then we look for food...we wander around for a while and ask this guy on the street where a good place is. he points us to this building and we go to the 5th floor, only to find out the food is like 80 dollars at the cheapest...so we go out and get some udon instead.
after that we wander around looking for gifts for people and i didnt have too much luck, but did see a lot of interesting stores. hentai shops, full of animated porn, are in many buildings here, and inside them, are many guys. they dont look creepy either, just normal dudes, some in their school uniforms or business suits.
there are also some maid cafes sprinkled about. maid cafes are like restaurants where japanese girls in western style maid outfits dine with you. you can feed them, they can feed you, and you can talk to eachother. some places even offer massages! but no sexual favors i think - so me and josh went there, but when we got the the door, we saw a sign that said "no cameras" sooo we got discouraged and wandered off. we would try again another day.
akihabara is like an outdoor version of Fry's Electronics, but spanning 10 square blocks or more outside. i saw plenty of computer part stores, crazy video game stores with doujinshi games, hacking programs, cds, dvds, and other things. surprisingly, i didnt see a store dedicated to artbooks or anime plushies like i usually see at anime conventions, but maybe i was just in the wrong place. it was easy to get lost there.
so me and josh wander around until we get lost, and we end up asking this random guy at an eye patch work shop (!) where to go. he takes his eye patch template piece of cardboard and draws a makeshift map on it. josh ended up keeping this throughout the whole trip for some reason...
so we get tired and take the train back to shinkoiwa. next thing you know we are in the J-dream lobby again with about 4 other classmates talking the night away until like 2am. every now and then going to the "conbini" (convenience store) down the street, known as 7-11, to get some food.
the next day was supposed to be the trip to tsukiji fish market for some of us, but after akihabara, i was too tired to get up. but from what i know, its this huge outdoor warehouse type of place where fisherman bring their fish to be sold by auction, for the most part. there are fish all over the place, and you would be dodging fish that merchants are tossing back and forth and such. also, there are some good sushi bars in the area, of course!
more later...
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[22 Jul 2008|10:44pm] |
sooo i just got back from japan a few days ago....went there for 3 weeks as a study abroad course relating to the japanese language club i'm in at clark college....so i dont forget what happened, and so i can easily tel people the basics of what went down during my stay, ill try to summarize it here...
june 30th - got my stuff ready, went to the airport, got my currency exchanged, and got on the plane....10 hours is a long time to be sitting down. luckily they fed us 2 meals and 2 snacks, including an ice cream bar :o. the safety video at the start of the flight, as well as the captain's announcements, were in english and japanese of course. the plane left at around 2:30pm US time and we arrived at the Narita Airport in Japan at about 5pm Japan time, because of the time zone switch. However, we were getting pretty tired because technically we had been up for a while.
july 1st - so we arrive at the airport, and then take a train to the town of Shinkoiwa to this place called J-Dream, which is a sort of international dormitory that isnt connected to any school in general. when we get there, we have a meeting with the manager there and go over the rules and all that. by this time we are super tired, because it's about 9pm. so we sleep after this...
first 2 weeks - at 9am for the next 2 weeks, we need to be at TIJ (tokyo institute of japanese). it's an international language school for learning japanese of course. once there, we have a mini party and introduce everyone before having a short lesson. after the first lesson we get a tour of the town from one of the teachers. it's a small town but with a lot of interesting things to do packed in the area. in the main center of the town, near the train station, you have a police box (mini police station, where you can ask for directions at least), arcades, karaoke bars, restaurants, an outdoor mall of sorts, supermarkets, and lots of other things. all within a 15 minute walk.
after the tour we split up and wander the town in groups of 2 or more. so i grouped with this guy named joshua martin, a regular comedian. so we wander around looking for unique and authentic places to eat and find a few. the first one we went to, they didnt have a picture menu or any displays, so we had trouble reading the kanji-ridden menu, but the smiling waitresses helped us through it. we walked around town some more, stopping at the vending machines often because of the heat. luckily, there are vending machines on every corner, but unfortunately, for most of my stay, the weather was really humid, like you are standing near an open door to a sauna, and you are constantly waving a fan or drinking water! after we get tired of walking around, we return to J-dream and sit in the lobby a while with our classmates before sleeping.
each of us has our own roommate of the same gender per room. my roommate looked like the Hiro character from the show Heroes, and was from Shanghai, China. His Japanese was fluent, but hardly knew any english. luckily, he had a laptop and electronic dictionary to be the middle-man in our conversations. the dorm rooms were extremely small, about the length of my room but almost twice as narrow, and the bunk beds were smaller than twin beds. the futons and pillows they supplied us weren't that good, and the heat was hard to sleep in, so some nights were rough, but do-able. the bathrooms there werent the cleanest, and most didnt have soap at the sinks, or paper towels, so it was kind of awkward. most of the other people staying at J-Dream (aka everyone but my class) was either korean or chinese, mostly chinese though, so it was cool being in a totally foreign environment.
much of the first 2 weeks consisted of getting up to go to TIJ, then spending the afternoon until 11pm traveling around tokyo, by train or by foot. we went to a lot of different towns, and ill go over those next time.
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[05 Jun 2007|08:21am] |
SO
today i got stuck playing jurassic park on the SNES at brian's house. we usually torture ourselves with bad movies and games, but for some reason, this one was bad enough to have me write about it on an LJ i almost never write in anymore!
basically, you play as alan grant and you have to escape from JP with all the dinosaurs running around. this was one of the most annoying games i have ever played (and beaten! with the help of gamefaqs after a while)
the game has 2 basic forms:
form one is the overworld screen, where you play top-down fashion. you move grant around and pick up weapons and stuff. there are also dinos around and will kill you if you are not careful. if you run out of life (if you let them hit you, you will die in about 5 seconds) you start at the last building you entered, or the last hint station you walked up to. considering that it takes 10 minutes to get from one building to the next sometimes, this can get frustrating when dinos get the jump on you. this happned to me PLENTY of times.
also, if you are facing one way (let's say left) and a dino comes from the opposite direction you are facing (right), you would logically press right then the fire button or almost at the same time right? well, in this game it takes grant a second to do a 180, because he has to go in a circular motion (left, down, right). this causes you to waste ammo shooting in the wrong, direction, and getting hit by the dino because you missed! aghh!! some of the strongest dinos are fast as well, and by the time they are on the screen, you have about 2 seconds to kill them before you are hit.
you get about 4 weapons to use, a tazer, shotgun, rocket launcher and some other gun i forgot the name of (its like steel balls tied together than spin around as they shoot out). and some dinos in the overworld form of the game can only be hit by certain kinds of weapons so you have to switch rapidly. this is also frustrating because:
you get 2 weapons on you at any given time, the Y button shoots one of them and the A button shoots the other, and the damn SELECT button changes your primary (A button) weapon from whatever you picked up, to your default tazer which sucks. when you are trying to switch weapons rapidly, the select button is kind of out of the way. sheesh. it is also confusing because the game shows the weapon for your Y button on the right, and the A button weapon on the left. whats the problem with this? well, look at an SNES controller....the Y is on the left side and the A is on the right... wtf
the overworld map is pretty big, with about 5 buildings to go to and long, winding paths to get to and from each one with tons of dinos in between. there are also other items scattered about, such as 1 keycard (more on that later) and eggs. apparently you have to pick up all 20 eggs or so by the time you do the last step in the game or you can't complete it. w-t-f. there is no map to this game unless you draw your own and some of the eggs are literally hidden in secret passages that are impossible to see - and the game never tells you what the eggs do, it just says you have "18 to go" or whatever when you get one.
the music here is pretty catchy, and the colors are good, but thats about all there is good here. when you reach a building's main door is when the game really starts to blow...
when you enter a building, the game switches to 1st person mode. keep in mind, this is the SNES, so it's a horrible experience:
the graphics are ugly sprites, only 2 different kinds of enemies (raptors, dilophasaurus/spitters)
the game moves at 2-5 frames per second. seriously. the game also shifts the viewpoint to this "scuba goggles" visor - why he needs this or even has this at jurassic park when the air is fine is beyond me. my guess is to cut down on the screen size to improve the framerate...some help that was.
there is one song in any indoor place, except when you are in an elevator (which has 15 second loop song of it's own) and the song is incredibly boring, and grinds your nerves as you try to navigate the damn places.
you cant sidestep, so moving around corners with the slow framerate sucks. forget about dodging enemies as well, but it's okay, they hardly notice you are there until you are 3 feet in front of them.
the indoor levels lack variety. all they did was change the color of the walls, basically, and add maybe 1 or 2 sprites that match the environment (livesavers molded on the doors on the cruise ship thing)
the levels are CONFUSING - it's impossible to find your way around the 5 story dungeons when all the rooms look the same and you have to suffer the frame rate
okay, so basically you find your objective by going to a hint tower type thing. it looks like a mini radio tower i guess. usually your objective is to find something inside of a building. oh god...
so you go inside the building trying to find what you are looking for, and spend an HOUR or so finding your way deep inside the place, only to come to a door you can't open. when you walk up to it it says "requires so-and-so's ID card"....
wtf? where do you get these cards? well they are deep within any of the 5 buildings, basically, and some of them require OTHER cards to get where you need to get ANOTHER card farther in. also, when you go through a door that required you to have a card that you might currently have, there is NOTHING that tells you that you used your card, so you can keep track of which doors were recently unlocked. so you end up visiting all of the buildings at least 5 times, trying to remember which door you couldnt get past before... but at least the game tells you at least which cards you have collected right?
wrong. well mostly. also scattered within the indoor levels are a computer or two. on these computers you can see your inventory (how does this make sense?) but you cant even log into the damn things until you do certain things in the game. by the time i could log on to the computer, i already had 6 ID cards. other than that, there is no way to tell what keycards you have or any other item for that matter other than your weapons. when you CAN use the computer though - walk up to it and the screen goes to a computer interface with alan grants hand pointing like a cursor...its menu consists of options to open/close park gates (there are 3, and only 1 can be open at a time), radio the mainland (which you dont even use until the very end of the game) and "request security level upgrade" so you can get through 2 special doors. and yes you can also look at your inventory.
the thing is, the game doesnt tell you which computer you need to use to do certain things, and if you try to do something on a computer that the game doesnt want you do, it just says "cannot perform that on this console" or whatever. no clues at all. overall i'd say there are about 8 computers in the game total, and its a crapshoot to find the one you need sometimes.
the objectives in the game are basically as follows:
restore power to the park and computers
make sure raptors cant run free out of the visitor center
eliminate all dinos from a docked ship at the park, so hey dont get to the rest of the world
send an SOS for a helicopter to get the hell out
sounds easy enough, but with all the keyfinding, wandering around, dieing, trying to figure out where to go next, opening/closing gates, it takes forever. me and brian resorted to gamefaqs after about halfway through the game, and it STILL took us almost 6 hours to beat. 6 HOURS of wandering around in 3-frames-per-second buildings, wondering which keys ive used, and collecting eggs. without gamefaqs it would have taken 20 hours at least, if it's even possible to beat without writing down every move you make from the start.
one of the most disgusting things about this game, after reading all that, is that the game has NO save feature. NO passwords. NO backup. NO level skips. you have to beat the game in one sitting.
w.t.f.
so i finally beat the game along with brian directing my every move once we started using gamefaqs, and i'm on the overworld form of the game. i run towards the helipad and the "ending" sequence starts. the screen takes the "point of view" of a helicopter (even though you cant see anything, its just a floating camera) over an flat sprite of jurassic park in the ocean, like you would see it on a globe - shaped kind of like australia. it is all green against the blue ocean, and has the yellow and black Jurassic Park logo in the middle of the island. I'm talking flat here folks, literally just a green shape....so the floating camera zooms in an out on this area two times, i guess this means you got picked up? you never see your character or anyone else in the ending sequence. after this 15 second thing, it goes black. then some words come on: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE ESCAPED JURASSIC PARK - red letters against a black screen, in the jurassic park font. then the credits roll...
what
the
hell
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that
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and get this, after the credits (which only took about 1-2 minutes by the way) it goes to a high score screen with 6 people - me at the top.
my question is....if you can't even save your progress in this game, much less save the high score table, and NO ONE plays it for the score factor, its hard just to even complete the game - why is there a high score list even on this game? it makes NO sense.
aghhhh ALL that work, for one of the weakest endings i've ever seen. especially for an SNES game. i cant stop thinking about this garbage!
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[24 May 2007|01:09am] |
woot, beat it :)
63 palkia
53 bronzong
50 raichu
50 steelix
50 infernape
:P
*puts palkia back in the bank box now that his deed is done* ~_~
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[21 May 2007|01:04pm] |
So i attempted the elite 4 and the champion again without leveling up and this time brought plenty of items...
i get the elite 4 beaten, and the champion down to her last 2 pokemon...a weak grass one which i could have killed if she got it out, and spiriomb, which doesnt have any weaknessess :( so i eventually lost again!
but!
during her fight she used the last 2 pokemon i needed to see to add to my pokedex, and now i can go get the national dex from the professor and catch old school pokemon :D
professor oak busts in the place and is like "yo, you can go catch magnemite" and im like "woot"
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[20 May 2007|01:55am] |
ok no updates in a while i know that....but i've been playing pokemon pearl (the new game) for the last few days and got to the last battles of the game, and i had to vent >D
OK, SO...
to start off, my pokemon's levels were 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, and 40
the boss event is that you have to fight 4 guys, each with 6 pokemon. the bosses are specialized in certain types, but always have other pokemon in their gruops to throw you off. when you enter their rooms, the door closes behind you, so you can't go back and buy items/heal your pokemon/restore their attacks unless you have iems that do that.
they are called the Elite 4, and each of their pokemon are ALL level 55 or above, sometimes going up to 60.
so i go in and start he first battle, and it's pretty hard, but i end up scratching by with a win....so i go to the next guy, and i do pretty well on him, considering my guys' levels. when i go to the third guy's room i'm like... "crap, i forgot to buy revives!" (the only way to rez your pokemon with items). it so happens i had 5 on me, so they would have to do.
i get to the 3rd guy, and he knocks out a couple of my guys, and was also pretty hard. but i beat him, and use 3 of my revives, with only 2 left.
now i'm on the last guy, and he ends up killing 3 of my guys....i put a tank pokemon up and rez who i can while he takes the hits. 1 of my 4 guys dies again before i kill his 2nd to last pokemon. when i'm on my last one, it turns out it's the same pokemon that ive been using to tank, so im like "oh this will be a while..." so i use my tank pokemon to put his to sleep, then switch to one of my other rezzed guys to try and whittle him down...well he ends up killing all of them again so now it's just me and my tank pokemon against his tank pokemon (bronzong) he is a half health and i'm at full. luckily, the computer can only use 1 potion and 1 item per pokemon, and during the fight, he's used them already.
so, i keep putting him to sleep some more, and whittling him down with the only attack i have, which happens to be not effective against his since we are the same. each of my attacks does about 1% damage to him and i start to run low on PP (your "mana" for attacks") meanwhile the computer's pokemon keeps buffing his damage and defense even MORE until it's maxed. so sometimes my attacks don't even move his life...
anyways, killing this guy alone took about 45 minutes. this one pokemon...
i finally beat him!!! i'm like hell yeah, now that i've beaten the elite 4, i can go back to the pokecenter to rez my other pokemon and get my PP back for them too.
but.
no.
the pokemon champion (the final boss, after the elite 4) is in the same damn building! with 6 more pokemon of her own! and the doors are still locked so i cant go back! i'm out of revives, all my pokemon are dead cept one, and the one i have left has about 10 psychic attacks left before it is out of PP!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
so yeah, imma have to level my doodz up some more and buy tons of revives i guess... but that was 3 hours of a lesson learned. >.>
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[02 Nov 2006|03:13am] |
newsizeofourworld.ytmnd.com
atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com
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geez...
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[22 Oct 2006|01:23am] |
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OMG I GOT INTO THE WOW BURNING CRUSADE CLOSED BETA
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[21 Oct 2006|03:13am] |
Konami Corporation, developer of the Dance Dance Revolution® video dance game, and Roxor Games, Inc., developer of In The Groove® dance games, today announced the mutual settlement of the litigation between the parties in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. Under the terms of the settlement, Konami has acquired the intellectual property rights to the In The Groove® dance game franchise. It was further agreed as a part of the settlement that Roxor would respect Konami’s intellectual property rights.
http://www.inthegroove.com/page/Press_Release
:O
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[05 Oct 2006|03:40am] |
pr0n ownz
........
*sleeps*
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[01 Oct 2006|11:47pm] |
so like
like
like
ok the other day i went over to brians house and played some old NES games on my quest to one day beat them all.
the game i played this day was monster party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8-Z5R1YyM&mode=related&search=
this is the intro for the game....so retarded its not even funny....but it is.
anyways, some stuff in the game is so stupid/cheap its amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20sNY6Qjsk4
first level footage
so the main character's only weapon is a baseball bat that has like a half inch range. it can deflect stuff....ya good luck killing stuff like that! i have put this game down and gave up many a time before at brian's house...couldnt even beat the first level. you have to fight all the boses in the level to get a key to go through the door at the end...the funny part is, as you can see in the video, some boss rooms have NOTHING in them, or have bosses that you need to do NOTHING to win, you just stand there!! WTF! plus, every boss is completely retarded in so many ways its ridiculous...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOu3rcWEjZw
boss montage video...watch it...i'll wait!
there's also a level near the end which makes this non stop peircing noise that is supposed to be music?? and the level flashes with strobe like qualities....the level has a low amount of enemies to kill but theres about 50 doors, each pair of doors teleports you between the two, and its a maze of sorts... if you manage to go through the right combination of doors for a while, the 2nd to last chamber has 3 doors...the door you came from, the right one, and the wrong one...if you take the right one? you go to the end of the level, yay...but if you take the wrong one? you go all the way back to the start of the level sucka!! hope you wrote down the combination of which doors to go through!
this game took me a few hours to beat in one sitting, finally. but now i will never play it again, yay! for my reward, i was greeted with this ending movie...um yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yhHrgKqlA
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[19 Aug 2006|10:05pm] |
I have just about HAD IT with these MUTHA FUCKIN' SNAKES on this MUTHA FUCKIN PLANE!!!
not that bad of a movie IMO
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[03 May 2006|07:40pm] |
lofl dudes, no posts in like 5 months and what do you get now that im back? yall get some spam :)
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php?r=10610
check this out peeps, its a site that has soundtracks of HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of games
it also has some sheet music, manga, FULL anime episodes, friggin INSANE
:O
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[02 Jan 2006|11:11am] |
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360 BIOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCHHHHHHHH!!!!
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[10 Nov 2005|03:26pm] |
ROFL DUDES
SO I GO TO THE DMV READY TO TAKE MY TEST, IM IN THE PARKING SPACE AND EVERYTHING...THE LADY COMES BY AND SHES LIKE "GOT INSURANCE AND STUFF?" IM LIKE "YA TOALLY CHEX IT OUT" CUZ I TOTALLY KNEW I WAS READY. I GIVE HER MY INSURANCE SLIP AND SHES LIKE "THIS EXPIRED IN JULY DO YOU HAVE ANY CURRENT ONE?" IM LIKE :O :O :O SO I LOOK IN GLOVEBOX AND NOTHING!
OMGWTFPWNED HOW COME I DONT HAVE INSURANCE! NOW I MUST RESCHEDULE ROFLLLLLMAO!
i got pwned :( lol i hope i actually have the insurance still at least, and maybe its just not in my car? then my dad has it so ill bug him when he gets home.
loldudez!
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