Kyoto Kitty

SoulCalibur IV was finally released and it’s not without its pros and cons. I’m horribly disappointed in the story mode because there is no story!! The endings for most, if not all, the characters are genuine WTF-moments…augh! SoulCalibur III included the perfect formula for the endings that followed the roots of its mother, SoulEdge/Blade - interactive ones. The characters are all really pretty and shiny though!

One of the main reasons why I wanted to play this game was for the Create A Soul (CaS) Mode. I can thankfully say that I can easily waste a good portion of the day thumbing through equipment and racking my brain for beautiful color combinations to decorate my original characters with. It might be the fact that I haven’t unlocked a lot of the equipment for CaS, but creating male characters is spot-on BORING! So far, I’ve created only two female original characters that I would consider actually keeping. Unfortunately, I don’t have the means to share them with the rest of the world for now, but I’m practicing the age-old principle of ‘quality over quantity’, unlike the rest of the world out there. On that note, I’m going to begin my rant.

In my excitement, I thought that I would venture out into the world wide web in search of CaS images. Unfortunately, to my disappointment, all I could find were people’s re-creations of already existing characters. “Oh!! How do you make Sephiroth/Cloud/Kasumi/<input unoriginal idea here>!” C’mon, everyone! What happened to originiality??!! If I’m going online to fight someone, I sure as heck don’t want to run into a plethora of Cloud-wannbes, ok?

Anyway, good day!

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Kyoto Kitty

Salutations one and all!

I have not forgotten about this blog spot of mine, oh no. However, I do bear good news and the reason as to why my posts here have been inching ever closer to that side of the spectrum known as non-existent.

Over the course of last month, I applied for two writing positions: one at Gamespot as an editorial assistant and the other at Gemertell as a freelance writer. At the end of the next two weeks I thought that all efforts were in vain. Yet, to my surprise, I received an invitation from Gamertell to begin writing for them. That being said, I am now one of their contributors endowed with the freedom to pretty much write about whatever I see fit so long as it borders the realm of video games and the such. Therefore, I humbly ask your participation in overseeing my progress as a flourishing writer by checking out my articles thus far: My Goodness

Apparently, spammers think my site grabs a big enough audience to the point where on a daily basis I am constantly spamming their advertisements. I hadn’t realized that my blog had reached such stardom.

Thank you, everyone!

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Kyoto Kitty

My camera arrived yesterday and of course, I am at a loss on how to use it. Why do people like me insist on buying items that we don’t even have clue about, aside from the fact that I know I like the sound of the shutter :B With all of the equipment this camera requires, I can equate this with the purchase of a dog. HECK! For what it’s worth, this is more than what a Siberian Husky would cost. Oh, my little Dante Caspian, you’ll have to wait until I can afford foreclosed property somewhere in the bay area…if not my own trailer home in my backyard.

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Kyoto Kitty

Whenever I looked at those cliched macro-photos of flowers, I thought to myself and why I wasn’t able to grasp a similar quality picture with my credit card sized Sony t-10. Now, after having seen the light, I was made aware that such pictures were not achievable without the aid of an SLR camera. Ah, and yes, you’ve guessed it. I’ve shelled out the big bucks to buy this little puppy and its playmate:

That is a picture of a Nikon D40 6.1mgpx SLR camera. I bought a bundle/kit through B&H Photo that included a 55-200mm VR (Vibration Reduction) lens. After consulting with my uncle, who is a professional photographer, he suggested that I invest in the D40 as opposed to the newer models. He suggested that overindulging in megapixels is unnecessary and a common misunderstanding. I’m not going to print any 22×24 pictures, therefore, 6.1mgpx is just right and also saves me a lot of cha-ching. Also, the Nikon D-series cameras are built with much sturdier material than the Canon Rebel series which are mostly composed of plastic. It’s funny how in the beginning, I only wanted digital cameras that could fit in my back pocket, and if we fast-forward to now, I’m upgrading to the yeti of the camera family. I can’t wait to be taking new macro-photos of all my figures, like the little closet pervert that I am :B

In breaking Japan news, a young man went on a killing spree in Akihabara. I knew those damned hentai-mahjong games rotted the brains.

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Kyoto Kitty

And so, it’s finally here: to all of you who have been wondering what this perverted phenomenon of a game is really about. In short, this game is really disappointing. I’m sure the temptation of “touching” young pre-pubescent wonders in a fully legal environment must curl the toes, but it sure isn’t fulfilling what-so-ever.

A short synopsis: You assume the role of high school student bad boy Akuji Nishimura who is given the task to sniff out a bunch of witches who have infiltrated his school in order to cause mischief. Your ordained side-kick is a mini-angel named Lulu who is actually more of a pervert than our young flunky, Akuji. You must explore your school to look for clues in order to accuse your targeted witch and when you beat her in battle, you get to make her/him all hot and bothered until the witch’s mark appears.

First, let’s take away the whole concept of feeling little girls [and a boy] away and what kind of game is Doki Doki Majo Shinpan (DDMS)? It’s an old fashioned point and click adventure. Instead of using your mouse though, obviously you magic wand of naughty is going to be your stylus. The novelty of getting to tap-tap-tap a bunch of girls’ [and boy’s] still pictures wears off much too quickly….but still I can’t help but feel a little dirty.

The flow of this game is this: explore your environment by tapping -> battle your witch by tapping -> feel up your target by tapping.

The majority of the game consists exploring various sites on a high school campus looking for clues in order to accuse your target. Your targets are practically shoved in your face, so there’s no prime Sherlock Holmes sleuthing happening here. I found that when I was playing, more often than not, I accidentally found what I was looking for instead of intentionally knowing where to look. One instance involved me tapping the very same screen for 5 minutes until an event triggered, which of course caused me to believe that it was time to invest in a new DS. But, I’m not the problem, it’s this game. It’s controls are horribly unresponsive even though they’re so simple. Battles are at least a little more interesting though, but not by much - so, don’t hold your breath. You will primarily fight each witch via a first-person perspective using the “Angel Sword” which by (surprise, surprise!) tapping, inflicts short-ranged damage. For long-ranged attacks, simply hold your stylus down for a few seconds and a much more powerful attack in unleashed. As you progress through the game and beat new witches, they will add themselves to your harem each contributing different magical fighting abilities.

Upon defeating a witch, you must prove their identity by tapping sweet spots all over their body. In real life, everyone has their own particular erogenous zone, but in this game, everyone is a one trick pony! You must be thinking,”Ah! How easy would like be if real women were the same.” There are several options at your disposal when you’re trying to get someone in the “doki doki” mode: touch, look, blow [wind, mind you], smile, and showing them your evidence [but not “your evidence”…haha]. You can achieve your goal by primarily using the touch option, just like me. Thus the sweet spots are as follows: poking them in between the eyes, caressing their chest, grabbing their thighs, and ticking their elbows. Doing so then causes the culprit to let out sighs and sadly seductive appeals. Oh, yeah, I’m all hot and bothered just talking about it.

And there you have, a formula that is similar to washing your hair. This game is very Japanese text heavy, so if you get easily frustrated with that, I highly encourage you to save your pennies. Being that there is no full voice in this game, I found myself rapidly tapping the “A” button so that I could skip all the dialogue and get to my goodies.

Even though it sucks balls (and not in the good way) I’ve played it to the end as I’m nearly finished with this game with only one more episode to complete, and I’m still getting DDM2 2 in the summer…but that’s only because it’s too much of a hassle to cancel my order and I want all the goodies that are being offered in the special edition version.

“The best butt on a little boy that I’ve ever seen….but unfortunately, this scene does not exist in the game….yet.”

Please e-mail me/comment with any questions, as this will help me validate the reason as to why I continue playing such a wretched game.

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Kyoto Kitty

The World Ends With You:

I was really anticipating Square Enix’s “The World Ends With You” up until I heard the English dubbing……WHY?! Why does this always happen. It truly sucks and it makes my ears bleed green brain juice. You know, I’ll do their studio a favor and show up in front of their office and they can hire me right off the street to do their voice-overs because it sure seems like that’s what they’re doing already….that, or they must be going around the office and asking people to submit sound bytes during their coffee breaks. It frustrates me so much when everyone knows that the video game business is a multi-million dollar enterprise and development crews go all chinese cheap on a game when it comes to the voice acting. You know what, do us all a favor and just edit the voices out if you’re not going to do a good job!

That being said, I am considering buying an import copy of “Subarashiki Kono Sekai/It’s a Beautiful World”. Play-Asia is currently offering this title for $29.90, but I think I might hold out and see if it doesn’t become another $19.90 bargain basement hit.

Hiiro no Kakera:

Another otome game featuring wonderfully delicious bishounen. This will be due out May 22nd, and I’ve already submitted my order for the Special Edition version. I must be horribly depressed with life right now because I can’t seem to stop spending.

The original version was featured as a PS2 title and did so well that it spawned 2 more subsequent titles. The DS version will thankfully feature full voice, following in the steps of Tokimeki Girl’s Side’s Second Season. You play a young high school girl (how original) who suddenly starts seeing demons but finds out that she alone can only see these atrocious beings. And, how convenient for her, but all these handsome young men come running to her aid. If only my life was like that.

On a side note, I ordered a few anime titles: Shakugan no Shana, Code Geass, Tokyo Majin, and Shinging Wind x Tears. Look forward to reviews on at least one of these titles if not all. And, I might even toss in my after-thoughts on Death Note. Or did I miss the band wagon?

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Kyoto Kitty

Who doesn’t enjoy coming home to an expecting package just yearning to be opened. I for one absolutely packages! Aside from clothes, my two anticipated import DS games finally arrived. I hope that I’m not over-hyping these two titles for myself though:

Days of Memories

Monster Farm DS

Look for my first impressions soon!…It’s like Japanese class all over again!

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Manufacturer: Marvelous Interactive
Genre: Adventure/RPG
Release Date: March 22, 2007 (Japan)
Best Price: $24.90 @ Play-Asia

From what I know so far, this is the second installment on the DS following its predecessor “Negima?! Chou Mahora Taisen”. The game revolves around 10-year old Magics Teacher Negi Springfield and his plethora of cute and crazy female students. The plot of this game entails your class investigating the appearance of ‘Chupacabre’ at a hot spring. The female students take this opportunity of a field trip to relax and enjoy nature in bathing suits and skimpy towelettes.

Originally an anime series that prides itself on fan-service, it’s no surprise that the gameplay mechanics revolves around cosplay. You must obtain and buy different cosplay outfits to add various moves and abilities to your arsenal. In battle mode, the characters move along the map a la a grid, much like Disgaea. The battles are real time and you utilize the a,b,x,y,L,and R buttons to chain combos for greater damage. There isn’t really any use of the stylus except for the conversation portions where you have the option to touch the girls in two places: her head and her chest. They react accordingly and its cute for about 5 times before you get bored and notice that they cycle through only a few reactions.

In this game, you must also build your relationships with your students by answering questions correctly. By doing so, you can obtain what I call their ‘master ability’ which during battle, unleashes powerful character-distinct moves. Now, I haven’t been able to successfully use any of them though…haha.

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Here are ONE video to delight your senses with. I would have posted more videos from YouTube but I was a little too disturbed by the labored breathing you can hear in the background Þ: After watching this, it doesn’t make the game sound quite as perverted since in actuality, you are just poking at several different still frames coupled with a couple of key phrases. Honestly speaking, I seriously don’t think it’s that bad of a game in the hentai way, that is. I guess the whole point is to “use your imagination”. The sequence sort of reminds me of how you can tease the girl you dress up in Rub Rabbits…haha..I loved to poke her to hear her scream.

I really hope that the sequel sports animations when you’re feeling them up or is that too spicy? Bouncy boobs just isn’t enough for me.

I really like the background music for this clip. It’s quite catchy if I do say so myself :B If you want to skip to the “good stuff” (I guess), just drag the bar to the last 20 seconds to see her fleshy humps jiggle….only a little though.

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Kyoto Kitty

Greetings to all! I’ve been meaning to write about several import games for a while but the innate urge to procrastinate and simply post pictures and videos always gets the better of me. Will I ever best the beast? I’m going to attempt to do so as we speak!

Anyway, on to the meat of my post! Please note that the following are all Nintendo DS games.

Days of Memories (SNK) - Released on June 14th, 2007:

Originally a mobile phone game available in Japan, its popularity had prompted the release of an NDS game adaptation which collects the first 3 games into one cartridge for your convenient gaminging experience. In each game, you play as a male whose primary goal is to meet and finally court your favorite SNK herorine (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Metal Slug, etc.). All the while, expect to run into scenarios with each SNK series cast of male characters (which may be unfortunate for some).

Each of the three seperate games in Days of Memories contain their own seperate set of SNK girls to oogle and since the game is obviously targeted at the otaku-masses, expect to see fan-favorites such as Mai Shiranui in revealing fan-service oriented attire. Exactly how much more boobage could she offer? It boggles the mind!

Website: http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/dom/

Note: A lower bargain edition of this game will be released on April 24th so that you can avoid the $50 void common to most imports.

Days of Memories 2 (SNK) - Release on April 24th, 2008:

Just in case you didn’t think you could get enough of the SNK girls in the first version of the DS adaptation, Days of Memories 2 is going to be released later this month. Like its predecessor, the NDS version will include 3 seperate games each with their own individual scenario. One of the major differences this time is that one of the scenarios features the player as a girl who yearns for the affection of a handful of SNK guys! (the exclamation point indicates that I am excited about meeting Rock Howard)

Website: http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/dom/dom1/index.php

Doki Doki Majou Shinpan! (SNK) - Released July 03rd, 2007:

In this game, you become a high school student by the name of Akuji who has been asked by a mysterious angel, Lulu, to investigate a witch who has snuck into his school. Apparently, the only way to figure out if a girl is a witch is to look for a certain suspicious witch’s mark that only makes itself visible when the girl’s heart is in “doki doki” mode (pounding in otherwords).

Now, how do you think that you could make a girl’s heart gp “doki doki”? Well, here’s where the softcore hentai concept plays in. When you initially meet a girl for investigation, naturally she won’t let you near her. That’s why you must challenge her to a battle and upon her defeat, she succumbs to your inquisition. Using the stylus, you “strategically” touch the girl in various places on her body…but of course, don’t forget that comforting words and eye contact are a must in order to get her into the “mood”.

The sequel to this game was announced at TGS 2007 and will be released later this summer. Its title is Doki Doki Majou Shinpan 2 Duo. I don’t know about you, but this game is much too quirky to pass up!

Website: http://www.dokimajo.com/english/ (don’t be fooled by this officially english translated web page though. I assure you that this game will NEVER make it stateside…or even out of Asia at all)

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Kyoto Kitty

It’s not an episode and it’s also not a blog. Take a gander at this entertaining film of me a little buzzed and bored waiting to board the airplane from LAX to SFO. On this very same trip, I saw Omarosa at the restaurant I ate dinner at before arriving at the airport.

I’m such a nerd.

After being swept up the in the pixel perfection of Resident Evil 4’s Leon S. Kennedy, I started reminiscing about the fan pairing of Claire x Steve from Code Veronica. I can’t believe I was actually gutsy enough to play that game. I’m such a wimp now…..I bought RE4 for the Gamecube with that special limited edition red tin, but I played it for about only an hour because I got too scared. There’s just something about dying in scary games that freaks me out. I’m not exactly sure what it is.

I sure would like to have a bodyguard like Leon. Ashley is so lucky.

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Kyoto Kitty

Now this is definitely a beautiful site to behold. Not very many sculptors have been able to do the DOA girls justice in PVC form, but our friend and fan favorite, Mr. Shunya Yamashita brings his best to the table yet again:

This figure was released with a mate, Kasumi in her C2 version costume, and was released just this February within Sega’s Extra Figure line-up, alongside popular EVA and Fate/Stay Night series models. Being that the DOA girls lack very much details in regards to their facial models, this figure definitely gives Tecmo’s character modelers a run for their money. It wouldn’t hurt to take some lessons from Shunya Yamashita when planning their next DOA game.

Being that my only complaint is in regards to the little children who manufactured this toy doing a lowsy job in painting her nails, if you are a DOA fan, you need to have this figure….if you can find it anymore, that is.

Good luck!

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Kyoto Kitty