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Laziness; In Haiku
The rain pours fiercely
I should take up my pen, Yet
Sleep and moisture aches.
Cesspool
I’m gonna dump some random scribbles here pretty soon, though my medium of choice lately seems to be ‘Sharpie Markers on Copy Paper.’ I attempted a ‘normally’ lined drawing the other day and I dare say, my inking felt a little smoother after all of this paint-glob style stuff I’ve been working on. I’ve also been poking at some sprite sheets again. Whoopee, right?
Disgaea PSP’s new “Etna Mode” is pretty amusing, as to be expected. I sort of wish they had retroactively applied some of the tweaks they’d come up with in their later games to it, for example, it’d be really nice if my healer could gain experience by healing, and not a complicated series of lucky hits to build mana followed by Extra Gaining the crap out of disciples’ spellbooks. I probably put more effort into making a survivable medic character than I do into any other unit in the game.
It’d be super if they could re-introduce Makai Kingdom’s vehicles some day.
Comic in the morning. Probably. I’ll probably end the chapter with a long break to regroup. Possibly even just posting entire issues as they’re completed instead of this daily instant-gratification thing. We’ll see.
The Dark Side
Since it’s been out for three years, I figured it was about time to get a PSP. It has NOTHING to do with the release of Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness and the Etna chapters therein. Seriously.
I’d somehow convinced myself that the PSP was some kind of awkward brickish thing that promised to do ‘more’ but fail miserably, like the Game Gear (remember the TV Antenna attachment?), but this thing really feels more like a mini-computer than a game system. I’ve probably spent about as much time poking around with the settings and internet browser as I have playing Disgaea so far.
Whoops. Cat’s out of the bag.
I thought about posting this FROM the PSP, but I could only screw with the convoluted text entry setup for so long before I wanted to make the brick a boomerang.
Killin’ Time
My computer’s acting kinda funny and Photoshop runs obscenely slowly while I scan for gremlins and the like, so I thought I’d check in on the status of my current games:
Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations– Smack dab in case 2 (haven’t had as much qt with it as I’d like), and already it seems like the deepest of the three. Their imaginary legal system is still pretty hilarious, though. I suspect we’ll have at least one more instance of accidental death or manslaughter that is ruled as outright murder. I wonder if the fourth installment will be worth getting in the absence of Wright, though…
Soul Nomad– Still not a horrible chore yet! But I believe in Nippon Ichi!
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann(NDS) Just starting playing yesterday, sadly I don’t know how much time I’ll be investing in it. On the one hand, it has great graphics and tons of art and dialogue lifted straight from the show. On the other hand, I’m three fights in and the best word to describe them is ‘repetitive.’ Or possibly awkward. Or repetitively awkward. Each fight consists of fighting an enemy within a small, circular arena. You point your constantly-jogging self at the enemy, press whatever attack button lights up, then complete a brief minigame to inflict the most damage possible. Then you are wailed on for a while as you wait for your special attack to recharge. Passable if you’re not a fan. Hell, passable if you are. Kamina’s voice urging you to save and load your game files is only a draw for so long.
Front Mission- A very faithful adaption of what I remember the SNES version being, in fact it even uses the same style font as the unofficial translation from way back when. (It does not, however, use the more sensical ‘Lloyd’ for the hero’s name, instead calling him ‘Royd’ by default. My feelings on this can best be summarized as ‘Royd Rage.’) With wi-fi battling and an entirely-new (well, not entirely;) campaign from the enemy’s point of view, this one comes reccomended.
Mega Man ZX Advent– I’m the only one who gives a shit, aren’t I? Capcom gave in to pressure after eliminating most of the dialog for the localized ZX and redubbed this one, making it harder to ignore the awkward overuse of the prefix ‘Megamerge’ and other inexplicable changes of vocabulary. Other than that though, it pretty much improves on the already-good ZX in nearly every way, and you can actually morph into bosses instead of just jack their weapons.
Transformers: Decepticons– Finally got G1-style Starscream skin after letting my Allspark account idle a while. Messed with a while, put it back away.
Assuming there’s nothing wrong with this thing, I should have today’s strip up by this evening at the latest. I’ve penciled the whole week ahead, so there shouldn’t be any more delays.
Remember, I just said I would be updating three times a week. I never specified what days!