[PSP] Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time

Publisher: Atlus
Genre: Turn-Based RPG

Growlanser 4: Wayfarer of Time is a game ported from PS2. The artist and character design for this series is Satoshi Urushihara who is known for his 'unique' art.  The similarity place of this game series is that each series consist of a fairy familiar that accompany you (who is also one of the possible ending selection)

I recommend this game for those RPG lovers. There are many points of why I think this game is good.
1. This game consist of good story line where the Main Character (MC) would need to save the world by defeating angels. The story changes as time progresses which also changes your objective. The story really attract you to continue playing to know its progress.
2. Multiple ending depends on your action and choice you performed.
3. The game is not highly depend on equipment which would not really need players to farm for their gears. ( Which hints you to use your money in another place)
4. Character designed by Urushihara Satoshi.
5. Unique spell casting method which can be used in performing combined spell what can hit large area.
You can also change the fate of those you met by act at appropriate time which is also a feature of this game.  You can see the alternate end of those fate you changed.

The game might looked retro and old, but the content of this game is good. Some people might not used to this kind of old game (since they are used to 3D and design of the current game).
P.S: Current existing FAQ on this game which is on PS2 is quite usable on this portable version. I have cleared this game once on solo ending.

PSP : Digimon Re:Digitize

Digimon the game is one of the best game i played last time. Now they are released in PSP. The game system is almost similar to the first game of this series, in which is a good thing. One of the add-on features that was not in the first game is that you can tag battle with your team mates at some point of the game. As similar to the first game, the hard part is digivolving which can be quite tricky as they are heavily affected by the parameters of the digimon, care mistakes, weight, tamer ranks and etc. In short, the game flow is like

1. Raise digimon to champion/ultimate/mega
2. Take digimon to clear story and quests
3.Digimon life expires
4. Go back to 1.

Ultimately, you need to have at least champion level or above digimon to clear the quests smoothly. If you guys want me to write a simple walkthru or digivolving guide due to the game is in Japanese, do notify me and i will make a simple compilation of the request and put it here. This game i would really recommend to those fans of digimon.

This season anime review....

Above is the list for the anime that will be released for summer 2012. The reason i write post this is due to my friends requested me to write a simple review and recommendations for the anime released.
So, i will write some simple summary and recommendations of the anime. Be aware this is purely based on my experience and thoughts and possible some spoilers. Considered you guys are being warned.


Firstly some summary about the anime released this season. Around 18 - 20 anime released this season are fan service based. I am not saying that fan service based anime is good or bad, just that the trend of the anime industry nowadays is a bit over in releasing fan-service anime which reflect the society of the current Japan.

P.S: I can only give reviews based on the anime i watched so far.

Anime watched so far:
1. Kingdom
2. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total alternative
3. Tari- Tari
4. Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
5. Rinne no Lagrange S2
6. La Storia della Arcana Famiglia
7. Uta Koi
8. Binbougami ga
9. Moyashimon Returns
10. Koi to senkyo to chocolate
11. Joshiraku
12. Kono naka ni hitori, imouto ga iru
13. Natsuyuki Rendezvous
14. Hagure Yuusha no estetica
15. Campione
16. Dakara boku wa H ga dekinai
17. Kokoro connect
18. Kyoukai senjou no horizon S2
19. Dog days
20. Sword art online
21. Oda nobuna no yabou

Out of so many anime i watched so far, i would give my opinion on what to watch this season based on the first episode. You can give you evaluation after you read my review on all the anime i watched.

Recommendations:
1. Sword art online
2. Binbougami ga

Reviews 

1. Kingdom 
Genre: Historical

I watched this anime up to episode 6. Leave aside the story, we go to the bad side of this anime.
Firstly, the anime art sux. I do not usually judge so much about art due to my preference to some retro anime. The animation in this anime is almost like computer rendered and was designed badly. Story wise, average or below i would say, after watching 6 episode. The main character is kinda too emo which i think is a little excessive. However, if you are attracted to this anime due to the game they released in PSP, then good luck and have fun enduring the animation.

Score: 3/10

2. Muv-Luv Alternative

Genre: Action, Mecha, Horror, Scifi. 

This anime i would recommend for its story. From the visual novel and manga point of view, this anime is quite good. Though, it should have a bit of fan service in it due to the nature of the series ( Muv-Luv, Muv-Luv alternative). However, I think they will change the story arrangement a bit as you can see from ep 1 and 2. Just some speculation from what i can see from the manga, the ending of this anime would be like those "no-ending" or "forever-loop" kind of ending. 

Score: 8/10

3. Tari- Tari
Genre: Comedy, drama, musical, school life

This anime i would say another K-ON in the making with boys included inside (though, no instruments included inside, XD). Story is about struggle of the new choir club in their attempt to get new members, getting their club recognize and win competition. In short, a normal/decent anime with quite enjoyable songs.

Score: 6.5/10

4. Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
Genre: Comedy, Supernatural

Hard to say anything good or bad about this anime. The plot is kinda boring. You will be fast forward to see their joke parts only ( at least i would do that when i watch the second time). If you like static plot stories with some minor outsider-style of jokes, you can try this. Else, you will find this anime very boring. 

Score: 5/10

5. Rinne no lagrange S2
Genre: Scifi, Mecha, school life. 

Normal mecha anime with no specialty. Just that the OP was sung by Megumi Nakajima. This anime focus on three female characters. More or less would makes you think "Is this a yuri anime?"

Score: 5.5/10

6.La Storia della Arcana Famiglia
Genre: action, comedy, drama, romance

Mafia story with the power of arcana (tarot card). Not really an anime i would recommend to those hoping to see action. Reverse harem with a lot of bishies (female preference??? ), aiming for the seat of the leader for their own purpose.

Score: 3.5/10


7. Utakoi
Genre: Comedy, romance

I only seen this anime for the first episode and str8 drop since not really my cup of tea. In short, the story is about the romance and love story of the ancient japan. Maybe interesting for those that like japan literature. 

Score: 4/10

8. Binbougami ga
Genre: Comedy

One of the recommendation for this season. Mostly focus on the quarrels of the two main female characters. Some parody included in this anime. In my opinion, more or less near to the level of hayate no gotoku in term of jokes. 

Score: 8/10

9. Moyashimon Returns
Genre: Microbe

More or less comedy show that mainly talking about fermentation and bacteria activities. Not much to comment. Quite boring actually. However, got a lot of cute bacteria and the main character can talk to those bacteria. 

Score: 5/10

10. Koi to senkyo to chocolate
Genre: School life, visual novel

Main character's club is about to get abolished by the manifesto of the new candidate for the student council. MC have to make himself as a candidate of the student council to save his club ( Activity of the club = eat snacks, abolished is a just reason don;t you think?). This anime is taken from a eroge visual novel. Finished one of the story ending, not bad. Tend to have minor fan service from time to time ( expected, since from h-game ).

Score: 7/10

11. Joshiraku
Genre; parody, comedy

Really, i don't get the jokes of this anime. Stopped watching after ep 1.

Score: 3/10

12. Kono naka ni hitori, imouto ga iru
Genre: romance, harem, school life

Another major fan-service anime with the almost perfect MC that got shy when approached by women. Typical fan-service anime. If you got hots for little sister characters, this is the one for you.

Score: 4/10

13. Natsuyuki Rendezvous

Genre: drama, romance

MC loves his female boss. MC saw a ghost in his female boss home. That ghost is the female boss's deceased husband. MC determined to make the female boss forget her dead husband and trying to exorcist the ghost. Not my cup of tea.

Score: 4/10

14. Hagure Yuusha no estetica
Genre: Action, drama, fantasy, romance, harem??

Another heavy fan-service super MC with godly skills/magic?? that loves to sexually harass females. Too many fan service anime.... Watch so far, lost count how many times MC snatched females underwear with his hands.

Score: 3/10

15. Campione
Genre: fantasy, adventure, romance, harem

After watching the anime and read the light novel, conclusion is that this anime have the potential to be one of the anime with most fan-service. However, compared with what i read from the novel, anime cut down quite a lot of those scenes. Story wise, should be not bad ( since i like lame MC with godly skills, XD). Can hear a lot of names of the gods from Greek, Persian, Mayan, etc.

Score: 6/10

16. Dakara boku wa H ga dekinai
Genre: Supernatural, comedy, romance.

Fan-service oriented anime which focus on Shinigami. Female MC is a shinigami that need energy to stay on earth. So, she stabbed a sword which absorb spiritual energy from the soul into MC chest. MC special power is super fast regen which can be triggered by seeing ecchi stuffs. Quite few of hilarious spots.

Score: 5/10

17. Kokoro connect
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance, school life

A group of students (male and female) in a club can swap body. THE END. Not much story in this anime. More of less like those boring romance slice of life anime that situated at high school. Dropped at ep 2.

Score: 3/10

18. Kyoukai senjou no horizon S2
Genre: Supernatural, historical??, sci-fi, adventure

Serialization of the season 1. To be honest, even till the end, i also dunno what is this anime talking about in season 1. Dropped.

Score: 2/10

19. Dog days!!
Genre: Adventure, fantasy, action, comedy

Anime ear anime with human MC to play as Hero in their world. This is season 2. Quite enjoyable comedy show. My personal interest. One of the main reason i watch this is Yui Horie. XD

Score: 6/10

20. Sword art online
Genre: Adventure, action, romance

Good to see one of my favourite novel got serialized in anime. The novel got around 3 - 4 arc. As i can see, this season they can only cover at most 1 arc including the side stories. From the creator of Accel World. One of the enjoyable anime this season.

Score: 9/10

21. Oda nobuna no yabou
genre: romance, historical, fantasy

About MC that time travel to the historical japan ( Sengoku period). However, the main warlords there are almost all female. Reverse gender anime with slight fan-service. Can learn a thing or two about the sengoku period in japan.

Score: 5/10

First Blood

Well, this is my first time blogging....
Therefore please give any suggestion to me to improve this blog.
I will update as frequent as possible. For the topic would be most about the thing i see and experience from my daily life.
Will also be including some stuff i think is interesting in the web. ;-)
Well, that 's would be all the stuff i can write for today.