Anime: Sword Art Online Ep. 17

This post will be image heavy as I wanted to comment on several highlights of this episode. :D Here in episode 17, we finally get to know more about the new main characters in this season. One of them is Leafa, a strong-willed girl who is knowledgeable around Alfheim Online. She reminds me of  Link in the Zelda series because they have similar hair and outfit color not to mention that they are elvish. =) Leafa might be as well Link's female persona. xD Yeah, Leafa is pretty charming but I still prefer Asuna. :> 

Leafa taught Kirito the basics of flying without the use of the controller. At first Kirito sucked at it then after a few swooshing and swinging around, he's starting to catch up with Leafa. As expected of the great beater Kirito-sama. xD

But only he didn't learn one of the most important things about flying, the way of proper landing. XD I really LOL-ed at this particular scene. xD Good thing Leafa knows basic healing spells.

Recon, Leafa's friend that we saw in the previous episode made an appearance again. Couldn't the maker of SAO thought of a better name? I feel sorry for Recon (Re-log in). Lol.

And sorry for bringing this up even I'm a girl haha, Leafa has big breasts. :3 I thought she was like Asuna. 8D *kidding*

I just confirmed in this episode that my hunch before was right. Leafa's real identity is none other than Suguha, Kirito's cousin. xD SAO's leaning towards some incest elements as Suguha's feelings for Kirito are somewhat obvious. @_@

And Asuna finally made an appearance as Alfheim's fairy queen, Titania and she's supposed to be that bastard Sugou's wife in the game. I used to think that maybe Asuna's memories in this game has been wiped out especially her memories of Kirito but thank God that was not the case. 

On the other hand, Sugou is Alfheim's fairy king Oberon and the game master as well. He confessed to Asuna that his real intention in making the game is to have the players as experiment subjects. Sugou claims that he's conducting experiments about altering memories of a person and later on sell that technology to some American corporation. This bastard is so greedy and selfish I just want to beat him to a pulp. 

Hurry Kirito, Asuna needs you.. :/

PSP: Sol Trigger

I've always wanted to try and play a Japanese RPG that is not translated into English. I often see those gamers posting their own gameplay of various Japanese games and majority of them claim to have not much knowledge about Nihonggo. I actually admire those people and since I have basic knowledge about Nihonggo (all thanks to anime and Japanese fandom), I want to try playing one as well. So I when I saw a game trailer of Sol Trigger in Youtube I've been itching to play it. :P

Sol Trigger ソールトリガー is a turn-based Japanese role-playing game developed by Image Epoch for the PSP. Imageepoch Inc. is known for their games in different gaming consoles/handhelds such as 7th Dragon, Luminous Arc serie, Sands of Destruction in Nintendo DS; Fate/Extra, Criminal Girls, Black Rock Shooter in PSP; Arc Rise Fantasia in Wii and Chevalier Saga Tactics and Tokitowa for the PS3. Sol Trigger was released in Japan on October 4, 2012.

(Pictures came from Sol Trigger's official Japanese site I put them altogether <3 span="span">) 

The main characters consist of Farel (protagonist), a sword wielder; Ema (main healer), a pistol user; Valter, a scythe user, Cyril (support/offense), a mace user; Sophie (mobber because of her AOE skills) a cannon expert and Gustaf (offense), an axe user. Farel is the main controllable character but you can choose 3 of your party members from Cyril, Sophie, Valter, Cyril and Gustaf. I personally like an all-girls party so I'm using Ema, Sophie and Cyril. :D What's great about this game is that you don't have to worry about those other characters you don't use of being under-leveled. If your party members are currently level twenty-eight, then the sub-members would also be level twenty-eight. I don't use Gustav and Valter but they are the same level as my party. Pretty convenient huh. :D

Here's an example of the battle system recorded by me. =)

I really like this game. I just learned earlier that every party member has its own story. For now, I've only seen Ema and I love her anime scene with Farel. I'm planning to complete all the character's story and master all their skills which will probably take some time. I also want to translate some cut scenes with voiced dialogues specially those with Farel and Ema, Sophie and Cyril.

For those who are reading this, you should get this game. You won't regret it. :D It's fun to play and you don't really need to know Japanese to finish the whole game. :)

Anime: Sword Art Online Ep. 16

I just finished watching episode 16 of SAO a couple of minutes ago. I'm glad that they finally introduced the new fairy land virtual game, Alfheim Online, that I've been seeing in trailers.I prefer Kirito's black long coat before compared to his elf appearance now. For me he looked cooler and more badass before. :/ Hopefully he'd get a change of robes in the next episodes. 

It seems that AO is actually a sub part of SAO that's why Kirito retained some of his skills though not all of his items could be read in AO's system but fortunately, he still had Yui's virtual heart in his inventory which actually revived Yui in the game. (Oh wait, what? I thought Asuna made Yui's heart as a pendant of a necklace that she was wearing? o.o)

I'm really glad to see here again. :D If Yui was an immortal object in SAO's system, here in AO she's a cuuteeeeeeee navigation pixie. Take a look at her transformed pixie perfect look and her size is pixie-fied too. <3 nbsp="nbsp">

And a new character is introduced but I am too lazy to search for her name. :D I'll know her name in the next episode for sure since she's one of the main characters in SAO for this season. When I first saw her in the trailer, I thought she was Sugu, Kirito's cousin. XD 

Maybe it will be a while before we get to see Asuna again. :/