Clow Cards/Sakura Cards Mini Guessing Game

Aside from doing fortune readings, I was able to devise a simple but fun mini guessing game that you could play with your friends with the use of your clow/sakura cards. ;)


First, I categorized the 52 Cards into Persons, Objects and Animals.

CATEGORIES:

Pick at least 6 cards from each category. We will only use 6 cards each because the Animal category has only 6 cards. So we should have 18 cards all in all. After deciding which cards to use, set aside the remaining cards. 

So now that we're ready, here's how to play:

MECHANICS: (There must be at least 2 to 4 players to play this game. )

1. Shuffle the cards first. One player will pick 3 cards from the top of your selected deck (18 cards) and lay them face down. 

2. The other players will pick their own card and guess what category their card belongs to. 

3. The player who guesses right gets to keep the card.

4. Repeats steps 1 to 3 until you have the winner. The first person to get 5 correct guesses or 5 cards is the winner.

5. The losing players take turns in dealing the cards. 

I know it's quite a simple game but it's quite fun really. I played it with kids and I had so much fun. *lol*

*I'll add pictures later for reference. :)

Ragnarok 2: Closed Beta Testing

A few months ago, someone in my Facebook network shared a post regarding Ragnarok 2 LOTS. At that time, I wasn't really aware of RO2: Legend of the Second. What I know about is RO2: The Gate of the World which according to "some" people was a total let down. I don't know much about it though because the game is only available in Korea. When I first saw RO2 LOTS, I fell totally in love with the 3D graphics. I've been so familiar with the 2D sprites of RO1 that sometimes I just get tired of it. *_* Don't get me wrong.. I totally loved RO1 and I think pixel animation is pretty but sometimes I really wish that there'd be more customization options for players like changing the character's clothing appearance depending on what equipment he/she is wearing. *.* 

I've been waiting for updates about the beta release of RO2 LOTS and a week earlier before the said release, I was really excited to play it even though the game is 3.8 GB big. *_* Dec. 7 finally came and I downloaded the game installer for almost 3 days. Due to download traffic and other technical issues, the game site and forum were down for maintenance. Sadly, I only got to try the game on the last day of the CBT. -_-

I usually go for acolyte or mage class in mmorpgs. Here in RO2 I figured that it would be difficult to solo as an acolyte so I made a mage character instead. One of the awesome features that RO2 offers for its players is the ability to take on a profession like being an artisan, an alchemist, a blacksmith and a cook. Alchemists and blacksmiths are already common in RO1 and we almost see them everywhere and cooks are also like Genetics. I chose to be an artisan because I like the thought of my character crafting equipment, accessories and fancy stuff. =)

This is my mage, Keina, grinding a few levels and aimlessly slaying Baby Porings. The monsters in RO2 are stronger compared to RO1. Baby Porings are only level 1 monsters and they are the weakest ones in the game but it takes about 4 to 5 hits before killing one unlike in RO, hit them once or twice and they're squished. -_-

This is the Kafra lady for RO2. She looks so pretty like the girls in a Maid Cafe. lol. =) The Kafra service offers the same functions such as item storage, save point though I'm not sure yet if it lets you teleport to other places. 

This is one of the quest NPCs offering you some decent equipment for finishing her quest. =)

I stopped playing at level 7 because there's really no point in playing when my progress will be deleted anyway. -.- I was happy to hunt some cards from the monsters -  flip, hornet and lunatic. Hopefully it wouldn't be that hard to hunt for cards in the game because in RO1, one of the many reasons why people bot is because the drop rate of cards is really low. -_-

Speaking of bugs, I encountered this kinda creepy character glitch while I was playing. This happens whenever I face an obstacle and look at my character's face in front view. xD Also while leveling I noticed that some monsters cannot be attacked no matter how you click them or spam them with skills. 

After closed beta testing all characters and items will be fully wiped but the players are given the priveledge to keep their in game characters if they reached level 25 during CBT. Well it's a good thing for concerned players but I'm not worried about my own in game name since the ones I used are not usually common. =)

I can't wait for the Opening Beta. =) You can download RO2 LOTS here. I'll see you guys in the CBT! 

La Corda D' Oro: Seiyuu Event

Seisou Gakuensai 3

La Corda D' Oro Event

I don't own anything. I'm only sharing this for entertainment purposes. :D

I ripped this from Tudou.com and I'm not really sure who to credit.. ;_; Don't worry the quality is okay though. The highlight of this event for me was when the seiyuus were asked to imitate each other. xD

You need HJsplit to combine the files and Winrar to extract them.

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Pokemon Movie 1: Mewtwo Strikes Back

A Pokemon movie is tearing me up! Yes, I know that this is already old but nevertheless, the original Pokemon and characters will always be a good classic to watch. Ash together with Misty, Brock and seeing nurse Joys and officer Jennys brings back good memories of my childhood. I remember seeing this movie in television when I was in Elementary. For me, Mewtwo will always be the best legendary pokemon out of all of them. Why? Because he is psychic and psychics kick butts. =)

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The movie starts off with Mewtwo having doubts about his purpose of existence. When he learns that he was created to be the strongest Pokemon but genetically made from Mew's DNA, he couldn't accept it and thought that he is far more stronger than ordinary Pokemons and humans. Mewtwo escapes destroying the laboratory along with the scientists that created him. He is asked by Giovanni to become partners in his plans for world domination. Mewtwo agrees and later on found out that Giovanni also wanted to gain control of him and his powers and so he left. Ash receives an invitation from a certain Pokemon master and asks him as well as other trainers to come to a specified island and their journey starts here on.. 

I've been watching a lot of Pokemon series until now and as far as I know, Ash is alive and well but this scene in the movie where Ash risked his life to save the Pokemon and appeared to be dead pulled my heartstrings. Pikachu was desperately waking him up but nothing works.. seeing Pikachu with all those tears welled up something inside me. It was really heartbreaking to watch but.. we're talking about Pokemon here. The power of friendship do miracles and wonders. :)

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. :/