New Haircut and Breaking News

Hello~!! Its been a little while hasn't it? Well just recently, probably about a week ago, I got my hair cut for the first time in about.. nine months? I'm not sure how long actually. But anyways, it looks fabulous~

So other than that, the breaking news would be that I found out, a few days ago, that I'll be moving back up north in a little over six months time. Jon's parents decided that they would prefer me to be elsewhere so I made the decision to move back to my dad's. Granted his parents are going to want me out before then, but if that happens, I'll be at my aunt's temporarily. Everything is pretty much in order though, so I have nothing to worry about.

In other news, I'm working on a few brief game reviews tonight, and I should have them up before I go to be so I would like to remind you all to keep checking Hinamizawa Syndrome. There you'll be able to keep up with the latest game, anime, and album reviews that I have to offer. You can also find a few character bios there. Pretty soon I hope to expand that section.

A New Way To Spend My Time

Due to Jon having college classes and me not being able to take some at the moment, I've found quite a few new ways to keep myself amused.

I recently started learning Japanese as a way to keep myself amused and busy. Its been going pretty well so far. It's far more complicated than I thought it would be. Though I've been challenged already I've made up my mind not to give up.

I'm also studying history, Japanese culture, Latin, and some math in my spare time so that I don't get lazy when I finally go to college. There's no real benefit in all of this studying that I'm doing, but for myself I view it as a nice challenge and it will give me a nice sense of accomplishment.

I recently tried Demon's Souls on the PS3. I heard a lot of good things about the game, but after trying it all I can say is that you have to be a masochist to actually enjoy the game. Its a well known fact that I have very little patience when it comes to difficult games. I give up rather easily in fact. This game, however, is just stupid hard. There is no reason why anyone should die so often. Also, would it be too much to ask for a few pointers? The developers were probably evil little satanists that felt like it would be something new and innovative to just throw the player into the game with no help at all, that way they could just laugh at everyone when they complained while playing it.

Aside from all of that, I swear that I'm going to start doing more reviews. I get so busy sometimes that I forget that I'm running two blogs. ^^;

First Wave Complete

Well I've been very busy lately. I've been trying to find a way to keep myself busy while Jon is at school and to do something productive rather than just sitting at the computer or playing a game. Well I finally found a few things. First of all, I'm going to continue studying history, after all that's what the blog was for in the first place. And secondly I'm going to being learning Spanish and Japanese. :D Now, that, is something productive if I ever thought of it in my life.

As far as my other blog goes, the first wave is complete. All of the main character bios for Higurashi are up, now I just have to do the secondary characters and move on from there to more anime and eventually a few video game reviews. I'm considering putting my Heavy Rain article on the other site, it might get more hits there any ways.

First Impressions of Heavy Rain

Well I haven't played the game yet, I'm sure I will one day though. I have however watched a lot of gameplay and played the demo a little. So here's what I have to think about the game based on just that.

First of all the movement of the characters irritates me. I don't like having to "hold down the gas" so to speak, in order to move my character. I also don't like the fact that there's a lot of Quick Time Events (QTE) in the game. After playing the demo I get the feeling that half of the game is going to be nothing but QTE's and honestly, if that's the case, then I feel bad for the people that made the game. I know a lot of people wouldn't mind a game consisting of mostly QTE's but, honestly when you play a game like that, where's the freedom?

A few thing that I really like about the game include the story, graphics and character development. The graphics are absolutely beautiful, anyone with a mind can see that. Honestly for me, they're a bit too realistic, but its not something I couldn't get used to. Times in gaming really are changing after all, aren't they? The story is amazing in this game. I tell you this, when you get to the end you will be a bit shocked. Like I said, I haven't played the game, but if you do enough research online you can find everything. The way the characters are developed is also very impressive. Every character has a nice backstory and they're all related in some way to the others due to the story. Not many games lately have given me the pleasure of seeing a nice, fully developed cast of characters, so Kudos Heavy Rain.



I'm sure that by now everyone has heard about the controversy surrounding the 'strip tease' scene. Well, I've seen this scene and some of the gameplay leading up to this scene. I see no reason why it should be a controversy. There are far more sexually explicit things in other games, and they get little to no attention. For example, every God of War game, including the upcoming third title, has a sex mini game included. When do you hear about that on the news? Then again they never show anything in those. So what, some animated breasts are shown, is that really that big of a deal?

Dragon Age Fever!!

Today after a long absence of the will to play games I once again picked up the controller and dove right into Dragon Age Origins. This game I have loved for so long. I've honestly become one of the biggest fangirls of it recently. I can imagine that's quite annoying for some people.

Well for those interested here's the basic outline of how I spent my day playing Dragon Age.

First of all I finally got through the darn dwarf city. That was a pain in the rear if I do say so myself. After that I made Alistair fall in love with my character. Fair warning; if I ever mention Dragon Age, I will, no doubt, mention Alistair at least once. Anyways I had a huge fangirl moment every time something cute and slightly romantic happened between my character and Alistair. And then to top it all off I joined an "Alistair Fan Club" on Facebook. Currently I'm sitting in the forest with the Dalish. Can not work up the energy to go look for the werewolf.

I also started watching K-ON! today. :3 Oh man. Watch it. Its sooo cute and funny. It just makes me smile and I can't explain why.

Oh, and for all of you excited for Heavy Rain, which I'm actually one person who isn't, the identity of the killer will make you go ":O!!! OMFG NO WAI!!!" Trust me. It made me do that!

Tomorrow looks like another nice day filled with forum lurking, Dragon Age and maybe another episode or two of K-ON! Until then I'm off to sleep and to feed my fishies :3

Finally! No. More. Sickness.

I just seriously had the worst cold ever! I was sick for two days. Two VERY long days! I couldn't even help my Aunt and Uncle move.

I did, however, become the new owner of their fishies. 8D I LOVEEE FISH~~!! Even though one of them looks like a cow with fins ^^;; Speaking of, I need to change the water kinda.. D:

All of that aside I finally almost caught up with my old Dragon Age save. ^0^

I've been promising a good friend of mine, Karen, that I would mail her a picture that I made for her, but I haven't been able to do so thus far. Well, as of tomorow before noon, I should have that sucker mailed! I can not wait until she actually gets it! She's gonna be so freakin happyyy!

I've been working a lot on content for my main site/old blog lately. I've decided so far that it would be a wise decision to get rid of the video game news section since I haven't really the time to constantly lurk around N4G and other site waiting for new stories to pop up. That's just not something I want to do. Maybe after I get more established I'll branch out and look for anime news. That seems more appropriate for the site I think.

1:25am. Nothing to do at all. =/

I just finished making the first Higurashi character profile and now I can't will myself to make another one. I really should though since I won't be on the internet for the next day or so. That means I'll fall behind on my blog. Ugh. Sometimes I wish I didn't take it so seriously, then I would have more time to find something productive to do online.

Yesterday and today I spent a lot of time filling out and turning in job apps. I really could use a job I guess. I really don't think that I'll get one, but I mean if it makes people happy by seeing me turn the darn things in, then I guess I'll do it.

I discovered a band over the past few days thanks to Last.Fm that I've just absolutely fallen in love with. That band is Forever Slave. They're a Spanish symphonic metal band, but honestly her voice is like heaven. I love it!