Visual music

It’s Saturday, so it starts with Japanese class at 11am. And for the rest of the day, I spent playing this (it’s not me playing in that video btw, also note that this song is my current top most favourite Alstroemeria Records song!):

Audiosurf~ a racing game where you’re racing with yourself lol. Actually… no, it’s a game that scans a song of your choice and then generates a track that assimilates the song. Then the player would control a ship thing, fly around the track in a predetermined speed (determined by the tempo of the song, if it’s slow you’ll be crawling, if it’s fast you’ll be running into everything) and do stuffs. ‘Stuffs’ varies between modes, but I mostly went with the mode shown in that video. In that one, the player has to avoid the gray blocks and collect the colored blocks. Switching between the lanes is the only control the player has in this game as the acceleration and deceleration are determined by the song itself… except for some special abilities like jump or something that some certain ships have. Aside from unlocking new modes at the beginning (which would be fully unlocked very quickly), the only objective of the game is to gain as much points as possible for the song of choice. To get points, the player needs to accumulate those colored blocks into the 7×3 grid that appears under the ship. The grids are distributed into columns of 7 slot for each lane and the acquired colored blocks will end up in the column of the corresponding lane where the block was. Have 3 of the same colored blocks next to each other in the grid in any directions (be it vertical, horizontal, L, anything) to get rid of them and exchange them for points, if the player can dump in more colored blocks in to the sets of 3 in time, the points will get multiplied every further. Running into a gray block will cause the gray block to take up one slot in the grid for a set amount of time. If the slot gets filled up over the limit with too many gray blocks, well, something bad will happen in additional to the player’s total points being deducted… the grid part of it is kind of like tetris in a way, just that there is no game over.

One thing for sure, it’s VERY addictive. A pointless game if there aren’t any competition, yes, but it’s still addictive by itself none the less… and it can easily take up HOURS of one’s time… especially if most of the songs in your collection is 5 to 6 minutes in length. Last thing I remember was that I just came back from class at 1 and before I knew it, I’m already having my dinner… oh well.

Not a review

Yes, it means exactly like what it reads, this is not a review. I did mention yesterday that I might make a review today but I’m not going to after all… or at least not for now. Next time, maybe.

As for today, it’s divided into 3 parts basically; 1st: woke up to many rounds of Hisouten, 2nd: spent most of the remaining afternoon till evening with a visiting friend, and 3rd: spent the remainders of the day with more friends till 2am or so.

Nothing incredibly special happened in between any of those.

I wouldn’t say it’s a boring day but… well, nothing extraordinary enough to post. I’ll leave it at that.

Day of the Pyramid

The title may sound like I finally ran into something interesting for once but no. I just went to Sunway Pyramid with my mother today… yeah, that’s all lol.

Woke up at around 12pm today. Went to Pyramid with my mother almost immediately after that. Even had my break fast in Pyramid (at Manhattan Fish Market; had some sort of fish thingy with lots of other kind of sea creatures cooked in all variety of methods).

Got back at 4pm, planned to do the remaining of the room cleaning but gave up on that. I guess I’ll do that after this semester (postpone again lol). Spent most of the remaining time doing nothing, playing GTA, playing hisouten, and nothing.

Another day passed~ 3 days remaining before I return to hell >__>

That aside~~

That’s one of my many favourite Touhou remixes by Alstroemeria Records. Alstroemeria Records is so awesome! >__< Yes, it’s all about my favourites these days~ :p And that AMV, though simple, have this ED kind of feel. Nice stuff~

For tomorrow, I might actually post up a half-assed review about something… but I’ll leave the final decision to the me of tomorrow.

Friend’s birthday thing

It’s a friend’s birthday today.

Went out to lunch with him and a couple of other friends, but I woke up so late that I took it as my breakfast actually lol. We then dropped by his house (which is located in the middle of nowhere btw) and helped him with reformatting his ever not healthy computer… and also watched some dunno what Chineze program on his Astro thing… and also played with his dog that look like a malnourished teddy bear. We left once the formatting procedures were done.

Yeah, quite a mono celebration but yeah… what else can I say?

Nothing else happened after that.

Anyway, here’s something~ It’s been awhile since I last put up something like this lol:

That’s definitely one of my favourite versions of Motteke! Sailor Fuku along with Seishun orz Mix and Metabo Taisaku Mix.

Hisouten progress

Nothing much notable today aside from that. My cousin came by today since it was his day off, and well… nothing else other than that, yeah.

Completed the story mode 3 times today, all using the same character, since the progress for the first two times were not saved somehow, had to replay a couple of times.

Seems like there weren’t only one new original character this time but two! Unlocked them both after one play through, along with lots of new stages and spell cards. I did get a few screencap of them but I’m too lazy to upload them now.

That’s all for today I guess, I’m off to bed.

Early surprise attack

While having breakfast with my mother outside at 10am earlier today, I received an sms from a classmate of mine saying that the first class this semester will be starting at 12pm. Upon seeing that, I rushed and stuff, you know, the typical reaction and course of action one would take in such a situation.

However, upon arrival there, I found out that class will not be starting until next week. There goes the effort I put into finishing my breakfast faster than I’d like to… but well~ I guess having no classes always beats having classes… for me at least

While I was there, I settled the subject registration stuffs, my fee payment stuffs, got the grades for my internship, and also got my new timetable. There will only be 2 days in a week that I have to go to college, excluding a day or two for the final showcase preparation meetings and whatever; which we will be further informed regarding in the future afaik.

I’ll be resuming my holiday spirits tomorrow, yeah.

Reitaisai 5 and stuff

omfg it’s that time of the year again~! The time where there is suddenly a lot of new Touhou stuffs. Well, not like it’s the only time of the year where new Touhou stuffs come around but whatever! It’s the time for the Touhou specialized convention~! And with it came one of my MOST awaited games for the past whole year or so, the full version of Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. Along with it also came the trial version of the 11th official Touhou installment, Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism. The news for the trial came not too long ago so there wasn’t really much wait involved for that one.

Anyway, I’m very much happy with what I see in Touhou Hisouten. My wish came true! MOAR NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTER ASIDE FROM AYA!!!

Komachi and Reisen is in it too this time!!! Though the absence of Flandre do again disappoint me a little but it’s awwwright, since I understand Touhou always only include characters that plays a part in the central plot of the installment. It’s not a “Touhou all-star royal rumble”, at least not yet, I do wish there’d be one in the future, I bet every Touhou fan really do actually lol. Anyway, aside from the 3 initially selectable new characters, also present are all the characters that appeared in Suimusou minus Meiling (well, she was a patch bonus. And canon wise she doesn’t leave the Scarlet Mansion compound) but there are empty slots in the character selection screen enough to fit 2 more characters, could be unlockables, one I’m guessing is the new boss character (I heard it’s a new character, not surprising since Suimusou was Suika’s debut appearance after all, it’s possible) and the other… dunno, Meiling again maybe lol? Or some other character perhaps? I don’t even know if there ARE any other unlockable characters nor how many there are if there is any to begin with since I haven’t tried playing story mode yet. Suimusou had 4 unlockable characters, dunno about Hisouten.

As for Chireiden, well, it’s nice I guess. New characters, new stages, new bgms… everything feels fresh, like how every other new canon Touhou felt before lol. The youkai team up thing is pretty interesting. Who you chose to go with in the beginning determines what kind of secondary shots you have and also gives your character some certain special ability of sorts. Say for example: When Reimu teams up with Aya, Reimu will be able to move at a substantially higher speed while not shooting(she looks like she’s practically dashing around rather than ‘moving’). Not too sure about the others yet.

P.S. I guess I never continued on ethe rest of my room clean up lol, so no ‘part 2′ :P