Wednesday, June 4, 2008

New Camera - Olympus 1030

Oh well... I bought a new camera. Why did I buy it? It's still confusing me as well. Anyway this camera is supposed to be crush proof, shock proof, freeze proof, water proof, etc. So I should not be worried of scratches, or drop it from up to 2m, or bring it underwater.



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One Piece - Thousand Sunny

I don't watch one piece, perhaps one of the main reason is that I don't like the character design, so I decided not to follow this series.

However, since I love combiners a lot, and this series decided to release such toys, I also decided to buy one. It's quite nice, quite detailed and complete, and perhaps the fans will know how much detailed the toy is.




There are 5 pieces of the trading figures to combine into one pirate ship called Thousand Sunny.



Piece 1 (Luffy) : The figurehead can open to reveal the Gaon cannon, and a button can be pressed to launch it. The mane can rotate (but not according to wheel).




Piece 2 (Chopper) : The infirmary, got Miny Merry II figure, which can be played as sliding figure.



Piece 3 (Zoro & Sanji) : The deck, got crow nest, the flags, and is it restaurant?




Piece 4 (Franky & Usopp) : The soldier dock system -> 6 compartments, with Shiro Mokuba I and Submerge Shark III. Completed with Franky's weapon development room and Usopp's factory.



Piece 5 (Nami & Robin) : The aquarium bar and bathhouse.



And the complete Thousand Sunny :


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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Transformers Animated

My toys addiction keeps increasing everyday. Proven with new collection I brought home few weeks ago, the Transformers Animated toys line.

For starter, I bought the bumblebee, then keep increasing with Prowl, Lockdown and Megatron.



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God Keron

Yup, I bought myself another set of combiner, and this time it's Keroro robots (Robo MK II). So five of the little frogs (Keroro, Tamama, Kururu, Giroro and Dororo) have their own Robo MK-II that can transform into robot mode and vehicle mode. And five of them can be combined into God Keron.



Keroro Robo MK-II :



Tamama Robo MK-II :



Kururu Robo MK-II :


Giroro Robo MK-II :


Dororo Robo MK-II :


Giroro & Dororo :


Group robot mode :


Group vehicle mode :


Box pics :



God Keron :

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Top PS2 RPG

Well time for compiling the list of the best games :

1. Persona 3 (FES)
Incredibly stunning, simply superb. Love the plot, love the storyline, love the Japan-ish setting.

2. Mana Khemia : Alchemists of Al-Revis
The story is fun, the combination of characters bring up a lot of interesting dialogs, the combat (time card, burst, chain) system is great, the item synthesize system is nice.

3. Shadow Hearts (3) : From the New World
Wow, how could I forget about this. The graphic is nice, the plot twist is great, the combat system is great as well, the character developmet is great, hence the great job class system (each person with unique ability). And now I'm wondering why I put this at #3.

4. Odin Sphere
The graphic, even though comes in 2D, is awesome. The voice acting is superb, Persona or Mana Khemia are great, but this is just better. The different yet merged time line story is also outstanding, too bad a lot of reusable bosses.

5. Final Fantasy XII
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Atelier Iris 4 : Mana Khemia - Alchemists of Al-Revis

The fourth game of atelier iris, the third one I played (I skipped the second one), well, short opinion, the game is great. It's improved with a lot of new systems, new items synthesize system (although only for the non weapon items), new growth book system - very similar to FFXII "level up" system, role play system (where the other team members can automatically gather or synthesize items or level up).

Well... I do dislike the growth book, it kinda limited myself from being over powerful, so kinda no point of leveling up, the monsters are still difficult. The class vs free time system also limit your movement, you could skip/miss a lot of events (similar to events in FFIX), thus have to replay the game (luckily there is a new game + after finishing the game).

The story, so far still so-so, a Harry Potter-like story, Vayne, the main character is the son of the most well known-famous alchemist, and without knowledge of his father, he is invited to the academy of alchemist - al-ravis. Then he met a lot of friends that shared same workshop, etc.

The dungeon is more complicated with lesser user friendly map. The monsters design is about the same with the prequels. Pamela - the ghost, is reappearing as a playable character now.

Well yea, at least this is one game that is enjoyable, especially the new synthesize system *perhaps*.
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Keroro Set

Ok... I bought another playground set, this time is keroro (ケロロアイランドであります), I don't know wth keroro is, never watch the anime, and so on. One day I walked to this shop and I accidentally found the set, and it's complete, so I just bought 2 sets (in different shops of course).

The set is much better than the pokemon set I previously bought. Hmm what should I say, the set just has a lot of secret compartments, and yea, it's neat.



The whole pics :


First course :



Second course :



Third course :



Fourth course :


Fifth course:


Thats all XD


Anyway the links as usual
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/full_armor_keroro/54301068.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/full_armor_keroro/54304748.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/full_armor_keroro/54339297.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/full_armor_keroro/54395981.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/full_armor_keroro/54554627.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/arteicia/31072783.html
http://gnarly.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2008-04-13
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