Keroro Gunso + Dragon Ball + Animal Crossing

I am high, in fact I think I am about to collapse right about 2 second after I finish typing all this. Let me start the story from the beginning. So here I am, innocently browsing through Play-Asia and seeing if there is anything new or cute or fun there. I can't help it. Even if I can't afford it at least I can look at it right? Anyway, there I am looking and looking and then I found this few items. To understand the nature of my happiness, it should be noted that la froggie ( keroro ), Dragon Ball and Tom Nook are one of the few character and manga that I keep up with all the time. Obviously Tom Nook is from AC and he likes to squeeze us off in-game. But now, out of game he is still squeezing us off.

The Dragon Ball sticker is not really as nice, it looks 2nd rate and although they gave us two choice, the first one featuring Goku,Goten,Trunk and Goku Super Saiyan.
The second one though feature the bad guys turn good guys. Vegeta,Picollo and young Son Goku

The dragon ball pouch though is a nice change, featuring three different design with three different symbol, the design looks simple and makes you feel like you are part of the house that bore the symbol. The three symbol are Capsule, Kamesen and Bikoro.


Lastly there is the Keroro. If you say you don't know who is Keroro then seriously, you need to start to get in touch with your inner self. Keroro is the alien froggie that is set to invade earth but ended up serving as a servant to a human family.
There are 4 item featured for the Keroro family. Two pouch and two screen pouch and sticker set.

The first sticker set features Keroro gunso, It looks nice and all but I seriously prefer the second set featuring Giroro. It looks a lot more cooler and menacing in a sense.

Then there is the two pouch. Again, somehow it seems the Giroro Pouch is getting all the love in terms of design, a skull in between the eye and a scar across the eye makes the design looks all more eye catching.
The Giroro Pouch design though is slightly disheartening. A pair of eye that looks as if they wanted to sleep and a star in between the eye. Bleh, ugly and not nice at all

But the GEM of it all is the the Animal Crossing Protective Cover and Touch Pen DS Lite. The protective cover is white and have the Tom Nook symbol etched smacked in the middle, not bad. But the stylus.. OMG! Tom Nook standing there! How can any fans of Animal Crossing resist that?!

Of course, I would have to make a pass at this piece of fine fine item because of my Modded DS Lite. I don't think my gf will take it kindly if I spend money buying the Animal Crossing Protective cover.

Mario Galore!

After quite sometime, I finally received two things from Play-Asia. New Super Mario Bros. Sound Drops Gashapon and Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Phone Strap Gashapon. I covered the Phone Strap a few post ago over HERE.
So there is nothing much to say about it except that I was wrong about not solid. The phone strap is quite solid and hard. There is no sign or seam or threats of breaking up and it blends in perfectly well into your bag,phone or even your DS. Its also a good attraction when you want to show off or just attract the attention of your counterpart. Pull the thread and out pops the coin or whatever is it that you got.

Anyway, the main character of today is the sound drop. Its HUGE, its sturdy and its loud. The middle button is soft to press, the sound drop is medium weight and the sound made by the sound drop is loud enough to attract attention. I took a few snaps of both gashapon. Enjoy em :D




Both New Super Mario Bros. Sound Drops Gashapon and Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Phone Strap can be found at Play-Asia.

DS LITE! Modded??

A lot of brilliant ideas are born from stupid thoughts or copied from every other person they see and then call them as their own. Some went further and grab all the ideas that they see and mix them up to make it their own. I have no idea what to call that. A moment of enlightenment perhaps? No matter! That moment of "brilliance" struck me when I had nothing to do.

Long story short, I saw a post online about how china user modded their DS Lite casing to look cooler and funkier with graffiti arts, I was intrigued and wish to investigate more, but the language barrier was huge and I was stopped short at the forum where they discuss it. Add in the fact that I just sold off my Soft Jacket ADV to my uncle, I am in desperate need of getting a new casing that looks cool on my DS Lite.

Then the moment of brilliance struck and this is the result of it all

Crystal Casing : $35
Printer Ink: $10
Plain Paper: $0.05
Ingenuity: Priceless








Wanna know how to make your own modification? SIMPLE!
Follow the steps below.

First, head over to MADCATZ (props to them for making such a fine fine program or whatever you call it) Download the program listed there, install it
Then, go over to DEVIANTART and find whatever picture you like, save it
Open the chosen picture with the Madcatz program and then align the picture up. First do the Top then the Base.
Print it out, cut it and there you have it. Skin of your own!

Wait.. I am missing something. Oh yeah...
You need to buy a crystal casing and not just any crystal casing. You need to buy a full face crystal casing. None of those china brand please. Recommended casing would be Blackhorn Polycarbonate Case, Madcatz Casing if you are in the states or if you really really can't find a suitable casing, get a crystal casing which is FULL FACE. Meaning it covers the top part of your DS fully. No empty spaces thank you.

Anyway, to continue with the tutorial, once you got the casing put the cut out design into the casing, align it properly and then snap on your DS, no glues or sticker or anything is needed.

There you have it. Your very own modded DS. Sky is the limit for the design. If you find a cool design post it up here and share it with the rest of us. Have fun yah!

Diablo : The Sin War

If you call yourself Diablo fans, then you should really know that Diablo spawned quite a huge amount of novels. Some of the noted titles are as follows

Diablo: The kingdom of Shadows
Diablo: Moon of the Spider
Diablo: The Black Road
Diablo: The Legacy of Blood

One of the latest series are Diablo: The Sin War 1 – Birthright release last year somewhere during October last year. The story chronicles about the early years before the Sin war and how two brothers are in the middle of a struggle between demon and angels. Below is an excerpt taken from the book

Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in an eternal conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary -- the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War -- the conflict that would forever change the destiny of man.
Three thousand years before the darkening of Tristram, Uldyssian, son of Diomedes, was a simple farmer from the village of Seram. Content with his quiet, idyllic life, Uldyssian is shocked as dark events rapidly unfold around him. Mistakenly blamed for the grisly murders of two traveling missionaries,Uldyssian is forced to flee his homeland and set out on a perilous quest to redeem his good name. To his horror, he has begun to manifest strange new powers -- powers no mortal man has ever dreamed of. Now, Uldyssian must grapple with the energies building within him -- lest they consume the last vestiges of his humanity.

It’s a pretty good book to see how everything started in the world of Diablo. The author of this book is Richard A Knaak, one of my favourite author. He previously wrote for Dragonlance series and Warcraft series too. Anyway the point of this blog is to tell you all that the latest installment in Diablo: The Sin War is out. Entitled as Diablo: The Sin War 2 – Scaled of the Serpent, the story follows Uldyssian’s quest to destroy the Triune while oblivious to the danger that lurks in the shadow. Below is an excerpt taken from the second installment of The Sin War.

Bent on destroying the evil cult of the Triune, Uldyssian does not yet suspect that Inarius (secret Prophet of the Cathedral of Light) has been subtly aiding his quest. Obsessed with restoring Sanctuary to its former glory, Inarius has been playing Uldyssian against the two great religions in a reckless attempt to topple them both. But another player has slipped back into the equation. The demon Lilith, once Inarius's lover, seeks to use Uldyssian as her own pawn in a scheme to turn humans into an army of naphalem -- godlike beings, more powerful than any angel or demon, who could overturn all Creation and elevate Lilith to supreme being.

Get the latest installment in your nearest bookstore. For those that are located in KL, head over to Kinokuniya.

Theme Park DS Review

If you are as old as I am, which is not saying a lot ( I am 23 btw ) you will most probably be familiar with this few title, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, Sim Tower and of course Theme Park. This few Sim title have spawned various incredibly time consuming game which threatens to make your mind blow away in frustration when you thought you have gotten the formula right to win the game. Of course, there is no winning in this game as the objective of the game is to earn as much money as possible. (No amount of money is too much)

Theme Park DS is a direct port from the computer version over 10 to 15 years ago. Everything that is right about Theme Park is now here, on the DS. Of course, it took some time for most developer to realize that the DS is all about the touch screen. This of course spawns quite a few games that utilizes the so called “brilliance” of the touch screen. One of the few titles is Elite Beat Agents, Heroes of Mana and of course Theme Park DS.

EA has done an incredibly good job in the inventory and menu section as with each jab at the screen up a new set of menu. The menus are spread out on the bottom bar and the rest on the top screen. The top screen displays all the things you need to see, a simplified version of your park map and also where your trusty advisor lurks and pop up to provide you with insights, advices, updates on your research and what not. Tapping on rides or guests will bring up detailed information in regard of it onto the top screen. From there, you can tap onto a special button to switch the top screen and the bottom screen, effectively giving you control over the top screen. To select item or buildings from the menu, you just need to put a check mark or circle the said building. This will clear up the screen and leaves you with the theme park and your selected building. Drag the building anywhere on the map and then tap ok to build it.

For those uninformed, Theme park is a Sim game. (You should have noticed by now), Theme park challenges your resource management and planning skill. The game demands your full constant attention to adjust a myriad of small things to keep the theme park running like a well oiled machine. Little things such as workers wages speed of a ride, constant tweaking of the ride’s price, and attention to the guests grumbling, providing a good planning for the roads to minimize walking (guests grumble a lot about the distance). As long as you manage to handle all that, it’s a simple matter of overcharging your ride and the admission ticket to clean out the guest’s pocket.

Of course, as fine as the game is, there are quite a few problems that are noticeable. One of them is the lack of panning; there is no way to pan the theme park left,right,up and down to organize it easier. You are left with one way to view the theme park and make do with it. Then there is also the annoying problem of having to manually adjust the numbers one figure at a time. This is some of the minor annoyance that will be encountered in Theme Park DS. Easily ignorable. But one thing that is not ignorable is the fact that Theme Park DS is an amazingly simple game which sucks up all your time. It took me 7 hour to write this very short and bad review because every time I turn to my Theme Park DS to refer to it, I will be hooked onto the game for 2 hours before I can drag my face back to facing the computer. Continue writing the review for 10 minutes, then refer back to Theme Park and have my face planted on it for the next 2 hour. So, heed this warning. It’s addictive

Conclusion

This game is gods send for those that are looking for something that is addictively engaging. Although if there are more support in terms of online or what not would have been a better thing, I would recommend this to anyone that loved sim game and for those that loved Theme Park PC version, This is a must get.

Theme Park DS can be purchased from HERE

Laziness, Plagarism and Me

Due to the fact that I have been busy this few days and lack of mood to write ( More like lazy) I haven't been able to update much this few days. Sorry :(

But! I promise you this, by the end of this week I will have at least 2 new games review up and running! So stay tune!

P/S : I changed my introduction to myself due to the fact of plagarism by certain individual .Besides, the previous one sucks anyway. But lets see if this new one will get plagiarized

P P/S : Oh btw, today is my birthday! Happy Birthday to me!!!