Dear Esther – A Short Review
Developer: thechineseroom & Robert Briscoe
Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/203810/
Overview: Less of a game, more of an experience, yet a very short one. An amazing experience, though the price is a little too high for the content included.
Back in 2008, Dear Esther was released as free source engine mod, and it was different from many other mods at the time. For one the game (of you can call it that) focuses primarily on visuals and story telling, rather than any real gameplay you’d expect, like aims/goals, puzzles, action, etc. An in fact is just an experience where you can only look at the environment around you. 4 years on, and 2 years in development, it’s been given a makeover by former DICE employee Robert Briscoe, and boy as he done a good job.
Bullets and Bullets III: Touhou 9 Lunatic – Aya (Me) Vs Marisa (Lunatic)
Marisa down… Just About.
Marisa… as much as I love you, you can’t beat the Tengu!
Game: 東方花映塚 ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Aya Shameimaru (Me – Left) vs Marisa Kirisame (Lunatic CPU – Right)
Wow. Marisa was pretty difficult.
Marisa’s EX attacks and her Level 4 lasers can completely limit off sections of the screen which force you into a narrow strip, and this doesn’t combine well with Aya’s speed meaning a single movement on my behalf could meant fried crow for dinner.
Marisa is also amazing at building up charge and combo, which means a whole lot of level 2 and 3 spamming by her, though (luckily) for me the AI doesn’t do that as much, this is exactly why I love playing Marisa against humans, or if I’m going up against a high score. I was playing a bit retarded at times (as I have done in the other 2 videos as well >.>) but managed to regain my composure when under fire, really it’s all about trusting your hitbox.
Bullets and Bullets II: Touhou 9 Lunatic – Aya (Me) Vs Reimu (Lunatic)
Should make this into a series where I fight all the characters!
Again Aya = Win against CPU
Game: 東方花映塚 ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Aya Shameimaru (Me – Left) vs Reimu Hakurei (Lunatic CPU – Right)
Compared to Shikieki, Reimu was a walk in the park.
I had taken two recordings of when I beat her, however decided only to keep the second, due to the fact that it was more exciting.Partly because I was playing retarded, and then in round 3 was very, very tense! Round 1 – Complete failure, didn’t read bullets, wasnt expecting to win since I’d already done a good run. Round 2 – Much better, actually started reading bullets better. Round 3 – Failed again… until I was down to 1/2 health, then I started playing better (or the CPU started playing worse).
Bullets and Bullets: Or Touhou 9 Lunatic – Aya (Me) Vs Shiki (CPU)
Time to try Ultra Mode hack?
Man have I been playing ALOT of Touhou recently, especially Touhou 9: Phantagasmoria of Flower View. All I can say is:
Aya = Win against CPU.
Oh America!
Fight Against SOPA/PIPA & Protect the Interweb: americancensorship.org
Vote is happening on the 24th January 2012!
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Even if you’re not in America (Like Me!)
We’ll all be left affected if it passes
And we might be left in DESPAIR:
Lost at Infinity: One
Contrary to popular belief, I am not, or was not, missing or dead, as some may like to think.
So what is Lost at Infinity?
Well simply put, I decided to make a post which would be a massive of ideas, thoughts, and content, both IRL and digital, shoved into a single point, i.e Infinity, a place which holds everything, but is also extremely small or large at the scale you look at it. Also a place where I focus on more my life and what affects me.
So far its been around 2 months since I have been at university and it has been fairly enjoyable, so far at least.
One thing I didn’t expect was how hard it was actually going to be, which is probably the main reason I had put blogging on hold.
Although I am still watching (albeit slowly), Guilty Crown, and Persona 4: The Animation, though the weekly updates on each one, although not too difficult, took too long to write-up, again making that a second priority. However I am enjoying them both even if I have only seen around 4 episodes of each so far, I guess christmas is coming up, which should give me time to catch up on them, and write-up a season review on both 
Other than there has been one other major reason I haven’t been around. Skyrim.
Skyrim is possibly the only game this entire year which I was actually looking forward too, and I got to say I am impressed with it, so far I’ve palyed with it for around 80 hours, and even though I have completed the main quest, there are a lot of side missions to do, as well as many, many places I havent explored yet. It truly combines the wonder of Morrowind, with the improved gameplay of Oblivion. Yes it has its fair share of problems, such as the horrible PC UI, but you can look past that and play the game for what it is, a fully open world RPG.
Also recently the “full” version of Minecraft has been released, and have played some of that, I’ve also been slowly setting up a server which will so be open to everyone without a white list, being used as a private server with friends until I can get the mods installed which will stop unfair play. Look out for a post on that in the near future when that is sorted out and tested.
As you may already know, I am currently studying Physics at the University of Sussex. Sussex is an extremely beautiful place, and the university is just outside of Brighton, giving the best of the countryside and city in one place. Physics as well is also a truly wonderful subject, difficult, but extremely enjoyable and rewarding (especially after spending 12 hours on a single problem sheet, and then getting it right after ).
Next week is extremely busy, I have a few exams, more deadlines, a presentation (which I’ll put up on here after), so a busy schedule ahead, though only for 2 more weeks until christmas holidays begin
Anyway that’s all I have time for, no pictures (for now), so fairly plain and dull, but probably won’t be like that in the future…
Physics in a Minute
Have you eery thought how hard some aspects of physics are really difficult to grasp?
Well the guys over at MinutePhysics have great videos explaining really complex stuff really easily and under one minute!!!
Check them out, some videos below
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Anime Related Posts delayed… I’ve been busy at University doing some of the stuff in the videos above!
