I will spoil my parents once I start earning a living

I found out on Friday that the tax rose to 9.25% in San Jose! Sheesh, I can’t believe Berkeley’s tax is lower–wait, I should check. … …Nevermind, proportions are still about the same. Still .50% higher than San Jose. This increase makes me love Amazon even more than before. It’s like a cruel April Fools’ joke. Oh wait, this entry isn’t about taxes. On the bright side, my parents only buy a crap load of stuff at Target when they have a 10% off coupon, so it kind of counters taxes. Okay, shutting up about that now (too bad now I’m thinking about it a lot and want to read up on it since I haven’t taken an economics class since high school and don’t remember anything; my ignorance makes me very sad).

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2

Mmmm…savings are delicious. I wonder if I should pre-order Devil Survivor. ATLUS’s print runs seem to vary a lot in terms of availability.

Blue Dragon Plus

This is unsquared here with your “daily” dose of spam! There’s a giveaway occurring at crunchyroll featuring Blue Dragon Plus and a bunch of other cool prizes, such as the handheld on which you play the game. Featuring designs from Toriyama Akira, Blue Dragon Plus is the sequel to original Blue Dragon on the XBOX360.

Persona for PSP!

●初代『ペルソナ』がPSPで甦る

アトラスは2009年2月6日、1996年にプレイステーションで発売されてシリーズ 化もされている同社の人気RPG『ペルソナ』の第1作をPSPでリメイクすると発表した。ソフトの発売予定日は2009年4月29日、価格は5229円 [税込]。ファミ通ドットコムでは、同作品のプロモーション映像を独占入手。さっそく公開しよう。なお、この映像は2009年2月6日16時よりオープン 予定の『ペルソナ』公式サイトでも公開される予定。

The first Persona will be remade on the PSP

On February 6, 2009 ATLUS announced the remake of the first installment of the popular Persona RPG series, which was originally released in 1996 on the Playstation console. The game’s expected launch date is April 29, 2009 and it priced at 5229 yen (before tax). *This very promotion was reflected on Famitsu.com and immediately made open to the public at 4′o clock.*

Game Review: Persona 3 FES

Boxart of the PS2 game

Persona 3 FES bundles the original Persona 3 with extras. These extras include additional scenes, a new social link, new personas, weapon fusion, and an additional 30+ hours of gameplay in the form of a sequel titled “The Answer,” among others.

I’ll be reviewing this as a standalone rather than a comparison to the original Persona 3 game since I didn’t have the chance (and was too cheap) to purchase it the first time around; besides, I imagine that it’s practically the same.

WARNING: I don’t outright mention any spoilers, but I heavily imply something in the story category. It’s easy to figure out if you’ve heard things. Just avoid the *** section if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Game Review: My Word Coach

Intended for this to be longer than it is, but due to laptop shutting off…

“My Word Coach” is one among Ubisoft’s language learning games. Players spend approximately twenty to thirty minutes playing mini games to meet a daily objective of 150 words. The more games you play, the higher your EP or Expression Potential gets. If you’re at the level of an Elementary School Student, have no fear. Word Coach is here! And for the more language-inclined player who boasts an impressive mental dictionary, “My Word Coach” offers some surprises with its many entries from Cambridge’s Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Game Review: Drawn to Life

Synopsis: In “Drawn to Life,” you are essentially God, otherwise known as “The Creator.” With your stylus, you created the world and its inhabitants, the Raposa. Somewhere along the line, you stopped interacting with these creatures and watched in silence.

Skip forward to the present storyline. Darkness engulfs the land and the population dwindles to fewer than the number of fingers on one hand. You are brought back into action one day when a young raposa girl named Mari asks for help. It turns out that sometime ago, a raposa named Wilfre scattered the pages in The Book of Life, resulting in a shortage of food, day, night, etc.

Game Review: Phoenix Wright, Trials and Tribulations

It’s that time again! After some number of months, Trials and Tribulations has finally been localized for the United States! But can this game redeem the series after the second game, which disappointed a number of players, myself included? My answer: yep.

Synopsis: Phoenix Wright’s story draws to a close in the third game of Capcom’s Ace Attorney series. In this installment, the past and present are united as you play as Mia in her rookie days and Phoenix Wright as he is now. Like with previous games, the main players return, including the silly Larry Butz. Loose ends are also tied up as we learn more about the Fey family and are introduced to Godot, a mysterious prosecutor set on defeating Phoenix in the court room.

OMG …cubed?

OMG #1 – AH, I HAVE A PAPER DUE ON WEDNESDAY and I keep changing my mind on what it’ll be about. I’ll force myself to stick to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight though. I’m thinking comparing the “courtship” of the Green Knight and Bertilac’s wife. Man, I’m making the story sound vaguely homosexual, aren’t I?

Game Review: Hotel Dusk Room 215

I borrowed this game from my cousin Shelley and finished it some time ago. She borrowed Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney from me. We have yet to re-exchange them. And that is the story of how I got to play it.

“Hotel Dusk: Room 215” takes place in a hotel by the same time. In this hotel are guests with stories of their own, with individual histories either connected or unconnected to the hotel itself. It’s not a particularly fancy establishment, but it’s a good representation of how the game is like.