Hey guys~
Lately, I've been OBSESSING over this a Capella group called "Pentatonix" and they are AMAZING!
The members of this group is Mitch, Scott and Kirstie, the main singers, Avi, the bass, and Kevin, the beat-boxer. I'm an Avi fan and I'm also a Pentaholic. I've shown these guys to a bunch of my friends and they're all turning into pentaholics as well. I really hope that they will one day do a global tour and maybe visit Malaysia and do a concert.
They're all very fun and really......real. They won the Sing-Off 3 and I've watched every performance on the show at least 3 times. I actually found out about them through their evolution of music video but my favourite songs are "Love Lockdown", "Aha" and "Show you How to Love". Their vlogs are also very fun and their lives seem very interesting. If they ever come to Malaysia, I really hope that they'll do the Audience participation part during their performance. I would also LOVE to meet them.
My favourite person of the group is Avi because:
1. He's the bass and his voice is sooo low, BUT his range OAO.
2. He's really fun and has a great personality.
3. He is so skilled~
4. His dancing moves/groove is really fun to watch, especially when he grooves on stage.
5. Did I say he's really fun?
Anyway, they have their own albums, their debut and a Christmas one and I've shown it to my dad. He said he MIGHT get it, IF I do well for my exams which is next next week and if I have his trust to get it.
Also, something really...funny(?) happened while I was writing this. A bat snuck into my house and everyone was freaking out. My dog, Coco, was scratching at my brother's room door and my mom was hiding in the hallway. My dad was looking for the bat and called for my brother to bring out his torchlight. I was called out to pin-point where the bat was hiding and I said it was at the dining area. My dad insisted that it was outside. When he said it was outside the house but near the wall, my dog crept out of the room and was looking around. he went under the dining table and I freaked and got her out.In the end, my brother found the body under the dining table and called out to my dad, who was SO confident that the bat was outside of the house.
After discovering the actual location of the bat, we told my dad and he went to get some gloves while I got a net, scared that the bat might be sick and worried that it might be injured. He caught the little thing and he brought it outside to let it go but when he freed it, he thought it flew away BUT it was actually clinging on the net so when he turned, my mom and I screamed while my brother freaked(cause he was near my dad) and ran towards me and we both hid in my room while my mom hid in hers. We all peaked out of the rooms and my dad was gone so we taught he was outside. Then, he spoke from the kitchen that the bat was gone then we all laughed it all off. Well, that was a funny memorable experience. : )
I have to go. My dog's still hiding under the bed from the bat. Bye~
I just edited the title and I just realised how lame I am. ^^"
Listening to: Kalafina - Serenato / Letra Español [Kan-Rom] and PENTATONIX - NEW Kevin and Avi (and Audience) - House Of Blues, Boston, MA
Pentatonix's youtube channel: PentatonixOriginal
Pentatonix's website: PTX Official
PLEASE share this so that, maybe, they could see this and come to Malaysia. Thanks~
Sunday, 5 May 2013
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Double movie review
So, day before yesterday, my parents(father) dragged the whole family to go and watch a movie, Iron Man 3, BUT because there were no good movies for 4 o'clock, he decided to watch ANOTHER movie, first. So....here are the two reviews. This time, I have a lot of notes and they're quite detailed so there is going to be a LOT of spoilers so if you don't like that, click away OR you could read another one of my posts. I also say notes because I brought a small book of mine into the theatre and wrote down my thoughts.
1st review: Oblivion
So, this is the most recent Tom Cruise movie out and it's basically about a war against aliens and everyone is supposedly safe on some ship in the sky. Two people, Jack and Vixa remain on Earth to fix droids that are supposed to clean up any aliens left on Earth. When a space pod lands and Jack goes to the crash site to check things out, he finds a woman, Julia, which has been in his flash backs(He and Vixa had their memory erased to protect their mission).
First impression, the machines and scenery's look quite cool. Jack has a cool pure white outfit and helicopter thing BUT has a lame bobble head that he calls Bob, and when he's about to fix a fallen droid, he wears a very LAME cap and when he takes it off, his hear spikes up, also making him look very lame.He also has a hideout that Vixa doesn't know about which is full of plants and life and when the space pod flies past, he pulls out his gun, even though when he was playing basketball by himself and feeding a fish, there was no sign of the gun at all? His clothes also confused me a bit when he wore the clothes at first, they were clean(even though he just fought underground) and the moment he gets on the bike, his clothes are tinted with brown and muck.
He also found a book in the underground area and opens it to read it. I questioned this cause that book was soaked when he picked it up and I'm guessing that the book was there for a REALLY long time...so how in the world are the pages still flip-able and the inked words are not just a huge black splat, OR smudged? He also supposedly goes to his lovely house in the lively area all the time but Vixa NEVER questions it.
Okay, thing I hate about today's movies were that some people didn't off, or even silence, their phones. And they bloody answer the phone IN THE THEATRE. I wanted to get up and slap the two people.
Okay. I'm going to skip a bit cause, to me, nothing interesting happens until after he passes the radioactive part. Right after that moment, to me, things became a bit predictable. For example, when the other mechanic came, I guessed it was going to be a clone(and it was). I guessed that Julia was going to be hit when the two Jacks fought and accidentally shot the gun and I guessed that he was going to meet the other Vixa. Then another questioning thing came about. After Julia was shot, her clothes were torn open by Jack and then after he patched up Julia, he brought her to the house. After that, she suddenly has a change of clothes. Did Jack keep women's clothes? He also kept two of those pod things that he found Julia in? WHY? Not only that but why are there two? Didn't he only bring home the one that he found Julia in?
Lastly, the ending was bittersweet to me. I really did';t expect the leader guy to be in the pod and I also didn't expect Julia to have a daughter. When 52s Jack came, she was perfectly okay and happy with that and why does he remember? I am still very confused.
I give this movie a 7/10. It's a good movie with a good, interesting storyline, fun characters and unique ideas. There were some predictable moments but some unexpected ones.
2nd review: Iron Man 3.
The movie hadn't even started and I was still at the commercials and I was already really confused.Once again, I dislike it when my brother chooses seats cause we got seats which were quite in front. It was only 5 minutes and I already knew that this was going to be a bad experience because the whole row in front of us consisted of an Indian family with some young kids. Some young, very NOISY kids that wouldn't stop talking and/or crying during the movie and its action scenes. Thanks horrible mother that doesn't know that the baby cries cause the movie was too loud for him/her and not considerate enough to bring the kid out. *frustrated sigh*
Okay, the intro was very amusing with the test suit and the robot having the dunce cap on. The villain, Mandarin, looks VERY weird. The botanist's joke in reaction to Stark's comment on having a kid was extremely amusing as well. Stark and Pepper's argument after was very cute, the explosion scene after was confusing, Pepper saving Stark was amusing compared to the usual typical damsel-in-distress which Pepper usually is. Stark's mistake of falling asleep in the suit was also quite amusing. Jarvis falling asleep was quite saddening since I liked his personality, a lot(even though he's only a robot.) Back to the explosion scene, when the idiot robot fell and tried to wake up another broken robot, I found that very depressing but cute.
Harley was so cute and when was about to leave Stark, was sooo sassy and cool. Stark also gave sassy comebacks which was amusing to watch.
Meeting with the bad guy for the first time, without his accent, left me dumbfounded. An actor? Trevor? Drugs? ACTOR? Holy shit. So the real villain is Killian. Why am I NOT surprised? I disliked the real villains sooo much. I take that back. The lady "villain" was okay. The real villain and Stark's discussion about the actor is really amusing and humorous. Mandarin's laybackness is really refreshing during the tense situations. Such a shame that the main villain was a nut job. Stark's attempt to scare the two guards was really cute since Harley had the suit trapped.
Pepper became sooo bad-ass after her "death" which was really predictable. Even Tony was speechless at Pepper's epicness. "Violent"? That's all she could say after defeating Killian with ease. Just have two questions:
1. Didn't all of Tony's suits get destroyed in the explosion?
2. Why does Tony give Harley, a little boy, a car?
The outro was a merging of all three movies and after the credits, there is a scene. It was showing why Tony was telling is the whole story in the first place, which was because he was having a "counselling" session with Bruce.
I like how they mention the whole Avenger scenario and show how it affected Tony. I also like how Tony named all of his suits and also gave them each a unique look and theme. The ending shows that it might be the end of the Iron Man franchise BUT there could also be more, BUT Tony won;t have that glowing thing in his chest anymore since he got that "fixed".
Overall, it was a great movie with a smooth blend of comedy, drama and action. The suspense and the unexpected twists kept the movie exciting and interesting. There were a few predictable and boring moments but the twists kept this movie in my top few movies of this month/year. Favourite twist is still Mandarin's true identity.
I'll have to give this movie a 9/10. That seems pretty decent for a movie as good as this. Have to go now. Brother's starting to whine like a baby cause he couldn't get his ice-cream. Bye~
Listening to: Pentatonix - ALL Sing-Off Performances (1/3) Favourite song of the 5 songs is Love Lockdown.
1st review: Oblivion
So, this is the most recent Tom Cruise movie out and it's basically about a war against aliens and everyone is supposedly safe on some ship in the sky. Two people, Jack and Vixa remain on Earth to fix droids that are supposed to clean up any aliens left on Earth. When a space pod lands and Jack goes to the crash site to check things out, he finds a woman, Julia, which has been in his flash backs(He and Vixa had their memory erased to protect their mission).
First impression, the machines and scenery's look quite cool. Jack has a cool pure white outfit and helicopter thing BUT has a lame bobble head that he calls Bob, and when he's about to fix a fallen droid, he wears a very LAME cap and when he takes it off, his hear spikes up, also making him look very lame.He also has a hideout that Vixa doesn't know about which is full of plants and life and when the space pod flies past, he pulls out his gun, even though when he was playing basketball by himself and feeding a fish, there was no sign of the gun at all? His clothes also confused me a bit when he wore the clothes at first, they were clean(even though he just fought underground) and the moment he gets on the bike, his clothes are tinted with brown and muck.
He also found a book in the underground area and opens it to read it. I questioned this cause that book was soaked when he picked it up and I'm guessing that the book was there for a REALLY long time...so how in the world are the pages still flip-able and the inked words are not just a huge black splat, OR smudged? He also supposedly goes to his lovely house in the lively area all the time but Vixa NEVER questions it.
Okay, thing I hate about today's movies were that some people didn't off, or even silence, their phones. And they bloody answer the phone IN THE THEATRE. I wanted to get up and slap the two people.
Okay. I'm going to skip a bit cause, to me, nothing interesting happens until after he passes the radioactive part. Right after that moment, to me, things became a bit predictable. For example, when the other mechanic came, I guessed it was going to be a clone(and it was). I guessed that Julia was going to be hit when the two Jacks fought and accidentally shot the gun and I guessed that he was going to meet the other Vixa. Then another questioning thing came about. After Julia was shot, her clothes were torn open by Jack and then after he patched up Julia, he brought her to the house. After that, she suddenly has a change of clothes. Did Jack keep women's clothes? He also kept two of those pod things that he found Julia in? WHY? Not only that but why are there two? Didn't he only bring home the one that he found Julia in?
Lastly, the ending was bittersweet to me. I really did';t expect the leader guy to be in the pod and I also didn't expect Julia to have a daughter. When 52s Jack came, she was perfectly okay and happy with that and why does he remember? I am still very confused.
I give this movie a 7/10. It's a good movie with a good, interesting storyline, fun characters and unique ideas. There were some predictable moments but some unexpected ones.
2nd review: Iron Man 3.
The movie hadn't even started and I was still at the commercials and I was already really confused.Once again, I dislike it when my brother chooses seats cause we got seats which were quite in front. It was only 5 minutes and I already knew that this was going to be a bad experience because the whole row in front of us consisted of an Indian family with some young kids. Some young, very NOISY kids that wouldn't stop talking and/or crying during the movie and its action scenes. Thanks horrible mother that doesn't know that the baby cries cause the movie was too loud for him/her and not considerate enough to bring the kid out. *frustrated sigh*
Okay, the intro was very amusing with the test suit and the robot having the dunce cap on. The villain, Mandarin, looks VERY weird. The botanist's joke in reaction to Stark's comment on having a kid was extremely amusing as well. Stark and Pepper's argument after was very cute, the explosion scene after was confusing, Pepper saving Stark was amusing compared to the usual typical damsel-in-distress which Pepper usually is. Stark's mistake of falling asleep in the suit was also quite amusing. Jarvis falling asleep was quite saddening since I liked his personality, a lot(even though he's only a robot.) Back to the explosion scene, when the idiot robot fell and tried to wake up another broken robot, I found that very depressing but cute.
Harley was so cute and when was about to leave Stark, was sooo sassy and cool. Stark also gave sassy comebacks which was amusing to watch.
Meeting with the bad guy for the first time, without his accent, left me dumbfounded. An actor? Trevor? Drugs? ACTOR? Holy shit. So the real villain is Killian. Why am I NOT surprised? I disliked the real villains sooo much. I take that back. The lady "villain" was okay. The real villain and Stark's discussion about the actor is really amusing and humorous. Mandarin's laybackness is really refreshing during the tense situations. Such a shame that the main villain was a nut job. Stark's attempt to scare the two guards was really cute since Harley had the suit trapped.
Pepper became sooo bad-ass after her "death" which was really predictable. Even Tony was speechless at Pepper's epicness. "Violent"? That's all she could say after defeating Killian with ease. Just have two questions:
1. Didn't all of Tony's suits get destroyed in the explosion?
2. Why does Tony give Harley, a little boy, a car?
The outro was a merging of all three movies and after the credits, there is a scene. It was showing why Tony was telling is the whole story in the first place, which was because he was having a "counselling" session with Bruce.
I like how they mention the whole Avenger scenario and show how it affected Tony. I also like how Tony named all of his suits and also gave them each a unique look and theme. The ending shows that it might be the end of the Iron Man franchise BUT there could also be more, BUT Tony won;t have that glowing thing in his chest anymore since he got that "fixed".
Overall, it was a great movie with a smooth blend of comedy, drama and action. The suspense and the unexpected twists kept the movie exciting and interesting. There were a few predictable and boring moments but the twists kept this movie in my top few movies of this month/year. Favourite twist is still Mandarin's true identity.
I'll have to give this movie a 9/10. That seems pretty decent for a movie as good as this. Have to go now. Brother's starting to whine like a baby cause he couldn't get his ice-cream. Bye~
Listening to: Pentatonix - ALL Sing-Off Performances (1/3) Favourite song of the 5 songs is Love Lockdown.
Saturday, 30 March 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation review
So, I just got back from the theater and I am tired, BUT I'll still do the review.As you can see in the title, the review is on the very recently released action flick, "G.I Joe: Retaliation", the sequel to "G.I Joe: Rise of The Cobra." Since this movie is pretty new, I'll TRY not to go to deep into the movie but there ARE going to be spoilers so if you don't want to be "spoiled", click away and read something else(maybe another one of MY reviews? Please?)
So, basically, this movie is about how Zartan, being president, sets the G.I Joe's up and tries to annihilate the whole group.SPOILERS FROM HERE ON. Only 3 people survive the attack BUT Snake-Eyes survives because he wasn't with the group but on his own mission. Duke, the main character from the first movie, dies when he saves Flint. Flint is one of the three survivors, the other two being Roadblock and Lady Jaye. The three try to find out who betrayed them and could only think of the president. They're correct and they meet with General Joe, himself. Snake Eyes on the other hand is paired up with a girl named Jinx and their job was to find Storm Shadow, which survived the blast from the previous movie. They manage to and they bring him back to the "head quarters" of their erm....Ninjitsu thing where Storm Shadow finds out the truth of his master's death and the real murderer, Zartan. Enraged, he agrees to temporarily "not be an enemy" to the Joes as he is out for revenge.
Cobra Commander is also back because, before Storm changes sides, he helps a man by the name of Firefly help Cobra Commander escape by pretending to be Snake Eyes. Cobra's plan was to make Zartan gather all of the nation's leaders and they have a discussion about a world nuclear disarmament. When the leader's say that they are going to try reducing the amount of nuclear bombs slowly, Zartan pulls out a case and send all of his nuclear warheads to attack all of the countries. By doing so, all of the other leaders do the same but Zartan then destroys all of the nuclear warheads before they land. The other leaders, not wanting to be held responsible for many deaths, do the same. Zartan proclaims that they were now in a world that is nuclear bomb free, until he pulls out another suitcase that is linked to Cobra Commander's secret plan which is codenamed Zeus. The G.I Joe's manage to save the day and you know the rest.
Okay. I just summed up the whole movie. Now, my favourite character time~ I used to like Snake Eyes the most cause he was the mysterious type but in this movie, my favourite character is this movie has GOT to be, Shadow Storm. When they first showed him disguised as Snake Eyes, he just looked VERY cool and when he escaped by lowering his heart rate to 0, just AMAZING. When Snake Eyes came to attack Shadow Storm and Jinx was throwing people off the side of the building, Shadow Storm tried to reach out and grab the arm of one of his falling allies. And, by the end of the whole movie, I just liked the guy sooo much. The other characters were okay but I definitely prefer Shadow Storm to the others.
SPOILERS END.
So yeah. As you can see, if you were here for a review without any spoilers, you have missed A LOT! So, for the review without spoilers, the characters were good. Backgrounds were AMAZING. Acting was good. Storyline, good too. Yeah, I can't think of much to write about the movie, status wise.
I have to go now. Talking to my cousins and I have a bad cough. Bye~
Listening to: Secret by The Pierces
So, basically, this movie is about how Zartan, being president, sets the G.I Joe's up and tries to annihilate the whole group.SPOILERS FROM HERE ON. Only 3 people survive the attack BUT Snake-Eyes survives because he wasn't with the group but on his own mission. Duke, the main character from the first movie, dies when he saves Flint. Flint is one of the three survivors, the other two being Roadblock and Lady Jaye. The three try to find out who betrayed them and could only think of the president. They're correct and they meet with General Joe, himself. Snake Eyes on the other hand is paired up with a girl named Jinx and their job was to find Storm Shadow, which survived the blast from the previous movie. They manage to and they bring him back to the "head quarters" of their erm....Ninjitsu thing where Storm Shadow finds out the truth of his master's death and the real murderer, Zartan. Enraged, he agrees to temporarily "not be an enemy" to the Joes as he is out for revenge.
Cobra Commander is also back because, before Storm changes sides, he helps a man by the name of Firefly help Cobra Commander escape by pretending to be Snake Eyes. Cobra's plan was to make Zartan gather all of the nation's leaders and they have a discussion about a world nuclear disarmament. When the leader's say that they are going to try reducing the amount of nuclear bombs slowly, Zartan pulls out a case and send all of his nuclear warheads to attack all of the countries. By doing so, all of the other leaders do the same but Zartan then destroys all of the nuclear warheads before they land. The other leaders, not wanting to be held responsible for many deaths, do the same. Zartan proclaims that they were now in a world that is nuclear bomb free, until he pulls out another suitcase that is linked to Cobra Commander's secret plan which is codenamed Zeus. The G.I Joe's manage to save the day and you know the rest.
Okay. I just summed up the whole movie. Now, my favourite character time~ I used to like Snake Eyes the most cause he was the mysterious type but in this movie, my favourite character is this movie has GOT to be, Shadow Storm. When they first showed him disguised as Snake Eyes, he just looked VERY cool and when he escaped by lowering his heart rate to 0, just AMAZING. When Snake Eyes came to attack Shadow Storm and Jinx was throwing people off the side of the building, Shadow Storm tried to reach out and grab the arm of one of his falling allies. And, by the end of the whole movie, I just liked the guy sooo much. The other characters were okay but I definitely prefer Shadow Storm to the others.
SPOILERS END.
So yeah. As you can see, if you were here for a review without any spoilers, you have missed A LOT! So, for the review without spoilers, the characters were good. Backgrounds were AMAZING. Acting was good. Storyline, good too. Yeah, I can't think of much to write about the movie, status wise.
I have to go now. Talking to my cousins and I have a bad cough. Bye~
Listening to: Secret by The Pierces
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Ib review
Sorry for not posting as much as I used to. The reason is that I've been busy with school and homework and after school activities so I didn't have enough time to write posts. It's finally the holidays so I can finally post something. And since the Mad Father review got such a good response, why not do a review of my first and favourite RPG game, Ib, or Eve, as some people call it.
Ib is a game about a girl who goes to an art gallery with her parents but somehow end up in another world. There, she meets Garry, a man from the gallery, and Mary, a blonde girl. You play as Ib and you try to get back to your world.
Okay. Since this is a review, there are going to be spoilers so don't put me down by being the first person to ever comment but it's you complaining that I spoilt the game for you. Also, this is also with my review of the latest update, Ib 1.04. I'll put a download link at the end if you're interested.
Anyway, I played Ib 1 year ago but I replayed it recently because of the newest update. There are two new endings which involve you playing as Mary, which is something you couldn't do in the previous version. My favourite character was always Garry and Ib was okay but you couldn't really HATE Mary since she WAS just a little girl that wanted to get out of her world. If you saw my Comic Fiesta 2012 review, you would know that I spent a LOT of money on Garry merchandise. I still have ALL of them, by the way. OKAY, to the review!
Overall, I really liked the story and the game play. The characters were very interesting and they did a GREAT job in making the other world very spooky. The main reason I prefer Ib over Witch's House, Mad Father, the crooked man, Misao, Yume Nikki and other RPG games(I've tried to play To The Moon but the trial ended before I could get far enough to do a full review or first impression) is that Ib isn't a horror game that is filled with jumpscares or horror moments(not saying that the other games are but you have to admit. Witch's House had a story line but was mainly just jumpscares.) but was a game with a story that just had a great creepy feel and nice endings. This is the only RPG game with a girl as the main character that had a true ending that WASN'T a bad ending.
I liked all the paintings in the art gallery. My favourite paintings/sculptures were "Fleeting Thoughts on a Moonlit Night", "Truant Seconds Hand", "Queen of High Society", "Tryst After Death" and "Drinking in the Night". Most of the paintings I mentioned as my favourite art pieces are from the latest update but the paintings from the previous version are also very nice. My favourite ending is definitely "Promise of Reunion" but I don't like how the update didn't effect the ending at ALL. There's this whole new area, the dungeon, where you risk Garry being stuck in the other world forever, AGAIN, and the flow is off since the ending, Promise of Reunion is based of the handkerchief that Ib gives Garry after killing Mary. The flow would have been good if it ended right after that BUT there's now a whole new area and it doesn't affect the ending at ALL. I know I should be happy that they actually took their time to do a new area and 2 new endings but it just feels a bit, just a BIT, lazy. Just a little edit to the old endings and this game would be my favourite game to replay over and over for months, maybe even years!
Okay, you're here for a review and not a rant. Out of all the endings, I prefer "Promise of Reunion" because it's one of the happy endings. Second would have to be either "Welcome to the World of Guertena" or "Together Forever." Welcome to The World of Guertena is one of the two new endings where Garry goes insane(from the doll room), Ib goes into depression and just wants to stay in the other world because she doesn't want to leave Garry behind, and Mary stays behind because she doesn't want to leave her best, first and only friend Ib behind. So, all the paintings gather in the doll room and they all live there forever, Happily Ever After(But Garry is insane/dead and Ib is dead.) The other new ending is called "The Demise of a Painting" which is where Mary leaves on her own but instead of getting to the real world, she is in a world that looks like the real world but is still part of Guertena's world as "he" scolds her for leaving by making the place pitch black, making her all alone and unable to return home. Just before the whole place goes black, she calls for help, begs for forgiveness, calls for Ib, then Garry, then finally, her father, Guertena.After that is just some endings where Ib is all alone cause she never returned to her world, or Garry AND Mary die but Ib escapes but sees a picture of a man sleeping(Garry) in the gallery.
The background music and OSTs are also very nice and there are a lot of extremely talented people that have actually given lyrics to some of the character's theme songs. For example, Mary's theme song has it's own lyric-ed version called Puppet while Garry's theme song is Fighting for You.
In a nutshell, Ib is a VERY good game. I might be using Italics for more of my posts cause it makes it look fancy~ : 9 I might edit this soon since it's very late and I just want to get this up before today ends. I give Ib a ranking of 9.8/10~ I have to go now. Gazel is talking to her boyfriend and I'm trying to get information about Miku-chan's wedding out of him. Bye~
You can download the game: HERE!
Listening to a playlist: RPG game songs
Ib is a game about a girl who goes to an art gallery with her parents but somehow end up in another world. There, she meets Garry, a man from the gallery, and Mary, a blonde girl. You play as Ib and you try to get back to your world.
Okay. Since this is a review, there are going to be spoilers so don't put me down by being the first person to ever comment but it's you complaining that I spoilt the game for you. Also, this is also with my review of the latest update, Ib 1.04. I'll put a download link at the end if you're interested.
Anyway, I played Ib 1 year ago but I replayed it recently because of the newest update. There are two new endings which involve you playing as Mary, which is something you couldn't do in the previous version. My favourite character was always Garry and Ib was okay but you couldn't really HATE Mary since she WAS just a little girl that wanted to get out of her world. If you saw my Comic Fiesta 2012 review, you would know that I spent a LOT of money on Garry merchandise. I still have ALL of them, by the way. OKAY, to the review!
Overall, I really liked the story and the game play. The characters were very interesting and they did a GREAT job in making the other world very spooky. The main reason I prefer Ib over Witch's House, Mad Father, the crooked man, Misao, Yume Nikki and other RPG games(I've tried to play To The Moon but the trial ended before I could get far enough to do a full review or first impression) is that Ib isn't a horror game that is filled with jumpscares or horror moments(not saying that the other games are but you have to admit. Witch's House had a story line but was mainly just jumpscares.) but was a game with a story that just had a great creepy feel and nice endings. This is the only RPG game with a girl as the main character that had a true ending that WASN'T a bad ending.
I liked all the paintings in the art gallery. My favourite paintings/sculptures were "Fleeting Thoughts on a Moonlit Night", "Truant Seconds Hand", "Queen of High Society", "Tryst After Death" and "Drinking in the Night". Most of the paintings I mentioned as my favourite art pieces are from the latest update but the paintings from the previous version are also very nice. My favourite ending is definitely "Promise of Reunion" but I don't like how the update didn't effect the ending at ALL. There's this whole new area, the dungeon, where you risk Garry being stuck in the other world forever, AGAIN, and the flow is off since the ending, Promise of Reunion is based of the handkerchief that Ib gives Garry after killing Mary. The flow would have been good if it ended right after that BUT there's now a whole new area and it doesn't affect the ending at ALL. I know I should be happy that they actually took their time to do a new area and 2 new endings but it just feels a bit, just a BIT, lazy. Just a little edit to the old endings and this game would be my favourite game to replay over and over for months, maybe even years!
Okay, you're here for a review and not a rant. Out of all the endings, I prefer "Promise of Reunion" because it's one of the happy endings. Second would have to be either "Welcome to the World of Guertena" or "Together Forever." Welcome to The World of Guertena is one of the two new endings where Garry goes insane(from the doll room), Ib goes into depression and just wants to stay in the other world because she doesn't want to leave Garry behind, and Mary stays behind because she doesn't want to leave her best, first and only friend Ib behind. So, all the paintings gather in the doll room and they all live there forever, Happily Ever After(But Garry is insane/dead and Ib is dead.) The other new ending is called "The Demise of a Painting" which is where Mary leaves on her own but instead of getting to the real world, she is in a world that looks like the real world but is still part of Guertena's world as "he" scolds her for leaving by making the place pitch black, making her all alone and unable to return home. Just before the whole place goes black, she calls for help, begs for forgiveness, calls for Ib, then Garry, then finally, her father, Guertena.After that is just some endings where Ib is all alone cause she never returned to her world, or Garry AND Mary die but Ib escapes but sees a picture of a man sleeping(Garry) in the gallery.
The background music and OSTs are also very nice and there are a lot of extremely talented people that have actually given lyrics to some of the character's theme songs. For example, Mary's theme song has it's own lyric-ed version called Puppet while Garry's theme song is Fighting for You.
In a nutshell, Ib is a VERY good game. I might be using Italics for more of my posts cause it makes it look fancy~ : 9 I might edit this soon since it's very late and I just want to get this up before today ends. I give Ib a ranking of 9.8/10~ I have to go now. Gazel is talking to her boyfriend and I'm trying to get information about Miku-chan's wedding out of him. Bye~
You can download the game: HERE!
Listening to a playlist: RPG game songs
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Busy day at some convention
So, today was the second(and last) day of some convention(Animax Comicon 2013...I think it was called that.) at Sunway Pyramid. It's suppose to be going on right now be I went there early and left early too. It's suppose to have started at 10am and end at 10 pm but...Seriously, whoever that can stay there for the whole 12 hours deserves respect cause, to me, there was absolutely nothing to do. There were somewhat okay cosplayers.....a LOT of cosplayers but only a few caught my eye but they weren't good enough for me to waste my time and get out my camera-phone. The main things you COULD do there were:
1. Watch the cosplay competition's semi-finals and finals.(We only watched the semi-finals cause it was the only way to get in WITHOUT lining up for an hour plus)
2. Play some of the booth games. (I didn't play any of them cause I was an idiot and left so we had to line up to get in again, BUT we didn't cause the line was so long and by the time we could get in again, Liver(who was with me) would have had to go. They were basically the typical throw the ring and shoot the cup games so....nah.)
3. There was one booth that would let you try a kimono and you could take pictures in front of this nicely done backdrop.(They did your make-up and all that too so I actually thought it could have been interesting but it wasn't worth the looooong line.)
4. Take pictures of the cosplayers! (=__= No thank you.)
So.....as you can tell, we didn't really have a GREAT time. So, in the end, Liver and I went to Asia Avenue to but some ice-cream(a great treat due to the HEAT we felt at the convention) and then went to find my parents which were at Daiso(a good store that has a heap load of things and everything only costs RM5!). Liver and I had a great time there as we looked through a bunch of stationary and tried to read some of the japanese things on the labels....well, at least I was trying to. Most of the time, Liver just walked up and down the aisles, trying to find interesting things. In the end, she bought a pretty box, a note-book, and I think a file. I bought a notebook as well.
I almost forgot. Liver dressed up for the convention(kinda). I think I wrote this before but Liver has a unique sense of style and she let it go today. She was wearing normal clothes....underneath a really steam-punk looking leather jacket. Truthfully, it was an ordinary leather jacket but when she wore it, and with the jacket's nice brown colour, it really reminded me of those jackets you see in those steam-punk themed anime/manga. All she needed were goggles and maybe something like a steam-punk style pocket watch and BAM! She would have been cosplaying, to me. She also had a leather bag that I carried around a lot. There were times where I wished she told me that she was going to wear something like that. Then, maybe I could have wore something similar then we could have went looking like a duo of steam-punk girls. That would have been fun.
Anyway, my parents are going out cause my brother needs to buy new sports shoes for tomorrow. I have to send them of so...bye~
Listening to: The background music of a game I'm playing.(I can't tell you what...yet~)
Steampunk style(I guess): Some people dressed up in steam-punk fashion
An awesome design
1. Watch the cosplay competition's semi-finals and finals.(We only watched the semi-finals cause it was the only way to get in WITHOUT lining up for an hour plus)
2. Play some of the booth games. (I didn't play any of them cause I was an idiot and left so we had to line up to get in again, BUT we didn't cause the line was so long and by the time we could get in again, Liver(who was with me) would have had to go. They were basically the typical throw the ring and shoot the cup games so....nah.)
3. There was one booth that would let you try a kimono and you could take pictures in front of this nicely done backdrop.(They did your make-up and all that too so I actually thought it could have been interesting but it wasn't worth the looooong line.)
4. Take pictures of the cosplayers! (=__= No thank you.)
So.....as you can tell, we didn't really have a GREAT time. So, in the end, Liver and I went to Asia Avenue to but some ice-cream(a great treat due to the HEAT we felt at the convention) and then went to find my parents which were at Daiso(a good store that has a heap load of things and everything only costs RM5!). Liver and I had a great time there as we looked through a bunch of stationary and tried to read some of the japanese things on the labels....well, at least I was trying to. Most of the time, Liver just walked up and down the aisles, trying to find interesting things. In the end, she bought a pretty box, a note-book, and I think a file. I bought a notebook as well.
I almost forgot. Liver dressed up for the convention(kinda). I think I wrote this before but Liver has a unique sense of style and she let it go today. She was wearing normal clothes....underneath a really steam-punk looking leather jacket. Truthfully, it was an ordinary leather jacket but when she wore it, and with the jacket's nice brown colour, it really reminded me of those jackets you see in those steam-punk themed anime/manga. All she needed were goggles and maybe something like a steam-punk style pocket watch and BAM! She would have been cosplaying, to me. She also had a leather bag that I carried around a lot. There were times where I wished she told me that she was going to wear something like that. Then, maybe I could have wore something similar then we could have went looking like a duo of steam-punk girls. That would have been fun.
Anyway, my parents are going out cause my brother needs to buy new sports shoes for tomorrow. I have to send them of so...bye~
Listening to: The background music of a game I'm playing.(I can't tell you what...yet~)
Steampunk style(I guess): Some people dressed up in steam-punk fashion
An awesome design
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Charlie Askew: Vote please?
So, I've been sick for awhile now but I only started to skip school yesterday. I also skipped school today,which is BM. Crap. Because of that, I had to go to the clinic to get an MC. Just going to apologize in advance, but if you notice any spelling errors, blame my computer cause it is lagging VERY badly and I NEVER use this computer. The only reason I AM using it is because it's the only computer in this house that my brother DOESN'T want and I didn't feel like typing on the iPad with its annoying spell check.
Anyway, the reason I'm writing this post....that was WAAAAY too formal sounding. Let me try again.
E-hem.
ed watching it again when we saw ONE person's audition. his name i
AMERICAN IDOL. Almost everyone has heard about it before and I used to watch it ALL the time. Then, my mom and dad lost interest and I got hooked on anime. HOWEVER, we all started again when we saw ONE person audition. That person IS......(I'm sure you read the title o it's not really a shocker): ChArLiE aSkEw!!!
So...yeah. We started watching American Idol and I stopped when the top 10 was revealed BUT my parents told me that he MIGHT go on the roadtrip with the top 10 and I watched his performance. I hope you all vote for him(that is IF you are in America). Even if you don't watch American Idol or don't care, please vote for him for me. I would have spent all my credit to vote for him but I can't because I'm not in America and am not an American citizen. So....yeah. PLEASE vote for him. Even my friend, Liver approved of his singing and I believe that is an accomplishment on his own. His personality is so cute but he is also very masculine in the right ways. He is also very awkward which is why I hope he doesn't see this, but in a way, I also do. Anyway, if he DOES see this, I'm sorry for creeping you out but I really hope you get somewhere in the singing industry cause you have many fans. If you don't believe me, go and look at your videos on youtube and look at the comments. The last time I checked, they were all about rooting for you to make it to finals and win.
And with that, I have to go. I'm getting a bit woozy from my medicine and I think I'm going to scream cause of the computer lag. Bye~
Listening to: 合唱 『ローリンガール』 / Rolling Girl (Band Arrangement) - Nico Nico Chorus
Charlie Askew: His audition
Anyway, the reason I'm writing this post....that was WAAAAY too formal sounding. Let me try again.
E-hem.
ed watching it again when we saw ONE person's audition. his name i
AMERICAN IDOL. Almost everyone has heard about it before and I used to watch it ALL the time. Then, my mom and dad lost interest and I got hooked on anime. HOWEVER, we all started again when we saw ONE person audition. That person IS......(I'm sure you read the title o it's not really a shocker): ChArLiE aSkEw!!!
So...yeah. We started watching American Idol and I stopped when the top 10 was revealed BUT my parents told me that he MIGHT go on the roadtrip with the top 10 and I watched his performance. I hope you all vote for him(that is IF you are in America). Even if you don't watch American Idol or don't care, please vote for him for me. I would have spent all my credit to vote for him but I can't because I'm not in America and am not an American citizen. So....yeah. PLEASE vote for him. Even my friend, Liver approved of his singing and I believe that is an accomplishment on his own. His personality is so cute but he is also very masculine in the right ways. He is also very awkward which is why I hope he doesn't see this, but in a way, I also do. Anyway, if he DOES see this, I'm sorry for creeping you out but I really hope you get somewhere in the singing industry cause you have many fans. If you don't believe me, go and look at your videos on youtube and look at the comments. The last time I checked, they were all about rooting for you to make it to finals and win.
And with that, I have to go. I'm getting a bit woozy from my medicine and I think I'm going to scream cause of the computer lag. Bye~
Listening to: 合唱 『ローリンガール』 / Rolling Girl (Band Arrangement) - Nico Nico Chorus
Charlie Askew: His audition
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Kuroko no Basuke and Oz review
As promised, here is the review for the famous basketball anime, Kuroko no Basuke. I know I was supposed to have done it in the previous post but I had just finished the game that day so I absolutely HAD to do that review first cause the ending was soo.......sorry for the language but it was so f@#ked up!Anyway, back to the anime. NOTE: I haven't read the manga and have only watched the anime. There are also most likely going to be spoilers if you haven't finished reading/watching the manga/anime.
Kuroko no Basuke is mainly focused on two boys which are Kuroko and Kagami. Kuroko was the sixth, "phantom" member of a basketball group called the Generation of Miracles. Kagami, which is great at basketball cause of his build and muscles and all that finds out about this group and targets to beat them. The two of them go to the same school and signed up for the basketball team. Thing which made me like this anime a LOT is the characters cause they are all so....unique! The reason Kuroko was known as the phantom member was cause he has very very VERY little presence. My favourite character so far are these two characters eventhough they had almost no screen time. These guys are Atsushi, the purple-haired giant of a guy) and Arashi? I think that's his name. The other guy with red hair. Anyway, back to describing the characters. There really is a wide variety. There is Kuroko the kudere(no emotion), Kise the deredere(happy-go-lucky), Ma....ma-something,the green-haired guy, which is a tsundere, Aomine the kamidere(the person who thinks he/she is undefeatable and is perfect), Atsushi the dandere(the "I don't give a shit" person) and lastly, Arashi the yandere(the type that seems normal but turns out to be a scary and deady maniac).
Character wise, it was pretty good. Even the non-main characters were interesting and had their own traits. The story-line was also quite good. There were times where I thought it was cliche and times were I thought it was bringing up random points about the characters, but after an episode or a few, that trait is re-mentioned or used and makes the character a lot more interesting. The idea of the story is also quite good so...good job to the original artist for making a good manga.
Truthfully, I really don't like sports manga or anime but I gave this a shot cause I really liked the fan-art it was getting(I saw a lot of Atsushi fan-art) so ..yeah. And since I know a bit about basketball, the anime didn't leave me clueless but there were times where I just wondered, wtf are they talking about.
ANYWAY, in a nutshell, I think Kuroko no Basuke was a good, almost great, anime/manga and I definitely recommend it to all of you. I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10 and I'll be looking forward to see what you guys have to say.
Have to go no-
Yeah, I'm joking. Not done yet. I just got back home to finish this post but I really wanted to talk about a new movie that just came out recently. It's called Oz and it's supposed to be a prequel to the Wizard of Oz....I think...yeah.
It's about a performer names Oscar but calls himself Oz. He left the circus he worked at to go to their next spot but a tornado pulls him in and drags him to the land of Oz. There, he meets a pretty lady, a witch, called Theodora, and she is easily described with her pretty face, red clothes and lovely red sunhat. SPOLER WARNING from here on. She and Oz get chased by flyng baboons and they hide. Oz, claiming to be the wizard, lures them away by letting go of a dove that he hid for his magic tricks at the circus. After they escape, they walk down the yellow brick road, heading for Emerald city. They stop during the night and Theodora takesoff her jacket and her hat. She also unites her hair to show that she was very pretty. Oz starts flirting with her and she mentions that no one ever tries to flirt with her. He also asks her to dance and they do so.Theodora obviously falls in love with Oz.
Continuing on their journey, they find a flying monkey trapped in vines and roots and asking for help. He yells about being eaten and Oz makes fun of him saying the tree won't eat him. The monkey says he wasn't scared of the tree but the lion and Oz's face changes. He turns to see the lion and just Asia attacked, he let out a smoke bomb of red smoke and it scares the lion away.
Theodora complements him for being a great wizard and the monkey swears loyalty to Oz. Once Emerald city was in sight, Theodora cheers and asks that when Oz becomes King, will he make her his queen. He says yes. With much happiness, she skips ahead. Oz discusses thing with the monkey, asking if the oath could be taken back and when he says no, Oz tells him that he isn't the wizard.
ANYWAY, I'll summarize it. I'm getting a bit tired. Theodora's sister that was taking care of the city shows Oz the riches of being King and tells him to go and kill the evil witch at the dark woods by breaking her wand. He leaves without telling Theodora. The two men leave the city and head for the dark woods but when they reached a fork in the path, the two go towards China town because there was smoke. There, they meet a little doll that had her legs broken. She was crying because everyone in her town was broken and she couldn't leave for help. Oz fixes her legs with "magic in a bottle" (glue) and she joins the party after pretending to cry to get Oz to let her follow.
Once in the woods, they find the witch and steal her wand, only to discover that the witch was Glinda the good.Glinda tells Oz the truth and that her father wasn't killed by her, as Theodora's sister claimed, but by the sister herself. The sister was the true wicked witch. Theodora's sister, who is watching the whole thing through a crystal ball shows this to Theodora and says that she got to dance with Oz and he gave her a present, a music box. The same music box Oz gave her at the campfire the night they danced together. The sister says that Oz might be siding with Glinda and that he might make her queen since they look good together. This angers and saddens Theodora and she cries hot tears that burn her face.(Theodora masters over fire so when she's angry, she throws fireballs by accident, and when sad, cries hot tears that burn her face.) She goes to her room and smashes the mirror when she tells herself,"Serves you right."
She confronts her sister and her sister gives her an apple to make her forget and stop the pain in her heart. Theodora bites the apple and she starts feeling a horrid pain in her chest. Her sister says that it was only her heart shriveling up and dying. Just before Theodora collapses, she glares at her sister and says," You're the wicked witch," with tears in her eyes. She collapses and when she rises again, she clings to the table with green hands and black nails(claws).
So, after some fighting, confronting(Theodora appears at Glinda's land and shows Oz what happened to her and blames him for it), and more fighting, Oz scares the two witches away using smoke and some visual effects, he becomes the King as the great wizard,Oz. just before he seals himself off behind the throne, he says goodbye to everyone and gives them all gifts. The monkey gets his top hat and friendship, the doll got a new family which was Glinda, the monkey, sourpuss(that's his nickname. Can't remember the real name), the main thinker and himself. Glinda gets a kiss behind the curtains.
The story was good...I guess. The graphics, background designs and clothes designs we're amazing. The characters were also okay. In a nutshell, it was a good movie. I think you should watch it as this is very biased cause I didn't like how Theodora was treated. I really liked her and when she became the very infamous green-skinned wicked witch, I really didn't like the movie anymore. I give the movie a 6.7 out of 10.
I have to go now. Have to wake up early...ugh. Bye~
Kuroko no Basuke is mainly focused on two boys which are Kuroko and Kagami. Kuroko was the sixth, "phantom" member of a basketball group called the Generation of Miracles. Kagami, which is great at basketball cause of his build and muscles and all that finds out about this group and targets to beat them. The two of them go to the same school and signed up for the basketball team. Thing which made me like this anime a LOT is the characters cause they are all so....unique! The reason Kuroko was known as the phantom member was cause he has very very VERY little presence. My favourite character so far are these two characters eventhough they had almost no screen time. These guys are Atsushi, the purple-haired giant of a guy) and Arashi? I think that's his name. The other guy with red hair. Anyway, back to describing the characters. There really is a wide variety. There is Kuroko the kudere(no emotion), Kise the deredere(happy-go-lucky), Ma....ma-something,the green-haired guy, which is a tsundere, Aomine the kamidere(the person who thinks he/she is undefeatable and is perfect), Atsushi the dandere(the "I don't give a shit" person) and lastly, Arashi the yandere(the type that seems normal but turns out to be a scary and deady maniac).
Character wise, it was pretty good. Even the non-main characters were interesting and had their own traits. The story-line was also quite good. There were times where I thought it was cliche and times were I thought it was bringing up random points about the characters, but after an episode or a few, that trait is re-mentioned or used and makes the character a lot more interesting. The idea of the story is also quite good so...good job to the original artist for making a good manga.
Truthfully, I really don't like sports manga or anime but I gave this a shot cause I really liked the fan-art it was getting(I saw a lot of Atsushi fan-art) so ..yeah. And since I know a bit about basketball, the anime didn't leave me clueless but there were times where I just wondered, wtf are they talking about.
ANYWAY, in a nutshell, I think Kuroko no Basuke was a good, almost great, anime/manga and I definitely recommend it to all of you. I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10 and I'll be looking forward to see what you guys have to say.
Have to go no-
Yeah, I'm joking. Not done yet. I just got back home to finish this post but I really wanted to talk about a new movie that just came out recently. It's called Oz and it's supposed to be a prequel to the Wizard of Oz....I think...yeah.
It's about a performer names Oscar but calls himself Oz. He left the circus he worked at to go to their next spot but a tornado pulls him in and drags him to the land of Oz. There, he meets a pretty lady, a witch, called Theodora, and she is easily described with her pretty face, red clothes and lovely red sunhat. SPOLER WARNING from here on. She and Oz get chased by flyng baboons and they hide. Oz, claiming to be the wizard, lures them away by letting go of a dove that he hid for his magic tricks at the circus. After they escape, they walk down the yellow brick road, heading for Emerald city. They stop during the night and Theodora takesoff her jacket and her hat. She also unites her hair to show that she was very pretty. Oz starts flirting with her and she mentions that no one ever tries to flirt with her. He also asks her to dance and they do so.Theodora obviously falls in love with Oz.
Continuing on their journey, they find a flying monkey trapped in vines and roots and asking for help. He yells about being eaten and Oz makes fun of him saying the tree won't eat him. The monkey says he wasn't scared of the tree but the lion and Oz's face changes. He turns to see the lion and just Asia attacked, he let out a smoke bomb of red smoke and it scares the lion away.
Theodora complements him for being a great wizard and the monkey swears loyalty to Oz. Once Emerald city was in sight, Theodora cheers and asks that when Oz becomes King, will he make her his queen. He says yes. With much happiness, she skips ahead. Oz discusses thing with the monkey, asking if the oath could be taken back and when he says no, Oz tells him that he isn't the wizard.
ANYWAY, I'll summarize it. I'm getting a bit tired. Theodora's sister that was taking care of the city shows Oz the riches of being King and tells him to go and kill the evil witch at the dark woods by breaking her wand. He leaves without telling Theodora. The two men leave the city and head for the dark woods but when they reached a fork in the path, the two go towards China town because there was smoke. There, they meet a little doll that had her legs broken. She was crying because everyone in her town was broken and she couldn't leave for help. Oz fixes her legs with "magic in a bottle" (glue) and she joins the party after pretending to cry to get Oz to let her follow.
Once in the woods, they find the witch and steal her wand, only to discover that the witch was Glinda the good.Glinda tells Oz the truth and that her father wasn't killed by her, as Theodora's sister claimed, but by the sister herself. The sister was the true wicked witch. Theodora's sister, who is watching the whole thing through a crystal ball shows this to Theodora and says that she got to dance with Oz and he gave her a present, a music box. The same music box Oz gave her at the campfire the night they danced together. The sister says that Oz might be siding with Glinda and that he might make her queen since they look good together. This angers and saddens Theodora and she cries hot tears that burn her face.(Theodora masters over fire so when she's angry, she throws fireballs by accident, and when sad, cries hot tears that burn her face.) She goes to her room and smashes the mirror when she tells herself,"Serves you right."
She confronts her sister and her sister gives her an apple to make her forget and stop the pain in her heart. Theodora bites the apple and she starts feeling a horrid pain in her chest. Her sister says that it was only her heart shriveling up and dying. Just before Theodora collapses, she glares at her sister and says," You're the wicked witch," with tears in her eyes. She collapses and when she rises again, she clings to the table with green hands and black nails(claws).
So, after some fighting, confronting(Theodora appears at Glinda's land and shows Oz what happened to her and blames him for it), and more fighting, Oz scares the two witches away using smoke and some visual effects, he becomes the King as the great wizard,Oz. just before he seals himself off behind the throne, he says goodbye to everyone and gives them all gifts. The monkey gets his top hat and friendship, the doll got a new family which was Glinda, the monkey, sourpuss(that's his nickname. Can't remember the real name), the main thinker and himself. Glinda gets a kiss behind the curtains.
The story was good...I guess. The graphics, background designs and clothes designs we're amazing. The characters were also okay. In a nutshell, it was a good movie. I think you should watch it as this is very biased cause I didn't like how Theodora was treated. I really liked her and when she became the very infamous green-skinned wicked witch, I really didn't like the movie anymore. I give the movie a 6.7 out of 10.
I have to go now. Have to wake up early...ugh. Bye~
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