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Crimsongem Saga (Asia) / Garnet Chronicle (Japan) – (PSP) January 19, 2009

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This is a RPG (role playing game) with cute characters. You will start out as Killian (the main character) being late for graduation and emerge as the second best student. He will then start his journey by reporting to the Exguard Office. Along the journey he will meet several friends which will join your party and gets into all sorts of trouble and ended up in jail. Being acknowledged for his strength, they were given a chance by helping to retrieve the wicked stones.

You will start out with limited skills. When you win a battle, you will have some gold and SP (skill points) points. The Gold is use to purchase items and equipments while SP is used to unlock skills and to learn them. Gold is extremely important in this game as the items inside the game are very expensive which can go up to millions per equipment.

As you venture into the game, there are some hidden equipments. However, these equipment aren’t easily obtainable. You have to defeat a boss monster in order to obtain it.

Combine skills are powerful skills in this game. It causes heavy damage and helps you defeat the monsters easily. In order to use the combine skills, the characters must be in a row and not have monsters in between their fighting order. You activate the first character in the fighting order to use the skill. The second character or thereafter can still have their fighting orders even after using the combine skills. The most useful skill will be the “Sanctuary skill” where you can evade all kinds of attacks for 8 turns.

Leveling in this game should be quite easy. The maximum level for each character is at 99 levels. Always ambush your enemy from behind as it gives you an advantage as your enemies HP will be reduce dramatically to about 20% left. You should farm your character levels, Gold and SP in the dungeon as it gives more experience, SP and Gold.

Several items you must have are Legendary Armor (hidden and have to find and defeat a boss monster), Legendary Sword (hidden and have to find and defeat a boss monster), Graduation Hat (reduce all Mana require for skills to 50%) and one necklace (reduce all attacks and only receive 5% damage). I’m sorry I cannot provide the exact name as I have accidentally overwritten my save file when I completed the game.

You can also equip your equipments will gems and cards. The gems and cards can be obtained from mobs everywhere. The most usefull card will be the joker card where it adds 20 to all stats. Sadly, I never used it at all. You can also upgrade your skills with medallion. The medallions are bronze Lv 2, silver – Lv 3, gold (LV4) and platinum – Lv 5. The skills have to be used several times before you can upgrade it and it have to be in ascending order.

At the end when you encounter the last boss, you will either die or defeat him. Both ways will still have you complete the game and the credits will appear after that. At the end, you will only be left with Killian, Acelora and Lurdurk. So I suggest you level these characters as high as possible. I equipped Killan with the Legend Sword & Armor, Acelora with the necklace which reduce all damage to 5% and Lurdurk I left him dead. Don’t worry if your party is wiped out as you will have a miracle scroll with you during this time. The miracle scroll will revive your party to full HP & MP and you get to continue the battle. If you lose this time, the credits will appear and you will deem as to have completed the game.

This game is fun but the monsters looks the same most of the time with some color difference. It will take you quite some time to complete the game especially when you get ambush by monster which leaves you most of the time “Game Over”. There are also interesting puzzles for you to solve in order to unlock some doors in the dungeons and move on in the game. Have fun!

Tekken: Dark Ressurection (PSP) January 19, 2009

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If you are into fighting and combos (chain fighting moves), then this game will be your ideal choice! I’ve never fancied tekken since the arcade times but Yen got this game from his friend so we gave it a try. Here is my review after trying it for about 2 weeks. This review may not be perfect.

Tekken is all about combos. Once you combo-ed someone, his HP will drop dramatically until about 20% left or even the opponent might be KO-ed. One reason why I never like this game is because once you combo someone you practically have no chance of fighting back. So basically, you have to be very cautious about every move you make and once your opponent makes a mistake, you start kicking his ass!

There are 34 characters for your selection. Each with their own combos and each has about at least 100 different combos. So you will have to really memorize the buttons for each character as each combo comprises of different buttons.

You will begin the game as a beginner (this applies to each and every character). As you fight and practices in Dojos, your title will be upgraded but beware as the title can be degraded when you lose several matches in a row. As far as I can remember, you start from beginner, Kyu (9th to 1st), Dan (1st to 7th) and the list goes on until Tekken Lord. There are too many titles and I can’t remember them all. I’m currently stuck between Legend and Fujin title.

There are 7 dojos. Stage 0 – Yurin Dojo being the training dojo. Then Stage 1 – Earth Dojo is for beginners till 3rd Kyu players. You have to be ranked 1st to unlocked the next Dojo. Stage 2 – Water Dojo is for 5th Kyu till 3rd Dan players. Fire Dojo is in stage 3 which is for players ranked 1st Dan till Shihan. Next is the Wind Dojo for 6th Dan till Champion ranked players. After that comes Void Dojo for Master and Legend ranked players. Sage and Tekken Lord will compete in the Last and Final Dojo named Heaven Dojo. You can only rank up when there is a “Ranking Match” appears before the match begins.

When you win each match, you will be awarded with some gold. These gold are use to customize your characters according to your liking on their skin colors, clothing and apparels. You will have to battle and win several modes to unlock more apparel add-ons. However, these add-ons do not affect the characters skill or power meaning it is just for mere decoration.

You will also be able to unlock a bonus game – The Tekken Bowl which you can play alone or compete against your friend. It is quite enjoyable and fun.

There are several modes which you can play in the game namely Quick Battle, Story Battle, Arcade Battle, Network, Tekken Dojo, Attack and Practice mode. 3 – 2 - 1 Fight !!

Pacman World Rally (PSP) January 16, 2009

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Tired of Pacman being chase by ghosts? Try Pacman racing instead. Pacman World Rally is simple & easy to play. The aim of the game is to emerge top at the end of the race. You will obtain certain items which you can attack your opponents to halt them temporary from racing. Beware! You can also be attack by them as well.

Any shortcut? Yes, there is shortcut in the race. Try to look out for the fruits such as watermelon, grapes on certain parts of the track. If you see a grape on a door, it means you need to collect a grape to open the door. Please note that the door will open if you have the fruit with you and it open one second before you reach the door. If you do not have it, then you will crash onto the door unless you follow closely behind the other racer which can open the door.

Pacman wouldn’t be complete if it can’t transform and eat the ghost! All you need to do is collect those power tablets along the track until it’s full. Then activate it anytime you want. Once you activate it, you will only have the power for mere 3~5 seconds with a little speed boost. Please note that you can be eaten as well!!

Difficulty Modes

  • 3 types – Easy, Normal & Hard

Cups

Under each difficulty mode there are 5 different rally cups to be won. However, you need to win each cup to unlock the next one. The cups are Cherry Cup, Grape Cup, Watermelon Cup, Classic Cup & Rally Cup.

Race

In each cup there are 4 race tracks. After each race, you will be awarded with race points according to your position from 1 to 10. After the fourth race and if you emerge top of the rank, you will unlock the next cup challenge.

Easy and relaxing game to play. Mostly suited for kids age 14 and below. I don’t recommending buying the game as I completed the game within a day. More racing reviews will be up soon … try to get crash racing soon. Till then happy racing!

Beverly Hills ChiHuaHua (2008) January 6, 2009

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The movie is about a ChiHuaHua named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore) that lives a wealthy lifestyle with spas, designers clothing, birthday parties with press coverage, hotel dining and etc. Rachel (Piper Perabo) was left in charge of Chloe as her Aunt Viv (Jamie Lee Curtis) needs to travel to Milan for some business.

Rachel invited her friends over to the mansion while the Chloe also invited its friends for a weekly gathering by the pool. It was then they meet Papi (voiced over by George Lopez), another ChiHuaHua; and Aunt Viv’s landscaper, Sam (Manolo Cardona) arguing about Papi being a nuisance.

The next day, Rachel received a phone call and off they went to Mexico for a holiday with Chloe tagging along. Rachel was ignoring Chloe once they reached Mexico and begin to party away. Chloe decided to tag along and spoil her fun but before she can do that she was dognapped!

She awoke in a dogfight arena next to Delgado, a German Shepherd (Edward James Olmos) with a lost sense of smelling. Chloe was then placed into the arena with killer Doberman named Diablo (voiced by Andy Garcia). Chloe managed to escape death with Delgado saving her in the nick of time and they left together with the rest of the captured dogs.

Lost with no place to go, she decided to tag along with Delgado. It was then Chloe realized that no one recognized her and she have to live like a stray dog and need to get back to Beverly Hills for the luxury live. Diablo’s owner then learned that Chloe is worth a lot of money and ask Diablo to track her down. The journey then begins with Delgado helping Chloe back to Beverly Hills with all his connections and Diablo chasing after them everywhere. Meanwhile, Rachel and Sam reported the incident to the police to search for Chloe before Aunt Viv is back from her trip. Papi was the hero in helping them track down Chloe making some friend on the way and managed to get them sheltered homes.

The story is rather interesting especially for dog lover who loves to pamper their dogs. The clothing on the dogs will definitely charm you. The morale of the story is to love your animals and if you are willing take care of the strays too. Exciting, fun and the animals are lively (maybe some CG effects). I love the lizard!! The color on its body is just wonderful!

“Talk to the PAW”

2009 A New Beginning January 3, 2009

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31st December will always be the day to usher in the New Year. So immediately after work, I headed back to Hau’s home and prepare myself while waiting for Yen to reach home. We then head to Sungei Wang via Putra LRT and monorail and on the safe side we bought our return tickets and checked the operations hours.

When we reach Sungei Wang, the phone lines were beginning to jam up already. Yen tried to contact his friends in the difficult and noisy atmosphere. After a while we manage to group together and the fun begins! We head to the streets of Bukit Bintang and check out the atmosphere. The concert is on-going but we are not interested at all but the snow spray war had already begun and its wild! We check out the price and we bought ourselves some. Off we go searching for victims and sometimes we are being attack eating s0me white foam, red foam (strawberry flavor coz I tasted some in my mouth) and some colorful strings around our body (damn these are itchy when mix with foam)

The spray war went on for hours till 10 seconds before 2009. Everyone stop for a minute and sprinkle the sky with little snow counting down to 2009. The fireworks then went boom, bang, boom for about 4 minutes. I have some pictures of it to share it with you. I did not make any resolutions as I’ll never fulfill them as usual.

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The Fireworks

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The Spray War!!

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The Used Spray Cans

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         Monorail Sandwich              2009 Pose (Close Up Shot)

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The Concert

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Me, Yen & Jun Ren

Happy 2009! Hope the year will bring you new milestones of success!