7th Dragon, 7th Dragon 2020

Torrent

Fast and furious suddenly

Another random Tokyo cutscene video featuring “the remaining survivors of mankind” etcetc. Hey some of these characters look familiar…

“There’s more detailed art of them here”:http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20111118_491743.html – I guess Emel is American or something how about that.

Also, more importantely, more Aitel
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“20min podcast from Gamers1 interviewing the staff.”:http://www.gamers1.jp/colweb/radio/2011/111117/111117.php I’ll have to take a second look at this one later, it’s fairly long.

“Short 15sec TV spot on Youtube”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2NrvPaOok

-Apparently more coming tomorrow too!- Or not – “there’s a second official news update dated 11/18 which just contains the video above”:http://jrpg.jp/news/?nid=276 :(

7th Dragon, 7th Dragon 2020

Weekly all-kinds-of-stuff 11/15

Super busy tonight don’t have time to bother with descriptions, maybe later

Wait that’s sort of what I’ve been doing for the last few weeks

“4gamer has some nice Trickster art and more NPC descriptions”:http://www.4gamer.net/games/132/G013284/20111114004/. Are those … are those the Rogue’s dagger poison skills from 7D? Why yes, I believe they are.

“Rescue minigame on official site”:http://dragon2020.sega.jp/rescue/index.php, uses twitter followers. Sigh I feel like I need a new twitter account to do this, don’t especially want to bother any IRL friends with this stuff. Actually first off i’m sort of concerned, the chibicharas have … bouncing boobs, seriously? Sega goddamnit

Incidentally there’s been some kind of ongoing promotion with the puchi-BRS game over on niconico, something about 7D style avatars.

Gaming

Whoa

I don’t care how fleeting a moment this is, but it appears that “I’ve momentarily captured the #1 non-Japanese spot on the Gundeadligne Steam online rankings”:http://steamcommunity.com/id/pxtable/screenshot/614968094988956240. Missed TLB on this run, but managed to squeak out a 1-ALL. Whoa! I’m #1 in something that nobody else is playing!

It’s a pretty crappy score and I didn’t get the TLB. Guess what, I don’t care :)

Handhelds

Innovation

And now, a breakthrough in the field of _moe_ 萌 gaming.

“Smack☆Holic ～moe moe Meiko～”:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.yama.spankinggame1

That’s right, for the low low price of 100円, you can physically abuse your own virtual maid, complete with voice acting. Earn additional costumes and equipment by fulfilling certain goals!

A sign of the coming apocalypse, surely!

Gaming

GundeadliGne

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So gundeadligne on steam is actually a lot of fun, and there aren’t enough non-Japanese dudes on the hiscore board, and you should play it

Notable videos

* Here’s “FenixStryk’s Novice 1cc”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIltMBGK4L4
* Soundtrack samples: “1″:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIK4r3JiAw | “2″:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfL2dwEZq8 | “3″:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcPLv9LsHE | “4″:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12y3di6xfs | “5″:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxvZ84NtNc

$10 for the trio ain’t bad, especially with the remixed soundtracks. I’ve been spending a lot more time on Ligne over Recollection lately, it’s much more friendly in terms of playing for score.