{"id":335,"date":"2012-10-13T21:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T05:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-10-13T21:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T05:54:03","slug":"seasonal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down the rabbit hole&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Persona 4 Arena (PS3)<\/strong>! \u00a0I decided that I liked Aigis, the character, enough to try to learn Aigis, the fighting game character, and have been training hard to become non-shitty at the game. So far, I&#8217;ve managed to climb the ranks to a PSR in the mid-200s, which actually is probably pretty bad, but the game is fun, so I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m getting my $60&#8217;s worth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chrono Trigger (iOS)<\/strong>: \u00a0After watching a Japanese let&#8217;s-play on niconico, I thought I&#8217;d swap my iPhone over to Japanese language and pay the Squeenix tax for some nostalgia.\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d conclude that Ted Woolsey is the man who made Chrono Trigger the phenomenon that it was. \u00a0The game is good, sure, but it&#8217;s not the same without Woolsey&#8217;s translation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miku Flick\/02 (iOS)<\/strong>: \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been posting about this very much, but I did buy the game and all the DLC packs. \u00a0I&#8217;m irritated that the leaderboards are swamped with cheaters, but it&#8217;s pretty obvious who&#8217;s genuine and who&#8217;s not, and let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;m using the game to work on my Japanese sight-reading skills and to enjoy some Vocaloid songs. \u00a0I&#8217;m currently sitting at #30 on the global total leaderboards (including cheaters) but this is probably mostly because I bought the DLC packs; my position for initial songs is closer to #100. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have any top-10 scores this time around, but this is because there are no livetune songs in the initial packs. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be shooting for the S-rank on livetune&#8217;s <em>Yellow<\/em> eventually.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Petit Rock Shooter (iOS)<\/strong>: Uh, it&#8217;s Angry Birds with incredibly expensive DLC. Fun, mind you, but no way am I buying into this DLC stuff&#8230;actually I&#8217;m sorta angry about this; it&#8217;s just a giant cash-in. \u00a0You know what would be amazing? \u00a0<em>Scorched Earth with BRS characters.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Incidentally, I didn&#8217;t buy Mushi Futari&#8217;s Black Label release because the price and DLC cost was &#8230; underwhelming. \u00a0I spent that money on buying music albums from Amazon\/iTunes instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Meanwhile, I&#8217;m waiting for Torchlight 2 to be released on Mac, but I don&#8217;t have time for it right now &#8212; priorities, priorities!<\/p>\n<p>Also there hasn&#8217;t been much interesting Android\/iPhone stuff lately to post about. \u00a0There was a game where you roll the phone to swing a hula hoop around random illustrated characters, but most everything else has been uninteresting, uninspired tile puzzle, block-kuzushi, random-pantyshot type crapola. \u00a0I swear, I should get involved in the Android shitware business, I could make better and more hilarious games than these fuckers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down the rabbit hole&#8230; Persona 4 Arena (PS3)! \u00a0I decided that I liked Aigis, the character, enough to try to learn Aigis, the fighting game character, and have been training hard to become non-shitty at the game. So far, I&#8217;ve managed to climb the ranks to a PSR in the mid-200s, which actually is probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seasonal update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vidya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oQjh-5p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}