Bruce and Lou's Little Big Snow Adventure

With the update kicking in today, new 'exchange mission' items have been added to Bruce's plethora of goods. He's relocated to somewhere much colder due to the summer heat, talk about being cool.



The requirements for the new items are hefty; mostly consisting of Photon codes, crystals and boosters. All we can do now is farm out missions that drop them, surprisingly everyone's up for it. Guld and Milla is probably the most wanted item along with Neo Lou's parts which is bliss.



Unlike DLC clothes, parts and weapons; everyone else can see what my character is wearing and I like that. Let's see what else Sakai can do for future apparel because they've all been well designed. Can't get enough of clothes/parts in this game... Aesthetics make my world go round, that and food!



Lastly, a new video will be in the works covering the 焔帝の猛攻 DL mission on S rank. This is the forest mission from PSO that is nice, simple and quick to do. Photon codes and boosters drop here so it's time to wind and grind 'DAT DORA...' Wait! Obligatory photo of Satoshi Sakai included below...

DAT DORAGAN!

Penalties, PSU JP and the Claw

I'm not one that likes football but the world cup is worth a watch. It was such an intense match between Paraguay and Japan; both teams played so well and I enjoyed screaming at the TV in excitement. Extra time occurred due to no goals, then only to see Paraguay winning on penalties.



While this was going on, I ended up sitting myself in the lobby to enjoy the chatter. Everyone said they were feeling hot and very nervous. Finally screams of 'aaaaaaaa' and 'noooooo' seared throughout when the match was over. After that, the lobby resumed their chat about food ^-^;



I didn't mention that PSU JP was on my agenda. I'm playing this so that I can finish Episode 2 and most noticeably 3. Why not play it in English on the 360 servers where I can fully understand it? Well the community is one thing (if I were to party) but the main reason; story mode offers voice-overs for the speech scenes. It feels more interactive and quite like a visual novel, first witnessed in PSPo.



Had a discussion last night on chat where *insert person here* had problems with their PSP with an addition of complaints, highly regarding the control scheme of the game. Personally I don't find a problem with it but that's because I've had a PSP since release. Anyway, was asked to upload a photo of how I position my left hand and fingers when I play the game.



Your index finger does all the work! This includes shifting the camera left to right (via d-pad) since I dislike to centre the camera every turn. It's easy to hold down on the L button when you need to lock on the target too. While this happens your thumb stays on the analogue button to move the character. Your three fingers under the PSP has to be adjusted to comfort too. Sounds and looks like a pain to do but this is my best way to play for long hours.

PSP Official firmware 6.3 was released last night and later today, PSPo2 players shall set their hands on the new DLC which you can check out over at PSUBlog. Neo Lou's parts will be the one to get and for that I'll be farming out the Gemaga mission for Photon Boosters ._.

KotSR takes over

With the release of 'Knights of the Steel Rose' DLC I couldn't help purchase the uniform (parts) for my Cast. Only to then buy the uniform (clothes) for my Beast. Did I mention that I also purchased the Rifle and Twin handguns? Now I feel like there's a need to get the Saber... Oh the humanity!



I don't regret the purchases, the weapons are very decent in terms of design, bullet animation and stats. Completed a c-mode the same night just to get the extend codes for upgrading. Now that I think of it, c-mode is all that I've been doing with the PSPo2 chatroom but it's so fun.



Here's my Beast alt along with Leon's Beast alt, Beastly indeed! It's my first time being one since they didn't show much attraction in PSU, with PSPo2 however they can look really decent. Right, that concludes my PSPo2 post for today. I shall look forward to working on my Ranger class later.

A migration to Blogspot

A few things are clearly noticeable about this site now; including the migration from wordpress to blogspot. Things went smoothly when transferring the archives over. Looks like I'll have to make some format changes to previous posts.

Why blogger you ask? It's free and simple. Don't get me wrong, hosting your own wordpress is certainly better but having to pay for over 9000 the amount of space needed is unnecessary. Costs were low (godaddy.com) but lately I've been very strict with my budget. There are other free hosts like fc2, wordpress and even tumblr but I mainly wanted the customization.

Imperishable Intention will be the sub-name of the blog now. As much as I love Touhou, I will be replacing the banner with some dedicated PSPo2 fan-art in due time. Will continue to fix up the layout with some CSS to my liking too. For the time being, categories will be on the right side so for those wanting to browse the Phantasy Star posts, look no further than to your right, right!

Once the finishing touches have been done, I'll be resuming the usual posts unless this summer will be packed full of outings. With this heat and some memories from the US several years ago, I've ordered some kool-aid to make since I can't find them anywhere here in the UK... OH YEAH!!

Speedo moustache and the Phantom Ruins

I haven't had the time to post lately; been away from home with various activities but I've had time to play the game. That's one of the treats about it being portable! I'll leave this for a screen-shot dump, don't expect much.

When you are on vacation in Clad6, sometimes you just gotta go all the way to have fun.

Gemaga, Rebellion of the Keep (video)

This is kaori's Gemaga download mission debut! At the time of mission release I wanted a video out but it was impossible for her. With all the training, martial-art films and an amazing protein diet, Kaori has grown stronger!! Judgement day has come to those who have knocked her out in the past. Apologies since I've scrapped the BlazBlue ideas, maybe next time!

Prepare yourself for a Streets of Rage influenced mission. Rated M for Manly.

Hot Fluge Sundae

The Gemaga DL mission can sure make me miserable from time to time and the reasons are obvious... Fighting Shizuru can be such a pain, it's either hit or miss since he'll take you out instantly or you're lucky enough to evade his deadly strikes. Also, successful runs tend to result in unsurprisingly lame drops (farm ON!) but it turns out that I had gotten lucky tonight.



The Exusia Fluge SUV had dropped for me after banging the crap out of Bruce's Cargo ship. Till now I've been using it's B-Rank counterpart; the Seraphim Fluge which you've witnessed in my MAX Event videos. This will help out so much since I'm still a healer/support class during infrastructure mode. Lastly, I've been thinking of posting a new FM video. A storyboard is in the works for an opening; the theme this time will relate to BlazBlue and it's amazing sound track so stay tuned.

Quiet progression

It's time to hit the treadmill, pump some weights, slap some rappies and go all out with the BR protein shakes! Working out and staying fit over summer will be something in mind. Also pursuing future opportunities in my dedicated field of interest is another. Not much has been happening within the scene of PSPo2. Even with the new challenge mode released earlier this week, imo it's not that fun. Being under pressure in a game sure doesn't get me going, connection problems too!



However, I've recently completed the story mode on Hard difficulty; with this done the shop unlocks default class outfits from PSO for characters to wear. About that... I have been playing a bit of PSO. Definitely will be taking my time with it since the story has me hooked, I mean to actually find out about the Nura sisters was a surprise to me.

What to expect next? Can't say for sure but I'll be taking it easy.