The biggest happiness in the world is for sure to have a cat being waiting for your home coming!
Especially during the cold seasons, they're also having an excellent touch-feel! That's the main reason I prefer cats 100k times over dogs, they're so soft and warm~
They're also much quieter than any dog's barking, which is annoyingly noisy. Their purr is probably one of the most healing sound in the nature!
But, I'm not really coming to debate why cat's are better.
It's Shimotsuki already, and the nature is at a good pace.
Frost has come, making flowers and leaves sweet like sugar~
Yesterday, the first snow arrived (my Xperia lens isn't that good to reflect those tiny snow flakes and thus I've deleted that raining-ish snowing photo).
Good thing is I'm always ready for sudden snow falling, even including my portable music library.
Akira Yamaoka's "Tender Sugar". My top 1 "negative" song that will fit perfectly with any cloudy, rainy, snowy, foggy time, from day to night. I've been repeating Mozart's violin sonata for months, and yesterday I was very glad to have some nature-matching change.
But it returned to a super sunny day so I had to switch back to K. 377 (just thinks about the first movement's rushing triplets makes my hand shaky).
Another good thing I noticed this afternoon was, people from the office residing at the end of hallway that I use to leave the building finally removed their "disgusting" Halloween decorations! My pressure is gone! ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
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New falling-in-love music summary, which includes past releases!
Mitsuda Yasunori - HARUKANARU TOKI NO KANATA E
The first real Mitsuda album in my music library (as I have a few of his works from Shadow Hearts series). Regardless I know how people say his music is great, I hardly know any of the games that he's involved.
I never imaged I'd really love this album either, due to I have no touch on the Chrono Trigger -- except Noriko's "Radical Dreamers", which was one contributing to increase my interest in it. The other reason, was exactly the same as how I began to pay attention to Shikata Akiko, the album jacket! I loved the couloring and then added it to my play-list!
I wished Noriko could sing "Radical Dreamers" again here, although the new singer is good too.
-- Right after the first track's introduction begin to flow, I said "it's like the France(?) island's BGM in Shadow Hearts 2!" xD
Sakuraba Motoi / Chopin - Trusty Bell OST
Sakuraba Motoi, another well-known composer who I had no interest due to the lack of knowledge in related games. Recently, after dying in Tenjin Elementary School endlessly, I wanted some mood change so I finally began "Trusty Bell" aka "Eternal Sonata" (I clearly remember the trigger was Mendelssohn's string sinfonia No. 11's 2nd movement, and that's the truth!).
As one who does have Chopin in her favourite classical composer list, I couldn't say no to it -- No matter how much "incompatible" I feel in terms of the settings (which I'll probably complain further after the final clear but not here).
As I've been playing such a game, and thus I can add the OST into my library as well. Except some rare cases, game OSTs are the best for people who have played the game, I believe.
But maybe among the 4 CDs, my favourite piece is of course Chopin's work. Not as crazy as how I collect multiple versions for my favourite Mozart works, I still don't have a satisfiying version of his "Raindrop" -- they are all too fast to me; and now I'm happy (even though I can't put this into my classical folder ^^;).
Mitose Noriko - tSoLE
Actually I haven't got time to even try the full edition... orz
But the youtube's trailer version sounded so good, so I believe I'll love this mini album.
Besides, after Centifolia, Mille-Feuille, Nostalgia, and Love Songs, she's having another best album coming next month. She has confirmed that will be mainly focusing on "art" songs in "abnormal" languages, and quite a lot of what she mentioned are all available somewhere.. So I might not have intention at all to buy it. I want Yorlga 2!! °A°
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I extended my LipAura's screen to an additional monitor, and it looks good!
Since 2, or maybe 3 weeks ago, I was very stressed whenever I pass by the end of the hallway, which leads to the side door of building. There's only one reason created the uneasy aura, Halloween was coming. All glass-walls of an office located at the end of that hallway was colourfully decorated. Indeed colourful, the fluffy "XXX" in bright orange and black -- I don't want to spell that out by all means.
So that's why Halloween is complicated in my mind. I don't really understand why that belongs to one of the motifs. I'm okay with any other kinds of decoration: ghost or zombie or even licker or Nemesis, just no that.
Hope from next week the pressure will go away. u_u
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Meanwhile, as it's Halloween time, there's probably no better timing to bring up this topic: Corpse Party -BLOOD DRIVE-
Like I showed last time, I eventually decided to play this game and just received it 2 weeks ago. On last Saturday, after spending a week, I made the 100% completion, perhaps the fastest game I ever did during non-holiday time. (I could have talked about it last week, but it was delayed until tonight.)
As a conclusion of this series, I'm satisfied. So here I want to have a super post here, with my irresponsible playing thoughts, complaints, as well as spoilers.
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Overall
One-liner plot summary: Ayumi takes care of the mutated Tenjin Elementary School and regains the existence of her late friends.
Useful characters:
Ayumi: always be reckless but sadly she has heroine's divine talisman.
Yoshiki: he knows to think before going into action and thus is heroine's unrequited supporter.
Kuon: this world will end without her.
Useless characters:
Yuka: can be simply deceived and causes more trouble.
Satoshi & Naomi: I don't understand what they contribute in this story at all -- when Yoshiki is fighting in the "otherworld", Satoshi is surrounded by his harem.
Aiko & Inumaru: by the end we just know more about her and Sayaka and Naho.
Surprisingly, Kuroko Seiko barely shows up.
and I want to declare that Naho is really my favourite character in this series! (・ω・`)
1. chapter 4, Yoshiki in pool; kept dying over one hour.
2. chapter 9, the second axe-pendulum; around 20 minutes.
Thankfully the game staff did provide candles right before them (although the pool one has a long event)!
Therefore, I'll probably won't touch chapter 4 again, at least up to that pool part. orz
Unsolved mysteries
1. how come a regular plastic bag can hold an entire human's body?! (EX1)
2. Kuon's background.
3. Why an axe, even an old one, can break after cutting a rope?
4. Letters written under the three hanged men.
5. Paired phrases for the last-boss battle (there's no hint at all for how to pair them!).
System, etc.
1. loading is way too slow, and bug is too frequent (even after v1.2 patch)! °A°
2. you can run, but not very long (stamina consumption is much quicker than in Silent Hill).
3. with no flashlight, it's darker than Silent Hill.
4. The tutorial isn't very helpful. That I didn't know how to turn on/off the flashlight as well as how to do the 10x speed text skip until chapter 4. ^^;
5. the so-called "damage-floor" is annoying; evil spirits run too fast.
6. as the last of series, why not provide a end list in the bonus? I remember Book of Shadows has it!
7. some "well-known" name tags are waiting to be collected, including two (this guy and this guy) from the develop team; this also implies this game draws the final conclusion.
8. length of each main and extra chapter isn't well balanced.
9. soundtracks are great!
Déjà Vu
Although I acknowledge some devices are popular in general, the following brought up my memories immediately.
1. to find batteries in order to extend flashlight -- Kyoufu Taikan Juon -- but out of batteries doesn't cause game over!
2. the encroached organs -- Saya no Uta & Silent Hill -- it's obvious.
3. various death scenes in which someone's head getting cut off -- Puella Magi -- they're all mami-ed!
4. the red pyramid-ish thing... -- Silent Hill -- Mr. Pyramid's Corpse Party cousin, and the mini-3D model looks cute! lol
5. the true end, last scene -- Angel Beats! -- is this only me? xD
6. hide into a closet, but unfortunately fails -- Aooni -- aooni opens the door.
7. Ayumi's time loop after other fellows die in chapter 6 -- SIREN NT -- not the original SIREN.
8. Satsuki's "blooming" head -- Biohazard 5 -- majini~
9. the "key words" for the last-boss battle -- Hareyakanaru Sora no Yukue -- Katakiri Rekka's album
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This afternoon, I saw the PV of "Yomawari". The BGM is so beautiful! Although there's no BGM at all in game, after watching someone's stream play, I want to play it as well! It sort of reminds me "Majo no Ie".
While my first impression is Alice (in wonderland) dresses in red and joins a horror film!
