The Arisen will rise again in Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

Greetings fellows,

I got a new announcement, the wonderful Dragon's Dogma will go on in the part of this new series, which had the best starting of a new video game series for 10 years, I don't know which series this was and it' s also very hard to imagine,...hmmmmm, which series started 2002 and was very successful,...hmmmmmm, I REALLY DON'T KNOW, but something comes in my mind that has nothing to do with this riddle, but I heard, that Kingdom Hearts had it's 10th anniversary in 2012, but enough of this, which series started 10 years ago.... I really won' t get it.

But let's get back to Dragon's Dogma, this perfect starting is really worthy for the game's content in almost all points. Months ago I told a friend of mine, that he needs this game, especially because the fighting system has many parallels to Monster Hunter, so he bought it and was only going to try it, but play very much later. You can guessguess what happened, he played for hours, days and weeks as I diddid, because this series is just awesome, the main plot is about a persons attacked by a fearsome dragon, who stole the persons heart, but not killing him, because of kinda necromantic curse. From there on your journey for getting your heart back and facing your arch enemy, the dragon, has begun.

That' s pnly a short summery of this game, but it's much more than this and I'll prove this in next weeks.

But now let's finally get to the reason for this entry,.... talking about cooking comedy like cooking a sea star with sliced cheese on it, btw, when was the roast of Spongebob Squarepants,... damn, I guess, I forget so much today.

Now it's time to announce...*drums*.. Dragon's Dogma will go in Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, which will released April 26th in 2 versions, disc and download.
Some pictures to tease you now. Soon some more information will follow.

That's all for now, I think it's time for a new video to follow in the upcoming entry.

March will bring a vampire hunter

Hello everyone,

I' ll show you a picture, and before you read on you have to guess, which game the picture belongs to...

Well, I guess at the bottom of the picture you found the logo, it's the new Castlevania Mirror of Fate and will be released March 08th. As soon as I'll get some more information, I will tell you. But for now there are screenshots and the packshot of the upcoming vampire hunter game with the Belmont Clan.

Let it whip!

Nintendo Land part 2 and some Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate facts

Hello everybody,

the first mini game of Ninteno Land that I wanna show You today is Captain Falcon's Twister Race. Those of you who played F-Zero on the good old SNES, the N64 or Game Boy Advance or those who got the bonus download games for buying an early Nintendo 3DS should know Captain Falcon, he was also playable character in the Smash Brothers series.

As you can guess his mini game is about catching an eagle cooking it and serving it to a captain..., no it doesn't, it's about driving a race.

As you can see you control the racer by moving the pad left and right. 

The next game is about Animal Crossing. In Animal Crossing you gather ressources, plant trees, catch bugs amd so on, it's hard to describe Animal Crossing is a short way.

In the mini game Animal Crossing: Sweet Day you walk around and have to collect fruits and bring them back to your "base", You have 3 hearts and have to avoid damage by the guards, if you collect the needed number of fruits the game is won. You can collect more or less fruits, the more you collect the slower you are.

And now something different, the new Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate will be released March 22nd 2013, the packshots are allready released, in Japan the game called Monster Hunter 3G and was released in December 2011. In the next entries I will tell You a bit more about Monster Hunter in general and especially 3G. As a small Teaser, I present the packshots and an artwork, which also used for the japanese packshot.

Next time we'll meet again

Some pictures inside of the Hard Rock Café

While choosing a new video I found my pictures from Tokyo 2010. I showed a video from outside of the Hard Rock Café and now I present you some pictures from inside.

The Café in Roppongi, next to the main street, which leads to Tokyo Tower. The claim of their cafés is: All is one, Love all, Serve all. Hard Rock Café is not just famous for their well known shirts but also for their artefacts of rock culture. In Tokyo you can find stuff of KISS, Ringo Star, Ozzy Osbourne and others.

2 years ago, a kinda different style.

As this is a blog for games and other things, I show you a video at CAPCOM PLAZA in Kichijoji.
Someone playing a game with Taiko Drums.

C U till next time

Starting plannings for JP 2013

This year I will visit Tokyo once again. I'm preparing already.

By writing comments you can request some spots, that I shall find and present pictures and videos of.

I'll visit many Bookoffs, try to go to the fish market, visit the pagode in Asakusa and other things. You can also tell me some places, which need to be seen.
I'll try to discover many new things and also revisit some old spots, where one has to go every time in Tokyo, some examples in the following pictures.

That' s all for now buddies.
Small bonus, another video:

Some feelings almost directly before boarding and going by plane to Tokyo Narita

... and also one directly after the arrival in Tokyo:

If you wait long enough...

...you will finally get what you've ordered.
Today my Monster Hunter CG Artbook which I've ordered on yesasia 5 weeks ago has finally arrived.

The artworks are awesome, this book is really worth waiting.
The CG 3D-Model of every armor and weapon from Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Monster Hunter Tri G is shown  in this artbook. You get very much for only 2300 Yen (23-25€). You can order it here for no extra custom and delivery costs:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/monsuta-hanta-shi-ji-a-to-wa-kusu-2-kapukon-ofuishiyaru-butsukusu/1032052123-0-0-0-en/info.html

2 things left for today:

A small list of my favorite games of 2012:

Dragon's Dogma
Last Story
Tokyo Jungle
Monster Hunter 3G (even if it was released in 2011)
Kid Icarus
Street Fighter X Tekken
Mario Tennis Open

And now the 2nd thing:

A small bonus from Tokyo:
The Tokyo Rockabillies at Yoyogi


Next time I'll tell you how to find them every Sunday next to the Harajuku station and maybe some other moving pictures from Tokyo.

Hard Rock Café Tokyo

Hi there.

The latest entry came earlier as I thought, and this time, there's a video to be presented, so enjoy.

Happy new year everybody

Well, u c the title, so guess the main content of this entry.

I wish you all the best for 2013.
I'll use some pictures of 2012 to give u a small summery of my year.

 My highlight this year: Tokyo Game Show and my Tokyo holiday

 Aso Bit City has reopened, I didn't find this shop in 2010, but this time

 I worked for Sony at GamesCom

 Preps before entering Yoyogi shrine

 I met the Tokyo Rockabillies

 looked down from Tokyo Sky Tree

 and looked up again

 crossed the Rainbow Bridge at Odaiba

played Monster Hunter 4 Demo

 saw the best t-shirt this year

 met 2 sweet felynes

found many game guides, especially MonHun

 That's just a bit of 2012, I will show u more soon, very soon.

That's all folks, I' ll go now, it' s rabbit season or duck season, don't know, but one is for sure, it's Monster Hunter Season, almost everytime.

Bye Folks

The Attractions of Nintendo Land

Today it's time to start showing you the first part of all 12 mini games that are available at Nintendo Land.

Every game is dedicated to one classic nintendo game and its characters.

Let's start with:

Yoshi's Fruit Cart

Your Mii drives a cart that looks like Yoshi and it's your task to collect all the fruits on the field. To contol the cart you have to draw a line on your contoller, but the position of the fruits can only be seen on the TV screen. Your cart has limited fuel so you should use the shortest way. The easiest way to orientate ist the pattern of the field so you can guess the fruits spots or barriers or pits. In the higher levels the fruits need to be collected in a certain order. It's very funny and you'll find yourself scoring higher and higher.

The next one we'll pick is the one of Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong's Crash Course
You're driving a vehicle and try to get Pauline (The girls Mario had to rescue in the Donkey Kong Arcade). on the TV screen you see the hole cource and on the controller you can only see the part, where your vehicle is located. By turning the pad you control the gravity so you drive forward or backwards, but if you drive too fast, you will crash. An easy way to finish the course unharmed are friends sitting around giving tips about the parcours. high concentration and calm hands lead to a good score

Now it's time for one of my favorite characters: Link from the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda - Battle Quest

Up to 5 players can play this game - 4 Miis dressed as Link use their sword with the Wii Mote and the player with the pad uses a bow. Their lives count as one, so if every player is hit once and you have 5 hearts, then the quest is over. You walk trough a dungeon and have to clear it. Your archer attacks the enemy archers to protect your "swordmasters" and activates distant switches.

Now it's a green plumpers turn: Luigi in

Luigi's Ghost Mansion

The player with the pad controls a ghost and the other 4 players control Miis, who try defeat the ghost with their flashlights. But the ghost has also one way to defend itself by frightening the others, when he comes from behind On the TV screen you see the hole house and the Miis have to work together by talking about the ghosts position. The ghost only sees a small area and can only win, if he frightens all Miis before they recover. The players also have to watch for their battery levels, because without light they don't stand a chance against the ghost. As ghost it's very funny when you sneak behind the others. For the others the cooperating part is very funny if you can trick the ghost.

Within the next days the rest will be shown in combination with a small prize winning game.
The fuuniest comments or mails will win some WII U merchandise, so start commenting or mailing for WII U goodies.

Only 1 day left until WII U RELEASE

Hello Everybody

Only some hours left until the release of the new console by NINTENDO, the WII U.

I will use this platform to show you all 3 versions of this console and the launch line-up and also a small preview of all 12 mini games of Nintendo Land.

Wii U Basic Package:

Wii U Console 8 GB - White (299,00€ recommended retail price)




 

Wii U Premium Package:

Wii U Console 32 GB - Black (349,00€ recommended retail price)

Additionally included:

Nintendo Land + Wii Sensor Bar +  Console stand + Controller stand

Wii U Zombi U Package

Wii U Console 32 GB - Black (399,00€ recommended retail price)
Additionally included:
Zombi U + Wii Sensor Bar +  Console stand + Controller stand + Wii U Pro Controller












That's all for the console bundles, now let's follow with an excerpt of the launch line-up:

New Super Mario Bros. U
Nintendo Land

Zombi U
Assasins Creed III
Batman Arkham City - Armored Edition
Darksiders II
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed
FIFA 13
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Just Dance 4
Zombi U
and others

Games that will be released within the next months will be Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Monster Hunter Ultimate

Within the next days I'll give some more detailled information about Nintendo Land and its 12 mini games.

Have fun with your WII U.

Time has passed...

... and now it's finally time for a new entry.

Monday, September 24^th

This day we had only one target, Electric City Akiba, it has been the 4^th time for me there on this vacation and the first time for Eiji and Dave.

I wanted to show them AsoBitCity, but they were closed, because it was the first day of Fall.
We went into many shops, Yellow Submarine, 2 hobby shops were they had a lot of figures, Eiji was really very impressed by the Kamen Rider / Masked Rider and also Super Sentai figures

In Europe or America the Super Sentai series are known as Power Rangers and are not as brutal as the japanese original - e.g. in Mighty Morphin PR, which in the original was Zyuranger, in Japan the green died, in the western version he became the white ranger and they mixed everything up, until it started to be confusing when you know the origin and the western version. They Power Rangers were also mixed up with Kamen Rider in some episodes, so quiete confusing in my opinion.
A perfect database about Super Sentai you can find by visiting: www.supersentai.com

I bought an Aoashira for my boss. After that we visited some other stores until we found the best activity for I guess an hour: ASSEMBLEBORG (visit www.assembleborg.com for further information)

Next to the window there were many arms, hands, legs, heads, gears... which could be combined to creatures, so I just took my place there and started to build my monster. In the beginning Dave and Gerdi were confused and couldn't imagine that it was fun, but then they tried it too and liked it. Here you can see ours figures: a spider devil, a tank, a cyber-dinosaur and a 4-armed whatever.

 

We stayed in there until the shop closed, because time passed by, while we were creative.
After that we were searching for a maid cafe, we were interested, what would await ourselves, so we used my map..., but didn't find the wanted cafe, so we asked a maid on the street where this cafe, which we were searching for, is... She said something like follow me, ...so we followed, we went round about 200m and I told my friends, that it was a bit scary, and that we should number our guts to know where they will go, after we passed the next corner. Of course nothing happened, but Gerd and David laughted.

When we entered the cafe we had wait and got everything explained, 1.000 Yen just for being there and everythin in addition if we eat something. The cafe looked like a class room and the girls looked like 15 and called every guest MASTER... I felt very strange in there, but it still could be increased.
Every 15 min. two girls started to dance and sing and suddenly a man in front of our table got up and started to make some weird dance moves, he was dithering and wobbling around, had two glowing pens and was shaking them, it's hard to describe, one must have seen it, too bad it was not allowed to take pictures of the cafe, but of the food.

We ordered some food, David and me took curry and Eiji..., what did he take, I think it was ice cream, I only do remember that he was thinking of taking a plate which includes a picture of one of the girls (In my opinion these thoughts were creepy - I was hungry so I ordered curry)

When the maids brought the food, one couldn't just get started, NO, one had to do a small... procedure - make a heart with your hands, left, right, chest, yeah...

I made my moves really very very enthusiasticly...NO, I made it in a very sarcastic way, hmm, yummy, yummy..., by doing this I licked blood, so we were laughting out loud, very loud, everyone noticed us, but we had fun.

But there's still room for some creepy stuff - the two guys in front of the "stage" area, both 40+, the one sitting there wearing an undershirt the other a Hawaiian shirt, both were sweating a lot, so it was just disgusting.
After 50 min we went out there, Eiji and Dave thought, that the 1.000 Yen would be devided..., no, sure everyone had to pay the 1.000 Yen + food.

My summary about maid cafes... it's funny to see all the creepy guys, but also some kinda scary, I don't need to visit one of these cafes again.

Our next aim was the Comic Toranoana, where they sold doujinshis, finally found one but then the shop closed and I couldn't even buy the art, too bad.

After that we headed to the CLUB SEGA store, time for some Arcades. We played table hockey, after some points multiple pucks came so there were 20 pucks at a time, very funny. Then we saw some Street Fighter Arcades and were wondering, why they sit there for hours spending 100 Yen for every game. There were also a Sailor Moon arcade and baseball arcades, a mixture between Trading Card Game and video game.

After having explored every floor, we finally went back to the hostel, but when we got out of the Sega building it was raining a lot, so we had to run very fast to the JR station, David and me got very wet, but Eiji had an umbrella.

That's all for now, I hope the next entry won't need so long to be released.