March 28, 2008 by yanipheonu

Mysterious Girlfriend X is strange to say the least. At one point, two girls are having lunch. After they’re done, one of the girls puts their finger in their mouth and drools on it. “Here, Dessert.”
Yeah. But past the inherit weirdness of “drool-sharing”, there is a fairly intriguing story. It’s really interesting.
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March 11, 2008 by yanipheonu

I haven’t posted in a while. The reason should be obviopus to many a gamer out there, Super Smash Bros Brawl came out, and I’ve been playing a lot to say the least. While this took up a fair bit of time, what really ate up my time was my friends coming over at every oppurtunity to play. Good times were had by all, Brawl is definitliy worth the hype.
Newcomers Olimar, Sonic and Pit are amongst my favourites, and the stages are prehaps the best part of the game, there are many memorable and fun courses you would never find in any other fighting game.
One thing I have to say is that they have made the game more even, as in, every match my friends and I had were always pretty close. I sucked at Melee, but in Brawl, I can actually get in a few kills. The Final Smash isn’t as cheap as I thought it would be, each one is very situational, and can only truly be effective in certain circumstances.
Subspace Emissary is truly a great add-on. The cinemas are definitly the highlight for me, some truly spectaclar scenes and few strange ones. It is fun solo, but more fun with a friend. My friends and I did the final level (which is VERY long) rotating controllers, and it was great fun. I do have one complaint: At some points, the platforms or launchers are placed in bad location, leading to some lame deaths. But this is just one speck on the greatness of this game.
So sorry, sorry to the maybe 5 readers who might actually read this (I;m thinking way too much of this…) . The game is just too damned fun!
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March 8, 2008 by yanipheonu

And so ends Kenpachi vs. Nnoitra, with the death of Nnoitra. One thing you have to say about Bleach is there are really great villains in the story. Nnoitra’s lust for death on the battlefields is the perfect match for Kenpachi’s urge to fight, and their battle was quite thrilling and interesting to watch.
Things get complicated when Orohime is suddenly whisked away by a Arranacar. So Orohime is suddenly UNrescued (ugh), in a way too convienent and lazy way (sigh). But then something happened that I totally did not see coming, that sort of make up for that… Read the rest of this entry »
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March 8, 2008 by yanipheonu

Oh wow. Evidently, while absorbed, Orochimaru is still alive within Sasuke’s body.
Having guarded against Sasuke’s badass Kirin attack using the mysterious Susano ability, Sasuke’s body had been completely drained of chakra. And so it seems Orochimaru took over from there.
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March 8, 2008 by yanipheonu


I’ve had two blogs before this one, both during the ‘days of my youth’, as in, I was in High School. I’d link them, but a honestly don’t remember what the URLs were…
The first was YP online, YP meaning my internet namesake, yanipheonu. Incidentally, Yani isn’t my real name, and I am not a ‘Pheonu’, although sometimes wish I were (and I further confuse people).
The second was named Just Observing and in a way this is the spiritual successor of that site.
There were two problems that both these blogs eventually succumbed to. The first was they often would act as more of a news blog, spiting out items of game news that I found interesting. This ultimately made for a boring blog, as it was 95% me saying “HAY LOOK THIS ARE COOL!!!1!”. I eventually face-palmed at the sight of the site and gave up. I’m afraid I haven’t exactly ‘killed my inner critic’ as it were.
The second problem was I am quite a distracted person. I often wonder to myself if I have ADD, as I have a hard time concentrating on anything without putting a movie on my iPod, or checking the latest news online (which I do quite a lot of). As such, when my younger self was distracted with other things, my blog would become neglected and ultimatly scrapped. Now that I am older, I like to think that I am a bit more focused than I was (keep telling yourself that…).
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March 6, 2008 by yanipheonu

With an eager heart and a dream of happiness, yanipheonu rockets to the heavens and pushes towards the skies of blogging greatness! I give to you a deep, stereotypical Japanese bow, and welcome you to this blog! I hope that you find the bits of my life and opinions that will surely fill this site.
So, regarding me, I am a humble ex-high schooler, and soon I am to be a university student. My days are filled with checking out my favourite things, like video games, anime (why is it those things go together so well), writing, and all kinds of other things.
My goal is to one day make a living out of writing. If I write here everyday, perhaps my skills will improve an somehow help in someway (somehow…).
I hope you continue to read my blog!
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