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Why I don’t play mobile games
The core purpose of mobile FTP games is getting you to make in-game purchases. Many of these use sophisticated psychological techniques to make you want to never stop playing, and to buy ever more upgrades and loot boxes. Now we see that the same techniques are being used by the major game companies. Which is…
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Doki Doki Literature Club
OK, so it’s not a wargame. So shoot me. I’m branching out. Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC, here’s the link) is a Visual Novel. As such, it falls at the intersection of books, anime, and comics. I’m normally not a fan of VNs, because I think they inherit the weaknesses of each of their components,…
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Girls und Panzer, The Game, Part 2
A quick note on gameplay. Further exploration of what the joysticks do. The demo says that the right one controls the turret and the left one controls the tank. That’s not totally accurate. Forward/Back on the left stick turns the tank to the direction the turret is pointing. If you are driving along and…
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Girls und Panzer, The Game, Part 1
Last Summer saw the release, in Japan, of a PlayStation Vita game based on the Girls und Panzer anime. If you follow my other blog, you will know that I’m somewhat smitten with this series, because they do everything so well. This article is a brief look to get you started, translating just enough of…
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Coming Attractions
Sometime soon, hopefully over this Thanksgiving break, I’ll post a review of the PS Vita game Girls und Panzer. It’s a fun game, but it hasn’t been localized for the US yet, and I’m having to take screenshots and translate. When I’m done, this will be replaced with a proper review.
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Under Re-Construction
Back, after eighteen months of neglect, which was preceded by at least a year of failure to post. I’ve decided to widen this game blog to include other things than Sky Crawlers. To that end, I’ve changed the name, and maybe soon the URL, and updated the About page. Stay tuned.
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Things I’d Like to See
I haven’t played through the entire game, and I haven’t played it at all in over a year. On those timescales, you lose your touch, and have to devote bags of time (what I don’t have) to getting back up to speed. So, until I can post on game completion, let me talk about the…
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Sky Crawlers Mission 17: Togakuten – The Tides of War
Sky Crawlers Mission 17 is another fighter sweep, this one prearranged, far from the Cougar base and over medieval Mont St Michele, the famous French island abbey with the high tides – here called Togakuten(which might have something to do with musical grammar). The mission turns out to be a three parter. It’s tough enough…
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Sky Crawlers Cougar Base
The the base that Cougar Flight operates from in Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is called Hariyu, but from the maps, it’s in the southern part of the Czech republic, in the Brno area. One possibility is the CAF base at Náměšt nad Oslavou. Here’s a picture from December 2003. The mottled areas off each corner…