No, I'm not literally shooting myself through PlayStation. However, I have been playing quite a good deal of bullet hell shooting games and my PlayStation 3 recently died. That's what the title is all about: The death of my PS3, along with some videos of the latest danmaku demo i=on the market which was incorporated in the blog solely for @Sleven :]
First things first, let's go into the details of a sad moment for me. I am not speaking of the outage that plagues Sony and PlayStation Network, nor am I here to bash Sony for it because quite obviously, people do not know who to throw their stones at and it really makes me mad at some point.. but knowing me, I shouldn't get too much into the subject otherwise it will never end and with such, I decided to not speak about it. Just know that I am not in the wave of "Let's blast Sony for this!" because I know better than those people who think they could of held back the skilled hackers by themselves (and obviously would have never succeeded at doing so).
Anyway, recently my lovely PS3 died, giving me that beautiful and well known Yellow Light of Death. here are the results of my expedition:
Latest incarnation of my PlayStation 3
I actually had to open it because my Portal 2 disc was still inside when it decided to die. If any of you have ever opened up this mighty beast in the past, you will know that the Blu-Ray drive is on top of everything, hardly secured in its place and you do not need to remove a single thing other than the plastic cover to get to it. However, my curiosity got the best of me and I started removing everything, piece by piece. The only pieces I spared the life of were the metal plates surrounding the motherboard, but I do plan on removing them to try and fix it.
I do not plan to repair my PS3 to keep it though, as next month I am buying a new one. The only reason I will repair it is to be able to execute a Data Transfer which is the only way to transfer copy-protected saved data from one system to another and so on that note, I am soon going to be buying some thermal compound and maybe a heat gun, or I'll just thoroughly use a hair dryer to do the job. Hopefully it will work, because I do not feel like losing all those hundreds of saved data roaming on my hard drive.
One funny thing I noticed though is when you open the Blu-Ray drive to take a disc out, this had to be the funniest part of this whole adventure as upon separating the two halves (top and bottom), the springs that hold the disc in place kick back in and literally throw, or spits the disc out of there, sending the disc flying wherever it was that you were aiming the drive towards. No damage done though, Blu-Ray discs are sturdy and I was aware of this, so I didn't intentionally send it flying 20 feet away. Now everything is back up into one mighty beast system, still sitting on my shelf with a nice and lovely shade of yellow when trying to turn it on.
On to the next subject, this is the one specifically for Sleven, because he knows I love these games as much as I know that he still has a hard time understanding exactly why I love them. To those who may not know, this isn't an attack on personal levels at all, it's a public all out war declaration to Sleven the mighty.. haha just kidding. We've both known each other through NoobFeed and as with everyone, there is always something you have a hard time understanding why it is so, and that's really just it. It's the same as me and David, or @David_D for those who do not know his name is David, and him liking Grand Theft Auto so much. I will never understand why, but that's just how things are. Here we go:
Main menu of the game Ten Desires, 13th Touhou Project
Recently, earlier in April, a demo for the 13th Touhou Project (titled: Ten Desires) was finally released. Without a single doubt, I was excited. For the past year, ZUN (creator of the games) has been releasing spin-offs one after the other instead of giving us a full fledged official release and as time was passing by, those side releases clearly didn't quench my thirst for the regular Touhou games as we know them.
Ten Desires introduces once more a new scoring system, making this game unique in it's own way as is often the case with Touhou games. This time around we see the introduction of the "Spirit World". I do not know if this is the official name given to this alternate reality in the game, but that's how I will refer to it for now. The way it works is by gathering souls dropped by enemies in the game. Those souls fill a bar that's located at the bottom of the screen and when it is full, the player can activate some sort of Trance system which basically transports you to a spirit world, granting you invincibility and immense power. Using the Trance, or Spirit system to your advantage is the key to increasing your score drastically in this new release and it also serves another purpose: Dying. If 1/3 of the metre is filled when you die, you are automatically sent to this spirit world for the duration of the meter gained, where you can score big time once again. Your death only occurs once the meter is depleted from which you lose a lot of souls and of course, a life.
Ten Desires also introduces some new bosses and to the delight of many, a new playable character: Youmu Konpaku.
Youmu Konpaku
Youmu was the direct "affiliate" of Yuyuko Saigyouji, the final boss in Perfect Cherry Blossom (7th Touhou Project). She seems to fit the role perfectly fine as a soul eater. The game, as far as I can judge from the demo (it is 3 stages long), is a lot easier than what I can remember from other titles in the series. Of course, I played it on the Normal difficulty, but don't go thinking I didn't try it on harder ones because I did and I must say, this one will prove to be yet again quite a challenge on anything higher than Normal. I still am not skilled enough to beat them on Hard or Lunatic, and Ten Desires might feel easier on Normal than previous titles, but nonetheless I absolutely loved it.
Here comes the best part: Videos. Yep, I've made some videos. In fact, I recorded all 3 stages from the demo version of the game, all 3 of them played on the Normal difficulty and here they are (note that I did not play using Youmu, but rather with Reimu, who has been the main character since the very first game):
Stage 1: Yuyuko Saigyouji
Stage 2: Kyouko Kasodani
Stage 3: Miyako Yoshika
If anyone wants the demo, let me know because since it is in Japanese, you need to be able to install it in Japanese locale on Windows, which I did in Ubuntu. However, I've kept a nicely zipped file of the installed game for some of my friends that run Windows and cannot install it through a Japanese locale.
That's all for today, and for a little while as you've seen, I really do take my time in between blogs now. I hope all of you have a nice week and see you around eventually :]
That we do haha, but I enjoy our conversations even if you do have bad taste in games :P
whohohoa, take a look at the size of that fan.
bangai-O is getting a 360 version on XBLA. do you have a 360? i don't quite remember.
anyway, i'd at least check out the trailers so you know why i praise the damn game so much :P
@BrunoBRS: Yep, I do. The only console missing is the Wii, of which I have a broken one. Not sure if it's the memory because it broke after updating it to firmware 3.4, but the disc drive itself makes funny noises too, so it migt also be the drive.
I'll keep an eye out for Bangai-O as I remember you talking about it back then.
fine, i'll link you to the trailer just to make sure you know what you would be missing if you didn't get it :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrquNESyQHY
yes, when it says "1000", it's the number of missiles you just shot with your special move.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txaUPwC1EyE
seems like they took the sword, the baseball bat and the shield... :(
but they added some new missile types, so...
You should settle down in Japan. Won't take you long to become popular. xD And I never had a friend played an open heart operation on a PS3. Good thing yours was dead already.
@BrunoBRS @Sleven
Bruno: Fear not, there's always a trial for every arcade games on Xbox LIVE, so I'll definitely try it out when it is released.
Sleven: It's only because it was already dead that I opened it up lol, and no, not Japan anytime soon for me. While I wish I could go visit Japan (and I really do wish I could), I'm certainly not ready to actually settle down there. The worst is that I could go there for my job soon enough, but I didn't apply for it.
The innards of the PS3 sure are interesting... Pity there's not much you can do with the bits though... Unless you're super haxor. :P
Glad that you saved your Portal 2 disc, though!
@Sleven: They sure are! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures when the Blu-Ray drive was all opened up though, I had already put the pieces of it back together when taking the picture and surely didn't feel like re-opening it again lol.
I might not be able to use them as I'm not a super haxor, but repairing it will make me practice with applying thermal compound to a processor, which is the only thing I have never done myself in computers so far ;p
@BrunoBRS: Commenting back to say I've just tried the demo for Bangai-O as it came out today for X360, and I must say it wasn't my cup of tea (tea parties are fun). You did say they changed a few things around though, but it felt really.. slow somehow, I expected something much more fast paced considering the nature of the game, more in the line of Suguri's speed (although they are different games, just a reference to the speed). I'm watching some older videos of Bangai-O on the Dreamcast / NDS and it seems much faster than the one I played on X360. However the demo only has the first stages, so that might be it.
One thing I did notice though is that the controls were smooth and amazing, was really easy getting used to them and controlling your character.
here's something cool about bangai-O: you get 15 tutorial stages (with some humor and "story" to it), and then all the other hundreds of stages are there, free for you to play at will. hell, it was only recently that i was done with most of the stages (there are some puzzle stages missing, but i completed all other categories), and i've owned the game for years.
add stage builder with the ability to share and TADA! infinite replay value.
if your only issue was the speed not being enough, then it might have been some earlier stages. not that it's a fast game, but the combat is frantic and knowing when to use the specials is critical.
BTW could you combine two weapons in it? because if you could, here's a tip that will make the game easier (read: beatable on tougher levels) : COMBINE BOUNCE WITH BREAK.
Hey I like the new banner. Just need time to get used to. Hope that you all are doing well. Blessings of March on the way!
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