Okami

Hello, furball.

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This is a Wii-Game, that means if you aren't a fan of it or don't have a Wii at home you shouldn't read this post because it's useless. Although you could get a taste of it and buy one ;)
Okay, now seriously.
Okami is a little bit fantasy, you are a dog who is a reincarnation of the solar godess (who is, in fact, a dog, too). She can draw pictures and these pictures come to life.
Her purpose is to save the world from a big bad dragon who have killed her anchestor. 

Characters

Shiranui - god, died after a hard fight agains Orochi
Nagi - helped Shiranui with this fight
Amaterasu "Amy" - main character, a dog and reincarnation of Shiranui
Issun - a friend of her, helps her but is sometimes a little bit disturbing ;)
Orochi - the big bad dragon

Playing

The controlls are a little bit different like a lot of other games I played before so it took it's time to get used to it, but finally, it was a great game.
So, try it and enjoy.

Pro and Cons

Like I said before the controlls are different so it isn't easy to get used to them in the first place, but after you get it it is just great, although the Story is a bit complicated, I haven't finished it yet after 19 hours of playing because I hang at one little part of the game.
Honestly, I have no idea how to go on with the game, but it's still awesome.
So, what else? Uhm ... I guess, nothing.
And, like every time, when there are questions with the game, I'd love to help you ;)

Funny and awesome quotes

I must admit I can't remember any quotes of this game because it's been a while since I played it the last time. Honestly, I used Wikipedia for the characters, sorry for that.
But the chats between Issun and Amy are worth to play the game ;)

Faceless Ones

Doors are for people with no imagination. 

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So, that's the third part of Skulduggery Pleasant
Again Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery have to unit their powers to save the world from destruction.
You'll read about the old gods of the world.

Characters

Skulduggery Pleasant - a skeleton and detective
Valkyrie Cain - original Name Stephanie Edgley, 14 Years old
China - beautiful woman, who must not be trusted, Collectot, has a libary
Flechter Renn - the last Teleporter, he's a natural
Guild - the new Grand Mage, Skulduggery thinks he is a treater
Kenspeckel Grouse - a magic Doctor, helps Valkyrie and Co. when they're injured

Story

Again someone want to bring the Faceless back.
This time it's the Diablerie, a group of 5 people.
They want to use the Torso of the Groteskery to bring back the Faceless and they need a teleporter. They kill all of them except Fletcher Renn.
Then they want him.
Will Valkyrie and Skulduggery be able to stop them?

Pro and Cons

I must admit that you have to read the earlier books to understand the story line because there aren't much explanations for example for the Faceless Ones, for China or about the Groteskery.
But it was another funny book written by Derek Landy.
There are more emotions, I guess, but it depends on the reader, how you like it.

Previous

Skulduggery Pleasant (German "Der Gentleman mit der Feuerhand")

Playing with Fire (German "Das Groteskerium kehrt zurück")

Funny and awesome quotes

Finbar looked at Valkyrie. "Want a tattoo?"
"Yes." Valkyrie said.
"No." Skulduggery said. We're leaving now."
Valkyrie scowled as she followed him out into the rain. "I could hav just got a small one."
"Your parents would kill me."
"Being around you puts my life in constant danger. I've fought monsters and vampires and I've almost died twice, and you think they'd choose to kill you over a tattoo?"
"Parents are funny that way."

Black lightning streaked from the crystal, and the table turned to dust and the oak box fell heavily on the floor.
Valkyrie stared. "I missed the box." "Yes, but on the bright side, you killed the table."

China glared at her, than glared at Skulduggery. "Some of those books were one of their kind."
"I understand that." "Priceless, Skulduggery. Beyound Priceless. The secrets they held, the histories they contained ..."
"I'll be happy to pay for any damage caused."
"You cannot pay for priceless book! That's why they call them priceless!"
"Then let me at least for the bookcase."

Playing with Fire

Doors are for people with no imagination. 

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I wrote about Skulduggery Pleasant before, "Playing with Fire" is the second book in this serie.
Well, it's again about fighting, magic and the rescue of the world.
Something else?
You'll discover a new force of magic, I guess.

Characters


Skulduggery Pleasant - a skeleton and detective, works for the sanctuary
Valkyrie Cain - 13 year old girl, original name Stephanie Edgley
Mr. Bliss - strongest Man in the world
Baron Vengeous - one of the 3 generals Mevolents --> who is a really bad guy, dead
Lord Vile - already dead, but his armor with his power still exists


Story

This Time they are confronted with another General of Mevolent, Baron Vengous has eskaped from his prison and wants to bring the Faceless back.
He needs Lord Viles Armor and another unknown thing, to awake the Groteskery and to bring his gods back.
And Valkyrie have to stop him together with Skulduggery.

Pro and Cons

It's really similiar to the first book, Skulduggery Pleasant, but this time there is more action and fewer theoretical parts. There is more fighting and more threathning and dangerous scenes.

Funny and awesome quotes

"Guild doesn't like me.", Valkyrie said.
"That's true.", Skulduggery responded.
"He doesn't likes you either."
"That is mystifying."

"Was it a test?", she asked. "I mean, I know I'm still new at this, I'm still the rookie. Did you hang back to test me, to see if I'd be able to handle it alone?"
"Well, kind of, " he said. "Actually, no, nothing like that. My shoelace was untied. That's why I was late. That's why you were alone.
"I could have been killled because you were tying your shoelace?"
"An untied shoelace can be dangerous,"he said. "I could hace tripped."
She stared at him. A moment dragged by.
"I'm joking." he said at last.
She relaxed. "Really?"
"Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful."

Skulduggery Pleasant

Doors are for people with no imagination. 

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It's a book. Okay, that was useless. Start again.
It's a book about detectives. But Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant aren't normal detectives. They use magics to hunt creatures like vampires.
And they have to fight against really bad guys!

Characters

Skulduggery Pleasant - a skeleton and detective, works for the sanctuary
Valkyrie Cain - 12year old girl, original name Stephanie Edgley
Mr. Bliss - strongest Man in the world
Gordon Edgley - Valkyrie's uncle, dies at the begin of the book

Story

The book begins when Stephanie Edgley's uncle died because of a heart attack. She inherit his house and his money. At the same evening she and her mother want to visit the house, but their car brokes and her mother drive away together with the mechanic to repair it, so Stephanie has to stay alone at home.
While she reads a book she falls asleep an is suddenly awaken, as someone ring the phone. A unknow men wants her to open the door. She don't do it and is finally attack by a men who is immun against flames, but she is rescued be Skulduggery Pleasant. She discovers that he is a skeleton an decides, that she will help him to discover the murderer of Gordon, because his sudden death wasn't naturally.
She becames involved in a world filled with magic and soon she is helping Skulduggery.

Pro and Cons

This book is about fighting, magic and evil guys, so I can't do anything but to love it. Really! Derek Landy did a great job with writing Skulduggery Pleasant. He has an amazing humour!
I just can't stop laughing!
But there are also scenes and parts, where you just wanna to cry.
It has something of all, it is scary, but also funny. And it is easy to read.
A bad point is, that it is only short, so you'll finish it very quickly. But I think that's not a problem, because there are already 6 books (English) and a 7th is comíng soon!

Funny and awesome quotes


"So you are real? You actually exist?"
"Presumably."
"You mean you're not sure if you exist or not?"
"I'm fairly certain. I mean, I could be wrong. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my imagination."

“So you won't keep anything from me again?",Valkyrie asked.
He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die."
"Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart," she said.
"I know."
"And technically, you've already died."
"I know that too."
"Just so we're clear."

You know, because I'm at the moment in Australia I wasn't able to go to the Leipziger Books fair. That is so terrible, you know, because Derek Landy was there!
When I read that on his own blog, I was so down you can't imagine!
Well, I'll survive it.

So, and who is my mysterious reader who doesn't show himself or herself?
Comments aren't forbidden!

Glory Wars

Once upon a time in a land called Enduria ...

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Okay. Thats a Onlinegame. The link is glory-wars.net, but I prefer you'll take this:
http://www.glory-wars.net/?ref=24381-2DEGW
It's a kind of Fantasy-Fighting Game and I found it while playing an other game (which I'll post later). You know, advertising is sometimes great ^^

Story

In the Game is a story, but you must not know it for playing. I learned it months after I first logged in!

So, Enduria was a great prosperous country but it was ill. And that illnes was called the human race.
They were verge to destroy the nature and the land itself. And so the gods sendsed a messenger to the people of Enduria. It was decided, that there should be a king and laws and everytime the humans broke the rules a disaster should appaer, every next time it'll be longer and worser.
But after a couple of centuries the humans forgot the rules and fight for the throne.
So the gods sends their punishment in form of monsters.
Years later the villages were rebuild and the clans had awoken, but the fear is still all around us...

Playing

I must admit, it wasn't that hard for me to understand the basics of Glory Wars because I know a similar game from the same firm. But for you, I'll post it here.
Okay, first you have to register, that is a thing you'll have to do in all Browsergames.
You make your charakter (be sure you choose the right sex, I first made it wrong and called a boy Lya ^^)
You'll be also able to choose you're Powers, actually, you can choose between three oppertunities.
You can be a Magican, a Archer or a Warrior. Each one has his Pro and Cons, has his own equiment and his own skills. Later you won't be able to change your Powers, so make your choice carefully.
The sex or your Look is changeable.
First time you log in you'll have some kind of tutorial, a girl named Tamara I guess will tell you a few basic things about Glory Wars and make some missions with you.
But I will explain it to you, too.
Okay, first you have to know, that the bar on the left side of the screen is a kind of a menu. While clicking of one of the icons there'll appear another menu with icons right next to it.
So you can navigate.
Also you should know, that the missions are very important and you can choose between a really easy (3 partners), a middle (2 partners) or a hard (one partner) one. The Partners are not real Player, they are NPCs. 
So what you have to know too? Maybe, that being in a Clan offers many advantages. So you earn more money when you work and you maybe will be the head of a village or something like that.
Considerable is the town. You can make missions in the teverne or offer a job as a mercenaries. You can improve your Skills, buy equipment, and, whats the most important (I'm joking) is : You can play. I mean gambling ;DDDD

Pro and Cons
  
I love this game really. I often play it in my free time, but sadly there wasn't much left with all the homework. I mean, it's about Fantasy, it's about fighting and it's in the internet. 
So it's another perfect game for me :D
A Pro is of course the Style. I don't know how long it takes to draw that much pictures in such a good quality and I don't want to. It's just great and thank to the little icons you can learn really fast how to navigate and to play. 
A Con is, like in all Browsergame, the paying. I HATE games where you can pay with real money and than you have advantages like more working time or more MP/AP.

Okay, I think that was it for Glory Wars.
My Name is Lain, I'm playing on the German world Nr. 2 and I'm in the clan "Schwarze Wölfe", that means something like "black wolves". I hope, I can see you soon!

Questions please as a comment, thx

Tales of Symphonia - Dawn of the New World

Courage is the magic that turns Dreams into Reality.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTjcNd8mT4
This is a Wii-Game. It's a RPG and in the Style of Anime. There is a first part (Tales of Symphonia), but you don't have to know it for playing the second part (honestly, I still don't know it^^). For this game you have to think logically and your characters often fight, but there are a lot of Websites which can hep you with solving specific problems and you have me, too ;DDDD

Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDg3PGY3zP4 (just skip the first 56 seconds)

The main Charakter is Emil.
Emil is a shy boy from Palmacosta. During the attack at the town by the Church of Martel his Parents were killed by Lloyd. He lives now at his aunts and uncles house in Luin.
At the beginning you'll met Richter and Marta. For saving the girl from Richtor you become a knight of Ratatosk. You fight against Lloyd, loose and choose, that you'll travel together with Marta to collect the centurios cores and awake Ratatosk. He can turn the worlds mana level to normal and so the strange weather will disappear. The world will be saved and incidentally you can take revenge for your killed parents.

Characters (in Order of appearance)

Emil Castagnier - 16 yearold boy and main charakter, he becomes a knigth of Ratatosk to protect Marta
Richter Abend - is searching for the girl Marta and wants to kill Ratatosk, likes Emil
Marta Luadi - has the core of Ratatosk on her forehead
Tenebrae - Centurio of Darkness, helps Marta and Emil
Lloyd Irving - is under the protection of the godness of Martel, fights with two swords
Hawk "Hawkie" - the servant of the sadist Alice, member of the Vanguard
Ragnar - Head of the Knights of the Church of Martel
Alice - member of the Vanguard (head of the combat unit), sadist
Colette Brunel - the Chosen of regeneration, born in Iselia, Chosen of Sylvarant
Zelos Wilder - the Chosen of Tethe'alla
Raine Sage - a half-elve, Teacher of Lloyd, powerfull Magican, Astrological Maniac
Genis Sage - brother of Raine, half elve
Regal Bryant - the President of the Lezerano Company, Duke in Tethe'alla (Duke Bryant)
Sheena Fujibayashi - ninja of the Mizuho, really beautiful
Commander Brute - head of the Vanguard, father of Marta
Presea Combatir - weapon : ax

Playing

The basics of ToS are not really difficult above all because they are explained in the game.
Much is like in other Wii-RPGs. You run and walk with the Control-Stick, you fight with "a". "z" is block and "b" is back. The other things like yells, the equipment or the monsters are really easy to understand.
I like it very much, coudn't stop at all ;DDDD

Pro and Cons

So, the Cons first.
The only thing, I really hate playing ToS were the cutscenes (not sure that is the right word, I mean the sequences, where you see a kind of film). It was terrible!
You must understand, I have nothing against Animes or such stuff.
But this films are so ... long and when I played the game a second time, I was just tired of watching this goddamn scenes!
And, what's funny too, when you wern't able to save after such a thing and than your characters die.
One film I watch atleast 8 times before I restart the whole game from the beginning. Than it works -.-
Another Con was the amount of fights. Sometimes I just wanted to scream out and to throw remote trough the room. I mean, yes, it's a fight-game. But 500 fights? Is that really necessary?
And ToS is really long, I needed 25 hours for finishing it.
But there are also Pros (of course:DDDD)
First : the story is awesome! Fantasy, Anime and Fighting = perfect game for me!
Another funny thing is the Chat. Than the game stops for a moment and you see pictures of your characters. Now you can hear a nice little talk. My favourite are the Chats "Translation", "ban of speaking", "ban of speaking part 2" and part 3, and, my absolute favourite "Where am I?". A Chat which name I forgot is also funny, I'll post it later.
So, whats a Pro too?
Of Course the Characters. I love Richter and Emil, especially when he becomes a Knight of Ratatosk with his red eyes <3<3<3 (okay, I'm really crazy, I know^^)
The Story is pretty amazing, too and I love the style. I know, I haven't played so much Animegames, but I think that was a good one. Thanks to our library! (lol)


funny and awesome Quotes

So, the best of all is of course :
Courage is the magic that turns Dreams into Reality.
It was said by Richter when he speaks to Emil. Later it becomes the "Mantra" of the shy boy.
Funny are the Chats I've spoken before.