Saturday, December 24, 2011

[Game]Drum Mania / DTXMania

As the title says, i'm sure this game is quite well known for arcade(maybe not for PC).
Well, skip the experience talk and let's go to the deal.
If you don't know drum parts and stuffs, wiki will tell you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit

And for the game info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_Mania

Basically, drum mania is like o2Jam, or stepmania if you like, just that it's concentrate to drums, guitar and bass.(normally drums)
How'd you play it?



What's fun is there's a lot of anime songs to play. And the sound of beating drums gives me more excitement than playing stepmania IMO. Would be a good practice if you're a drummer and happened to have a drum kit.

Where to get the game?
here you go: http://mainori-se.sakura.ne.jp/dtxmania/

Where to get the songs?
Well, you could go ahead and google for them.
But i reckon these 2 sites, they're loaded with 'em
http://www.gdamania.net/files/
and this one loaded with anime and eroge/VN(seriously, didn't expect this XD) songs
http://itasan000.blog14.fc2.com/blog-category-59.html
site in Japanese but you should be able to locate the rest of the songs entries at the left side without using translates.

The game could be played with keyboards or drum kit(didn't have one so i dunno how you'd get it connected).
first timers might have it tough since you gotta control all of the drum including the bass drum(see drum kit's wiki).
So you could set it as auto for certain drum parts that you want.

There's guitar and bass also, but i don't play them pretty much as it's pretty hard on keyboard so i'll leave it to figure 'em by yourself.
Honestly, i like this one more than o2Jam/stepmania or osu since the beats are exciting. Anyone who played o2/stepmania or osu out there should give it a try. it's cool one you're good with it.

More infos are hot in google and fresh from the officials.
Enjoy then.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

[Game] Corpse Party : Blood Covered Repeated Fear(PSP) Review


And here i am again to bring you a highly recommended horror doujin game.
Corpse Party : Blood Covered Repeated Fear(PSP)
Alright, here's the Opening for the game:

There goes the OP, looks kinda scary and lol of course since it's a horror doujin game.
"Corpse Party (コープスパーティー Kōpusu Pātī?) is a horror adventure dōjin soft video game series developed by Team GrisGris. The first game in the series was developed using the RPG Maker software and released in 1996 for the PC-9801. It was followed by two remakes: Corpse Party: Blood Covered, which was released for the Microsoft Windows PC on March 8, 2008; and Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear, which was released for the PlayStation Portable on August 12, 2010, and was released in North America by Xseed Games under the title Corpse Party.[1] The PSP game was followed by a sequel, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, which was released on September 1, 2011, also on the PlayStation Portable. There are two manga adaptions based on the games: Corpse Party: Blood Covered, published by Square Enix; and Corpse Party: Musume, published by Media Factory."
source: wikipedia

Well, i'll cut this short. This horror doujin game is a masterpiece! I'm bored with Malaysian or American horror but never for Japan's since they never fail to scare me. The game is about a group of friends and a teacher, performing a charm found on the internet then a big earthquake happened, making fissure in the class and the group falls in. After they wake up, they're trapped in an old haunted elementary school named "Heavenly Host Elementary School" and shits happen. The group are divided in different closed space(now it kinda sounds like Suzumiya Haruhi, eh?) and they won't be able to meet even if they're at the same place in different closed space.
I don't wanna spoil much things since it'll kill the fun so i'll get straight to review. :3

What makes it interesting is how the game approach the player in giving suspense and scare. I recommend not to play this game with earphone or i bet you'll be scared to shitless. The sounds and BGM are almost perfect, it blends well with the game and your playing.
Imagine that one time when you're walking in a certain area, suddenly the BGM stopped. You could feel like something's gonna happen thus you kept on moving. At that stage, i could feel my heartbeat is getting faster and i'm kinda like getting scared of the suspense lol. While walking at certain part, suddenly you heard "crank" sounds or something moving nearby. Suuuure scares me T^T

And also at some point, you'll get some cutscene where you'd get to see the real murder action. Trust me, the sound effects sounds like it's real, and you could somehow feel the pain just by listening to the sound and reading the text. Imagine the murder is stabbing you left eye with a surgery scissors and scoping it out... Along with the sound, and the screaming with moaning, you could feel the damn pain.... that's pretty traumatic.

I don't wanna review the characters since you'd get 'em in the game anyway, so i'll skip to the score.
Storyline: 4/5
Horror: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
OST: 5/5
Suspense: 4/5
Special features: Pantsu shot on CG, good suspense and sound effects
Score: 9/10
Comment: Superb horror doujin game. highly satisfied and recommended :3