Corda 3 First Play!
I got Corda 3 yesterday and have been busily playing through it. I love having all new characters!
The gameplay is pretty similar to previous Corda games, but there is an added minigame during performances that demands some hand-eye coordination (not too much on easy mode thankfully).
At the beginning I couldn’t help giggling, the first scene is so!dramatic! and Fukuyama Jun is being very!angsty! but it gets over that pretty quickly, and it makes sense for his character (kind of immature). And in fact, Corda 3’s plot does seem more dramatic overall, I’ve already agonized over one contest (I don’t think I cried though…). I’m actually interested to see how this works if you are going for a guy from a different school – in the beginning you have very limited interaction with non-Seisou students. According to the manual I still have semi-finals and the final to go, as well as a violin final – since I’ve already beaten one rival school, I wonder how that works if I’m trying to do their routes.
Oh, another thing that made me laugh is that they’re going a little Prince of Tennis on us(with all their crazy ‘tennis’ moves), and making the performances less realistic. You know how when you were really good in Corda 1-2 it would show effects and lights and stuff? Well now that effect is supposedly real, and is called a Maestro Field. Supposedly when you’re really good you can make the audience see/hear/feel the landscape of the music (mmmhmmm suuuuurrre).
Anyways, so far it’s lots of fun! No fairies so far, but lots of exciting!drama! plus a couple appearances by Hihara and Kiriya (I avoided spoilers so have no idea if anyone else shows up). And of course the characters and their voices are totally different, especially Morita Masakazu!
Now I’m off to train for the semi-final, wish me luck!
Edit: Tags aren’t working
Storm Lover Characters!
Just a little cast, character and story summary to tide you over. I was hoping to get Corda 3 today but no luck 
Should be here on Monday though! Since all my recent posts got erased, I’ll be doing some updates on games that I may have already mentioned (not that I can remember because my memory is like a sieve!)
Storm Lover
Scheduled for Summer 2010 release on the PSP by D3P
Set at St. Louis High School, the heroine transfers here because of her father’s work. The school is pretty liberal, and perhaps because of this, she meets lots of people with very individual styles and some quirky personalities.
Uzuki Yuuto CV: Hatano Wataru
The confident, charismatic student president. He’s a bit arrogant, and tends to view anyone who stands out or is more popular than him as a rival. His family is rich, so he doesn’t really understand regular folk.
Mikoshiba Kyousuke CV: Terajima Takuma
Though he’s hot-tempered, Kyousuke has the top grades in the heroine’s class, and can’t leave people in trouble without helping them. He hangs out with Yuuto a lot and their nickname is the KY Combi, though he dislikes it.
Toratani Rikka CV: Kaji Yuuki
A younger student who uses his innocent looks to get away with pranks and teasing. However, he doesn’t deal well with being teased himself. He’s popular but hasn’t dated anyone, apparently he’s quite shy about the topic of girls.
Mishiro Takumi CV: Miura Hiroaki
A classmate who is repeating the grade. He’s hard to figure out, and seems to enjoy confusing people. He’s rumoured to be involved with a bad crowd.
Tatsuhara Souya CV: Miyano Mamoru
Dedicated to music, Souya is alive. He loves surfing and biking. Not great at school, but his open personality makes him popular with everyone. He sings for a popular indie band.
Ikawa Mio CV: Namikawa Daisuke
Even more puzzling than Takumi. He talks at his own pace, and is often told that people can’t understand him. He sometimes forgets to eat, but when he does start, it’s impossible to stop him. He uses polite language with everyone but doesn’t like it being used with him.
Lijaka / Lijakaca: This blog/website
Is it common to do a post explaining the site? I dunno, but I’m going to do it.
Lijaka / Lijakaca: Basically these are both my web aliases, I used to use Lijaka, but sometime either forgot the passwords (aha, oops) or someone else registered on the sites I wanted with that name, so I added a ‘CA’ to the end (’cause I’m from Canada, eh?)
In this site, I’m using Lijakaca as the blog / personal gaming title. This is where I have been blabbing about otome gaming news and reviews for a few years now.
and Lijaka.com is the title of the blog’s sister site where I…am working on an otome game! Yes, the first project of Lijaka Games is an original otome game in English, that should be out this summer. It took a long time to formulate, originally I was trying to translate a fan-made game from Japanese, but I had trouble getting responses (maybe they thought I would try to sell it or something, I don’t blame them for being careful). And I thought about trying to license a commercial game from Japan, but, uh…I’m not that rich. So I started thinking of making my own game, and got pretty excited about ideas and stuff, but in addition to not being rich, I’m not a programmer! My real job is actually of no help whatsoever in making otome games. But I heard about games being made in Flash, and I thought that I could start off with a simple one just ‘for practice’. So I bought the whole Adobe Creative Suite, and am currently learning Flash (I was pretty optimistic about how simple it is, haha). I also started looking for artists, because out of all the requirements for making a videogame, art is the one thing I know I will never be able to do myself. Well, art and voices ^_^. And somehow, my stumbling along has developed into a real game! Other surprises have come along to delay things (thank you faulty plumbing and car accident!), but I am trying to get back on track.
So right now the outline is done, the art is coming along (I will try and get a mini-site up soon), now I’m working on the programming and script! Wish me luck!
Well, that was interesting :D News!
So yeah…I’m so sorry about the blog being AWOL for a long time (3 weeks almost??), I will say that I do NOT recommend GoDaddy and Hostpapa for web hosting…though I eventually got things sorted out and I like my new host Site5, it was very painful and annoying.
But enough of that! I am going to put off my big announcement post till next Friday, because man, there’s been a lot of otome news and I need to catch up!
- Storm Lover, a new game for the PSP is announced by D3P
- A Hakuouki mini-game game, (like Vitamin Y I guess) Hakuouki Yuugiroku just opened its website at Otomate
- Scared Rider Xechs, the mystery otome project, has been confirmed as a PS2 otome game for June 2010 (yay!)
- Another new game from Otomate is announced, Moujuutsukai to Ouji-sama (The Beastmaster and the Prince) for release in June for the PS2 – the pic shows a girl in fantasy(?) clothing, as well as a good-looking blond guy with long hair, and a short, silver-haired guy with an eyepatch, as well as a couple other characters
- Otomate is also adapting Otometeki Koi Kakumei for the PSP, release date in April
- And they’re also adapting Da Capo Girl’s Symphony for the PSP, for June release
- Holy Makinov, Otomate is a well-oiled machine!!
- OH MY GOD, I just saw a flash pic of another Hakuouki game…FOR THE PS3!!!!
Excuse me, I have to go hyperventilate over a PS3 otome game!!
…ok, I’m back. Ahem. The game is set for June, and now I will pretend that I meant to not get all those Hakuouki games all along and wasn’t a huge mistake, and it was all because I knew that this would happen!
In blog news, I’m going to be updating the events calendar over the next couple days, does anyone use Google calendars? I’ve heard it’s good for public calendars, might check it out. Also have to try and find my posts, thankfully I had backed them up to December (though I spent 5 hours last night cleaning up the file to re-upload them, lots of fun!), but I only have some of the Dec and Jan ones. also try to figure out the sidebars, dumb new Wordpress version is not playing nice.
So, what’s new with everyone? Do you like the new theme?
Testing, 1,2,3
Does this work? Man, I hope so!
More news
Tokimeki Girl’s Side 3 has been announced!
And a release date has been set for Last Escort Club Katze for this March.
Kin’iro no Corda 3 Seiyuu!
Since there are all-new characters in the upcoming Kin’iro no Corda 3 coming out in spring, let’s take a look at their seiyuu! All the original seiyuu are here, as well as several new ones. They’re also from four different schools, so you can have rivalries with them You can see art and some even have voice samples up at the Kin’iro no Corda 3 site. Looking at the teaser pic, I totally thought it was the same gang but Yunoki had cut his hair…but I’m glad they’re new, there’s only so long you can drag out the original story. Yay new Corda!!!
Hozumi Shiro CV: Morita Masakazu
MIzushima Arata CV: Kishio Daisuke
Kisragi Ritsu CV: Konishi Katsuyuki
Kisaragi Kyouya CV: Fukuyama Jun
Sakaki Daiichi CV: Uchita Yuuya
Tougane Chiaki CV: Taniyama Kishou
Toki Housei CV: Ishikawa Hideo
Myouga Reiji CV: Hino Sou
Nanami Sousuke CV: Souta Yuki
Amamiya Sei CV: Miyano Mamoru
Mizushima Yuuto CV: Mizuhashi Kaori
Yagisawa Yukihiro CV: Itou Kentarou
Mini news post
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VitaminZ Revolution to be released March 25. The GTR will have their own storylines, yay! The B6, principal, and vice-principal, will have new append stories but not their own storylines. There will also be new OP and ED themes sung by Toujuurou and Chisato’s seiyuu.
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Mizu no Senritsu 2 Hi no Kioku to be released in February.
- Designs for Kin’iro no Corda new characters (7 guys from other schools) are released! And their seiyuu! This deserves its own post…
Tidbits (mostly about Oomi in HnK1)
Wooo what a productive weekend (in gaming terms, not so much in, say, cleaning terms, or getting organized terms)! Even though I was pretty mad on Friday because my website was down when I wanted to write about the SYK fandisk – it’s happened before, and if it happens again, I might change my hosting sevice.
Anywyas, I finally finished the original Hiiro no Kakera – I had never done Oomi’s story, so I did that and his bits in ~Ano Sora no Shita de~. Hmm, I tried to take it slow and read everything, but I got impatient sometimes because the story is so long, and near the end it’s like, okay, I know he does this, I know this happens, hurry up and do it and get to the ending battle! It was satisfying to finish though. I was surprised that his guardian backstory wasn’t anything special, I guess one good thing about having an older character is that you can have their issues coming from their current life instead of a past one, heh. I think his storyline was also one of the sadder ones (not necessarily for his story, but for what happens to other characters in it).
Anyways, I think I actually like the ‘Oomi’ storyline better in the new Hiiro no Kakera. In the original, for me, a lot of the suspense and drama was diluted because I’d done all the other storylines and knew most of the plot points already. In the new one, it doesn’t depend much on plot, it’s more of a character struggle, so it works even if you know the basic story.
And another milestone – I finally got the real Tomomori ending in Harutoki 3 Izayoiki!! I had the ‘fake’ one, and was disappointed, but went online to check, and found out what I had to do. It only took a few minutes, I should have done it a long time ago. Ah, Tomomori ~fans self~ Anyone thinking Edward Cullen is the ultimate in sexy bad boys should play Harutoki 3 – Tomomori blows him out of the water.
Now I’m playing Lucian Bee’s again trying to finish it – I had two characters done when my save file got corrupted, so I had to erase the whole thing and start over (yeah, I was NOT happy). But now that releases have slowed down for the winter, I can finally go back and finish stuff! My orderly Excel-spreadsheet* loving side is very happy! Maybe I should make another To Do list…hmmm…
* Some of you might know, I keep track of my otome games in an Excel spreadsheet, and have a percentage complete as well with lists of endings to check off. Yeah, I’m a list person…
Told ya so!
SYK fandisk, coming in March. I was one month off ^_^