September Favourites

My new Computer

New home, new PC. Finally, now that I live together with my BF, I was able to settle down with my PC. After years of playing on a laptop, I finally have a normal PC again, put together by my BF and upgradeable whenever I want or have the money. My old laptop was great, but I love my new PC even more. It's a lot faster than the old one and having two screens is amazing. Gaming, blogging, streaming everything works perfect with my new Baby.

Fantasy Life [3DS]

Since its release I can barely keep my hands away from my 3DS. This game is so much fun and you always find something new to do. I haven't finished the main story yet, but so far the story is really cute and makes me smile a lot from time to time. Fantasy Life is my new favourite game.

Guardians of the Galaxy [Movie+Comic]

As I wrote here. I just love the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, that's why I bought the comics as well. This morning the Guardians of the Galaxy - Cosmic Avengers TPB arrived. I almost finished reading it and I can say, the comic is great. This is the first comic I bought, besides digital issues, and I will buy more. Looking foward to Guardians of the Galaxy - Angela to arrive. 

Chopper Ice Tray

I have a star ice tray, but when I saw this cute thing, I really had the urge to buy it. Even thought autumn is around the corner I needed to have this OnePiece Chopper ice tray. 

First hour with Fantasy Life [3DS]

Today was the release of Fantasy Life by Level-5, the developer of the Professor Layton series and Ni no Kuni. I really was waiting for the release of Fantasy Life since I saw it in the Nintendo eShop. After the first trailer, the graphics and the game concept really got me. So, when I was finally able to download it, this morning, I got a bit excited. As you can read in my Looking forward to.. post I had pretty big expectations and still was a bit worried, that they may not be satisfied. After the download was finished I also bought the DLC for 7,99€.

Like in many RPGs you start creating your character and choose his "life". There are 12 life classes available. I decided to start with a Paladin. I would describe the character creation menu as a cuter version of the Mii-Maker. You have many option to personalize your character. And later in game you can change the Hairstyle at Miss Florinas cottage on the West Grassy Plains. 

Now, that Jenhyu, the Paladin, was finished the game begins. BOOM! Jenhyu falls out of her bed and wakes up the hard way. Now we get to know Pam. After a bit of talking, we have to check the mailbox outside of our little room. A letter from the King. we are invited to the castle, but only with our life licence. So we are heading to the guild office. where we get the licence. Later this is the place, where you change you life or can go on bounties and start multiplayer games with up to 3 party members. 

While we are talking with the Guild Master, there are loud noises outside the office. Two criminals want to catch a talking butterfly. Brave as we are, we are helping the little butterfly, who is also heading to the castle. Arriving in the castle, a little problem comes up. We don't look fancy enough to get into the throne room and see the king. The guard tells us, that we need a bow tie or something similar. On our way back out we are now meeting the talking butterfly again. Who has problems getting in the castle. So the butterfly, whos name is Flutters has a great idea, he will be our bow tie. Now we can enter the throne room and meet the king. The king wishes us all the best. Flutter decides to stay with us, the beginning of a new friendship. 

After the meeting with the King, we are now going to the Paladin Master. Every life class has its own master, where you learn the basic skills. Master Mustang sends us and a party member (I forgot her name) to Isobel, where we learn how to handle a sword. Afterwards we are going to Porthos, where we learn how to handle a shield.

Ready to fight, well at least ready to smash [A] we are now investigating. Someone is stealing all the apples from the trees. Our first quest is going on. Running around asking, some guards, if they saw something suspicious, we are finding the thieves really fast. Our first battle begins and is over in a minute or less. Sure it is easy. Bringing back the stolen apples to the merchant and heading back afterwards to the Paladin master. 

Flutters wants to see our room now. Going back to our room, where Pam is already waiting for us. She was a bit worried, that might something happened to us. She gives us a chair, as a present for our room and tells us to stop by, if we want to buy a bigger room. After Pam is gone, Flutters tells us to check our "Bliss". With every "Bliss" level you can unlock new perks. like a bigger bag or having pets. We go to sleep and the basic tutorial and the first hour with Fantasy Life is over.

I played a bit into the next day to check the questing system and shops. There are challenges for every life class, where you get stars. "Flutter's Requests", where you get Bliss and "Other Requests", where you get Dosh, the money in Fantasy Life. There are many shops in the town area, where you can spend your Dosh for clothes, potions, cooking ingredients and more.

Conclusion

After playing Fantasy Life for an hour and a bit, I have to say, that I'm in love with the game since Paladin Jenhyu fell out of her bed and the first dialogue began. The characters have great personalities. Flutters reminds me a bit of Drippy from Ni no Kuni. The graphics are great and the world is so friendly and lively. For now it seems like you will have a lot of stuff to do and to discover. I didn't know, that you can decorate your room in Fantasy Life and was really surprised and happy, when I found out. The game just started and I hardly can keep my fingers away from my 3DS. I just want to discover the world, do quest, go on bounties and decorate my room now. And maybe buy some new clothes for my character. I think this game is a good mix between RPG and social simulation. Every fan of Ni no Kuni, cute RPGs, Animal Crossing or similar games should considers buying it.

Unfortunately, I can't say anything about the DLC and if it is worth buying it. Because the content is only available after you finished the main story. 

Nendoroid Petit Lucky Star X Street Fighter

Lucky Star is my favourite anime. It's super funny and I really can connect to Konata and Miyuki. I'm kinda  a mix of both of them somehow, even thought they are pretty different. Now, that I have enough space for figures Lucky Star figures were are must buy, These figures were my first purchase, but Franky arrived earlier.

I didn't want to have the normal Lucky Star characters in their normal school uniforms, so I stumbled over this cool Lucky Star X Street Fighter Set with

Kagami as Ken
Tsukasa as Ryu
Konata as Guile
Miyuki as Crimson Viper


The figures are Nendoroid Petit by Good Smile Company. They are painted very well and the colours are very bright. The figures look like they jumped out of the anime right onto my shelf. Really cool is, that you can change the figures outfit. The only thing negative, putting the figures together on their stands was a bit hard. But well, maybe I'm just too weak, my BF didn't had any problems with it at all.

Playing Super Smash Bros [DEMO] 3DS

First thing I have to say is, that I never played Super Smash Bros, but when I heard about Super Smash Bros coming out for 3DS I was kinda excited about it. When I saw it, in a video, it always looked like fun to play. Super Smash Bros will be released 2nd October 2014 for 3DS and will be available in the Nintendo e-Shop 3rd October 2014. The Demo is already available. 

I almost forgot about the SSB demo, but today I finally downloaded it. I played the demo for about an hour and I had so much fun. Even thought, I didn't win at least one match.Well, I just suck in fighting games. The demo has five playable characters, I tried every character at least once. The characters have really cool skills and the skills and fighting style is unique from character to character and remind you of the game, where the character comes from.    

Playing SSB for the first time, I must say, it's hard to keep track of your own character and the other characters. Right after the first second in the match, I just started smashing all buttons and had no idea about what I'm doing and what I have to do. But I had fun anyway. 

Playing against real people must be even more fun, that's why I'm not sure, if I will buy SSB next week or if I will wait until the new NDS comes out. Because my BF is getting my old 3DS then and we can play against each other. Well, sooner or later I will get this game for sure. 

Franky

Two weeks ago I moved to my first own flat. And I love it, not just because of my newly gained independence also because, I finally have enough space for all the anime, action, movie figures I don’t have yet, but which I will buy soon. My old room just wasn’t big enough and I didn’t want my lovely figures to stand in a dark little corner. 
Last week the first figure arrived. OnePiece Super Styling Movie Z Franky. Franky isn’t my favourite OnePiece character but in the movie he just looks too cool, that I had to order this figure. The figure is painted very well. Now that Franky is standing there all alone I can’t wait for the other characters to arrive. I ordered a whole set with all characters and now I'm waiting for the next package from Japan.

Mario Party - Then and Now

As mentioned in my August Favourites Post, I'm comparing my new Mario Island Party experience with my 1998 Mario Party experience. Unfortunately I haven't found my old Nintendo64 yet. Well, I thought, it will appear out of nowhere while moving. Maybe I should have looked through the old boxes a bit more. Christmas 1998, I got my Nintendo64 from my grandparents. With it I got Mario Party. I played this game quiet everyday with my mom or grandmother. It was really fun. Mostly because we were always losing against the NPCs. I used to play Peach, my mom Yoshi and my Grandmother Donkey Kong. I love to remember these afternoons playing Mario Party. Now it's more like, that I have nothing better to do and play it alone on my 3DS to kill some time. But I still play Peach, this didn't changed.

I love Mario Party, the new and the old one, because of its mini games and the range you get when you roll a number and land on a field where you get teleported to the beginning or something like that. Even now, it's still pretty hard for me to win a game, not the mini games, but winning the whole game. It is not impossible for me, but in 8 out of 10 games a NPC finishes first. Maybe it's just bad luck. Comparing both games I have to say, that I liked the old mini games and maps a bit more. In the new Mario Party Island Tour the Maps are varied and offer different gamestyles. In one map you don't have a dice, you have cards, with numbers, instead. It's a nice idea and you don't have to roll and roll and roll the dice on every map to finish it, every map is a little different.


I like the old Mario Party more, maybe it's just becuse of the memories I have with this one or it's the easiness many old games have. You didn't had games where you had to move the controller to the direction where you want to go, or different play styles on each board, no you were just rolling the dice and try to finish first and bash the buttons in the minigames. I like Mario Party Island Tour too and it's fun playing it to kill some time, but in my opinion the old Mario Party was just a tiny little bit better.

First hour with Sims 4

This won’t be a full review. Just a little post about what came into my mind playing the first hour of The Sims 4.

Installing the The Sims 4. Well installing doesn't count to the first hour, but I have to tell you, that I was really happy about the fact, that you don’t put in the Sims 4 disk and a giant download starts. Usually I wouldn't mind that, but, as I mentioned on twitter, I didn't had internet access for 2 weeks.

When I started The Sims 4, I was sitting in front of my laptop with a huge huge smile and big eyes. I’m playing Sims since I am eight years or something and I’m always excited for every new Sims game and add-on. First thing everyone has to do is creating a Sim. I didn’t spent too much time with creating. But I have to say the new creator is awesome. Creating feels more intuitive and it’s amazing what you can do to your Sim. I really like, that it is easier to match hairstyles, make-up and accessories to the outfit category. 

I created Lagertha Rodbrock, my first hour Sim. Lifetime wishes are now called aspirations and in my opinion it’s a good idea, that there are more little steps and not just one big goal to complete. After I chose a house for Lagertha I had some money left and bought some furniture. The new building and interior menu is so much clearer. And looking for stuff got so much easier, not only because of the search function, also because of the catalogue view. The furniture, wallpapers and just everything, even clothes have a great colour choice. Really impressive.

The new game layout looks modern and clear, maybe a bit unfamiliar at first, but I got used to it really fast.

Watching Lagertha for a few minutes I got kinda impressed about the new multitasking ability, calling someone and watching TV at the same time. It’s not that big of a deal. But for me it seems more realistic and it's more fun, just letting your Sims do what they want and watch them. Conversations seem to be more fluent and not like there is a huge break between chosen topics. That’s something I really like. The Sims seem to be a bit smarter and the new emotion system is cool. Lagertha had a great conversation and got happy, based on her happiness I was able to choose new interaction. A good new feature. After an hour I had my first friends and even a lover. Smething, that didn't changed getting married within one Sim-Day is still not a problem. But that's just a Sim-thing, which I would really miss, just imaging playing your Sims through 2 or more years just to get them married. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Playing the Sims for the first hour I don’t have anything negative to say about it. Okay I’m a big Sims Fangirl, but I don’t get why so many people say, that the new Sims isn’t as good as Sims 3. In my opinion Sims 4 has many good new features, runs a lot smoother than Sims 3 and the new graphics look good. I know, there are many people mad about the no-toddler-and-pool-thing, but to be honest, everyone who is really into Sims will buy the add-ons anyway and will get toddlers and pools sooner or later. Sims 4 is even better than I excepted and I already know, that I will have much fun playing Sims 4 even without toddlers and pools.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Last week I was finally able to watch Guardians of the Galaxy. I was pretty excited about this movie, but also a bit afraid, that it may be overrated. It isn’t overrated, The Guardians are just hilarious and the characters overall are amazing.

The music instrumental and “The Awesome Mix Vol. 1” is great. I was listening to “Hooked on a Feeling” since I saw the trailer and now I kinda love this song even more. I like this movies humour a lot, and the action scenes were really cool. Guardians of the Galaxy is my new favourite movie and I’m thinking about getting the comics as well. I just can’t get enough from Rocket and Groot.

Now I’m waiting for Pop!Vinyl Groot to be available again, so I can order it together with rocket.

Can't wait for the Guardians to return.

What do you think about this movie?