tirsdag 25. oktober 2011

Anime: Naruto!

I guess that most otaku's, either they are hardcore-fans or have just gotten interested in anime, manga and that sort of thing know about Naruto.
The reason for this is of course that Naruto has one of the longest stories together with Bleach and one piece.

For those who despite this, doesn't know much of Naruto, i'm going to try to simplify the story (ofc without too many spoilers x) )


First of all, the main city where the story is taking place: Konoha, who is the "hidden leaf village". The world in Naruto is parted up in different villages such as Konoha, or the hidden sand, water and so on... not very important right now xD

Here is a map that would explain it a bit easier:

Konoha is the village in the middle 

The story begins with a monster appearing in the village, this monster goes by the name "Demon Fox" or "Nine-tails". The Nine-tails started to attack the village and many people died. To save the rest of the village the Hokage* seals the monster inside of a little newborn boy. 



This is when the sealing takes place


Hokage is the highest rank in the city, the leader of the village. 

The 4th Hokage with the 1th the 3th and the 2th


The little baby was who this series is named after: Naruto Usumaki. To make a long story short. The Naruto series is about Naruto's life and his dream to become a well known ninja and a Hokage. We follow him from the age of 10-12 ( I think >.<), when he first start at the academy to learn how to become a ninja. This is also the place where he meets Sasuke Uchiha, who is the strongest boy on this age (At least he is allways the best on tests and such) and Sakura Haruno. Soon this three get on the same team, team 7 with their captain Hatake Kakashi



This is an ongoing series witch at this moment: 

The anime got: 220 (first season) + 233 (2th sesong, the shippuden) = 453 Episodes
Movies: 14.
Manga: 56 Volums/Books  or 560 chapters 

onsdag 12. oktober 2011

Game: Osu!

Wow I can't believe that I haven't written about this game before O.o

It's quite the simple game really. It's a music game, where you follow the rhythm. The game is divided in three, one main-game and two others. First of all it's a free game. To start the game you have to download it from here, and download beatmaps (songs) manually. The music genres are mostly techno, anime music or music from games. It's a time limit when you are downloading the songs, so that the server won't explode, it depends from 4 or 5 songs in a short time. When you reach the time limit you have to wait 500 seconds before downloading anymore.

When you start the game, this is what you will see:


You will now get a popup whitch want you to log in, of course you can play in offline mode, but then again, your scores will not be saved, and it will only take a few minutes to make a user

The first main game is called "osu! Standard" and can be found under the first button "PLAY" this is how the game would look like when you play (random song)

As you see, the score is shown in the upper right side.
Now to the playing: You can see the crazy cat faces right? That's a slider, the same as the orange one.
The thing is that you have to use your mouse to click and drag it as the slider shows, so in short words, this is a clicking game that follows the music. The single circles are the same, only that you don't have to follow a path :) 

Usually a game has the difficulity: Easy, normal, hard and insane.
This type of game is kind of hard, and you should set up your mouse sensitivity to be able to play it (can be found in options) 
Important key: z and x, witch are mainly the same as clicking down the mouse button but lot simpler to use when there are alot of circles to click on
Anyway, over to the game-form I play: Catch the beat! :D (Can be found under "special")
This time you use the keyboard to play, (arrows). As you see, it fall fruits down from the screen that you must catch. This is a much simpler game than the Osu! Standard-game, but still a lot of fun.
Important key: The shift-button, Gives you extra speed

The last game is the Japanese Taiko-drum! 
Witch looks like this: 
This time you only use the letters, zxcv, where z nad v are the blue and x and c are the red ones
Personally I don't like this kind of game, it's really too difficult, at least if you try it on hard or even normal

This is at least some kind of review of this game =)
It's all for free, no extra payment or anything at all, the only time you can spend money on osu is if you are donating money
By donating money you can download dirrectly from the game and doesn't have to go through the webpage, but other than this, it's nothing special from being a supporter or not