Category: Otaku

Monster Hunter

September 13, 2011

Well it seems the 3DS just beat the Vita in the next handheld war even before the Vita was released. In the last week two new Monster Hunter games have been announced for the 3DS. These two games alone guarantee mega sales in Japan, and a boatload of very excited fans in the rest of the world.

Here’s the trailer for Monster Hunter Tri-G

And here’s the ‘concept trailer’ for the next numbered entry in the series, Monster Hunter 4

Both are loading very slow right now. I recommend reducing the quality to 240 if they stagger.

MH Tri-G is released in Japan this year! No news yet on (what I consider) an inevitable US released.

Here’s a shot of how the game looks running on 3DS:

Diehards like myself will undoubtedly get excited by such trivialities as the persistent map on the lower screen 🙂

Magic Celebration

September 10, 2011

Today I played in a free MTG ‘Mini masters’ tourney which was held by a local game store to promote MTG.

Each player received one free booster, which he combined with 15 lands (3 per colour) to form a deck. It was to be a four round tournament, with each round best of three. Every time you win you get a new (free) booster to refine your deck, so the ultimate winner would end up getting four boosters. There were no additional prizes.

I lost first round 0-2 🙂

The cards in my booster were a bad match. My rare was this:

and my biggest creature was a serpent that couldn’t even attack! My opponent had a lot of fast fliers and beat me handily each game.

I played at a store different from the ones I usually go to for pre releases. I wasn’t much of a fan of their organization, or how long everything took, so I left after the first round 🙂

However before I left I was happy to find in their binders a card I had been looking for for a while. This is it:

Why did I need this? It’s a perfect fit in one of my Commander decks 🙂

Ajani vs Nicol Bolas Review

September 3, 2011

Today I purchased the new Magic The Gathering Duel Deck, “Ajani vs Nicol Bolas”. I played each deck against each other today three times… and found that the Ajani deck destroyed the Bolas deck every time.

Ajani’s is a deck built around fast, aggressive creatures with a good dose of lifegain included. The Bolas deck on the other hand is far less coherent; bits and pieces of powerful spells and strange creatures all limited by high costs or penalties. Yes it has some “I win” cards in the shape of Cruel Ultimatum or Bolas himself, but the deck is so slow that Ajani, in my games, had won handily long before Bolas could cast anything that expensive.

In each game, Ajani defeated Bolas whilst having over 20 life. A complete blowout!

As for the product itself, I’m pretty pleased with it. Not only did I get 2 new art foil Planeswalkers (“Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker” and “Ajani Vengeant”), but there is 7 lands (for my collection!), 2 tokens (also for the collection) and about 6 of the cards are good enough to go into my new Commander decks (ironically enough, most of these are from the Bolas deck).

All things considered, another fine duel deck. Recommended.

Robot Claw