Chantelise : A Tale of Two Sisters on Steam!

Chantelise : A Tale of Two Sisters hits steam on the 29th of this month and i have to say I'm pretty Psyched. You can definitely expect a First Impressions when I get my hands on it. Chantelise comes from the makers of Recettear : An Item Shop's Tale, and that alone in my eyes makes it worth a play. Chantelise and Recettear were made by EasyGameStation and adapted and translated to English by Carpe Fulgur LLC.

Recettear was truly a unique game where you played a shopkeeper trying to pay off her fathers debts. This was aided by going into dungeons as other characters and gathering rare and valuable items to sell in your store. The game was very, VERY addictive to say the least, and I think that was aided by the uniqueness of the game as a whole.

Chantelise promises to be as good as its predecessor, and at the time of writing i am currently downloading the Demo that I did not realise was there. Silly me. I'll have a First Impressions later today.

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Minecraft : One build to Rule them All

Mind = Blown. Middle Earth recreated in Minecraft on a 1:2 scale. absolutely fucking crazy, give it a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhksNvUwaRc&feature=player_embedded#at=2711

Some Screenshots from the video (sorry for the bad quality)

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Minecraft : The Troubles of Building a House

So, from my starting position I explored the surrounding area. I was in a large sand clearing surrounded by a forest. This was a pretty much perfect area to start in. I made my way to a nearby cliff side, butchering trees as I went, which is made easier by the Treecapitator Mod by DaftPVF, letting you chop at the base of a tree and harvest it all, and was greeted by this beautiful site.

You might notice several things. One, I have half the starting life you would normally have, this is due to a Mod called More Health by Nohero, which you can set preferences for, and find Heart Pieces and Heart Containers, like in Zelda. Eventually you can get double the normal maximum health, which is pretty cool. Second, you may note the Score in the top left, which is also pretty cool, and self explanatory, also by DaftPVF. Thirdly you might notice Sharks and Dolphins in the water, which are deadly and which you can tame respectively. These are part of Mo' Creatures by DrZhark.

So, after clearing the area next to my cliff side view, I put up a basic wood shack and set up a bed and crafting bench so I could have a base camp. It was getting dark, so I decided to call it a night and use the Somnia mod by MALfunction84, which allows you to sleep whenever, and wake up at any point, but also simulates the world while you do it, so you can smelt and grow crops.

In the morning, I awoke and went on a treck nearby, where I saw a cliff with some coal. When I got there, I found a little more than I bargained for. Big cats and birds were around, from Mo' Creatures by DrZhark and on the cliff side was some Iron, Randomite (by Scokeev9) and what looked like Verdite from Axebane's Mystic Ores and Stones, part of his fantastic Mystic Mod Pack. Also, this adorable little guy.

He's from the Baby Animals Mod by Cocoavalley, and you can raise and tame them :3

Anyway, after I cleared the ore from the cliff side, getting a stack of Coal, some Iron and some Gold from the Randomite, it was once again getting dark. So I made my way back to my humble abode to make some torches...and that's where it started to go wrong. After blocking up my house and accessing my crafting bench, I noticed light coming from where my bed was.... Odd, I thought, so I turned round.

OH CRAPPING HELL WHAT THE FU-

And then I exploded. Along with all of my stuff, and most of my house. After punching the Ogre to death (which took a while), I surveyed the damage (whilst beset by Creepers, Skeletons and a Werewolf) This was not good, I had very little of my house left, and very, very little possessions. And it was night-time. So, after defeating all of the enemies around me, I decided to call it a day. Who knows, Maybe tomorrow will hold better fortune? 

Ogres and Werewolves are also part of the Mo' Creatures Mod by DrZhark, and all Mods mentioned are part of the Wonderful Yogbox (Which, at the time of writing) has JUST been updated to include Mod Updates and Elemental Creepers. Sounds fun, and Painful. Like paintballing, only with explosions and horrible death.

One last thing, I recently made a new Character Skin, and was wondering what you guys thought of it? It's my first attempt at a character skin, and I think it's not too shabby.

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Terraria : MUNDO NOOOO!

My adventure in Terraria started out on a sunny morning near a cliff side and a forest, and I set out from the original spawn with high hopes.

The more destructive side of me kicked in immediately, and i quickly butchered all the nearby trees and gathered some stone nearby and made myself a Workbench and Bow, with some arrows and torches (I'm a huge fan of ranged weapons in this game) and set off tho the right of my spawn, and quickly came across some copper. Happy days! :D

i thought, seeing as it has a small cave underneath it, that this would be a good place to set up shop. I leveled the area a bit and got the pot from underneath my land and sealed it back up for now, it was getting dark and i needed shelter. So i made myself a basic wooden hut and was quickly joined by a fluffy little visitor. I named him Mundo. Why? Why not. So, soon it was night time, and i was beset by Zombies and Demon Eyes.

This situation seemed to frighten my little friend, my only companion in the world bar the Guide, who was nowhere to be seen. So i bravely opened the door to fend off the attackers, who promptly murdered me and Mundo.

I shed manly tears that night. The adventure will continue next time, i must make a grave and monument to my fallen friend.

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Runespell: Overture - First Impressions

I've heard that Runespell: Overture can be compared to Puzzle Quest in the way that it's played, and that got me curious, so i Downloaded it from Steam, and here's my First Impressions. I have to say, i already like the art style of the game, that's a good sign.

After playing the first tutorials i can tell you this: this game is very unique. It uses a Poker/Solitaire system to deal damage to your opponent based on the Poker hands you create. You can also unlock Powercards, which you can equip for extra effects in battle, such as Blessing, which adds 25 to your maximum health. you can also have spells in battle that use Rage Points to activate, adding that little extra bit of strategy to the game.

You play as a Changeling with amnesia, and begin  to work your way through dirty northerners to find your lost memories. Along the way you meet a woman called Brin, who serves as a kind of Guide for the main story. There are also a number of side quests to complete, each will get you a number of Silver and potentially new Powercards.

I have to say i understand what people were saying about the combat system, it is VERY similar to Puzzle Quest, in that you form combinations to unleash powers and defeat your opponent in combat and earn silver and rewards. As far as I've played, there isn't any kind of level-up or stat system other than the HP/RP boosts you can get, which is a little disappointing, but then again i don't know exactly how that kind of system would work in a game like this, and would probably end up distorting the unique gameplay. In a way, silver helps you 'level up' because you can buy increasingly powerful Runespells to use in combat.

Runespell is a pretty cool game, and i can see it getting very addictive, its by a company called Mystic Box. Its currently available on steam for about $10, or £7.99. Go check it out.

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League of Legends : Server Split

Hey all,

First of all, sorry about the late post, i was too busy playing LoL to Blog about it, what with the EU Server Split coming into effect and pretty much making logging in instant. This makes me happy, and Riot also gave out a free 15 Day 200% IP boost for all existing accounts to say thank you for sticking with them. This is a very good move on their part in my opinion, because they didn't NEED to give us anything at all, i think most of us would have been happy with just being able to log in whenever we please.

Recently I've been focusing on playing the new Champion, Leona, The Radiant Dawn and trying to get good with her. This leads me onto something I've noticed in my past couple of matches. PvP seems to actually be easier as a whole than PvAI. Though it may have been due to me being tired, i actually did far better against Players than i did AI, even against beginner AI i wasn't doing as well, as this screenshot shows. (Yes, i suck ass as Poppy, she really isn't my play style.)

So yeah, as you can see from the screenshot, i was AWESOME at one of those PvP matches, because i kept the pressure up and  harassed the enemy, keeping them on the back foot. I think it also helped that my lane-mate, who is not only a fantastic Morgana player, but a fantastic gamer in general, was kicking some serious ass, and the combination of  my Solar Flare, then Tormented Soil and Dark Binding from Morgana and then my combo of Eclipse then Zenith Blade and then finally a Shield of Daybreak from me, followed up by auto attacks and maybe even (if we're feeling particularly mean, a final Soul Shackles from Morgana) totally obliterated most enemy Champions.

Needless to say, I think that I've definitely found my Champion of Choice for the time being. Leona, if you build her right, is so hard to kill and can push out a lot of damage. I highly recommend giving her a go if you can.

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Minecraft : Intro

No doubt that you've all heard of Minecraft. Hell, I'd assume you've been living under some kind of rock if you haven't, but then I'd wonder why you hadn't dug your way out with your bare hands, or a large lump of dirt or something.

It's hard to say precisely WHY Minecraft is so damned popular (It's current Registered users read at 10,688,964 at the time of writing, that's almost as many as World of Warcraft, and Minecraft is still in its Beta.) It's a game where you can do more or less anything you damn well please, and it's Modding community is amazingly large for what is essentially an Indie title, which adds to the play-ability even more. I'm not going to bore you with facts that you most probably already know, what I'm going to do instead is a fresh install of Minecraft, loaded with a Modpack and a Texturepack, and play a little for you guys.


I'm going to be using the absolutely FANTASTIC Mod Compilation The Yogbox. It contains a communities view on some of the very best Mods out there, including a couple of my personal favorites, Mystic Ores and More by Axebane and Mo' Creatures by DrZhark. All these mods add a new aspect to the game and enhance the whole experience, especially if (and all of the mods in the Yogbox are) the Mods are well made.


I'm also using a Custom Texturepack made using The Painterly Pack, it's a really awesome site where you can build and use your own Texturepack from their database. You can download the Official Fluxblog Texturepack here if you want to.


For now, a screenshot of the first thing i saw when i logged into my brand new world.

Beautiful. Well, tree-like, but nice. 


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