Tokyo Dark?

I am sorta working on writing my thoughts for Tokyo Dark. It is a Point and Click meet visual novel game according to what the developer says.

The reason the game prompt me to want to write about it is how the game is somewhat not held together properly. I do not mean in the sense the game is broken and does not work. More in the vein of parts of the game do not seem to go together properly.

Like I play JRPGs and they are often not great in like story. For Tokyo Dark, which is (sigh) and Point and click meet visual novel game, I expected more. It seems as I get older it becomes more apparent when story bits do not join well.

Anyways I also want to make clear certain things before I publish the piece once I am done.

One, I am not exactly the most avid Visual novel, Point and click adventure games kind of person. There are a few titles I played which I least understand how they should work. So holding me to be the veteran standard of review the game is not going to work.

Second, this is not a review per say. Well least from what I think it is. I did not get all the endings myself I just went online and watch some of them. Dear god some of them are really.....

Lastly I am not sure if I want to include video footage of the game I mean you can get footage online already. So likely it is a written piece. I am not a yotuber etc so I probably will skip on video footage. Oh and do not watch the trailer if you are even remotely interested in the game. My thoughts will spoil the game as well but I will put a non-spoiler portion part at the top if you are really interested.

If you want a TLDR of the thing without reading immediately about buying it, I will only recommend it if you have no more point and click / visual novel games to play which I think is kind of impossible now considering there are tons out there on steam now. Good ones even.

If not, do not go into this game.

My very first political post

First I like to do some explanation about this page or blog. I blog purely on the basis if something is of interest to me or something that is worthwhile sharing. I don't exactly like the idea of just sharing all about my trips and photos etc. This creates a highlight reel of my life which distorts people's view of my life. I mention before I hardly head out and I am pretty content sitting at home and watching some videos online.

Second, I do not like to talk about political stuff online or in blogs. I prefer doing those in person. The biggest reason for that preference is in written media, tone is lost. It is very difficult to translate tone into written media which is why movies or video games are better at translating that tone to something that can be easily perceived.

Lastly, this topic I will be talking about is short and more of what I see of this issue than what the issue itself is about.

The Famlee Saga

So there is a house and 2 sides. Before even people start actually reading what the whole thing is about, there is already a stance that people must take sides.

Those for me is not the most important crux. I see some strange things being done on both sides. Neither side is truly free of fault. Again I am not going to point out what as I am sure if you somehow found my blog. you already figured out  all the strange things.

The biggest thing for me is people saying "this is a family affair, do not air your laundry out here. It is bad for Singapore". I would actually say talking about this in public is the right thing to do. Singapore can start stepping up and dealing with questionable things done. Not hush hush because the government cannot stand the scrutiny.

This is a good time for people to start paying attention. (When I say people here, I meant Singaporeans) It is a good time to really see if our government is able to stand the scrutiny from this issue. Is Singapore as transparent and open about issues that involve our Leaders.

I do not think it is good for Singapore if we keep avoiding topics and keep doing things at the back and hoping no one paid attention to the mistake made. Worse just admit making a mistake and not even looking what we can learn from it.

No country, leader or system is perfect. We change, adapt and improve as we go along. If truly this breaks our government/system, then we really need to look hard at how the whole thing failed. The failure make it obivous that the system we have is obivously not working as intended.

If we do not look to change, improve and adapt, we can expect one thing that will certainty happen in the future. We can expect Singapore no longer exist and people taking lesson from the failure of Singapore and Singaporeans not willing looking to look at issues. Like a frog in a pot of water and the water in the pot slowly heated to boiling hot.

Small things

I have a lot of small things or topics in my mind. I thought I just put them all together since twitter is too short for them and they are too short for 1 full blog piece themselves.

1. Finished rewatching the whole mythbuster series. I finally remembered what it is like to watch good TV.

2. Netflix is tempting because Casltevania anime is coming out but I prefer binge watching a series.

3. Went to Tsuta ramen (which technically is Soba). It is good for its own merits. It feels like eating some local fishball noodles with good soup. Though as Ramen I prefer something which is heavier in taste.

4. Walking in Japan almost killed my knees, ankles and sole of feet for my last trip. I really wonder how long I can do this. Also went to Bit summit. That was fun.

5. In terms of playing videos games, I went back to playing games mostly from JP developers. I don't really enjoy a lot of western triple A develop games. I still enjoy playing western indie games.

6. Hitting 37 this year. I am almost always the oldest person in a new group.

7. Also I am notice my memories are slipping. I really need to excerise my mental facility. There might be a need to go back to playing fighting games. Funny that has became a need rather than something of leisure.

8. To be honest I have given myself some thoughts about moving to Japan but I do not have a Bachelor Degree so I do not how that is going to work. Not to mention I don't speak Japanese and I am nearly 40.

9. I notice I am perfectly content staying home all day. This is probably why my social life is failing.

10. I'm also the last few people in groups to still be single. Can't say I am not bothered by it though I am more happy to be by myself. I like the space.

11. Not many people will know that my music collection is 95% Video game OST. Also I did not attend any of the video game concerts this year. Yes I skipped Distance worlds and the upcoming Zelda one. I mean I got a happy and signature from Nobuo Uematsu (https://twitter.com/kilvear/status/695612732175831041), I am pretty satisfied with it.

12. I have some thoughts of developing games but I am so undisciplined I don't think anything will come out of it.

13. The current state of the world isn't in a good place. Some people lack purpose. Some people's purpose is centered around greed. I believe hunmanity will eventually come around. Humanity is not as weak and feeble as most people think.

14. Did I mention Lunar New Year gatherings is starting to really grate on me?

15. I don't usually talk about my work life but there will be a lot happening for me at work. I worry I might stress myself work. Also get sick from over working.

This is getting long and I still have stuff but I will leave it to next time.

The anime cosplay game scene thing?

So I saw this post https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155068273715568&id=629330567 and I thought I just write something about it.

I consider myself an outsider in the scenes of this scene as I am more centered around games. Yes I do watch anime but on a less regular basis. I read a lot more manga as it's easier to do so.

In regards to the scene, a lot of people cite the earlier times in the scene is more homely. I see it more because the scene is really small. You are talking about less than 30 people getting together. So know everyone's faces, their quirks and what bugs them the most.

Once the scene grew bigger, that is no longer possible. Though to me I always preferred smaller scenes as I know the people personally.

For a outsider, I see the scene is generally doing fine. Bad eggs are more in numbers just by pure ratio. I am going to be real and say that even back then we also had bad eggs just the number is like 2-3.

As for history, I am a nobody. There isn't much to talk about. I wore a costume a few times and that's it. I don't really considered myself to be pioneers or anything. I like to think that I just happen to be there when things started.

P. S. Me in costumes? Yeah the photos are somewhere online. If you can even find them.