Sunday, November 20, 2005

Happy Seven the TV Manga

This series is essentially Bishoujo Sentai over all. The idea is that a goup of seven girls and one guy deal with evil spirits. Partially related to bad luck as far as I can tell. Each has of course their own transformation scene. The main female is a girl named Amano who for certain reasons end up meeting up with the seven err eight anyway.

I was interested in this series at first mainly because the girls were cute. However over all it's a lot of fun. The series isn't ground breaking, but it feels well extremely honest. Like it's saying "We're Bishou Sentai and we're proud of it.". I've currently seen up to episode 7 which is the best so far and really increased the show's favor with me.

What's interesting is that when each character transforms his or her demeanor and etc changes. Ie for example Kikunosuke the main male of the series untransformed has a none serious look to him. His eyes are closed and he doesn't seem to have a care in the world. Yet transformed, his eyes are fully opened and of course he seems to have a tougher look to him. I kind of like this aspect because it makes the transformation(s) in this series go beyond simple costume changes.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song (Again)

In the end my Hawke party ended up being Hawke, Claudia, Guella Ha, Diana and Captain Silver. Works for me. I'm now playing as Sif with a party of Sif, Darque, Albert, Patrick and The Minstrel. Heh the idea of events that can close over time is not so bad. For one thing because I missed my chance to get Captain Silver in Aisha's quest, I had something new to do in Hawke's quest. Even more important is the fact it's a reminder you are not the center of the universe. The villains are not going to always wait for you to save the day and on the same token you're not the only one able to save the day at all. Although you can run into problems where you wonder why event X can close, but event Y has no time limit. In any case it's definitely good to do a few things in this game. Vary who you use each time. Don't do stuff the same way every time. Heck even vary what quests you do. It's a lot more interesting to do different quests each time than it is to do all the quests in one sitting. Still in the end it would be nice if the game had more variety between the quests. However I have Unlimited SaGa and SaGa Frontier for that aspect. Speaking of which while the final battle in Romancing SaGa is nice, I still prefer Mythe's final battle in Unlimited SaGa. Something epic about it.