Am Not Japanese But Hey!

Yea friends I have had a lack of updates lately. Nothing really important to talk about. I have however made Yakisoba again and it turned out great. Pictures to following. Really right now not much to talk about. Hanshin Tigers are still disappointing, not much game wise to talk about but yesterday Melty Blood Actress Again was released. If you like the Melty Blood series it is something you want to pick up. Check it out.

Well I tried another recipe on the other day. This time it was Stir-Fry with beef and shrimp over rice.

Well first I fried the beef with garlic and then the shrimp with red peppers.








Then I took the veggies and stir fried them with soy. Then combine them all back together.





You then plate the rice.




and finally add your toppings.





1/2 lbs Beef steak
10-20 frozen shrimp
red pepper
garlic
2-4 tbls soy
12 oz frozen veggies
1 cup of rice
3 cups water (rice)

Well my friends it is has finally come. Pro Yakyuu Spirits 6. I got the chance to play around with it finally getting last night. This game is a good as the last game and has some very good tweaks to the game play. But first I want to talk about the much anticipated part of the game WBC mode. Yes, Konami bought the rights to produce the WBC classic in their Japanese only game. Sad to say that this will probably never hit state side. WBC mode is water down from the game itself. You can not create or customize anything but they give a full on experience of WBC with Exhibition and Championship modes. You have all the teams from the classic Powerhouse Japan, Korea, USA. Even the lesser known team Netherlands, Taipei, South Africa (THEY PLAY BASEBALL ? ) are all here. Every team has the exact, yes my friends, the exact roster for the team. USA has Jeter, Oswalt, J.P. Howell, and everyone that made the roster. Japan of course sports Matsuzaka, Ichiro, Iwamura, Johjima. Even David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez and others have made the game. They all look like who they are supposed to be. Just some of the pointed out stars on this one. Classic has an interesting feel to it. They have names all in english except for the Japanese team which is great because you dont have look up their names in Japanese to translate to whatever. You can not mix NPB teams versus the WBC teams so that goes right out of the door but you can have full on head to head play with the worlds greatest. I give WBC mode a 9 only thing that could make it better is to have online play. But this is the PS2 version so they did not add it. On PS3 it would be a 10 with better graphics and online play.





Ok now onto the good stuff. All of the old stuff from the last version and has added some great tweaks. First of all lets start with the things that I noticed. Firstly they have added about 10-15 new animations with players. They also added something that was missing in the last game broken bats finally. BROKEN BATS ! wow. I did not get to check if they finally added check swings or not. They have also changed the sound of when he ball hits the catchers glove. One thing that is very noticeable is the pitch types. Curves has such a long curve on them now that it is funny. but you can change that feature in the options. They also have seemed to fix the AI. They swing away now more than ever. The hit animations are different with them changing how they look depending on where the ball is being hit to. All and all a good upgrade.

The menus are a different in the main menus the game is all white and grays with classy BGM. But when you are looking at a player in the utility screens they choose to go with silver and metallic colors. That I did not like that much but i am sure it will grow on me. They did however do something that I think is just awesome. They have added the faces of each player above their attribute card in the menus which is just great. Why? For the people who don't know what every players looks like or their number this helps. Way to go. One thing that is still missing that i wish they had done is character customize. That way when a pitcher gets a new pitch you can just add it or if someone dyes their hair you can change it.

The game has all of the NPB teams with their current jerseys and the 2 All Star Teams. The roster are all up to date (circa 5/30) so most of the teams have their orders set to how they was before release of the game. So that means no FUKUMORI for Rakuten but Hanshin has Brazell.

The game still has the same setup as before with Exhibition, Climax, Stardom, Spirits and Utilities. If you played the last version it is identical to that. I will give a better look at the Climax and Stardom mode later. But the Stardom has really changed. You have much more to play around with including the fact you start you career as either a HS player, college player or an amateur (independent league).

Climax is mostly the same as before but i will have to sim a season just to tell you how the end of the season goes now. Videos has shown that the new drafting system is different than before but what I am looking for is CAN YOU FINALLY USE FREE AGENTS! That has been one of my biggest pest about the game. There is no FA system at all. That sucks. Yes I know that mainly most of the players don't leave their teams but I would like the option to do so.

Well my review of this game is my opinion but once again I think that Konami has really out done themselves compared to games like MLB2k and Show this is by far the best game and with the addition of international play this makes this game one of the most complete baseball games of our time. For anyone who has not see or heard about it pick up it is a hands down buy if you love NPB or even just love baseball period.

9/10 ****

Not much to talk about lately. I have been have things on my mind and have had some issues. Well I will try to update soon but just wanted to say that I am still alive.


Pro Yakyuu Spirits 6 should be out by tomorrow. I can not wait any longer but I hope that I can get my hands on it by later today. Let you know any updates!

Well today people not really that much to talk about here. Last night I got to play a little hands on with COD:WAW and went through the motions of some more Blazblue. I fired up some hamburgers and chilled. But I found myself listening to the BB soundtrack which is composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari. This guy has to be one of the best guitar stringers out there. He has fame from the Guilty Gear series some of the best cords heard in a video game. The best part is that the songs have no voice but still can make you listen to them over and over.



TORA! update.

Well this has been a very disappointing season all around with the Tigers. Hanshin is in 5th place with only 3 months to go in the season this is just terrible. They have went from the brink of being champions to so close to being dead last. The story here is not just one problem but many. Pitching has been terrible and he starting line up shows it. SUGIYAMA started in one the past games. He has been a second teamer for a long time. The bullpen is just going through the motions. Hitting is also just as bad if not worse. Arai has become a joke, Kanemoto can not find the ball, and even the one bright spot can not carry the team. They have 8 errors in one game. That is just unheard of and to top things off the coaching is just is bad. They first year captain has really made a mockery of the team at this point. So bad that even the die hards are not wanting to follow the team anymore. They are half through the season and there is not a turn around in site. The return of Yano might help but not in areas that they need the most. Akahoshi is out with back problems, and the can not buy a win with 10,000 yen! I hate to say it but it looks like it is over for the Tigers.

Ok last night i made some goodness. I tried out a recipe for some down home Japanese Kabob. Kushikatsu or Kushiage (non-Kansai). Ingredients are a pound of pork loin, onion (Japanese long onion, American sweet, or Welsch.) Bell pepper. You can also use potato, mushroom or carrots.

First thing is to cut and season the pork loin. You need to chop it into small bit sized pieces. Salt(season salt) and pepper. Let set for at least a half hour.

Now the fun part you will need to chop up you veggies and the combine with them pork on a skewers. You can arrange how ever you like. Will be deep frying these so you will need to have a fryer. Next you will bread the items. 2 eggs lightly beaten, flour (lightly peppered), and Panko (breadcrumbs). You will need to flour them the wash them in eggs then flour again and eggs again. This way you have a big crunch. Then you will dip it into panko and deep fry it.




You can eat with a beer, rice, cabbage, or many other items. I also made a BBQ+soy and sugar sauce which was really tasty. This ended up being such a great project but you should have seen my kitchen LOL. Anyways hope you enjoy it as much as I did.


Well this is from a few weeks ago. It did not turn out completely how I thought but was still good. Anyways I did not make this from scratch so I will not talk to much about it. This Vietnamese egg rolls (spring rolls), fried rice (which I did make) that had peas, eggs, onion in it and Pot Stickers (fried dumplings). It ended up being good but not restaurant quality.

Well people the good ole American Past time of getting fatter just past. Yes it was the July 4th weekend and BBQ was aplenty (I live Memphis, TN.). Well the big update is after being punk into doing so I finally picked up a copy of BlazBlue on the XBOX 360. Let me say that i have a love/hate relationship with this game already. The first thing is that the game is Guilty Gear but really much slower so you can do some better things with it. At first glance I was like OK this is going to be awesome. THEN the hell which is online play hit me. OMG! This game is like a not so fun Foreign language. The hit boxes are so different and range to say the least has really changed. Most of the characters are similar to those from Guilty Series. The music, the feel, everything screams Guilty Gear but just like in Transformers there is more than meets the eye. The game is solid but is like starting over from scratch even if you play GG. I think it is was worth 49.99 not the 59.99 I paid for it but is still a solid game. Over the weekend I have some very good games with people. Many of whom are from Japan and have already mastered the game play. The online experience is good. One of the better ones in a while. You can create rooms, spectate, record vids. The game is really good in all of those aspects. Only wish some others have followed this example ( SF 4 ) well all in all I am bitching about but is not such a bad game after all. Maybe with a little more practice I can actually be a force to feat again in the 2D game scene. The year of the fighting keeps getting better and better. Next up is King of Fighters 12 for PS3/360 and Melty Blood Actress Again for PS2.

どうも、事態の急展開に思考停止中でおなじみのスゲノです。
「一万アクセス記念イラストどうしようかしら。」
と考えていたのが昨日の事のようです。（昨日の事ですが…）
海外の方もたくさんいらしたらしく、メールもいただきました。
Thank You　Jeff!


This is from the maker of Vanguard Princess. I emailed him and he sent me a thank you note. Well the funny this is that i found out that this guy worked for Capcom. The would be the reason why the game is so good and solid.

Well strike up the band. If you don't like lolis or don't know what that is do not apply. Arcana Hearts 1, special, and 2 are some of the most played fighter out of japan. Fetish or not these games have some of the best mechanics seen on a fighter in a long time. Well today I found a new FREE game yes I said FREE from our friends at the SRK boards. This game made on 2d fight maker engine by Enterbrain is very fun and look great to be designed by one dude. The game boast 10 playable characters and has 4 assist character. The look of the game is wonderful for a FREE game. Vanguard Princess has some good mechanics and is not like many other games. It really takes you back to a time before dail-a-combo. So the game has a very unique feel to it. It you don't like this kind of games that is cool you don't have too but i like to give fighters a try no matter the graphic stand point. This game is really solid for it to be free and I want to take time out to say that this guy deserves a huge applaud for what he has made.

The game is on PC and unless you have one of the worse machine ever put together you should have no reason to try to check it out. We did how ever run into some bugs trying to run it so if you need some help with that visit the shouryuken.com boards.

Well sorry for the lack of updates since last week people. Over the weekend i got a little charred being outside cooking for a very long time lol. Well today the only update that I really have is that I have been working on the Ipod 3.0 OS lately. The hacker community has already found their way through the firmware. It really did not take long mainly because of all of the betas that was sent out before the commercial one hit the stands. Well let me say that they have upgraded it just enough to make people want it but not enough to make it super important. They did add some good points but they still have locked us out of most of the selling points of the new features. (Come on Bluetooth is still headset only.) The Community will probably get it unlocked sooner or later but for now once again Apple has put competition to rest. Let's just see how Zune HD does. There is also so many rumors of a new Ipod to follow the release of their new Iphone. If you got a new Iphone or Ipod Touch then look for the snow is all I can say.

Well last night i took in a film that I have already seen but mostly forgot. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull is one better movies that came out last year. 4/5 Movie for sure. The only thing that I had something to say about it is that they went all aliens on me. But really the series has a lot about things from past folklore so they stayed with the format. The only thing is now it is 1957 and we already at the alien point. What is else there to do now and will Indy be back or will now Shia take the franchise. Either way good movie to watch twice so 4 thumbs up.

For all that don't know by now. The passing of Mitsuharu Misawa of Pro Wrestling NOAH happened on 6/14/09 after he took a backdrop from Akitoshi Saito. It was a freak accident and nothing is going to happen to him because of it. This was sad but it happened due to the bad state that Misawa in. He will be truly missed and I hope the best for NOAH.


But the news goes from bad to worse. NOAH was already without Naomichi Marufuji, then the death of Misawa and now Jun Akiyama is now sidelined with a number of injuries. They will missing too much upper talent. Can NOAH stay afloat? They did finally pass the torch on so to speak as Go Shiozaki is the new GHC champ. He has some big shoes to fill and this is going to be a big burden on him now. Hopefully they make this into a new direction for the company.

Forgot to mention these 2 little tid bits. The Hanshin has traded the one of the young pitchers that they had Taiyo Fujita to Seibu Lions for some backup help in center field. The will get Shogo Akada. Now you would think of this as a terrible trade mainly because the Tigers already have Akahoshi in the center. But after you look at it very closely. The Tigers have need basically because Akahoshi is not hitting as of right and is struggling. They could use him in the center. Now as for Fujita. He has not done much of anything for awhile now and Seibu needs a closer or reliever. The Lions lost Graham for awhile who was their closer. So all and all the tigers might have gotten an ok deal out of this because they have just run out of options with Fujita and don't know what else to do with him anymore. Hopefully they find something to do him.









Also there is a little speculation of Hanshin might be after GODZILLA !!!!!!!!!!!! I will leave it at that. His contact is up with the Yankees after 2010. He has always wanted to play in Hanshin so could we see an new outfielder in 2010. Time will tell.

The Hanshin Tigers have been just horrible this season and it looks as though they are on their way to be the new Yokohoma Baystars. This is unbelievable. Pointing fingers does not work this time around because everyone is at fault. The Tigers went from #2 in the Central (They would have one the Regular Season Championship but failed horrible in the last month of the season.) to this. It is not even possible. Is it? How could a team with such high paid superstars be playing so terrible. Let's see. For starters the team did start the season without starting catcher A.Yano. They did have a good replacement in Kanoh as he has been playing wonderful. They also have been with out several pitcher at one time or another. Iwata, Kubota, Fujikawa, Andoh, and several other have been hit with injury bug at some point or another. But Arai is back and healthy. Well he still is not hitting. The Tigers also picked up import Kevin Mench and he was a just a bust. They spend so much money and for th second year in a row they tried to get a Right Fielder but came up with lemons (08 Lew Ford). This team is underachieveing terribley and that is one of the worst things. Mayumi the new manager for the team seems to not even know what he is doing at all. Even the owners don't have clue at what it going on with the team. They have not been this bad since the early 90's even before I started to watch the NPB. Something has to change here. I think that the tigers will not make a post season run for the first time in years. They have too many holes to address at the moment and I dont think they have the ability to dig themselves out at this point. We need Superman, Moses, or Aliens to fix this problem. This season has just been awful but they have had some small silver linings such the siging of Craig Brazell. This guy is an amazing hitter. I have not seen a player hit this many homeruns in such a short time. He came on to the time in the middle of Inter League play and has just been crazy. They have also been showings of flash from Sakaruai and the fore mentioned Kanoh. Something has to give or the whole team might out on its ear. Even the owner said that he is thinking about releasing under performing older players. They need to interject some kind of life before is completely too late but the only thing now is that is could already be too late.

I finally got twitter added to the page. Well last night was boring as hell. Xbox Live was down and I had nothing to do lol.













Well anyways today update will be about King of Fighters XII. OMG I have never been more excited about a KOF. This games looks amazing and plays amazing. July looks to be one of the best games that SNK has probably ever made. This games has some of the best game play out of the series yet. They have introduced a more flowing combo system, pushbacks, countering system, and a new stun hit combo system. This game will be out on both X360 and PS3 in July. I dare you to find a better 2d fighter. Blazblue will have it's following but KOF has defintely reinvented the game.












This is the characters in the game. They have stated that there is 2 new characters that are not in the arcade port. Mature and Elisabeth are in but there is rumors of DLC and hidden characters on the console ports as well as some possible CONSOLE EXCLUSIVE items. Just wait to see. I can not wait to see how they have changed what we think SNK games should play like. 2009 is the year of the figther and with Blazblue, KOF XII, Chaos Code, Tekken 6, and many other games coming 2010 is looking damn good.

Kubota returned in today's game against the Dragons. He tossed 7ip and got the win against Chunichi Ni-Gun (second team). Welcome back KuCHAN !!!!!!!!!!

Next up for the today. The list of games coming out this year is getting bigger and better. Many people are not aware that several games are in the works in the fighting genre. Well first let me start with the most known.




















Well now that is out of the way I have 100 more to talk about lets see. King of Fighter XII will be here in July but this nothing. I am a obscure fighter person. Namely games that come from the land of the rising sun. Lets look at the list shall we.



Chaos Code. A new game from a new company. It has a very nice game style similar to Rumble Fish.

http://www.fkdigital.net/chaoscode/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ImtxOWVic

New hotness once again another game that we will probably never see on this side of the pond. Sorry for the lack updates lately. I plan on doing about 5 posts at some point today. But we will start with this one.

I have been extremely busy at work then all of a sudden boredom. Guess i will try to update lol : )



Following the Hanshin Tigers this year has been how can I say it NERFED! They have been terrible this year but the addition of Scott Brazell has helped a little bit. Well enough off an update for now I guess.

Well, day 2 has a little more bit than yesterday lol. First I am going to show off my cooking this is my Shouyu Buta Ramen. Ramen, fresh bean sprouts, green onion, braised pork, boiled egg. Easy recipe to make when you hungry. Not just opening a pack of freeze dried noodles and sauce packet but actually good eats. 6/5















Also is here is some of other creations that i have come up with lol. This is Tonkatsu, Tonkatsu Obento, and a brownie/w ice cream. All made by me. YATTA ne

I have been playing around with several games lately. UFC has to be without a doubt the best in it's genre. That would including FN and the other mma style games. Only if it did not destroy your hand trying to mash a submission out of someone. Also been going back into the past and played some Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360. Missed the game and it is was one of the better 3D fighters to come out. Very indept. I will covering some more media soon and will have pictures up on direct things. I have a passion for baseball, Actually Pro Yakyu (Japanese Baseball). So I will be giving the dirt on the rest of the seaon and the upcoming Pro Yakyu Spirits 6 game on Ps2 and Ps3. More blogging to follow

Well I decided to start my own blog. I will not be using the old forums any more. So if you want to follow me. You can join me here or on Twitter.