Game Review: Heart no Kuni no Alice

Now, the moment you've all been waiting for (or I've been waiting for)...
My first ever game review!

Yeah, yeah; I'm not famous enough or qualified to give game reviews, but I'll do it anyways.

*sticks out tongue like a little kid*

I'll be doing this now and then when I come along with a game that I have.
I can foresee that most of it would probably be Japanese visual novels, but there might be occasional XBox 360 games popping up or even PSP, that is if I get the console.

The game that I would be reviewing today would be Heart no Kuni no Alice (no, duh).

And to make things clear from here on out, I will not be explaining about the game plots, strategy or even the endings in any of my future reviews.
My reviews would be entirely on my thoughts on the game plot, graphics, gameplay and soundtracks.
I will, however, make posts about the routes of the game that I've played; but that depends entirely on whether I liked it or not. (For those who wants CGs and spoilers, this is what you should wait for.)
I don't plan to waste my time on things that I don't like.

Now, onwards with the review!

Coming After

Yeah, yeah. I know I should be burned at the stake for breaking my promise.
I was busy on Sunday, as a matter of fact.

Again, I was called (more like forced) to be the communication medium (a fancy term for translator) between my dad and his cousin in China.

I'd like to point out that I'm not the only one who knows Chinese in the family.

There's a surprise inside...

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Troublesome

本当わすみません!

I know,  I promised to start writing about the routes and the CGs of this week, but I didn't.
Please don't come at me with torchlights and pitchforks...
I'll compensate in a post that I will do tomorrow, since I have to go out for dinner now and will probably return quite late.

I was preoccupied the whole afternoon with finding a way to customize my page jump links.
In other words, I was trying to make it a manipulatable widget instead of a template, stamping the ever so boring 'Take a step inside...' in each and every one of my post.

Want to know what I have found?

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Wh-wh-WHAT?

Like I wrote yesterday, I'm currently into クロバの国のアリス～Wonderful Wonder World～.

I finished ハートの国のアリス, its prequel, around two weeks after I got it.

The only thing left now to complete is the dance A ending for most of the characters.

Pretty fast, considering that there are nine character routes to take, which has a whole lot of CG to collect and it cost me around... uh...two-fifty to get it.

For those in the know,  both are bloody 乙女ガーム series developed by QuinRose and is already in manga form.

Thank goodness that it the operating platform is PC and my laptop actually has the specs to store and run it.
I'm just not happy with the price, but it's a known fact that the Japanese deal by the thousands and has exceptionally high cost of living.

And for those who don't, they just see the title as an alien language and go "WTH is that?"

Ah, piqued your curiosity, huh? Saunter on inside then

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Redecorating

Well, it's been a week since I started my third and final semester.

Yeah, I'll be starting my degree courses after this, if and only if I can get it.

Sounds bleak, huh?

I've already sensed and prepared for a major disappointment so that's that.

Hey, I have REAAAAAAALY low self-confidence so don't go reassuring me with comforting words.

I will neither believer it nor let any slight hope rise.

Anyways, my mom's been nagging at me to tidy up my room.
After they shifted my electric keyboard downstairs, I have...

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I'm Listening

Sound, oh glorious sound.
I find no greater joy than to listen, and read.
Come to think of it, most of the activities that I love doing are very singular, other than gaming of course.

I have been pondering about this question Sappy asked when we met at MPH.
She finds it odd that no one in my family enjoys reading other than me and wonders where I've picked it up.
She isn't the first to ask though, and I didn't really know how to answer either.
I simply don't know.

Anyways, I'm not writing about books and reading.
Sound is the belle of the ball this time, voices to be more specific.

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New Year, New Beginnings?

Well, it's 2010 now.
The new year started with a scream, literally.
I'll take it as an omen and say that it won't be any better than last year.
So, I'm anticipating even more disappointments, arguments, debacles, unhappiness and tension.
...
Hey, don't flame me for not being happy about a new year.
I'm a pessimist; I live to see the negative side of things.
I started out as a spunky (I can't seem to imagine myself being spunky) and perky girl but life has sorta molded and beaten me down to a cynical and pessimistic wallflower.

Now, I'm to hide myself so that the pervy knight doesn't find me and the possessive and jealous mafia boss of a husband of mine doesn't either one of us.
*snaps her fingers and disappears*