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Ar tonelico 2 design materials キターーーーーーーーーーー!!

2008-05-23T07:24:54Z

After five weeks and five days, my order finally came in at Kinokuniya. The reviewers on Amazon were right: this book is thick. It's almost approaching a Xenogears Perfect Works amount of information. It even includes an I.P.D. Reyvateil card game...

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How to feel okay about your creator-consumer relationship

2008-05-19T19:50:36Z

If I spend too long in Kinokuniya or at game sites, I actually get anxious about this stuff. Reminders to myself: 1. You don’t have to follow forever. For a couple of years, I was actually pretty up to speed with Japanese console gaming (and ...

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Button Trance: Ar tonelico 2

2008-04-22T17:01:50Z

At long last, I have posted my first column to Heisei Democracy. Be warned that while the column itself is pretty innocent, the site is pretty far on the other side of safe-for-workness. :D

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In Quest of the Yarikomi

2008-03-25T21:31:59Z

So I'm on my second loop through Ar tonelico 2, because I want to see the Cosmosphere and ending for a different character. This time I'm turbo-buttoning through the story bits and concentrating on leveling up, so that I can get past the stuff I'...

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Mana-Khemia 2!!

2008-02-16T02:44:08Z

Dear GUST, please hold off on the video games for a while. I still haven't finished the last four games you released. Really, just cut it out for a sec. Mana-Khemia 2 teaser site

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Ar tonelico 2 has a boss key

2007-11-23T09:16:40Z

Background: So, some of the old games I played on the Mac Plus as a kid had a "boss key": some key combo you could hit to make it look like you were working instead of playing around. At a job I had in Chicago, one of my coworkers made a wallpaper...

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Translation of Dengeki Online report of Ar tonelico 2 special event

2007-10-27T21:55:54Z

This is a (rather amateurish) translation of Dengeki Online's report of the Ar tonelico 2 event in Akihabara last week. I have included only the images which are unique to the article; screenshots and other such official materials have been left o...

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Ar tonelico 2 trailer

2007-10-02T17:27:52Z

GUST has posted the Ar tonelico 2 trailer. I can totally feel myself outside a game store in West Shinjuku, stopping to watch the trailer loop 2 or 3 times. It's got character voices, four Reyvateils including a secret one voiced by Mitose Noriko,...

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Ar tonelico 2 combo sets

2007-09-12T22:03:57Z

I love GUST. Whenever a new game comes out, they offer enough ways to buy the game that explaining all the different combinations of stuff (in this case, the game, the three separate soundtracks, the previous game, the bonus artbook, the soundtrac...

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Mana-Khemia impressions

2007-07-30T21:43:42Z

So I'm about 12 hours into Mana-Khemia now. It seems meaningful that this is the first console game I've played more than 2 days in a row since the lady came back to live with me; she doesn't mind watching me play it at all. I love the charac...

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