Malaysia’s 52nd Merdeka!

It’s finally time, the sacred date, 31st August 2009; Malaysia’s 52nd Merdeka. To think that civilization had lived on for 2009 years and Malaysia had only been acknowledge as an independent country for 52 years baffles me. It’s just to show, even if the year we live in are big numbers, all of us are still living on a young and still developing country. To see it thrive this way in only a 52 years time frame is short of magical. Well, Malaysia may have been known longer before as Tanah Melayu but in those time we’re not recognizable as a country but are recognizable as a rich resource center. That’s why we have been dictated and conquered more than once; it’s all in the resource and money. After hundred of years of being conquered, the leaders of Tanah Melayu finally found a way, make a right decision and the Malaysia that we live today is that; a right decision made for a righteous cause. But after 52 years, the whole world are beginning to see the frailty that is Malaysia. If you are a Malaysian you will see this frailty quite as clear as day but if you aren’t then it’s up to you to know about it or just leave it in the dark because like the saying goes; ignorance is bliss. To those that knew about these frailty then let’s do our part in preventing them from getting a hold on our Malaysia today. I’m not going to elaborate on it because this is not what my blog are intended for; if you want to talk politics then talk with those in the know as for me, I’m just a observer that has no power to do anything but I have the power to choose my path to influence the growth of Malaysia. Remember, our country is still young, much like a young human; decisions when they are young will shape what they will become in their adult so choose the right choices for the sake of our beautiful Malaysia.

And always remember

Final Fusion! Ma!-Lay!-Si!-A! Malaysia!!! (queue Yushaa-Oh Tanjou)

Diabolical Box-ing Sponge predicts the coming of Ragnarok!

Let’s start it off hot and fresh. A new NDS game just released this week on a very high note; a game that I have been waiting for ages finally been released on the English language (like years after the Japan release which Japan is already getting what, a fourth? bleh). The name of the game is…

The sun is in your hands!

Yes, you read the title right and it is one of the greatest game ever made on the GBA. A refined showing of adventure, puzzle and RPG elements mashed together to make a gem of a game. With it’s revolutionary way of letting gamers play with the elements; it’s one of the most unique design in any game in a GBA console. Challenging puzzles accompany those that dared playing through the game (you can always use a walkthrough though) often giving light to unearthly secrets from the standard chests to rare chests, it’s always a joy to get them (or a pain if the chest contains shit like 1 gold, weee~). Standard RPG fare is intact such as level, stats, equips, (sarcasm) long ass conversations, mute main character, damsel in distress, a kid destined to eradicate the world of baddies while the old mans sits at home letting the kid facing his demise (/sarcasm) and pretty strong story elements. That’s a lot of stuff to put in a single GBA game that many other tried but fall short (cough… KHCoM… cough).

Have you guess it? Think about it for a sec and try to guess which game it is. It’s fairly obvious from just looking at the title of the post. After you guessed the game or clueeless or just lazy, click on continue for an answer.

End of the Mega Games

Finally, after breaking my hands and fingers while pushing the limit of my hand-eye coordination; I have beaten Mega Man 1-7, Rock Man 1-7 and Mega Man X1-X3. Wow, that’s a lot of Mega games being covered in 3 weeks time; the game is short to begin with but it’s just delightfully fun. The X series is much more challenging, innovative and inspiring; rather than focusing on random death traps like those in the original Mega game, it instead focuses on cleverly put death traps and precise wall jumping (precise disappearing block jumping in the original) to make out of tough spot and not die. And it sure as hell is less of an annoyance compared to the Guts Man and Ice Man stage in Mega 1… I still have nightmares jumping the platform in the Ice Man stage. All in all, it’s great but much like the original series, it’s start getting stale after the second game but (warning: excessively long sarcastic comment) if everyone can enjoy and love the wonderfully mindless violent game that takes people from China’s ancient history and give them super power while churning games with the same exact thing in each game just so to extract more money from their consumer (sarcasm end) then why can’t there be love for Mega Man?

Some Random Stuff

This really is some random stuff to commemorate the first comment in this blog… All Hail Ultima’s Majestic Presence! (sarcasm). I’m putting some random music video of the music that I like so, enjoy… Especially the last one; ultima, that’s for you… (grins…)

Another Mega post!

Some days ago, as I was playing Mega 6 a friend of mine known as “ultima” untimely ym-ed me and almost killing Mega in the process. That was close and I might have been pissed if I actually died but I didn’t so it’s cool. He gave me a link to a youtube video and I was split to watch it or just ignore it and continue playing Mega 6… I decided to watch the video and hold off playing for a while. I waited and then I see Mega 2 on the screen then I heard a familiar tune and then it started singing. I hear it, looked at some info on the info box and what do you know; it’s a song based of the bgm from Dr. Wily Castle in Mega 2; aptly named “Okkusenman!” based of the bgm name and it blew my mind. I loved it. I shared it with my roommates and they love it too. One of me roomie even loop the song infinitely always, each and every passing seconds and I too loop the same song so it’s really overkill. Never have we ever play the same thing at the same time ever so that really tell the whole story.

This is the original song with English subs and a flash animation based of the song.

The meaning behind the song really taken me aback and makes me remember my childhood especially the Ultraman part and the part where you play cartridge NES games. Ah, the time of simple TV and gaming enjoyment…

Some stuff my friend want me to do ^^

1. What’s my feelings now
Confused and tired cause haven’t sleep since yesterday and been playing Mega games since this evening.

2. I want to eat
The damn chicken chop that my friend tapau for me but I need to finish Mega 6 first

3. I hate
Myself

4. My dream
Having a small company of game publisher but recognized by the world and to make at least 1 Mega game

5. I hope
To get a girlfriend and experience a heart-break soon

6. If I can go back to the past
I want to fly

7. Me 10 years in the future
Will be a world renowned game maker and have a wife

8. My HP is
Broken up into 3 important pieces

9. I have been in a love affair for
0, ZERO, nilch, nada, nu’uh, kosong, emptiness…..

10. I like
My family, friend and then the most important thing right now is my lover, my computer

11. My friends are
Crazily stupid and two of them even have debts to me >:) 50% interest rate!!!!!

12. Have been betrayed by
Never felt that I have been betrayed

14. What do you do to the one that betrayed you
Well, if it does happen then I’ll just jump a cliff and die or I can push them down the cliff instead

15. My top 8 people to tag
My mom, my dad, my bro, my sis, my friends, my roommates, myself, my lovely computer

Secret of Mega Metroid!!!

You read the title, what will make you think? Of course the first thing is either Mega Man as in ‘Mega’ or Metroid as the title plainly says ‘Metroid’ on it! Either way, you’re right. This post has something to do with Mega Man and Metroid and another game. What you may ask? Here’s a hint, that game name has ‘Secret of’ in it. If you still can’t figure it out then just keep on reading. You will know then.

I’ll start off with the Mega Man games as it’s fairly easy to write them up. I have beaten Mega 4 when I was at home during the holiday and just beaten Mega 5 some hours ago. It really does felt good beating them but well, it’s definitely harder than the earlier ones especially Mega 4. Man, that game was really hard, I was stunned by it hardness and it’s all mainly due to the controls. Yeah, it’s all basic Megaman fare but it just felt stiff. Doing a jump+turn+shoot is harder on it than other Mega games except for 3. Mega 3 is much stiffer than Mega 4 and doing a jump+turn+shoot is nigh to impossible but Mega 3 is easier than Mega 4 so I don’t mind much. The controls does feel better in Mega 4 but the Mega 1 and 2 controls are the best because it’s just felt really accurate using it. To add to the hardness of the game, the final Dr. Wily form is as frustrating as hell. The room is dark, Wily in there somewhere and he only come out for 2-3 seconds each and in that time I had to fire a shot while all the time avoiding his attacks. As, easy as that sounds, it doesn’t unfortunately. His appearance pattern is none and he almost always comes out at the spot where hitting him is impossible. To make matter worse, when fighting the damn thing, only two weapons can damage him; the Pharaoh Shot and the Ring Boomerang. All other weapons including the primary Mega buster are void of use. Talk about a case of denial! Even the main primary weapon is obsolete!