“Unya!”, or “Wind – a breath of heart”

Last weekend I played another fully-translated visual novel, this time it was Wind – a breath of heart by minori, available in english thanks to No Name Losers and Insani.

I have to say that I was sceptical of the game, given what was said in various places on the net, but it could be also caused by what was required to get the first release of the patch (A loong story involving destruction of one of game CD’s….). In spite of my reservations, Wind turned out to be an interesting and playable game.

While I won’t go into details about specific routes/endings, I have to say that the ones I liked the most were Minamo, Nozomi and Hikaru routes. As for Hinata route, I liked it’s very ending (reason was similar to one of the points why I like Hikaru’s endings, but I don’t want to spoil the fun) and “うにゅ！/うにゃ！” (“Unyu!/Unya!”) thing, which was Hinata’s catchphrase. No relation whatsoever to the title of this blog :-) (I still don’t know why I named this blog うにゃ。。and I didn’t know of Wind except for the title when I typed it as the title…)

The game is fully voiced (with exception for protagonist) and has movies made by Makoto Shinkai, the author of “Hoshi no Koe” (“Voices of the Distant Star”) and “Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho” (“The place promised in our early days”). And they are great :P (Yup, I am a big fan of those two movies =^_^=). In the RE:Gratitude the content from Wind fandisk is included, but it’s not translated at the moment. Pity :-/

IE 7 is still lagging behind

At least in CSS rendering :-)

Example one:

Example two:

Another small tidbit, this time about Windows Vista. Use “classic view” with Control Panel, at least when you are a Power User. It’s much easier to find what you want in this mode. And finally Windows has sensible firewall config software (Windows Firewall Configuration with Advanced Settings) :-)

Also, Autorun settings for removable media is now managed in one, sensible place. Finally :-)

お誕生日 おめでとう :-)

久しぶり…
あらあらあらあら。。。
昨日はわたしの誕生日ありました。昨日から、私は十八です。

すみません。私は眠たいですから、終わり。=^_^=

Soukou no STRAIN

After getting a recent “batch” of anime to watch from Rughalt, I watched Sōkō no STRAIN.

I have to say that I like this short (13 episodes) series very much. Animation was good, maybe not the best, but holding high standards IMHO. While I don’t have much to say about music (I didn’t notice it – that can be measured as both bad and good, although it might have influenced my feeling of situation), the OP was the best part IMHO – I can’t say exactly what brought my attention to it as it’s not something I’d listen to normally… it was… “disturbing” is a good word :-)

Don’t read more if you don’t want spoilers for 1st episode (I recommend watching 1st episode it without knowing what kind of series it is :D)

I definitely recommend watching it, anyway :P