I’ve been spending the past two weeks burning my way through a long list of backlogged games I want to clear before school starts and I lose my NEET badge, including Shadow of the Colossus, Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 2 and L.A. Noire.

Valkyria Chronicles 3 is one of them. And this time I am actually reviewing it in an almost timely fashion and nowhere close to the release date of the next game. Go me.

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Post tags: psp, sega, valkyria chronicles, vc, vc3

So I finished the new Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai game for PSP. Well, I didn’t 100% it but I saw all the “true” endings except for Manami’s and that’s good enough. It’s not a bad game if you are into AVG but its primary purpose is basically fan service.

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Post tags: ayase-tan, bandai namco, galge, kirino kousaka, kyousuke kousaka, oreimo, psp, review, tsundere

Sony just announced PSP2. Dubbed the Next Generation PlayStation Portable (NGP), it looks like a slightly-tweaked version of the original PSP design. The most obvious change is the inclusion of two analogue sticks — actual analogue sticks similar to the DualShock’s and not whatever nub thingy the original PSP had.

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With the release date of Valkyria Chronicles 3 for PSP less than two weeks away, I figure this is the perfect time (by my usual standard of procrastination) for me to write up my thoughts on VC2, a game which I had only recently completed.

In my defence, I only got to play the original VC three months ago after finally caving and buying a secondhand PS3. Also, Valkyria Chronicles 2 is the most amazing game ever created for the PSP and everyone with two opposable thumbs should play it.

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Apparently some time during the past few months, I found it within me the sudden urge to preorder both the PS2 and PSP Haruhi game releases, despite the fact that I didn’t actually own a PSP at that point of time. (I do now.) Wow, this is sort of like receiving a belated birthday present from an unknown stranger who broke into my bank account to pay for it.

More pictures after the break.

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Apparently it’s a sample of some content that Bandai is planning for Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku‘s (the PSP game) homepage. It’s hard to do nice-looking cel-shaded 3D models and I think this one is pretty damn good. It uses MotionPortrait technology from a company by the same name. (I guess they don’t do much else.)

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According to the place-holder page on the official site, more details will be revealled in the upcoming issues of The Sneaker (30/6), Comptiq (10/7), Newtype (10/7), Gekkan Shounen Ace Assault (10/7) and Degenki PlayStation (13/7).

[ Sources: Famitsu | Impress Watch | Kotaku ]

So… what do you think it’s gonna be? AVG? Rhythm? (i.e. Hare Hare Revoluton) Platform? Detective? Ren’ai? My bet is on a puzzler. They are easy to make and good for exploiting fanboys.

That said, I just recently sold off my import PSP. Still, being an easily-exploitable fanboy, I will probably be getting this game. I mean, it’s not like I don’t have a stack of other useless UMD games left on my shelf… One more won’t hurt. And who knows, maybe I’ll get myself a second generation PSP when it eventually arrives.

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Post tags: bandai, haruhi suzumiya, psp

All you have to do is to upgrade your firmware 1.5 to the hacked 3.02 OE-B firmware and convert the ISO image of your PS1 game into a PSP-bootable EBOOT.PBP file using the bundled tool.

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Post tags: emulation, geek, pirate, playstation, psp, sony

The sad thing is that this requires 2.50 firmware minimum, which means that the time has come for me to upgrade my PSP and give up the benefits of piracy homebrews. Well, hopefully 2.50 gets cracked soon, since piracy game-backuping is pretty much dying anyway now that all the new and cool releases are starting to require 2.50 firmware.

The happy thing is that it’s a good game that’ll last me for some time and Ruri is in it!

I really want to get Comic Party Portable and Boku no Watashi Katamari Damacy too, but they will have to wait… (like, maybe months)

On another note, the shop was also selling Xbox 360 premium bundle with one game for S$860. The DOA4 demo running on HDTV resolution looked ZOMFG good. Holy shit. Too bad I’m not interested in a 360 and I lack a HDTV.

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Post tags: psp, super robot wars