{"id":72,"date":"2005-12-19T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/12\/19\/to-heart-2-xrated-vs-xbox-360\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T17:31:23","slug":"to-heart-2-xrated-vs-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/12\/19\/to-heart-2-xrated-vs-xbox-360\/","title":{"rendered":"To Heart 2 vs Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the question that has haunt men since the dawn of time: Would more people queue for a PC port of a PS2 game or a next-gen console made by Microsoft? (At least in Japan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/images\/blog\/20051219_th360a.jpg\" alt=\"TH2X vs 360\" \/><br \/>\nClash of the titans. *roar*<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In one corner, we have <strong>To Heart 2 XRATED<\/strong>, a PC port of a popular PS2 visual novel from the fine folks at Leaf who brought us <strong>Comic Party<\/strong> and the original <strong>To Heart<\/strong>. This release adds adult content, new characters and two minigames to the overall experience, but it is otherwise identical to the PS2 version. The stories have their highs and lows and the characters range from &#8220;feh&#8221; to &#8220;ZOMG! &lt;3&#8221;. To its advantage, an anime adaption came out earlier this season, bringing more recognition to the franchise. Also, me love Tamaki for long time. To its disadvantage, the anime sucked donkey ass. Also, visual novels aren&#8217;t the most exciting\/popular games in the world, even Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In the other corner, we have the <strong>Xbox 360<\/strong>, a next-gen console evolved from the original Xbox, Microsoft&#8217;s first step towards regaining US dominance over the console market, 20 years since Atari lost it to Japan and shamed the 50 great states of America. This release adds better HDTV support, wireless controllers, improved Xbox Live, Halo 3 and customizable face plates (ZOMG!) to the overall experience, but it is otherwise identical to the original Xbox. Xbox 360 chose to abandon black in favour of <strike>iPod<\/strike> white and slimmed itself down slightly at the cost of a huge ugly ass external power adaptor. To its advantage, the original Xbox sold more poorly than PSOnes in Japan, so there&#8217;s nowhere to go but up. Also, <strong>Dead or Alive 4<\/strong> <em>might<\/em> be released soon. To its disadvantage, the original Xbox sold more poorly than PSOnes in Japan. Also, PS3 (the mere mention of which can make a grown Japanese man jump for joy) is just on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the winner is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xs.to\/xs.php?h=xs59&#038;d=05506&#038;f=1134816329749.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/images\/blog\/20051219_th360b.jpg\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"TH2X vs 360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Heart 2 XRATED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To Heart queue to the left of the yellow divider and 360 queue to the right.<\/p>\n<p>Only in Japan, folks. The otaku have spoken.<\/p>\n<p>Before people start flaming, I do realize that two samples don&#8217;t give the most accurate scientific results in the world. But hey, it&#8217;s supposed to be funny. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Original <a href=\"http:\/\/xs.to\/xs.php?h=xs59&#038;d=05506&#038;f=1134816329749.jpg\">source<\/a> image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the question that has haunt men since the dawn of time: Would more people queue for a PC port of a PS2 game or a next-gen console made by Microsoft? (At least in Japan) Clash of the titans. *roar*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[75,51,112,74,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}