Aurus Gaming

So, english again? Yup, why? I dunno, if anyone likes it better in spanish let me know, the post from yesterday felt a little bit more... natural.

Well, today I'm gonna be talking a bit about a game that I've been playing for about 5 hours, I haven't finished it yet and it's not a new game or anything, but I've really been enjoying it.

The game's name, as you might already figured out is Dust-An Elysian Tail. It is a platformer 2D game with some 3D and particle effects in which you take control of Dust, a blueish fox/furry thingy that wakes up one day in the woods not remembering anything about who he is or how he got there. He's awakened by this weird flying-talking sword called Ahrah who tells him a thing or two about how he must find his destiny and all that kind of stuff. Not much later another party member joins, this one's called Fidget and it's a...cat? I would say, with bat wings and cangaroo tail.

Fidget says the sword belongs to her people and wants to take it back to which Dust replies he needs the sword to find out who he is.

From there, the story develops but I won't be talking about it, let's switch out to the gameplay.

Since I started the game I've been playing it with an Xbox controller, it just feels better to me to play platformers with controllers, and overall it's been a good experience, the controls themselves are responsive and fluid and not hard to get used to.

One thing though that really grinds my gears is the moving speed of Dust, you see, when you're fighting you can do all sort of crazy techinques and the game feels fast paced and it's awesome! But, when you're outside of battle the moving speed of the blueish hero is really annoying! Like I said I haven't finished the game yet and I'm still hoping there will be a way further in that allows you to actually run when not battling...Still being 5 hours into a game and having to basically WALK everywhere when you're not slicing monsters is quite a drag.

Anyway, just to dig a little bit more into battle that's an aspect of the game that I really liked a lot, the combos and moves you can make are all pretty fun and the screen gets filled out with particles of explosions and attacks during almost any battle making it a rewarding experience at least for me. You learn some basic moves that you can perform with Dust and then there's Fidget who also helps by firing this "projectiles" that don't do much by themselves but once you combine them with Dust moves you can turn the screen into a mess and begin massing up combos, the larger the combo the more exp you get from the battle, however if you get hit during a combo the whole chain will break and of course you will not get the exp from it.

Experience will get you levels, and levels will get you gems which in turn you can use to ...levelup... your stats. Aaaand of course you have your inventory with a slot for a quick item to be used during battles (usually healing items) and slots for equipment, armor, accesories, etc...Also you can collect crafting items and blueprints which can be forged by blacksmiths inside the game to get better equipment and items.

Last but not least I'd like to tell you about the dialogues in this game as the characters are voiced. 

THEY ARE GREAT.

It probably is the part that I've enjoyed the most out of the game mainly because the scripts are spontaneous and casual and funny and the voice acting is very very good. Also they make some cool references

In general I'd say the game is a little bit childish as for art design and storyline goes but it's worth playing if you want a cool platformer/beatemup game.

Ok, I think that would be it for now, just a friendly reminder this is NOT supposed to be a full review of the game or anything, please do not take this as a reference of whether the game is good or not as this is merely my opinion of it, if you want an actual review of the game to see if you should buy it or not please google it as I'm sure there are a ton out there made by pro people who does that for a living. Remember I haven't finished it yet.

Allright, that's all then. Have a great day~

So today, for no reason at  all I will write this post in english.

I don't have a particular topic that I want to talk about but I do want to make this post to recommend to whoever may read this, a web(?)series that I've been watching over the past weekend.

The title of the show is Video Game High School, so yeah, it is relevant to this blog, and it's basically about a society in which gamers are broadly viewed as rock stars, you know, like soccer or football players are seen today. 

Tournaments are streamed by TV and Internet all over the world, there's a world ladder and a whole bunch of other things...apparently, but the main story centers in this so called Video Game High School or VGHS for short which is recognized as the world's most prestigious Pro Gamer Academy as the very best player of them all "The Law" is enrolled in there.

The story however does not follow "The Law", as a matter of fact for all season 1 he's the main antagonist. The main character is called Brian who by weird circumstances ends up killing "The Law" during an Online Match for the most popular FPS  there is. Casually, the match was being streamed, and so, our hero jumps to fame as he enters said school and struggles through ...everyday? highschooler scenarios, mainly centered of course in getting a girlfriend.

Anywayzzz... the series is quite short, 5 episodes for season 1 and 6 for season 2, each with a duration no longer than 35 minutes, however, at least for me it is worth watching as it has a lot of cool references and funny moments.

I'm watching it on netflix so if any of you has an account you should totally check it out.

Let me know if you liked it!

That's it for now people, see ya later.

Buenos Viernes,

¿Como les Viernes el día de hoy? 

Espero que Viernes, yo ayer ...¿o antier? No recuerdo, vi unos vídeos en youtube que me gustaron bastante, son de esos que hacen un overview y comparan dos consolas.

El sujeto que hizo estos es agradable y no se ve que quiera atacar a ninguna de las dos compañías involucradas en el titanico encuentro, aunque... quizá tenga algo que ver el hecho de que las consolas comparadas tienen mas de 10 años de antigüedad

Bueno, aquí se los dejo, es un solo vídeo en dos partes. ¡Ojala les gusten!

¡Hai Desu!

Saturday Naito~ FTW

Cuentan que en alguna ocasión SEGA fue una compañía completa e independiente que hacia sus propias consolas y todo.

Señor Segata Sanshiro San

Este vídeo que les dejo a continuación es, parece, de cuando anunciaban el Sega Saturn en Japón. Y está bien ÉPICO ¿por qué? Por que tiene un hombre japonés de mediana edad que dice non-sense a la mitad del vídeo.

¡Disfruten y hasta la próxima! 

       
Hola hola!!

Aquí saludando y escribiendo nuevamente una entrada en mi (por segunda ocasión) olvidado blog.

La vida da muchas vueltas ¿no? En cualquier momento puede suceder algo con lo que no estábamos contando y cambiar completamente nuestros planes, a corto, mediano o largo plazo ya sea para bien o para mal o a veces muy para mal… aunque también imagino que debe haber quien le haya cambiado muy para bien no?

Hay personas (como yo) que tomamos las decisiones que tomamos creyendo que son las mejores. Y es que ¿siempre es así verdad? Nadie tomaría una decisión que no cree que sea buena, aun así sea a cambio de algo de sacrificios jajaja… como dice un buen amigo mio “no existen las malas decisiones, solo los cambios de circunstancias”.
Y aun así esas elecciones, aunque tomadas por nosotros en plena conciencia, no siempre son lo que mas quisiéramos hacer. Ya sea guiados por el sentido de lo “correcto” o “tradicional” para la sociedad o de lo que es mas “seguro” muchos definimos que hacer con nuestras vidas con la esperanza de que esas decisiones nos retribuyan el esfuerzo a largo plazo lo suficiente para llevar una vida tranquila.

Hay otras personas sin embargo que no se guían por estos “lineamientos” si no por su pasión y determinación por lograr hacer con sus vidas lo que ellos y ellas realmente quieren hacer con sus vidas. Muchas personas podrían pensar que aquellos que toman estos caminos no están pensando en el futuro, en el largo plazo, en el “y que tal si…no funciona”

Bueno…y que tal si tu vida gira antes de que puedas hacer “eso” que realmente querías hacer.

A que viene todo este merquetengue pseudofilosofico? Este tiempo que estuve ausente del blog, ademas de un par de experiencias personales tuve la oportunidad de ver un documental que muy probablemente ya hayas visto que me hicieron reflexionar un poco acerca de este tipo de cosas, el documental se titula “Free to Play” y trata de la carrera de 3 jugadores profesionales del MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) titulado DOTA.

El documental es realmente bueno y expone de manera espectacular las situaciones por las que estos jugadores han atravesado para poder perseguir sus sueños  desde el punto de vista personal, familiar, escolar, social, sentimental, etc…

El lapso de tiempo sobre el cual esta centrado gira en torno al torneo de DOTA The International, el cual, tiene el record por el  pozo de premios mas grande en la historia de los e-Sports… 1.6 millones de dolares. Va de nuevo, uno punto seis millones de dolares.....sip 1,600,000 USD.

Ellos lo hicieron, tomaron la decisión sin un historial por el cual guiarse, sin  pensar que harían si esto no les funcionaba, solo lo hicieron por que es lo que querían hacer y ahora esta oportunidad se les presento.

Realmente espero que lo vean, es una grandiosa introspectiva a ese mundo casi ficticio para muchos de nosotros conocido como e-Sports.

El documental dura aproximadamente una hora y media y esta disponible para su descarga gratuitamente en Steam ya que Valve es la compañía responsable de la producción de esta pieza. Se necesita muchísimo valor para hacer algo como esto, personalmente no creo que pudiera tomar una decisión así, que tal ustedes?

Saludos y hasta la proxima!!

Por causas de fuerza mayor hoy no actualizaré.

 

 

¡Saludos!