This is to make The Fool better in the number of posts every week and hopefully to gain some momentum and have more people start commenting and visiting us. We do not want to be a one-hit wonder with a certain image. We want to be visited because of what we write and what we do. Therefore more people should increase site views and make everything better.

So let´s start by mentioning what people we would like to add.

Episodic writers

We write about anime. We like anime. So why not try to find people with more time than myself that can write about a series once a week? It is fun times to read and comment about the current episodes as you watch them yourself.

Reviewer

Got a good game in your collection that you want to review and let the world read and comment on? Then by all means give me a shout of interest. It doesn´t have to be mainstream, the fewer people that know of the title the better basically. It can be any format and even eroge, as long as the images choosen are nice and not to gory/sexual.

The same applies to anything related to anime, manga, video games or visual novels.

Multi-people

People that can handle multiple types of writing. Be it a review, a short post about a episode or just any type of post. That can be mixed in together with the others.

That is all for the moment for people we are looking for.

What we want from you

I am quite easy to please.

I just want you to write decently in English.
Post regularly in your set theme of choice.
Answer comments when you get one unless it´s from a troll.

That is basically all.

What we can give you

We are not able to give you much more than experience and readership. We are not the biggest blog but we have about 30-80 visitors a day so we are still growing.

If you have a idea we can all come together and brain storm about it. If you have a hard time getting a nice post title or image we can help you with that. You are not alone and that is biggest gift we can give you. Experience and a bit of help when needed.

That is just about it.

How to apply

It´s simple, write down some stuff about yourself, your interests and what you would like to write about. I´d also like to receive a short like 250 word long essay showing of how you write. This essay I want in any readable format.

By essay I simply mean a review, a episodic review or just whatever the type of post you want to continue making on the Fool. Make it in about 250 words and when you are done, use the contact form on the Contact Page and you´re done.

Easy right?

So I had to grab the next best thing. A 2600K that is gives basically the same results in most areas as the more expensive 2011 socket or in simple terms: It´s good value for the money it costs to only be after a completely new socket in multi threading when the new CPU can use all of it´s cores.

Now I´ve ordered everything except for the GPU. For that I will wait untill AMD releases their new 7000-series and hope that those cards as cost effective as their current 6900 series is. If they are to expensive I´ll probably get a XFX 6950 card. Probably!

For the other parts? Just check below

• CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3,4GHz
• Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD65 G3 REV B3
• Memory: Corsair 8GB (2x4096MB) CL9 1600Mhz VENGEANCE LP VIT x2
• Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M 700W
• OS drive: OCZ SSD Vertex3 120GB MAX IOPS
• Case: Corsair Carbide 500R Svart

To this list I´ll add 2 Samsung F4 2TB drives with serves as storage for my work and a LG bluray burner/reader.

It should be enough power for me as I am a beginner in just about all fields there is at the moment. I tend to have a good eye for design though so I need some power for using Photoshop or Premiere. I´m starting out in so many fields it just ain´t funny. But it´s good times. Really good times.

This is what my christmas present to myself is as well. Nothing beats grabbing the specs you want for yourself.

And no, I won´t change the name. My computer will always be named Holo. I just wish I could decorate the computer case with her.

Food, presents, different dates for celebrating this special day. I will be thinking and wondering about how to redesign the Fool for V2. I have loads of idea and I have decided on what theme to use as the “backbone” to this new design. Now I just have to wait for it to be released.

Since we have been a tiny bit updated I also want to ask a question. Do you wish to see a reboot of the Fool and only fresh posts alternative a reboot of the content which means I will sit and select what posts/pages to keep and then not keep the older posts at all.

As I do not drive this blog myself anymore it feels weird to have reviews and stories at pages. Reviews are to be moved into ordinary posts and the stories will be moved to my personal blog which I might link to. I just haven´t decided yet.

So let´s celebrate this day of joy by drinking, eating and just enjoying ourselves like it´s some nice year

This here is the first English PV that has been released. It talks about what we have to look forward to in February 2012 as that is when the game will be released.

I´m both looking forward to this title and I also wonder if I should get it since I didn´t finish the first game yet.

The main idiot

Shulk is a boy that is very much interested in mechanics and above all a mysterious sword called the “Monad”. So interested that he ignores basically everyone around him. Much to Fiora, a girl childhood friend of his, big irritation.

For me it is irritating to see that a person is so much interested in mechanics and a mysterious sword that he has to ignore just about everything around him. Openly anyway. He is interested in Fiora one can tell from his actions and how he acts when she is in danger.

He also has some fighting ability and weirdly for a main character he also has some weak support spells. You can understand my face when I noticed that. All this is because the game itself uses “aggro” in battles and Shulk is pretty weak in the HP department for a MC.

The reason he has healing spells is for when in battle he is supposed to be more of a supportive character than anything else.

Questing

When I called this a MMORPG I wasn´t lying. Just about everyone in town has something to ask of Shulk. It can be killing a certain monster, collecting items dropped from monsters or finding persons or people.

Your reward are items and exp as well as the items you get for killing the opponents. MMORPG style it is. Very western RPG as well with loads of NPCs thinking you are a blind hero that is only to be used for little reward. Given the amount of enemy levels that appear in the starting area you kinda need the levels. And doing these quests by yourself is a big no-no as you are to weak, the healing spell you have rarely heals anything and the enemies are everything from easy to gruesome. In the starting area there are enemies from lvl 1 to lvl 70 all depending on where in the big starting area you head. Some of the enemies are agressive and attack on sight, others are more friendly and need you to attack them first. Which is a good thing since otherwise you would be attack by swarms of enemies.

It´s basic stuff but it works and it gives you a good chance to rack up on the small amount of exp that some of the enemies give as well.

Achievements

Discovering new lands, doing big amount of damage, doing quests. Everything in this game seems to give you a achievement of some sorts sometime. Which will give you exp which is a good thing. Often you get more exp from the achievements than from questing or defeating enemies.

Battling in real time

The most disturbing thing with Xenoblade Chronicles is that you need to choose a enemy and then draw your weapon to start the battle. It makes walking around and exploring easy but if a enemy is attacking you on sight you have to sport the enemy first, draw your weapon and then you have to execute the command to start fighting.

Normal attacks are automatic and depends on weapon type. So dual wielding is a good idea here. Skills is where you get in. You have special skills with certain attributes for each character. Which can make more damage if you attack from the rear or side by example.

There are also bigger badder monsters available that do more damage, have higher HP and are a big challange. They also give out quite good exp if you are at the right level.

I haven´t started yet

This is my thoughts for the first 6 hours of gameplay. And with that I haven´t even walked past the first area yet. There are simply so many quests to do. Often one person have 3 or more quests in a row for you to accept. So this is a big freaking game.

But understandable. It is both fun and irritating to do battle. Irritating that the only revive option is for your teammate to walk over to you and use a special unit that charges up as you do critical hits and the like. But there are only 3 of these units that can be filled. And if you don´t battle all the time they slowly degrade and go from full to empty. Which can be irritating.

The really sad part is that this so far is a PAL territory exclusive title only. So no NTSC version available yet. Which is a pity since it is actually a quite good and interesting game. But I hope it will get better as I play it.

So if you haven´t preordered it yet, what are you waiting for, head over to Jlist and their My Girlfriend is the President productpage and make your order

JastUSA describes the game as follows

My Girlfriend is the President is a fun and wacky visual novel full of cute girls, hilarious parody, and stirring romance. The player is Junichiro Hondo, who wakes up one day to find that the world has been transformed by aliens into a bishoujo paradise where cuteness is the ultimate authority. His childhood friend Yukino Ohama has become President of the United States of Nippon, who rules with overwhelming cuteness and a healthy dose of brainwashing. Will Junichiro be able to set the world right? Will he even want to?

My Girlfriend is the President is a multi-scenario romance simulation game with several endings to explore. Through their actions, players will be able to decide which of four cute and quirky girls Junichiro ends up with. Joining US President Ohama are Russian President Irina Putina (are these names starting to sound familiar?), Chief of Staff Ran Miyoshi, and a mysterious girl called Ell who just happens to be an alien starship in human form!

And since I know that there will be at least one “Yes we can” parody I just can´t seem to erase the smile on my face. Just such a good thing to make a parody of.

I have already made my preorder since the very first time I saw it being released. So many good visual novels are going to be released during the end of this year and the next I just can´t wait.

p.s if you instead want Aselia the Eternal you can grab that one right here!!

A digital War

For all Fate fans you are given a nice treat. THe Holy War is now managed by a big satellite on the Moon. The Holy War is now a state of a game with a lethal twist. Lose in this game and you will die in the real world. Potential masters are selected and brought to the virtual school ground of Tsukumihara Academy as students. Here they have 4 days to acknowledge that something is wrong, that everyday is the same and that they repeat the same stuff day after day.

If they succeed in wanting to know who they really are they are given a examination. Succeed at this test and glory to you, you are now a chosen Master with your own Servant, if you did not succeed well you´re dead.

A long long intro

Thought Wild Arms with it´s three different character intro was long? Well this is a bit longer and only because of the sheer amount of things you do. Having read that you could choose your gender I was dumbstruck when I started a new game. I did not get a choice in the matter and my gender was chosen for me. As a guy I got accustomed to Tsukumihara Academy with some cameos from the series Fate/Stay Night like Sakura and Shinji Matou, Rin Tohsaka and Toiga.

It was a nice welcome for me. Even though I wondered why I hadn´t been allowed to choose my gender or servant. I spent time doing research on “mysterious happenings” on school grounds for the school newspaper. Sometimes I would get a big headache and wonder why the screen suddenly got all weird. Like watching a old TV with bad reception the screen got somewhat blurry.

Four days I spent running around school grounds getting to know the place. Then I “awakened” to my situation and wanted to get free from the chains of destiny. So I followed a mysterious transfer student into a different realm. Here I found a weird body that was assigned to protect me. We ventured forth and found a dead body. The same kind of weird body lay still on the floor only to suddenly spring to life and attack me.

A battle!! Finally some action I thought. But I couldn´t do shit and my temporary servant was defeated as easy as pie. I collapse at the floor wondering if this is the end? Where did I make a wrong choice since I didn´t want to restart and try again.

Oh boy this must be the first game that trolls me this hard. This time spent running around school ground and talking with everyone and getting accustomed to this place was about 2 hours. And it was just the introduction to the game. NOW the real game starts.

A grindfest

This game demands you to grind. Or at least it does for me since I choose Caster as my servant. With a good status overall of E in all aspects she is the weakest servant. But I have my love for animal girls so the choice wasn´t hard to make :p

This game consists of two stages. During your school day you react and answer questions from teachers, fellow students and rival magi. You can also go to your own special room to talk with your servant. You might even want to go to the library. The reason for this is as any Fate-fan should know. To get information about your opponent and his/her servant. This gives you an edge in battles and makes them a lot easier.

The other type of stage is in the “arena”. The place where you will spend most of your time. In this arena there are enemies that you will defeat, items in chests to gain money or special gear. There are several stages and all of them are fixed in size, types of enemies and items that appears. If you want to exit you have to go to the beginning or the end of the arena you are on. You can save when you are in school but not in the arena. If your servant is defeated at anytime in any battle it is game over.

You also only have 6 days of school and grinding in the arena before the boss appears. There is also a recommended lvl for you to be at when the 7th day comes around in the week. So you better get your fighting gear on fast and good.

Rock, scissors, paper

The battles are easy. Each round consists of 6 actions. You have a choice of “attack”, “guard” and “break”. And they work like the classic game rock, scissors and paper. Where each choice wins over one, get´s defeated by one and is a draw if the same symbol is used.

Here attack wins over break, break wins over guard and guard wins over attack. if both should choose attack or break there will either be a simultaneous attack where both servants are hurt or you get 0 damage. If both choose guard nothing happens.

Should you succeed to choose the right action 3 times in a row you will get a “Extra” attack that is a one hit where your opponent can´t do a thing.

The more you fight the same enemy type the more knowledge you get of the enemy. This gives you an edge in battles as you see what they will do and can counter it pretty easy.

Interesting and irritating

This game is a mouthful. It has excellent typings, some comedy and a easy battle system to learn. But the amount of time I will have to spend on grinding is not fun at all. Especially since I haven´t found a way to save while in the arena. So one false move and I will have to replay who knows how much time thanks to one false move since Caster is so weak. I´m currently trying to get her physical attack and def up to speed to stand a chance. It has gone so-so.

And since you can´t run from a battle when you have started it you can guess how many times I´m going to rage…

With good dialogue, nice characters and a fresh take on the Holy Grail War from the Fate universe this game is golden. Now as long as I just gain more knowledge about when I can save and not… it would make things so much easier.

Which is lovely. So lovely.

So watch the movie and enjoy I know I did.

The choice made at the beginning doesn´t affect anything. You just get to see that girl flustered :p

As I said in the previous post I was at a loss over what to do. Should I get a new theme by buying one or should I create one myself?

That is what I´ve been thinking about these last two months. As well as studying full time and even above that in terms of points. So even without having to think about The Fool I´ve been busy as hell. Which my co-writters have been as well.

I´m starting to get the hang of the studies so I can start making my time more well spent than before. Which is a good thing since then I can start writing stuff again.

New theme thoughts

There is really just one thing I´ve decided about the new theme. The images will grow in width to 640. Height will not be fixed but will be what fits each image.

This theme I´m using now(SimpleReader) is not to be seen as the final product or the new theme that we are going to use. There will be a new theme. But just for making it more easy on our visitors this theme was choosen. I liked the basic design and the frontpage so I had to get it.

IF you like this theme to much then I´ll simply change this into something I´m 100% satisfied with. But unless you do just that I will change it sometime in the future.

A new logo

The future will hold a new logo as well. If everything goes as I want it the new logo might look something like this

Flames? Love? Just hit me with your thoughts. The image will be replaced in the future. With what is a secret XD

Theme Features?

As I said I´m looking to change the theme into something fresh and new. To give a good experience to most of our visitors I want to ask those of you that comment: What features/styles would you like to see here?

I personally am not fond of sliders, but I know some people are. So let me know what you think should be incorporated into the new Fool and I will try my best to make it happen if I like the idea.

Wanna help?

Since things are as they are with The Fool I´m going to place a question to our readers: Do you want to help keep the Fool more lively with your own texts?

As most of my co-bloggers are to busy with their lives to blog I´m back to being alone. So if you want to write for us then by all means send me a mail with a review or something that you might want to be published on here and we will work the details out.

Maybe not a full co-blogger but maybe some interesting texts then and now? Everything is possible. Just try to keep it in the area this blog is about.

That´s all

Well, there is not much more to say. Everything I wanted to say has been said and done. So let me know what you think and what your hopes are for the new Fool.

Best of luck to us all!

It´s been a long time since I last posted. I´m lost in thought to how to continue.

I´m starting to get a bit tired of Arthemia Premium. We´ve had the same design for 3 years now and it looks and works great. But still I want something new and fresh for it.

And I´m not sure if I should buy another theme, try to find a free theme and change it to my liking or code a completely new theme on my own. Since I can´t decide at the moment I don´t want to write to many posts since it will probably mean that most images will have to few pixels in width for the new theme and I don´t want to sit and reupload every single image again. So therefore until I´ve decided on what to do there will be very few posts on here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

There are a few themes I could decide on and get everything going pretty fast. But I´m not 100% sure yet. The other option is that I spend time with Arthemia Premium and make a child theme to it which changes how it looks but not how it works.

So let me know what you think and want. A complete new theme? Bought or own coded or simply rearrange the current theme?