Tasunke's Random Ramblings

So it’s been a while since I translated one of these posts. I’m really sorry about that. Life’s been quite hectic the past couple of months. I’m studying abroad in Japan this school year, for instance. ;) Anyway, the next one to translate (originally posted on August 7th, 2009) is entitled 「コスプレでパワーアップ!!」 or, “Power up with cosplay!!” It seems that by dressing up your charadoll, you’ll be able to boost her stats in the water gun shooting game. Let the translation commence…. after the jump.

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So, the latest update on information about the ai sp@ce watergun shooting game came out on July 17th. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy, and haven’t gotten around to looking at it until now. If anyone’s actually reading these posts, I’m really sorry about that. ^^; If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I might suggest reading my previous posts about this game, where I discuss the enemies and some of the basics of the game.
It seems the mysterious silhouette from last time is a girl that’s the mastermind behind this entire situation. In other words, the one sitting in the background and pulling the strings.
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So, as promised, on June 26th, ai sp@ce posted the next tidbit of information about their odd little watergun shooting game. This time, it’s information about the enemies in the game, and I will again attempt to translate what they have to say in this latest update. (If you’re lost about what the watergun shooting game is, you can read my previous post on the subject.)
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Okay, this is kind of odd. But I figured people would like to know about it. I found out about it when checking the ai sp@ce website to see if there was some kind of known outage (or if it was just an issue with my computer).

Apparently ai sp@ce launched is launching some kind of new watergun shooting game. Now the fact that it’s a watergun shooting game isn’t what’s odd. Nor that it seems that you are playing it as your chara doll. No the odd thing about it is something else entirely.
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As some of you who play ai sp@ce may be aware, the font used for in-game dialog is horrible. All too often, kanji with many strokes become unreadable blobs.

If you’re familiar enough with the kanji to be able to read it anyway, you’re okay. However, if you’re having to look up the kanji for any reason, it’s going to be almost impossible to do so. That is why I started looking into ways I could get at the text being displayed directly. In my searching, I found AGTH.
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So, I sat down to play some more Neo Steam, with the intent to get some more leveling done. One of my goals was to hit level 20 by the end of Open Beta, so that I could be entered into the drawing for a pair of Neo Steam steampunk goggles. I was at level 14 at the start of the evening, however, and didn’t anticipate reaching that goal in a single evening.

(Spoiler Warning: Some events of the Elerd story quests may be revealed in this post, so if you wish to avoid such spoilers, you may wish to not read further.)
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Of course there was a character wipe before the open beta of Neo Steam. As such, I had to start over. I picked the same faction, race, and class as last time, and ran through the same beginning quests. Flipping over the rocks still takes an annoyingly long amount of time. ;) Talking with Neko about it, he agreed with me.
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So, today is the last day of the “Early Access” beta for Neo Steam. I finally got to the city of Nasdaim and did a few quests there.
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So, I got to sit down for another day at Neo Steam.
I got up to level 11 today. I ended up running several quests from this one NPC (whose name escapes me at the moment, she wanders around near the save point person), some were more of killing specific animals, but there was one where I was harvesting some kind of plant for her.
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Well, Atlus launched the “Early Access Beta” for Neo Steam today. It looks quite fun, and I enjoyed what I was able to play of it today. It’s a steampunk MMORPG, and both Neko and I are playing it. His two big reasons, as I understand it, are that it’s being published in the US by Atlus, and that it’s steampunk. I tend to agree. ^_^
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