Pet Society – Love Tree

lovetreeI logged into Pet Society to check on my Love Tree and it had reached full size! I’m excited that it’s a cherry tree! It looks so pretty I’m considering buying another seed and keeping it back for later. My tree still hasn’t born fruits yet, but with a tree so pretty I’m not to worried about what the fruits will look like.

In other news, my bleeding heart flowers have also grown, but I’m afraid to take them out of the ground since I hear there was a glitch where they became the Waratah after pulling them from the ground. I guess if you planted your flowers before the glitch was fixed you will wind up with a Waratah instead. In the end though as I think of it, I may as well pull it, because if it isn’t really a bleeding heart then I will want to plant another one….what a waste of money though if it turns up a Waratah! XP

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Petling Round-Up

petlingsamplerSo I spent some time during lunch running around to all of the houses in my village to check and see who were proud pet owners and I only came up with 8 people with petlings out of the I don’t know how many villagers I have. Anyway the pic above is just a little sampler of some of the different styles and colors available. I find it weird though that ALL of the puppies in my neighborhood are chocolate brown though, while with the kittens there appears to be more variety. I wonder if there is just more variety overall with the kittens?

So far I’m going to have to say that I like the styles of the kittens better than the puppies, but I am still not interested in getting a petling until I know what their full life cycle is about and how likely they are to run away if you don’t log in for a day. Anyway if anyone else has any pets in a different style or color, feel free to comment below and share your pic. :D

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Pet Society – Petlings and Other Things

petlingstage1Last night I decided to log into Pet Society so I could plant a bleeding heart flower as after seeing them grown in other people’s gardens I decided I liked it enough to have one for myself. On a whim I also decided to check and see if any of my neighbors had Petlings. I didn’t check too many houses, but I did find a couple that had petlings. It seems overall that not a lot of people in my village have a Petling yet. Perhaps they too are waiting to see how things work out with them and reports start coming in. Of course you can only choose between a dog and a cat right now, and there is the promise of more types of Petlings in the future, so maybe there is a bit of holding out too.

Either way you can see one of the cat Petlings in the picture above, in what appears to be their first stage of growth after you feed them once. It appears that the color and style of Petling you get is random, as I have seen dark brown, tan, and grey colors so far, and two different styles of puppy type Petlings. I might feel curious enough to do a cafe crawl and see what other styles and color I can find, but we’ll see as there is Hiiro no Kakera to play too. :3 Anyway beyond that, I’ve heard that Petlings can’t be gifted, sold, or recycled, and you can’t have more than one at once. Also of the neighbors with Petlings I visited, I was unable to interact in any way with their Petling, so it doesn’t appear your neighbors can care for your animal if you are away or anything.

Well, that’s it for now, I’m still waiting for my Love Tree to grow. Right now it is a little green sapling with tear shaped leaves. I hope it grows into something pretty!

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Hiiro no Kakera – Chapter 4 – Day 1

c04d01sky So, we start this chapter with you sitting in class listening to your teacher lecture. You are despondent and lost in your own thoughts however, and rather than furiously taking notes like your classmates, you are finding it hard to find the energy to move your pencil. You start thinking to yourself about how the world is going on as if nothing happened, while meanwhile your remaining interest in the future and doing well on tests has disappeared. As you stare out the window at the sky you recall what had happened. It has apparently been three days now since your defeat, and every night your dreams are filled with the horrible images from the battle. The images of everyone being so handily cut down is now etched in your memory. Beyond that you haven’t been allowed to go see them since that day while they are recovering back at the house. You blame yourself for their injuries, with having carelessly called them into battle, and despite worrying over them you are afraid to see them. Because of what happened in that battle your world view has now changed, and you also now feel that your affairs are not the same as other people’s and that the only thing that connects you to the ordinary is going to school. Heavy enough for you?

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Pet Society Valentine Shop Update

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I decided to log into Pet Society today to see what was new, and was surprised to find Valentine goods already popping up, but more than that I was surprised by these new “Petlings” you can purchase. Reading the description, it’s basically a pet for your pet, yet another thing to take care of and feed. The thing is though is that in the description it tells you to log in and feed it every day or it will run away. So, are you telling me that if you miss a day then your 1,000+ gold pet will vanish to be nevermore? Hmmmm, sounds……not so good…..I guess we’ll have to wait and see how these Petlings pan out, but I am not ready to waste gold on them just to have them run away when I don’t log in for a day.

Another important thing I noticed though was that there are special flower and tree seeds available for Valentines day. I decided to go for it and bought and planted the Love Tree seed. We’ll have to wait and see yet what that turns into and produces, but hopefully it’s something cute. I decided not to spend the 500g on the flower though. I figure that those will bloom by tomorrow and I can check the Pet Society blogs out there to see what it looks like and determiine if I want one. I hope they look better than the Christmas and Halloween plants though, as I found those to be sort of a let down. Anyway I’ll try to remember to post again when my tree has fully matured!

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Hiiro no Kakera – Chapter 3 – Day 3

This day seems to go on longer than the others, but maybe that’s because it contains the dramatic conclusion to chapter 3. Anyway this is a tough day, and by the end of chapter 3 you will be feeling demoralized. Sound threatening? >:D Anyway on with the day…..

c03d03shinjiadmireAs usual you are spending your lunch hour on the roof with your harem, er, I mean your guardians. XD The weather is good today too and you are feeling hopeful, but also worried about tonight, because you must meet with Aria in what will be a decisive battle. You seem to want to talk about the impending battle, at least for preparedness sake, but none of the boys seem to interested in talking about it. Either way it relieves you though to be there with your friends, and although you find fighting scary, you know that your guardians are trustworthy and so on and so forth. Around this time you notice for the second time that Mahiro seems to be taking enjoyment in something he is looking down on from the roof and you ask him what is up. He gives you an earnest compliment and tells you that he’ll do his best (in battle), and then the other boys will follow suit and tell you they will do their best too. However you are displeased that you don’t have a duty as well, and Yuichi tells you that you are their support…..and I say, some support, so far all we’ve been able to do is be scared, see kamisama and get headaches! I’ll digress though. Anyhow Shinji then tells you that he respects you and it makes you embarrassed and blushy. You want to know why all of the sudden everyone is so generous with the compliments and Takuma tells you that it helps team work go up before a battle….*shrug* Either way you are happy over their kind words.

c03d03mahiroindecentangry At this point you decide you must know what Mahiro is all on about as he is looking down on the campus and you go over to look and find that he is watching Fiona sensei eating her lunch under a tree surrounded by cute girls. You give him a cold stare and tell him he’s indecent, LOL! XD And then of course he gets really angry, and says something that basically sums up into “boys will be boys” and then he looks around for the support of the other guys, because obviously looking at beautiful women is an important manly sort of thing to be doing. Takuma responds first and says that being put together with Mahiro is disagreeable, and then the other boys continue shooting Mahiro down. On top of that Yuuichi even goes so far as to say that Mahiro has been growing impudent and that his ego doesn’t stop swelling…..What’s funny is though is that Mahiro always seems to defer to Yuuichi, and rather than becoming more angry at this point, he gives it up.

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Pet Society Survey at Playfish

I decided to check out the Playfish forums to see if anything else had happened with the issue of the pet’s status bars being so easily depleted. It looks like the voice of the people has died down over it in the forums unfortunately. However on the bright side, Playfish does have a Pet Society survey up right now, so if you are still irritated by it you can go voice your opinion directly to them. The survey seems to ask a lot about the cooking feature, so perhaps there is a possibility other things could be improved by taking this survey too. Here is the link to the survey:

http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=1646671

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Hiiro no Kakera – Chapter 3 – Day 2

So far it appears from the poll that the majority of you are cool with the summaries, but you are split 50/50 between wanting summaries or commentary. Anyway with that said, I’ll continue to do the summaries, but I’ll also try to add in more commentary so maybe they aren’t so bland, lol. I also want to mention before I begin that for the past couple days denshi-jisho has been down, which is the online Japanese dictionary I posted the link for under language resources. Anyway I use it a lot for kanji look-up because sometimes it’s faster than using my dictionary, however with it down it’s been presenting a problem! I decided to go in search of another online Japanese dictionary and found Tangorin.com which is basically the same as denshi-jisho only with different layout. I’ll post the link to that dictionary here and also in the links later: http://tangorin.com/

So, I guess it appears I left off posting with Chapter 3 day 2, so I’ll go ahead and pick it up here. Anyway it’s a new day and you wake early so you decide to spend some time lounging around in bed and practice seeing things that you can’t normally see, aka kamisama. Apparently you have picked up practicing this in an attempt to hone your powers or something. Anyhow you have a scene where the screen goes black and you start meditating until everything goes away and presumably your tamayori sense kicks in when suddenly you hear a click.
c03d02kamisama You then open your eyes and see this cute little guy standing startled in the corner of your room. I guess your practice must be paying off then. You know I have to say at this point that whereas I don’t dislike the heroine, playing her role makes you feel worthless at times because although you are supposed to be the tamayori, you have virtually no powers other than getting a headache when the seals are molested, and now apparently if you concentrate really hard you can spy on harmless kamisama around the shrine. I don’t know about you, but I’d really like to have a more active role in the preservation of the shrines. However at this point we aren’t even halfway through the game, so perhaps you will develop more powers later on. Well, I guess it helps that the heroine feels the same way, if she didn’t, I probably would be displeased with her.

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Picking up Hiiro no Kakera Again

I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to return to Hiiro no Kakera and finally finish off the game. I took a peek at more of the story tonight, but I didn’t save, so if I wanted to I could go back and do a full translation. Anyway I’m not sure how helpful people find my summaries, or if I am wasting my time? Naturally I can get through the game faster if I don’t write everything down and then blog about it, so I have been considering dropping my summarizing of the game.

So really what I’m asking is that if you find the summaries helpful or interesting let me know…this can also go for Hoshizora no Comic Garden too and any other import otome games I play. Your answers will help me decide what direction to take my otome gaming blogging in.

EDIT: Here I shall make it easier for everyone to participate and add in a poll.

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Hoshizora no Comic Garden – Keigo’s True Ending

As with Ryou’s ending, I am putting all of this entry behind a cut so that nobody accidentally spoils anything for themselves. Unlike Ryou’s ending however, I took the time to write down things and look up kanji I didn’t know, so Keigo’s ending will have more substance. I also liked Keigo’s ending the best, though for a while it seems very gut wrenchingly dramatic and you may find yourself thinking that you aren’t getting his true ending, hehe. Anyway again I’ve included one of the three or four CGs you get going down Keigo’s route. On with the story…..

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