Flashback to the day of the shuttle accident. A rescue squad looking for survivors finds the unconscious Jin in the sea, and he is taken to the ISDA for observation. Professor Kitajima is shocked when she discovers that his vitals indicate he has undergone a Resonance.

Sakaki requests that the Lindwurm unit be temporarily reassigned from the D-Project to the more pressing matter of capturing Album on the moon. Kitajima supplements the argument by explaining that it would help them gather more information on Thanatos. Sakaki reasons that since the Gillard Army is on the moon, they can use each other to accomplish their respective objectives of capturing Album and Gio. Liner relays the reassignment to his unit and puts Kazuki on standby since he’s so useless.

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Due out this week, but I probably won’t get because the shops are crappy like that:

I’ve played the demo and it ran well at 1024×768 medium-high on my 8600GT, so I’m expecting better rates in the final product [Especially since the demo didn't support dual processors]. In any case, even in the demo I could tell that this was one well-polished game… Although the AI were less impressive than I’d have expected, even when I started out on Delta mode (The hardest available mode) - Although most probably because that mode allows enemy fire to cut you down in a matter of seconds, but that’s another story entirely. The landscapes were absolutely beautiful, and I was amused at how they handled the area borders - If you swim out too far, you get one-shotted by the waiting destroyer ships in the distance. Well, at least it isn’t as unimaginative as the Invisible Wall thinger. The facial details are probably the highest point of the game - They’re easily the most realistically detailed faces out for any game at the moment.

I also like how there’s quite a bit of random wildlife around the beach area, namely the tortoises and the crabs. When I tried swimming out the team leader warned me about “Shark-infested waters” but I didn’t see hair nor fin of the beasts. Oh well.

If anyone’s curious, the demo ends with you guys staring at a frozen ship in the middle of the island… Right before a giant metal squid-thing bursts through and grabs one of your guys before taking off as though it’s got bread in the oven that was gonna burn in fifteen seconds. I assume it’s about 5% into the game.

So yeah, if you have a rig good enough to support this thing, you definitely should give it a run. If not, oh well! There’s always anime and manga.

Cheers. Meu out.

If you’ve been visiting the page on Saturday, you may have noticed that the banner has changed about half a dozen times. I finally settled on a Kanon picture in anticipation of Winter coming soon despite the heatwave that has rolled over this part of the US. It’s still in the 80 degree F range (26.6 degrees C) for crying out loud. I decided to skip a fall theme all together because we get no fall here. It’s more like a straight transition from summer to winter.

Dragonaut episode 6 will get blogged within the next day. You’ll get your fanservice shots yet. If it’s not, then I might have had some more pressing issues to attend to. Please direct all complaints at meultima if that happens.