Welcome!!

Welcome, all, to my new Dreamwidth account. I decided to create me this account for a breath of fresh air and organization as well from my old LiveJournal account. The LJ is still active and will employee the use of cross-posting, but I will make this my new home.

So, what is my intent here? Well, I will continue as I was on LJ, but hopefully at a higher frequency than I was on that site.

I am in high hopes and spirit that to focus my effort and time in working on some of my original works and will be posting the status of my efforts as well as links to some of my smaller off-works.

Most, if not all my story works will be posted utilizing various websites that allow the post of chapter based stories in order for better organization.

Other things I may talk about on this Journal would be video games, manga, anime, and cosplay.  However, unlike my LJ, I am trying to, as I have stated, be more organized than before and thus, I shall do my best to be a little less, how shall I say this... random.

Again, I welcome you to my page. :)

Linkage:

My Inkitt Page (Contains a few Original Stories)

My FictionPress Page (Contains a few Original Stories)

My YouTube Channel (Contains My Let's Plays of Various Games; Mainly Minecraft)

(Original) My Original Stories

Considering I just opened my Dreamwidth account, I figured I would begin off by making a journal regarding my hobby: writing.  I have been writing original fiction or quite a long while.  One story of which has been around, and has been adjusted so many times, since I was but a child.

I think that is what I desire to discuss: my focus of my original fiction.  I occasionally do create one-offs, shorter stories, or just some random "other series (major)" as it is archived on my computer, but those are really just their own things.  I love them for what they are, but my energy has long since been focused on creating and honing my much larger, and inter-connected universe of stories.  The universe of stories which I refer to as my "Infinity Series". 

The reason it is called such is regarding some of the story plot so I cannot delve into its naming as it comes in so much later.  However, the Universe, as I call it, consists of 4 separate Universes.  It's confusing to explain without explaining why and giving away key information, but let's just say it's that: a Universe of Universes.

These Universes are my Major Series, my Infinity Series.  And that is what I have been focusing on for a while now.  I have actually been in a heavy re-write of one; planning the re-write of another; laying out the outline for the one that has been on the backburner; and re-working the outline for the largest of them all.

I feel like trying to focus on just one of them has been quite a hard task to achieve as fragments of one remind me of this part of the other and I end up filtering away to work on the other for a bit.  Sometimes I may get hung-up on just one tiny detail and I then go to another to find my way (as for why the re-write of the one has slowed).

Also, time, I want to poor all my time into just one of them and I feel overwhelmed with wanting to do more than I am able to do in that allotted time.

I just recently, for example, spent several hours creating a Microsoft Access Database of Character information.  Yes, one of the stories has just that many characters that I feel I needed a database to keep up with them.  The list is over 100 and it is far from completed at this point.  None of the other stories have quite that many characters; one of them really only revolves around 5 characters with mere mentions of background.  Its just the drastic differences of what is going on in those worlds.
...However, it was my crafting that Database, for example (bringing back to my point), that made me want to poor even more time into working with the series.  Time I just didn't have.

But, in reality, I don't feel pressured, even with that notion.  I love them, those stories, even in their unfinished states.

I suppose that's what matters; even though I would love to complete them all and share them with those that are interested.

Anyway, I really do hope to bring hopeful updates to this journal with status of my original works and what I'm working with at the moments.

As of right now, I can only regard you to what has already been disclosed.  If you would like to read some of the things I have released, I have included a few links below.

 

Read "Everlast" (Incomplete; Story in Re-Write as Mentioned in Journal)

Read "Grand Master Terian: Incomplete Edition" (Partial Release; Pre-Re-Write as mentioned in Journal)

Read "Caged Bird" (One-Shot; Takes place in one of 4 Universes mentioned though as Lore for Story in Journal)

 

(Game) Tales of Berseria DEMO

As of today, January 10th, 2017, the demo for the next installment for the Tales series became available for all.  I, as a Tales fan since ye-olde days since the release of Tales of Destiny on the original PlayStation both wanted to play it as well as did not want to play it.

I, however, did play it.

So what were my thoughts on the Demo?  As a Tales fan.

Well, it was disconcerting to have but a fragment of the story.  Confused by where it takes place and why they are there together. I have no love for the characters yet.  I don't feel for them; I don't feel connected; and that is one of the things that really drive me to a Tales game.  The demo really pushes part of that away for me.  Will such a disconnect change my purchase of it?  No, hardly. Neither will the fact that the had to edit a scene for the release in the United States due to censorship laws regarding depicting violence against children being different than that of Japan.

So yes, I still have the Collector's Edition still wholly pre-ordered and this brings me to the why I didn't want to play the Demo.  I am now anxious for it.  I want to know why they're together and what is going on.  Of course, I'm a Tales fan; I've seriously played all of them except for "Tales of the World: Reve Unita" which is sitting sealed in shrink-wrap on my shelf (if the 3DS was region free, I would have played this game as well).

Other thoughts on this tiny demo we were given was just seeing how much was pulled from the previous games.  I can see so much of the other games and their mechanics shadowed in Berseria.  I quite enjoy that fact.

Velvet, the main character, I feel fights almost exactly as Yuri (from Vesperia).  Made it easy for me to get used to her motions all the quicker.  Felt familiar yet different.

The mechanics of the game have improved since the Zestria from even the fragment we were given, but still, when I get the full game, I may still see some strangeness (walls in my face; had loads of that in Zestria).

The Skits were cute and I love the style they chose; I just hope that doesn't mean there are fewer skits in the game due to the animation style as apposed to body-shots or icons.

The Katz in a box; I feel they missed an opportunity to make the special chest be cardboard.  Cats love carboard boxes; Katz should too.  But that's just a humor point I feel they missed.

So all in all; I'm quite excited for the game to come out in a couple of weeks

As another note, I really wish Namco-Bandai of the US would see the potential of releasing the older titles for English speaking audiences.  Seeing they are using Steam for games as well, I wish the would get with the creators of Fan-translation patches for releases on Steam of their products. I do not understand why companies chose rather to C&D these fans than work with them for as little as a credit and maybe a free copy of the game.

Please note: if you chose to comment, please do not spoil the game if you have played it.  If any spoils get dropped comments will be disabled.