Yes, everyone already knows everything and has read the same things ten
times but I still need to mention how amazing it has been! I never
thought I would see the day when the FF7 Remake would finally be a real
thing, not to mention Shenmue 3 and Last Guardian on the same day, phew.

Another big surprise was the Nier teaser, WOW, Nier is in the end my
favorite game of the last “generation” probably tied with Xenoblade.

I haven’t even mentioned Star Ocean 5 and Kingdom Hearts 3 trailers etc,
I am so very happy that we will finally get some new RPGs!

Lastly, I could only laugh myself to tears when I saw Nintendos
presentation, why in the world would they put the Metroid title on
that, that thing?!
Oh well, I still have Environmental Station Alpha! (I have a blister on
my left thumb after trying the new boss rush mode, hehe).

Two new games arrived today, Magna Carta is factory sealed but I can’t
decide whether to keep that one or my opened copy, hm. As I mentioned
earlier the soundtrack is really great in both of the God Eater games so I finally
bought a (new) copy of the first game! I’m currently waiting
for a “PSP to TV” cable and as soon as it arrives I will start playing.

Time for a post!

Last weekend was a happy one, a dear friend finally managed to visit for the
first time this year, few things makes me happier, after all he is the man
who introduced me to great games like Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile,
Tales of Eternia etc! We always end up talking about those and
other games, so many good memories.

Lately I have listened a lot to the God Eater 2 soundtrack composed by
Go Shiina and I must say that I love it! So far all of his soundtracks have
been really great, Tales of Legendia especially and I felt both happy and
uninformed when I learned that he was co-composer in Tales of Zestiria…!
Suddenly the wait for the english version feels longer.

For some reason I can’t seem to save up money, just when I finally had some this happened:

I don’t actively collect Tales of-games but I plan to own them all someday,
at least VS has some nice music, I have no idea what Twin Brave is about…

Ah, I wish I could spend more time and money on the PS2 collection, finally
Grandia 3 is back in my shelf, I have really missed it since I sold my old copy.
This is the first time that I own the other three and with Limbo and Braid
in the collection I soon have every (physical) PC-game worth owning.

This beauty arrived yesterday, Yuki Kajiuras latest album, it contains music
from her live conserts between 2010-2013 including HEPATICA and GODSIBB
from Xenosaga 3, I had no choice but to buy it. I can’t wait to
listen to 3,5 hours of godlyness!

Phew, besides all that I also bought a US PS3 that plays PS1 games and
a much awaited Xeno poster that will appear in the poster section later.
I’m broke, hehe.

Lastly I’m of course looking forward to E3, mostly to get some release dates
but I think this can be an intresting year overall, one week to go!

That will have to do for today!

Phew, it took some time but the Xeno section is finally updated
with pictures of EVERY Xeno item that I normally have on display
in my shelves. I will take a break from photographing for now
but I will of course continue later and show all three of my
“secret staches”, there is still A LOT of items left!

Almost all games, soundtracks and figurines are up, it’s already
about 150 items and I apologize to those with slow internet
connection, I might have to split everything into categories?
If you want to see a bigger version of the pictures just click
on them.

As I suspected this is a lot of work but seeing everything
organized like this is really worth it! I’m not that good
with a camera and I don’t have a fancy one but I think the quality
is okay, since some of this items doesn’t even have a picture
on the internet you can’t be too picky, hehe.

I will keep adding information about all the items and
if you wonder about something specific, just ask!

Yes, another “creative” post, after a long day of
cleaning I needed something simple to relax with.

Just some small ones this time, 10 points if you know
all the characters, hehe:

If nothing sudden happens I should have time to continue the
Xeno photographing tomorrow!

The beaten games list is updated too, I think it will be easiest to update
it once a month or so, hopefully no games will be forgotten again.

Lastly I added some links to other sites, mostly other blogs that I like
and most of them in swedish (sorry).

Sorry to those who want to see XENO, this is a project I have planned to take
care of for a long time, at least the Xeno section is updated with most
games and soundtracks!

Here it is, my 10 feet long Lego city! I think I built it around 4 years ago
and added LED-lights about one year later, sadly not all of them worked and
some where just too dull… so it was time to change all of them!

Almost the entire city

A close-up of the city

Step one was of course to take everything down and dust the shelf.

In total the city is split into 11 pieces including “backgrounds”, step two was to
rip out all the old elctronics and dust all the 11 pieces.

The old elctronics

Dusted and ready for new lights

I always wanted to have more mountains in the background so before adding
the new lights I borrowed my brother’s mountain parts and build a
larger mountain to the east and also a new one behind the harbor in
the west. I think it really adds to the whole.

Next up was the main work, soldering all those new LEDs, I think
I used about 50 of them in the end, sadly I didn’t buy enough cable
so I had to reuse some old onesby the end of the project, oh well,
no one is going to see them anyway.

The only picture I took from the “work station”

One part at a time, here is the lighthouse:

It’s easy to forget time when in the middle of a project, by the
time all LEDs was in place the sun had already rised, luckily I
still had the energy to finish up. Putting the city parts back up
and connecting all of them went quite well.

Sadly my camera can’t take pictures in the dark but I hope you get
a feeling of how it looks at least, enjoy:

West side, sadly you don’t see the new mountain to good

Core of the city

Ah, the new mountain, someone already climbed it

Close-up mountain

More close-ups, the train was one of the first ideas to add

The oil platforms, probably my favorite detail!

Night time, (sorry about quality)

Night time, (sorry about quality)

Night time, crazy shadows, (sorry about quality)

I haven’t gotten ANYTHING done lately all because of the game in the title.

If you are a Metroid fan and feel that those games lack a bit of challange then
Environmental Station Alpha is for you!

I don’t want to spoil to much about the game but expect to find
everything that Metroid have, secret items, seqence breaking, moves
that take time to master etc.

The game is made by a very small team from Finland, uses
Multi media fusion 2 and the quite rare 8×8 pixel tiles. With a small team
it might be a large time saver to use tiles like that and even if the graphics
sometimes are a bit vague it works really well.

The music is not a masterpiece but it fits very well and sets the mood
perfectly in all but one area, that is almost
my biggest complaint in the whole game…

In total I have spent 40 hours with the game, around 9 to finish it and
another 9 to find every secret, there is a LOT! the rest of the time spent
are me watching first my sister play it and then my brother. I really love
watching others play these kinds of game for the first time and see what
they will do diffrently.

This might even surpass Cave Story in the end, don’t miss it!

http://www.hempuli.com/blogblog/archives/category/games/esa
(the creator’s blog)

Lastly, I added some new and more recent pictures of the SFC collection,
I hope to make a bigger update to the site soon!

I have been busy with some other things lately but I finally fixed the main
background. It was supposed to be a simple placeholder space background but
in the end I spent a lot of time adjusting it back and forth, bah.

Anyway, it will have to do for now, I think the place might be ready
for a visitor or two, hehe!

Phew, it took some time but the beaten games list is up and double checked.
I know some sub-titles are missing but I will get back to that later and maybe
arrange the games alphabetically instead of the current mess.

That is all for today!

Like the title says I’m still setting up and trying everything but
I still felt like writing a post in the unlikely event that someone would pop in.

The most important parts are up and you can get a feeling of how everything
will be. I will keep working on it!

Still just testing how everything works but you can expect to find a Xenosaga collection here in the future!