KOF

Well... After a long time, I finally could play video game again. I'm not talking about arcades, but games you can play at home. Namely PS2 games.

Ok. That'll be a silly post, but what can I do? My albums are still not ready to be posted...

Exaplaining. Thursday after the aikido practice some people decided to eat out. Usually "eat out" with male students here means "going to a lamen restaurant". Nothing new so far. I didn't have classes on Friday morning (there's a Japanese class, but I wouldn't classify it as "morning", I guess...), and they invited me this time, so I went there. Besides, it's usually at these times that I can practice my Japanese.

And that was it. Lots of chat at the place. Guess it's because of these times that my conversation level has reached a decent level, although I really should study more reading, writing and vocabulary from now on. I found out that changes that happen in Japanese manga and anime when overseas is a good topic. They usually don't know, and it's a subject that I have some familiarity with... Like techniques/names changes and meanings. In Rurouni Kenshin, giving the translation of technique names such as "Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren" or "Amakakeru Ryuu no Hirameki". And I discover some things too. For example, that Chaos in Dragon Ball is read like "gyoza" (some kind of food) from Japanese kanji reading.

Note to my otaku friends: No, I didn't tell them about the bad side, like cuts, script changing, bad dubbings... Guess they'll live better without knowing. And I'd have a hard time explaining.

But the topic "game" appeared and I don't know how everybody decided to go to someone's house to play PS2. Which game? The gaijin chooses. Well, since it's going to be a versus... "The King of Fighters".

They brought the 2002... Niiice. Way after I stopped being a strong player. Fortunately I remembered some combos and was able to play well. Still a bit rusty, but won most matches. Ok, ok... I could say that I won more than 90% and the others were impressed (a joke about "Japanese pride being broken" was really funny at the time. Can't reproduce correctly the situation and the words, though), but I still think that strong players in Japan are somewhat better than in Brazil... at least after some matches I've seen in Tokyo. I'll post about it later.

As we had enough people, we could even do matches with each person chooses one character in a 3 vs 3 (traditional KOF) match. I really missed this kind of thing... Gather friends to play games...

Just to finish, a little of Tekken 5. Nope, I'm not good at Tekken. The best I could do was choosing Christie (whose fighting style is capoeira) and do some crazy (but easy to execute) combinations of high and low hits. I was better playing KOF...

And I'm really becoming rusty in games... Guess that's the result of not playing so often anymore. Even Time Crisis 3, that was the game I was best at I can't reach the scores I could reach before. And I've heard that my records at the shopping center arcade place in my Brazilian hometown were beaten... Ouch! If so, I might have to change the blog's name soon...

(Note: I wrote at the first post the reason for "ITS madness". For those who can't understand Portuguese, in brief, that's the way a friend in Brazil used to call me, because I was a good player in TC3 - so the "madness" - and I signed my records as "ITS".)