Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts

Last autumn 2013, Infinite Stratos returned for its explosive and high-octane second season in Infinite Stratos 2. The second season of IS...some follow, others change lanes. It's their move. After getting the fans fasten their seatbelts on the New IS, there's still more assault in store for the New IS even after the second season concluded.

Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts (PS3)

Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts (PSVita)

The first ever video game in the IS franchise finally power-slided our way exclusively on the Playstation systems, namely the PS3 and the PSVita hand-held console. So, what's it all about the new Infinite Stratos video game? To find out, time to press the ENGINE START STOP button from the inside of the IS and let's go because this is going to be one heck of a ride! Be warned though...Professional Driver. Closed Course. Do Not Attempt.

In this game, Ichika has lost his memory and it's up to the girls to retrieve back his memories no matter what it takes. Simple as that and that's just the start because while strapping yourselves on the driver's seat for the heck of it, Ignition Hearts is in the form of a dating-sim game with a difference and in this different kind of dating-sim, choices are the critical point of the game because even a slight mistake would cost you badly. Whether if its facing with Houki Shinonono, Cecilia Alcott, Huang Lingyin, Charlotte Dunois, Laura Bodewig, and the Sarashiki girls (Tatenashi and Kanzashi), your judgement is on balance between a success or failure. Keep them happy and their Ignition point will raise but get it wrong, their Stress point will raise and if its too much stress, the game is over...unless you want to trigger the Passion Event. Be careful when your out there or you will be in big trouble.

This is how it's done with one of the following official videos:



Because both the PS3 game and the PSVita game were launched simultaneously, you can take advantage of its cross-save feature. This is a very convenient Playstation feature. Play this game on the PS3 and if you want to continue while you're away, initiate the cross-save and continue your gameplay to your PSVita.

Having talked through the fundamentals of this dating-sim game based on the hit anime series, Ignition Hearts is not quite a bad game for an IS fan but because of such complicating ways this dating-sim has to offer, it's going to be a lot more difficult as you faced with numerous dating-sim games in the past but when you get the hang of it, it's not really bad at all. As a quick precaution, you might run into several unusual scenes as you progress in the mission to recover Ichika's memories such in the case of one of the characters who is going to be your fiance or wife or whatever stuff that is surely going to be messy.

Like the anime series, Ignition Hearts features the opening theme song by Minami Kuribayashi and the closing theme song by the IS girls. Opening song is titled coloration while the Ending theme is titled Grow Up Shining!!

Onto the limited editio;, for those who've already pre-ordered it, the limited edition in both the PS3 and the PSVita versions come with a SD figure of Charlotte and the soundtrack CD. For the PS3 version, players get a product code for the swimsuits while PSVita owners get the bath towel costume code.

And that's the end of this...test drive. You're free to come out from the IS now.

Pompeii (2014 film)

Pompeii

Two millenniums ago, a volcano called Mt. Vesuvius violently erupted and leaving the Roman town of Pompeii left no trace of life behind. Yes, we all read the history books about the fires of Pompeii but there's a bit more to this story than that because this new film titled Pompeii, what the producers said, uncovers the untold story during the events of the once memorable Roman village in the brink of doom. We know it's a bit of an untold story but sadly though, it wasn't.

I was expecting to be more of uncovering stuff about the fires of Pompeii, something that we can't find it on our history books but no. It's just a facsimile of Gladiator but only just on the first half.

Celt, played by actor Kit Harrington, witnessed the Romans' butchering of his village, led by Senator Corvus (played by 24's Kiefer Sutherland who was going to be the new English dub for Snake in the upcoming two Metal Gear Solid V video games; Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain) when he was young and 17 years later, he stood up to become one of the strongest gladiators in Londinium and all his combat skills led him to Pompeii where he caught the eye of a beautiful aristocrat named Cassia, played by Emily Browning. The two developed a bond between them but it was been proven to be difficult because Corvus seeks to make Cassia his wife.

The first half of the film is nothing more of a Gladiator look-alike because in my mind, it feels much of a same thing. The battles, the bloodbaths, everything that viewers may think that it has some stuff from Gladiator in it but when viewers approached to the part when Mt. Vesuvius violently erupted and turning into "disaster movie" mode, this movie tries to appeal itself to the very end and the fires of Pompeii is worth witnessing for the viewers wanting to know how did a Roman village heavily devastated in a cataclysmic volcano eruption. Well, if you were once learning history lessons up to this moment, you might think that in the fires of Pompeii, no one ever survived in the aftermath of one of the most cataclysmic disasters in ancient history but...ahem...remind you of any?

In conclusion, if you like Pompeii …or not because well, not quite a good movie or a bit Gladiator-ish until the eruption part, how about re-watching a DW episode called The Fires of Pompeii? It’s one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes in ages!

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Smooth Crema

On the February 28, 2014 episode of Bubble Gang...

- School Love gags

- A man's wish to go to heaven comes true...or is it?

- Antonietta ruins the talk show!

Antonietta

- IKAW AT ANG INA takes on...feeling bored status updates.

- Bubble Gang does Nescafe 3-in-1 by spoofing this commercial as RESCAFE 3-IN-1!

Bubble Gang does Nescafe 3-in-1

- Seek help from Tata Lino

- More big questions answered in ANG BAGONG DATING DOON!

PHILIPPINES HAPPINESS

- Mama's Boy is still Mama's Boy...

- Eye checkup

IS YOUR FIRMAMENT COUNTENANCE PREPOSSESSING

DYASKE DATAPWA'T MAKATALAMITAN
PINAGSALIKUPAN ALALONG BAGA DI KAGINSA GINSA

Let's Do The News! (February 28, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- The end of an era. Car Town EX, the Asian version of Car Town, has officially closed its doors for good. They'll still be able to enjoy the original Car Town and the Blue Points they have will be transferred. Sadly, for utter disappointment for the players, all the items, the cars, the experience, and cash, cannot be transfered so say goodbye to all your hard-worked stuff. What a disappointment.

- Hulu Japan streaming service is bought by Japan's NTV. They'll be expecting to complete the acquisition of Hulu Japan this spring as part of expanding the video-on-demand market.

- Sarah Lahbati's charges against Annette Gozon-Abrogar, the executive from GMA Films, was rejected by the Quezon City's Prosecutor's Office because of "lack of probable cause".

- Before Vice Ganda left to the US for his concert, he submitted a sworn statement at the Pasig Prosecutor's Office for the sake of Vhong Navarro.

- ABS-CBN's nightly news program, Bandila, apologized for the "unintentional" fear and panic caused by the report about a flesh-eating disease in Pangasinan under the hashtag #MisteryosongSakitSaBandila. It became trending at the social media world and conspiracies linking this from a prophet's warning. It happened since February 25 when a report showcased a 21-year-old woman who allegedly had the "flesh-eating" disease which turned to be she had leprosy, while the male resident in that report turned out to be he had severe psoriasis. The Department of Health officially told that there's no such thing as a "flesh-eating" disease lurking around the province. Tourism has badly affected and Raffy Barraan, the Pangasinan admin, said that this is a blow-up because they didn't investigate it properly. There was a Facebook page called ABS-CBN Should Apologize to the People of Pangasinan, begging the network to apologize from the big mistake.

The statement from ABS-CBN's Bandila:

"Humihingi ang Bandila ng paumanhin kung ang ulat naming tungkol sa dalawang magkaibang kaso ng sakit sa balat ay nagdulot ng takot o pangamba lalo na sa lalawigan ng Pangasinan.

"Iniimbestigahan na ngayon ng ABS-CBN's Office of the Network Ombudsman (ONO) ang mga pangyayari sa likod ng naturang ulat.

"Sisiguraduhin ng ABS-CBN News na magpapatupad ito ng karampatang aksyon ayon sa resulta ng imbestigasyon ng ONO."

- The Philippines are scoring over 3000 organ donor pledges in an hour earlier in an attempt to break the record set by India for having the most organ donation pledges in eight hours on a single site.

- 15 people, including 13 kids, were died on a deadly school bus crash in the eastern part of Thailand.

- This is Skoda's idea of a 4-door coupe and this VisionC Concept will make a debut at next week's Geneva Motor Show.

2014 Skoda VisionC Concept

TTFN!!!

Let's Do The News! (February 27, 2014)

The big news today...

- Vhong Navarro, IT'S SHOWTIME presenter, is going to file perjury and libel against Deniece Cornejo and Cedric Lee. PEP reports.

- Comedian Wally Bayola broke his silence for the first time over a sex scandal with EB Babe Yosh a year ago. He even admits that he may consider himself taking suicide, according to a PEP report.

- The Copen revival by Daihatsu is sooner than what you think as the Japanese kei-car manufacturer officially initiating their First Test Drive of the next Copen at the Toyo Tires Turnpike, Hakone, at the 10th of May, 2014. They even initiated the official pre-site which you can visit it now at https://copen.jp.

- General Motors Europe will showcase a track-focused concept car based on the Opel/Vauxhall Astra OPC/VXR hot hatch under the Extreme banner at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show this March.

- Volvo revealed their concept show car to be showcased at Geneva this March and this Volvo Concept Estate looks more of a three-door shooting brake loaded with next-generation technology.

- Bubble Gang's Paolo Contis shares his memorable days with the late Roy Alvarez. He and Roy were together in a scene from an indie film titled Banal before being part of the GMA afternoon drama Villa Quintana.

- Some adorable Panda Dogs, dogs that look like pandas, were born in China's Jiangsu Province.

- According to a recent study from UK, kids are the number one distraction to the drivers. Among 1,447 respondents, 29% admitted that those little tykes became their biggest headaches while driving on the road.

- Shuichi Shigeno, the Initial D creator, moved on to pasture's new by launching a new love story manga titled Amazing Hana.

- Piers Morgan maybe a Brit who enjoys delivering us the news on CNN but sadly, CNN is going to axe his show, Piers Morgan Tonight. Morgan took over hosting duties from veteran Larry King three years ago. His final airing is yet to be decided but who cares?

TTFN!!!

GT6: Cars that are Gran Turismo exclusive - Cadillac Cien

Today, it's a 2002 Cadillac Cien Concept. This high-performance concept serves as an evolution to Cadillac's breakthrough Art & Science design philosophy, the sort of design language that saved Cadillac from its extinction. It was made to celebrate 100 years of Cadillac, although the Cien name is Spanish for hundred. It even made an appearance at the 2005 Michael Bay film, The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson.

This Cien will run straight through the Goodwood Hill Climb but at what time will the Cien post?









It posted a 52.339 lap time!

That is as thrilling as the scene from The Island but still, the V12 engine that powers it is definitely a monster with a force to be reckoned with. It's done in the name of Art & Science.

Cadillac Cien Concept - A GRAN TURISMO-EXCLUSIVE CAR.

Honda axes the Insight hybrid

Second-generation Honda Insight (2009-2014)

There is a report from a Japanese website, MONOist, stating that production of the second-generation Honda Insight, launched since February 2009, is ceased starting this month and overseas sale of this hybrid will cease at the June of 2014. The reason why Honda decided to remove the Insight from the Honda Cars lineup is because of poor sales and the transition to Honda's SPORT HYBRID drivetrain.

Last year, about 3,880 units of the Honda Insight were sold in Japan while 11,951 units for the world market. The cumulative sales up to the end of September 2012 were 265,346 units.

There's a possibility that Honda may remove some of the IMA-equipped hybrids such as the CR-Z hybrid, the Fit Shuttle Hybrid, and the Freed Hybrid.

Source: MONOist