Yun-Ching Lee (ycl+@CMU.EDU)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:34:54 -0400
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:34:54 -0400 From: Yun-Ching Lee <ycl+@CMU.EDU> Subject: My Sakura Taisen experience
Excerpts from sakura: 25-Sep-98 Introductions by Paul Excerpts from sakura: 25-Sep-98 Introductions by Paul Chi@ACSU.BUFFALO.ED
> Next, please? ^_^
I guess it's my turn now. :)
Hi, my name is Yun-Ching Lee, and I am 20 year-old (does this appear to
be a trend or what?) I attend Carnegie Mellon University as a senior in
computer science. I know Chinese, and I also dabbled in Japanese for 3
semesters so the language is not too much trouble for me. :)
I got my Saturn about 1.5 years ago just to play Rayearth, Capcom, and
Treasure games. At first, I wasn't so interested in ST, but all the
coverage in New Type made me interested. Eventually I got it at the
beginning of this year.
Since I am not too much a fan of dating sims, I played through the game
only once, because the conversations got really tedius. I finished with
Sakura, and I like Li Kouran (ricola!), too. Maria was okay, but I just
can't stand Kanna, Sumire, and Iris (twitch!) Once I finished the game,
I play the minigames far more than the game itself. Especially Koi Koi
Taisen! I have beaten every minigame except for Sakura's cleaning game.
I just can't seem to get past 4800 point mark.
Right now I am working on Sakura Taisen 2, whenever time permitting and
if Radiant Silvergun doesn't grab me first. :) So far, I like it better
than the first one, because of better character animation and more
difficult battles. It's much more interesting when it doesn't take 1
attack to kill 3 enemies. :) However, I can't seem to perform combined
special attack. Am I missing something obvious?
Now onto the OVA series... I watched all 4 episodes from a friend's
Chinese subtitled VCD last Sunday when I was too bored. :) The animation
quality is nice, I know recognize the opening theme and Hanasaku Otome
at the end of 4th ep. The story doesn't really follow the game's
storyline. There's hardly any fighting until the 4th (last) episode,
and the order of character appearance is different. Think of it as an
alternamte version of the story.
If there are people with enough interest and bandwidth, I can make the
VCD MPEG files available. They are approximately 300 MB each.
--
Yun-Ching (Allen) Lee ycl+@cmu.edu
"There is no such thing as a good influence... All influence is immoral."
-- Lord Henry Wotton