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And so, day 2 coverage begins with a bit of Macross. As usual, this post will feature cosplayers.

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The first ACGC of the year took place in Tropicana City Mall, on the 21st and 22nd March. As compared to the first ACGC of last year, this event was great.

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For the first time ever, there will be a bunkasai (or, Japanese cultural event) held in Malaysia!

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Last Saturday and Sunday, the ACGC 2008 Finale (Anime Comics Games Convetion) was held here in Malaysia, at the Mid Valley Exhibition Center.

But before I continue, I must warn you- I have photography skills at superb as a blind potato, so what you’ll see in the following is a mixture of clear pictures, blur pictures and very blur pictures.

I arrived at Mid Valley at 9AM. The convention was scheduled to start at 10AM, so I loitered around until about 9:30 AM.

At 9:30, I snuck in through the staff entrance (LOL), so I got to take a look around before the crowd arrived.

The stage where the events were held

Note that the pictures from this point on are out of chronological order.

Some games I expected hoped to see were Red Alert 3, Emil Chronicle Online, SPORE, Dead Space, and Soul Calibur 4. But let’s take a look at the booths there…

The U Mobile booth. As far as I know, they are a 3G service provider. And they support orenji.

Poser.. =_=ll

The Mo Siang booth. Some MMORPG in English and Chinese.

Top Speed - some MMO racing game by IAH

A couple of chibis playing the game. Looked like an average racing game to me.

Being advertised as one of the features of the ACGC, here’s the Nintendo booth.

The WiiFit. I did not get a chance to try this.

Aside from the Wii and WiiFit, Nintendo also had a couple of DS Lites (5 of them) for trial.

They attached the DS Lites to platforms, and in such a way that you couldn’t take out the stylus to use. So while everyone was using their fingers to try and play, I took out my phone’s stylus, and started laughing at everyone.. in my heart.

This booth, OffGamers, was pretty lulz. In the morning, almost NO ONE was paying any attention to it. But after people started to find out that you could get “Panda Hammers” (the thing the girl is holding in the top picture) at this booth for free, a QUEUE started to form. No other booth had a queue.

The panda hammers. They’re pretty cute, no? XD

Fantagetar. Another MMO I know nothing about, and want to know nothing about.

As I moved along the convention area, I was delighted to see an ECO booth.

*BUT* all the computers were down. YAY.
In fact, just about all the computers in the convention were down til lunchtime (or later).

At 2 PM, I get back to see this.

All screens blacked out except for one, which was playing an ECO trailer.

20 minutes after that, and all the computers are playing trailers. I pretty much gave up on this booth at that time.

Later still, at 5PM, I decided to just take another look at the booth, and guess what I see?

YES!! ECO!!

But then I noticed it was all in Chinese. orz

On the outside of the ECO booth, we had Angels Online (and some other game, which I’ve forgotten about already).

Because it was an Anime Comics Games Convention, I had expected this (following) booth to be there.

ANIME TECH

I refuse to upload any more pictures of their booth.

Except maybe this poster.

Sasuke - a traine and teammate of Narut

There was this booth, Michael Soft, that constantly had people hanging around.

Their product was this system that would let your computer run without a hard disk. Not something that would normally attract many people, right?

What? Over 200? You mean it’s not over 9000?

The real reason this booth could attract so many visitors, was probably because they had WORKING computers. And all the gamers wanted to leech off of that.

Towards the end of the convention site, there were the CoD4 computers.

Unfortunately for the CoD4 players, the tournament, which was supposed to start in the morning, started at 4 PM, and lasted until past 10 PM (Note that the convention was scheduled to end at 9 PM). Why?

Because their computers were rendered useless too

They ended up using only one row of computers, which really slowed down the speed of the tournament.

As one of the better booths around, there was d_code Toys & Hobby.

A figure, gunpla, etc. online store. They had some pretty cool stuff up for display.

Is Haruhi supposed to be sitting on Nagato’s chair? O_O

There was also this coolsome car, which was mostly ignored throughout the convention.

At one booth, there was this SC4 banner, that made me think that I would get a chance to play the game. But noooooo. There wasn’t even a single PS3 at the convention site.

For PS2 as well aye? I must get this game then

Right at the end, there was a whole row of tables that were rented to artists and the like to sell their goods.

But honestly.. Their goods aren’t that great. ^^;
Not quite up to standard (unless you’re talking about Malaysian standard).

X chains. When I saw this, I immediately thought of Squee ^^;

I bought this comic, Project: Durian. I will talk about it some other time.

Another doujin. The cover is.. honestly, quite a turn off.

The woman who was selling the above doujin! Keroro Lady!

Well, there were a couple other booths there, but that’s all I’m willing to show. The rest were pretty minor.

Those who go to conventions regularly/have been to a convention would know that there is always at least a lady model or two, there to pass out flyers, provide assisstance, and the like.

This convention was no exception, and thankfully, there were PRETTY ladies.

The Wii girls were veeeewii pwiitty. *shoots self for lame pun*

As I was trying to get pictures of this cute girl, another girl at the same booth was glaring at me. I soon got too freaked out by her glare to try and take any more pictures.

This girl on the left was pretty much glaring at everyone too.

Race queens?!

She’s so pretty!

I realized only later that I had stopped her twice for pictures. How embarrassing of me.

Even though the cosplay competition was not on this day, there were a couple of cosplayers around. I’ll need help identifying them, so don’t hesistate to point out a familiar character.

Kikyo(?) and Luffy

This Luffy cosplayer was a rather hilarious guy. Throughout the first day of the convention, he was taking other characters props and playing around with them.

I could be wrong, but… Mulan?

Reverse trap Gino Weiberg!

Moar reverse traps. Himura Kenshin on the right.

Yet another reverse trap. Some character from Prince of Tennis I think?

As identified earlier, Himura Kenshin.

Axel (who later “switched” costumes to become Spitfire)

Kurosaki Ichigo on the right.

Everytime Luffy tried to shoot, the arrow would drop

Ichigo’s props

Wahaha

The mask Ichigo is holding belongs to Hirako Shinji. Did not see any Shinji cosplayers though.

Yaoi shot?!

Well, overall, I’d say that the ACGC 2008 Finale day 1 was pretty fail. Most of the computers, as I mentioned, were not set up properly until 12 PM+, the people there for the CoD4 tournament had to wait WAY overtime, and they had so little GOOD games to play there. I really wanted to give RA3 and SPORE a go, but this convention didn’t have either. :\

Day 2, on the other hand, was much better. Stick around for a post on that.

Albums: Day 1 Day 2

Day 2 coverage here.

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Remember the ACGC in March?

Well, this coming weekend (27th-28th September), the ACGC 2008 Finale will be held in Hall 3 Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (MVEC), Mid Valley. The event will last from 10 AM to 9 PM.

There will be a Nintendo Wii showcase, so if you’ve yet to see/try a Nintendo Wii, come on over and check out the Wii. They will also be selling the Wii at a “very special promotion price” during this event, so you might wanna take advantage of that.

Well, it’s a games convention, so you can expect lots of game publishers to be there showcasing their new games (awesomeness not guaranteed). There will also be game tournaments, though currently, it’s only clear that there will be a Call of Duty 4 tournament.

There are prizes for the winners of the CoD4 tournament, and are as follows:

Champion - RM500 + products
1st Runner Up - RM250 + products
2nd Runner Up - RM100 + products
Consolation - RM50 x 3

The CoD4 tournament is separated into two days, so there will be prizes for each day. If you intend to join the CoD4 tournament, you will need to take a look at these rules & regulations first.

I wonder what products they’re giving away.. ^^;

The next feature of the ACGC Finale is the cosplay performance and competition. The cosplay in March’s ACGC was.. pretty okay, but I hope to see some better cosplays this time.

They will also be giving prizes for the winners of the cosplay competition, and are as follows:

Best Cosplayer - Nintendo Wii
Best Craftsmanship - Nintendo DS Lite
Crowd Favorite - RM200 Cash
Consolation Prize - RM100 x 3

Cosplayer’s rules & regulations are not out yet. Anyway, good luck to all cosplayers! ^^

Maybe I should try cosplaying as Mizunaga… LOL.

Lastly, there will be doujinshi booths, so make sure you bring some cash in case you see something interesting.

So, who’s going? ^^ I’m definitely going to be there for both days.

BTW- Thanks to Iruka for notifying me of this event. ^^;

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Found this cute game on deviantArt.

It’s a Hatsune Miku Flight Simulator!

Well, it’s really just a simple side-scrolling flight simulator.. It would be awesome if it were in 3D. XD

You can play it over here. The controls and stuff are all told in-game.

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I must be the last otaku to post about this..

「Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA-」 is a rhythm game that’s currently in development. This game, created by SEGA, is to be released on the PSP in 2009.

Trailer below.

Gameplay example below.

An interesting feature of this game is the room customization. As you play, you can get points and customize Miku’s room. The game will (of course,) feature music made using Vocaloid 2.

Source: Anime-Baka
Official Site: http://miku.sega.jp/ (Japanese)

So, how many of you are looking forward to this? ^^ I don’t have a PSP, but I will play this game *somehow*. XD

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Image taken from this source

How many of you are watching Koihime Musou? If you do, chances are, you know it’s based on an eroge.

And eroges have CG sets.. so if you haven’t gotten it already, here are some links for Koihime Musou’s CG sets.

Warning! Downloads are VNSFW!

RapidShare

FileSend

Note: Contains a number of yuri scenes too.

Links thanks to this sauce source.

BTW- I’m falling behind on the anime. How has it been so far?

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Super Cosplay War Ultra, or SCWU for short, is a versus fighting game.

Once you start the game, and have gotten through all the company logos and whatnot, you’ll arrive at the main menu. The main menu only has two options: Single and VS 2P.

As the name implies, there is A LOT of cosplaying in this game.. However, at the character selection screen, you can only see their “basic forms”.

I started the game by using the prettiest girl character

As it’s cosplay, you should be prepared to see TONS of anime (and game) references.

Waiting screen in-between challengers

If you chose Single mode, you’ll then be brought into a “battle” where you have to choose between “Normal” and “Battle Royale” mode. To choose, you simply attack the respective board.

First up- Normal Mode.

Normal mode is.. normal. lol. As you can see, instead of calling it “Rounds”, they chose to call it “Dress”.

To win the dress, you must reduce the enemy’s HP to 0, or his health must be lower than yours when the 99-second time limit ends (but isn’t that obvious enough?).

Each character has an anime or game their cosplay is based around, and for Dido (this girl), it’s Virtual On.

As with most versus games, this game also includes special attacks for their characters.

I love this special attack ^^

Once you have won two dresses, you win the match, and you move onto the next round.

Dido <3

I’m not too sure how many rounds there are until the final boss though.. Haven’t had the time to reach him yet ^^;

Now- Battle Royale.

In Battle Royale, you go up against two opponents, but you have a partner to help you.

The woman with the green bar below her is my partner. My character is Giant, BTW. ^^;

As with Normal mode, the objective is to drop the enemy’s HP to 0. However, in this mode there is no time limit, and you have to kill a few enemies (not sure how many) before it is considered your victory.

In this mode, only one dress is needed for the match to be declared yours.

I’m not too sure how many matches the Battle Royale is though.. Didn’t have the time to fully explore this mode either.

BTW- if you lose a match in either mode, you need not worry. There is an unlimited amount of continues for you, so you can keep trying ’til you die of boredom ^^;

The game’s plus points are:

[1] Fantastic graphics- everything is animated! Even the backgrounds are animated (there’s even one background with people dancing in it..).
[2] With almost every attack made, there is cosplay involved.
[3] All that cosplaying gives the game more replay value, and makes you want to try every character.
[4] Fully voiced!

Overall, this is a very good game. It’s very well made, although the artwork in the character selection screen could use a little work.. It’s rather addictive, and my dinner went cold because I was spending too much time on this game. orz

Anyway, this game is free to download and you can do so here. Downloading via that link requires you to download it in 3 parts from RapidShare, so unless you have a premium account, it could take a while.. If you’re unsatisfied with that and want to download the whole file in one go, you can try your luck at the official site (or Google), but all the links given there seemed to lead to 403 and 404 errors..

Don’t wait anymore! Go and download this game now! ^^

Here are some extra screenshots for you to enjoy..

This game has some seriously whacky attacks..

Neon Genesis Evangelion. XD

Recognize the characters in the background? ^^

There are normal attacks..

But the next hit, and it’s cosplay

Pre-battle stance

TENTACLE RAEP!!!1!!1!

TToro is one of the godly characters in this game ^^;

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