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Otaku Weekend
The Daibijin, or Gorgeous Giant is one of the many terrible new games I now own for my PS2 (Why the Japanese have a word for 'gorgeous giant' I don't know)
Since nothing of much interest to me was happening last weekend (You can read about the Iwaki climb the other JET's did here) I decided to stay home and wallow in my own crapulence as Mr. Burns would say. I bought a bunch of cheap, crappy PS2 games at the local GEO used game store and set off to completely waste my weekend inside. And crap they sure are! The worst game I bought solely because of the cool picture on the box of a giant 10 story tall bikini clad girl getting shot at by the JSDF. That and the fact that it was only 1000 yen. The game rivals Hugh's Beach volleyball game in its sukebeness, but is not nearly as fun to play with terrible controls and boring, repeditive gameplay. I also bought a flight simulator game that lets you experience what it's like to be a Japan Airlines pilot. This game taught me that Mount Fuji is apparently 30000 feet high and is difficult to fly over with a 747. Also Aomori has no airport, or anything else for that matter. I guess that's what most people in Japan, including game designers think of Aomori. I also bought Dance Dance Revolution including pad, but gave up playing after breaking a sweat 30 seconds into it. My other two games are Virtua Fighter 4 and WWE Smackdown 4. I'm trying to convince myself that these games will help prepare me for the next time I get in a rumble with another JET teacher. Probably the only game that might actually help me do that though is DDR, and I'm too weak and lazy to play it for more than a few seconds at a time. Anyway, after a day of doing nothing I ventured outside Sunday afternoon and went to McDonald's in Misawa for some much needed grease. On my way there I stopped at Lake Ogasawara (or something sounding like that) and found a really ghetto mini golf course where apparently lots of old men and their hot, young girlfriends like to hang out. After that, I tried to make up for last weekend's disapointing airshow by sitting by the lake and watching fighter jets fly around. That got boring pretty fast, so I went home. What did you think this story was going somewhere? Nope. That's it. What did you expect from a post titled Otaku Weekend?
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VF4 is really worth putting time into it. I started my VF4 training when I lived in Japan in 2001. There was a VF4 master from Hong Kong living 2 dorm rooms down from me, so after the PS2 version came out he'd come over and become my VF4 sensei each day. Slowly and slowly I became one with myself and returned to America strong in the VF4 force. There I became the sensei to many friends and 12+ months of good matches resulted.If you do not have a local HK or Japanese VF4 sensei for hire, read through some character faqs at gamefaqs and figure out which fighting style you feel comfortable in.
As for other cheap PS2 games that are actually good, I'd recommend finding Katamari Damashii used if you can. The entire point of the game is to roll over things with your big ball and become larger and larger in real-time until you are rolling over godzilla and the like. Hearing Japanese people scream as you head towards them with the ball of doom is always satisfying.
That ball game sounds awesome.Psssh, who needs to climb mountains, you've got crappy video games!
I've never had the discipline to get really good at any fighting games. Not even Street Fighter 2 back when it was all the rage. There's no way I'll beat one of those hard core otaku gamer guys, so no sense trying. I'll try to set a realisitic goal such as one day beating Steph at DDR.Anyway, if you guys want to really play a great RPG game then you should try this:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/uninvited.php
I will challenge you any day to DDR, but you KNOW you will lose! 
The Jaime and Steph battle of DDR would make a great vid blog... and the winner would go up against the queen of DDR... AKIKO!!!!!! 
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