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	<description>Money can buy everything except "love", "friendship" and "exp points".</description>
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		<title>Bad Order Of Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mana Khemia 2 is supposed to be released here on Wednesday, and I have my pre-order filed; it&#8217;s particularly timely for me because I completed the first Mana Khemia only two weeks ago. The more I think about that game, the more I suspect that&#8211; unless I&#8217;ve missed something huge&#8211; the game was released without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=239&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/bad-order-of-operations/</link>
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		<title>Good Idea, Bad Execution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve posted in this blog, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t still have things to say about video games. So I&#8217;m going to defy the irrational little voice in my head saying, &#8220;No! It&#8217;s been too long, so you shouldn&#8217;t post in here!&#8221; and do it anyway.
I&#8217;ve been playing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=234&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/good-idea-bad-execution/</link>
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		<title>The 108 Calvinists of Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I also picked up Suikoden Tierkreis for the DS last week. So far, I've been unhappy with the clumsy way that it's handled predestination; I expected better out of a Suikoden game. The game seems to want to blame every social ill upon the ruling society's abstract philosophy instead of the corrupt rulers themselves, and that strikes me as being unlikely as well as out of line with the rest of the series.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=229&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/the-108-calvinists-of-destiny/</link>
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		<title>The Finish Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I finished Ar tonelico 2 last week (Cloche&#8217;s path, third Reyvateil&#8217;s ending). It was a good follow-up to the first and a good bridge for the trilogy, but in my opinion it doesn&#8217;t stand well alone. 
Initially, I had thought that it had promise to be greater than the first game, but that plateaued [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=226&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/the-finish-line/</link>
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		<title>If You Die In A Cut Scene, You Die In Real Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite things about the Ar tonelico series is that you can&#8217;t dodge the consequences of your actions simply by being the protagonist. You are held accountable to the same moral standards as the enemy, and you can&#8217;t just get away with the end justifying the means. Sometimes both sides look like the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=222&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/if-you-die-in-a-cut-scene-you-die-in-real-life/</link>
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		<title>Jakuri Pod</title>
		<description><![CDATA["A mini-update, since I know a few of you are big Ar tonelico fans ... translated names:"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=216&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/jakuri-pod/</link>
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		<title>Project A.T.2 begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The reason I've blogged so little this month is that I've been spending my gaming time on Second Life ... My home internet is currently down, though, and my pre-ordered copy of Ar tonelico 2 just arrived ... an hour or so into the game..."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=210&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/project-at2-begins/</link>
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		<title>Thank You For The Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past week, I&#8217;ve been playing a ROM of Mother 3/EarthBound 2, with a translation patch by the dedicated people at fobby.net who gave their time to rework this game for the sake of the fandom. As someone who liked EarthBound, but not enough to try to play the sequel with a walkthrough/script or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=207&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/thank-you-for-the-music/</link>
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		<title>At What Price My Digital Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually play MMORPGs&#8211; I had a brief flirtation with Final Fantasy XI a few years ago, but my friend&#8217;s sister was always on it, which kept me from putting in enough steady time to get addicted. I&#8217;m kind of glad I didn&#8217;t blow too much time on it, because I don&#8217;t think that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=195&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/at-what-price-my-digital-life/</link>
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		<title>Flashback: The Quest For Believable Physics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished Flashback: The Quest For Identity, and I have to say it&#8217;s actually quite good. The game mechanics&#8211; the graphics and scale, and the motions and puzzles&#8211; reminded me a bit of Prince of Persia for the SNES, and that makes me very happy. I loved Prince of Persia, and when they came out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haounomiko.wordpress.com&blog=3626683&post=184&subd=haounomiko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://haounomiko.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/flashback-the-quest-for-believable-physics/</link>
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