Of space pirates and jellyfishes

We originally made this blog so we could write summaries about our past marathons and notify the readers for upcoming ones, especially since last time we heard quite a lot of critique of insufficient advertising. The problem is, we don't really know if any of you read this blog, or where else we could advertise our marathons. Last weekend there was some talk and ideas about a public marathon calendar, so perhaps in the future it would be easier to spread the word.

But enough about that! Last weekend (10th-12th of August) we had a Metroid Prime (Trilogy) marathon on Wii. We started on Friday with Unita and Yuffie, and on Saturday Lefrin and Kiraito joined us (though Kiraito was only visiting, and she had to be on her way soon after). This was a new experience for us all, since none of us had played any of the Metroid games before, and at least I personally am quite new for games with a first-person camera (and Wii as a console).

We originally had plans to play through the whole trilogy, but the first game proved to be so challenging and long that we didn't have time for the other games. Perhaps in the future. Nevertheless, we had lots of fun and managed to beat the first game within the timeframe with some help from our lovely co-hosts and audience. Thank you, everyone! We hope to see you all again in our next marathon, whenever that may be. : D

We also recorded the marathon, so if you want to watch it, you can find it on Unita's channel.

Smashing some spacepirates o/

Hi!

It's been a long and quiet year and half. Not that quiet as we've held one more marathon in autumn 2011. That was a small Spyro the Dragon marathon that I and Yufii played together. We finished first three Spyro games and played Spyro: Year of the Dragonfly a bit. Sadly we don't have any videos about that. But we have fanart! And I'm finally going to upload the pics in here very soon.

But enough of that. Finally we've decided to have a new marathon. 10.-12.8.2012 our plan is to play Metroid Prime Trilogy. Most of us don't have any experience of playing Metroid games, so it will be blind running. No worries though, it should still be quite entertaining. ;D

We're sorry that it took this long to update, but it has been a busy year. It certainly won't take this long in the future. The next update will be about the fanarts, I promise!


- Unita

Nine fingered monkey from hell

It's Sunday morning, four o'clock, and we've just reached the last 'level' of Assassin's Creed 2. There were slight misunderstandings on our part, mostly with the fact that we did not realize that our copy of the game was the platinum version of the Game of the Year-version, and thus had all the DLC's embedded in the game. Which prolonged the game tremendously. I think I can abbreviate all of our feeling to a simple word:

"FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU."

Now we have 14 hours or so left to finish AC2 and start Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Most likely we won't be able to finish Brotherhood since we're not fast pro gamers or anything, but we're doing the best we can.

Assassin's Creed -marathon info

I'm sorry, I promised to update faster but again time went so fast that suddenly it was friday already. As some may already know, the AC marathon will be held today at 6 PM (+2 gmt).

I didn't manage to verify my Livestream account so the viewer limit will be set to 50 viewers. Such a small amount is very problematic so we're looking for other options. We might try to stream at Ustream since it doesn't have viewer limits. We will do that only if we have to, if many viewers are left out when we stream at Livestream. No worries I will update the stream link here.

So again, the games that we're playing are Assassin's Creed 1,2 and Brotherhood. The first game we will be playing is Assassin's Creed 1. Kiraito might be the first one to play since she will be playing only at day time in this marathon.

We will be figuring out our co-host rules soon. This marathon has more players and people to follow the chat. So we might not need as many co-hosts as in the Zelda marathon. But there's surely places open for co-host at night time at least.

More to come ~


Livestream - Assassin's Creed marathon - 6 PM

Took off the Stream window ~

Hyrule was saved almost thrice four weeks ago

This is just a small report of our on-the-spur-of-the-moment Zelda marathon that was held in 21.-.25.4. Like I mentioned, we didn't plan to have this marathon. I just figured that since I had four day long weekend I might as well do something interesting then. We didn't promote this marathon almost at all. Despite that we got many viewers which was awesome. Thanks for everybody who were watching! :D

We chose to play Zelda because Kiraito hadn't played Zelda games before. This was pretty good way to introduce her to the series. The games that we played were Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. We're not Zelda experts so it took us all that time to complete two and 3/4 games. The last thing we managed to do in the marathon was to finish the Oocca -place in Twilight Princess.

We started at 21.4. 8 PM and ended the marathon at 25.4. 8 PM. That makes an unbelievable 94 hours of marathoning! I didn't even think that we would be playing that much. Even though we had our hands full with only I, Yufii and Kiraito playing the games, Lefrin visiting on sunday, we survived. I thank all the co-hosts that visited the marathon too.

I will be adding couple of videos from our Zelda marathon later. Stay tuned for the upcoming Assassin's Creed -marathon info!

We are alive!

Finally our team decided on what to play next and when!

EDIT:

Next in our game menu will be:

Assassin Creed 1-3

We'll continue MGS games when PSP streaming is possible in good quality~

Some of our team members are busy before summer, so we will stream most likely and hopefully in June. More detailed information coming later!

Down the memory lane

It's been two weeks now since we finished our first marathon. Only two weeks? Feels like a month at least.

First of all, thanks to everybody who stayed awake with us and helped us finish the games! It has been like a year or more since we last played MGS 1-3. And I apologize for not playing as much as I should have! Luckily our "jack the ripper" sensei was such a hard worker. I mean, player.

Speaking of nicknames, Why on earth did you guys call me "Lentäjä" [in english: Pilot]?! Come on, it was clearly Raikov's hat! And raikov is a Major! Not a pilot!

Yeah, we did some closet cosplaying for your enjoyment~ I was Raikov (and EVA at some point) and sensei was Snake for a while. I didn't even notice at first how many MGS related accessorys sensei had! Raikov's hat, ocelot's bullet necklace, EVA's goggles... even a lab coat, but we didn't find it. Those I remember, there might have been more. And of course, THE Box made an appearance, too. I myself enjoyed the cosplay very much! I wonder if we play more games with cosplayable characters?

I think our marathon was a success~ Despite the fact that I was feeling really sick the last day. Too much sugar and not enough sleep. But the games were awesome, people in the chat were great, and the company was good~

Next time I wish we could have a little more space around the computer, and a chat-master who talks with the chat people and stays there, this time it was randomly someone who happened to be near the screen, haha. I could have done it but it was really crowded in front of the screen, and it was hard to follow the game, and I really wanted to follow the epic storyline of MGS.

That's pretty much everything I wanted to say. I'm pretty sure our next game will be MGS4, we have to figure out what other games we will play after we finish it. I would like to play portable ops and peace walker if we are able to stream them, we could keep the MGS theme then.

Well, stay tuned for more information about the next stream!