Another Neko-Atsume?

Another Neko-Atsume?

Monday, October 24, 2016 / No Comments

Hi guys! It has been a few hectic weeks as I am busy with my work commitment. As you can read from my title, you can guess what sort of game I am recommending it to you. This game is inspired by the original Neko-Atsume with a positive twist added to it. I am going to walk through with you this new game titled The Cats Paradise by 1Moby Co Ltd. 
 

For those who are not familiar with Neko-Atsume, you may refer to this post  You may ask what are the differences between both games. When I started this game, I felt mundane playing The Cats Paradise. It contains the same game play and genre. There is nothing new to this. However, once I get into a gamer mode, I feel this is different from Neko-Atsume. Please continue to read why you should give this game a try.

     

1. You can own a cat FINALLY! 

Neko-Atsume fans have been asking for eternity when are they able to keep a pet cat. This dream is fulfilled by The Cats Paradise. You catch any cat that comes to visit you. There is no free cat but with your earning coins, you will be able to catch one. So far, I caught 4 types of cats. You can only keep one cat at a time. But the last cat which I had had ran away because I did not feed it for a few days.

Did I mention the cats poop a lot? Coins are needed for every action you do to your cat. Your coins deplete very fast. It is faster than you can earn it. The good point is your pet cat gives you coins and stars which you can use to travel. I will talk more about this later. 

 2. There are water type toys

Supposedly this game is based on cats touring around the island. With added new toys such as surfboards, swimming tubes, snorkeling goggle and others, the cats on this island are definitely enjoying their lifestyle to the max. Watch the cats jump into the bubble tube and dive under the ocean. 

    

3. New missions

With this new objective added to the game, players can look forward to collecting cat treasures and levelling up. They are two types of missions in this game: collecting miscellaneous items from the cat and captures the right cat's photo. By doing each mission, it increases 1 point to your current level system. As your level progresses, you are able to unlock more toys to lure rarer cats to your island!

    

4. More cat animations

The game feels more interactive with the cats actually playing with the toys. Instead of rigid image of the cat hogging a ball or sitting inside a playhouse, Cats Paradise produces more 'animated' cats which correspond with the items. 

    

 5. Daily Spin

This is an additional feature to the game. You get tickets by logging into the game. The tickets will allow you to spin the wheel to get prizes such as golden fish, silver fish, toys or rare foods.

          

   

6. Travel Mode

Finally, let’s discuss the travel mode in this section. I have played this game for about two months and I have not entered the travel mode.To travel, you will need stars which you had obtained from your pet-cat and a minimum level of 20. I am assuming once you go to a specific island,you will get to see the special edition cats such as poke-meow? Really, the advert for these cats keeps appearing on my login game screen during the Pokémon Go phenomenon.

   

    

Currently, there are 5 islands for you to explore and every island requires ten levels from the predecessor to proceed. The latest island now would be the Forbidden Land where Zombie Cats and Spirits roamed. (Limited-time Island for Halloween Celebration)

 

Conclusion:

Both cat games Neko-Atsume and Cats Paradise have its own features. It is up to each individual’s preference to choose which game he/she favours. I like both games when there are many cute cats. Here is one cat for you before I signed off. 

My pet Chubby before he ran away

Written by SnoringSeal

Love Live!! School Idol Festival - Magnetic Today!! Event + Brief Look at Version Update 4.0

Love Live!! School Idol Festival - Magnetic Today!! Event + Brief Look at Version Update 4.0

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Love live School Idol Festival - a mobile game that a good friend of mine got me into, but did not really strike me as appealing at first. The notes that flew at where I was supposed to tap made me pretty anxious at first, as I somehow managed to skip the initial tutorial and went straight to playing the game.

An impressive amount of stamina left ft. my attempt at a screenshot

Then again, it was a good distraction from the turmoils I had been facing in my life back then. Though it took me a while before I got around to being able to play expert songs, the difficulty level played by a large majority of players on LLSIF. The game gradually grew onto me when I gradually got excited playing events and scouting (despite lousy luck bestowed on me sometimes-)

Why get this

When someone else can uhh... Get this....

Small background information aside, it has been slightly over a year ever since I got immersed into the game. I started out on the Global/EN server since it was the only server downloadable where I live, before I found out how to sneak in using various Virtual Private Networks and got the Japanese server downloaded as well.

If you're lucky you might get 3 URs with those 3 tickets.

If one has been keeping up with how things are progressing on the EN server, the recent introduction of double Super Rare (SR) card events and double UR (Ultra Rare) scouting box from the usual single card chase did cause quite a bit of hoo-ha (and later grudging acceptance, as seen from the relatively high cutoff points for tier rewards)

When EN tiers for Rin x Eli event are more intense than the JP Rin event

So far, the double card events do not apply to token events, as for every single card token event that has been launched has an event song playable to get even more event points on top of the tokens the players collect from the songs they play. Imagine playing for two event songs... you'd probably need to put your attention on both event songs, and each event song already comes with 10 different versions for you to choose from.

They had been rumours that a double token event, featuring SR cards of Rin and Nico, is coming up anyway since apparently, even a banner for them appeared on another server. And honestly, I was quite disappointed from all the speculations which all think that this is likely to happen. Don't get me wrong, I love Rin too, but I had been looking forward to the Magnetic Today!! event by itself ever since I knew it existed.

However, nothing had been set in stone yet, and when I went to check for new event updates two Thursdays ago:

I was pumped. I was ready to go all out for this very possibly last single event card of my best girl - even thought of aiming for top 50 in the event.

Which is something you probably shouldn't try if you are being drained of energy due to school every day, but dedicated fans would find a way even if you have a deadline on the day of the event itself

I immediately played once the event started. Here's my progress 5 hours into the event. I juggled between taking breaks, figuring out my homework, and continuously playing the shortest expert song available. (expert gives out the most amount of tokens at 25+2 bonus tokens, where 25 life points are used for every expert song)

The days that follow:

Spoiler: didn't manage to full combo it *sobs*

Second day. This was unintentional.

Second day, at 11.30pm. Event started previous day at 5pm.

Ah yes the song that I invested on the most.

Shocking Party is a short and good song for players to race to the tops. There's a catch: with the 4.0 update, a reward box is introduced. The higher the difficulty of the song/the score you get from the song, the more likely it is for the player to get better rewards.

The score will fill the reward box gauge.

Angel Trick is one of the rarer skill rewards you can get.

Expert songs range from 9-11 stars, with 9 being the easier ones and 11 being one of the most difficult ones. Shocking party is at 9. and with my team I could only score around ~40k points tops which is not a lot of points compared to the event song magnetic today (10, or 11 for the random mode beatmap) where you can get at least 60k points with an A combo with a team full of just idolised Cool attribute SRs. Maybe even more. I guess it's all about preferences however, whether you are playing for Nico, or playing just because the card's cute, or playing because you need that card to boost your smile team, or playing to get more out of the rewards box + for experience points.

For me I prioritise rising to the tops. Fourth day.

I got a little boost to my cool team on the seventh day of the event: the second half of the baseball set just got released in the afternoon, and I had been eyeing the Nico card for that set for quite some time.

New set!

The Nico :D

I ended up getting:

Second best girl! Of which this card I already have idolised (with seals) on the Japanese server, but I'll take it. This card is absolutely gorgeous as ever.

Unfortunately I also fell sick on that day and my progress on the event became slower, but the task slightly easier - I mostly just had to use my acorns (the token for the event) on the event song. Describing it as an easier task would be an irony: many players have difficulty with this song, as do I (if you count only being able to get a maximum A combo being a difficulty) - and apparently it is also a reason why not many nico fans are going all out for this event. A playthrough for the song can be found here. 

The most I could do T_T

I got an additional boost to my cool team on the 9th day as well-

Baseball Umi! Idolised with 2 cards

Wrapped up on the event!

I didn't play much on the last day (11th day), except play 1 song of easy level and 2 songs for normal level for the little 25 at the back of my 80000 points (25 can be read as nico in Japanese). A little sad I couldn't play more due to my untimely illness, but to conclude, it was a fun and memorable event which I quite enjoyed tiering in - despite the need to play a lot a lot of songs when it comes to collecting the tokens, and of course the challenging beatmap of the event song.

My final ranking at #118. Cutoff for Tier 1 (2 copies of the event card) is at #1100

Final Event Song ranking

Idolised the little lady :D

The past one or so year playing LLSIF has been fun - I've made friends, get to talk to people about the game, the anime, revel in the joy and disappointments of various progresses of the game or about its various servers, etc. However I think it's time for me to take a little break - constantly maintaining my teams and monitoring progress on the game can be tiring, and I never did intend to be more than a casual player anyway. Very likely will be back in action in two months' time when I'm finally done with the semester! Meanwhile, if you want to you can check out my profile on School Idol Tomodachi - where you can view the cards I've collected (SR and above)

Thank you for checking out my first article on Milkcananime - I look forward to sharing more of my otaku life with you!

Written by ritsu

A Troubled Halloween Dress-Up Competition

A Troubled Halloween Dress-Up Competition

Sunday, October 23, 2016 / No Comments

Argh!!! Oops, did somebody just spot a ghost or something around here? Hello and welcome to our little Halloween dress-up competition. As most people would probably be aware, Halloween is just around the corner. Much of the supernatural are awaiting to ambush their unknowing victims, but be rest assured that this is merely a competition in the name of fun. There is always the pumpkin goo if anybody is squeamish. Nope, somebody has decided to collect the pumpkin goo and use the whole lot for cooking. Just scoop some of that, get real comfortable and enjoy the competition. Ah, there will be no prizes unfortunately. There might be an extra pumpkin lying around at the back though.

Hey, don't be so terrified! I absolutely need to get this competition going, for goodness sake. Why aren't you guys dressed up anyway? What? Are you telling me that there are ghosts for real in this place? Do you think that they would fancy a little play-time with us? Okay, okay...stop screaming! I am already having an awful time here, so please don't make it any worse. Both of you just move to one corner and breathe! Ah, remember to try some of that pumpkin goo. It is...edible. Now, you guys behave.

Hello there! Are you here to participate in the Halloween dress-up? Eh, why are you glaring at me like that? This is an event that we are having right now, so if you would like...wait a second, please say that the red thing in your eye is just a fancy prop. How should I know if it is real or fake? I am just a coordinator for the competition! First, there were random people screaming for no reason (I think), and now I have an actual supernatural being standing in front of me! Hey, I know! Mister, if you could just stand still for a moment...yeah, this won't take long. Just stare the way you stare. Yeah, thank you.

Ah, that girl over there! What an awesome make-up effect that you have! Would you like to come here for a bit? Hey! What is wrong with you? Quit screaming into my ears! Is this place like a transit point for passersby? Why am I getting peculiar looks and such from the surrounding...hey, what is that thing anyway? Yeah, that stuff from your eye. Argh! Why are you screaming at me again? I was only asking you a question! Huh? What the...okay, okay, you go ahead! Move! I am sorry for your loss, whatever that is. Jeez, is there a janitor on duty around? Apparently, she is bleeding for real. Don't worry, I have pointed her the way to the infirmary. 

Yes, can I help you? Supposedly, we are having a Halloween special here...a dress-up competition, you know? But what I am getting so far isn't any favourable at all. If you need directions, the infirmary is just straight down the hallway...the second last room facing the stairs. The toilet is a little further behind. You are real, aren't you? Just nod once for yes, and stay still for no. Okay, I get it. On the other hand, I feel that you would be much safer here instead of resting inside the infirmary. You see, there is an excessively bleeding girl...she is bleeding from one of her eyes. Hey! Why is your face turning more blue? Okay, just faint somewhere safe then! I will find some first-aid for you in a while! Jeez, I can't believe this! Is there even an event at all? Can anybody enlighten me? What are you guys? Just stop screaming!!!

Eccentrically Yours.

Written by J.Fluffysheep ♪