Manabi-shiki de arimasu! DVD pack-in game, vol. 2

(tags game, MMFlash, Windows, DVD region 2, anime)

The pack-in Flash game for Manabi Straight! DVD 2 wasn't as hard as last time.

It was one of those 4 by 4, 15 tile plus gap slide into order games. I kept on clicking the row expecting more than one tile to shift automatically, but they don't. Frustrating. I failed the four minute game but got it on the second try.

Manabi-shiki de arimasu! DVD pack-in game

(tags game, MMFlash, Windows, DVD region 2, anime)

The limited edition Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (がくえんゆーとぴあまなびストレート！) DVD 1 came with a CD-ROM disc "fun disc" for Windows PC (.NET 2.0). Among the useless things (3D Manabi Amamiya very-non-kawaii, scheduler software, email launcher), there was a Flash game. It was not a joy:

Bascially its a obstacle game. You must avoid the on-coming garbage and hit the bonus speed ups. But it was almost impossible. Okay, so maybe it took 30 minutes to beat this 2 minute game, but I had to overcome:

• bad control and lag
• tendancy for Manabi to creep to the right side of the screen on every boost, which means less reaction time
• necessary to grab every 5 second bonus (there are three)
• random patterns
• sometimes impossible to avoid garbage patterns
• starting the game with a mouse but its a keyboard game... move that mouse pointer off the screen, argh

But I beat it, after using my right hand for up and down and left hand for move back, since ESDF (you may recognize it as WASD) wasn't speedy enough.

Of course, the prize was sitting naked in the same installation folder as a background picture. Still I feel like accomplished something, huh. Just like writing a blog post, huh huh.

Before I did the game (to put this DVD away) I watched the DVD again in its entirety a third time. It's still magical. "Manabi-shiki de arimasu!" Awesome.