July 29, 2010

Spice up your game!

It's finally here, the Cut-In system! Cut-Ins are character images that shows up when your character uses a power shot. To use this feature, you have to buy the Cut-In from the shop first. The good thing is, they're Pang items and costs only 15k for each character.

There's also the second Summer Tour event. Just play all 18 hole games on all 16 courses, and you'll get 1 swimsuit for a random character. This event is pretty easy, but I really hate some courses so I think I'll only do this once or twice.

There's another event called the Pangya Wiki Challenge. The official Pangya wiki from Ntreev needs your help! Just add some more helpful pages and we can get double pang, exp, and papel rare event for some days!

Other updates include swimsuit sale for a limited time, and another scratchy update.

GB.R4.539.01 Patch Notes

[General]
# Cut-In System has been added. Cut-In allows you to see panels of illustrations when you meet certain requirements in game.
# Join the Pangya Island Summer Tour and get the free swimsuits.
# Pangya Wiki needs you! Help the Pangya Wiki grow, help the community and recieve bonus events.
# There are 3 days left on Lucia's Birthday Event as well as Couple's Cosplay Event.

[Pangya Shop]
# 2010 Swimsuits are available in the Pangya Shop to help you survive this summer.
# Cut In

[Scratchy]
# Scratchy has been updated with 8th set of rare items featuring Kaz's Elfen Ears, Azer's SSAF Set and Cecilia's Magical Set.



July 24, 2010

Nell & Pepper

Nell, our 10th Pangya character finally show us his looks. In the Japanese Pangya website, there's a story about this character and something to do with fragments of time. The story below are obtained from here and here. Credits goes to the everyone who contributed with the translation on the forum.

Chapter 1:
Quma and Lolo keep talking about something...
After a while Lolo says, "If Cadie doesn't know it, no one does."
-There's also something about the fragments of time...-


Chapter 2:
Cadie sees a girl of about the age 10 with no emotion at all.
She also sees a cat, called Pepper.

-After the update at Pangya JP (the 22th) events will start to find out who this girl is.-


Chapter 3:
Nell (the name of the new Character) and her cat Pepper are talking about the new school.
Nell is going to to learn how to play Pangya.

Cadie is one of the teachers there and is going to send Nell on a quest to find (or solve the mystery of) the fragments of time.


Chapter 4:
On a mountain path near the entrance to Wiz City, a red haired teenage boy who has a strong presence is walking quietly.
Dark armor, dark sword, and cold eyes. They produce all sort of negative feelings. The wide path is filled with the presence of the boy.
The boy's name is Kaz. He is from the cursed Rue Clan, which everybody fears.
Any normal person is affected by Kaz's presence and it would be hard to approach him.
Kaz is finding his way on the path but whenever he tries to open his mouth to ask, everyone flees from him.
Now, everyone on the way has escaped before Kaz can find his way out.
Kaz's eyes now spot a girl, who is following a cat, walking silently on the path.
A bright girl in her uniform, carrying her school bag and her clubs. Kaz senses that this must be another student form the magic academy.
Kaz is surprised. This small girl just walks on without being afraid of him.
"Now I can ask the direction."
Kaz, who is finding his way out, believes that any person who passes by is from Wiz City.
Though this is his belief, he actually has no confidence in it.
"Excuse me. I'm looking for direction. Is this the direction to Wiz City?" asks Kaz, trying his best to be polite.
"Meow!"
"..." The girl remains silent.
The cat and the girl just walk past Kaz by his side. Kaz is shocked and stands still.
"Hey, did you hear..."
Kaz shivers when he is reaching his hand on the girl.
"No! Don't come close to that girl!" exclaims Karen, Kaz's original lover who now continues to protect him, in the form of a spirit.
However, Karen's voice cannot reach Kaz's ears.
Though Kaz feels the presence of Karen, he doesn't get the "don't come close to that girl" part. He only knows that danger awaits him.
As an experienced swordsman, after getting a sense of danger, Kaz starts to take action before knowing the identity of the girl.
"...!!!"
In a flash, Kaz pulls his dark blade and puts it in front of the girl.


Chapter 5:
On the mountain path that's supposed to be not far away from Wiz City, a teenage boy is confronting an emotionless girl with his dark blade.
"... Who are you?" the boy
asks after he backs up a bit, but still in his ready-to-combat stance.
His cold eyes, which are as sharp as his blade, are staring at the girl.
"...?"
Even though there is a sharp blade just in front of her eyes, the girl doesn't show any sign of being scared.
It seems that she's not interested in Kaz, who is now in front of her.
Feeling uneasy, Kaz continues to wield his sword.
"This girl is not just one of those students from the magic academy. ...No, I thought she was just an ordinary student. Why?" thinks Kaz.
"Answer me!"
Kaz shouts, as he still doesn't know the girl's identity and after realizing that he has achieved nothing.
"Sorry. Pepper told me to hurry up, so I didn't notice you. My name is Nell, a student from the magic academy."
The girl begins to speak, in an emotionless voice, like a doll.
Reflected in the girl's eyes, is not the sword, but the cat.
It seems that the girl is not affected in any way, be it her facial expression, her voice, or her attitude.
Kaz is shocked by the fact that he is being ignored.
He is worried and there is cold sweat running from his back.
He feels like he's being confronted by a strong enemy, but filled with more fear. It's a strange feeling.
"What? What is this feeling..."
He is still pointing his sword at the girl and he is not relaxed yet.
The girl has answered, but...
While Kaz is still worrying, there is a happy voice calling from his back.
"Hi! Isn't it Kaz? I haven't seen you in a long time! Are you on your way to Wiz City?" says Nuri, a descendant of the hero who sealed the Evil Lord.
He only cares about winning in a Pangya game and he greets every other person with a face that looks like a fool.
However, there isn't any sense of hate in the atmosphere.
This boy just appears at this time, after all these things have happened.
"...Hey. Why are you in such a hurry?" asks Kaz.
"Huh? Me? I want to buy a new club set, so I am heading for Wiz City. How about you... What? What happened? Are you going to..."
"Don't even think of getting a step closer. Don't."
"...Hey! Chill down!"
"Ack!"
Kaz has pointed his sword at a girl just because he didn't know about her identity. He didn't expect himself to have done this just because of a misunderstanding.
It makes him think, his unspeakable worries have taken preference. Maybe he should prevent such a situation to happen in the first place.
*Clang!*
"Sorry. This is my fault. You can go now." says Kaz, after putting back his sword.
"It's a good thing that misunderstandings like this can be resolved. There are always things like this, be it caused by things someone has written or has spoken." says Nell.
The cat, who was sitting at a distant and watching calmly without any action, now rubs himself on Kaz's legs.
"..."
Nell remains silent.


Chapter 6:
"...Huh? This girl speaks strangely... Hey! Are you a student from the magic academy? My name is Nuri..."
Nuri puts out his hand, attempting to shake hands with Nell. When his hand approaches the girl, light begins to emit from his pocket.
"Eh? What?"
Soaked in the bright light, a small piece of fragment of a stone comes out from Nuri's pocket, floating in the air.
The bright light is emitted from the numerous ancient characters engraved on the stone, making them not recognizable.
"...!"
Kaz has some sort of feeling when he takes a glimpse at the stone.
"Isn't this fragment of stone... somewhere..."
While the stone is floating in the air, it begins to shake itself, like it's resisting something.
However, it soon stops shaking and is sucked into the schoolbag that the girl is carrying.
At this moment, Kaz's feeling about the stone disappears.
"Hey! What was that?"
Kaz turns to look at Nuri, who is surprised.
"Eh... Huh? Yes?"
"Can you tell me what was that thing that came out from your pocket?"
"Huh...? Me... that... Hey! As long as you don't point your sword at me... This..."
It seems that something is going to happen to the two person, and then the girl's voice comes from behind them.
"That is a fragment of time."
"Fragment... of time?" asks Kaz.
"It is very dangerous, as the Evil Lord's evil power was sealed in it. Miss Cadie wants me to collect all the fragments of time, they are scattered among the whole PangYa Island."
"Miss Cadie?" asks Nuri.
"Magic was casted on this schoolbag, so it will suck a fragment of time into it whenever it comes across one. Miss Cadie will reward me if I take the stones to her."
The girl answers while holding up her schoolbag that sucked the stone.
"Meow!"
The cat, sitting by Kaz's legs meows as if to back up what the girl has just said.
Nuri feels a bit more relieved after hearing Cadie's name.
"Anyway, I am in a hurry, so please excuse me. Pepper! Let's go!" says the girl.
"Hey, wait! Let me go with you!", says Nuri.
"I am not heading for Wiz City like you. I am going to the opposite direction."
"Hey. I didn't mean that. Actually I want to ask you about something..."
Kaz, who is now left alone, watches Nell, the emotionless girl who leaves without even turning her head and Nuri following her.
"That girl... there is something. Fragments of time... what is that Cadie trying to hide?"


Chapter 7:
- In the Sacred Region of the Wizards -
"Phew..."
Cadie takes a deep breath, after turning her eyes away from the crystal ball, which was showing three persons, including Nell, in it a split second ago.
"I didn't expect she would meet Kaz and Nuri... 'Fate' is just an amusing thing."
Cadie thinks of how herself is involved in this 'Fate'.
”Possibly my fate is to trust in 'Hope'."
Cadie turns back to look at the crystal ball. She now sees a boy entering Wiz City.
When the boy arrived, she leaves the sacred region to meet the boy.
...
"Welcome, Nuri." greets Cadie.
"Hi, Cadie. Um..."
"...I understand. As you are a descendant of the hero, it's hard for me to hide the truth from you..."
"Eh...?"
"It's useless not to tell you anything."
Cadie takes another deep breath.
"In the past after the Evil Lord was sealed, his evil power was weakened and a magical core was left."
She speaks in a slow and calm voice.
"To prevent the Evil Lord from coming to life again, the core was split into two parts, of which one of them was sunken to the bottom of the sea in the Evil World, and the other part was sealed in the deepest place under the Wiz Magic Academy. Then, the part of the core that was sealed below the academy began to collect the Evil Lord's power again and has become active... And this is where that girl comes from." says Cadie.
"...!!! So the Evil Lord has come to life again!?"
Nuri is surprised.
"Not yet. So, to prevent the Evil Lord from coming to life again, we need to find the other half of the core. To let her seal the evil power of the Evil Lord by herself, we taught her how to play PangYa. But..."
"But...?"
"We do not know whether that other half of the core will become active again."
"...Isn't that bad?"
"Calm down. So, we have to find the half of the core that was sealed under the Magic Academy."
What Cadie just said relieves Nuri.
"...I understand what's with that girl now. What about the fragments of time?" Nuri asks after he has calmed down and has begun to think of the situation.
"Huh?"
Cadie is a bit surprised by Nuri's question.
"Ah. Right... Haha."
However, as she is experienced in handling such matters, Cadie hides her concern and tells Nuri, smiling in her face.
"Eh? What?"
Nuri is confused.
"Nothing. Simply just practise the eyes of your heart."
"...???"
Without understanding why Cadie is smiling, Nuri's face shows that he is very confused.
"Right, about the fragments of time. These things suddenly appeared on the lands of PangYa Island recently, possibly being attracted by the Evil Lord's power."
Like nothing has just happened, Cadie starts to speak again.
"As I thought these fragments themselves weren't that dangerous, I asked that girl to collect them as a distraction."
"I got it... What about the rewards that she was mentioning?"
"Hehe... Those things were originally fragments of a magical tool used by the Cross Chronos Tribe. When you cast a magic onto the completed tool, time would be disrupted."
"You can disrupt time by collecting these fragments? I don't understand. Is it even a good idea to collect them?"
"Yeah. It won't change the fact that the evil power of the Evil Lord is beginning to gather together again anyway."
"Understood! I will also lend a hand to look for them!"
"I won't stop you."
...
...
...
"Fragments of time, Nell, the other half of the core, the hero, the Evil Lord... We do not know whether something big will happen, yet."
Cadie thought to herself after seeing that Nuri has left.

In the Japanese Pangya, there's an event scheduled specially for Nell.
It stars on July 22 after the regular maintenance and lasts until August 19 before the maintenance.

The event is as such:
Earn rewards by advancing the squares on a game board!
-You will move forward 1 square when you log in during each 24-hour period.
-Whenever you play 10 holes you also move forward 1 square. Any course is okay.

Event rewards:
-Advanced 20 squares - New character 'Nell' + 'Rainbow feather (Nell)'
-Advanced 40 squares - Title
-Advanced 60 squares - 'Rosy cheeks (Nell)' + 'Pink blush (Nell)'


July 15, 2010

Once upon a time...

Another Gacha update! This time the girls of Pangya dress up as fairy tale characters, Hana as Alice in Wonderland, Cecilia as the Snow Queen, Kooh as Little Red Riding Hood, Arin as Snow White, and Lucia as the Swan Princess.

There's also another Pangya Masquerade event, but this time it involves 2 person in the screenshot. The rewards are awesome, Self Design Top and Bottom for the character, 2 Gacha Coins, and more. The forum link is here.

The other update is Cherry Credits promo, buy some points using Cherry Credits will net you some Comets. 5.000 points will net you 50 Cherry Credit Comets, 10.000 points for 125 Comets, and 20.000 for 300 Comets.

Lucia's Birthday event is still going until the 28th of July, and Ntreev have distributed the bonus comets for people who bought the winning World Cup face paint.

Apparently, there's a bug in Lucia's Motion Item and it has been fixed by now.

GB.R4.538.01 Patch Notes

[General]
# Check out the Couples' Cosplay Event on the Forums
# Help out clumsy Birthday Girl Lucia. Find her lost item and return it to her

[Gacha]
# Gacha Update #14 Fairy Tale Set is now available.

[ETC]
# Players who guessed the correct winning teams recieved free comets.
# Lucia's animation bug & earring effect has been fixed.



July 08, 2010

Put the Pedal to the Metal!

Lucia's Birthday is on! Pangya has another birthday event for Lucia, and it's pretty interesting. The event can only be done once a day, and Lucia gives a hint on where it's located. When you know which course it is, just play an 18h tournament and obtain the item!

Pang shop is updated with Lucia's Motion Item! Yes, it's a car. Papel shop is also updated with new set of rares, Clear Papel and Black Papel Eye Mask for each character.

The current event duration is until 28th of July, so let's try and collect Lucia's lost object!

GB.R4.537.01 Patch Notes

[General]
# It's Lucia's Birthday! But she is missing from the party scene. Go talk to her and find out why.

[Papel Shop]
# Papel Shop has been updated with the 6th set of rare items featuring Black Papel Eye Mask and Clear Papel the Caddie.

[Pangya Shop]
# Lucia makes her grand entrance with her very own Animation Accessories, the Lucielago Series!
# Lucia's Birthday Comets are in Pangya Shop for a limited time.
# Lucia's Outfits are offered at 30% discounted prices for a week only.


July 04, 2010

OVERDRIVE Visual Novels

I've read a couple of VNs, and my most favorite title is Kira☆Kira. So far, Mangagamer have released 4 translated OVERDRIVE VNs. They are Edelweiss, Edelweiss Eiden Fantasia, Kira☆Kira, and Kira☆Kira Curtain Call.

Edelweiss' story is about Haruma Kazushi, an idiot who transferred school with this buddies. The school is located on Eiden Island, and Eiden Island has some secrets. What will happen with Kazushi on his stay there? Edelweiss Eiden Fantasia continues Kazushi's story from Edelweiss, and includes an incredibly funny route.

Kira☆Kira introduces us to Shikanosuke Maejima, your average school boy who was just dumped by his girlfriend. He joins a literature club, but it will be disbanded next year due to the club's inactivity. In order to save the club, they make a band called the Second Literary Club (dai2bungeibu) and performs during the school festival. Their success were put on the Internet, and a live house in Nagoya offered them to perform there. Although they were originally wanted to disband the band right after the school festival, they went to Nagoya instead. Shikanosuke's band begins their live tour across Japan in his friend's old van. With great story, interesting characters, and (of course) great musics, this is a must read VN. Kira☆Kira Curtain Call continues the story after Kira☆Kira true ending.

Unlike Edelweiss which suffers from bad translation, Kira☆Kira's translation is really good. In Edelweiss, even the name of the protagonist sometimes changes due to bad translation (Kazushi, Kazuki, Kazuya, etc.).

A simple guide for Edelweiss, Edelweiss Eiden Fantasia, Kira
☆Kira, and Kira☆Kira Curtain Call can be downloaded here.

July 01, 2010

Happy 4th of July!

Pangya USA celebrates the Independence Day! For only one week, Pangya offers some interesting events and items.

There's a comet sale, Kaz, and Lucia's outfit on sale on the Pangya Shop. 4th of July boxes are also dropped on the 9th or 18th hole, and they give you 3 items: Shady Card Remover, Generic Card Remover, and Premium Card Remover.

There's also a Forum contest for this week. For more details, click here.

GB.R4.536.01 Patch Notes:

[General]
# Pangya Island Celebrates Independence Day!
# Find the 4th of July boxes from the hole cups and get your Card Remover.
# Visit the forum and show us how you or your Pangya Character would spend the 4th of July weekend.

[Pangya Shop]
# New Ocean-themed outfits for Kaz and Lucia are available in the Pangya Shop.
# Blockbuster Comets are avaiable for a limited time in the Pangya Shop.