Let's Make a Fan Fiction, Again!

Towards the end of January, I found myself fleshing out my mega-crossover fan fiction project at a random whim. I don't know why but a thought of making a crossover fan fiction has finally kicked in after a long time. I mean, I've actually wanted to make one but had to put it in a perpetual backburner due to a lot of stuffs for some reason, and now suddenly I got back here again after not doing anything story-related for a couple of years.

Long story short, I've had two three projects when it comes to fan fiction, at least those with released chapters. First one is a street racing fan fiction with an outlandish concept where cars can even drive inside shopping malls (but stopped halfway through), second one is a competition-themed fan fiction between television shows that has seen two seasons with the third being worked on until it wasn't, and the third is a version of that but this time with teams of three being featured and has bigger numbers of competing teams. Three different fan fictions, three different places, but all share the same thing: I hate how I executed them nowadays. So now I ended up conceiving a concept for the new one.

Rendy's Battle Report 01: The Festive Fest Units Festival

Obey the tier list! Obey the tier list! Obey the tier list!

First of all, this post is way belated than planned since I'm still on a job search at the moment, among others. Thankfully, I managed to snag an interview last Thursday. Hopefully I can get employed because that's what all matters for me now.

Realizing that I've been more active than ever in The King of Fighters ALL STAR, I've decided that I'll be making some sort of random recaps of my progress in the same vein as my car skinning progresses. Playing this game for about more than 100 days realized that I'm on my phase where I've become grown with the KOF universe, and ALL STAR has cemented that. The scavenger hunt for KD-0079 origins and getting into the rabbit's hole has really helped, and it seems that my new gaming pattern has been shaped yet again after being broken during my first discovery.

The Decade's End (Entering the new one)

I actually revisited my Bachelor's thesis presentation art and turned it into a New Year's festivity. Helps that it also doubles as a one-year anniversary of my document's completion.

At last, the 2010s has finally ended and we're now into a new decade. If I have to be honest, it's been quite an emotional ride, both personally and on the internet. Coming to the decade with a "brute force" approach and progressively gaining purpose on what I've been doing, and later leaning towards real-life stuffs as the decade's conclusion came closer, it has been ten years full of all ups and downs as I learned and discovered new stuffs.

November 26 Excellence, KOF AS Stage - A Bloody Fate with Tekken

The King of Fighters and Tekken, two of the world's prominent fighting game franchises, finally meet by fate to see who's the strongest of all. Fighters of the two worlds gather to settle the score in the November 26 update brought to the Global players by The King of Fighters: ALL STAR. Eight characters from the Bandai Namco Games property were brought into the mobile game with various events and items available for acquiring.

This is the second and final part of the post, of which two of my favorite mobile games dropped their collaboration contents on the same date: November 26. EA/Firemonkeys' racing game Real Racing 3 released its new update featuring Formula 1 content, bringing in 10 teams and 20 drivers from the 2019 and the new Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, of which I already wrote the short review here. As of this post, the KOF AS collaboration with Tekken is close to ending, of which it included the Rush Event, Roulette Event, and gacha banners for Tekken fighters, both for fighters and Battle Cards, divided into two different volumes each.

November 26 Excellence, RR3 Stage - Formula 1 has arrived!

November 26 shall go down as the day of superb collabs with two games I play have their new versions featuring them released on the same date. Real Racing 3's newest update brought in the 2019 season of Formula 1 content which made it the game's biggest update yet with a couple of changes in game, while The King of Fighters ALL STAR brought in the collaboration with Tekken, a prominent name in the fighting game genre and living up the modern spirit of the series' beat 'em up minigame Tekken Force which existed in the older entries of the franchise, featuring contents based on Tekken 7, the franchise's recent entry.

That said, this post will be split into two parts, both dedicated to RR3 and KOF AS respectively. This first post will revolve on RR3 and its Formula 1 update which featured the 2019 season teams and a new track of Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, among others. The "big" in the "big change" isn't even a joke, as in adding "the same car" to the game. We're talking about dropping an entire motorsporting event like Formula 1 to the game with its dedicated content, something that appropriately has to be reacted with one Metal Slug sound clip.