Author: Padraig Fahy

  • New World

    New World

    Back on Tuesday, Amazon Games launched its new MMO, New World to the public.

    The game was met with a lot of negative reviews on social media and even a review-bomb on Steam (Which seems to be fixing itself at time of writing) due to the server capacity and lack of servers in general.

    Amazon did address this by adding well over 100+ servers for the game. A updating thread on their forum shows that they are working on adding new servers.

    I was very reluctant in getting New World. I thought there was glaring issues with the combat and questing and a sense of questioning as to what is to be done at End Game.

    I even tweeted out that I was going to give it a miss for a ‘year or two’

    Try, a day or two. This evening, I bought New World. ๐Ÿ˜…

    I started a character this evening on one of the newest EU servers, Ursa Dry Tree (Server merged back in February 2022).

    My character, Crakila, on Ursa server in New World

    I don’t know how much of this game I am going to play considering that my main game, Final Fantasy XIV, has it’s expansion releasing this November, so New World is filling that void in the meantime.

    I will not be giving a detailed review of the game, but I figure an update as to how I get on and how I enjoy the game, may come in the future.

  • Fix Windows Security on Windows 11 Beta

    Fix Windows Security on Windows 11 Beta

    In the Windows 11 Beta, I experienced an issue with Windows Security (fka. Windows Defender) not working.

    The shield would appear in the system tray but clicking on it or opening Windows Security from the Start menu wouldn’t do anything.

    To fix this, open Powershell as Admin and copy paste the following:

    Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage

    Once you do that, you can go to: Start -> Settings >> Privacy & Security and click on “Open Windows Security” or type “Windows Security” into the Start Menu.

    Windows Security working on Windows 11 (Beta 22000.194)
  • [The Jukebox] #66 – Kazuhiro Hara – real Emotion

    [The Jukebox] #66 – Kazuhiro Hara – real Emotion

    Every few months on YouTube, I am recommended music which I listened to years ago. One of those songs, I am featuring today.

    ‘real Emotion‘ is the opening song for the 2003 Playstation 2 title, Final Fantasy X-2. It’s composed by Kazuhiro Hara and arranged by ‘h-wonder‘

    The song’s English vocalist is Jade Villalon. Villalon is a member of the German pop group Sweetbox who has had success in Japan and Korea. She also sang the English version of 1000 Words also used in Final Fantasy X-2. Villalon left the group in 2007 before rejoining in 2020 and releasing a new album.

    The Japanese version of the song was sung by Kumi Koda. Koda is a solo singer in Japan who gained fame from real Emotion and 1000 Words and has been releasing new music since her breakthrough. Koda also voiced Lenne in the Japanese version of the game.

    Outside of the game, Kumi released her 6th album in December 2020 called “Angel + Monster” which was recorded in her home studio during the COVID-19 Pandemic. ย 

    There has only been 1 version of the English dub of the song released, It’s credited as being sung by: “Jade from sweetbox” – No full names here.

    Credits from Final Fantasy X-2
    Final Fantasy X-2 Official OST – real Emotion (English)
    Opening of Final Fantasy X-2 (English)

    The Japanese dub, sung by Koda however, had 2 versions:

    The first being the OST version:

    Final Fantasy X-2 Official OST – real Emotion (Japanese)

    And then an official music video featuring Kumi Koda. The dance was motion captured and used for when “the singer” performs the song at the start of the game. The song got to number 3 on the Oricon singles charts making it Koda’s first song in the Top 10. The song was ranked the 24th best single of 2003 in Oricon’s Top 100 Singles.

    Koda Kumi – real Emotion

    real Emotion by ๅ€–็”ฐไพ†ๆœช
    Song ยท 3:59 ยท 2003
    Appleย Music

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