Recently I’ve been watching Taiwanese drama series nonstop. My objectives were twofold:
1. To see whether TWDramas had outgrown their status as el-cheapo cousins of J-Dramas.
2. To improve my Mandarin listening skills. To this end, I would be limiting my choice of series to ones with relatively straightforward dialogue. That [...]
I’m a noob at ping pong. Dabbled a bit in college, but sucked pretty bad. Back in the day, Kungfucius schooled me during a Thanksgiving holiday “celebration”. Of his total domination over my pathetic ping pong skills. I stuck to it though - whenever the opportunity arose (usually random and infrequent), [...]
Like DigiKerot, I have a substantial RPG backlog that I’ve been slowly whittling down. I’ve narrowed down the possible choices to 5 games that I haven’t played yet, and all of them are fairly acclaimed according to their GameRankings average score, so I need some help deciding which one to play next! [...]
Since Kabitzin has been diligently pimping the ABA these past few weeks, I figured I’d better chip in with my own tearful and drama-ridden explanation of my voting choices. But that would have taken too long, so instead I’ll just grouse about who I believe should have been a nominee for the best team [...]
Hephador (who I have to resist referring to as “The Hef“) recently asked about my favorite RPGs, but I had never really given much consideration as to ranking my favorites MAL-style. After a prolonged period of deep thought, during which I resembled a constipated old man squatting upon the porcelain throne, I concluded that [...]
Despite being a moderate Atlus fanboy, I have to admit that they’ve made some pretty questionable imports over the years. Their latest release, Baroque (PS/Wii), is likely to go down in the books as either too artsy to be accepted by the general populace, or just plain bad, joining its comrade Unlimited [...]
Gust is going back to its roots with an alchemy school theme for the latest Atelier game. You play as Vayne, a young amateur alchemist who was handpicked to attend the Al-Revis academy due to his incredible potential. You’ll go to classes, participate in school events, pursue little sidestories, accept oddjobs for [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched any live-action; I think the last one I saw was the hokey yet fun Hana Yori Dango. This time around, I was looking for something leaning more towards suspense, so I marathoned Liar Game (based on the manga of the same name). The story centers around [...]
Piggybacking off Kabitzin’s promotion of the latest Appleseed movie, I thought I’d throw in my two cents on another movie in a similar vein, Vexille. Like Appleseed, it’s a cell-shaded CG movie centered around many of Masamune Shirow’s sci-fi themes. However, it has much grimmer and down-to-earth overtones instead of the over-the-top comic book [...]
I’m actually kind of surprised that no one in the anime blogosphere has mentioned Audiosurf, an uber-cool game that takes media player visualizations to the next level.
For those who haven’t heard of it, Audiosurf is an independent-developer game that combines rhythm sensibilities (reminiscent of Amplitude/Frequency) with puzzle game mechanics (Kirby’s Avalanche, Puzzle Fighter) and [...]
