Pendragon Is Mightier Than The Sworddragon
Star Ocean EX, Shining Tears x Wind, Tales of Eternia, Xenosaga…the list goes on. Game-to-anime adaptations have a history of major suckage, which was why the anime version of Gungrave was a odd exception. Bateszi’s review reminded me how awesome that show was…[cries manly tears]. The original game’s storyline ends differently than the anime however, [...]
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Finally, the new Gundam is out! Time for another season of trashy plot twists, angsty pilots, and melodramatic death scenes. Gundam 00 opens in a war-torn Middle-eastern city, where the child Setsuna is waging a fruitless resistance against Mechwarrior-style walking tanks. When all hope is lost, a Gundam with sparkly exhaust wings snipes all the [...]
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While none of the new series in the new season are especially appealing yet, last season’s offerings are still going strong, and some series from the season before that had strong endings. Kabitzin predicted Baccano! would be my “killer app” for the new season; I’ll definitely have to check it out due to his rather [...]
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Gather ’round kiddos, as it’s time for a flashback scene into Kabitzin’s mysterious past. Once upon a time, our mutual friend Velius and I invited Kabitzin to join us in a round of Warlords Battlecry II, an excellent real-time strategy game which we had been enjoying. Kabitzin warned us that this would be his first [...]
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After playing Atelier Iris 3, I started looking into the origins of the Atelier series, since most of the games were never ported over to the west. The gameplay philosophy in the Iris trilogy has shifted away from the the earlier series (Atelier Marie/Elie/Lilie/etc. and their sequels/spinoffs/sidestories), which are more like hybrid RPG/life simulation games [...]
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Inspired by Jeff’s recent acquisition of a PS2 and positive first impression of Atelier Iris 3, I decided to give it a whirl as well, since Grim Grimoire isn’t readily available yet. Though reviews are extremely mixed, I have to say that I am actually enjoying AI3 quite a bit. Being rather sick of the [...]
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