WHAT THE FUCK TELLTALE GAMES!?!

Seriously, what the fuck did I just experience at the end of Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4. Seriously, most WTF twist ever in a video game!

Regained Memories

I found it!

I found my old blog!

It had been sitting on an old Blogger account that existed before Blogger merged with Google! I have imported all the posts and am in the middle of tagging them, so anyone curious about shit that happened 2004-2006, or who wants to find more shit to chuckle at me about (the more likely reason), including my time during and immediately after being a Beyblader, as well as several old convention reports, can find them in the archives on my blog, which Litrid is now a member of.

Wow. XD

Dabbling once again

How funny is it that during this whole online fan game convention, I decide to get back into RPG Maker 2003? :P

EDIT: Never mind about RPG Maker - I've got a new Star Hill video seires pilot to make! :P

Brutal Legend



From the mind of Tim Schafer, who has worked on many classics such as the Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Psychonauts comes Brutal Legend, an absolute love letter to all things heavy metal. In the game you play as a roadie named Eddie Riggs who’s voiced by Jack Black as he grows tired of supporting a shitty tween metal band. He soon however gets caught in an accident that transports him to another world full of crazy locations inspired by heavy metal lore. After managing to escape from the dark forces, discovering his knowledge of rock can actually “blow shit up literally”, and meeting up with a bunch of freedom fighters willing to free their land, its up to Eddie to raise an army and take down the evil Doviculus. Of course being a Tim Schafer game you can easily expect the plot to entertain you with all the hilarious dialogue and unique characters. What I didn’t expect however was at times the game gets serious in a good way (kind of like the final act of Shaun of the Dead) which you really care about what happens to the characters. Of course this is a game so game play is obviously important to enhance the experience and Brutal Legend absolutely delivers. The game is a crazy combination of an action adventure game mixed in with an open world mission structure of fable and Grand Theft Auto, with some RTS elements, hack and slash, and vehicular combat. You’re never doing the same thing and every element of the game coexists perfectly with each other. The voice cast is outstanding as well with Jack Black perfecting the role of Eddie Riggs without being too much like Jack Black. The other celebrity cast is completely made up of rock legends such as Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, Rob Halford, and Ozzy Osbourne are all perfect in their roles and are unexpectedly hilarious. The game also has a robust multiplayer mode that takes the rts sections of the game and pits you against another player with three factions to choose from. Overall, if you love heavy metal, enjoy a great mix of game play styles, or just love Tim Schafer’s work you owe it to yourself to check out this game!

OnP Version # Whothefuckcares

Been making some additions to my personal blog, if anyone cares.

Hopefully I'll have something worth posting here soon. :P

OH MY GOD I CAN'T GET OUT!

Fall 2009 Anime Season

Yeah, since my first video was about the Spring season, I guess its becoming a habit to do these write-ups, even though I won't turn them into videos. Maybe if I speed up the process a bit, but I'm still getting to that. Anyways, this may be a long one, so you may want to get your hands on some snacks and a drink first. For various reasons, I will be skipping most second seasons... mainly because I'm lazy, and anyone who cares is already watching them.

11eyes

An action based show that kind of reminds me of Persona 3 if there were more encounters like the first one at the dorm. Basically, a set of high school students find themselves getting transported into a weird sort of parallel dimension that looks like their world, except everyone else is missing, for a period of time every day. Only difference between this and the dark hour appears to be the colour shift. Persona 3 had green, this show has red. Anyways, weird creatures appear in this alternate reality, very reminiscent of the Shadows from Persona... and the kids are forced to fight for their lives while they try and figure out what is causing this phenomenon. All Persona fans are now asking whether they all have some sort of special power to fight these things... actually, most anime fans are probably thinking that... and the answer is no duh.

What I love about this show, the theme song, its absolutely awesome, what don't I like... three episodes into the series, and absolutely nothing feels like its happened... for a 12 episode series, its moving pretty freaking slowly...


Aoi Bungaku

Yes, there are subs for this now. Go, find them, its worth it. Basically, this show plans to take several classic Japanese short stories, one of which I really like, and animate them. Not sounding that interesting yet? All character designs are being handled by three people... Takeshi Obata, Takeshi Konomi, and Tite Kubo, the original manga creators for Death Note, Prince of Tennis, and Bleach respectively. Got your attention yet? The series so far is really dark, but that's going to be subject to change as they circle between the six short stories they're doing.

My only problem, the lack of fansubs. I mean, come on, ten groups are subbing Kampfer, and only one seemingly slow group is doing this? What's Kampfer? Oh, keep reading and you'll find out...


Fairy Tail

Based on the incredibly popular manga of the same name, Fairy Tail comes as yet another shounen series that will probably never end. The protagonist, Lucy, is a mage that is trying to get into a popular mage guild known as Fairy Tail. In the first episode, she runs across a guy named Natsu, who not only happens to be a mage, but a rather well known member of said guild. Stuff happens, he takes her with him to the guild, and she gets in. Really. No test, no need to prove herself, they just let her in. Apparently the only condition to entering this well known guild is to find its HQ. Anyways, its entertaining, but once again, its looking to be another arc based fighting series that will inevitably go on until no one cares anymore because of all the filler. *coughNarutoandBleachcough*

Anyways, another thing to note is the voice cast. It feature Hirano Aya (Haruhi) as Lucy, Simon from Gurren Lagann as Natsu, and Kugimiya Rie (Shana, Louise, Taiga) as a cat. Listening to Simon's voice actually make an "eat that for breakfast" joke that worked rather literally in context was kind of funny as well.


Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen

Yes, it's back. Do we care? Sort of. Why? They're only giving it 26 episodes. This series will actually cover the ending of the Inuyasha manga, finally ending the series for good. So that means it has 26 episodes to cover 25 volumes of manga from where the first series left off. Wait... what? Doesn't that mean they're doing almost a full volume per episode? Oh right, it's a Rumiko Takahashi manga, its mostly filler anyways.

I would also like to note that I'm watching this despite the fact that I gave up on the first series halfway through. It is one of two shows I've ever actually dropped... though mostly due to YTV's bullshit and not the series itself. Am I going to finish watching the 75 episodes I missed before I start? No. I really don't think I'm missing all that much. He probably got a new sword or something, new flashy move, spent the entire 75 episodes chasing after Naraku in a fun-filled, but rather pointless set of filler arcs only to once again not kill him in the end... Am I about right?


Kampfer

Oh crap, I mentioned it before so now I have to do this... Okay, so Kampfer is a series about a guy, who turns into a girl, to fight other girls who turn into other girls, in some weird sort of game for the amusement of what I can only assume are the game programmers of whatever H-game this show was based on, while being fed information by talking stuffed animals with their intestines hanging out, who are voiced by big name VAs. No really, I can't make this shit up if I tried. I don't think its supposed to make sense, I mean, the series definitely doesn't take itself seriously. As for the VAs, there are so many jokes with the animals about their VAs... like having Tamura Yukari playing the rabbit, and Nana Mizuki playing the cat... the two VAs are best known for playing Nanoha and Fate respectively, and god damn I know there's going to be a joke about that in there somewhere...

Kampfer, at least they put the best part about the series in the title.

...if you didn't get that, I ain't explaining it.


Kimi ni Todoke

I love this series already. It's a shoujo series produced by Production I.G., the studio that brought us Ghost in the Shell, and more recently Eden of the East. Basically it follows a girl named Sawako, who most of her class is afraid of due to her resemblance to Sadako, the little girl from The Ring, as she tries to open up to the people around her and make friends. It also follows her as she completely misses the fact that guy she respects so much has a huge crush on her. I mean, could he make it any more obvious? Hell, I thought they got together after the first episode because he more or less confessed to her at the end. Went right over her head apparently.

Why are you still reading this? Go watch this right now!


Kobato

This show is made by Clamp, what else do you need to know. It's cute, the storyline seems both engaging and interesting at the same time, and it features Inada Tetsu, the voice of the big, burly, gay guy from Ga-Rei Zero as a stuffed blue dog that breathes fire. I think the thing that caught me about this is the fact that Clamp was releasing this manga for years... at the same time as both Tsubasa and xxxHolic, and other little projects... Damn those 4 women can do a lot of work. As far as I know only one of them actually does the art...


Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - Purezza

I can't explain this show as well as I'd like to, so I will provide you with a handy flowchart.





























In all seriousness though, watch it. The series is essentially about a high school kid named Ayase Yuuto who discovers that the most popular girl in school is a closet otaku. Though unlike everyone else who's ever found that out, he doesn't ridicule her for it, and the two of them become good friends... though I think from any logical standpoint it's pretty obvious that they were dating from the get-go... no matter what the two of them say. It's a really nice series, and you need to watch it. Do yourself a favour and just do it, you'll be happy you did.


Nyan Koi

The story of this series is about a boy who accidentally breaks a shrine to some sort of cat deity. As a curse, he is given the ability to understand what cats can say, and informed that if he doesn't commit 100 good deeds for cats all over the city, he will be turned into one himself. The real catch here? He's allergic to cats. If he gets turned into a cat, it's worse than just having to learn to live with it... he will literally be allergic to himself and die slowly and painfully. So to prevent that from happening, he has to take the plunge and help the thing that drives him insane. It's a comedy too, so plenty of fun to be had.

I like this series, mainly because I can empathize with the protagonist. I'm allergic to cats too, and the damn things drive me nuts... especially Ichida's cat. Damn thing came to me, started rolling around on the couch next to me like it wanted to be petted. Then it fucking bit me... damn cat.

Also, this show features Fukuyama Jun, voice of Lelouch from Code Geass as a random cat.


Sasameki Koto

The Yuri series of the season, I picked it up mainly because I watched Aoi Hana last season and absolutely loved it. This one, not so much. I mean, it's still good, but it's just lacking in so many ways. Definately not as good of a shoujo pick as Kimi ni Todoke. Basically, it follows two best friends, one of whom is an open lesbian, and the other who is still in the closet, but very much in love with the other. The catch? She's not her friend's type apparently. So the drama all comes from her being emo about being unable to be with the other girl. It's also somewhat slow moving. I swear to god the episodes seem to go so fast... and yet not much actually happened. Good series, cute art style, but not one of the best this season.

For some reason that one background song in this show reminds me of Winny the Pooh…


Seiken no Blacksmith

This series is about Knights, Blacksmiths, a living sword, and apparently people who signed contracts with the devil for power. It's a fairly good action fantasy series, and its been going rather nicely so far. Not much to say about it aside from that. Good start, watch it.


Seitokai no Ichizon

References ahoy! This show is full of them, going so far as to make refences to Dragon Ball Z, Haruhi, Lucky Star, and various other things right in the first five minutes. This show is all about the references and randomness, it has nothing else, but I can't really fault it for that. At least it's doing it better than Lucky Star, and actually has some semblance of a plot behind it all. They even made a Jigoku Shoujo reference, complete with Noto Mamiko voicing the character. That makes it great. Also, they didn't just make a Dragon Ball joke... they made a Dragon Ball Evolution joke.

"We should collect seven spherical objects with stars on them!"
"Evolution..."
"DON'T EVEN SAY THAT! THAT WAS HORRIBLE!"


Sora no Otoshimono

Another "lolwut" series this season. It's a simple of a high school boy who wanted nothing more than a normal life only to have it snatched away as a strange girl literally falls out of the sky. She calls him her master and offers to use her powers to give him whatever he desires. He quickly becomes mad with power, wishing for money, power, and the ability to grope women in the changing room while invisible. He even does a little dance through his school while naked and time is frozen. He then comes to a realization that this power was wrong and he could not abuse it any further.

No, not really, he just cries like a little bitch and abuses the weird girl every episode instead. I can't help but yell at him... he's voiced by Souichiro Hoshi, one of the manliest voices in anime, stop crying!

Anyways decent show, at very least it's fun. Also, flock of panties migrating across the world for the win.


Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Should I even be mentioning this here? I said I wouldn't mention second seasons... though this honestly isn't really a second season, more of a spin-off of Toaru Majutsu no Index. Essential idea is that they took the target audience's (read as loli lovers) favourite minor character and gave her her own show. That's more or less it. I have to admit though, she always seemed like a more interesting character than Touma ever did. Though now I'm starting to question that considering the lack of an actual storyline so far...

Whatever, bottom line, she flicks a coin and gets the same sort of effect as if it were fired from a Railgun. That's kind of awesome.



Anyways, that's it for another season, I'll probably be making another of these come January, not to mention whatever other little random anime comments I come up with in between.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves



So I have just finished Uncharted 2, one of the biggest games of the year. I have not been this excited for a game release in awhile (yes, even more than Tales of Monkey Island) and when I was able to get a copy, my heart just raced, knowing I was in for a real treat as I have previously professed my love for the original and played it around 5 times through. I was in love with the game play, the characters, the writing, and yes even the acting, all having influences from pulp adventure serials such as my favorite movie of all time, Raiders of the lost ark. For Nathan Drake's second adventure on the PS3 however, words cannot describe how amazing this game is. EVERYTHING is improved from the original game. The single player campaign is longer, the script writing and acting is top notch and is probably one of the best I've ever seen in a video game, and the set pieces are so unbelievable iconic that the action can really make you bite your nails as you actually care about the characters surviving. There were moments in this game that I have never experienced before, truly bridging the gap between cinematic and interactive entertainment. Oh and there's a very competent multiplayer mode as well on top of that with many features that will have you hooked for months. If you have a PS3, get this game now! And if you don't have a PS3 yet, pick this up along with its prequel, don't miss out on one of the best games of the year, possibly the century. It's that damn good!

Gotcha

Just picked up my copy of Uncharted 2 ^o^ but i cant play it till i get home...which wont be for a long time T-T. im really hyped for this game though. sucks that you cant do the story as co-op though, that woulda been a great feature to have, though they do make up for it with new missions just for co-op. wooooooo

Sick, Like a Boss

Well I came down with what i though was a sore throat, then the next day, a sore neck, so I went to the doctors and asked her;
"Yo, Whats a matter with me?"
her reply was;
"You got strep thoat"
Then i said;
"Mammamai."
Then her;
"By the way Charles, your stereotypical Italian accent sucks."
Me;
"Thats a spicy meat-a-ball!"

Anyways I KNOW MY STORY TYPING SKILLZ SUCK THE BUCKET, Comment on it and get speared, or kicked in the nuts, like a boss, on a boat, while jizzing in your pants, as I walk away from an explosion.

Zombies at the MOVIES!!!

So I'm going to see Zombieland this weekend with some of the gang and I'm definatly psyched for it. Who else wouldn't want to see a Left 4 Dead movie, oh wait I know, ICHIDA! (Yeah I'm still holding a grudge for him missing last weeks episode...)

End of an era...

Garnett Lee just announced that the Listenup/1up yours podcast is officially ending as he's taking his new position at gamefly. The reason why this is noteworthy is that 1up yours was the inspiration to Star Hill Radio. I'm gonna miss hearing the guys talk about the latest in the industry.

In other news, Ichida is a bitch for skipping out on Star Hill Radio last night and before you mention it, Kevin had a good excuse!

Left 4 Dead Crash Course

It broke me.... Why must you break down generator?!? WHY!

First post.

First Post on this blog, All i need to say is...

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMEEENNNN!!!!!
kthxbai

My work is never done

I hate computers...theres always some sorta new component or something that comes out which blows the previous versions away and i always want it. Like the ATI Eyefinity i mentioned before. Though right now it something more simple i need. with all the upgrades ive been making to my computer recently ive neglected to replace the power supply accordingly so right now my rig is extrmly under powered and its sapping performance like a mofo. now i gotta go out and spend 100 bucks on a new supply to keep this watt guzzling glutton happy. might as well buy a quad core while im at it...i hate computrs

Ichida and Uncharted 2 demo

FUCKING SHIELD SPAMMING! GOD DAMN IT!