BlazBlue at AX 2008

BlazBlue, the newest creation by Arc systems better known as the creators of Guilty Gear. Blazblue has been described as the spiritual successor of Guilty Gear. The game may seem like Guilty Gear but its a total rework from the ground up, but still utilizes so many of the Guilty Gear Quirks, and styles while still being something new.

Arc systems will be doing Beta tests for the game for the first time in the US, at Anime Expo 2008.
It will be like any other Arcade game, located at the Arcade area for AX.

So stay tuned I will be playing that game like crazy at night and will give you my personal review of the game.

Until then watch some youtube videos of it to get you pumped.

Atlus Shin Megami Tensei...Behind the Scenes

Atlus has announced a special behind the Scenes look at the the Shin Megami Tensei Series that includes voice actors Yuri Lowenthal and Karen Strassman, for those of you who aren't too familiar with them, are voice actors for Anime and video games, more notably by me SMT Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2, and Persona 3. The Behind the scenes will be taking place at Anime Expo, and I for sure am extremly excited that im taking my copies of persona 3 (maybe Fes), DDS 1 and 2 to be autographed, and just enjoy myself.

As for extra fun news, Nippon Ichi will be holding events at their booth where a special school will be introduced (can we guess Disgaea 3), where they will be demoing all of their soon to be released games, like Disgaea 3, Disgaea DS, and just recently announced Rhapsody a Musical Adventure for DS.

I will be taking as many pictures as I can, and reviewing, playing as much as I can while I work and inform everyone of any new news.

Randomness

While fighting the Sops and finding the truth of everything going on around me, enemies appear out of nowhere in an effort to take me out.

If you haven't guessed yet, im talking about Metal Gear Solid 4, or am I? lol
naw but I have been playing MGS4 on and off, during my days off, nights and whenever I can squeeze some gaming time of my crazy schedule. Act 5 is a pain, getting caught just means so many problems with me and its random, so there can be no full on tactic, just random luck. I'm hoping I can beat the game by the weekend if I have free time, because next week is Anime Expo, where I'll be your local Exhibit hall salesman, helping you find games, where I've been thinking I might take some of my rare items to make some side money and maybe make a loving game fan boy happy, I haven't decided yet, all I know is I want this year expo to be fun and different. Well ill be writing a review for Persona 3 Fes tommorow so look foward to it.

Final Fantasy VII - Crisis Core

The Prequel to Final Fantasy VII, one of the greatest ps1 games ever made, by everyones favorite company Square Enix.

For the first time ever find out the truth about Cloud, and Aeris's past by the man who brought them together, Clouds friend and mentor, Zack Fair.
Learn the truth about Sephiroth even deeper than before and learn about Angeal and Genesis (from Dirge of Cereberus FFVII).

Zack was just a simple country boy, who had dreams of being like the Hero Sephiroth, he worked as hard as he could, be cocky but still cool and do anything needed.

Zack puts himself through hell and back with the help of his mentor Angeal, training and being put in war to show his pride and strength, all to reach the pinnacle Soilder 1st class. Being young and brash didn't help him as he kept falling for traps and "accidents" which lead him to meet the young Aeris and fall for her.

Follow Zack from being soilder 2nd class up until the beginning of Final Fantasy VII, where many questions asked will be answered, learn many things about the past, that you never even knew was there all in order to complete the Universe that is Final Fantasy VII.

Review: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Now if you haven't heard of this series yet, read this, if you have....read this still and remind yourself how great this series is.

I've followed this series since its first aired as a fan sub and was hooked, and with is being released in America by Bandai in July, and I will be buying it dvd by dvd.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the story of humans being controlled by demi humans, humans are forced to live underground take shelter any how come above are immediately killed.
Simon is a young orphan who loves his job as a digger, as that is what most humans are doing to expand territory for homes, and even find other towns. Simon has one man he looks up to, Kamina, a brash young man who believes humans should be free to see the sky, live as they please and lives as his heart and spirit tell him to, no buts about it.

One day an avalanche happends and Kamina and Simon are stuck under rubble, Simon is about to give up as Kamina encourages him to do everything he can till he dies and not to give up about anything, as he does Simon finds courage in himself and frees he and Kamina. Kamina respects Simon as his little brother and Simon sees Kamina as a bigger tough brother.

On a digging excavation Simon finds a weird drill shaped item and eventually a little robot, as he does a sexy girl falls from the sky fighting a weird monster neither Kamina or Simon have ever seen in their lives, and in the end fighting the monster with the girl escaping the underground caves and seeing the world for the first time. Simon and Kamina join the girl named Yoko as they decide to see the world save it and aim for the skies!!!

Giving just the basis and first episode of Gurren Lagann I wanted to avoid spoilers for those who will see it soon or want to as we speak. The studio who produced this Anime is Gainax the same weirdos who brought you Evangelion and FLCL, so really its a series you cant miss!! Check it our coming in July or go watch it now, its a 26 episode anime that goes beyond the skies and stars because everyone should aim for the skies!!!

and for those of you who have seen it heres a lil special gift brought to you by Gainax!!

Dragonball Z burst Limit

The newest game in the Dragonball universe, on the Ps3 and Xbox360.

The game itself is mostly based on the Budokai Tenkaichi (Sparking) fighting engine, with tons of re-works. The anime 3d style is pretty good, and the small stories in the game work for it and against it. The graphics are beautiful and very detailed, and the first time online mode (for Sony and Xbox360) are great. I've put about 10 hrs on it, to complete and my friends about 15.

The game is a bit short starting at the Sayian Saga and ending at the Cell saga including, Bardock and Brolly. They're many fights and the cut scenes follow the anime to the point, but during the ending of the cut scene in which something interesting is suppose to happen...it just cuts out and you wonder why?! with everything they have why can't we see Vegeta finish off Nappa in the anime, and instead cut right before he gets blown up? They can't say because its to graphic, to bad for TV, cause its a game and you see 16's head crushed even for a second.

Scenes missing from the game include introduction of Trunks, he randomly appears in 2 fights but never explain why he is there, and skip alot of the great scenes like Goku's heart problem and Dr Gero, and focus alot on some useless fights like Recoome beating up every Z fighter before Goku appears.

The game deserves much praise, alot was missing but for them to develop the game for 360 and ps3 its to be expected that things had to be cut out, because if you do -s3 and 360 programming at the same time 360 has a disc limit of 9.6 gigs and ps3 goes up to 50 gigs at the moment, so once they fill up a 360 disc they are done and send it out to be burnt after making small changes.

Gone but back

Hey everyone who is still reading this, sorry its been about a month since my last post, things have been pretty busy, having to deal with Fanime, work and trying to make time for my friends, but i'm back now and going to be heading in full steam when I get a chance.

Fanime was pretty interesting, I spent most of my time working from 10am-7pm at the Japan Video Game booth and it was pretty hectic. I took some random time off to do some shopping, talk to friends I made up at the Con. and check out the game tournaments/ play in them, I wasn't able to take many pics but with Anime Expo coming in 2 weeks ill be taking way more pics.

Colbert vs Rain vs Miyamoto

Raving Rabids meets Wii Fit

Metal Gear Online Beta

Metal Gear Online Beta has started last, like this passed Friday rather than Monday thanks to the global want for this Beta. The servers where jammed like crazy went over the planned beta players and in the end the whole thing just shut down hahaha.

Originally only way to get this was via pre-ordering Metal Gear Solid 4 and getting the bonus disc which had a documentary and the Beta code. Well know Konami has sent those with Ps3's beta invites to get your chance to play this Beta while it is still available. Get on take on your friends or random people in the biggest online Tactical Espionage game where your job is to take control, kill opponents and win.

Tournaments and challengers

A nice idea I had to start this blog was to set up bloggers to meet and challenge themselves and other in games and anime trivia.

Video Games tournaments, random challenges and battles sound like something fun everyone can do, and trying to get a place to have these challenges and tournaments would be something I'd like to do such as a King of Fighters Tournament, Melty Blood, Guilty Gear and even upcoming games, heck even Initial D Extreme stage when it comes out soon. With enough people we can try to get something started in South and North Cali just for fun and people to meet each other.

Anime trivia contests or get togethers would introduce Animes to people who haven't possibly seen a series yet, or let people see some of there favorites again with others and talk about it.

This is just my random Idea and hope there would be a good support for something like this, nothing can happen without people to support a fun idea like this.

Hayate no Gotoku Anime series

Translated as "Hayate the Combat Bulter," follows Ayasaki Hayate and his difficult life as a student, a son and sadly both fail, but its not his fault his parents are just those who care for the now and themselves and would sell there son off for money....Which they did. Hayate's life seems to have come to and end, but with tons of bad luck, you'd expect some good luck to happen, and it did as Hayate makes the desperate choice to kidnap a young girl he just met for ransom, he eventually saves her and with tons of confusion, his offer to kindap her was taken as a confession of love.

Hayate hides his true intentions from this girl who ends up being the granddaughter of the wealthiest man in Japan, and in turn becomes her butler, but not just any butler her fighting butler.

The First Season has just ended in Japan with a season 2 coming out hopefully around Winter but only time can tell.

The series is full of action, comedy romance and tons of parodies from other series and even mentions of them. Some to mention, are:

-Mar Heaven, as Ginta and Dorothy shown a few times.
-Detective Conan, Busts of Conan are hidden around Nagi's mansion as well as she looked like a femake version of Conan in one episode.
-Inuyasha: A bust of Inuyasha has appeared many times
and many more its something for one to keep an eye out while laughing at the anime.

Shin Megami Tensei.....MMORPG

If always been a fan of the Shin Megami Tensei series of games going back to Persona 1
(before I started importing games), and been playing them since. While the Ps1 versions were great, the Ps2 versions were freaking awesome. Nocturne is still one of my top favorites with Persona 3 right behind it, but now I just found out there is a Shin Megami Tensei MMORPG that takes place between the 2 never released Super Famicom versions, Digital Devil Story (which you could find the roms translated only way I could play it).

The game is 3d animation looks like Nocturne style and you create how your character looks like, and choose male or female. I haven't played much of it yet, spent alot of time downloading it and fixing it, but any game where your main char can hunt down demons and carry a huge gun while teaming with others is a top choice for me. The only downside the best stuff costs actually money, its a free game but the cooler add ons cost out of pocket money, but if you don't care and work hard for the good stuff this would be a great game to play.

Persona 3 Fes

After such a long wait we finally have Persona 3 Fes released stateside and im happy. If you were like me and bought the game on release and spent every waking moment to beat it as fast as you can and get everything else it has been a good long wait for this expansion. I don't mind the American cover but the Japanese one just looks so awsome. I finally got the chance to play this since my weekend has kept me away from systems and again im going to play the main story with my last save then do Chapter Aegis with much happiness taking my sweet time on this great rpg. This will just be enough time until Metal Gear Solid 4 and Persona 4 arrive, and with those i'm going to have less and less free time, but its worth it.

With a $29.99 price point this is so worth it even if you already spent the $49.99 when it came out or whatever you paid for used or to get it even on Ebay. The Ost is just the greatest thing to hear so if you don't have the original you better find a place to listen to it.