Wednesday, June 25, 2008

anime

Definition: a style of cartoon or animation made in Japan that focuses on futuristic themes and robot like characters; also called Anime. This is a very broad definition of Anime because Anime consist of more than just robot like characters. Anime in itself is and art style that has become very popular in the U.S. over the years.In those resent years Anime has been dived up into different parts. First I'll start with the most basic Mecha is any Anime that contains giant robots, or power armored suits ea Bubblegum crisis to Gundam wing. This type of Anime has colossal battles in giant robotic suit that could blow up half a plant. Second a style called Shonin. In Shonin Anime the main character is always on a quest to become stronger in both mind and body, and mostly throughout the series his goal is to save the ones he cares about. This style always as about five or more guys on the team with about two to three girls, this style also includes epic battles and tons of fighting. Most popular example of this is Bleach, or Naruto. Thirdly Shojo, Shojo is a style of Anime that is more on the romantic side and has to deal with more of life's struggles and not fighting others. Most of this it is focus around how a boy is going to prove that he loves a girl or vice versa, these are most of the time very funny. Example Air, and Kanon.

Xenosaga 3

It has been a very long and bumpy road for the die-hard Xenosaga series fans these past couple of years. The dismal performance of Episode II last year did not go unnoticed by the producers. However, while the next game in the series would only be a year and a half in the coming, it carried with it the ominous tag of being the "final game of an epic trilogy". For a series initially conceived as a six-part tour de force through Gnostic mythology as filtered through space drama, having it end half way is almost as disappointing as Episode II's sales were. But man, what an ending.

By John "TheFurryOne" Zeitler. June 25, 2008.

I toddle agree with this statement made by John. Xenosaga II was a very hard and difficult game. The battle system was very…..very hard and the combo system was just dumb. Your characters do not get stronger they do very little damage and your enemy’s can hit you for three-hundred to about four-hundred damage two you just by one enemy. Mean while you and you characters can barely do a hundred damage. The only why you can get a decent attack is to use your boost gauge and combo break and keep using popup attacks and ground pound, which is knocking your opponent down on the ground and slashing or in Ziggy’s case (who is a android by the way) Stomps on them this normally does a great amount of damage. Second E.S. combat was boring whatever happed to “Oh I don’t know the way they did the gears battle system in Xenogears for the original Play Station.” Anything is better that just press two buttons and hit your opponent. “How boring is that.” But on the other hand I also agree with the way the CGI was and the story was outstandingly awesome, and well done. It covered the Story from the last game right where it left off. The sales were so low on this game because one it was made by a different company than the first one, and the battle system blowhard core.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Iron man cout.

This is a view from a fan who wrote a review of the movie sacflyzone

Rest assured, Iron Man is an absolutely amazing movie. I won't dare spoil any of this remarkable movie for you but I do recommend it as highly as I possibly can. Marvel needed to get in to the solo movie making business long ago. Instead of leasing out their characters to other studios, they're making movies themselves. Most everyone knows Iron Man is their first effort and what a great lead off film! This movie helps take the comic book genre to the highest level. Just like they did in the books, they reinvent standard epic adventure by "Marvelizing" characters and making them more believable. The Spider-Man and the X-Men movies did this to a degree but only as far as their respective studios wished to stay true to the source material. Anything added or amended was for the benefit of the live action adaptation. Director Sam Raimi pulled this off by talking to the summer crowd, not down to them with the Spider-Man series. Jon Favreau has done the same thing here but I think he's done it even better. Raimi intentionally threw in a little cheese. Favreau adds nice bits of humor but not too much. He also grounds the action and the suit of armor in firm reality. I've said it before but it's brave to reach for the highest common denominator with a big budget film and Favreau delivers a movie with as much feeling as it has action and intensity. Needless to say, Robert Downey Jr. and company deliver the goods. It's a movie that has a wonderful balance that delivers intelligence with its fun. You can the full review at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/usercomments

It is true the Marvel films have improved since they took over their own movies. I mean look at X-men I was really disappoint in it, and don't even get me started on the third one (I mean my god making the phoenix a mental disorder why........why would you turn a universal protector into this, someone give me an answer please.) And Cyclopes bring killed be Jean or rather the Phoenix, and the death of the prof this was wrong in so mean ways. What happen to Gambit, the raging Cajun some movie writer said that Gambit did not have a big enough part in the Marvel universal to add to the movie? Hello he did have his own comic book named after him mean anything to them. Then Fantastic Four came and that was not to bad, I liked that this one even know the changed Doc. Doom how they got his powers the same time as Johny, Reed, Sue, and Ben received their powers. Spider-man was good up any to the third movie that is. (OK my major beef with three is the way they used Venom. First the actor that played Eddie Brook was way to small body wise, people who read Spider-man know Eddie is a man build like a house and the symbiont makes him bigger. And the worst part was he refers to himself as I instead as We which was the whole thing around him an the alien. Eddie was not fully attested to the alien, now if they talk about Carnage they would be right. Then there was the Hulk what a crappy movie, I loved the old version with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno that was a great way of showing the defence between the Hulk and Doctor David Banner. Anyways way that's all from me for now.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I Am Iron-man

"I am Iron-man." as stated by Tony Stark in the new movie Iron-man. I'm one of the biggest Iron-man fans ever. When I first heard that Iron-man was being made into a movie, I loved the ideal until I found out who was playing Iron-man. This made me sacred when I found out it was Robert Downey Jr. I thought o.k. a former drunk to play the over arrogant, self centered, rich person (Multi billionaire to be exact he owns his own company for crying out loud.) “Does Stark Industries ring a bell.” So I was not real sure about this. But I went I saw the movie and it was great. I loved every minute of that movie the only bad thing was that if you know anything about the comic book you know that Iron-man’s first real villain was Mandarin. The guy with the ten rings of power, he was in the animated movie and was not even touch on in the movie. They could have at least at the end of the movie show him in his crypt. But No, we get “I am Iron-man.” Oh while hopeful we get an Iron-man two. If any buddy watched the second ending of the movie, we get to see a familiar face. This lends into all sorts of question about A cretin movie which for spoilers purposes I will not talk about the title so we’ll drop this part. Any way getting back to the movie the effects were cool they real touch up on how much time and patients went in to building the suit, and how many different forms it took to get it right. Then it was funny of how he chose the color for the final suit, when in doubt look at your car, or use hotrod red "Because everyone just loves hotrod red." Just thank about it if you had a shiny gold and hotrod red metal suit coming right at you would you be faired, well if you we a villain I mean. The movie had tons and tons of good joke, and comical parts as well as some corny ones too. A the girl who played Pepper Pots was outstanding she played it just the comic she care and love Stark beyond work, and had to hide those feels and for an actress this can be a very hard task. The main villain played by Jeff Bridges was so evil that he did not show he was evil until the very end when he traps and almost kills Tony by one who his own inventions none the less. How does that feel Tony almost killed by not one but two of your own inventions, and leaving the blue prints of the original suit what a bone head move. But to end the movie the why they did they could have much better.