Best Song Ever under the first cut
Day 4. Your guilty pleasure game
I remember being young and loving this game so much and playing it so often that my friends and I started to make up backstories for all the characters (Gas-O had a huge crush on Shorty; ironically, Shorty becomes BFFs with his zombie Dad. Heat and Strike were gay for each other or something? Hiro was the game's woobie-chan...) because we were losers.
The Bust-a-Groove games are exceedingly silly, not terribly challenging (well, they aren't EASY, but their learning curve isn't exactly steep), kind of ugly and pretty repetitive but hoyl shit, they're just so damn fun and feel good and LISTEN TO THAT DAMN SONG.
I WOULD NEVER EVER RUN AWAAAAAAY
I'LL BE HERE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAAAAAAAY
I WOULD MAKE YOU REAAAALIZE I'LL ALWAYS BE RIGHT BY YOUR SIIIIIIDE
NOW OUR LOVE IS SANCTIFIIIIED
I'M HERE TO
BUST
A
MOTHERFUCKING
GROOVE
The first Bust-a-Groove has better music, but the second one has better gameplay, an unnerving final boss and my very favourite character in the series, middle aged zombie-pirate guy, Bi-O!
Picture Above: unnerving final boss, zombie pirate.
Day 1 - Very first video game. - Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles (the horrible one)
Day 2 - Your favorite character. - Solid Snake
Day 3 - A game that is underrated. - Final Fantasy X/Heart of Darkness
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game. - Bust a Groove/2
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Day 3. Which of your pairings has the most chemistry?
I had to think about this one for a while because, uh, well I don't really ship a pairing unless it has chemistry, y'know?
So I settled on this one-
Tsubasa is an uneven series. I wasn't so keen on it in the very beginning. It got... really..... really weird at the end. The middle was incredible (and so was a lot of the beginning, after I'd gone back to re-read) but I am not going to lie. The thing that kept me reading throughout the entirety of the series was pretty much 92% just these guys. I'm not that kind of person. I can get girly about romance sometimes, sure, but a lot of my very favourite things of all time lack romantic subplots and this is probably the only thing I've read/played/watched solely for the sake of one relationship. But there is something special about Fye and Kurogane's strange married couple bickering that I guess we could call exceptionally well written chemistry.
Most people who have heard of the series are probably familiar with this- Fye acting like a completely suspicious ditz while Kurogane pops a blood vessel, but it's the serious moments between them that has always sold their connection. Their relationship sort of worked in three stages: tentative figuring each other out (in which Kurogane was always smarter that Fye had guessed and Fye's cutesy act was just as transparent as Kurogane had assumed), the sexy vampire stage (the weird part of the manga where Fye was a vampire and was pissed off all the time because Kurogane saved his life. By making him a vampire. Seriously, Clamp?) and the end of the series where I assumed they started having sex (by which I mean the end of the series where they had obviously started having sex they were finished their character development so neither of them were being cagey weirdos). The tension between them was often palatable and came from the odd phenomenon of meeting someone perfectly suited to you in the least likely and most inconvenient place.
What I like most about the way their chemistry is written is that none of it ever feels forced. Clamp writes plenty of good romance and they have even written very good, under-stated gay relationships (Touya and Yukito in CCS most famously), however I must admit that they fan pander quite a bit in a lot of their later works (Clamp has built a cottage industry on pretty almost-gay-as-aimed-at-teenage-girls, after all) and that sort of thing has always gotten on my nerves (re: my hated of Goho Drug). Fye and Kurogane's moments of almost-romantic/sexual tension are always a natural outgrowth of their conflicting personalities- like here: OH MAN, LOOK AT FYE'S HAIRTWIRL SEXYTIMES ARE ABOUT TO HAPP-
- oh wait, he's just checking out Kurogane's blood-caked robot arm. Yup. But their behaviour in this situation isn't for the sake of titilating fangirls- it's just how they are. Fye is always a flirty creep because being an adorable man of secrets was how he survived. And Kurogane always has very measured reactions to things because he is a goddamned monster who has forcibly learnt to cage his violence.
Clamp is always tight-lipped about whether or not relationships like this are considered "canon" or not, but I'd venture to suggest that this is probably one of the best romances they've ever written either way. Sure, it's got its overblown instances of Clamp-ish melodrama but there's also a surprising (and refreshing) amount of subtly in their development (subtly? In MY Clamp?).
And chemistry, I guess.
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? - FShepard/Garrus (Mass Effect)
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? - Sonic/Sally (Sonic SATAM/Archie Comics)<
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? - Thrall/Jaina (Warcraft)
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? - Kurogane/Fye (TSUBABA Reservoir Chronicle)
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?
Click to viewI remember being young and loving this game so much and playing it so often that my friends and I started to make up backstories for all the characters (Gas-O had a huge crush on Shorty; ironically, Shorty becomes BFFs with his zombie Dad. Heat and Strike were gay for each other or something? Hiro was the game's woobie-chan...) because we were losers.
The Bust-a-Groove games are exceedingly silly, not terribly challenging (well, they aren't EASY, but their learning curve isn't exactly steep), kind of ugly and pretty repetitive but hoyl shit, they're just so damn fun and feel good and LISTEN TO THAT DAMN SONG.
I WOULD NEVER EVER RUN AWAAAAAAY
I'LL BE HERE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAAAAAAAY
I WOULD MAKE YOU REAAAALIZE I'LL ALWAYS BE RIGHT BY YOUR SIIIIIIDE
NOW OUR LOVE IS SANCTIFIIIIED
I'M HERE TO
BUST
A
MOTHERFUCKING
GROOVE
The first Bust-a-Groove has better music, but the second one has better gameplay, an unnerving final boss and my very favourite character in the series, middle aged zombie-pirate guy, Bi-O!
Picture Above: unnerving final boss, zombie pirate.
Day 1 - Very first video game. - Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles (the horrible one)
Day 2 - Your favorite character. - Solid Snake
Day 3 - A game that is underrated. - Final Fantasy X/Heart of Darkness
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game. - Bust a Groove/2
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Day 3. Which of your pairings has the most chemistry?
I had to think about this one for a while because, uh, well I don't really ship a pairing unless it has chemistry, y'know?
So I settled on this one-
Tsubasa is an uneven series. I wasn't so keen on it in the very beginning. It got... really..... really weird at the end. The middle was incredible (and so was a lot of the beginning, after I'd gone back to re-read) but I am not going to lie. The thing that kept me reading throughout the entirety of the series was pretty much 92% just these guys. I'm not that kind of person. I can get girly about romance sometimes, sure, but a lot of my very favourite things of all time lack romantic subplots and this is probably the only thing I've read/played/watched solely for the sake of one relationship. But there is something special about Fye and Kurogane's strange married couple bickering that I guess we could call exceptionally well written chemistry.
Most people who have heard of the series are probably familiar with this- Fye acting like a completely suspicious ditz while Kurogane pops a blood vessel, but it's the serious moments between them that has always sold their connection. Their relationship sort of worked in three stages: tentative figuring each other out (in which Kurogane was always smarter that Fye had guessed and Fye's cutesy act was just as transparent as Kurogane had assumed), the sexy vampire stage (the weird part of the manga where Fye was a vampire and was pissed off all the time because Kurogane saved his life. By making him a vampire. Seriously, Clamp?) and the end of the series where I assumed they started having sex (by which I mean the end of the series where they had obviously started having sex they were finished their character development so neither of them were being cagey weirdos). The tension between them was often palatable and came from the odd phenomenon of meeting someone perfectly suited to you in the least likely and most inconvenient place.
What I like most about the way their chemistry is written is that none of it ever feels forced. Clamp writes plenty of good romance and they have even written very good, under-stated gay relationships (Touya and Yukito in CCS most famously), however I must admit that they fan pander quite a bit in a lot of their later works (Clamp has built a cottage industry on pretty almost-gay-as-aimed-at-teenage-girls, after all) and that sort of thing has always gotten on my nerves (re: my hated of Goho Drug). Fye and Kurogane's moments of almost-romantic/sexual tension are always a natural outgrowth of their conflicting personalities- like here: OH MAN, LOOK AT FYE'S HAIRTWIRL SEXYTIMES ARE ABOUT TO HAPP-
- oh wait, he's just checking out Kurogane's blood-caked robot arm. Yup. But their behaviour in this situation isn't for the sake of titilating fangirls- it's just how they are. Fye is always a flirty creep because being an adorable man of secrets was how he survived. And Kurogane always has very measured reactions to things because he is a goddamned monster who has forcibly learnt to cage his violence.
Clamp is always tight-lipped about whether or not relationships like this are considered "canon" or not, but I'd venture to suggest that this is probably one of the best romances they've ever written either way. Sure, it's got its overblown instances of Clamp-ish melodrama but there's also a surprising (and refreshing) amount of subtly in their development (subtly? In MY Clamp?).
And chemistry, I guess.
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? - FShepard/Garrus (Mass Effect)
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? - Sonic/Sally (Sonic SATAM/Archie Comics)<
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? - Thrall/Jaina (Warcraft)
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? - Kurogane/Fye (TSUBABA Reservoir Chronicle)
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?