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Best season ever for the best hobby ever!
It’s easy to believe that I’m dreaming. That I’ve fallen into another dimension where cats fly and my sadistic Japanese teacher is an elf. That’s the impression I get when looking at the lineup of games for this season; unimaginable releases abound, mixed with many more recent but no less desirable titles and their sequels. Some are already safe in ( Read more... ) -
A historic day fast approaches
Word has just reached me that Sonic 4 will be released the 13:th of October: 15 days from now! Being perhaps the most anticipated game since Twilight Princess - maybe even more so - it’s easy to subconsciously hype it up to impossible heights. As we all know, hype is the surest road to disappointment, and in some, hope really is the best spice for ( Read more... ) -
Not One Piece too...!
I remember a time where One Piece was THE manga to read. Fresh out of Dragonball and eager to catch on to a new epic adventure in Japanese comic form, One Piece had only released about two or three volumes, but it was enough to hook me, and fifty volumes later I haven’t let go. Back then there was a new volume every month, and every story arc more ( Read more... ) -
A small step for for mankind...
...but a giant leap for manga fandom. Someone has finally done it. After years of silent pleading, someone has finally stepped up to launch a manga web store. That someone is Square Enix, and this fall the much anticipated service will, to my understanding, show up right here: www.square-enix.com/na/manga ( Read more... ) -
Why do we play video games?
Some people hate on the DS for having the guts to demand full price (40-45$/£/etc.) for a game that’s graphically on par with the SNES, PS1 and N64 eras. But is it really the graphics we pay for? Is Phoenix Wright not a masterpiece despite using still pictures as opposed to fully animated cut scenes? Is content not worth more than high-texture 3D ( Read more... ) -
Then everything turned left. Or did it?
The smell of gasoline has been replaced by the smell of greenery. Suddenly there is space enough to actually let me have more than one bookshelf AND both of my TVs out. What was before a tiny bathtub is now a real shower. No, I haven’t magically transformed my apartment. I moved ( Read more... ) -
The Gameboy Advance is not done!
The last generation in the line of Gameboys still has life left in it! Why, I’m sure there are at least 20 games out there worth owning that I’ve missed. Here, I’ll prove it:
Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland - I haven’t played a Kirby game since the first one on NES, but I remember loving it, and since I love platformers in general, this should be ( Read more... ) -
Purchase misjudgement nr. 28763
As the touch screen got more battered for each game I played, and the battery time starting to run dangerously low - even after I changed the battery - I thought to myself that it might be time to upgrade my DS. One look on my cousin’s DS Lite told me that both sharpness and coloring were far superior to my now five-year-old chunk of gray plastic; ( Read more... ) -
Give the small screens a chance
My brother and I disagree on many things. He say Uncharted (1) was an awesome game, I thought it was sort of meh. I say Prince of Tennis is a really entertaining show, he hates it passionately. But there is one topic that hands-down takes the cake, where we can barely look each other in the eyes without going off on a tantrum how wrong the other is ( Read more... ) -
Games that Time Forgot, #2 - Kim Possible 2: Drakken's Revenge
My interest in animation is dominated mostly by anime. But there are a few American-made animated shows that do score higher than most Japanese cartoons in my book. Avatar is one of them. Kim Possible is another. And I won’t deny that the latter is a series that suits me like a glove; the humor is fast-paced and well-written, and the characters are ( Read more... )