For all you DS owners out there, Shiren The Wanderer was released the other day. There's been a translation patch for the SFC version for quite some time, and I fell completely in love with the game through the translated ROM. You can probably just play the SFC game if you want, since the two versions aren't that much different, but the draw of ( Read more... )

( More on Ninja Gaiden, because I felt like playing Ninja Gaiden 2 last night rather than post at length about my achievement. )

Mark it down on your calendars, folks. Today is the day I one-lifed Ninja Gaiden on the NES.

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Vancouver - I haven't been out of the valley in like, a decade. Which is probably pretty bad, since I'm young and have found that my perspective is a bit misadjusted from living in a town of old crackers all my life. Vancouver left a bad impression on me the last time I went; I was stuck in the back seat of a Toyota truck for fourteen hours with ( Read more... )

Going to Vancouver until the twentieth, for merriment and cheer and to make a fool of myself. Apparently there's a convention for the animes, and I figure I should go at least once. IF NOTHING ELSE THAN TO BE CURED OF MY FIXATION. No, really, I honestly don't know what to expect. My sister, who was the one who managed to convince me to leave my ( Read more... )

I've been feeling some chest pains recently, and it's a little bit unnerving. After Dos packed 'er in, I've been feeling a bit more mortal than usual, so I went to get my heart checked up last week, and today I've got this huge, awkward halter monitor taped to my chest for the next seventeen hours. The worst part of it all - actually, well, the ( Read more... )

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I was a bit exasperated when I heard they were remaking Evangelion. Why? Eva is a total mess, sure, but it's a fascinating mess, and a mess that is, at its heart, the mess of one very unstable and insecure man, or at least a man who was at that point. It's a show which actually has something to say to its viewers and is actively confrontational ( Read more... )