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Ponyo
I freely admit that I worship Hayao Miyazaki, and as far as I'm concerned, he can do no wrong. This may or may not make my opinion on his movies biased.
You probably won't be surprised when I tell you I loved this movie. Miyazaki's characters are always so real and human, and I inevitably end up adoring every one of them. I was touched by Sosuke ( Read more... ) -
Star Ocean: The Last Hope Rant, Part 2
STAR OCEAN: THE LAST HOPE!!! "Humanity's second chance may be it's last" - except that this is a prequel to the other games, so we know that's not true.
In all seriousness, though, the game's a lot more fun once it actually gets started. I mean, it's still ugly and cliched, but the battle system is entertaining, and I'm a sucker for item ( Read more... ) -
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Forty-five minutes. Forty-fucking-five minutes of cutscenes and tutorials before I had the chance to do anything at all. I was optimistically open-minded for the first five minutes or so, but after that I started to want to kill something. The Unskippable video for this game could have been a lot longer than it was, because that video stops as soon ( Read more... ) -
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On July 9, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds concert, a symphony of Nobuo Uematsu’s fantastic compositions with Arnie Roth as conductor and Uematsu himself in attendance. I was sitting in the very front row, which, if you’ve never been to a symphony, means I was in the cheap seats. There was a screen on which ( Read more... ) -
Super Mario World
I recently started playing Super Mario World for the first time in years, and let me just say it is glorious. However, I must point this out: The point of this game is saving the variously colored incarnations of Yoshi, right? Peach is not nearly as important. So how do you justify the enormous number of Yoshis I'm throwing off cliffs and into pits ( Read more... ) -
I was bored.
Here's something to entertain those of you with 25 seconds to skill.
It's dumb and took me only a bit longer to make than it'll take you to watch it, but, well, it was fun.
(It's maybe a teensy bit spoilery for Voyage of the Damned.)
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