This was written as a List, but changed into this Article due to the word count and image posting limit there. So be it. More fun to keep you all guessing.
This was written as a List, but changed into this Article due to the word count and image posting limit there. So be it. More fun to keep you all guessing.
This is purely flight of fancy, as there is no way anywhere that the dozen or so “Hollywood talents” would be in such a thing. Let alone the chance a little indie title like this getting an audio-visual adaption in that town of snobs. Still, I am mapping the casting of a franchise that can get archetypes in adventure stories right upon an adventure story that hit me pretty hard recently.
War never changes, no matter what’s said in Metal Gea Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots. For one thing, little remains by the end of any war, doesn’t it?
Is it possible to be gaslighted by a story all about gaslighting? Or is it all the fandom’s fault?
If Konami Digital Entertainment is as back as this elusive “they” say it is, then I got a list of demands. Like how they should remake the Solid Snake trilogy, starting with 1998’s Metal Gear Solid.
On Homer’s Odyssey The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson first published in November, 2017 featuring an ancient rendering of the 3 Fates on its cover My almost 3 years long streak of “would rather read than game” continues. While reading the Iliad has not provided me enough incentive to go back to see through 2020’s Hades again, yet, going through Odysseus’ “grand reunion tour” to the supernat...
Those should have been Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater’s Japanese voice cast This is a pure flight of fancy with the subject matter being shipped products. At the same time, it’s a fantasy reflecting my current rather negative feeling towards the corporations and their lackeys, who are particularly ruining this industry. Back in August, I made relatively quick work of Kojima Productions and...
Or rereading Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater’s novelization made I started to dislike the game it’s based on and replaying Gears of War through Reloaded on Steam Deck As the sovereign states of this world just cannot help themselves with their bloody and ultimately pointless dick measuring contests, my mind keeps going back to the Guns of August by Barbra Tuchman. I heard a lot about this book c...
Cover for the original Chinese edition of Death’s End, first published in 2010. Somehow both “the Three-body (Problem) Part III” and “dead end” bits are bigger than the four characters book title actually meaning “Death is eternal”, “Death lives forever” or, as Ken Liu put rather laconically in his text, “Death endures”. The cover for English translation of Death’s End, first published in 2016....
The original Chinese edition of Dark Forest, first published in 2008. Funny that “Three-body (Problem) II” bit of the title taking up more space. The cover for English translation of Dark Forest, first published in 2015. How apt of them to add the “Inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem” label in 2024. 2004’s Troy, penned by one of the showrunner, was merely “Inspired by Homer’s ‘the...
3 books should have adapted by Tony Gilroy instead of David Benioff listed on Kindle app. 3 books should have adapted by Tony Gilroy instead of David Benioff as physical volumes. Introduction: A Hollywood animal who burns books for a living The title is above as much a praise for one Hollywood screen writer named Tony Gilroy as it’s a dig towards another named David Benioff . Mr. Benioff’s star...
A “conversation” between 100 Best Games of the 21 st century and my vote for those It took me less than 10 minutes to cast the vote above. The short time even included a sudden realization that I forgot about 2020’s Hades and went back to replace something else with it. Don’t even remember what “something else” was. So, I cannot in good conscience call those “my top 10 games of the quarter cent...
Hades II Early Access review after the Warsong Update ( Played Playing on a Steam Deck. Spoiler warning for the more sensitive type, obviously. Again, if pre-knowledge can spoil one’s enjoyment of a thing, I deeply doubt said thing is that enjoyable to begin with. Also, bias warning since this humble author is very agreeable with Supergiant Games’ outputs. Here are my thoughts on the rest of th...
Book report: Journey to the West Introduction: “Hate mail” unsent and proto comic book Dear Game Science: I got good news and bad news. The good first: thanks to you lot launching Black Myth: Wukong in 2024, my 34 years old cynical ass finally decided to read through Journey to the West. Clearly, your relentless marketing campaign did something. The bad is that you Disney wannabe would wish tha...
Film review: Pacific Rim (2013) Teaser poster for the movie featuring “hero mecha” Gipsy Danger. The blu-ray on my shelf has this as its cover. …“Best New IP”…sounds like shit. ----Jeff Grestmann on why Giant Bomb’s GOTY category “Best Debut” was called that Whole those formerly of Giant Bomb used the D word to deny business bullshitting, I only used it in the title above just to delay such unp...
Film review: the Abyss (1989) The cover of Abyss’ 4K release. Featuring, from left to right, Ed Harris as Virgil “Bud” Brigman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Lindsey “Linds/Ace” Brigman and Micheal Biehn with his mustache plus shifty eyes as navy Lieutenant Coffey. The missing link From James Cameron, director of Aliens and T2. -----Theatrical trailer of True Lies. “Film(s) by James Cameron” f...
Book Report: Cyber Shogun Revolution by Peter Tieryas (Full spoiler for the book as usual.) Cover of Cyber Shogun Revolution’s English edition featuring Sygma, ride of the titular cyber shogun named Pris Watanabe. Got to hand it to the Japanese publisher Hayakawa, their covers of mechas in action can mop the floor with their English counterpart. 2020’s Cyber Shogun Revolution (“CSR” for short)...
Book Report: Mecha Samurai Empire by Peter Tieryas (Full spoiler warning for the book for there are some interest plot turns in this one.) Hayakawa’s Japanese marketing material for Mecha Samurai Empire featuring mecha Leviathan as it is on the cover of English edition and a compliment from Hideo Kojima, the official English translation of which plus my thoughts on it would appear in the articl...
Book Report: United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas (Full spoiler for the book United Staes of Japan. Personally, I think the so-called Spoiler Culture had spoiled the Disney of this world so rotten that they only release bland stuff like Big Hero 6 nowadays.) The cover of United States of Japan (“USJ” for short) is quite a Rorschach test. It has a giant mecha, a night city and 2 people on the...
Film review: Predator (1987) The year 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater. It’s crazy to think that its so-called author had never made anything better than it despite the critical acclaim he gets. I am pretty much on the “Nah, I’m good” side for replaying Snake Eater this year. I am not going to recharge the 3DS for the definitive-enough-for-me version of the...
Film Review: True Lies The cover for True Lies’ 4K release. Funny to see Disney selling this along with Aliens and the Abyss as “Film(s) By James Cameron” in 2024 while it’s always “A James Cameron Film” greeting the viewers in the actual flick. (In Memory of Jon Landu , whose collaboration with James Cameron started after True Lies. Gone too soon at the tender age of 63.) July, fifteenth, 2024...
A poster of Blade Runner 2049 featuring: Ryan Gosling as K, the titular blade runner of this one; Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, one of two returned for the sequel; Ana de Armas as Joi, interface of that era’s “smart home”; and Jared Leto as Niander Wallace, Mr. Tyrell’s counterpart in this story. Flim review: Blade Runner 2049 25 years is a funny period of time to think about. Look at the last...
Flim review: Blade Runner (1982) Sure you have, Mr. Batty. As the heat pauses to rise yet the rain continues to fall for days here in the city hosting miHoYo global headquarters, I started to look for film suitable for raining nights. So, 1982’s Blade Runner came up. This year’s August will mark two full decades since my first view of the film. It also had been five years since the film turned...
Film review: Klute Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) as the titular detective in 1971’s Klute. You all are welcome to take this picture and jokingly ask people which season of 24 do they think it is from. Late June in Shanghai is usually a time when raining days and rising heat conspire to make the city feeling like a swamp. June 2024 is no exception. So, paranoia about the lousy weather calls for...
Film review: Terminator 2 Judgment Day 1991’s Terminator 2 Judgment Day is one of the best action movies ever made by more than one metric. Yours truly can never run out of excuses to watch it and the 40 th anniversary of its predecessor is good as any. There is not much myth to bust regarding this one’s inception, but I got my speculation. After 1989’s Abyss became its lukewarm self, it was li...
Film review: The Terminator The year 2024 does have one round number anniversary of its own to celebrate: 1984’s Terminator will be 40 years old by October, 2024. “40 years” is actually an uncanny number to think about with this one, as one line in the movie says that life-like cyborgs like the titular killing machine will not appear for about another 40 years. The line was said in fictional Ma...
Movie review: Aliens Two Jane Fondas in one The 2 covers of books on Alien movies’ production by the late J W Rinzler seem very similar to each other as far as your truly is considered. Both feature Ripley fully suited up in process of killing dickhead monsters. The difference being the vacuum suit in Alien is for defense while the power loader in Aliens is for offense. Sigourney Weaver certain...
Movie review: Alien The 4K releases for Alien and Alines. The third one and Resurrection would not be covered by this humble blogger at this time. Partially because I do not own home release of those. The other reason might be… Corman Connection 2024 marks the forty-fifty anniversary of Alien. It’s bit surreal to think that this influential flick is almost half a century old. But then again, se...
Some Japanese dub suggestions for Hade II based on its Early Access There are 2 official statements to make here: on the on hand, Supergaint Games is in the “bigger, badder” sequel business now; on the other, I have probably become a loyalist to that studio. Hades II came out as Early Access surprisingly but not that surprisingly in an, er shall we say, interesting week. After all, it’s not eve...
In which my criticism and appreciation for the Matrix Resurrections are expressed The world had changed a lot in the time between 2003 and 2021. The Wachowskis had their gender resignments separately. Keanu Reeves had some highs and lows before he returned to the high of “being inseparable from a film franchise” with the John Wick flicks. Yours truly had turned from “chasing that ‘cutting edge’...
Double Feature: The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” Thank you, Mr. Jonathan Nolan, yours truly always have a fondness for your bullshit. Though I can only see the part after that comma applying to Hollywood. After the Matrix became a surprise hit in 1999, how would its benefactor Warner handle its sequel(s)? The...
Where 1999’s Matrix is discussed Ready to feel old, my fellow millennials? The Matrix celebrates its 25 th anniversary on March, 31 st , 2024 as we almost get through the first quarter of the 21 st century. It felt as if yesterday when the 1999 movie was the new hotness mimicked by many. Back in 2019, this movie’s 20 th anniversary was celebrated more, in noticeable or otherwise ways. The most...
From top to bottom, Persona 3 Reload’s post end credits title screen on Deck, Persona 4 the Golden (Japanese text and voice-over only on cartidge) running on Vita and Persona 5 the Royal (Purchased digitally from Nintendo Japan server.) on Switch. “Why play them on 3 different platform?” is the wrong question, since yours truly just went “Why not?” (The following is based on a save file of 3 ho...
Movie roasting: 2005’s Doom Despite what Geoff Keighley might have told the world, I don’t think video-game-turned-movies had improved at all since the aughts. For one thing, they kept going back to the zombie subgenre of horror. Just look at the release schedule between 2002’s Resident Evil and 2023’s Last of Us on HBO . Also, like how the video games kept getting away from copying James Camer...
(The following is based a save file of 62 hours and 52 minutes, up to December, twenty-first, 2009, in game date. A early virtual Me-ri-Ku-ri, which is short for “Merry Christmas” in Japanese, to all.) As someone who is very interested in Greek Mythology, I shamefully didn’t know about Nyx until 2020’s Hades. Dubbed “Night Incarnate” in the game, she was the second friendly NPC I encountered on...
(The following is based on a save file of 33 hours and 21 minutes, up to August, the thirty-first, 2009 in-game date. Still on the Deck. Still in Japanese.) There is a pre-gendered cut scene more than a dozen of hours into Persona 3 Reload during one of its early June days. It shows off the newly designed costumes for the then 6 members of S.E.E.S. and feels so ritualistic that I was excepting...
(The following is based on a save file of 12 hours and 57 minutes, up to June, the Ninth, 2009, in game date. Language option unchanged from previous chapter, of course.) Jitte was standard issue for police officers (If we can call them that) in seventeenth century Japan. The metal baton can be seen in Stan Sakai’s graphic novel Usagi Yojimbo, usually used to disarm some sword wielding assailan...
(The following is based a save file of 5 hours when Tartarus throws out its first hard roadblock at Level 22 by April, twenty-fourth, 2009, in-game date. Played with both Japanese text and voice on Steam Deck.) The fine members of this community are yet to add release date for the Persona 3 remake. Yours truly is taking it as a sign to finally do the longer form of reviewing a rather long game....
Double feature: GoldenEye and From Russia With Love With an episode of Abnormal Mapping proper basically became Jame Bond podcast, it’s high time for me to dig up this idea I had back when the film franchise celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. After all, not only had yours truly watched all 25 films of said franchise but also read everything Ian Fleming wrote regarding the fictional British im...
Reviewing Jack Reacher “A Tom Cruise Production” The poster of 2012’s Jack Reacher featuring its starring producer Tom Cruise as the titular character It’s funny to see Cruise carrying the pistol Reacher only uses once in the film. It would be like Vanquish having a poster of its player character Sam Gideon carrying that transforming Russian rifle he uses only in that game’s final Quick Time Ev...
Reviewing Suzume while gamer brained Introduction: WU-TANG over TANG It was a quite shame that I started to visit Giantbomb only shortly after Ryan Davis’ untimely passing back in 2013. I do wonder had he been alive in 2023, A would he be with Nextlander or still co-hosting with Gerstmann and B would This Ain’t No Game return in some form given the year’s video game adaption “volcano”. More imp...
Mapping 14 voices from 13 Sentinels onto the characters in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. （Full spoiler for 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim obviously. So, if you are one of them sensitive spoiler culture type, get out now.) You all can blame this one on Scavengers Reign : a bande dessinee looking animated science fiction series on Max about a starship crew’s struggle to survive after they got stran...
Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deep Blue review (9 hours 10 minutes and 2 seconds to “100%” according to my save file. Played on Switch with Japanese text.) To describe Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deep Blue by Inti Creates is to keep the impulse of using “sequel” and “spin-off” in check. First there was Love Live! phone game. Then it got an animated adaption which became a new horizo...
Reviewing High and Low For the week of Metal Gear Solid’s twenty-fifth anniversary, let’s hop on the way-back machine and go back to sometime even before Hideo Kojima’s birth date. High and Low co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa came out in Japan on March the first, 1963, one week short of six months before the infant Hideo was born. Both before and after his nasty departure from Konami...
Reviewing Fate/Samurai Remnant on Steam Deck (About 36 hours to see the full credits for the first time according to the save file. 1 hour into the New Game Plus as the time of writing. Played in Japanese text.) Yours truly almost gave up on playing this one after a failed attempt to start a wiki page for it on this very site. Then on the day this game came out, a rather earnest fellow publishe...
Reviewing RESIDENT EVIL 4 (2023) SEPARATE WAYS expansion (6 hours to beat according to “kill screen” on Steam Deck) When Resident Evil 4 remake came out in March, 2023, it was rather refreshing to see an expensive looking polygonal extravaganza sold at the “low, low” price of 60 us dollars. Turns out Capcom is more than ready to raise the price to 70 with the remake of Ada Wong campaign called...
Continue to review Armored Core 6 Fires of Rubicon after New Game Plus In his review of Armored Core 6 representing IGN , Mithcell Saltzman wrote that the game has a 15 hours long campaign. I thought he was taking a piss at first since I saw credits after 37 hours. In all fairness, the man did review Elden Ring for that site as well, so maybe he is just too good at this From Software action gam...
A Hard-boiled review in celebration of Tony Leung winning Lifetime Achievement Award from Venice International Film Festival Yours truly pretty much came to the spotlight of this good community by talking shit about John Woo Presents Stranglehold. Guess it’s time to bring thing full circle by talking that game’s supposed prequel, 1992’s Hard-boiled in 2023. This year seem an eventful for the mo...
A Dredd review that might be too focused on its 4 top billing cast members. Ah, Armored Core Six Fires of Rubicon! Aren’t you a harsh mistress? Not only do you yourself refuse to relief me, your makers chose market you in a way that made me want to watch 2012’s Dredd again. Why do they feel the need to cast Karl Urban in an ad? Is he a bad enough dude to give that prep talk for mercs in mechs s...
“Judgement Day” Double Feature: Oppenheimer and T2, 1991’s high-octane one . (Spoiler for both movies I suppose. Then again, if foreknowledge can spoil one’s enjoyment of things then I doubt those things are actually good to begin with.) Despite its rather epic length, Terminator 2 Judgement Day had been part of 3 double feature viewing I’ve done. First one being the theatrical cut after the Te...
Personal tidbits on Micheal Mann’s Heat The time of writing is mid-August, 2023. One would consider it as late summer when the heat would wind down. Yet here in the city where miHoyo global headquarters is located, this year’s dog days have seemingly just begun. Taking advise from the formerly behind paywall Waypoint Plus podcast, I am fending off this renewed wave of summer heat by watching Mi...
Double feature Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection and Detonation The poster of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection featured on IMDB announcing its Japanese premiere date of July, 22nd, 2017. Very “action movie franchise” of them to just put the suited up titular character on a poster. The poster of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation featured on IMDB. Featuring the new ensemble of bot...
Reviewing Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A’s Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A’s is a 2012 animated action movie based on the 13 episodes long series of almost same name aired between October and December, 2005. “The Movie 2nd” and “the Movie 1st” bits make one think they really should have English speakers doing double check on those movies’ title. When A’s tv show aired i...
Reviewing Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st Poster of this movie featured both on IMDB and as cover for its Japanese home media release. Featuring (left to right) Fate Testarosa and the titular character Nanoha Takamachi No, Bayonetta 3 and its multiverse madness got nothing to do with this title. While it’s clear that Dan Ryckert is not as anti-anime as he was about a decade ago, invit...
Eternights hands-on preview （I have been toying with the idea of doing this tricky thing we call “hands-on preview” for a couple of months now. First in March with Bayonetta Origins demo and Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo, but those products came out before I got around to write previews so I just wrote reviews instead. Then there were the couple of 15 minutes long demos of the Ludonarrative con...
“Reviewing” Muv-luv Altered Fable My almost two months long journey through the Muv-luv series had reached its more or less natural conclusion with Alternative’s fan disc, Altered Fable. Of course, there is no such product titled Muv-luv Altered Fable on Steam, only a little thing subtitled Photomelodies including a mini game less version of Altered Fable. The point-of-view character Takeru Shi...
On the Stars My Destinations by Alfred Bester The cover of the Star My Destinations, published under the SF Masterworks umbrella in UK with afterword by Neil Gaiman. This cover featuring protagonist Gully Foyle is almost inseparable from the book in my mind. The first time yours truly read this novel in Chinese, it was on 2003’s first issue of Science Fiction World All Translation Bi-monthly. O...
“Reviewing” Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny The cover of Lord of Light, published under the SF Masterworks umbrella in UK with afterword by George R R Martin. Too bad Mr. Martin did not list the other four of “the five best SF novels ever written”, since yours truly would really love to read them all. Sometimes I wonder if Hideo Kojima even likes video game. Throughout the pieces collected in Cr...
Thoughts on a double bill: the Way of the Dragon (1972) and Gamera Guardian of the Universe (1995) This is a double feature I intended to view after watching YakitateJapan due to Tamoor Hassin’s recommendation on Jeff Jeff Bizarre Adventure. YakitateJapan is a manga-turned-anime about bake-off and much like its younger and sexier cousin about cook-off Food War! Shokugeki no Soma, sometimes it j...
Thoughts on Muv-luv Extra and its Meiya route Em Marko of Abnormal Mapping fame is someone yours truly trust when it comes to weeb stuff. So, when they said how much they enjoyed the visual novel Muv-luv , I knew I was doomed to make an impulse purchase on Steam. Well, the Steam product known as “Muv-luv” is actually the combination of 2 originally separate visual novels: a rom-com titled Muv-l...
Thoughts on Beatless by Satoshi Hase The two-volume paperback version of Beatless in Japanese, published in early 2018, when the animated adaption of this book started airing. Cover of first volume features Lacia, the once titular character of this novel. Snowdrop, the agent of chaos archetype in this story, appears on the cover of volume 2. （All speculations in this pieces might just be your t...
The new cover of 2001 Nights’ volume 1 out of 3 in Japan featuring Hannah Robinson and her unnamed husband. The Robinsons’ stories would later be lifted wholesale by 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Waypoints in print This is a Hideo Kojima adjacent book report since I would never have known this comic without reading an article by that snake oil salesman. The book with yellow cover pictured above was...
I personally consider this cover quite spoilery since it visualizes the final dense science fictional set-piece in the book, a scene explains everything and answers every question. (Full spoiler for a book titled the Three-body Problem. Though due to more or less unorganized nature of the text behind, one might have to read that book to understand the bloody thing.) It can be said that this is...
Book report on Metal Gear Solid by Raymond Benson The notes I took for this is almost 3 years old. During the initial pandemic related lockdown, yours truly took the chance to read every science fiction novel on their book shelf. Some real bangers if “Hugo Award winner” is your jam. Then there is this airport thriller ass airport thriller. I somehow took 6 pages worth of notes and now unleash i...
M apping Fire Emblem Three Houses cast members upon Naussica cast of characters Part 2 those remain in print only On one episode of History On Fire podcast episode with guests , host Daniele Bolelli said “Most people are not evil. Most people are weak. And weakness is fertile ground where evil can thrive.” It’s a line that would summarize the 1984 film titled Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind...
M apping Fire Emblem Three Houses cast members upon Naussica characters T his one came to me when watching Arknights Prelude to Dawn, the animated adaption of a tower defense game on phones . Whenever I was in mood to see episode end credits, I looked at the Japanese voice cast and thought “Ah, she, she and she were in Fi r e Emblem Three Houses.” Combined with the fact that Arknights’ brand of...
Yours truly is in the “minority” when it comes to the Last of Us. By which I mean I loathed it so deeply that I developed a general distrust regarding strangers on the internet telling m e what ’ s “a great game”. It had been 8 years since I touched the game on PS3. So this new show on HBO presented itself as an op port unity for yours truly to play the devil’s advocate against this “masterpiec...
Book report on Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater by Satoshi Hase The notes yours truly took for this piece were almost 4 years old by the time of writing. They were taken shortly after I played through Resident Evil 2 remake back in April, 2019. By the time this is written, the remake of Resident Evil 4, aka “Leon S Kennedy Chapter 2”, would be out shortly. Many on the internet complained that the s...
A Suggested List for Neon White’s Japanese Dub This is a blog written to celebrate Neon White, a game loved by the “everyone” in 2022. It just so happens that yours truly belongs to this illusory “everyone”. At least in this case. Though it’s not aspects that involve the jump button. “By weebs, for weebs” is practically the marketing line for Neon White, though yours truly do not like the f wor...
This was intended to be a scored user review, but there is not even a product page on the site so here I am. Given that there will be some “fantasy booking” in this piece, maybe it works better as a blog. Reading to be warned off something carries the risk of being drawn to something else. Just minutes before TGA 2022, yours truly read a review on Destructoid to see if D3 actually cleaned up th...
An Incomplete Japanese cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter T hree Space Warriors’ Final Fantasies Let’s talk about Final Fantasy. Where I reside, once upon a time the unofficial translation of the series title can be translated back into English “Space Warriors”, which was strange since the series never actually venture into space. Then, the flop known as Final Fantasy Sp...
An Incomplete Japanese cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter T wo Dirty Dozen in SPACE Verse T hree The Remaining Half Dozen and a couple of their descendants The following piece is about the rest of squad members of Mass Effect 2. I nicknamed the whole lot Dirty Dozen in space, the previously mentioned ones among them being the returning aliens (Garrus and Tali), the Cerbe...
An Incomplete Japanese cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter Two Dirty Dozen in SPACE Verse Two The not entirely human crew of Normandy SR-2 Yours truly did not watch the Search for Spock, that third Star Trek movie until May, 2012. You know, the one with Enterprise going down, really down. It’s also a plot point in Beyond. Though in the 2016 flick, real adventure did not b...
An Incomplete Japanese cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter Two Dirty Dozen in SPACE It is an once-in-a-decade miracle that yours truly, IGN and Giantbomb would agree on which game they consider as the best of the year: 2010’s Mass Effect 2 and 2020’s Hades. Guess that’s why yours truly is hell-bound on doing imaginary Japanese voice cast for those 2 games. Getting my impo...
An Incomplete Japanese cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter One Crimson Eyes Verse T hree Galaxy Quest Givers Now the people our good commander would meet after he, she or they finally got the command of the spaceship shaped hub: a villain works well both as a mastermind and boss enemy; the commander’s love of their life as far as yours truly is concerned; a not so ancient...
An Incomplete Japanese dream cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy Chapter One Crimson Eyes Verse Two Representatives at the Capital Ah, attempting to do some creative work in a cosmopolitan city. Nothing makes one aware of the so-called classes they are in like that. Take a lowly clerk like yours truly for example, when they think about voice cast, the most they can do is humble b...
An Incomplete Japanese dream cast for Mass Effect “Shepard vs. Reapers” Trilogy This is something that took its roots in my mind since early 2017. Then it grew into something closer to what it is now in 2018. It’s just that yours truly kept finding excuses to not write it until now, after two blogs regarding Japanese actors. A shout-out to Em Marko and Jackson Taylor of Great Gundam Project fam...
Parquet title screen. Featuring Rino Ibaraki (front/left) and Tsubasa Kido(back/right), both voiced by Nao Toyama. When it comes to randomly encountering video games, one can say that “I heard about that game” and mean it quite literally. God knows how many games yours truly picked up, and mostly dropped, after hearing someone mentioned playing them on podcasts. My encounter of Parquet did star...
A Japanese Dream Cast for Supergaint’s Hades (Myth is generally spoiler prove, but I’m putting a warning for it here anyway.) One cannot write down the word for “myth” without the word for “god” where I reside. Myth, for the people here, means gods’ stories. As Supergiant’s Hades shows, those stories are not just created by mortals in order to understand the unknown around them, gods also tell...
A Japanese Dream Cast for Supergaint’s Hades (Spoiler Culture type be warned: abandon all hope of avoiding whatever constitutes as spoiler to you before scrolling down.) People love to say that the journey is the friends travelers make on the way. Yours truly would love to insert “foes” into that sentence when it comes to video game. People participate in more mayhem than mingling in that media...
A Japanese Dream Cast for Supergaint’s Hades (Spoiler for Type-Moon stuff, Supergiant’s Hades, anything branded “A Hideo Kojima Game”, Saint Seiya Knights of the Zodiac and Greek Myth in general.) This is a blog yours truly thought up at the “ tender ” age of 30 but could not write until they got Type-moon brained and more importantly Homer (not Simpson, mind you) brained at the “ r u gged “ ag...
This is a blog yours truly thought up at the “tender” age of 29 after this Retronauts episode led to them reading some funny books . Thanks to the site’s inclusion of Tamoor Hussain . After he introduce d the topic of Japanese voice actors into the “Giantbomb canon” on the site’s watch along anime podcast, I finally started to write this following bullshit up . NieR Automata resembles Nausicaa...
(With no product page for this game on the site, I decided to write this relatively short and un-scored review as a blog post on the franchise page. It’s about a rather niche game, but hopefully there will be readers find it interesting. Played in Japanese on Switch） Even after two pieces of Virtual Reality Experiences based on Laid-back Camp came out, Have a Nice Day is still marketed in Japan...
(Played mostly on OneXPlayer tablet through Steam in Japanese) Without releases on the wiki, a scored user review for Scarlet Nexus is out of the equation as the time of writing. So I decided to dedicate my first blog post on Giantbomb.com to this debut title in a year filled with rerelease in the AAA space. I suppose I can write bit more spoilery here. Scarlet Nexus is an action role-playing g...