Getting drunk off non-alcoholic drinks, playing the King’s Game, in a club from Persona 3. Best fan-service ever.

Time and Eternity will be first ‘HD Animation RPG’

Imageepoch (creators of the Black Rock Shooter RPG) and Namco Bandai are teaming up to make Tokitowa (Time and Eternity), which they claim will be the first HD animation RPG. Hand-drawn 2D sprites will move in a 3D world, with animation that Imageepoch’s CEO believes will quell any doubters about the fluidity of that animation. Character designs are being done by Taiwanese artist VOFAN, who also did the character designs for the Monogatari series (obligatory Nisemonogatari reference). While video footage of the game will be released next week, for now we have to settle for some screenshots. Hot damn they look nice though.

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Finally, after what seemed like forever, it is returning! Some notable things from the above advertisement include NASCAR, the Stig’s Italian cousin, stunts, and a plane on the Top Gear test track.

Having finished four of the five routes in Katawa Shoujo, I would say I thoroughly enjoy it. However, you may not enjoy a visual novel game featuring disabled teenage girls. You may however enjoy Katawa Crash, a game in the vein of Nanaca Crash, except featuring not only the characters of Katawa Shoujo, but Chie from Persona 4, Gendo Ikari, Gabe Newell, Dinosaur Comics’ T-Rex with guitar, and the best OP song from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

SPACE. I'M IN SPACE.

There are mechanics to this game, but barely. Otherwise just enjoy the crazy.

For something much more calming, the official soundtrack to Katawa Shoujo has been released, featuring some great calm pieces.

is first and foremost a LOL show filled with far too much sexual innuendo (blatant troll subs on FFFpeeps part doesn’t help), and second a crap show, and third a Kawamori-troll show.

Here’s the OP, which isn’t particularly fantastic:

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I wasn’t going to write up first impressions for these two show originally, but after watching them I felt that both were good enough to be potential watches, for the people interested in the genres. Which I don’t think any of the people reading this are. But if you are one to enjoy the occasional shounen-oriented comedy with fan service, then read on. No screencaps, since I watched it on Crunchy and I haven’t got a easy way of capping Crunchy.

Obligatory Nisemonogatari inclusion.

Also, the latest Incest Crown was surprising enough that I thought I’d write a little bit on it. Not too much, so it should be vague enough not to be too spoilery for people who haven’t watched it yet. Not that I would outright recommend you watch it, though you probably won’t be as disappointed if you weren’t part of the hype for it.

Sigh. I was also going to watch Mouretsu Pirates, but I keep forgetting.

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Time to subject myself to a crap load of torture before CCA. May intersperse this torture with the other UC side stories.

Finished the last boss fight in Zelda yesterday. Incredible game from a gameplay perspective with really fun combat and satisfying puzzles, but the soundtrack was nowhere near as memorable as Twilight Princess despite being orchestrated. Disappointing that Twilight Princess never got that treatment. Zelda’s Lullaby is still a winner though!

Skyward Sword gave Zelda a really strong role in the story to the point that I teared up a bit (a first for a game!) near the middle of the game (cutscene below for those interested – massive spoilers no doubt), but the characters were a lot simpler and were pretty static. Only one character really developed and it had a time travel cliché that you could spot a mile away (pay attention to the markings on the old woman’s face).

Definitely a must-have game for the Wii, the motion controls are incredibly satisfying to use, especially since you get trees and things breaking apart the way you slice at them.