My Life

My life is a mess and it's interfering with this blog. Trying to catch up with the reviews is then interfering with my actual writings. Sorry to those of you who actually read this but I need some time off to fix things, but don't worry the reviews will continue at a latter date.

See you on the flip side.

Being Human

What a delight living is. I can't imagine just going to live in a cave somewhere, oh sure I could live but I would be so bored.Talking with people now and then has become one of my secret joys. I could never alienate myself from the rest of humanity 100% and that's why Being Human draws a good amount of my interest. Seeing people trying to "rejoin" humanity is almost funny to me, not because of their situation but because of mine, and that's all I'll say on that. Back to the show; it's about a werewolf, a vampier, and a ghost all trying to be what they're not, human. Just for the record, I have seen both the American and the British versions, if I were to give a read into their shared story well......the British one is better if only for the actor who play the vampier, he has such subtlety in the way he does it. You can just feel the age oozing off of him sometimes, unlike the American actor who just comes across as angsty. Not a bad watch.

I really need to plan better.

Ya'know. I was going to do a whole week of vampires, but when I got to this point I realized I haven't played one single game with a vampier in it. So the best I can do is give a recommendation for Devil May Cry 2, I hear good things.  

Hellsing Ultimate

The only series about a complete monster of a character that you will root for. The original one was fine up to a point then it just got boring, this one never got boring...for me. Hellsing Ultimate grabs you by the arm and never lets go until it rips the arm from the shoulder socket. It's violent, bloody, monsterish, and glorious. I can never get enough of it, like a good drink it never looses flavor. The "real" main character Seras Victoria is at first a audience analog, then her own character. I tell you, I can't quite describe my love for this anime, it is wholly sublime with a hint of godhood and a filled to the brim with the joy of excellence that can bring the most hardened people to their knees with exuberance. While most think that something is lost when Kouta Hirano made this anime they did not realize that some thing was gained as well, and I'm not referring to the motion or voices, I'm referring to some extra seines that Kouta put in. Watch this anime, it goes down like fine whisky.      

Dracula 2000

Deciding what Dracula to was hard for me, there are so manny to choose. I think this movie is the most "fun" to see. I didn't have a bad time because I never stopped smiling. Oh sure the movie strays from the source material a little, but it's called Dracula 2000 what did you expect. If your looking for more serious Dracula don't look here because this movie can get a bit silly, and it's vary apparent they didn't mean it to be. Does that make it a bad movie? Not so much, but that doesn't make it the best either. I'd say about......above average. Although I never Imagined it like this. It's still worth a watch.

Lost Book

Yea, I got noth'n

Alien

Ah, the classic movies always make me wet........myself. Speaking of wet, why are the xenomorphs in these movies always wet? It's like they just came out of the shower. Anyhoo, Alien is about claustrophobia, no really it is. Watch it again (again because in order to disagree with me you half to have watched it at least once) and tell me I'm wrong. Sure, the xenomorph helps with the atmosphere and all, but the close up shots of everybody give the movie a vary compact feel. No to mention that the ship there on is massive, but you almost never see any of the corridors that have to be running throughout the ship. IDK you watch it and tell me.

Rosario + Vampire

Hay, look at that picture. Looks badass don't it? That's what Rosario + Vampire is about after about five or so books. Before that? Harem, all the way and while you can still feel some of that throughout the story every main character takes at least one level in badass, hell (hehe ^_^) the main protagonist takes four or five of them. It goes from Moka one-shoting the bad'y of the week to having three to four chapter long battles. Defiantly worth the read.

007 Goldeneye Reloaded T_T

There are only two occasions in witch I have returned a game to the store without finishing it. This is one of them.  This game suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. The way you look around is too slow, so if you want to spin around to fire at an oncoming enemy he'll be chewing on your backside before you turn around. The firing trigger along with the aim is well, the trigger on the PS3v was the R1 trigger which is not the button I was most hitting when I wanted to fire and the aim was bad, even at point blank range I was hitting guys at a 30% efficiency, AT POINT BLANK RANGE! I could see what they had stuck in their teeth! ........on the tank level the base of the tank follows the gun, witch is NOT HOW TANKS WORK! One time I wanted to do a strafing run on some badys and as I moved the gun to shoot them the game said "fuck you you're this way now" and more then one occasion I fell through the world into void space. I can't even comment  on the story I never finished it. The only semi-good thing I can say about it is that it looked ok, that's it! The 007 Goldeneye 64 was better than this. Never play 007 Goldeneye Reloaded game.

A far better game 

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Once! In! A! Life! Time! There! Comes! A! Mo~tion! Picture! <No no, go away....> *Ahem* Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a vary unique anime in that unlike most anime, where they are adapted from one manga, CG:LotR has seemingly been adapted from two linked manga; Lelouch of the Rebellion and Suzaku of the Counterattack are the ones, even though SotC is set in an alternate timeline it still fits here and there in the story. The "hero" of the story Lelouch has a weird name just by the way it is spelled in Japanese "ルルーシュ". If you take the first half of the name "ルル" it read as "Lulu"witch is a female given name and then the second part "シュ" or "Shu" is a demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing near the speaker, but not necessarily in the immediate vicinity. So his name could be read as "A woman nearby". Anyho. The anime GC:LotR has two seasons and reportedly a (?)third(?).  The anime has a lot of intrigue and mystery in it, it also has a manga spinoff Knightmare of Nunnally with Master Asia in it, so yea that exists. There are, of corse, others Tales of an Alternate Shogunate, Ranya of Darkness, and Oz the Reflection. Give them all a try.

Mars Attacks!

Ack ack ack ack-ack ackackack ack. Ack, ACK! <You have our love and joy and will for all time. Now, KILL THEM!>   Mars Attacks! has received a lot of flak for being a smalty fake-looking b-movie copout, and to those people I say "IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!" This is not a serious movie! Everything is played for laughs! I want to this movie and laughed my ass off. All the characters are archetypes from the 50s. I'll just say it, this movie is a glorious celebration of 50s B-movies, and it;s playing it strait. I feel like I'm the only one who gets the joke. I love avery second of this movie, and you should too.

Chronicles of Narnia

The books of the Chronicles of Narnia are a seven part story about life, death, rebirth, loss, regret, joy, vengeance, escape, family, and many other themes. It all starts as four kids step into a deep wardrobe  in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Being second in the chronological order it nevertheless sets up the whole story. The kids return in Prince Caspian to introduce a vary human element into the story, as well as being number four in the chronological order. Then we enter a Through the Looking Glass type story in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on the high seas in chronological order number five. Then a hunt for a lost son on The Silver Chair in far away lands and chronologically number six. A travelers tail of escape and freedom in The Horse and His Boy coming in at three chronologically. Then a tale of how it all began in The Magician's Nephew witch answers a lot of the lingering questions in the series and comes in at one chronologically. Then on the appropriately named The Last Battle sees all end to battle in Narnia as the last book. While some say that the story is full of christian metaphors, and it is, it also has other influences as well. Read them and find out for your self.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Twas the nightmare before christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, exempt maybe that mouse. Hold on......................not a creature was stirring not even that damned mouse. The Stockings where hung by the chimney with some care. Well I kinda just nailed them there. In hopes that St. Social Security soon would be there, and he better get here soon I got's bills to pay. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, and they better appreciate the heat too. While visions of a warm meal danced in their heads, it's been a while shut up. And mamma in her bra, and I in my whiteys. Had just settled our augment to take a long nighty..........she won. When out on the lawn there arose a clatter, I got my gun out of the drawer to see what's the matter. Away to the window I ran like The Flash, Tore open the window and threw up the gun like Jonny Cash. The moon on the crest of the newly-fallen snow, damnit now I got to dig my car out tomorrow, made me sure there was no one below. When, what to my tired eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer. That's it, no more weed. With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment that I must be hella sick.

Did you see what I did to that poem? That's kinda what The Nightmare Before Christmas is like. The familiar, but changed. It's Tim Burton's best work. Watch it

Lucky☆Star

The slice of life stile is a rare to little successes in the way of that is never good but sometimes is one. If you read that, understood it, and are a westerner. Congratulations, you just earned the rite to read Lucky☆Star with out being seriously confused. Why? This is a slice-of-life manga centered on Japanese life, that's why, and if that little sentence made you brain fall out of your ears, then your head will explode when you read L☆S. If you see the lights then you see the darkness too. It's all the same. There is no plot to speak of in L☆S just a series of four panel comics made into a manga book. So even calling it a manga is ify.

.............ah, word of god says that either Konata Izumi or Kagami Hiiragi has feels for the other but Kagami Yoshimizu has declined to say witch. But considering how that is viewed in japan, well....yea. Still this is a funny story and should not be missed out on.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

I've only played Brotherhood so if your looking for some retrospective over the whole series, you've come to the wrong place bub. Now then, this is a vary therapeutic game, as in I spent hours upon hours walking around the city killing any of the guards who were unlucky enough to spot me. At first, if anyone ran away I let them go, I figured 'Let them go, they have seen the light.' but after a while (as in a few years) I "had to" track them down on the thought of 'No one will tell of this, ever!'. Then after a time choosing stalk and kill each member of a group then letting the last one live to tell the tale. I got so good at countering without weapons that I had rare occasion to draw my blade, instead choosing to fisticuffs them unconscious with the thought of 'Let them see their best guards get beaten up in public, by one man.' realizing full well that they might get executed for having just seen me. One day I got a little bloodthirsty and killed an "innocent" townsfolk and the device that lets you go back and experience the past gliched out and "said"Ezio never killed innocent people" to witch I responded "Uhhhhh....BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!" What about the 10,000+ guards I killed who had no allegiance to the Big Bad and were just getting payed to do a job, what about them?! They weren't evil, they were just doing a job! Bullshit Ezio never killed anyone "innocent"! That was my experience with this game, yours may by different, for instance: You can run away from the guards and never fight them unless it was your mission to do so, but still never kill them, just knock them out. I played it that way because I was attempting to take out the Big Bad's power-base and that was my method of attack because he destroyed my villa and killed my uncle, who was the closest thing to a father I had. I. was. Pissed! OFF! It's rare that a game lets you role-play to this extent, and this is one of them.

Death Note

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe...WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This comic is the one of the best psychological anime I have ever seen ever. Seeing the story through the antagonist is quite refreshing, in fact it was so different that is was to see the thought processes of the "villain" that it drew me in. The 2nd half was not as good but still well done. Even the revamped end fit in. Many others have said this was good and some said this was bad. Me, I say this is as bad/good as you feel about the subject matter. Watch this anime.

The Full Monty

Do you see that zipper in the pic? Does it look suggestive? It's supposed to. This movie is about strippers, male strippers. Oh look, 35% of you just clicked away. I'll say this to those who reman, this movie may get risqué but it never shows on screen the title of the movie. Now on what this movie is rely about, witch is out-of-work steel workers......and male strippers. I'm not kidding, at all. That's not a spoiler either, the stopper thing is revealed in the first ten min. Before that they were steel workers. That's most but not all The Full Monty is about, it has a little history of the british isles. To the straight men I will give you a warning: there is one shot of man ass, other than that it has good characters and nothing feels out place ¬_¬ in this movie. Watch it if you can.

A little LP.

It is my thought that when you die everything that you owed to others is payed with your death, monetary or otherwise. It is this view that has let me view death not as a thing to be morned but as the end of ones long trudge through life's journey. They have payed with their life and every life is precious so nothing can mach it's equal.  So remember "All debts are payed in death.".

Hatchet

Surviving in the wild is not an easy thing to do, ever. Reading this book will prove it. Hatchet is  a survival book, and is a first person account of the way it is learned through experience. This book "feels" so real and visceral that you can't help "being"in the story. It says something about the quality of the writing, that you can be pulled into this simple story. Even the most simple moves are impressive when preformed by a master and this is a work of a master. Using simple words and semi-descrips. This book was a joy to read, the flow of the book is not like other books. I can say with definite probability that this is a good one. Read it!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

_)O_O(_ Oh. My. God. This movie has so many memories, for me. Most of them are good. In fact all of them are. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a film adaptation of a book by the title Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The film was made in 1998 but set in, what I assume is, the late 1950s in a world where american produced cartoons live alongside the live-action people in a City of an unknown name. This movie is, to my knowledge, is the only time Warner Brothers and Walt Disney have let both of most their characters be in a single film. The animation work is marvelous evan by todays HD standards, the toons feel like they are rely "there". Despite the fun brevity feel of the story, it is a slightly serious. I'm not kidding, this is almost hard film noir, but it never takes it self to seriously and could be seen as a comedy or a drama piece. Watch it and be amazed.    

Flame of Recca

If there was one word to describe this, it would have to be "badass". I'm not kidding, this never lets up. Every character is cool in their own way, and the things that happen in "this" manga. When I read this manga my blood boiled with excitement, I couldn't wait to see what happened next. What do I say to make you love this as much as I did, to yearn for the tale to unfold, to weep physically for the next volume, to laugh with mad joy at seeing the conclusion in sight, and to howl with pain when it does. To read this manga was an experience to behold, I wanted to join the main characters in battle just to be there in person. At first it was an average shōnen series, but after it striped down and revealed itself to me I had an uncontrollable maddening lust to see the story to it's finish. I was sated by the end and maybe you will to.

Marble Madness

Have you heard of this game? You should of. This is still, in my opinion, the best platformer ever. Many reincarnations have happened over the years, but none have captured the magic of the original. That is because the low end graphics helped, on top of that most of the game looks like a M.C. Escher painting. Now, why is a platformer game have good writing? Well, all games tell their story through narrative, and Marble Madness does it right in every way. From the art design to the vary controls themselves are there to mess you up. This game can be frustrating, funny, mind bending, and sad if you think about it. "What?", I hear you say, "This game isn't sad". Well, I said you had to think about it バカ. When you beat the game it just returns you to the start of the first level, which means that the ball is forever condemned to wander these hellish plains looking for the exit but never finding it. There, did I just kill a bit of your childhood? If not, play this game, dummkopf. leathcheann. Bête. FOOL!

Kaiba

Finding an image for this anime was hard, not because of it's rarity but because of Yugioh. ≈_≈ Kaiba is at it's roots a sic-fi love story. Which I admit is old hat, but redoing old themes is in the execution, check out the opining. It's by Seira Kagami who has also done some of the songs for CHAOS;HEAD, Isekai no Seikshi Monogatari, Noramimi 1&2, and Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. The art stile lends itself to show all the characters in a child-like form but they aren't, for the most part. The story begins on amnesia and ends on a crowning moment of awesome. Unlike my Elfin Lied review thinking back on Kaiba gives me a feeling of warmth, at the same time this anime can be vary fucked up, but because of the art stile it sweeps across your conciseness like a light breeze. You will, find your self smiling at this anime. I personally, at one point, yelled out loud the words "THE HELL?!" because something shocked me so. I hope you have as much fun with this anime as I did.

L'Illusionniste

It should be noted that if I put anything up here, I liked it. With that being said, The Illusionist is a damned good film. It's the kind of movie you talk about and debate over. It is a french-british film set in 1959, manly in Paris, centering on a magician and his dwindling career that can't follow the new cinema and what electricity had ushered in. This film has five english words, I think, but fear not this is a movie you watch, not listen to. What do I mean by that? Well, the story is mainly shown and few lines are spoken. This film has three languages in it; Lowland Scots, English, and of corse François are the ones I heard. You can tell what the characters are saying by what is going on in the seen. Now on to a bit of history, ¬_¬ on the film. The co-wittier, Jacques Tati, is said to have written this as a love letter to his estranged eldest daughter as an apology for abandoning her as a child, but this was never confirmed. In fact, the main character, L'Illusionniste, is a version of Jacques animated, and some people speculate that the young lady is Jacques real life daughter, but rest assured readers the closest the main characters get is what's in the picture above, which is more of a father-daughter thing. To say this has a good end would be wrong, but the opposite is true as well. I think that L'Illusionniste has a neutral end, but like I said you can debate over this film for eons because the film has almost no dialog in it you have to infer what is going on and why, not that it makes this hard. It's almost like watching a moving painting, you take away whatever you take away from this. So, watch this film...you'll be better for it.

Video Tutu?

If anyone would like to see more of these or another game let me know in the comments. I was thinking about doing a Bullet Heaven let's play.