12/16/07- Good Days, Bad Days, Midori Days

[Marik]

That title was gonna be 3 times longer but I ran out of space it allowed...

Well what's new! Nothing much! Ha! Well in the title, it stated the anime I just finished watching. Midori Days. From day 1 when I saw it, I was 100% skeptic. Never read a review or anything but one day, I stupidly jumped and bought it. From a maker called Anime Works, who make nothing worth mentioning, I really thought the 30 bucks I payed for was a waste. Well I'm glad to say I am totally wrong and I made a good decision.

This is a great series, little on the short side but great nevertheless. This girl has a crush on this delinquent and she wishes to be with him so much that she becomes his right hand. Weird, but it makes up with a ton of comedy, violence, and frontal nudity. Nudity is always a plus with my anime comedies and don't you forget it! (Gimme recommendations too if you have any!) The anime is also rated 13+(which is inaccurate I believe with said reasons), so any minors out there... heh(I know I was ^_^), there you go. But in between that crap is a romantic story. Also, that is very surprising, with that no name company that made it, it was one of the most well made dubs I've seen. Amy Palant was also an actor on it. BTW, she's Tails' voice if you didn't know.

Yeah, yeah, you'll be surprised to hear that I'm a big fan of romantic comedy animes (If the comedy's good enough). Do I get teary-eyed when seeing the romantic climax? I'd tell you, but I'd also kill you 5 times before you hit the ground with an additional 5 times when on the ground for good measure. (Answer's No, time to die!) I am also a fan of School Life Comedy animes, like Azumanga Daioh. And I will admit, I am, in fact,..... a fan of some girlie stuff (anime/manga wise.... I know what you were gonna think, wiseass!). I can't believe I admitted that.

I've taken tons of risks on buying anime, because I don't just buy volume 1, I but the entire series at once! But every time I do, I've loved every one and I couldn't be happier! I started risking my hardly earned money with Azumanga Daioh, then went to Ghost Stories, Excel Saga, Chobits, Doki Doki School Hours, Midori Days and now I'll start PaniPoni Dash when I get to it. Each risk struck gold and each one was an incredible series.

Well I recommend all those series I stated as well as the ones that I saw some episodes somewhere and went after them too. That category consists of Full Metal Panic (all 3 series), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Kiki's Delivery Service, Read or Die, and Cardcaptor Sakura. Hence the girlie stuff once more.

Well not much more that I can say on anime tonite(crap it's actually the 17th) and that means Phoenix Wright 2!!!! Yay! I'll be doing that all day tomorrow ^_^. I just reread everything I wrote, and never have I felt more like a nerd than I do now.... I feel like crap now. Sucks being an otaku when I read my blog.



This is a message to Kogen and only Kogen. You play Phantasy Star Universe on the 360 too! I will so team up with you cause I need partners! For some reason though, my headset won't work in a party, but works in private chat while in the party(That's another story).

[odinsafeperson­­]

I myself don't really watch a lot of anime, but my friend and I fixed a broken DVD player and hooked it up to a TV in the attic (it's kind of our hang out). So we are going to try to have movie day every week, and our first is Howl's Moving Castle.

I'm loving Phoenix Wright 1, but Phoenix Wright 2 is coming in stores today! To bad I didn't bet 1 yet.

[Marik]

I rented Warioware from work. Glad I rented it cause in a matter of 3 hours, I dominated the entire game. All story modes and like 9/10 of the games. It was good while it lasted and it gave me a few laughs. Not worth the insane $50 price tag.

Another rent rant: Lost Planet. I doubted it before, but after starting the campaign, I started to get used to it and was loving it. Any 360 owner should check this out. I think it's worth the money, but I wait for used ones at work cause 360 owners like trading in games in a matter of hours. I'm waiting for the Collector's Edition used.

[odinsafeperson­­]

What about phoenix wright 2, is it better than the first (Even though it's basically the same game play).

[Marik]

Not better, just the same. Fans of first will play the 4 cases it has and then drool over Phoenix Wright 3 until it comes out. Needs a Wii version I think. Voice acting, actual cutscenes and Wii-made gameplay would turn this series for the better. But Capcom is a company that doesn't really make the best choices (HUGE Dreamcast, PSP and GameCube support to name 3) and won't get their heads out of their asses about Wii support. Speaking of Capcom games.... It's time for my THIRD blog of the day.


Matt Casamassina. If you don't know him, then start. He's IGN's former GCN lead editor and the Wii's current. He is probably the most popular Nintendo-based editor ever, even so much that even Nintendo would consider talking to him over anyone at Nintendo Power. They even call him "Mattie." He's also my personal favorite gaming journalist. Well he returned from CES and did one of my favorite segments, N-Query. It's their "letter to the editor" segment. And the second letter showed a new side to Matt. It was about Okami being IGN's Game of the Year, and how he felt that Zelda didn't get it.

"It is an unfortunate possibility that the Game of the Year may not always be the best game, but rather the best game played by the majority of editors. I was expecting Zelda to lose for exactly that reason and I was quite confident that Gears of War would win. The Okami win surprised me and, the more I thought about it, pissed me off. Clearly the editors chose a game that felt new, but the truth of the matter is that Okami's stylized presentation is its only pioneering attribute. It does not deliver a new gameplay experience. Twilight Princess, by comparison, is deeper, more intuitive, better balanced, and ultimately much more entertaining by just about any measure. All of that true, I would have preferred that the editors simply selected Gears of War for its mood and atmosphere.

As you pointed out, though, what is far worse is the level of displayed arrogance and ignorance by some of the editors. If you watch the video, you will hear some of these people rip into Zelda as though it was a major disappointment and unworthy of even making the nominations list. The kicker is that these very same commentators clearly never played so much as 10 minutes of the game. In our written roundtable, which I encourage you to read on Insider, Peer and I made the case that - accidentally or on purpose - there is an editorial faction at IGN that does not give Nintendo's games a fair shake. I don't think there is any disputing that point after watching and reading our Game of the Year wrap-ups.

Normally, I would say to you that the best game is a matter of opinion and that is usually true. Do you like Metroid Prime or Halo? Both are worthy Game of the Year contenders in my mind and I would not slight anyone for picking one or the other. But Twilight Princess being better than Okami is a fact. If you're an intelligent human being and can accurately judge the strengths and weaknesses of each game, there is only one clear winner and it's Zelda. Because - visuals aside - the games are so similar, the outcome is only made easier to determine. I like Okami, but to pick it over Nintendo's four-years-in-the-making epic adventure is ludicrous."

-IGN (wii.ign.com/articles/756/756252p1.html)

Now we all know I did my personal Game of the Year (of course the more I read it, the more I think I should of wrote more) and when I took an entire day to personally decide over those 2 excellent games, I decided Zelda over Okami for that same reasons. Now if Capcom wasn't a stupid company business-wise, they could of made Okami of of the best launch titles ever made for Wii. Using the Celestial Brush with the Wii-mote, waving the controller to attack (ala Zelda), giving the game that gave new possibilities in adventure games even MORE possibilities, I might agree to IGN's GotY. But no. They chose a brilliant game, but a brilliant game basically did all that Okami did with controls like that and that's Twilight Princess for the GAMECUBE. Zelda for Wii did what the Cube version did but more, but in the same sense, shows why the traditional controller version was beaten by the Wii's unique functions. That to me shows without a shadow of a doubt why The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess beats Okami hands down.

I agree with Matt also that IGN has very biased editor's. They are not Nintendo fans and it shows, and you won't see a GameCube, DS or Wii game to ever win Game of the Year cause of it. Half of them didn't even play Twilight Princess for a good amount of time and I believe that neither of them will even own a Wii. I think it's sad to say that one of the best launch games ever made to a system with a revolutionary controller like Wii did not win that award.

Thank God that Matt exists where he does so that at least there is someone that will battle for the Wii games.

[odinsafeperson­­]

Matt is like the only Wii game reviewer I really trust, and I agree with what he said.

Also just about 15 minutes ago from when I'm posting this, MY DS LITE JUST BROKE!!! I'm going to try to contact Nintendo tomorrow. Part of the hinge just snapped when I was closing it!