Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Opening Theme - Fresh Prince of Bel Air intro
Here's a classic perfect theme song, if there is.
The theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Air is still remembered by every one to this day :P
Ah, when Will Smith was both funny and cool. Good times.
Good ol' times.
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The theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Air is still remembered by every one to this day :P
Ah, when Will Smith was both funny and cool. Good times.
Good ol' times.
...
Ad - Axe ANARCHY
What the hell did I just watch?!?
Axe released a new ad recently.
Check it out, it's random, very stupid...and, do they still sell to consumers with videos like this?
I mean, what's the message, what's the point?
"Use Axe - anarchy's good, you'll escape cops and make out with them instead" or sumthin'?!
Is this new line for women instead? Using Axe turns you into a sl##?
Anyway, like this wasn't bad enough, they're gonna make some random comic based on this new line (for real!!!), which I guess will prove all comic book stereotypes to be true.
And if that wasn't enough, Scott Lobdell will work on that. Yeah, the same guy that is working on the new Red Hood, Teen Titans and Superboy comics.
Because he's the perfect choice for that kinda comic, you know.
Axe released a new ad recently.
Check it out, it's random, very stupid...and, do they still sell to consumers with videos like this?
I mean, what's the message, what's the point?
"Use Axe - anarchy's good, you'll escape cops and make out with them instead" or sumthin'?!
Is this new line for women instead? Using Axe turns you into a sl##?
Anyway, like this wasn't bad enough, they're gonna make some random comic based on this new line (for real!!!), which I guess will prove all comic book stereotypes to be true.
And if that wasn't enough, Scott Lobdell will work on that. Yeah, the same guy that is working on the new Red Hood, Teen Titans and Superboy comics.
Because he's the perfect choice for that kinda comic, you know.
Ad - Potato Chips Commercial
Here's another one from Jason Alexander, when he still was a young struggling actor, doing commercials for fast food and stuff.
This one's for Delta Gold Potato Chips. Enjoy!
This one's for Delta Gold Potato Chips. Enjoy!
sketch - Introducing Jackie Chiles: For the People
Here's something that will make Seinfeld fans smile.
For the parody-sketch website Funny or Die, Phil Morris reprised the role of everyone's favorite Seinfeld lawyer, Jackie Chiles in a series of sketch!
Check it out:
Yay! He's back!
For the parody-sketch website Funny or Die, Phil Morris reprised the role of everyone's favorite Seinfeld lawyer, Jackie Chiles in a series of sketch!
Back on the scene in Los Angeles and he's ready to represent you whether or not you spilled coffee on your crotch.For years he was actually trying to base a spinoff show on this character, so what better way to do so is there, avoiding the troubles of network TV, by going with free internet webisodes instead!
Check it out:
Yay! He's back!
COOLAPE Wednesday - Scars
Link for the full comic on CoolApe:
http://www.coolape.org/comic-eyz-scars.html
What? Those scars? You wanna know how I got those?
BestOf Seinfeld - Kramer's Friends
Someone did this epic compilation of Kramer from Seinfeld mentioning all his (fictional?) pals.
Gotta love that Bob Sacamano, always some epic story or memory from the guy:
Gotta love that Bob Sacamano, always some epic story or memory from the guy:
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Breakfast
Your team:
Team robot:
Brought to you by Team Bryll Atkintner and their sweet new "A day in the life" slideshow on Vital:
The hardest working couple in show business.
Team robot:
Brought to you by Team Bryll Atkintner and their sweet new "A day in the life" slideshow on Vital:
A Day in the Life: Bryn Atkinson & Jill Kintner — More Mountain Bike Photos
The hardest working couple in show business.
Toy NEWS! The Dark Knight Sinks
Thanks to some ad for toys in a comics/magazine, we now know how Bane and Catwoman will actually look like in Warner's upcoming flick Dark Knight Rises, and it's...
...and OH GOD! MY EYES!! IT BURNS!! HAAA!!
No, really. It's not that awful.
But they look bad.
Such...silly designs. Nothing iconic. You'll have them forgotten in 2 years top!
Bane is...ugh... And Catwoman seems to come from some random bad con/bank heist movie.
(Click on the above pictures for bigger res'!)
...and OH GOD! MY EYES!! IT BURNS!! HAAA!!
No, really. It's not that awful.
But they look bad.
Such...silly designs. Nothing iconic. You'll have them forgotten in 2 years top!
Bane is...ugh... And Catwoman seems to come from some random bad con/bank heist movie.
Deleted Scenes - Gotham by Gaslight game
Okay, here's another one that never was.
Apparently, there was a Gotham by Gaslight video game planned at some point.
That's right, a game based on the classic Elseworld story by Brian Augustyn, BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT:
And it was just recently revealed by Day 1 Studio that they had been working on this concept around 2009.
But they lost THQ as publishers (this was before Warner Bros. recently started publishing its games directly), tried redesigning their game and pitch...
Anyway, this was planned for PS3 and Xbox 360.
It looks like an era-specific Arkham Asylum/beat'em up-like game.
Check out these badass pictures:
How would the Mike Mignola-drawn comic look like in 3D?
Here's the only video and in-game rendered visuals available:
Certainly, this was a very early test, but the idea, steampunk look and with the adapted weapons and gimmicks do look nice on paper at least.
Who knows, perhaps when DC/Warner will get bored with the Arkham Asylum/City series, they might actually think about adapting Elseworld comics into video games. There's lots of great concept to use in those!
Source: siliconera
Apparently, there was a Gotham by Gaslight video game planned at some point.
That's right, a game based on the classic Elseworld story by Brian Augustyn, BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT:
And it was just recently revealed by Day 1 Studio that they had been working on this concept around 2009.
But they lost THQ as publishers (this was before Warner Bros. recently started publishing its games directly), tried redesigning their game and pitch...
Anyway, this was planned for PS3 and Xbox 360.
It looks like an era-specific Arkham Asylum/beat'em up-like game.
Check out these badass pictures:
How would the Mike Mignola-drawn comic look like in 3D?
Here's the only video and in-game rendered visuals available:
Certainly, this was a very early test, but the idea, steampunk look and with the adapted weapons and gimmicks do look nice on paper at least.
Who knows, perhaps when DC/Warner will get bored with the Arkham Asylum/City series, they might actually think about adapting Elseworld comics into video games. There's lots of great concept to use in those!
Source: siliconera
Ad - Michael Richards in a Pepsi commercial
Here's a pretty fun ad.
It features noneother than Michael Richards (aka Kramer from Seinfeld) in a 1994 ad for Pepsi:
Kramerica Industries' latest project :P
Such a fun and random ad!
He'd make a great Doc Brown-like character.
It features noneother than Michael Richards (aka Kramer from Seinfeld) in a 1994 ad for Pepsi:
Kramerica Industries' latest project :P
Such a fun and random ad!
He'd make a great Doc Brown-like character.
Ad - McDLT
Did you know that Jason Alexander, aka George Costanza on Seinfeld, did a ton of commercials? Before and after Seinfeld?
Here's one of his earliest ones, for McDonald's no less!
Mixing the hot and cool? You're killing independent George!!!
Here's one of his earliest ones, for McDonald's no less!
Mixing the hot and cool? You're killing independent George!!!
Stand-up - Jerry Seinfeld HBO Debut (1981)
Here's another stand-up video!
This was Jerry Seinfeld's original HBO debut in 1981.
This is when the ball started rollin'.
JERRY STEINFELD!
What?!? XD
He was only starting out. They might have butchered his name. People might were probably doubting this young starting comedian. But once he started his routine they all slowly joined, laughing at his material!
Great performance for this would be-famous humorist!
This was Jerry Seinfeld's original HBO debut in 1981.
This is when the ball started rollin'.
JERRY STEINFELD!
What?!? XD
He was only starting out. They might have butchered his name. People might were probably doubting this young starting comedian. But once he started his routine they all slowly joined, laughing at his material!
Great performance for this would be-famous humorist!
Monday, February 27, 2012
Lent
"Lent is a forty-day period before Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday. We skip Sundays when we count the forty days, because Sundays commemorate the Resurrection. Lent begins on 22 February 2012 and ends on 7 April 2012, which is the day before Easter."
-Some website
"During Lent, many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of penitence."
-Wikipedia.org, aka the e-hobo that sits on the side of your screen with a cardboard sign begging for your money and making you feel guilty
Giving things up is a big part of Lent. As a form of fasting, it focuses the mind. Some people give up chocolate for Lent, other people give up fast food, and in the popular movie "40 days and 40 nights," Josh Hartnett's womanizing yet endearing character chooses to give up sex for Lent while serving on a battlefield in Somalia, only to find out that Ben Affleck is the father of his girlfriend's child, right before he flies the mission to bomb Tokyo. On the return trip from Tokyo, his friend played by Ben Affleck runs out of gas in his helicopter and dies in a tragic crash just miles from friendly territory in Mogadishu. Subsequently Josh Hartnett finds the woman of his dreams and has sex. True story.
It's a great movie.
Anyway, I had this great idea to stop hating on people on Team Robot for Lent. I was going to be positive for 40 days, and it was going to be ironic, uplifting and hilarious. I was going to change the background from black to pink and change all the images and the banner at the top to unicorns and rainbows and smiles. I was seriously going to do it. I had started saving pictures of hearts and rainbows and smiles, and I had decided that this would be a great opportunity to use Team Robot to encourage people and acknowledge the good in the world. The goal was to be nice for 40 days.
Then I saw this BLopes video, and that plan went right out the window.
Going back to the comfort zone for TEAM ROBOT, here's what everyone knows sucks about that video but no one will say:
1. How to do an easy Brian Lopes imitation: plug your nostrils, take your shirt off, and talk about your training regimen, or anything else that no one cares about. As a bonus, put posters of yourself and the number 55 on literally every surface in your house.
2. I came to a bike website to watch bike videos, but what I really wanted to see was your old washed up overpaid self making espresso for what feels like the entire video. This just in, if I wanted to wait around and impatiently watch someone else making espresso, I could go to any Starbucks.
3. Blopes and Jon Hauer are the same person. And speaking of Blopes and Hauer, there's a special moment shared between the two of them over an awkward, gentle shoulder caress at 4:13.
4. Wow, you really ripped it up going down those hills on your trail bike. It seems like you've really got a knack for it; lots of natural talent. Imagine if you were on a full-on downhill bike. You'd go way faster! And then imagine you're younger, and in your physical prime. Big improvement! Then imagine that you're getting paid to travel to every major downhill race in the world and sponsors are giving you everything necessary to win at those races. You would have the skill and support necessary to be the best downhill racer in the world! Then imagine you quit racing downhill after a year and just rode 4x for the rest of your career and tooled around shirtless on other people's pumptracks.
Racing downhill: highly competitive and mentally difficult. Blopes out of his comfort zone.
Gated racing: just do a bunch of squats and practice gate starts. Still somewhat competitive and mentally challenging. Blopes more in his comfort zone.
Travelling around to people's backyards and using your years of professional experience and training to crush random locals who don't race. Blopes totally in his element.
5. I didn't make that up. That story from #4 happened.
6. TEAM ROBOT does not understand your pathetic request for peace, Blopes. No peace. Never peace.
That Blopes video inspired me to embrace our hating ways, but to be honest, that wasn't the only factor that made me write all this and go back to hating. For one thing I had to write a big long post so that the first words people read when they came to the site weren't "Anal" and "C***." Thanks Patrick.
Don't worry, Team Robot is still in the game.
-Chaz
-Some website
"During Lent, many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of penitence."
-Wikipedia.org, aka the e-hobo that sits on the side of your screen with a cardboard sign begging for your money and making you feel guilty
Giving things up is a big part of Lent. As a form of fasting, it focuses the mind. Some people give up chocolate for Lent, other people give up fast food, and in the popular movie "40 days and 40 nights," Josh Hartnett's womanizing yet endearing character chooses to give up sex for Lent while serving on a battlefield in Somalia, only to find out that Ben Affleck is the father of his girlfriend's child, right before he flies the mission to bomb Tokyo. On the return trip from Tokyo, his friend played by Ben Affleck runs out of gas in his helicopter and dies in a tragic crash just miles from friendly territory in Mogadishu. Subsequently Josh Hartnett finds the woman of his dreams and has sex. True story.
It's a great movie.
Anyway, I had this great idea to stop hating on people on Team Robot for Lent. I was going to be positive for 40 days, and it was going to be ironic, uplifting and hilarious. I was going to change the background from black to pink and change all the images and the banner at the top to unicorns and rainbows and smiles. I was seriously going to do it. I had started saving pictures of hearts and rainbows and smiles, and I had decided that this would be a great opportunity to use Team Robot to encourage people and acknowledge the good in the world. The goal was to be nice for 40 days.
Then I saw this BLopes video, and that plan went right out the window.
X-Fusion and Brian Lopes Part 2 - More Mountain Bike Videos
Going back to the comfort zone for TEAM ROBOT, here's what everyone knows sucks about that video but no one will say:
1. How to do an easy Brian Lopes imitation: plug your nostrils, take your shirt off, and talk about your training regimen, or anything else that no one cares about. As a bonus, put posters of yourself and the number 55 on literally every surface in your house.
2. I came to a bike website to watch bike videos, but what I really wanted to see was your old washed up overpaid self making espresso for what feels like the entire video. This just in, if I wanted to wait around and impatiently watch someone else making espresso, I could go to any Starbucks.
3. Blopes and Jon Hauer are the same person. And speaking of Blopes and Hauer, there's a special moment shared between the two of them over an awkward, gentle shoulder caress at 4:13.
4. Wow, you really ripped it up going down those hills on your trail bike. It seems like you've really got a knack for it; lots of natural talent. Imagine if you were on a full-on downhill bike. You'd go way faster! And then imagine you're younger, and in your physical prime. Big improvement! Then imagine that you're getting paid to travel to every major downhill race in the world and sponsors are giving you everything necessary to win at those races. You would have the skill and support necessary to be the best downhill racer in the world! Then imagine you quit racing downhill after a year and just rode 4x for the rest of your career and tooled around shirtless on other people's pumptracks.
Racing downhill: highly competitive and mentally difficult. Blopes out of his comfort zone.
Gated racing: just do a bunch of squats and practice gate starts. Still somewhat competitive and mentally challenging. Blopes more in his comfort zone.
Travelling around to people's backyards and using your years of professional experience and training to crush random locals who don't race. Blopes totally in his element.
5. I didn't make that up. That story from #4 happened.
6. TEAM ROBOT does not understand your pathetic request for peace, Blopes. No peace. Never peace.
That Blopes video inspired me to embrace our hating ways, but to be honest, that wasn't the only factor that made me write all this and go back to hating. For one thing I had to write a big long post so that the first words people read when they came to the site weren't "Anal" and "C***." Thanks Patrick.
Don't worry, Team Robot is still in the game.
-Chaz
METAL MONDAY!
charlie has lost what was left of his mind. which wasn't much.
Metalica used to rock and Sam Hill used to crush his enemies, things change but not robots they last forever and will never get tired of killing little weak fleshy humans.
To rectify this we are going to make your stupid little ears bleed.
and we are better then you in every way ...... so kill yourselves.
Also, I have been making Charlie and Aaron listen to this stuff for years, poor kids.
Aaron is an eagle scout and Charlie is best buds with Jesus. I am like the worst friend they could ever have.... EVER, sorry guys and also, enjoy.
-Patrick
Metalica used to rock and Sam Hill used to crush his enemies, things change but not robots they last forever and will never get tired of killing little weak fleshy humans.
To rectify this we are going to make your stupid little ears bleed.
and we are better then you in every way ...... so kill yourselves.
Also, I have been making Charlie and Aaron listen to this stuff for years, poor kids.
Aaron is an eagle scout and Charlie is best buds with Jesus. I am like the worst friend they could ever have.... EVER, sorry guys and also, enjoy.
-Patrick
RabbidsTV - Captain BWAmerica!!
Here's another short, this one for the release of Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking.
"There is one Raving Rabbid that is answering the call of justice and cleaning up the streets."Enjoy this epic video:
Gamin' NEWS! Mass Effect LIVE
So, Bioware just released a live-action trailer for their upcoming Mass Effect 3 game.
It's kinda epic, all in all.
Short. Simple. But epic.
On another note, there's gonna be a Mass Effect manga now? Really?
And one featuring some kinda alternate reality/cute chibi art/school girl version of the ME gals?
Noooo! Nothing like that, you perverted mind.
Sort of like that Evangelion romance/comedy manga.
It's true!
It's gonna be drawn by the mangaka Michi Michiru. Showcasing the scifi universe of ME under a more mundane and silly point of view.
In "Teach me! Professor Mordin!"
Check it out!
It's kinda epic, all in all.
Short. Simple. But epic.
On another note, there's gonna be a Mass Effect manga now? Really?
And one featuring some kinda alternate reality/cute chibi art/school girl version of the ME gals?
Noooo! Nothing like that, you perverted mind.
Sort of like that Evangelion romance/comedy manga.
It's true!
It's gonna be drawn by the mangaka Michi Michiru. Showcasing the scifi universe of ME under a more mundane and silly point of view.
In "Teach me! Professor Mordin!"
Check it out!
VGR Blue Stinger
It's been a long time since I last posted up a survival horror game review.
(heck! I still haven't finished Resident Evil 5 as a matter of fact!)
Blame it on me playing a lot of them simultaneously at the moment.
I launched not long ago a game play of Blue Stinger and simply couldn't put the gamepad away....
VGR: Blue Stinger From Climax Graphics/Activision/Sega
Played on Dreamcast Also available on /
Type Survival Horror
Year 1999
Haaa, Blue Stinger. I can't think of this game without smiling.
Released as one of the Dreamcast's launch titles, and developed by the little creative team of Climax Graphics. It was also funded (and in Japan, published) by Sega as a killer app to sell their 128-bits console.
Blue Stinger was even released in some places, outside Japan, days before the Dreamcast was even available in stores!
It is a survival horror like there's been many other on the system after that.
But this is one was clearly more action oriented than designed around "horror" properly said.
What is this title about?
Haaa, Blue Stinger. I can't think of this game without smiling.
Released as one of the Dreamcast's launch titles, and developed by the little creative team of Climax Graphics. It was also funded (and in Japan, published) by Sega as a killer app to sell their 128-bits console.
Blue Stinger was even released in some places, outside Japan, days before the Dreamcast was even available in stores!
It is a survival horror like there's been many other on the system after that.
But this is one was clearly more action oriented than designed around "horror" properly said.
What is this title about?
It all started with a shooting star...
In a brilliant and pretty random storytelling fashion, the game opens up with a cinematic cutscene, starting out 65 million years ago, no less!
It was the era of the dinosaurs.
Then, a meteorite crashed near the Caribbeans and ended up an entire species across the globe. It was the extinction of those giant lizards.
Flash forward, "present day", in the year 2000.
And island was found where the meteorite struck originally.
Dubbed "Dinosaur Island". The Kimra Corporation founded various installations, including genetic laboratories and biotech research facilities on this island.
Ballad of the last rescuer~
2018.
You are Eliot G. Ballade, member of the Emergency Sea Evac' and Rescue team. ESER for short.
(the game loves acronyms, be prepared to see a lot of them!)
While Eliot was with his friend Tim enjoying his vacations and fishing in the ocean, another meteorite falls from the sky right on top of Dino Island. After a mysterious explosion, a dome of energy emerges and completely seals the island off the rest of the world.
Tim gets trapped inside the barrier, while Eliot's stuck with the island inside the dome.
Suddenly, a mysterious spirit-like creature takes the form of a Nephilim (a fictional creature). It helps Eliot get ashore.
What is this Nephilim, where does it come from and what are its intentions?
No time to get any answers, because Eliot finds bodies everywhere, everyone appears to be dead on the island. Some kind of monsters are roaming free on the land.
Dogs of War.
But you're not alone on this island!
Eliot meets this captain of the HMS Sienna, also stranded near the Kimra complexes.
With this Dogs Bowser who is actually a resident there, Eliot sets up to find what really happened on the night of Christmas on.....Dinosaur Island!
More action-adventure than horror/thriller, Blue Stinger is a survival horror unlike any other!
Fun, colorful.
It is also one of these very rare Christmas themed games.
Yes, you read me right!
Like Christmas NiGHTS before that, but unlike any other of these games either.
You see, Christmas as so very little to do with the plot. It just "happens" to take place at that time, like Die Hard in a way. Which just provides the settings with "Merry Xmas" posters, Christmas trees inside the market, though no snow around. (it is the Caribbeans afterall!)
The whole game looks lovely.
Almost cheerful because of that.
Christmas music jingles around the "once-populated" area, lots of lightning instead of the gritty settings of your usual Resident Evil...
The characters look nice enough, but the animations are sort of stiff (it's is an early Dreamcast title!). But the backgrounds entirely in 3D look like what Code Veronica would also switch to later on, look great! The environments are amazing and full of details!
What about the gameplay itself?
Come to daddy!
It is more action focused than your usual tension filled horror games.
You control Eliot, or Dogs, in fully explorable 3D settings. From a behind the shoulder perspective. (a gameplay change which Capcom would use and perfect in more recent Resident Evil games)
There's a lot of exploration and backtracking to do around the island.
Labs, markets, apartments, caves, parkings, etc.
Our characters respond to the stick perfectly, though they do run a bit awkwardly.
When unarmed (at the start of the game, or by using your short range weapon), the game sort of feels like a beat 'em all. Eliot karaté-punches his way through the monsters, Dogs is all about the heavier wrestling/sumo/etc. fighting styles.
There's literally dozens of weapons, covering a large and unexpected range of weapons. From the usual pistol, minigun, sword, triple-barreled shotguns, to the heavier rocket launchers, napalm launchers and even more difficult to get/more expensive/secret weapons like the laser gun, demolition gauntlets and a lightsaber!!
You can buy items, such as food and ammo from vending machines all over the place. Usually near saving machines and maps of the island.
To do so you need to collect money.
And that's where the fun begins!
The game is clearly designed to make your way through the masses of creatures you'll find there.
Most are designed like The Thing from John Carpenter's classic. These monsters here can be punched through, so they never present much trouble if you're prepared to face them.
Once defeated, they'll explode in a rain of blood, with a bunch of money flying out of them.
Which is great.
I mean, money was originally used in games to censor blood in retro games, while modern games normally went with blood for realistic purposes.
Having both is so unreal.. (something No More Heroes would copy much later)
Monsters respawn every time you come back, which money you'll quickly make big amounts of money pretty fast.
The smaller monsters, flying insectoids and running bugs don't give money, so they also don't respawn.
There's various giant creatures, huge bosses to defeat all over the game. You'll have to spend your ammo carefully depending on your foe.
The game meant a lot for Sega, so it doesn't come as a surprise to see Ryan Drummond (the original voice of Sonic on the Sega Dreamcast) as Eliot and Dogs Bowser voiced by Deem Bristow (aka the original Eggman).
Later on our heroes are joined by the mysterious Janine King, member of KISS (Kimra's security) who happens to be an expert shooter (she is voiced by Lani Minella). Janine is a non-playable character that helps our characters at various points of the story.
The voice acting might sound a bit silly, but it's actually pretty good in my own opinion. It is the characters that are over-the-top.
It's a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, with Dogs complaining about stuff all the time, Eliot hitting on Janine constantly despite the situation.
The whole game sort of feels like a movie.
A B-movie to be exact.
It has a great "action movie" soundtrack, the music really give this game a unique feeling.
According to the mood and places you'll visit, you'll hear more epic tunes, supermarket jingles, etc.
Even the sound aspect is worth mentioning, with great sounds made for each special effect, from the grunts to the footsteps.
It all sets up a great atmosphere.
All in all it is a very long game for the genre.
It is also the kind of experience you wanna revisit.
The game offers various unlockable features in true Resident Evil fashion.
From the usual unlimited ammo to new weapons, alternate costumes for our cast (above pictured costumes notwithstanding, the Santa suit is from a specific portion of the story) and some other funny modes ("big eyes",..).
It's a big epic crazy story featuring colorful characters and locations.
It all comes full circle in an epic conclusion like you rarely see usually.
Sadly, the adventure ends on a
To be continuednote, after the credits...
Overall, it's a fantastic experience and highly recommended title for all Dreamcast owners.
Simple and fun to play. Clunky animations and way to run aside, it's a charm to play~
Developed by (the sadly closed now) Climax Graphics studio, it's a very fun and quite original sort of free roaming Survival Horror set on a large open world you open gradually.
It certainly takes the genre into new heights and direction.
Instead of the usual gloom, gritty and dark Survival Horror, it is more fun, closer to an Action/Adventuretitle.
The goal here is quite simple. Explore bio-labs, tons of rooms and bigger open places on island, collecting keys, ID cards while going through hordes of monsters.
To do so you'll have plenty of crazy weapons to play with.
It is sort of like the Dead Rising of the Dreamcast.
I can't make a better comparison, gameplay wise.
Tons of monsters to fight, big open spaces including markets, a movie theater, etc. You regain your health by eating and drinking stuff. The story is quite over-the-top, not taking itself too seriously, and the game will have you run around all over this place, to help survivors and often under a countdown depending on the situation.
The original Japanese release deserves its own separate paragraph at the end of this present review.
The game was originally quite different from the western title we all know it now.
You see, it used an original cinematic styled camera system, kinda what you have in all classic Resident Evil games.
Instead of the 3rd person behind the character's shoulder, it was presented using a fixed view which changed dynamically. Closer to what Capcom did with Resident Evil: Code Veronica if you will.
But this posed a lot of troubles in action segments.
So Climax redid the whole presentation of the game for the American and European release, presented as the definitive edition of the game.
Enemies let also more money and the difficulty was made a bit more progressive too.
In a way, it's a pretty different experience with its own feel.
If you can, I recommend trying this one too, but it isn't the best and ultimate version of the game, the Pal/Ntsc-US is.
This Japanese version is fully dubbed in English. Besides Japanese subtitles, it's all the same as the other game (voice, menus, etc in English). My Pal port was only tweaked for better views and challenge.
Simple and fun to play. Clunky animations and way to run aside, it's a charm to play~
Developed by (the sadly closed now) Climax Graphics studio, it's a very fun and quite original sort of free roaming Survival Horror set on a large open world you open gradually.
It certainly takes the genre into new heights and direction.
Instead of the usual gloom, gritty and dark Survival Horror, it is more fun, closer to an Action/Adventuretitle.
The goal here is quite simple. Explore bio-labs, tons of rooms and bigger open places on island, collecting keys, ID cards while going through hordes of monsters.
To do so you'll have plenty of crazy weapons to play with.
It is sort of like the Dead Rising of the Dreamcast.
I can't make a better comparison, gameplay wise.
Tons of monsters to fight, big open spaces including markets, a movie theater, etc. You regain your health by eating and drinking stuff. The story is quite over-the-top, not taking itself too seriously, and the game will have you run around all over this place, to help survivors and often under a countdown depending on the situation.
ブルースティンガー
The original Japanese release deserves its own separate paragraph at the end of this present review.
The game was originally quite different from the western title we all know it now.
You see, it used an original cinematic styled camera system, kinda what you have in all classic Resident Evil games.
Instead of the 3rd person behind the character's shoulder, it was presented using a fixed view which changed dynamically. Closer to what Capcom did with Resident Evil: Code Veronica if you will.
But this posed a lot of troubles in action segments.
So Climax redid the whole presentation of the game for the American and European release, presented as the definitive edition of the game.
Enemies let also more money and the difficulty was made a bit more progressive too.
In a way, it's a pretty different experience with its own feel.
If you can, I recommend trying this one too, but it isn't the best and ultimate version of the game, the Pal/Ntsc-US is.
This Japanese version is fully dubbed in English. Besides Japanese subtitles, it's all the same as the other game (voice, menus, etc in English). My Pal port was only tweaked for better views and challenge.
I give it:
Japanese Blue Stinger:
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