No rant today because I’m on break, but here are some quick notes.
That’s all. Going to catch up on anime today, and try my hand at Perfect Cherry Blossom.
I really want to play Crash Bandicoot in Japanese now.
I’ve actually been aware of this OVA for a while, but never really got around to watching it. I figured one had to have knowledge of the game and its characters to fully appreciate it, but after a push in the right direction by Sang, I finally downloaded the one OVA and watched it after many frustrating rounds of Intelligent Qube.
It’s so sad that this isn’t the iDOLM@STER TV series. I’ve been meaning to play the iDOLM@STER games, but I lack a Japanese 360, so all I can really do is watch videos like this. I’m so glad that there’s finally something translated into English from the series that I can watch.
Sure the OVA isn’t totally fucking amazing. It’s pretty standard fare, but really cute. I could watch 13 to 26 episodes of this if the animation was good and the writing was a little fresh. It’d sure be a lot better than that shitfest Xenoglossia. Jesus.
It’s been a while since I’ve played a video game, and it’s been an even longer while since I’ve actually played one that I own. My younger brother promised me Gundam Musou (or Dynasty Warriors Gundam) for my birthday, and all of two months later, a copy of the game randomly appeared in my room. Not having much time to play it during work, I only just popped it in recently to give it a spin before heading back to Boston.
When it comes to video games, I’m very much “I don’t know art, but I know what I like” and I certainly like Gundam Musou, but more experienced reviewers would probably tear it limb from limb. It’s a fun, easy to play game that pits all of the famous Gundam heroes together in one epic adventure. Kind of like how they took all of Yokoyama Mitsuteru’s characters and threw them together in one story for Giant Robo. Yeah, it’s like that, and it’s awesome.
I’ve never played a Dynasty Warriors game in my life, but given the English title, I can only assume that this game is Dynasty Warriors, just with giant robots. The gameplay is serviceable, but it kind of sucks that projectile weapons are more or less useless. The beam canon is one of the most used weapons in the Gundam TV shows, but in this game it’s difficult to aim, and when it does hit, the damage done is minimal. As such, you mainly have to rely on melee attacks, combos and special attacks. It’s not really true to Gundam style, but it’s still a lot fun. I did my first playthrough with Domon anyways, so it wasn’t that out of character.
The story is, like I mentioned earlier, one that involves all of the main Gundam heroes from I guess… 1979 to 2000? I haven’t seen any Seed guys yet, but maybe they’ll show up later. I’ve only played through original mode on Domon, so I probably don’t have the whole story, but right now it seems pretty thinly defined, and only an excuse to go around chopping things up. And that’s totally fine. There’s only so much story you can cram in through mission briefings and in-mission dialogue, so that fact that they even have some background to go with all this fighting is impressive enough for me.
Besides, the story isn’t the important part– the characters are! The character interaction in this game is a Gundam fan’s wet dream– seeing all the characters from various Gundam shows coming together and exchanging snarky comments during battle is just too funny. I love it! And hey, the inclusion of Puru actually makes me wanna watch ZZ now! She’s too cute~
Anyways, I’m having a blast. Gundam Musou may just be the game to get me back into gaming… provided other people supply me with the games. I’m spending enough money as it is!
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