There is no game that shouts out “JAPAN” more than Okami. The brush-stroke methods are wonderful! The whole adventure game is basically a stylistic moving rice-paper painting. I feel like I can make basic Kanji moves in some tiny make-believe way.
As I have been upgrading my moral code, I have found more and more of my actions to be lacking in Godliness. One of these is gaming. I already knew about most of the Japanese gods, Amaterasu and such. All of the characters in Okami are related to the (mostly Shinto) Japanese god mythos. Even the name “Kami” means god.
Does the fact that I am aware of the elevated status of these game sprites somehow entangle me in something I should not be involved in? If I take that argument I would not be able to transfer money as I know what Egyptian gods are embedded in our bills. That is something to ponder while dodging baboon baddies wielding Shakuhachi and and Koto.
Now, where is the order form for Okami II? Sign me up for a PS3 if they make two.
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I have been put off and disappointed by Sony lately. The last few products I have purchased have not reflected any manner of quality. If you follow this site you will know how many PS2s I have gone through. Years ago I moved to other brands for TV and other electronics. Now I go to Lik-Sang to find a mochi-maker machine, and to my dismay Sony has shut them down. This is a sad day. All of those neat little inter-system adaptors and game enhancement products are no more. In spite of this fatal blow, Lik-Sang manages to still treat their customers with fine support and is closing out any open orders favorably. After being less than impressed with the PS3, I am moving into the Anti-Sony camp. Farewell old friend. R.I.P. Lik-Sang.
Update: I have made some great gaming purchases at Dealextreme.com. I have purchased lasers, PS2 parts, games and other stuff you would get from China anyways. Be advised sometimes things go wrong in shipping or quality control. Risk can be fun.
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Sakura Pachinko has to be one of the prettiest objects on the planet.
The fever to collect more and more is very contagious. It has hit me on the nose several times. I really want to add a “Hyper Passion” next to the Sakura. Then after that I really need an old vintage model for the play value. Of course a novel concept would be playing with the toys I already have.
Next I need to record a video of the Sakura machine during play. The sounds and light shows all correspond so well. The LCD just glues your eyes. Typical Japanese blasting each of your senses into pudding. Read the full story for more pics.
POPSY – REPAIR THIS USING WAYBACK MACHINE!
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This Tetris comedy clip is one of the funnier things I have seen. On Tv, in Japan.
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Remember sitting with your Atari 2600 and your best friend playing all those wonderful tank games? It was almost unheard of for a game to be only one player. Worst case you could take turns and each player pick up where they left (or died) off. Arcades knew about multiplayer. Gauntlet, Rampage, Blasteroids… so many games that ate my quarters with syrup. Even with the really bad lag of PS2 titles, two player gaming is not completely dead. Titles that run on the beautiful Snowblind Studios engine:
- Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance – Rat stomping beholder fun!
- Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 2 – This one is gravy.
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel – Rough in more than three ways. Didn’t like.
- Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest – Smooth icing on chocolate.
- Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms – The same ising on the same chokolate.
- The Bards Tale – SINGLE player, just put here for completeness of the snowblind list. Nice Cary Elwes on vocals.
- Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers – Development fell apart somewhere. Bad controls.
Cooperative Non-snowblind but two player just the same:
- Lego Star Wars – Simple and fun 2 Player! Almost every franchise character is playable.
- Gauntlet: Dark Legacy – Over and over and over just works somehow.
- Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows – Way too short, a good rental.
- LOTR: Return of the Kings – I could not get comfortable with the view angle or controls. Most people like it.
- X-Men Legends – RPG Crawling with a pleasant change of pace, powers, and setting.
- X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse – Have to finish the first one before I get this.
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120 gameplay hours later…
Dragon Quest is the coolest game on the planet. My dude has a boomerang and a pirate hat, my chick has the divine bustier and a whip. What other game could you find yourself thinking… “Now if I were the Empyria bird and my heroes had blown up my offspring’s egg where would I go to mourn?”
Can you beat this draw? A win on bars and sevens. There may be one possible better spin, with two sevens and one bars.
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After the wonderful Shadow of the Colossus, an RPG was on the menu. Gone are the cheese RPG sprites with a left, right, back and front state. Level 5 (Dark Cloud series) have done wonderful things with Dragon Quest VIII (DQ8). They have the best RPG engine, and inventory management is so intuitive! It makes me want to pull out the Dreamcast and sample Skies of Arcadia again. I am so worried that Dark Cloud 3 will be a PS3 only title. The DQ8 music is very pretty, but most themes are only a few notes off from many others. Main world area 1 = Theme from gone with the wind, Alexandria = Lost in Space theme…
POPSY FIX THIS
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Ratchet pouts as he is missing clank.
Ratchet Deadlocked.
When I grabbed the package I didn’t even notice the lack of Clank in the product name. It is half the name and half the game. Basically Ratchet is stuck in the gladiator arenas. The other playable vehicles take a bit away from the monotony, but overall it should be a value edition release. The “hard edge” has worsened as well. Substitute profanity comes much closer to using the actual words, and more frequently. Is it still a platformer? Compared to the other Clank games = just barely.
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A brilliant Third-world dance platform idea! Piso Pad (Piso means floor) This is astonishing work! Spend five bucks and use DWI or Stepmania running on a computer with a joystick port (remember those?). I have been envisioning a button made like this with both contacts on the bottom protect the wires. My next pad design will be one solid piece, openable on the fly, and have no moving parts. Nils Reichert sent me a cool page about wiring a USB control box out of a standard LIK-Sang Xbox box. This would be a brilliant replacement as the
EMS Joypad I was using does feel slow and lag. This DDR workshop would have been so fun!
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Mythos is so awesome that posts have ground to a halt. There is a quest I need to work on, so no time for updates! (Actually I did manage to update the eats page.)
Diablo 2, for free. Massively online and smooth as digital butter. Picture a hulky cyclops as a fire mage! Hard choice between that and a Gremlin gadgeteer.
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