Recent Posts Tagged With 'gaming'

• War is better when it’s Moé – Gadget Trial

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 21:05 in gaming, review, Strategy, visual novel, srpg, advance wars, mecha musume, kogado, tomokazu sugita, gadget trial

  I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you haven’t heard of Gadget Trial. If you follow visual novel translation news then you can skip the next few lines, but in essence, it’s a surprisingly lengthy VN by the apparently well-know...

• The Tripartite of Gaming: Theories on an Overlooked Medium

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 21:28 in art, video games, gaming, fps, ramblings, theory, analysis, medium, halo, gears of war, mario, fable

  Pardon me for going off topic - yes, I have no way of justifying this post and claiming its relevance to anime - but as I shift in and out of the mood to pursue Japanese cartoons with unparalleled amounts of zeal and energy, irrelevant ideas occasion...

• Nostalgia Blinds…but it also Heals

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 21:24 in Nintendo, gaming, link, ramblings, final fantasy, Nostalgia, mario, meta, gundam, zelda, square enix, luigi

  Shh! This is supposed to be relevant! Believe it or not, I’m not here to beat this dead horse, nor am I interested in whatever dorama was stirred up long before I knew that the anime blogosphere existed. Incidentally, I read that post when I fi...

• [Launch] - Animal Crossing: City Folk

  Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 11:11 in gaming, wii, casual, launch, animal crossing

  Despite what I say about casual gaming and LOL Wii Fit LOL, Animal Crossing is one of those utterly casual and “kiddie” games that I’ll probably always be playing. I’m not sure why I like it when I could just as easily play Th...

• My Japanese Coach - Because I’m too lazy to actually study the language

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 15:06 in gaming, japan, learning, japanese, language, ds, launch, studying, my japanese coach, the first two hours

  For those of you who have yet to hear about this little gem of a DS game, My Japanese Coach is the latest in the “coach” series, which is yet another one of Nintendo’s ploys to ignore the hardcore and sell to the masses. However, th...

• Mother 3 Fan Translation - Welcome to Moonside, in English!

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 21:05 in Nintendo, gaming, mother, translation, patch, launch, melee, lukas, ness, brawl, smash, earthbound

  No, you’re not reading this wrong; there’s only one video game series on Earth (to my knowledge) in which a Carpet Monster would be brave enough to block your way. That’s right, it’s the latest incarnation of Earthbound, and i...