Ok I promised a list to make up for my late post Yesterday and this isn't one of those little projects like you did in first grade. This is basically a list of things I watched/played because I had a whole week off for Thanksgiving. So it's not a top [insert number here] list because it is in no particular order.
1. Viewtiful Joe
So far my whole week off has been full of things Viewtiful Joe related. I got all of the anime DVDs recently and watched all 26 episodes (only season 1 got dubbed) in about 2 days. I had completely forgotten how awesome it was so I re-bought Red Hot Rumble on the PSP (I lost it a long time ago) and got a bit frustrated with that and decided to play the original on my good old Gamecube, and I got farther than ever. I have yet to play Viewtiful Joe 2 this week but I will get around to it over the weekend. Also I played a bit of the DS game Viewtiful Joe Double Trouble which was pretty good too. You could say that before when I probably shouldn't have been playing games with bad words and whatnot I was a huge fan of Viewtiful Joe and now that I have all of the games again as well as the DVDs I remember how great it was and I just can't help but feel like we should have gotten a Viewtiful Joe 3 or at least some other spin-off, but of course Capcom likes to be a bunch of teases and just forgets about the franchise and sticks a character or two into their next fighting game to somehow think they make up for it... Then again Clover studios is their own company now... or whatever happened I don't remember, maybe we will get one in the future...
2. Gankutsuou
Ok I bought the box set like forever ago, but I sort of waited for the perfect opportunity when I could watch it all at once and not just after school in my free time, now that I am on this vacation I have done just that and as I write this I am half way through with the series. I had to, of course stop watching for a bit so that I could write this and I am so eager to continue but I promised I would do a list for today's post and I will deliver that promise. There really isn't much I can say about the series itself without giving away spoilers because it's sort of like Death Note or Code Geass because there are twists and turns in the plot with every episode, there are some aspects of the series I don't like (there were a few scenes I could have done without) but all in all it's a great series and I just can't stop watching.
3. Hammerin' Hero
Ok I was at Gamestop re-buying Red Hot Rumble when Half Minute Hero caught my eye, however I couldn't buy it since it was a bit over how much money I could spend, then right next to it was a game that I heard was actually pretty good, Hammerin' Hero. To my surprise the brand new copy of the game was only $15 dollars so I decided to buy it and wow it was good but it was H-A-R-D, and I mean really hard. The game was so difficult that it only lets you play on the easiest difficulty if you die enough times on one level. But I got used to the game and just played on the difficulty above easy. The game is in a 2.5D perspective that I am a huge fan of thanks to Klonoa. It's your standard beat-em-up but slowed down and your given (?) hits before you die. Oh and the reason I put a question mark there is because when I played on the same difficulty I died in one hit in the first level and 3 hits in the third level... it really confused me but I really don't care because the game is actually pretty good.
4. Little Big Planet (PSP)
Sorry but so far I only played this game a bit, I will play it alot more after I finish (or possibly while I watch) Gankutsuou. It seemed to good to be true but it's just basically Little Big Planet in the palm of your hands... it does have some negatives though. For starters there are only two layers, now that's not really a bad thing because levels are easier to get through... but it's also easier to accidentally get stuck somewhere you don't want to. Oh and I didn't really want to say this one because my friends who have the game didn't get this problem but it did happen to me so I might as well say it... this is the first PSP game I have ever played that... well it... it actually crashed on me. I am dead serious I was just in the middle of level editor mode and I decided to electricute a small object but accidentally pressed back on the d-pad (that rewinds your previous step) at the same time and bam, the game was loading for about a minute when suddenly my psp just turned off, I turned it back on and the level I created wasn't saved. Besides that I have nothing wrong with the game at all.
5. Saints Row 2
Ok, Saints Row 2 has got to be my favorate sandbox game ever, I picked it up for dirt cheap a few months back and now that I am on vacation I have tons of time to just explore all of the things you can do in the game. Now I have Grand Theft Auto 4 and don't get me wrong I had plenty of fun with it, but it's just that there is something about Saints Row that feels like I have more freedom and I am not forced to play the story so I feel like I actually want to play it to just play it instead of play it to walk around other parts of the city and not get chased by cops. Like most sandbox games Saints Row 2 is obviously not a game for kids and with things like a streaking mini-game show that. I would highly recomend this game to people looking for a good sandbox game.
Well there you go a whole list, I really do deeply apologise about my previous post being late and I will try not to make a habit out of it. Remember I post every other day oh and I only have like two readers so PLEASE tell your friends about my blog.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Top 5 Underrated Anime
Wow, and I mean wow, this list was difficult because these are 5 of my favorite anime underrated or not.
5. Higurashi
Ok this isn't as underrated as everything else on this list because so many people know of it as "that anime with the creepy torture scenes" but believe me that's not all Higurashi is about, if it was then I might as just rewatch the last episode of School Days instead, at least I can find that Legally on Crunchy Roll... anyway, Higurashi starts out with a scene of the main character beating someone to death with a baseball bat, then transitions over to his happy school life =), now just like so many other anime Higurashi likes to show you small bits of stuff happening later on and sometimes doesn't even explain that stuff til you forget all about it 4 arcs later, oh and did I mention *slight spoiler* that the main character DIES in episode 4, only to come back in episode 5 as if nothing happens because different arcs are different scenario's basically, you get used to it after a while but the first time it's just really confusing. All in all if you like slow painful gory torture mixed with happy fun school anime goodness, then try to check out Higurashi, especially since a new series box set comes out next week.
4. .Hack (all series)
Well, I guarantee that most of the people who know what .hack is probably know it because of the games (which by the way are awesome) but there were anime series too, like sign, roots, legend of the twilight, and not to mention some of the manga series like, XXXX (aka X-fourth), G.U. +, and the extra stuff like .hack 4koma and .hack gift. So basically despite how unpopular the series is in america I'm pretty sure it's huge in Japan. Well there is alot to talk about as you could read so much that I could spend hours talking about each series, but sadly I have other things on the list and must end this one with a simple recomendation that you at least check out one series.
3. Desert Punk
Well a friend of mine has Netflix and watched this series from there (yes Netflix users you can check this anime out without having to buy anything) and so because he recommended it I bought the series box set and wow, it was great, it was really funny as a comedy, it always had you wonder what ingenious trick Desert Punk has up his sleeve, but surprisingly it was very good at being serious, the last episode felt entertaining even though there was nothing funny in the entire episode, which is hard to pull of in a comedy anime because usually in a comedy anime, you hate it when it gets serious (like that crappy anime adaptation of Rosario Vampire) but Desert Punk seems to pull it off just fine.
2. Gankutsuou
Ok I'm gonna be honest, I haven't finished this anime yet, but from what I have seen it's kind of like Code Geass and Blood+, there's always a twist at the end of each episode, this is one of the anime Funimation got the rights to from Gonzo, which means that a new box set came out, making this one easier to find, it is also on Netflix like Desert Punk. Now this one is so underrated that I bet most of the people who watch it today only know of it because of TeamDN's (formerly TeamDattebayo) Death Note the Abridged series, infact, that's how I found out about this series. Believe me this is a good anime with alot of funny moments.
1. Gantz
Ok I DO NOT recommend this one for kids, Higurashi's brutal gory violence may scar you but trust me all of the bad words, violence, and sex in this series make it so explicit that the manga volumes have to be covered in plastic. Just like me alot of people found out about Gantz from the hit internet series Gantz Abridged by hbi2k. Even though there are alot of things in the anime that really didn't need to be there (like that old lady from episode 1 coming back over and over and over again) and the anime only made to mission 3 (not including the filler mission) whereas the anime had at least 10 missions, the anime is also very slow paced, something that could have happened in 1 episode usually takes about 4 (not an overegzageration) however if you have the whole series (either the box set or the "perfect score collection" that comes in a little gantz ball) then it's not that big of a problem. So to sum it up I REALLY recomend Gantz and the good thing for americans is that it's not too hard to find the DVDs and the manga is apperantly going strong over here, so if you can I really recomend the manga more than the anime because it goes on for alot longer and isn't even over in japan yet (final chapters begin this October).
So that was my list of good underrated anime, try to check all of these out if you can and remember to support the official release by buying the dvds or manga, and remember I update every other day so check real soon for more.
5. Higurashi
Ok this isn't as underrated as everything else on this list because so many people know of it as "that anime with the creepy torture scenes" but believe me that's not all Higurashi is about, if it was then I might as just rewatch the last episode of School Days instead, at least I can find that Legally on Crunchy Roll... anyway, Higurashi starts out with a scene of the main character beating someone to death with a baseball bat, then transitions over to his happy school life =), now just like so many other anime Higurashi likes to show you small bits of stuff happening later on and sometimes doesn't even explain that stuff til you forget all about it 4 arcs later, oh and did I mention *slight spoiler* that the main character DIES in episode 4, only to come back in episode 5 as if nothing happens because different arcs are different scenario's basically, you get used to it after a while but the first time it's just really confusing. All in all if you like slow painful gory torture mixed with happy fun school anime goodness, then try to check out Higurashi, especially since a new series box set comes out next week.
4. .Hack (all series)
Well, I guarantee that most of the people who know what .hack is probably know it because of the games (which by the way are awesome) but there were anime series too, like sign, roots, legend of the twilight, and not to mention some of the manga series like, XXXX (aka X-fourth), G.U. +, and the extra stuff like .hack 4koma and .hack gift. So basically despite how unpopular the series is in america I'm pretty sure it's huge in Japan. Well there is alot to talk about as you could read so much that I could spend hours talking about each series, but sadly I have other things on the list and must end this one with a simple recomendation that you at least check out one series.
3. Desert Punk
Well a friend of mine has Netflix and watched this series from there (yes Netflix users you can check this anime out without having to buy anything) and so because he recommended it I bought the series box set and wow, it was great, it was really funny as a comedy, it always had you wonder what ingenious trick Desert Punk has up his sleeve, but surprisingly it was very good at being serious, the last episode felt entertaining even though there was nothing funny in the entire episode, which is hard to pull of in a comedy anime because usually in a comedy anime, you hate it when it gets serious (like that crappy anime adaptation of Rosario Vampire) but Desert Punk seems to pull it off just fine.
2. Gankutsuou
Ok I'm gonna be honest, I haven't finished this anime yet, but from what I have seen it's kind of like Code Geass and Blood+, there's always a twist at the end of each episode, this is one of the anime Funimation got the rights to from Gonzo, which means that a new box set came out, making this one easier to find, it is also on Netflix like Desert Punk. Now this one is so underrated that I bet most of the people who watch it today only know of it because of TeamDN's (formerly TeamDattebayo) Death Note the Abridged series, infact, that's how I found out about this series. Believe me this is a good anime with alot of funny moments.
1. Gantz
Ok I DO NOT recommend this one for kids, Higurashi's brutal gory violence may scar you but trust me all of the bad words, violence, and sex in this series make it so explicit that the manga volumes have to be covered in plastic. Just like me alot of people found out about Gantz from the hit internet series Gantz Abridged by hbi2k. Even though there are alot of things in the anime that really didn't need to be there (like that old lady from episode 1 coming back over and over and over again) and the anime only made to mission 3 (not including the filler mission) whereas the anime had at least 10 missions, the anime is also very slow paced, something that could have happened in 1 episode usually takes about 4 (not an overegzageration) however if you have the whole series (either the box set or the "perfect score collection" that comes in a little gantz ball) then it's not that big of a problem. So to sum it up I REALLY recomend Gantz and the good thing for americans is that it's not too hard to find the DVDs and the manga is apperantly going strong over here, so if you can I really recomend the manga more than the anime because it goes on for alot longer and isn't even over in japan yet (final chapters begin this October).
So that was my list of good underrated anime, try to check all of these out if you can and remember to support the official release by buying the dvds or manga, and remember I update every other day so check real soon for more.
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