No new updates on NeoToonami, well a little Christmas picture and if you want to see it just head over to NeoToonami.com. But on good old Dothackers was a new trailer for .hack//Link:
Oh yeah and that other thing in the title, I have a few tips for some of those hard missions in Accel 3. First off, there is going to be a mission that you need to get a 40 hit combo against Shino and Kankuro, both of which are very cheap, so to beat them just choose Itachi and pick Amaterasu as your jutsu then just constantly spam it on the both of them at the same time over and over, and if you can try to get some ougis in there and also try to kill Kankuro first because he likes to spam his poison jutsu... alot. And for the Kabuchimaru (or whatever you call him) mission then use Jiraiya and keep doing your circle, circle, circle combo with an ougi at the end of the combo, do that three times then just try to use the circle, circle, circle combo again and it should kill him.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Naruto Shippuden Narutimate Accel 3 Short Review
Ok so as some of you know, I got Accel 3 for Christmas and I just finished it today (I am writing this on the 27th). So I will just talk a bit about what I thought about the game.
First off, the graphics were probably just as good as Accel 2 and that was awesome, uhh... the gameplay is essentially the same but now you can only choose one Jutsu to use (you select it right before the battle) and now instead of up, up, circle or down, down, circle to use Jutsu you just press triangle then circle, and triangle twice then circle for specials or ougis or whatever you call them. The ougis are shorter in this game and they are even skippable, which in a 4 player battle could probably come in handy. The main feature of the game is the story mode and it has it's ups and downs... where do I start? Ok, well at the begining the 2D platforming stages mixed with the traditional fight here and there was pretty cool, but after playing the same platforming stage like 15 times I begged for an ordinary fight, but the game delivered by sort of balancing the two to make it alot less repetetive, but once I got into the filler arc then I actually started to get mad. The main reason is because the uhhh "boss battles"? all you really do is press square from a distance (throwing shuriken) with no chakra because all of the enemies in the platforming stages (yes all of the battles against the filler characters are in the platforming style, oh and there is a battle against Izumo and Kotetsu like that in the filler arc..) have the attack pattern: Throw Shuriken until enemy is close enough to spam the same close range attack. Also just like any other video game filler the bad guy can control the good guys so that you have some excuse to fight them, making the filler arc longer, normally it wouldn't annoy me so much, but that seems to be the standard for video game filler in anime games now. Anyway, I have to admit that final boss battle (that you fight three times) was pretty awesome, and I would have loved it if you fought other bosses like that instead of what we really got... The rest of the game was awesome but for some reason some characters didn't have any ougis but it wasn't too many characters so... it's not much of a negative. Once this game comes out in America and I actually have friends to play it with I'm sure the multiplayer will be awesome, so in short, it has it's negatives but it has way more positives.
First off, the graphics were probably just as good as Accel 2 and that was awesome, uhh... the gameplay is essentially the same but now you can only choose one Jutsu to use (you select it right before the battle) and now instead of up, up, circle or down, down, circle to use Jutsu you just press triangle then circle, and triangle twice then circle for specials or ougis or whatever you call them. The ougis are shorter in this game and they are even skippable, which in a 4 player battle could probably come in handy. The main feature of the game is the story mode and it has it's ups and downs... where do I start? Ok, well at the begining the 2D platforming stages mixed with the traditional fight here and there was pretty cool, but after playing the same platforming stage like 15 times I begged for an ordinary fight, but the game delivered by sort of balancing the two to make it alot less repetetive, but once I got into the filler arc then I actually started to get mad. The main reason is because the uhhh "boss battles"? all you really do is press square from a distance (throwing shuriken) with no chakra because all of the enemies in the platforming stages (yes all of the battles against the filler characters are in the platforming style, oh and there is a battle against Izumo and Kotetsu like that in the filler arc..) have the attack pattern: Throw Shuriken until enemy is close enough to spam the same close range attack. Also just like any other video game filler the bad guy can control the good guys so that you have some excuse to fight them, making the filler arc longer, normally it wouldn't annoy me so much, but that seems to be the standard for video game filler in anime games now. Anyway, I have to admit that final boss battle (that you fight three times) was pretty awesome, and I would have loved it if you fought other bosses like that instead of what we really got... The rest of the game was awesome but for some reason some characters didn't have any ougis but it wasn't too many characters so... it's not much of a negative. Once this game comes out in America and I actually have friends to play it with I'm sure the multiplayer will be awesome, so in short, it has it's negatives but it has way more positives.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
This Week in Weekly Jump
Ok that break was needed and I love my presents, especially Accel 3, and that... Soul Carnival 2... uhhh... poster? I don't know but Bleach games come with little things alot and I am starting to like it... Anyway back to this post.
Naruto Chapter 477
Current Battle: Sasuke Vs Danzo
- Ok so we left off as Danzo used Kage Bunshin... no wait Karin actually says it was something else.
- Karin says that they are not in an illusion and even after Sasuke crushes Danzo twice she still isn't sure how he is just popping up again.
- So Sasuke uses Amaterasu but Danzo just blows it off (literally) with a wind technique.
- Sasuke summons a giant hawk... Tobi asks "when did you learn that?" and he obviously doesn't get an answer but for the sake of continuity I want to know.
- Danzo says what I have pretty much been thinking about Sasuke, he just throws his anger at anything, and that's kinda the reason Sasuke is one of my lesser favorite characters in Naruto.
- Sasuke charges at him for spouting the obvious truth and when Danzo tries to grab his neck, Sasuke somehow... rips off his arm and it disappears... yeah...
- The chapter ends as those weird crow things that Itachi used to use for Genjutsu fly around Danzo and Itachi appears right next to him.
Bleach Chapter 387
Current Battle: Shinji Vs Aizen
- The chapter starts as we see Tosen's hollow form in color... It's alot uglier in color...
- Then we get to see Shinji's awesome Bankai.
- Shinji's bankai somehow transports them to the "Inverted World", ahhh Shinji's Bankai makes total sense, since he is always writing backwards and standing upside down.
- Aizen realized a little secret about Shinji's Inverted World, he finds out that not only is up down, and left is right, but front is back... so he can just turn around to instantly get to Shinji.
- However Aizen didn't notice that the direction you are looking and the direction you attack are also inversed.
- Aizen get's used to it quickly and calls Shinji's Bankai "nothing but a child's game"
- We cut back to a dieing Tosen as his hollow powers are the only thing keeping him alive.
- Sajin says that he felt like him and Tosen would have to one day cross swords (anyone who is going to make a gay joke out of that just don't) just as Tosen said before to him.
- While Sajin and Hisagi have a nice tearful moment with Tosen, Aizen ruins it by just flat out killing Tosen.
- The chapter ends as Ichigo burst out of a crack in the sky ready to fight.
Naruto Chapter 477
Current Battle: Sasuke Vs Danzo
- Ok so we left off as Danzo used Kage Bunshin... no wait Karin actually says it was something else.
- Karin says that they are not in an illusion and even after Sasuke crushes Danzo twice she still isn't sure how he is just popping up again.
- So Sasuke uses Amaterasu but Danzo just blows it off (literally) with a wind technique.
- Sasuke summons a giant hawk... Tobi asks "when did you learn that?" and he obviously doesn't get an answer but for the sake of continuity I want to know.
- Danzo says what I have pretty much been thinking about Sasuke, he just throws his anger at anything, and that's kinda the reason Sasuke is one of my lesser favorite characters in Naruto.
- Sasuke charges at him for spouting the obvious truth and when Danzo tries to grab his neck, Sasuke somehow... rips off his arm and it disappears... yeah...
- The chapter ends as those weird crow things that Itachi used to use for Genjutsu fly around Danzo and Itachi appears right next to him.
Bleach Chapter 387
Current Battle: Shinji Vs Aizen
- The chapter starts as we see Tosen's hollow form in color... It's alot uglier in color...
- Then we get to see Shinji's awesome Bankai.
- Shinji's bankai somehow transports them to the "Inverted World", ahhh Shinji's Bankai makes total sense, since he is always writing backwards and standing upside down.
- Aizen realized a little secret about Shinji's Inverted World, he finds out that not only is up down, and left is right, but front is back... so he can just turn around to instantly get to Shinji.
- However Aizen didn't notice that the direction you are looking and the direction you attack are also inversed.
- Aizen get's used to it quickly and calls Shinji's Bankai "nothing but a child's game"
- We cut back to a dieing Tosen as his hollow powers are the only thing keeping him alive.
- Sajin says that he felt like him and Tosen would have to one day cross swords (anyone who is going to make a gay joke out of that just don't) just as Tosen said before to him.
- While Sajin and Hisagi have a nice tearful moment with Tosen, Aizen ruins it by just flat out killing Tosen.
- The chapter ends as Ichigo burst out of a crack in the sky ready to fight.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
NeoToonami Update and New .Hack Manga In America
Alright, so this is one of little update posts I do, like when I first found out about NeoToonami and when I got the .hack//Link Demo, so let's get down to it.
Ok, first things first, NeoToonami... Ok so the new NeoToonami update is that the forum member working on SARA 3 has posted a little preview video of what she might look like. Heres the video:
Well, so far all I can say is that with that awesome TOM 5 and this SARA 3, NeoToonami is gonna be awesome. Just in case you don't know what NeoToonami is then it's basically a revival of good old Toonami. Oh and the post also says that they are looking for a 3D artist to help them make the space ship TOM 5 and SARA 3 will be in, I know I get like 2 visitors every month but if one of you actually happens to be a 3D artist then please head over to NeoToonami.com and give them a hand, if you just want to support NeoToonami then head over the website as well and join the forums.
Ok of course the other bit of news, I recently read on dothackers that several .hack manga and a new novel series will be brought to America. The manga series include .hack//Alcor (out now), .hack//4koma (out March 30th), and the .hack//Link manga (out on June 29th) and the new novel series is .hack//cell. I don't know much about .hack//Alcor but it looks cool, I never thought .hack//4koma would ever come to America so I read most of it online, and just like Tatsunoko Vs Capcom I'm gonna buy it on the day it comes out because of that, and the .hack//link manga coming to America is awesome, I can't wait to read it, oh and about .hack//cell, I haven't read any of the .hack novels so I don't really know what to say about it, but I plan to start reading A.I. Buster soon, and I guess if I like that one then maybe I'll read .hack//cell.
Ok, first things first, NeoToonami... Ok so the new NeoToonami update is that the forum member working on SARA 3 has posted a little preview video of what she might look like. Heres the video:
Well, so far all I can say is that with that awesome TOM 5 and this SARA 3, NeoToonami is gonna be awesome. Just in case you don't know what NeoToonami is then it's basically a revival of good old Toonami. Oh and the post also says that they are looking for a 3D artist to help them make the space ship TOM 5 and SARA 3 will be in, I know I get like 2 visitors every month but if one of you actually happens to be a 3D artist then please head over to NeoToonami.com and give them a hand, if you just want to support NeoToonami then head over the website as well and join the forums.
Ok of course the other bit of news, I recently read on dothackers that several .hack manga and a new novel series will be brought to America. The manga series include .hack//Alcor (out now), .hack//4koma (out March 30th), and the .hack//Link manga (out on June 29th) and the new novel series is .hack//cell. I don't know much about .hack//Alcor but it looks cool, I never thought .hack//4koma would ever come to America so I read most of it online, and just like Tatsunoko Vs Capcom I'm gonna buy it on the day it comes out because of that, and the .hack//link manga coming to America is awesome, I can't wait to read it, oh and about .hack//cell, I haven't read any of the .hack novels so I don't really know what to say about it, but I plan to start reading A.I. Buster soon, and I guess if I like that one then maybe I'll read .hack//cell.
Monday, December 21, 2009
My Christmas List
Ok, well I am not feeling so good right now (I get sick around Christmas time every year...) and turning on my computer means that my room will get at least 20 or 30 degrees hotter so I'm just going to do a short post, sorry but I am really, really tired and I can hardly even talk so let's just get down to it, and as the title states this is a list of what I am getting for Christmas, with my limit set at $300.
- Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Accel 3
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $54.29
Ok so it's obvious that since Accel 3 is one of the biggest Naruto games of the year and it was released in December tons of people are getting it for Christmas. I seriously can't wait to play this because I loved Accel 2. I heard the little gripes people had with the game but honestly those things don't really matter too much to me so I will most likely still enjoy Accel 3, also it's the first thing I'm gonna play on Christmas morning.
- Bleach Soul Carnival 2
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $48.90
Well, I never really wanted to buy the original Soul Carnival at first because freakin Play-Asia categorized it under that BS genre "action" which meant it could have been any kind of game and judging by the screenshots it looked like an RPG and I do not import RPG games because it's less fun when you can't understand the story and for several other reasons. But then I bought Heat the Soul 6, which had a demo of Soul Carnival 2 and I decided "meh, why not?" and it wasn't an RPG, it was a good old hack n' slasher, you know, a beat em' up with swords? Anyway I am a sucker for a good hack n' slasher so I bought the original and damn, it blew me away, so naturally when the sequel finally got a release date of December 10th, I knew I had to buy it.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Senaka wo Takuseshi Mono
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $52.90
Well, I always thought that there should be more 1) Fullmetal Alchemist fighting games and 2) more Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood games, so naturally since this is both of those things I just had to get it. I hear it had characters from pretty late in the series, like past where the original anime went, (while it was still canon...) so that's always a plus, and there is just something about those Brotherhood Wii games that just shout "Don't import me!", I'm serious there is just something that makes me feel like it is a text heavy, choose your own adventure type game, and obviously that would be no fun if you didn't know the language it was in.
- Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix + Ultimate Hits
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $34.10
I put the Ultimate Hits on there because I'm pretty sure I got the Ultimate Hits version, and if your wondering what the heck Ultimate Hits means, well it's like a step above PS2 the Best, you know those games that are so awesome that they make new, cheaper copies so that people who didn't buy it before can enjoy it for a lower price. And yea I said before that I don't import RPGs, well this one has English voice acting so... yeah... I was always up and down about getting this game, like I would really want it, but then when I got the money to buy it I would always seem to find something else and put it aside, so I just decided that before it became hard to find I would just get it for Christmas.
- Battle Stadium D.O.N.
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $19.49
Well, just like Final Mix + I have sort of been pushing this game to the side, but for years longer than FM+, I have been looking for this game on the Gamecube for a price under like $60 pretty much ever since I started importing Gamecube games, which by the way was a long time ago, and you know what? I'm still pretty sure it hasn't dropped a penny in price since then so I just decided to get it on the PS2 for Christmas, I mean it's only $20, I'm sure it's not that bad for me to regret getting it when it was a $20 import, and price doesn't determine how bad it is as well, I got Konjiki no Gash Bell Makai no Bookmark on Play-Asia for like $2, and it is one of my favorite Gameboy games ever.
- Yu Yu Hakusho Forever
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $9.05
Ok so like I said in previous posts, I have been watching ALOT of Yu Yu Hakusho lately, and I actually just got back from buying the fourth and final season of Yu Yu Hakusho today. And since I am so obsessed with it I had to do my research and find out if there were really any good Yu Yu Hakusho games, as it turns out I found 3 that peaked my interest, this one, the next item on my list, and an old Genesis Yu Yu Hakusho game made by Treasure that I sadly can't find anywhere. I read on Wikipedia (and since I read it from there I am not sure if this is true) that Yu Yu Hakusho Forever was the top selling game in Japan for a while, and if so then I seriously can't wait to play it.
- Yu Yu Hakusho Shitou! Ankoku Bujutsukai 120% Full Power
System:PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $19.49
Well, this is the other Yu Yu Hakusho game that peaked my interest, it's actually a port of a Yu Yu Hakusho arcade game, and I was actually planning on getting a multiplatform arcade stick for my ps2 and ps3 for Three Kings Day, so that's a plus. I really don't know much about the game except that I am pretty sure you can actually play as koenma, I'm serious I could have sworn that I saw him in a character roster video, and if you really can then I think it would be interesting.
- Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu! Dire Kaizokudan
System: DS
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $25
Ok, two things, if you call it Stafy, like I do then don't throw your hate comments at me since I just copied and pasted it from Play-Asia, and the reason there is no amount of cents after the $25 is because I only remember it being around $25 since it was on sale when I bought it but now it's like $50, so I'm not sure if it was $24 or $26 or even $23 when I bought it, but it really doesn't matter. Ok, so the reason I wanted Stafy is because I like Kirby, therefor Stafy peaked my interest and a friend of mine imported it a long time ago so I got to see it for my self and after seeing it, I really wanted it. Also, the reason I didn't buy the American version was because 1) at the time the Japanese version was cheaper and 2) they made tons of changes in the American version and I just sort of want the original, also I am one of those people that got pissed when they changed his name to Starfy in America...
Wow, scratch out all of that stuff I said at the beginning about this being a short post... I seriously didn't think it would be this long... Well, that's only a good thing, remember I post every other day, and please tell your friends about my blog.
- Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Accel 3
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $54.29
Ok so it's obvious that since Accel 3 is one of the biggest Naruto games of the year and it was released in December tons of people are getting it for Christmas. I seriously can't wait to play this because I loved Accel 2. I heard the little gripes people had with the game but honestly those things don't really matter too much to me so I will most likely still enjoy Accel 3, also it's the first thing I'm gonna play on Christmas morning.
- Bleach Soul Carnival 2
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $48.90
Well, I never really wanted to buy the original Soul Carnival at first because freakin Play-Asia categorized it under that BS genre "action" which meant it could have been any kind of game and judging by the screenshots it looked like an RPG and I do not import RPG games because it's less fun when you can't understand the story and for several other reasons. But then I bought Heat the Soul 6, which had a demo of Soul Carnival 2 and I decided "meh, why not?" and it wasn't an RPG, it was a good old hack n' slasher, you know, a beat em' up with swords? Anyway I am a sucker for a good hack n' slasher so I bought the original and damn, it blew me away, so naturally when the sequel finally got a release date of December 10th, I knew I had to buy it.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Senaka wo Takuseshi Mono
System: PSP
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $52.90
Well, I always thought that there should be more 1) Fullmetal Alchemist fighting games and 2) more Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood games, so naturally since this is both of those things I just had to get it. I hear it had characters from pretty late in the series, like past where the original anime went, (while it was still canon...) so that's always a plus, and there is just something about those Brotherhood Wii games that just shout "Don't import me!", I'm serious there is just something that makes me feel like it is a text heavy, choose your own adventure type game, and obviously that would be no fun if you didn't know the language it was in.
- Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix + Ultimate Hits
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $34.10
I put the Ultimate Hits on there because I'm pretty sure I got the Ultimate Hits version, and if your wondering what the heck Ultimate Hits means, well it's like a step above PS2 the Best, you know those games that are so awesome that they make new, cheaper copies so that people who didn't buy it before can enjoy it for a lower price. And yea I said before that I don't import RPGs, well this one has English voice acting so... yeah... I was always up and down about getting this game, like I would really want it, but then when I got the money to buy it I would always seem to find something else and put it aside, so I just decided that before it became hard to find I would just get it for Christmas.
- Battle Stadium D.O.N.
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $19.49
Well, just like Final Mix + I have sort of been pushing this game to the side, but for years longer than FM+, I have been looking for this game on the Gamecube for a price under like $60 pretty much ever since I started importing Gamecube games, which by the way was a long time ago, and you know what? I'm still pretty sure it hasn't dropped a penny in price since then so I just decided to get it on the PS2 for Christmas, I mean it's only $20, I'm sure it's not that bad for me to regret getting it when it was a $20 import, and price doesn't determine how bad it is as well, I got Konjiki no Gash Bell Makai no Bookmark on Play-Asia for like $2, and it is one of my favorite Gameboy games ever.
- Yu Yu Hakusho Forever
System: PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $9.05
Ok so like I said in previous posts, I have been watching ALOT of Yu Yu Hakusho lately, and I actually just got back from buying the fourth and final season of Yu Yu Hakusho today. And since I am so obsessed with it I had to do my research and find out if there were really any good Yu Yu Hakusho games, as it turns out I found 3 that peaked my interest, this one, the next item on my list, and an old Genesis Yu Yu Hakusho game made by Treasure that I sadly can't find anywhere. I read on Wikipedia (and since I read it from there I am not sure if this is true) that Yu Yu Hakusho Forever was the top selling game in Japan for a while, and if so then I seriously can't wait to play it.
- Yu Yu Hakusho Shitou! Ankoku Bujutsukai 120% Full Power
System:PS2
Bought where: Play-Japan
Price: $19.49
Well, this is the other Yu Yu Hakusho game that peaked my interest, it's actually a port of a Yu Yu Hakusho arcade game, and I was actually planning on getting a multiplatform arcade stick for my ps2 and ps3 for Three Kings Day, so that's a plus. I really don't know much about the game except that I am pretty sure you can actually play as koenma, I'm serious I could have sworn that I saw him in a character roster video, and if you really can then I think it would be interesting.
- Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu! Dire Kaizokudan
System: DS
Bought where: Play-Asia
Price: $25
Ok, two things, if you call it Stafy, like I do then don't throw your hate comments at me since I just copied and pasted it from Play-Asia, and the reason there is no amount of cents after the $25 is because I only remember it being around $25 since it was on sale when I bought it but now it's like $50, so I'm not sure if it was $24 or $26 or even $23 when I bought it, but it really doesn't matter. Ok, so the reason I wanted Stafy is because I like Kirby, therefor Stafy peaked my interest and a friend of mine imported it a long time ago so I got to see it for my self and after seeing it, I really wanted it. Also, the reason I didn't buy the American version was because 1) at the time the Japanese version was cheaper and 2) they made tons of changes in the American version and I just sort of want the original, also I am one of those people that got pissed when they changed his name to Starfy in America...
Wow, scratch out all of that stuff I said at the beginning about this being a short post... I seriously didn't think it would be this long... Well, that's only a good thing, remember I post every other day, and please tell your friends about my blog.
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