Agent Zako

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  1. Posted

    I've started Persona 4. I'm like an hour in. Finished the first day of school. It's been a visual novel so far, but an interesting one. I'm sure there is more "gameplay" later, so not too worried about it. That is all for now.

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    You caught me! (Although my idea could also work if Motoko's new body is of the same caliber as her previous one but different enough to the point where she has to work to get used to it and quick.)

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    I don't really have a problem with ScarJo as The Major, but I can see where the controversy is. I think that, if the people making the film wanted to, they could even acknowledge their casting choice in the movie itself. Motoko Kusanagi has a fully artificial body that doesn't necessarily look anything like the body she was born into, and people do sometimes upgrade/replace their bodies in-universe. Imagine if the movie started with The Major in a non-white body, but then she takes an explosion to the face and needs an immediate replacement. Maybe she even has to downgrade to a body with lower performance and functionality, but she has to make due because terrorists are on the loose and she doesn't have the time to sit around waiting for a new top-of-the-line body. Heck, the cyborg body she starts the movie with in this scenario doesn't even necessarily have to be her first one. Plus, there would be no reason for her to change her name to fit the apparent ethnicity of her new body. I'm not saying the movie will definitely do something like this, but it's certainly possible and I'd be fine with it. Also, I kinda just like the idea of the Major in a body she doesn't necessarily like and is definitely not familiar with and having to get creative to stay as good at her job as she was before.

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    Time for highlights from my sketchbook, which I've been doodling in semi-frequently these last few weeks, largely while having paused an episode of some Kamen Rider on someone's face. These will be in chronological order of when I drew them. Sorry for the crappy cell phone photos. I'm not entirely sure where out crappy printer/scanner is. Here's a dude walkin on the bottom of the sea. Blue and black ballpoint pens.

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    Here's me screwing around with action poses and... a hand for some reason.

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    Next up a portrait of Shinnosuke, the titular character of Kamen Rider Drive. Did a pencil sketch while watching drive with Necro and some other friends and went over it with a pen later.

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    Here's a quick ballpoint pen sketch I did in Drawing II class. The class is Drawing I and II in one classroom, and our instructor didn't have anything ready for us II students to work on that period, so we were free to do whatever while the beginner students did some quick figure drawing practice in different styles. There was a skeleton near me, so I decided to draw it being surprised. Why? I dunno.

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    and finally, here's a portrait of the character Terui Ryu, a.k.a. Kamen Rider Accel, from the show Kamen Rider W. I drew this yesterday from a screenshot. Graphite and a micron pen. I haven't actually erased any of the graphite guide lines like I usually do with this kind of 2-step drawing. I kinda like how it looks alongside the ink. But at the same time I wonder how it would look if it were clean...

     

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    And that's what I've been up to lately in my sketchbook. I mean, there are other sketches I took pictures of, but my phone's camera sucks at focus so I decided not to include them here.

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    I beat Demon's Souls for the first time yesterday. Was pretty great, although I would have had significantly less fun with the game if I didn't look up help on the wiki the couple of times I got seriously frustrated.

    Flamelurker was far too sadistically designed to fight with a melee build, which I had, and as such I ended up learning Soul Arrow and glitching out his A.I. for a cheap kill. I might have beaten him without taking advantage of the A.I., but I dislike his design too much to care. Later, I was stuck for hours on the Maneater(s) fight because I didn't understand world tendency and screwed it up with bodily deaths, making the fight harder. I also made the same mistake, to a lesser degree, with the False King. I was stuck for even longer on him than the Maneater(s) because I dropped World Tendency from Pure White to neutral with a couple bodily deaths, and then looked on the wiki and saw that killing the dragon, which killed me more times than the boss it was guarding, was possible, would make the boss run so much more tolarable since it'd never respawn, and would shift my world tendency back towards white. I didn't much care for standing in place and spamming projectiles until it died, but it was worth it to be able to fight "Old King Allant", who might be my favorite boss of the game, without the frustration of instant death every other time I merely tried to get to him.

    For the most part, though, it was a lot of fun. I'll play Dark Souls eventually, although I plan on getting around to trying Persona first.

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    Just got Demon's Souls today. A bit behind on the gaming trend there, but whatev. I've played a few hours of Dark Souls before at a friend's house, but this will be my first Souls game I'm going to fully commit to and actually beat. Last I left off I beat Tower Knight, which I thought was a really cool fight (when I beat him the second time around, since I was killed instantly the first.) Demon's Souls is pretty cool so far.

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    Got around to finishing Bahamut, myself. I pretty much agree with Eka and Muffin. It was a fun ride, and I too would love to see a sequel of some kind. Now to catch up on Build Fighters Try.

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    That's the story going around. And studio Khara has announced that they're going to take on the job of making the english subtitle track themselves, so they seem to have done away with the funimation translation the dub was based on. I wonder if they'd go as far as to not release a dub at all, or to re-dub it entirely.

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    I don't really know much about the comic counterparts to these characters, but season 2 of Agents of SHIELD has been p. good so far and I'm excited to find out more about them.

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    People are taking the bullet point from the end of IGN's review way out of context. The comment was that there is a severe pokemon type imbalance favoring water in both versions of the game, and that sounds like a completely legitimate issue to me. And still, the final score they gave it wasn't even remotely implying the game was anything less than good.

     

    Anyhow, I am now the proud owner of a 2DS as well as a copy of Alpha Saphire. Gonna capture all of them or however the line goes.

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    I'm aware of no one else who has a single serious issue with Gunbuster... well this is new. The final episode was in black and white and widescreen to feel more theatrical, and if the intricacies of the entire mindbogglingly gigantic battle were delved into it'd not only take much more time to show but would distract from the heroines, who are the focus of the whole story. The series of events isn't hard to follow, plus the small details of the battle don't matter. What matters is Noriko and Kazumi's struggle alongside their friends against unimaginable odds in order to save humanity, and the sheer force of drama that comes with that and the resolution to it all. And all of that comes across crystal clear.

     

    (I like Gunbuster a lot if you couldn't tell.)

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    So, after 4 years of waiting I finally gave in and bought myself Bayonetta as a kind of birthday present to myself, and it was one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Got it for PS3, which I was thankfully able to instal so it plays and loads decently. I'm only two chapters into my first play-through and its already impressed me so much with how well it plays and just how plain fun the whole thing is. I loved playing Reveangence but I think I'm going to like Bayonetta even more. I'll have to wait some time to play the sequel since I'm in no rush to buy a Wii U, but it will probably happen someday.

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    G-Reco has definitely been very strange and oddly paced so far, but that's relatively par for the course for the beginning of a Yoshiyuki Tomino anime. I do really love how quirky it is most of the time, though, especially the characters. Gundam hasn't been this weird since Turn A, which was Tomino's last directed series in the franchise. I genuinely think the overall picture of what is going on will clear up soon, though. G-Reco hasn't had the best (or worst) start of the anime I'm watching this season, but since the director's best known (and with good reason) for his stellar endings I will gladly wait to see how things go.

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    Bahamut looked plenty solid from episode 1 to me, but this second episode was definitely even better.

     

    Although, it is somewhat distracting to me how the setting is this strange mixture of different mythologies, legends, and a tiny bit of actual history. Between this show and the Jeane D'Arc strategy-rpg for the PSP, I'm starting to think the Japanese actually believe Joan of Arc was a purely mythological character and not the very well documented real life person she was. It's like if Napoleon , Richard the Lionheart, or Julius Caesar showed up out of nowhere in a fantasy series that doesn't appear to take place in any particular place or time. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, though...

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