Review: Pokemon Conquest

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Jun 302012
 

Disclaimer: No guns will be “put on” in tonight’s article. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try another game if you wish to put your guns on.

So in their first collaborative pursuit Koei and The Pokemon Company team up to bring us a tactical RPG that combines our favorite Sengoku Musou heroes and our favorite Pokemon. Let’s get hands on with it all.

Pokemon Conquest is the combination of Pokemon into Koei’s Nobunaga’s Ambition tactical RPG series albeit with a much lighter spin. The game takes place in the land of Ransei, an alternate reality where famous warriors of the sengoku era team up with Pokemon and go to war and not a Pokeball to be seen (Good for Team Plasma I suppose).

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Final Fantasy 5 Four Job Fiesta 2012 Fridays Episode 1

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Jun 292012
 

Final Fantasy V is a pretty awesome game, simply because there’s an amazing amount of variety. Not only do you get access to a host of jobs, but you can also combine the abilities of other jobs you’ve trained in, and even mastered. Final Fantasy V is very popular for this sort of reason.  No two FFV playthroughs are the same, after all. Not only that, but the number of challenges available is simply staggering.

One of the more popular challenges, if not the most popular, is the Four Job Fiesta. The Four Job Fiesta is an annual challenge where players are given four random classes, one for each crystal, and are forced to complete the game with those four jobs alone.  You can make the challenge even harder too, like hard mode, where the jobs can be from any crystal you got so far, and not just from the newest selection, or a berserker-only mode.  It’s quite popular too, as the Four Job Fiesta is also a pretty decent charity, as well.


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Manic Movie Magic: Last Airbender v. Eragon

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Jun 292012
 

You know, I was thinking about Avatar: The Last Airbender and how the terrible M. Night Shyamalan movie nearly destroyed it all. It was the biggest cinematic-adaptation flop since…well, since Eragon. God, remember that catastrophe? I certainly do. Which brings up the question: Which one was worse?

And not just a terrible movie, but a terrible film overall – an affront to our favorite series and our senses. It’s not going to be easy but someone’s gotta do it. So let’s compare: The Last Airbender v. Eragon.

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Food for Thought: Helpful Advice for Voice Actors from Councilman Tarrlok

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Jun 282012
 

"So you wanna be a voice actor? Well let the cliched-untrustworthy-politician tell you how."

Welcome to a rather quick bite over here at Food for Thought. No good series is complete without a skeevy councilman, and The Legend of Korra does well with leading-suspect-politician, Tarrlok, who is voiced by none other than Dee Bradley Baker. Mr. Baker has had other roles in other popular shows ranging from Young Justice (Wolf — consequently he also plays Korra’s polar-bear-dog companion, Naga), Adventure Time (Cinnamon Bun who you may recognize from this awesome clip), and even in Portal 2 (Atlas and P-Body – I mean who knew haha).

With nearly 20 years as a professional voice actor under his belt, Dee has become the “go-to” guy for creating realistic monster, alien, and animal sounds and is truly passionate about what he does.

So passionate, in fact, that he’s launched a website designed as a resource center for aspiring voice actors, pointedly titled: I Want to Be a Voice Actor

His words of wisdom range from what to expect money-wise, how to present yourself, and what to expect as a starting voice actor. Notably, he relates voice acting to training to be an olympic athlete:

There is a path to it for those few who are right for it, but it’s much more involved and difficult than most think. It is a sustained project that demands considerable focus, resources and time– in addition to talent. Some may be “born to do it,” but don’t really care to. Others may want it so badly but really just don’t have the goods. – Dee Bradley Baker, I Want to Be a Voice Actor

Essentially, one has to respect the career they’re getting into if they want to legitimately pursue voice acting. It is more than a hobby, or a side-job, and it is as demanding as a quote-unquote “real” acting career. To Mr. Baker, a voice actor is an actor, and actually has to bring more to the table, because voicing a character requires giving life to that character, to make an animated something-or-other seem real.

He also understands how hard it is to start up in the industry, and offers all the tips and tricks he can to make setting up “shop” as a voice actor possible.

So to wrap up this quick bite, in the words of Mr. Baker:

My take is ultimately this: No matter what you’re going for, if you’ve got the right stuff, do your homework, pay your dues, and enjoy the ups as well as the downs, I believe you’ve got a good shot at earning a living doing something you love to do.

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Silverwolf’s Den: Animal Man Volume 1: The Hunt

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Jun 282012
 

A vegan animal rights activist/movie star with the ability to gain the abilities of any animal on the planet ventures into a dark, foreboding world to cleanse the source of all life from a vile taint gnawing at its core. That’s the plot summary of the current Animal Man comic series. Surprised I didn’t pick it up when the New 52 premiered? I sure am. The series has received nothing but praise from fans across the world, and its issues consistently sell out at comic shops nationwide. With the release of the collected editions of the first arcs of each New 52 comic, I decided it was the perfect chance to see what all the rage was about. As you may have seen in my review of Animal Man Annual #1, I’m loving this series. Just what makes Animal Man stand out? Read on to discover more! Continue reading »

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Review: Fate/Zero Part 2

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Jun 272012
 

Fate/Zero is finally over. As it aired it kind of did a weird thing where it aired one part one season, and then the next part two seasons later. I guess that can kind of be normal for some series as multiple seasons, but Fate/Zero literally cut off halfway through the series. Worse, it ended the first “season” on a cliff hanger episode, so it was clearly meant to be continued. Since it did something different, I decided to review part 1 on its own merits. You can find that here. I’m not going to mention a lot of the intro info I mentioned in the last review, so I’d suggest starting from the first review if you’re interested. Instead I’ll just be covering the second part of Fate/Zero. Let’s see if the second part can match up to my glowing review of the first.

The opening title is the same, so here's a cute shot of Saber from the opening. She looks better with her hair down.

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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC: Is It Enough At This Point?

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Jun 272012
 

It’s a widely known fact that Mass Effect 3 kicked up arguable the largest controversy among gamers in quite a while.  Funnily enough, Bioware initially stood by their original endings, but as time went on, they couldn’t ignore the complaints much longer, and decided to meet the fans halfway by giving them clarification.  They promised to expand on the endings, and even throw in some results of player choice, but they weren’t going to change the endings.

While fans who thought the ending was fundamentally wrong probably weren’t going to enjoy this, even from the very beginning (and Bioware admitted this), other fans are probably still curious about these expanded endings.  Let’s face it though; they couldn’t get any worse than the original endings.  Funnily enough, while I myself couldn’t bring myself to really even care about the original endings in the slightest, I feel like the new ones approach decency.

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Team Fortress 2: Pyromania

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Jun 262012
 

Yesterday, Valve introduced the Pyromania update, which will culminate this Wednesday with the final “Meet the Team” short, the Pyro (hence why the update is called Pyromania). Valve released a new mode called “Doomsday” yesterday (which my friend Reiko was uber excited about), complete with new achievements. Today, Valve released “City on Fire,” which introduced all new weapons for the Scout, Sniper, Soldier, and Pyro (of course). I can’t wait to finally see “Meet the Pyro” tomorrow.

This begs the question to what this Adult Swim-Valve crossover announced last week will be. Many thought that it would be “Meet the Pyro,” but that’s obviously not it. Could it be a webseries? That would be hilarious. Like most people, however, I have a feeling it’ll be Adult Swim themed hats. Because everyone loves hats, right?

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Panty and Stocking DVD Giveaway

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Jun 262012
 

The people over at Anime News Network have teamed up with FUNimation to give people a chance at winning a free Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt DVD before it hits store shelves July 10th. Four (4) lucky winners will receive a copy of the DVD set, while one lucky grand prize winner will receive the DVD, as well as a poster signed by the Japanese cast. I gotta say, that poster is really enticing.  Continue reading »

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Retro Review: Deus Ex

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Jun 262012
 

If there’s one thing I find fascinating in video games, it’s choice.  Choice is something that doesn’t really exist in other media (well, there are choose your own adventure books, and VNs, but one’s a gimmick, and the other goes hand in hand with video games), and if used well, they can add a lot of depth to a game.  However, I have a weird way of admiring choice in games.  If used superficially (like, say, one or two lines changing, maybe changing the colors of a scene, but nothing more), I’ll consider it kind of a waste.  If a game goes beyond that, I start to get impressed.  How about a nonlinear mission structure with the only restrictions in place to prevent the plot from derailing?  That, my readers, is Deus Ex.

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