Review: Tales of Vesperia

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Sep 102012
 

If there’s one thing I dread, it’s my backlog.  My backlog is like the unbeatable secret boss of my hobby.  I’m never forced to fight it, but if I do, it’s not something that I will easily fell.  Most prominent on the massive conglomerate is Tales of Vesperia, a game that I regrettably abandoned when I migrated to PS3 land.  Though I was only about halfway through, it was probably the one game I still wanted to play and finish on the 360. With firm resolve, however, I finally managed to take my 360 out from storage, with the intent of finishing up Vesperia.  Well, I did actually manage to finish it.  After a great deal of thinking, I’m not so sure I should have taken it out of storage…

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Sanity’s Other Side: DVDs – Do I Bother Buying?

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Apr 282012
 

So it’s 2007 or 2008 and you’re some teenager in a DVD store or browsing Amazon for anime. Another month of part-time jobs and hard-earned allowance is about to vanish in a heartbeat. You take out your wallet and before your eyes is a grand box, $40 flies out of your hands either digitally or physically and here it comes. The decorated display box is filled with all sorts of trinkets. OST CDs, a shirt, a body-pillow cover, pencilboards, and even some cosplay props! Oh yeah, the DVD is there too of course, but it’s only the first four or five episodes. The empty space in the display box is lonely, begging for more, pleading for further financial transactions. Oh well. One down, three to go.

Evening, ladies and gents, the Inverseman here to talk about everyone’s favorite elephant in the room, the DVD industry. Do we need it? How have times changed? How have they stayed the same? It all starts with about five or so years ago, in an ancient time.

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Gundam Week: Turn A Gundam

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Jan 092012
 

Incoming mechanical design shitstorm in 3...

To top off Gundam Week, I’ll be finishing off with the last Gundam series (or was supposed to be the last before Bandai needed more money and decided to make another figure line and set of commercials to advertise them), ∀ Gundam. Pronounced and spelled normally as Turn A Gundam, ∀ Gundam is a legendary title for a number of reasons: it happened to be produced for Gundam’s 20th Anniversary, it happened to be Tomino’s first Gundam series after a while of shows directed by other people as well as his first Gundam after recovering from his depression and his last major Gundam series, and it happened to be considered (at first) the final Gundam. With an extremely meaningful title too, the series probably set out to be the best Gundam. Knowing how there were more Gundam series released, we have to conclude that, on some levels, it failed. However, are there an inherent flaws in ∀ Gundam that caused it to fail? Or is it an excellent, but misunderstood show?

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Mecha Monday: Byarlant Custom Kicks Ass

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Nov 282011
 

Hey guys don’t know if any of you have seen Gundam Unicorn episode 4 yet, but if you have, then you’ll recall a certain badass mobile suit going to work on the hopelessly outclassed ancient Zeon mobile suits.  I made a short video with all of the Byarlant Custom’s scenes, so I hope you enjoy.  Also, Bandai will be releasing a Robot Damashii figure of the Byarlant Custom next April.  The price is a bit steep since it’s an exclusive (damn those exclusives!), but I’m still pre-ordering one.  You can find order it from a proxy service like Tokyo-Hunter or Yokatta.

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Mecha Monday: Gundam Variations Are So Much Cooler

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Nov 212011
 

Recently, I found some Gundam Wing Kai variations that I think are absolutely awesome.  I hope one day Bandai releases model kits or Robot Damashii figures of these suits.  Take a look below!

The Sandrock Armadillo has some nifty looking shields, the Heavyarms Igel has additional missile pods and leg mounted treads for mobility, and the Shenlong Liaoya has a a giant sword.  The Deathscythe variation will be revealed in the November issue of Hobby Magazine.

Speaking of variations, Gundam 00V has some sick variations of the standard Celestial Being Gundams.  What is Gundam 00V?  00V is a picture novel of customized mobile suits.  Bandai’s Robot Damashii line has produced some of the customized Celestial Being Gundams: the Arios Gundam Ascalon, the Cherudim Gundam SAGA, and the Seravee Gundam GNHW/3G.  I have both the Ascalon and SAGA and have pre-ordered the GNHW/3G (which is a Tamashii Web Shop exclusive).  Don’t you agree that these variations are so much cooler than their regular counterparts?

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Laevatein goes to NYCC! A-side

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Oct 312011
 

Greetings Moar Powah, like many of the writers here, I too went to Comic Con, and I too have a few things to say about it. I must apologize for being the last person to get my thoughts out, as I’ve been pretty busy ever since I got back. I also must apologize for the lack of photos, since I still don’t have a working camera. That being said, I do have some things that many of you would be interested in.

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Mecha Monday Week: Robot Damashii

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Sep 292011
 

Robot Damashii Festival 2011...wish I was there

It’s time for Thursday post in the special “Week of Mecha Monday” series! Today we’ll be looking at the Robot Damashii figure line.  Robot Damashii is Bandai’s line of articulated figures like Kaiyodo’s Revoltech line and Max Factory’s figma line.  Like the same suggests, the line focuses on robots.  Most of the line features mobile suits from different Gundam shows, but there are also figures featuring mechs from Code Geass, Soukyuu no Fafner, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Full Metal Panic, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Eureka Seven, Macross Frontier, Zegapain, Star Driver, Heroman, and Gun x Sword.  There are some really great mech figures in this line, and my brothers and I are avid collectors.  As you can see from the picture below, the Tallgeese III I ordered finally arrived.  Some of my favorites that I own include the Sinanju, Cherudim Gundam (and the SAGA version), Seravee Gundam, the original Gundam, and the Laevatein.  The Laevatein, Arbalest, and Falke are the only non-mobile suit Robot Damashii I own.  My youngest brother has a lot of the Code Geass mechs.  So far, the only future releases that are up for sale that I’ve pre-ordered are the Gouf Custom and Strike Rouge IWSP. For a full list (well almost full) of all the Robot Damashii, click here.  You can order them at the usual retailers like amiami, HLJ, or Hobbysearch; some of them are online exclusives, which must be ordered through proxy services like Yokatta or Tokyo-Hunter.

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