Sunday, January 18, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
(DVD) Justice League: The New Frontier
I finally got this (Thanks Bernie!!!)
Yes, I had to get her to get it from Australia all the way back.
Local Stores didn't stock this on shelf and they didn't have any of those DC Animated Video DVDs in abundance until recently with Batman: Gotham Knight & Superman : Doomsday.
Guess the stock purchaser made their own judgement on this title. After all, the Darwyn Cooke art style is good enough to make them think it's a Hard to Sell title. Indeed it's not stylistic in comparison to perhaps Anime or the Justice League Animated Series. Still the charm of the book lies in Darwyn Cooke's art. In their defense, they did put out a VCD (with a slightly attractive cover) that didn't came with the extras.
The Animation is slick and good. While there is some attempt to do a faithful page to frame translation, some changes were made and I am not sure if it was made in favour to the movie. They tone down on the political issues but they kept the Vietnam S vs W/Man vs Woman scene.
Lucy Lawless did good on the "Big" Wonder Woman. I can't say if it's all good with the other good "celebrity" voice actors however I felt it was a vast improvement over Superman Doomsday. In fact to a certain amount, New Frontier was better than the "Anime" Dark Knight.
The animation did outstandingly best at the closing epilogue of the book which is the clip that follows.
Yes, I had to get her to get it from Australia all the way back.
Local Stores didn't stock this on shelf and they didn't have any of those DC Animated Video DVDs in abundance until recently with Batman: Gotham Knight & Superman : Doomsday.
Guess the stock purchaser made their own judgement on this title. After all, the Darwyn Cooke art style is good enough to make them think it's a Hard to Sell title. Indeed it's not stylistic in comparison to perhaps Anime or the Justice League Animated Series. Still the charm of the book lies in Darwyn Cooke's art. In their defense, they did put out a VCD (with a slightly attractive cover) that didn't came with the extras.
The Animation is slick and good. While there is some attempt to do a faithful page to frame translation, some changes were made and I am not sure if it was made in favour to the movie. They tone down on the political issues but they kept the Vietnam S vs W/Man vs Woman scene.
Lucy Lawless did good on the "Big" Wonder Woman. I can't say if it's all good with the other good "celebrity" voice actors however I felt it was a vast improvement over Superman Doomsday. In fact to a certain amount, New Frontier was better than the "Anime" Dark Knight.
The animation did outstandingly best at the closing epilogue of the book which is the clip that follows.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
(NDS) The World Ends with You
One of my (non-posted) resolutions for the year is to try to reach a certain level of completion for all the NDS games I had in my possession (Especially for the RPG stuff). Thank God I didn't had something the likes of R4, otherwise it will be a real tall order.
I bought The World Ends with You in december. Yup I was playing Children of Mana back then but it seems to go endless with the missions.
The basic plot of the game revolves the location of Shibuya. If anyone watch Sh15uya (Shibuya Fifteen) and Kamen Rider Ryuki , that's about that kind of twist and turn. Unlike these two Tokusetsu series, TWEwY is more gripping and resolves fairly well. The game really lives to the notion of "Living to what you want, how you want" or something like that as quoted by Mr. H (an important NPC in the game). Generally, the game already allows you to play with you setting up the difficulty (affecting the drop items) and your level (affecting the drop rate) in the midst of the other player settings (like combat/item settings). While the scenarios are preset, the player is pretty much left to choose Encounters and several small tweaks to the subplot/quests. Dual Screen combat is crazy and difficult? Let the com handle your top screen! (althought it's just either hitting X or B).
Engaging and yet it's easy to put the game down (you earn level points for Pins, the primary combat items when the game is on shutdown), it makes a good game on the go (but don't miss your stop!) once you master it, of course. (there's complaints of Steep Learning Curve? I thought all the necessary literatures provided in-game and manual. Wouldn't kill to read, so just read?)
I bought The World Ends with You in december. Yup I was playing Children of Mana back then but it seems to go endless with the missions.
The basic plot of the game revolves the location of Shibuya. If anyone watch Sh15uya (Shibuya Fifteen) and Kamen Rider Ryuki , that's about that kind of twist and turn. Unlike these two Tokusetsu series, TWEwY is more gripping and resolves fairly well. The game really lives to the notion of "Living to what you want, how you want" or something like that as quoted by Mr. H (an important NPC in the game). Generally, the game already allows you to play with you setting up the difficulty (affecting the drop items) and your level (affecting the drop rate) in the midst of the other player settings (like combat/item settings). While the scenarios are preset, the player is pretty much left to choose Encounters and several small tweaks to the subplot/quests. Dual Screen combat is crazy and difficult? Let the com handle your top screen! (althought it's just either hitting X or B).
Engaging and yet it's easy to put the game down (you earn level points for Pins, the primary combat items when the game is on shutdown), it makes a good game on the go (but don't miss your stop!) once you master it, of course. (there's complaints of Steep Learning Curve? I thought all the necessary literatures provided in-game and manual. Wouldn't kill to read, so just read?)
Welcome to 2009!
Even when it's the 4th Day of 2009!
The First post of the Year is certainly without the compulsory New Year Resolution. So here are the resolutions....
1) I will not be Late for Work
(I am already late for work)
2) I will not sleep Late
(Too late. I slept at 3am on 01/01/2009!!!)
3) I will not over eat.
(Been there. Done that)
4) I will not snack after 11pm
(Over with already)
5) I will exercise
(Barely started)
6) Type more entries in this Blog
(I am doing already)
7) Clearing and Giving away stuffs
(Already packing)
8) Buying less DVD and Manga and stuffs
(I just bought DMC Vol.6 and 4 other DVDs........)
9) Keeping my living space neat and tidy
(I do that.....next saturday....haha)
There. My easier to accomplish Resolutions. I mean, everyone had to be realistic and be less demanding on ourselves. 2009 will be a rough year with all that recession, wars and natural disasters coming in. So all the best, people and I can assure you all that we can survive these 'cos we came a long way.
To the Infinity and Beyond!
The First post of the Year is certainly without the compulsory New Year Resolution. So here are the resolutions....
1) I will not be Late for Work
(I am already late for work)
2) I will not sleep Late
(Too late. I slept at 3am on 01/01/2009!!!)
3) I will not over eat.
(Been there. Done that)
4) I will not snack after 11pm
(Over with already)
5) I will exercise
(Barely started)
6) Type more entries in this Blog
(I am doing already)
7) Clearing and Giving away stuffs
(Already packing)
8) Buying less DVD and Manga and stuffs
(I just bought DMC Vol.6 and 4 other DVDs........)
9) Keeping my living space neat and tidy
(I do that.....next saturday....haha)
There. My easier to accomplish Resolutions. I mean, everyone had to be realistic and be less demanding on ourselves. 2009 will be a rough year with all that recession, wars and natural disasters coming in. So all the best, people and I can assure you all that we can survive these 'cos we came a long way.
To the Infinity and Beyond!
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