I was pretty underwhelmed by the whole thing, to be honest.

Your first reaction is this and NOT seeing this classic scene?

Sigh...
I played Kenzan! with a friend reading off a walk-through, because neither of us knows any bit of Japanese (aside from myself barely able to read "yes" and "no" and katakana-ized english)... and I still loved the game. A lot.

I would love Kenzan! got localized with english subtitles... (last thing we need is…

I love this game.. definitely one of my favorites. At least it was when it came out.
Love the simplicity of the combat yet the high challenge and difficulty... The parrying system was really cool, too.
The co-op makes it infinitely better, too.
Worked well on the GCN controller, too, haha.

AC3 was lacking a lot of polish (especially considering it's supposed to be a AAA/top tier game). Both in gameplay AND storyline.

Definitely.

Very nice... it's like Left 4 Dead versus mode, but in Demon's Souls style.

Oh, another steaming pile of shit from Bioware?! Ya don't say!

Clearly Bioware only cares about the dollar and not the fan (I even got that impression on their reaction to the DA:O DLC hate storm in how they willingly (and enthusiastically) took the blame off of EA.)

Wait... I thought Kojima had said that Peace Walker was "basically MGS5"? WTF?

Nice.

Yeah, the Superbrothers stages I loved, but I didn't really... hear the music, haha... the different objects that made noise were great, though.

The game was neat, sadly I felt like the only album that maximized the potential of the game was this one, with Beck music (I forget who did the level design).

Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more.

Hahaha, yeah... I totally concur.

Oh, the dollar amounts definitely are spot on... I'll never forget that part. It's in USD, but that's all that could be questioned about it. =P

Haha, no. Actually, its the Bayshore Mall on Long Island.

I BELIEVE it was Blockbuster... because I think the other places I rented from as a kid only carried NES... or at least were terrible about the SNES games (selection and acquisition speed) they carried.

I remember being (I think) ~11 years old. I think it was summer '95.