Just waiting for the announcement of the first season pass. I’m on the fence at the moment, but if bearded collies are included, then instabuy it is.

The corgi animation is spot on, indeed.

For JR announcement lovers...

That’s why you should always trust Jason...

It stands for PlayStation Vita... ;)

The Hankyu fare from Kyoto Kawaramachi to Osaka Umeda (the two terminal stations) is 400 JPY, a little under 3.20 € or over 3.50 US$. And the regular trains are rather nice too, by European commuter train standards!

Just so you know, the Vatican does not own Notre-Dame, the French government does.

Er, subconsciously maybe...

I met a rude sponge once, it was so self-absorbed...

Starred for Shadow Hearts. Honestly, if there’s an RPG series that deserves a remaster, that’s SH. It was a roller-coaster of a JRPG, really, both dark and fun, and the judgement ring was the best gameplay mechanic to ever grace such a game (I sometimes fantasise over a combo Persona + judgement ring...).

Fully agreed. There was something deeply satisfying with the pace of the fights of DOA2, where you could actually feel when the time was right to parry, or move on with the combo. I came back to DOA with DOA5, and boy, did it feel like a speed contest. Or I just suck at faster fighting games (I do!).

Thanks for adding some extra meaning to the title of Kim Ki-duk’s film, 섬 (or The Isle)!

Thanks for the tip!

I started playing with a Magnavox Odyssey² (a.k.a. a Philips Videopac, here). And no, it was not called retrogaming back then. Feeling better now?

We’ve had a modern version on the PS3... Alas.

You are oh so right. Guns don’t kill people, that’s a fact.

I also have fond memories of Yakuza 2. One of two years after I played it, I went to Osaka for the very first time, and it just felt like I had already been there.

Yakuza 3 was quite good, imho, and I can’t see why it’s considered the worst installment in the series.

Nanomachines.

Being French, saying that cheese is popular in Japan (I wont’ speak for the rest of Asia) is a little exaggerated, but in every convenience store, you can find a small section that always feature so-called ‘camembert’, some plastic slices (OK, that’s cheese, technically), packed in individual sleeves, some…