I guess it depends on what "cartoony" means to you — I mean stuff like Squash & Stretch, Face Faults, or the kind of bonkers key frames Gainax's A-team loves to pull. Maybe I'm just desensitized, but shows like Dennou Coil or Anohana or Makoto Shinkai's movies don't register as cartoony for me, but I still enjoy their…
"the creative team behind the Japanese Supernatural never satisfactorily proves why this series needed to be rendered in pen and ink."
I was gonna post pretty much the same thing. Crom laughs at the B+. He laughs from a mountain.
I like recent Black Milk, after he stopped being a Guilty Simpson-tier rapper. But he's still a million miles away from Royce, both from a lyrical and technical point of view.
What? No. Please listen to Death Is Certain again. Thematically coherent, technically excellent, all around amazing. One of the best and most honest Hip-Hop albums of the '00s. Royce is no Busta Rhymes.
Good for Royce
I guess it's cool he has a somewhat more positive outlook on life now, except I think I like "Death is Certain" a whole lot better. I had no idea there was a new Bad Meets Evil, I should probably look that up.
I did hear about the game, got excited for a second, played the demo and the review seems pretty spot-on. Really uninspired stuff.
I'm still gonna get it. I've been hyped for this for a while now, and plenty of sorta-respectable publications say it's awesome. Tom Bramwell said "Some of the levels are some of the best gaming I've ever experienced" or something in the latest Eurogamer podcast, which is the kind of ludicrous instant beatification I…
@Pheeze, that might actually not be your fault. You really need to open that one in a fresh browser instance with enough free system resources. I think what happens in Time Paradox is, even if the game slows down, the ingame clock will keep sync with real world time.
Jamestown
Finally I can play a shmup with my PC loving, but MAME averse friends. The continue service is pretty brilliant as well, since weak players can't game over the entire team by themselves. Cave veterans might balk and call it Baby's First Bullet Hell, and that might be correct, but it's not something I'd hold…
I got BttF, but apart from that only small games: Flight Control HD, Zen Bound 2 and Shatter. I've got way too many games right now anyway, I really shouldn't get into something like Shogun 2.
Thread where we agree
Come on, Telltale, when you churn out an episode a month for about 5 bucks a piece, re-use of assets is completely acceptable. But this thing took a whole year to be released, costs twice as much and lasts about half as long as the average Sam & Max. That's not cool. Didn't like the shift from…
I'm probably late, but whatever: Try the BEST30 collections, which compile the 30 most successful Japanese songs of each year on two discs. Since you're asking because of this song, start with the 70's where you can find some quite similar stuff. Also, the hit/miss-ratio on the 70's discs is much better than on the…
Wasn't that Contact game a collaboration between Grasshopper and Akira Ueda? Also, is it any good?
Also, hasn't tea-flavored gum been around for ages? Usually advertised as being good for your teeth because of flavinoids or whatever.
I read 69 and thought it was very entertaining. I mean, it's a fairly typical "…and that's when we discovered American Rock&Roll and boobies" coming-of-age thing that seems to be a whole subgenre in Japan, but it's definitely enjoyable. The movie's actually good, too: It's nearly 2 hours for a 200 page book, so it's…
That had me wondering as well. When I put on Donny Hathaway, it's pretty much always "Live".
It's a tie between Norwegian Wood and Hitchhiker's Guide for me. I'll probably watch the Norwegian Wood movie eventually, but it's gonna feel so very weird.
Rap! And non-english stuff
2001 birthed one of rap's all-time best boasts: "Battling Chino is like Africa, yeah niggas talk about it, but you don't really wanna go there", from Chino XL's I Told You So.
Blueprint is the superior album for me, but talking about it without at least acknowledging Stillmatic, and thereby…