Mega Man 9!!

Lt Gen Oohlala reporting in for a somewhat review of Mega Man 9!!

So after i bought the stupid LAN adapter for my Wii, & it did not work when i tried. Unbeliveable. I mean, i have an ethernet cable hooked to Gladiss [Yes, my laptop has a name] right now & it completely works. For some reason, when i tried it on my Wii, it always had an error for the connection test. After about 3 hours of fiddling around with the machine, LAN adapter, & cable, i decided to steal a wireless connection.

I actually found an unprotected wireless signal & it was able to pass the connection test. ^-^.

However, i was unable to access the Wii Shoping Channel because the signal was too weak. T-T.

After drying my frustration induced tears, i tried to actually use the wireless router i have to create a wireless signal. Did not work. I could not even get Gladiss to read the signal, nor the Wii. As i was ready to throw the router against the wall, i saw the back had more ethernet ports, allowing for the router to also act as a wired router. Deciding it was worth a try, i tried it.

It worked. 0.O.

I was dumbstruck. All this hassel & tribulaitons, & something worked. As i put my pants, soiled from sheer elation, into the washer, i was thinking of what other game i should buy. Running accross the sheer distance between the washing room & my sleeping room [all 5 steps], i decided to browse the selection; after buying Mega Man 9. Looking around, i decided on Phantsy Star 2, because Wikipedia said it was considered as a classic of RPG, a class of videogames i really do love. Now, the same is said of Chrono Trigger, which i hate. Guess what my analyses of Phatasy Star 2 is.

So, after downloading them, i held my Wiimote sidewards, & started to play Mega Man 9. It felt like the freaking Odyssey to get to this point. After a cheesy intro about Dr Light being framed for the robots going loco, i started to control my little blue Mega Man onward on a quest for domination!!

By domination i mean epic failure. I suck so hard at the game i might as well be playing it with my hands cut off. I died, & died, & died. Lamesauce.

Now, to be fair, many considered the difficulty as par for the course when it comes to classic Mega Man. Or so the Happy Video Game Nerd proclaims. I however, a fan of puzzling non~quicktime RPG, found the game to be more than difficult as my fingers could not move fast enough to dodge the insane amount of enemies & obstacles [I officaly hate Concrete Man's level]. However, i did feel that the controls were very tight & most of the time i died was because of my arthrits ridden hands.

Though, i could not help to think that a few areas should be improved upon. In Tornado Man's stage, it involves a large amount of precise jumps. Now, while i sucked elephant testicles at this the first few go thrus, i soon was able to master the jumping parts after the 200th time i died. However, i would have appreciated it if instead of dying when i fell, that perchance the level could be designed where there was ground underneath, but i had to go all the way to the beginning of the jumps to try again. Dying so many times learning to do the jumps is so dishearting, i turned off my Wii in frustation quite a few times.

Another area is hit detection. While tight, i think the enemy should take damage from touching Mega Man, not just the other way around. It makes no sense. Why is it that Tornado Man or Galaxy Man can touch Mega Man & hurt him, but not the other way around? Does Mega Man have some design flaw that anything that touches him causes damage? It makes him seem like a whimp. & the spikes!! He is a freaking robot & he cannot touch spikes?? Did Dr Light make him out of some cheap ass discount metal that is so easily damaged?? Most illogical.

However, besides these minor gripes, the game was good. I have only been able to beat Galaxy Man, though i have fought Tornade Man multiple times i have not blown his ass away [that sounds so wrong]. So, later on i shall update on how the whole gaame is once/if i defeat it. ^-^.

On a special report, i have made no progress on the funkied game i talked about last report. I still cannot Up! Right! Left! Down! Chu! Chu! Chu! my way thru the idiotically funky giant robot. But i shall try!!

That is all for this report, Astrobastards!!
'Till next time, this is Lt Gen Oohlala signing off!!

Wii & The Vexxing LAN Adapter!!

Lt Gen Oohlala reporting in for another report!!
This time it is about the WIi & its internet connectivity.

Ever since i watched a review about Megaman9 [ CLICK HERE TO SEE HVGN REVIEW ], i have desired to play it. Now, for a while i knew about the Wii's online play. However, i have not really been one to care much about. I did not even buy my Wii till about a few months ago. Now, however, i decided i wanted to download a few games because i thought it was fun; & with the Virtual Console, you could buy old old NES, Super Nintendo, N64, & Gamecube games for your Wii. Granted, you have to store the games on your Wii, but a couple of games i doubt will cause much of a storage issuse. Besides, they sell memory cards to handle such issues; though i would prefer to have more memory on the Wii standard.

Anyways, i found out that you buy games on the Wii system buy using Wii or Nintendo Points [NP]. NP is a currency, like Microsoft Points; it basically replaces actually money with points. I personally love this idea. I do not like to use credit cards to buy things online. With NP, you can buy cards at stores that have set amounts of NP, 2,000NP at GameStop is like 20$ & 50cents or so. You just entre the pin numbre on the back of the card when shopping on the Wii shop channel, then you have the points registered to your Wii; no need to create an account or anything. ^-^.

Excited, i dropped by my local GameStop & bought a 2,000NP card to buy MegaMan9, & maybe use the extra NP to try out some older games [Super Mario Brothers 3 or Phantasy Star 2]. So, excited as i was, i made sure to ask the clerk about the basics of using NP. He said you just put in the code, you get the NP added to your system, then you can download games. Sweetness. Delighted, i left & enjoyed my outings with "friends".

After that i got home, & ran/walked quickly to my Wii & looked for where to connect my ethernet cable. Sadness clouded my eyes as i saw NO ETHERNET PORT on the Wii. Sad, i looked online to see why this was & found out the only ways to connect the Wii to the net was to either use a wireless internet connection or to use a USB~Ethernet adapter.

Let me pose this question: WHY THE HELL HAVE SUCH A LOVELY INTERNET SITE FOR SHOPPING & BUYING GAMES IF THERE IS NO DAMN ETHERNET PORT ON THE MACHINE??? I was frustrated beyond belief. I mean, the Wii has a port for 4 GameCube controllers, ports for memory cards, & 2 USB ports on the back of it; is there really any reason not to have an ethernet port on it??? Was it so hard to do so??? The developers already knew that online was a major part of the gaming business. Xbox live already existed & was used by they Xbox 360, which debuted a year before the Wii. Seriously, Nintendo should have forseen that the Wii would have to compete with Xbox live. Why not have an ethernet port??? The Xbox 360 has an ethernet cable [except for the Arcade version]. It is erking beyond belief for the Wii not to have it. It has wireless internet abilities, would it have been so hard to fricking add a wired connection standard????

I know what all of you are thinking: why not just get a wireless router??? Well, i have one. It sits next to me as i type this. However, due to personal reasons, mostly resulting from the irrational fear of people possibly using our wireless connection to send illegal pornographic material accross the net deeply held by my living companion, i cannot use it [do not ask why they have this fear, i doubt they could explain it themselves]. Thus, i had to go thru a huge hassel to get a wire long enough to get from the main computer to my room, then nail the wire along the wall so it would not get in the way. Such a pain in the ass. Though worth it because i now no longer require to get my sexxily toned ass out of bed to check my FB; but vexxing as hell because i cannot use the Wii points i just bought. THus, i have to spend 25$ just to connect my Wii to the net. T-T.



On a more positive, & all together more sexxy note, i am working on the video game where my & the blog's name come from. ^-^. Just working on the last boss. Be sure to tune in to see that review.

Okay, Cosmic Kittens, that is all for today.
This is Lt Gen Oohlala signing off!!

Tatsunoko VS Capcom!!!

Hello readers, Lt Gen Oohlala reporting in for a gaming update about Tatsunoko VS Capcom [reffered to as TvsC cause i am too lazy to type the whole thing out]!!!

I will you have know that i am quite the fan of 2D fighters. Super Smash Brothers Brawls is an awesomelicious game that filled mulitple hours of my life [though most fun either playing against friends or the 1st run thru of the SubSpace Embassy mode]. However, one of my favourite fighting games i remember fondly as a kid was Marvel VS Capcom on the old arcade machines. I always bolted for that machine at the arcade [that & a game where you control a mech in a machine designed to look like a fighter pilot seat; you controled your character with joysticks; does it ring any bells??? I forgot the title. 0.O]. I loved playing as Rouge & Morrigan; classic childhood memories.

So naturally, when i heard that another VS Capcom game would be hitting the Wii, i nearly wet myself. Sexxy i know. However, i was fretting that it would be a Wii download only; which depresses me due to personal reasons & deep seatted [sp?] fears implanted into me by my mother concerning internet saftey & hackers, do not use the Wii Virtual Console or such. Though, if the game EarthBound [ EarthBound HVGN review] were on it i might just start downloading. That & i am dying to play Megaman9. First. Female. Robot. Master. ^-^. Well, besides Roll...

Anyways, that game does not have a release date, but will apparently be playable at E3.

Now, for those of you who are savvy with the latest gaming news will already be aware that Tatsunoko VS Capcom was released in Japan in December 2008. The suprise about the game is that Capcom said a U.S., or anywhere else, release would most likely not happen. The reason is that the characters in the Tatsunoko part are ownded by different companies outside of Japan & putting them in a game would require huge effort for the owners of the characters to agree to the game. However, Capcom seems to have accomplished that & i cannot wait to get my hands on this game. Since the game is already out in Japan, i am assuming that the game would be realse before the close of the year. So, keep your fingers crossed.

Below is what i think the opening of the game might be. Epic. I love how the female characters are not really fighting; Morrigan & some bat girl are having a staring contest.




That is all for today, Groove Kittens.
Tune in next time: Same sexxy webpage, same sexxy time.
Lt Gen Oohala signing off!!!


Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsunoko_vs._Capcom
http://www.virginmedia.com/games/gamingnews/news-story.php?storyid=38695659

Outlaw Star.

Lt. Gen. Oohlala signing in for another report!!

Today's report will cover the anime space opera Outlaw Star!!

This anime followers Gene Starwind's & Jim Hawking. Gene [red head] is a 2o something womanizer who drinks too much & loves a good fight. Jim [blonde] is an 11 year old computer expert who takes of the money? Money? Yes, Gene & Jim run Starwind & Hawking, a company that fixes anything from tracktors to relationships; or so Jim says whenever he answers the phone. Now, i think it is sligtly weird that Jim, an 11 year old, is a business partner & the smarter one out of the bunch. Gene most does bounty hunts & physical jobs while Jim, as master mechanic as well, handles car repairs & such.

Anyways, the story starts off with Gene taking out a bounty on his homeplant of Sentinel 3, a frontier town in some distant edge of space. Eventually, Jim gets a call about a customer, Rachel Sweet, who wants a bodygaurd and a number of high priced and rare mechanical parts. After Gene & Jim are chased down by the space pirates called Kei Pirates, who weild Tao magic, Miss Sweet reveals herself as Hilda, an outlaw who stole a very special ship and nagivation system from them. The ship is the XGP & the navigation system is a bio-andriod called Melfina. Gene & Jim, now a target of Kei Pirates, join Hilda & Melfina as they fly off into space to find the XGP. They stop at Blue Heaven for refueling, then leave for Farfallas planetary system, where Hilda hid the XGP.

However, once they get to the ship, the Kei Pirates [traking thier movement with a Tao spell] launch an attack. Melfina, Gene, & Jim are able to leave Hilda's ship and get inside the XGP. Hilda detonates an explosive in her tooth to save them from death by Tao spell. Gene names the ship the Outlaw Star ["Outlaws never go down easy, no matter what happens to them," is the last Hilda says before she dies, so i like to think of the name of the ship as a tribute to her] & leaves back for Blue Heaven. Afterwards, the Outlaw Star flys out in space to encounter varies peoples & experiences, eventually gaining 2 new members, Twilight Suzuka [an Ultra Class A assassin who weilds a deadly wooden sword who wears a very flattering white kimo outfit] and Asiha Clanclan [a catgirl (Kutarokutaro) who has the brains of a child but the strength of 10+ men]; all while trying to avoid the Kei Pirates who want their ship & Melfina back as well as a pair of thugs for hire who wante personal revengence on Gene.

I remember seeing this anime back when i was like 5th & 6th grade, so i was delighted when i saw the entire series on dvd at BestBuy [40$]. The show is awesomeliciousness, however after doing some research i found that, like in every anime in existance, there is a major difference between its American & Japanese version. Now, Outlaw Star ran on Toonami [which sadly is no longer running on CartoonNetwork] when i saw it on 5th/6th grade. As such, i do not really remember the exact difference from when i watched just a couple of weeks ago. However, according to the all powerful Wikipedia, the Toonami version had some differences.

To the right is a picture of Melfina's versions. In the original anime [left], Melfina is naked a good portion of the anime. The Toonami version [right, duh] has her wearing a bra & tight shorts. This is an understable atleration; after all the original was marketed an older audience while Toonami was pushing this on children. [This issue of differen audiences will be addressed in an upcoming report about the differences in anime from Original to U.S. versions]. Melfina is naked for a good portion of the show because when she is navigating the Outlaw Star, she is in giant glass tube floating in some liquid. While in here, she interacts directly with the ship mainframe & can guide the ship, detect enemy fire, as well as keep track of all coponents of the ships. From what i can gather this liquid as act a medium device betweeen the ship & her; Melfina cannot access the ship directly unless she is in that tube. Because of this, she has to naked, exposing the most amount of skin to the liquid of a better connection. While in the tube, her arms cross covering her breats while a metal casing around the tube covering her groin. But here, adding clothing is not so much of a bad alteration, it does not really take away from anything. I still like it better when she is naked because it makes more sense & that is how it was originally, but whatever.

Another alteration was Fred Luo. He is an arms dealer who has a major crush on Gene [His bodygaurd tells Gene he only gets discounts & loans because his boss loves him]. Gene & Jim are slgihtly uncomfortable with this, as Fred drowns them in hugs & always sit extremely close to Gene. My favouite Fred scene is when Gene comes to him to ask to borrow to enter a space race. Fred says yes, if he something "special" for him. They look at each for a few seconds & Gene says "I'm not sleeping with you." It is funny as hell to watch [FYi: Fred wanted Gene to wear this frilly stupid outfit to promote his business the Outlaw finished the race]. However, for the Toonami, his amourous ways were toned down, again for the kiddies. This alteration does affect the show a little bit, since Fred's gay ways were a source of hurmour for the show, but Fred was a minor character so it did not really impact the show heavily.

The most dramatic, & stupid, alteration was the changing of violence. Now, it is common for animes in the U.S. & Toonami to edit out blood in animes. However, this went far beyond it. The show editted out the part where Hilda commits suicide to save Gene, Jim, & Melfina. The Toonami version makes it seem like she disappeared into the sun. Hilda is a significant character in the anime. She set up the stage where Gene& Jim meet up with Melfina & gain the Outlaw Star. She died with dignity, saving people. The Toonami took that out; i find it disgraceful for the character. Another thing was they attempted to edit out that Suzuka was an assassin, which is hard to do because she mentions it a lot. I do not remember the Toonami verion very much, but it is kind of hard to edit out her profession. Gene & Jim first meet Suzuka when she trying to kill Fred Luo, being hired by a rival weapons dealer. Jim mentions how uncomfortble he is whith her on the ship; Gene only saved Fred's life by making a pact with Suzuka that she must Gene before she can kill Fred.

In light of this, i suggest buying this anime on dvd; the dvd version is unaltered [they even show Aisha's nipples during a hot springs scene]. The dub is not bad, though no where as good as Lucky☆Star. There were a few sentences that i winced at, however the dub was goodl; each voice represented the characters well.

Overall, i give this action packed, western space opera 5 Lucky☆Stars out of 5:

☆☆☆☆☆.

Till next time, Galatic Groove Kittens,

This is Lt. Gen. Oohlala signing off!!

Where i got my info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_Star

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Outlaw_Star_characters#Melfina

Lucky☆Star!!

Let us start things off right with an anime review!! Luck☆Star is one of my favourite animes; i actually spent 30 minutes debating about whether to buy the DVDs at BestBuy. Sadly, being broke, it was really a waste of 30 minutes. Anyways, the story follows the lives of 4 high school girls.





Tsucasa, Konata, Kagami, & Miyuki, as seen to the right, are the lucky stars of Lucky☆Star [shut up, it punny]. They go through high school, & eventually meet up with a few other girls. The main reason to watch this anime, besides the exceedingly cute graphics, is the humor. Tsucasa & Kagami are sisters, but polar opposites. Tsucasa is an air head who's highest grade on a test is a C but an excellent cook, while Kagami is a serious A-/B+ student that cannot cook to save her life. Miyuki is a brillant student, easily the top ranked student all throughout high school, but is even more of an air head than Tsucasa, often missing bus stops cause her nose was too deep in a book. Konata, the luckiest as she is the main, main character [if that makes sense], is an otaku, lover of manga & anime, who plays adult pornographic games that her fathers buys her. It is less creepy that it sounds [but not by much].

The anime was actually based off a manga, shocking i know; especially when you consider nearly every single anime is based off a manga. Anyways, Lucky☆Star started off a 4 panel comic strip in Comptiq magazine in Japan. It then got put in manga form, which made its way to anime. If you look at some of the gags in the anime, you will notice it takes on a sort of 4 frame thing. One scene is when all 4 girls on a trip & are talking about they have trouble sleeping away from home. Tsucasa says she cannot sleep without her alarm clock so she brought it along with her [which makes no sense cause she is always sleeping in late, so either she does not hear it or it is the world's worst alarm clock]. Miyuki admits that she cannot sleep without her favourite pillow, which she brought. Konata reveals that she cannot past a day without playing on her DS, which she brought.

The best & most shocking thing about this whole anime is that it has the best offical dubbing i have ever heard for anime. The characters sound exactly like they should; it is shocking. I found myself watching the English version more than the subbed Japanese version. This is a rare case, as most people who watch anime know. Another impressive thing is that it was just dubbed, none of the Japanese related content was removed or covered to make it more acceptable to Americans. It was refreshing to see.

So, over all i whole hearted give this anime 5 lucky stars out of five:
☆☆☆☆☆

That concludes this report!!

Lt. Gen. Oohlala, signing off!!


& yes, my profile pic. is of Miyuki [favourite character ^-^.]