The Lord of the Rings: Conquest playable demo

So I turned on my Xbox 360, automatically connected to Xbox Live and saw a list of new free-to-download content, one of which were a playable demo of Electronic Arts’ and Pandemic Studios’ coming game The Lord of The Rings: Conquest which I decided to download and check out at a later time. The latter time has come and I’m currently playing through the single-player tutorial stage. So far I have gotten to the second post where I can switch control to scout instead of archer or warrior and I have to say that this looks like a great game, even though it’s based on something else (let’s face facts, the best games out there are games created originally to be just games). If you like strategic games and/or MMORPGs, I definitely think you should check out this game, or at least a demo of it to see if it’s really something for you. Well then, now I’m gonna sneak around with my scout and hopefully get control over a mage quite soon!

Should I get it for the Xbox 360 or the PC? Or the Nintendo DS, maybe?

Actually (please read the image caption above), should I even get it at all? I think I’m gonna finish this demo before I decide that, but yeah, it is tempting so far. BTW, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest will be available for the Xbox 360, the PC, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 3 as of its release January 16, 2009 – next friday! For you in North America the game will be released this tuesday, January 13.

Fear the might of the walking trees!

Vampire Knight Guilty – Complete

Wow… I actually watched through half a year of anime in two days. Vampire Knight’s 13 episodes and Vampire Knight Guilty’s 13 episodes makes 26 episodes total, or, if you will, 26 weeks – half a year. As I said in my last post, both Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty are definitely worth watching, female or not. Now, go watch Vampire Knight.

The romance part did not end up as I had hoped it would...

And yes, I promise I will return to actual news tomorrow! Or maybe later tonight, who knows…

Vampire Knight – Complete

Yes, some news have started showing up again and I promise I will write about them later, but now I’m just here to leave a quick note about the awesomeness that is Vampire Knight. Yesterday I watched episodes 2 through 12 of Vampire Knight, having already seen the first episode earlier, and today I watched the 13th – and final – episode of the first season. Even if you don’t like shoujo anime in general, Vampire Knight (and Full Moon wo Sagashite) is a must for the anime watcher, female or not.

"A sweet dream has not ended yet."

I haven’t got an opinion for the other season (Vampire Knight Guilty) yet, but that is simply because I haven’t seen it yet.

Hyakko – Complete

Thirteen episodes later and I’m finished with Hyakko, one of the most hilarious shows I have ever watched. As always I’m not much of a reviewer, but I’ve got some pictures that won’t spoil the ending for you, just for fun and to fill out this post, and my words of gratitude and recommendation. If you have missed Hyakko during the previous anime season and think it’s too late, then you’re wrong – no matter how many years passes you simply have to see Hyakko. I guarantee you, you will laugh your asses off!

Why aren't these two in the anime more often?

Kurokami – Episode 1

The new winter anime season has started and so far five new shows have started – or at least that’s the number of shows I’ve yet decided check out. The first contender for 2009 is Kurokami, or Black God, based on the korean manga (yes, not “manhwa”) by Dall-Young Lim and Sung-Woo Park, who, funnily but totally irrelevant, made his debut the year I was born, 1993.

The first episode starts with the main character in a puddle of blood. Why?

As always, I suck at making reviews on anything, really, so I’ll try to keep this short; maybe it will make a little sense. The first episode of Kurokami begins with Keita Ibuki (伊吹慶太, Ibuki Keita) riding his bike through the part of Japan where he lives- no wait, that’s not the beginning. Sorry, have been fixing some other stuff since I watched the episode… Anyway, the first episode of Kurokami starts out with Keita Ibuki lying dead on the ground, blood filling the canvas that is the ground his dead body lies on. This may sound like a spoiler, what I just said, but since it is the absolute first thing that happens you were going to find out about it as soon as you watched the episode yourself and can’t really be considered a huge spoiler. After we see Keita’s dead body and (supposedly) his blood  on the ground we get to see the girl that later introduces herself as “Kuro” (meaning “black” in Japanese), fleeing from some unidentified men in black costumes, followed by a woman with long orange hair riding the train. She is talking on the phone with Keita and to not make this a complete summary of exactly everything that happens in this episode I will stop talking right now.

It's Kuro!

I must say, this review seems to being going quite OK, at least for being one of my reviews. Maybe? Anyway, when I first started watching this episode I thought that maybe it wasn’t the same Kurokami that I had recently read the first chapter of the manga of, but something else with the same name, since, the way I recall the first manga chapter, the manga and anime weren’t even the slightest bit alike – until Keita meets Kuro and Punipuni at the ramen stand. Then I was sure it was the same story I had read earlier in an issue of Yen Plus. I have to get the manga, because everything points at this being a great manga – even though it’s created by Korean authors. Not that it’s anything wrong with that, just that Korean authors more often make “manhwa” than manga, and those two are definitely not the same thing. Man, I can’t focus on less than twenty-eight things at once… I don’t think there is much more I can write now, though, without simply giving away everything that happens in the episode, and that’s not what I’m writing this for, so I’ll just add another picture and then a gallery with pictures from the episode, if you’re interested. Oh yeah, this is definitely one of the shows from the early anime season of 2009 you have to check out!

Aaaaargh!!

What’s going on?

The first episode starts with the main character in a puddle of blood. Why?

The whole episode is a long introduction of a Japanese little town?

Going down the hill.

Still going down the hill.

Here she comes!

It’s Kuro!

What did you do to that car, Kuro?

Ignoring me, are you!?

Hey guys!

Look at this.

Now go away!

Could you buy me a Calpis, Keita-kun?

Oh, I see, so you’re ignoring me too, huh!?

An arcade? That’s original!

Did you just… try to run over me in your game? Why do you guys hate me so much! ;_;

Just get it off the internet…

I should get myself a Calpis, if you won’t. Be right back!~

When’s the new Jump coming out?

Oh hi, whatever your name was.

Don’t eat out of the trash, Pavlov!

Unfinished bridge ahead!~

This isn’t really interesting, is it?

See? I told you the bridge was unfinished…

Yeah, it’s still unfinished…

At least the lights work, though.

Aren’t they pretty? :3

OK, enough of the lights!

Doppleganger? Doppeliner? Mototsumitama? Jelly-jam?

……..

Is that…?

……..

Let’s all go to the lo–Tokyo~

Where is the hotdog guy?

“Do you have a sister?”

You seem awfully happy for no apparent reason. Do you have a reason?

“Mom, is that you’re twin sister?”

“I don’t have a…”

“…twin…?”

“Mom…?”

It’s time to wake up, Keita-kun…

WAKE UP, DAMMIT!!

Nice room. You live alone?

No one unbuttons their shirt on a locker door by accident. This is so… unreal.

It’s starting to rain. Wonderful!

Practicing baseball swings out in the rain, are you?

Wait… who are you?

Waiting for the train. How entertaining to watch.

Still waiting? Even more interesting to watch!

You realize you’re boring the viewers just now?

Kuro and Punipuni are so cute, both of them! :3

“I want ramen!”

“……..”

“It isn’t enough!?”

*drool*

……..

……..?

Aww, isn’t that nice, treating the cute girl you don’t even know. :)

You’re up to something, aren’t you, Keita?

“Hey, that’s my meat!”

OK, quite alot happened between the previous pic and this one…

You go, Punipuni!!

Fight, Kuro!

I have absolutely no idea who this dude really is, but he’s not a good guy. I guess…

Whoa, an epic moment!? :O

Aaaaargh!!

……..

That’s the end of Kurokami episode 1. :D

Naruto: The Broken Bond

I am very psyched up right now and I won’t right more than a little note. I’VE GOT NARUTO: THE BROKEN BOND! If it’s just half as good as it’s predecessor, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, then it’s totally worth $80 dollars! Well then, now I’m going to play the game all through the night. I just wish I had a good camera so I could post some nice pics for you…

Can Naruto: The Broken Bond...

...stand up to its predecessor?

EDIT: (Don’t read if you don’t know what happens after the Chuunin exam in the story yet.) After having been to the bathroom, changing pants (after a soda spill accident, not any other kind of accident) and getting some more coke I finally got to insert the game disc and start playing. At the beginning of the game the story takes of right where the story of Rise of a Ninja ended and immediately you enter a fight between the Third Hokage and Orochimaru (with his two summoned companions, the First and Second hokage) where you get to learn the basics of the game controls, followed by a sad sequence where you have to find Sakura and Sasuke (I was looking for Sasuke when I decided to share my thoughts before continuing – I just had to!) to the Sorrow and Sadness soundtrack that, accompanied with the Third’s death, always makes me cry. Waah, poor Sarutobi!

Mirror’s Edge

DICE has done it again, and this time it’s Mirror’s Edge!

Mirror’s Edge is to me, after playing the training, the prologue and the first chapter, one of the most awesome games ever! This goes up at the top together with the Fable games and Tales of Symphonia, and that’s high! You have to check out this game, Mirror’s Edge is just filled with wonderful graphics, nice gameplay, great story (so far I haven’t really found out anything, though) and horrible flash sequences – but it’s worth it!

If you shoot me, I kick you!

Did you know that …

… DICE was founded and currently has it’s headquarters here in Sweden?
… I suck at making game reviews?

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

I will write about my day in yet a bit later, I’m sorry. After I got my signed copy of Metal Gear Solid 4 I also purchased Mirror’s Edge and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game of the Year Edition with both expansions) for my Xbox 360, and the latter mentioned is the game I will talk about now.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a boring game. So far. I do not feel comfortable with the controls and the camera view should not even be discussed; however, I have only played a little bit and maybe it will become more comfortable after playing for a while. Since I haven’t played that much yet I do not have anything else to tell you but the things I have already said and that it’s very dark … too dark. And by “too dark” I mean it’s too freaking dark – I can’t see a thing, even with my torch lit! Anyway, now I’m gonna test Mirror’s Edge, and this game can’t be disappointing. Even if you say it is, I’m not listening. Mirror’s Edge will pwn, I have already decided that. I will forever keep my faith for Mirror’s Edge and Faith.

zOMG!

For a very long time I have made several attempts, every time with a new account, on being a serious Gaia Online member because friends asked me to; however, I would never stay there more than a day or two, I just couldn’t. A few weeks ago (has it really gone that long?) I made yet another new attempt (this time as “Kazeoh,” originally “Kazeou” - Rukishou and Yokaze were both taken, probably by my earlier accounts) and after making gaiaonline.com one of the tabs that come up when opening my web browser I have been able to remember I’m a member there, although I haven’t been really active. Now, though, there is a reason to be more active, and it’s called zOMG! and is a flash – no downloads – MMORPG that is actually quite fun to play – at least here where I can’t play any download-needed games. Read more about zOMG! here, and do join and play with me. No matter how boring I have always thought Gaia Online was, zOMG! is a great way for me to kill time here when I’ve got nothing else to do. The game has justed started up officially so I will consider this a “News” post.

I’m not a Gaia idiot, I’m just an idiot that has found Gaia to be a little more fun than I thought before.

Lucky Star OVA

So I finally got around to watch the Lucky Star OVA and it was not a disappointment. Even though I don’t often like OVAs and movies and non-canon work in general Lucky Star OVA was hilarious from start to finish and the Lucky Channel sequence was as fun as any of the ones shown after the actual anime episodes.

Lucky Star OVA

"JK"

Victory Pose! Can you see Minoru in the back?

Hiiragi goes Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku mode!

Keronians as pets is the latest trend. I want one!