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• 6Jun 13

  Here's Some Stuff... Why not Read it?

  Real blog later, here's some random junk.

   

  My review of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. 

   

  A worst-to-best episode countdown of the most recent season of Psych (feel free to point out any spelling/grammatical errors I made, I wrote this at like 3:00AM a few days ago).

   

  E3 is only a few days away! YEAH! I think I'm-a get up at like six in the morning to get ready early, watch the Nintendo Direct at seven, then probably get up to LA to play some E3 games! YAHOO!

   

  Burn Notice starts its seventh and final season tomorrow... Bitter-sweetness...

   

  I finally saw Le Miserables last week. Fantastic film! I loved it. I'm only sad I hadn't seen it sooner, it would have made my top films of 2012 list for sure. It was definitely the best "Oscar-type" movie of 2012 in my opinion. Javert is totally my role model.

   

  I've recently started visiting OC Remix again. Man, some of the remixes these people make are so good... I've been getting a total nostalgia trip of 2006/2007 when I used to listen to these remixes all the time. Within the next few days I hope to start figuring out Garageband so I can do some remixes of my own. I don't expect I'll make anything as good as what some of the people on OC Remix do, given my limited technical knowledge of music. But hey, I have things buzzing in my head, why not try to bring them to fruition?

   

  I recently bought the soundtrack to Nights: Into Dreams on Ebay, and should arrive by the end of the month (it's from Japan). This will be the latest addition to my ever growing collection of video game soundtracks. So far in 2013 I've already bought the soundtrack to Ocarina of Time (3DS version...it has an additional track), Donkey Kong Country Returns, Mario & Luigi: Original Sound Version and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. I don't know what it is about video game music that resonates with me so much, but I've spent years and a lot of dough building up my collection. I have the nerdiest (yet greatest) iTunes library ever!

   

  I started playing Ico for the very first time. It's very good in a lot of ways, original, artistic, engaging. But it admittedly shows its flaws more than Shadow of the Colossus. Namely, combating those shadows can get frustrating. But a great game nonetheless.

   

  And finally, I've been working on the sixth episode of The Wrestling Dead. It should be done in...a few days. I should be able to stick with my plan and end it after the seventh episode. I already have a plan for a created story in the upcoming WWE 2K14, but I won't say what it is just yet.

  • Posted Jun 6, 2013 2:32 am GMT
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• 3Jun 13

  Donkey Kong Country Censored

  Just a stupid video I made while I work on The Wrestling Dead: Episode 6 and other stuff. ...I really got to start learning that garageband, and I've been doing myself a great injustice by not spending more time on my creative writing...

   

  Oh yeah, and reviews and junk soon. Probably.

  • Posted Jun 3, 2013 2:20 am GMT
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• 1Jun 13

  Sonic: Lost World = Super Mario Galaxy 3?

  Sega's new Nintendo-exclusive entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, Sonic: Lost World, has now been more properly revealed. It would seem Nintendo has had some influence on the project, as Sonic's latest adventure seems to evoke Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel quite proudly, if the trailers are any indication.

   

  From what we've seen so far, it looks as though Sega has taken Sonic's world and stretched, expanded, and blown it up into a dream-like world not unlike that found in Mario's cosmic adventures. Sonic looks to run around planetoids, jump from one horizontal landmass to another, and take part in some upside-down platforming. Gravity now appears to be Sonic's own plaything, much like it was Mario's just a few short years ago.

   

  Sega has been trying to revitalize the Sonic franchise for years, and some of their more recent attempts, like Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations, have definitely been steps in the right direction. Though at their best, Colors and Generations succeeded because they played up Sonic's legacy. They followed suit with the elements of Sonic's glory days, and added a few modernizations here and there. But Sega has seemed skeptical to truly reinvent Sonic and his world. They've tried to recreate Sonic's past (most literally with the episodic Sonic the Hedgehog 4), but they haven't quite attempted to move Sonic forward in any meaningful way for a while now, possibly due to what some of their past experiments with altering the Sonic formula produced (Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 2006, need I continue?).

   

  While emulating Mario may not sound like reinvention, it is on this same concept that Sonic was created to begin with, and few would argue Sonic is merely a carbon copy of Nintendo's iconic plumber. And considering how liberated the Galaxy games felt creatively, freely introducing new concepts and ideas at every turn just for the fun of it, Sega has the opportunity to do something similar and add their own spin on the concept along the way.

   

  Perhaps most interesting about this new Sonic reveal, however, is how much it has in common with one of the most fabled games in Sonic's history: Sonic X-treme, the cancelled Sega Saturn game that many claim could have altered Sonic's (and Sega's) furture had it made it to store shelves, and a game that many others claim had a hand in influencing Super Mario Galaxy itself.

   

  So perhaps its all coming full circle then. That Sega's new partnership with Nintendo, their greatest rival in the days of old, should not only see a new life breathed into their most iconic franchise, but also resurrect the ideas of said franchise's most longed-for installment.

   

  We'll soon find out what the official successor to the Mario Galaxies will look like, but while Mario has had a tendency to reinvent his formulas with each new console generation, it looks like the blueprints that Galaxy wrote are in very good hands with Sonic the Hedgehog. We may have needed to wait over a decade and a half, but it looks like Sonic will finally be going X-treme.

   

  This is how you Sonic.

  • Posted Jun 1, 2013 3:17 am GMT
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