Gitaroo Man gives Acid Rock a new meaning.

October 12th, 2007 No Comments

Go buy this game right now.

Gitaroo Man is a very odd game but is, quite possibly, the best rhythm game of all time. It is so very Japanese it hurts. I’m sure the development team we’re all tripping on acid when they made this game…it certainly feels like you are when you are playing it. The game starts off with you playing as a regular kid named U-1 having troubles with school work, girls and bullies that has just arrived home after a long and arduous day at school. Suddenly your dog, Puma, speaks to you saying that you are the heir to the legendary Gitaroo-Man legacy and that you need to learn how to use the power of Gitaroo to save the universe. You are the only remaining Gitaroo-Man, so you must journey through space battling Gravillions to take back the other Gitaroos they have taken.

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September Stats – Month #1

October 11th, 2007 2 Comments

Not too shabby for only being online for a month.

It’s been one month since Nerd Culture went online and I’ve been quite happy with the response so far! The site has had 599 visits and 1231 pageviews since the night of September 11th when the site went online. I’m looking forward to seeing what this site grows into! Maybe one day I’ll even rival Danny Choo for traffic. ;)

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Hayate No Gotoku – I think I might drop it.

October 11th, 2007 No Comments

Hayate No Gotoku looked like a decent show, but I’m just not getting into it. I think it just feels too slow to me, it’s not a bad show if you’ve got the time to watch it, but I have plenty of other things in my list of stuff to watch. Anyone else have any thoughts on it? I watched the first 10 episodes, but it didn’t feel like it was going to start to actually get going so I’m going to put it on indefinite hold for now.

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Grave Of The Fireflies makes me want to curl up in a corner and cry.

October 10th, 2007 4 Comments

Most depressing anime ever.

Grave Of The Fireflies is a movie written and directed by Isao Takahata, with the help of Studio Ghibli’s animators. But don’t let the Ghibli association fool you; this ain’t no cheery Ghibli flick. This is World War II in Japan–this is hell on earth. This is the bitter tale of the relationship between two orphaned children, Seita and his younger sister Setsuko. The children lose their mother in the firebombing of Kobe, and their father in service to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and as a result they are forced to try to survive amidst widespread famine and the callous indifference of their countrymen. Even their relatives shrug them off, leaving them to fend for themselves.

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Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi – I laughed until I couldn’t breathe.

October 9th, 2007 No Comments

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is one of the most random shows I have ever seen. It follows the Excel Saga concept where each episode takes place in it’s own unique world, but this is a much funnier show, in my opinion. This just goes to show that Gainax knows how to make good comedy. Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is the story of Sasshi and Arumi; neighbors and childhood friends who are soon to be separated when Arumi moves with her family to Hokkaido.

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Ubuntu 7.10 – Only 10 more days!

October 8th, 2007 No Comments

It’s already been 6 months since the last release–time flies in the Linux community. Ubuntu, in 10 days, will reach it’s 7.10 milestone, introducing a boat load of updates. Most notably, in my opinion is NTFS-3g support. Finally, I can use my Windows external drive interchangeably and actually be able to write to it with Ubuntu! There’s plenty of great updates making this a very worthwhile download for you readers that want the stability and security of Linux with the ease of access of a Mac.

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is fantastic.

October 7th, 2007 2 Comments

Oops.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is an artfully crafted piece of recent Anime history. The story is a well-written web of events based on the idea that the main character gains the ability to jump through time, so she tries to use this ability to make the world “better”. Throughout the events she changes she learns that when something is better for one person it’s usually worse for another. Time is not something to be messed with, even if on very minor levels.

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Panzer Dragoon II Zwei – Ah, the nostalgia.

October 6th, 2007 2 Comments

Panzer Dragoon was truly ahead of it’s time and the gameplay was so amazing.

This is the first post in a new section I’m making called Time Machine. In this section I will talk about and review old, long forgotten classics that time has hidden away in our dark and dusty closets. First up is Panzer Dragoon II Zwei. This was a truly amazing game for it’s time; the soundtrack was a feature film quality orchestral backing, which was quite impressive compared to the beeps and boops of that day and age. The gameplay was a spectacle of it’s own; nobody had really done a forced movement path shooter like that before–most certainly not that well. The graphics, of course, for the time were great…but over a decade later they have aged quite a bit. Nothing to squint at and look sideways to be able to tell what’s going on though.

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