Nice color scheme Five things that sucked: 1. Sword Beams Sword beams in Zelda are weak and inconsequential. Check out Crystalis for sword beams done right: More than one type of beam Beams are stronger than standard slashes Multiple levels of beam strength Beams are necessary to progress through the game Beams look like fireballs [...]

Five things that sucked: 1. The Knife Your only move is a horizontal slash. Since when were AMV Hell videos this misleading? But Baka-Raptor, what about the cut scene knife commands? 2. Cut Scene Commands Cut scenes aren’t supposed to be interactive; they’re supposed to be a chance to sit back and enjoy the show. [...]

Three things that sucked: 1. Para-Medic According to Wikipedia: Para-Medic is a FOX support team member who provides Naked Snake with surgical and medical information as well as general information on the local flora and fauna. I beg to differ. The true purpose of Para-Medic is to bombard you with verbose yet minimally insightful movie [...]

In case you’re curious, the opening pic is from a Haruhi doujin about a dinosaur that makes itself at home in Mikuru’s cleavage. If you don’t want to find this doujin, don’t click on any of these links. Onto the point of the post: I read the Haruhi light novel. Here’s how it happened: I [...]

Last time I read a book, I had to push the limits of human creativity to fit lesbians into it. Not this time. Why bother reading when I could watch anime? Unfortunately, I’ve been suffering bouts of eye strain lately. I’ve been dropping glasses and everything. I am such a dojikko. So I’ve turned to [...]

This is by no means an endorsement of Akikan. It is a simple observation that many of the shows I’m currently watching are worse. First, a quick unbiased review of Akikan: Three things that rock: A suprising dose of original humor Mamiko Noto A hardcore lesbian Three things that suck: Lame premise Lousy animation A [...]

Deaths #1-3: The First Colossus These were legitimate “experimental deaths” because I had no clue what could kill me, nor did I have any clue what I was doing. Death #4: The Waterfall On the way to the fifth colossus, I swam down a waterfall, marking the first time in the history of the universe [...]