The Binary Code

Early adopter, perpetual student, lover of the digital arts, cats, good food, books, and the oxford comma.

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The Binary Code turned 10 today!

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Your courage to do what's right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt

Yep. Sometimes having a conscience really sucked, thanks brain. Even more so when your heart and your brain fucking conflicting about it every single time. The question now is, when will it stop hurting?

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EA and Bioware’s new IP is smart. Put them all in mech so you can’t see their faces

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Persona 5 Review - PS4

Persona 5 will steal your heart, and it wasn't hard as you will be giving it willingly

This is the game that will redefine JRPG for years to come. I might be slightly biased on this game because I've been a Persona fan ever since it was just called Shin Megami Tensei and not widely known as Persona. But just when I thought they could not perfect the game anymore after P4 and P4 Golden, they came out swinging with P5. 

It's difficult to make turn based combat amazing, but P5 managed to make that a realization. One of the common complaints we had with P4 and P4G was the dungeon crawler parts could be a drag. That has been improved with P5 as well. The dungeons now are even more thematic and even more fun. The social links (they are called confidants now) are coming back in P5 and with a much bigger emphasize on it this time. Atlus has realized that the social activities and links are the major selling points for Persona games and it has been given the love and respect it deserves. An improvement from P4, your social links are actually bigger, have more impacts and you will have a bigger area of Tokyo to explore and do activities on. Old school Shin Megami Tensei fans will be happy to learn that Persona Chat feature is back in this game. If you remember, this feature has been missing since Persona 3 and I could not be happier that they're back. The entire UI and game interface felt like an experimental art by Atlus, but by god, they work wonderfully. Even the transition phase between screen has been done in such a masterful way that I can't help but smile watching them. One thing that I do have to mention that this game wears its Japanese culture proudly. They are still a very conservative country that still mocks homosexuality and other things that they feel outside of the norm. The best part? Persona doesn't feel like they need to change that just to suit the justice warriors of the west. So, if you are easily offended by things that actually wasn't real (a.k.a this game), skip it. Even the game disclaimer will mock you about it. This is a game that was not afraid to push the boundaries of what the soft western society will view as unacceptable. Trust me, this game will drag you through the depth of human's darkness and deepest desire while you're kicking and screaming. Again, if you're too sensitive for those things like most are these days, skip it. Persona will not change to suits your new western standard. Persona 5 will do to JRPG what The Witcher 3 did with open world RPG, redefines the genre and set a new gold standard on it. If you're an old Persona players, or even just started with P4 or P4G, this game is absolutely a must buy. Everything that we loved about P4 has been improved and everything that we hated has either been reworked or removed. If you're new to Persona or even a JRPG in general, there's no better game to get your hand on. 

And you have a talking cat as one of your main characters, what else can you ask for? Well done, Atlus

Game: Persona 5

Platform: PS4

Publisher: Atlus (JAP/NA), Deep SIlver (PAL)

Release: September 15, 2016 (JAP), April 4th, 2017(Worldwide)

Verdict: A brilliant entry to an extremely niche series, Persona 5 will be the one that pushed this into the mainstream. It will set the new gold standard for JRPGs to come and let’s hope they don’t change the formula to appease the mainstream. 

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How the hell did my beloved franchise turns into this much of a garbage?

Inquisition and Andromeda used the same engine and yet Inquisition characters manage to came across as more alive.

Mass Effect 1 had a better animation in 2007 than Andromeda in 2017.

and don’t even get me started on what they did with the Asari. I mean how the bloody hell we get from Liara to whatever Shrek-looking blue lizard lady is??? In an era where we have The Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn as a benchmark of a quality game release, did they seriously think this level of an amateur piece of crap is an acceptable release? I’m done with this franchise and I’m done with this shitty company.

A garbage in 4K is still garbage, stop supporting mediocrity just because it carries the same name. There are better games and developers out there who have done enough to earn your cash than this pile of horse crap. 

And the best part about this shit storm is that there are idiots out there who think this level of release is acceptable. I honestly hope they don’t breed...

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Damn...Laphi (Number 2) is smooth as fuck.

If Laphi is brave enough to confess to Velvet, you’re brave enough to ask that one girl out.  Although it’s kinda messed up since he’s technically Velvet’s nephew.

This game should just be renamed Keeping Up With the Crowes, what a family mess.

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When the sidekicks ended up having a better love story than the main characters.

Good for you two!

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The ending of Tsugumi’s love arc. Out of the other 4, there’s no doubt that she is absolutely the perfect “wife material”

Her whole life has been about service and sacrifice and this ending captures it perfectly. 

Ugh...

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Finally finished this story and this is one of the most heart-breaking scene I’ve ever read or watched in any stories ever.

For them to still be drawn to each other 12 years later even when they couldn’t remember each other, and for Kosaki to keep her heart to one person and one person only...

Even sadder than Tsugumi’s confession, damn you Raku!

She’s too good for him anyway...

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Overwatch gender-swap.

Credit: Mist - http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3813913

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Overwatch Gender-Swap. Credits to their appropriate artists. 

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When your main character broke the 4th wall to say goodbye.  Farewell Geralt of Rivia, it has been an outstanding 9 years.

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I thought The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones has prepared me emotionally for how this anime would end. 

I was so wrong...

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When you had Yukimura Sanada as your transmog inspiration.

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The Binary Code turned 3 today!

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7 Deadly Sins project is almost complete!

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Localization Blog #3

Greetings and salutations, true believers!

 Trails of Cold Steel has officially launched, and I’m excited! You may well be one of the pre-order platoon, leading the vanguard, or perhaps the game is making its way to you through all the holiday postal congestion at this very moment. Either way, you’ll soon know what we know: good things come to those who wait, and here at the tail end of 2015, one of the year’s finest RPG adventures stands ready to be unfurled (though let’s be honest…with the length of the game, you’ll probably have said “Happy New Year!” before you roll those credits). Work on Trails of Cold Steel II is already well underway, so worry not – you won’t have to wait too long to see more of what happens to Rean and friends.

Brittany wrote last time about all the effort that goes into the process of voice recording, and she was right on the money – it’s a lot of work. More than I’d predicted, actually. See, this was actually a big first for me. Sure, I’d written for voice work before, but Trails of Cold Steel marked the first time I went into the studio to help supervise the recording of an English dub. The whole process – which took about 20 working days for all the voice work – was like one long course in the particulars of going from script to a finished dub – hugely instructive and informational, but also harrying with how much new info about the process I was absorbing all the time.

Keep reading

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It’s been a while since I had an RPG that was capable of moving me emotionally as much as this series. I laughed, I cried and by the end of it, I felt like everyone in Class VII and the entire cast of Trails of Cold Steel was as comfortable as old friends.

I was laughing at Instructor’s Sara lame attempt at joke, I was annoyed when Patrick started to mouth off Class VII, I was heartbroken when I learned about Crow.

These all won’t be possible if not for the great voice acting and editing of the game, and reading this blog, I completely understand how much work went into localizing this magnum opus.

And for that XSEED...I thank you. Thank you for bringing this masterpiece to the west, and thank you for not losing the spirit of the game in the process.

To the second chapter!