Eike Tezuka

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100% Review: Psychonauts

Play Psychonauts; if there's one thing I want you to take away from this review is to go and play this game. You don't have to finish it you just need to play it. Psychonauts is one of those games that feels like they trapped lighting in a bottle, it'll most likely never happen again but damn was it good when they did. The premise is that you play a ten year old boy named Razputin who ran away from home to go to whispering rocks psychic summer camp to become a Psychonaut. Unfortunately the teachers called Raz's dad and so he only has a few days to learn all that he can, but when his friends start having their brains stolen he's the only one who can save them. Psychonauts is a little weird, and by a little I mean a lot. Each level is actually the mind of someone else, from your teachers for classes to someone who has a split personality and thinks they're napoleon. You'll gradually go through the levels, increase your psychic rank, and unlock new psychic abilities like burning stuff. The gameplay itself isn't anything too special for a 3D platformer but it's solid enough to be fun. You don't really play Psychonauts for the gameplay though, the best part of the game is just exploring around the camp talking to people and learning about them. The dialogue is top notch; every conversation is entertaining and I never once got tired of talking to people. The voice acting is also very good, there wasn't a single voice that sounded wrong to me, or got irritating to hear. I don't really have many complaints about Psychonauts. The controls are good, I personally never encountered any glitches, the difficulty was never too much (no, not even the meat circus), and the music was also very nice. The only thing that I have a complaint about is getting all the collectibles. Getting everything in the camp was fine and very fun to do, getting the emotional baggage, safes, and mental cobwebs was no trouble either, but the figments were a pain. The problem with them is that there are so many of them, when you get down to the last few it can be a real headache to find them. The main level where this is the worst is obviously Waterloo. Here's some help from me so you don't lose your hair: when you are as small as you can be go to the carpenter's house from there go right to the tunnel and go behind it, look around the trees back there and you'll find a figment. But other than that the game is great, go play it. There aren't many games I feel everyone should try but Psychonauts is definitely one of them. It's only 10$ normally and even less when it's on sale like the Christmas sale coming soon. So do yourself, or someone else, a favor and play Psychonauts you won't regret it.

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SMT 3 Nocturne: Retro Review

Let me start off by saying this, I love the SMT series. The Shin Megami Tensei games are some of my favorites of all time, and I have played a lot of them. I've played the Digital Devil Saga games, Devil Survivor Overclocked, SMT IV, Soul Hackers, I've beaten Persona 3 and 4 and now I have finally beaten SMT 3 Nocturne. But I've gotta say Nocturne may be my least favorite out of all of them, except for maybe Soul Hackers.

Let's start with what I like about Nocturne, first off it's premise. In most RPGs you're on a quest to save the world from destruction, in Nocturne you're on a quest to create a new world after the old one died. The world gets destroyed in an act called the "conception" within the first 15 minutes, and the rest of the game takes place in the Vortex World, a sort of Limbo where demons are everywhere. Because of it's different setting and premise, Nocturne feels really fresh and new compared to most other RPGs, even some from it's own series.

Now possibly my favorite thing about Nocturne is the visuals, not its graphical fidelity but the way everything looks so unique. Nocturne is one of those games where you see a screenshot no matter where it is and go, "Oh, yeah that's Nocturne." No other game looks like Nocturne does, and some of it's dungeons really take advantage of it's art style like the Amala Network dungeon. When I go through that dungeon I stop sometimes just to see how amazing the place looks.

The game play is as solid as every in Nocturne as well. It uses the press turn system that most of the other SMT games use. Each turn you are given an amount of actions equal to the number of party members you have which is capped at 4, but if you exploit an enemy's weakness (like using a fire spell on an ice demon) you are given an extra action. By continually exploiting weaknesses you can potentially double the amount of actions you have a turn. Now this can happen to you as well so you have to be careful when making your party which is comprised of demons. The SMT games are sometimes called mature Pokemon games which is a fair comparison. You collect demons and add them to your party, but instead of capturing them you have to talk to and convince them to join your party willingly. You can also get new demons by fusing them together, while it removes the two demons you fused you can get a new demon that has skills it may not normally have. With enough effort you can make a perfect demon with all strengths and no weaknesses.

The last thing I really like in Nocturne that I wanted to talk about was its music. The SMT games have always had good music and Nocturne is no exception, hell my ringtone is the battle theme. What I will say is Nocturne doesn't have a lot of what I'd call "listenable songs" what I mean by that is there aren't a lot of songs that I would listen to on my way to work or something in my free time. The songs are really more meant to just set a mood or tone and they do that well. There are long stretches of time though where no music plays and I wish that there was something to listen to but it's not that big of a deal.

Now, sadly it's on to the stuff I'm not a fan of in Nocturne. Let's start with a simple one, the rate of random encounters. Now, I am aware that Nocturne is meant to be hard, but when I can have a battle, take 2 steps and have another battle, then take 3 more steps and have another it just becomes draining. When I got to the end of the game I was just escaping as many battles as I could cause there were so many of them and it was starting to irritate me. And don't tell me, "Just use a Repulse Bell" because I used those things and they didn't work. I still had battles right after I just had one so I just gave up on the things, don't waste you're money on them.

Speaking of money, at the end of the game I had over 200K Macca and nothing to spend it on. Since Nocturne doesn't have any type of equipment other than Magatamas most of my money went unspent until I used it to by 99 medicines and 99 Chakra drops so i didn't have to worry about running out of mp during the final boss.

And the final boss, well he wasn't that hard really. SPOILER WARNING FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH! My final boss was Kagutsuchi, and while he did kill me once, when I changed just one demon in my party he was no threat whatsoever. And he also kinda felt anti-climactic; I kept wondering who the final boss would be, and I thought that Hikawa made the most sense but he's the first boss you kill in the tower. Once I killed Isamu I thought Chiaki would be the final boss, but after I beat her I was very confused. The only one left that made sense was Kagutsuchi, but why would I have to fight him? He said that if I got the stones and met him he'd let me make the world as I wanted it. Then when I got up there he couldn't believe it and tried to kill me, I'm sorry what? Maybe I missed something but it didn't make since to have him as the last boss, and his fight wasn't that hard or much of a spectacle.

But the thing that disappoints me the most about Nocturne is the characters. There are five important characters not counting you, Isamu and Chiaki your two friends, Yuko your teacher, Hijiri a reporter on the occult, and Hikawa the man who started the conception. They never get a lot of time on screen, you never really feel connected to them or care about them. Hijiri is the character you see the most but you still don't learn a lot about him, he has a personality yeah but that's all you know about him. And sorry but again, SPOILER WARNING FOR THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH! Throughout the game you find your friends alive, they seem normal, shaken but normal, and they decide to try and find Yuko and each other. Wouldn't it make more sense to stay with the half demon who can cast spells? Well anyways, eventually you find them again but now they've gone a bit crazy having found a Reason and wanting to create the world as the see fit. We've been given so little time to know these characters that this doesn't make us feel anything. We should feel something, regret, remorse, betrayal, but no feelings emerge because we barely know these people. It's bad when we know them longer when they're trying to make the world than we did when they were our friends.

Overall I still love this game. While I have a major problem with the amount of random battles, and especially the character development I can still go back and play this game again without a second thought. It's still a damn good game at it's core with a good challenge. If you love the SMT series like I do I'm sure you'll enjoy this game, but I wouldn't put it at the top. But remember, the worst of the best is still better than most.

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Remember Me: 100% Review

First off let me start by saying this DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy this game at full price (which at the time of this review is 30$) it is not worth that price in my opinion. The highest I could recommend buying it at would probably be like 10-15$. To get an idea of what Remember Me is like imagine this: the combat of every game trying to copy batman, the climbing of uncharted but even more restricted and railroaded, and a cool story premise about cyberpunk Paris and you've got Remember Me. These things aren't bad but none of them are really used to their fullest. Let's start with the thing you do the most, combat. Like I said the combat is very batman like. You have light and heavy attacks, the enemies get a giant MGS alert symbol above their heads when they're going to attack, you can do some flippy dodges, and you get some neat power moves once you've built up a meter. While it does what it's supposed to do just fine the difficulty never feels like it gets any higher. Even on the hardest setting I never really felt like I was in danger at any point. Do keep in mind though I'm a masochist who un-ironically enjoys games like dark souls, god hand, dmc, and the original castlevanias. Speaking of god hand, remember me has something similar in the combo lab. In remember me you have 4 combos of different lengths that you can customize with different "presens" which are one of 4 different types of attacks: strikes, healing, cooldown reduction, and power multipliers. So what the game wants you to do is create your own personal playstyle with the different moves, but you're really just gonna fall into a kind of rut finding the one or two things that work and keep using those. Once you get 4 healing presens the game becomes trivial at that point since you'll just heal yourself in your combo. So yeah, the combat isn't bad but it does start to get boring fairly quick. Now, when you're not fighting you're gonna be "exploring" ,or really just going down a narrow corridor with some branched areas with collectibles, and a lot of the time that involves climbing. The climbing is very basic, Step 1: you jump and grab the thing with the arrow on it, Step 2: find the next thing with the arrow on it and then jump to it, are you done climbing, if not return to step 1. There's not much to say about it other than it exists and is just another way of getting to the next fight. The coolest things remember me has are its world and the ideas of its story. Remember me is a cyberpunk world that takes place in neo paris where memories can now be stored, shared, removed, and even changed. The memories thing was what really had me hooked. It's a cool idea, memories are what make up our personality so what would happen if they were changed or even removed? Well we see what happens and it's kind of lame. Basically there are some puzzle sections where you change someone's memory to benefit you, and afterwords they immediately recall the memory you just changed and they either act nice to you or kill themselves (guess who that one is). It's not bad I just wish there was more of them and done differently other than just one time. But overall I can recommend remember me only if you get it cheaper though. While 30 is much cheaper than its launch price it is still too short at around 6-7 hours of mindless combat with some pretty visuals, cool ideas, and an okay story to justify it. And if you need a score: 5.4/10 Note: I bought this game for 6$ a while ago I also have 100% completion

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Persona 5 Main Characters

Protagonist/The Phantom/P5 Hero

Ryuji Sakamoto (坂本 竜司): A blonde boy

Anzu Takamaki (高巻 杏): A blonde girl

Morgana (モルガナ): A shapeshifting cat that has some form of connection to the Seven Deadly Sins

Time to start using these tags.

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have we talked about this yet though

[staff]

Don’t let this happen to your internet

The internet belongs to all of us. It’s an open, fair, democratic place that we’ve all helped to create, together. On February 26, the FCC is going to decide whether to leave the internet in our hands…or whether to turn it over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies. 

Join everybody on the internet and help the FCC do the right thing.

This is it, guys. We’ve been been fighting this fight together for a long time now. You did a sensationally good job back in September, making 135,343 calls in a single day and shifting the political momentum back toward real internet freedom. You been pulling more and more policymakers—including the president himself—over to the side of internet freedom. We’re almost there. Let’s bring this one home.

[nerdology]

Click. Click. Click. SAVE THE INTERNET.

[dariuc]

All-Out Attack

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How Evolve Fell Down The Bullshit Tree (The Jimquisition)

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I was just on the greenlight page for digital homicide's new game deadly profits and I noticed this. These comments look exactly the same and I know you can't see it on the first two but, most were posted not long after each other. If you go to the page you'll see that a lot of the comments look the same. I did hide the usernames cause I don't want to get into any trouble for anything but I felt like I had to show this.

Link to the greenlight page: Deadly Profits

Edit: Also a lot of the accounts are at level 0 and all the level 0 ones I saw were private so I couldn't see when the account was made

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December 12th: Joy is...

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December 11th: Green

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SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT

[deathtasteslikechicken]

So if a teenager is at school for roughly 8 hours, and they are doing homework for 6+ hours, and they need AT LEAST 9 HOURS OF SLEEP FOR THEIR DEVELOPING BRAINS, then they may have 0-1 hours for other activities like eating, bathing, exercise, socializing (which is actually incredibly important for emotional, mental, and physical health, as well as the development of skills vital to their future career and having healthy romantic relationships among other things), religious activities, hobbies, extra curriculars, medical care of any kind, chores (also a skill/habit development thing and required by many parents), relaxation, and family time?  Not to mention that your parents may or may not pressure you to get a job, or you might need to get one for economic reasons.

[elusivebovine]

I will never not reblog this

[lele-exe-has-stoppedworking]

"…but teenagers have no reason to be stressed."

[baruhara]

[rexannegoof]

IF YOUR HEART DIDN’T SHATTER INTO A MILLION FRAGMENTS WHEN THAT LAST LINE WAS SAID YOU ARE NOT HUMAN.

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I watched this the other week and i started crying my eyes out. 

[cailencrow]

See. It’s not fair. They took Goofy, who even in GOOF TROOP was still just overly silly and meant for splapstick, and they give Goofy real world fatherhood problems. And to this DAY I will still mist up for this scene.

[poison-heat-deactivated20180727]

movies not to watch when you have dad issues #309

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December 10th: Christmas list

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It took me a sec to get it.

The Shpitz

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December 9th: Peace

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