събота, 27 юни 2020 г.

THE HOLY FIGHTING GAME TRILOGY

ALL GIRLS NO HOES

PRETTY FIGHTER 1994
PRETTY FIGHTER X 1995
FIST 1996
ALL DEVELOPED BY IMAGINEER


1.Pretty Fighter

Pretty Fighter is almost good, it's not plagued by slowdown like other snes fighters, 6 button layout, but most of the moves lack impact, would have been better if they used 4, a lot of the animations end up being reused and sped up just to fill in all the buttons. AI is pretty cheap, at first you have to be really careful because your moves come out so fast and combo so poorly that the enemy ends up grabbing you though it.

That being said it tuns into a pushover once you start closing the gap and mash heavy punch and kick, your bound to get a few grabs, in between that might as well mash all the lights cause they come out comically fast, and are a good way to keep the computer blocking, your bound to overwhelm the AI.
like this^

Roster: 
backgrounds are so good that you get hungry, some of the characters can heal mid battle, really cool


                             here's what the endings looks like:
overall its pretty playable and try it out or don't, idn I'm not your mom



2.Pretty Fighter X

Pretty Fighter X is like the original but better, combos work better, basically handles like how you'd expect it to feel and work, and the digitized cel sprites are really cool.

In addition, its the best one due to all the cutscenes, witch i ripped for your amusement at the bottom.
The music in all the games is really, really good, as expected its been redone here in CD quality and its great, I'd play some but blogger wont let me upload audio files, very shitty

Roster Additions:


as a bonus here's how you can rip Saturn videos yourself.
get the ISO/BIN version both are fine as long as you mount it, then run this program: 
Winvdt2 http://vberthelot.free.fr/SX/satdev/Tools.html
then launch it, select the virtual drive and pick from the img what file you want to open, in the tab theres also the option to rip it. the UI is clear, so you wont get confused.



3.FIST

This is where it all crashed and burned, its got cameos from pretty fighter along with a few new ones.
(screenshot from the saturn version, cause the art is more appealing)

It swaps from the old 6 button layout to PKG. And now its in 3D but the gameplay is still 2D, so no sidestepping and shit. Controls feel slow like the moves come out a quarter of a second after you do the input. Best move is the grab G+P the distance is just right and the impact is great most satisfying move in the game by far. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1Oa0aKJ3M or maybe i suck cause Yuichiro Hase is tearing the games ass in half.

Graphics look rushed, not a lot of polygons where used, backgrounds are basic so its not like they where running out of horsepower, could have looked a whole lot better.
enough lamp shading, this game is pretty shit and you should not play it, PF/PFX where pretty competent for what they where, not the best console fighting games but no where near the worst eater. This on the other hand feels like they, only had around 4 months to develop it, maybe making it for the Saturn and PSX was the problem.

Made this because i wanted to play FIST on PS1/Saturn for the longest time, then i did and it was pretty bad but then i realized that its a part of the pretty fighters series cause a few of the characters makes a cameo, and how in japan FIST gets memed for being so bad.



Extra bonus here's a short comic from the manual i guess, cant find any of the manuals, but i sure found these imgs.


неделя, 21 юни 2020 г.

Bad Police is Good



BAD POLICE, FEEL THE POWER THAT WE GOT

By Tetsuya Saruwatari hes more well known for Riki-Oh and Dog Soldier, but this is a great starting point for his manga's
pretty short manga about this cop (reminds me a bit of Raiden) cataloging his cases 
                              5 Acts on total

All of them revolve around Data being an extremely loose cop, killing people when he gets the chance and generally not sticking to the book, why he does it, what are the consequences and what do the other characters think about it. Tone is  pretty violent and gritty but also it plays it campy when it can.

first 2 acts tie into one other and show how much worst will it have been if Data didn't step in or go overboard with killing the criminal, but also how unexpected.


3 is about a colleague oh his getting ''inspired''.
 

4 is about how reporters are trying to get him fired, because like most of the cast, everyone assumes he's an asshole killer.


5 is about how family can manipulate you,
it felt really shitty. What Data did to the good brother after knowing he was being used and abused, was shitty. 
all the side characters keep repeating that Data is unjust and too violent, so you'd think the ending is gonna be satisfying in that it completes his ark, like Hyena finally proves that he can solve this situation with no fatalities, could have very easily disarmed him too, but no, it sorta end on a downer.



overall panel layouts flow very well and are very detailed, he avoids filling pages with too many panels even in more dialog intensive pages

As a bonus it includes 2 one-shots
both could be cool series






















четвъртък, 18 юни 2020 г.

Batman Reading Order:The Golden Age in collected editions

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Batman is my, and probably many others' favourite character.
When it comes to the Golden and Silver ages it features some very campy stuff and homages to pop culture at the times, but it still has some essentials for  Bat-Fans. And a huge selection of first appearances from Alfred to the Scarecrow, and the obvious one in the title, and others. 
Btw each cover has art by the late, great Darwyn Cooke.
Also as a side note the World's Finest Comics aren't a batman/superman team-up book,but it was back in the day a comic feauturing a batman and superman story separately,so they never really worked together.Which is a point i make since the Superman Golden age stuff collect only his side of the stories and  this Batman's.




Collects:Detective Comics #27-56, Batman #1-7, New York World's Fair Comics #2, Worlds Best Comics #1 and  World's Finest Comics #2-3;


Collects:Detective Comics #57-74, Batman #8-15 and World's Finest Comics #4-9;

Collects:Detective Comics #75-91, Batman #16-25 
and World's Finest Comics #10-14;

Collects:Detective Comics #92-112, Batman #26-35 
and World's Finest Comics #15-22;

Collects:Detective Comics #113-132, Batman #36-45 
and World's Finest Comics #23-32;                             

Collects:Detective Comics #133-153, Batman #46-55 
and World's Finest Comics #33-42;

Collects:Detective Comics #154-173, Batman #56-66 
and World's Finest Comics #43-53;
Collects:Detective Comics #174-191, Batman #67-75 
and  World's Finest Comics #54-62;

Also at the time the post is made it hasn't come out yet.


                   Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1: Various: 9781401260095 ...             Batman: The Golden Age Vol. 1: Finger, Bill, Various ...



These are a more affordable version for people who want to dabble, just a little bit in this period of the Caped Crusader.

Collects:Detective Comics #27-45, Batman #1-3 and New York World's Fair Comics #2;

Collects:Detective Comics #46-56, Batman #4-7, Worlds Best Comics #1
and World's Finest Comics #2-3;

Collects:Detective Comics #57-65 , Batman #8-11 and World's Finest Comics #4-6;

Collects:Detective Comics #66-74, Batman #12-15 and World's Finest Comics #7-9;

Collects:Detective Comics #75-81, Batman #16-20 and World's Finest Comics #10-11;

Collects:Detective Comics #82-92, Batman #21-25 and World's Finest Comics #12-14;



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петък, 12 юни 2020 г.

YuGiOh DM’s Singapore dub, why its worth watching

YuGiOh DM’s Singapore dub, what’s it actually like? (Link included)



For starters it retains the original OST and it’s completely uncensored. The video has no changes at all from the original, cards are in Japanese none of the scenes have been cut either, it’s straight up 1 to 1, much like how the pyramid of life movie wasn't cut and the cards got an actual translation, but that came out way later.

(LP counter is the original one and the cards are in Japanese)
     (This scene was very chopped up in the dub)

            
     Why would you want to watch this release?

 It’s a great way to re-watch DM and see what they cut and changed outside of the obvious things that get memed, the new voice actors give a great performance, very campy and charming. All the times they say dude is really funny. I recommend you to at least try a few episodes out.

Also it’s estimated that 144 episodes were dubbed, this leaves a large portion unaccounted from the 97 episodes that have seen an official release (and the 81 episodes readily available online). Were they perhaps broadcast without a home video release? Or maybe even unreleased entirely? If YOU have any info or episodes, please, please, please share a link in the comments.






https://mega.nz/folder/685gCBJJ#fiic-5it0-fVj5mi3fbxEA this is all of the episodes we have at the moment
big thanks to the lostmediawiki for the mega link and general info
https://www.bitchute.com/video/38xaUnTCYSTN/ here’s a alternative link, it’s the same as the mega link only going up to episode 80 and ep91, if the mega link ever stops working, go here