Rayman Cages are Bullshit!

I'm not usually in the market for 2 posts in one day, but after slaving over Rayman for the last 2 hours, I need a bit of a vent.

I fucking hate these goddamn things.  The stages are already pretty tough being filled with spikes, pitfalls and the most obnoxiously placed enemies in the universe but on top of having to avoid all that I have to free these little boxes of garbage as well?!

This would be fine if they weren't so goddamn hidden as well.  Some of the shit I have had to do to reach a few of these goddamn cages has almost made me pull my own hair out.  What makes it even worse is that even if you know where they are, it doesn't mean that reaching it is going to be easy.

But no, that's not all, some of these fucking things aren't even visible, and you have to go and trigger them, which adds another layer of bullshit to the whole process. 

I wouldn't even be that annoyed if I didn't need to get them, but to reach the last world and have a crack at the final boss, these things are fucking required, so if I want to beat the game I have no choice but to go back and do all this shit.  I'm doing all this shit off camera though so you don't have to sit for hours at a time and watch me fumble about all the levels again failing to find things.

I swear this game is taking years off my life.

The Ninja

Look at that shitty fuckin' box, look at it!  It's like one of the developers kids drew that shit.  Good job the game is so damn good!

If you remember a while ago I made a post on a shitty master system game called ALF.  Well, in order to get that bad taste out of my mouth, I went and discovered this gem.  The plot of The Ninja is super simple; ninjas have kidnapped a princess, so go wreck their shit.

The game has about 12 or so levels, and in each one you move through, throw knives or shurikens at oncoming ninjas and kill a boss at the end.  Hidden in the stages are some scrolls you need to find so that you actually know where the princess is being kept, and when you do that, you get a shit ending.  The game also likes to mix things up with some levels that involve shit like moving logs on water or stampeding horses and shit like that.

Despite what I said about the ending and box art being a load of shit, the game itself is actually pretty fun.  So go find a copy, it's a good way to kill an hour or two.

Survival Horror making a comeback!?

Survival Horror has been a bit dead for a long long time.

Konami, with the help of Tomm Hulett, has been ruining Silent Hill
Resident Evil turned into a series of bland action games with grotesque monsters
Project Zero (Or Fatal Frame if you're American) hasn't had a main series game outside of Japan since 2005, and nothing since 2008 in Japan
Alone in the Dark was murdered and no one gave a fuck

the list goes on and on...

But then some good things have been happening.  ZombieU came out on the WiiU, which I have yet to play, and while it doesn't look particularly scary, it looks plenty survivaly and with permadeath hanging over you I imagine it would keep you at least somewhat on edge.

On top of that, we have Tomm Hulett leaving Konami, so he's not going to be making any more fucking awful Silent Hill games, so maybe the next person to step up will breathe some life back into things.

Then I came across this article on IGN!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/31/resident-evil-will-return-to-its-roots

Which is basically a big article of Masachika Kawata saying that Resident Evil needs to go back and stop sucking ass, read it.

Well, nothing concrete has happened yet, but these are good signs if you ask me.  In the meantime we have the Amnesia sequel to look forward too, so maybe after that we can get decent horror games once again

Rayman Weekend 2! Second Video!

As the stages get harder, the episodes get longer.  Also I used a continue because that opera boat bit is such a piece of shit.  Enjoy!

Borderlands 2 Racism Bullshit

Borderlands 2 is a game that has yet to be played.  I own a copy and it's been added to my eternal backlog, but as I'm writing this post, I've yet to play it.  Luckily, I'm not commenting on the quality of the game, but more the idiocy of certain people on twitter.

While browsing the internet I was made aware of this article.

http://kotaku.com/5981171/players-accuse-tiny-tina-from-borderlands-2-of-verbal-blackface-gearbox-writer-says-hell-change-her-if-racist

For those that don't want to read, some idiots on Twitter are claiming the character of Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2 is racist because she talks in black slang.  Yes, I am totally serious, the link above contains the story in more detail and the twitter conversation.

This is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever heard and I can't believe that people have gotten to the point where they are being offended by the way a character speaks.  I've heard white people speak like this all the damn time, and a dialect like that isn't limited to just one group of people, any prick can talk like that, it's not a hard speech pattern to imitate.

The character of Tiny Tina, from what I looked up on youtube, is super annoying but not racist.  You would have to be some kind of drooling turbo idiot to think that speaking a certain way makes you a racist.  It pisses me off that there are all these people that are on a crusade to try and ban everything that may be even SLIGHTLY offensive to someone.

NEWSFLASH!  Probably every game/movie/book has something that offends SOMEONE, so if you start trying to change things so that no one will be offended, the only thing you can possibly do is just stop making things.  Example, I find these people on Twitter to be offensive, so I think they should stop posting, but they wont.  These people think characters like Tiny Tina are offensive and want them to stop being written that way, but they wont, so shut up.

If anything, I'd say that the dudes making the argument that the character is racist, are racist themselves since they are making the implication that the only kind of people who talk in low class black slang, are black people.  Maybe these people should think before they chat shit.

Rayman Weekend 2! First Video!

I'm about to leave the house, more rayman!

A Reason to Buy a WiiU

For the longest time, I didn't give a rats ass about the WiiU, and then I saw this.  Get on that hype train once again, because this is one of the most fantastically strange crossovers I've ever seen.

Crossovers aren't a new thing in games, we have things like Marvel Vs Capcom, Capcom Vs SNK and it even happens in RPGs with things like Trinity Universe, but all those games, and the characters from those games are from the same genre.

For those that don't know, Shin Megami Tensei is the series that has given us stuff like Lucifers Call, Digital Devil Saga and Persona.  They are basically like Pokemon, but meant to be played by people who actually have some taste.

Fire Emblem is a series of strategy RPGs where you take a bunch of dudes on adventures to save lands and whatnot.  As you fight things on a big grid map, you level up your characters and make them advance classes so that the next big bad guy in the plot wont ruin your shit.

They are basically two completely different kinds of game, but somehow they are being crossed over.  I'm aware Shin Megami Tensei has had a "tactics" version on the DS and 3DS, so it could be based on that, but then it should have "Devil Survivor" in the title and not just "Shin Megami Tensei"

There is a trailer which I will provide at the bottom but there is 0 information about what they are doing with this thing.  It's basically saying "This is a thing, get hype", and oh boy did it work.  Check it!

Take all of my money Nintendo, all of it.