Today’s Power Hour covers episodes 5 (“Computer School Blues”) and 6 (“Time Bomb”) and sees us finally getting another god damned Sailor Scout!
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This week’s Power Hour covers episodes 3 (“Slim City”) and 4 (“So You Want to be a Superstar”).
This week’s Power Hour covers episodes 1 (“A Moon Star is Born”) and 2 (“Talk Radio”).
04Apr
Under normal circumstances I would just put this in the RTM Forums topic, but part of me doesn’t think that’s getting these updates the attention they really need. So here I am abusing my front page posting privileges to get more buzz for my event that’s not happening for eight months. I am obviously the best.
For anybody that doesn’t know, a few details have changed since the charity event in December was actually announced. Estimated length is still 6 to 7 days of straight streaming, but the tentative starting date has been pushed forward from December 26th to December 28th. Obviously this is because why would anybody fly out the help us the day after Christmas? Nobody is gonna do that. We were stupid to put that at first, so please forgive us for being dumbs.
We’ve also announced our games. We were going to give clues and have everybody guess what it was, but then we realized we wanted to have people come out to Kansas to help. Why would anybody do that not knowing what games we’re going to play?
So, before the break let’s get this out of the way. The three games will be Persona 3, Persona 4, and a small Persona 4: Arena tournament at the end. That’s two seventy hour games, all the way through, in one go. We’re not going for speed runs or anything, just nice relaxed playthroughs. Grinding sessions will probably be accompanied by us making complete fools of ourselves for more donations.
Now there’s more for me to bring up, but first a break for those of you reading on the front page. Trust me, it’d help us so much for you to hit that there “SEE FULL POST” button. Please.
I cannot say I’ve ever actually been heavily depressed. I mean there was one year in high school where I convinced myself I was super depressed over a girl, but that’s about as close as I’ve gotten. I have those random nights where I just can’t stop telling myself how lonely I am, how my life is going nowhere, but I wouldn’t really call that full depression, just thinking too much. I have friends who suffer from actual depression, so I sort of get it but at the same time I can’t say I fully relate. I’ve lost my point somewhere in this paragraph… If you wanna see where this is going (and I think you do) it continues after the break.
People following my Twitter know that recently most of my free time as of late has gone into playing the PS3 game Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. This absolute beauty of a JRPG has made me absolutely giddy at nearly every turn with its brilliant combat system and wonderful story. But what makes me even more giddy, more so than any of that, is the art of this game. It’s gorgeous, beautiful, stunning, and every other possible word along that same meaning. Level-5 has always done visually interesting games with their Professor Layton series, but they took it a bit farther for this one.
Somehow Level-5 got in good with the art gods and managed to snag the biggest thing that makes this game so visually amazing, managed to get what I’m sure nobody actually thought they’d be able to get: they got Studio Ghibli. One of the most accomplished animation studios in the world does the art for this gorgeous game and it shows, not just from their distinctive characters who share the iconic Ghibli design, but also from the sheer beauty of the landscapes and animals. Not only that but Ghibli even spared their best composer, Joe Hisaishi, to write the score. Layton’s writers and Ghibli’s everything else? This game is a god damned match made in heaven!
I am unnaturally excited every time I boot up this game, and it’s really put me into a Ghibli mood. So, here I am again with another attempt at written content! Let’s talk some Ghibli and their films, shall we? This will come in three parts, the first dealing with their beginnings and their films in the 1980s.
And yes, before I am asked, I have seen all of these. Two of them I only saw as these articles were being written, but I have seen every single one of these films. Let us begin after the break!
