Bioshock

Alright, so I’m a year behind everyone else in the world playing this game but that isn’t going to stop me from talking about it anyway. I only acquired an Xbox 360 late last year, and I had my reservations about Bioshock. It wasn’t that I doubted it was as good story-wise as people have constantly told me, it’s just that I’m not big on first-person shooters: namely I find them disorienting. However I knew Bioshock wasn’t going to be your typical shoot-em-up fps and from even the first moments of the game this was confirmed.

I had heard about the whole Objectivist dystopian theme, and I do love stories about dystopias, and I knew the graphics were pretty but I didn’t realize just how pretty until I started playing. The first thing I did once inside a structure was begin ogling the detailed textures on the walls. As the game takes place in 1960, in a secret dsytopian underwater city called Rapture that was built throughout the late 1940’s (you heard me) everything, and I mean everything was Art Deco. I was in eye candy heaven.

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+Anima

Being a geek I naturally have a collector habit. Of course all I really seem to collect these days are comic books and video games, not that there’s anything wrong with that. When it comes to comics my tastes obviously tend to lean heavily toward the manga flavor (interrupted now and again by things like ElfQuest or Marvel’s Dark Tower adaptation) and since I’m only really collecting Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist right now (despite having read all of the former and up to the recent magazine chapters of the latter in scanlation) I will sometimes grab a random book for something fresh. Lately I’ve had no luck with series sticking for me, one volume of Trinity Blood and two volumes of Godchild (some part of the Cain series) sitting on my dusty  "manga I randomly have for whatever reason or are in Japanese, French or Spanish" shelf will attest to that.

While perusing the book store one day after work I spied something called "Anima" (not noticing the "+" at the time which would have otherwise scared me away, I hate titles like that, the godawful Blood the Last Vampire spinoff  Blood+ has not helped my opinion on that matter either), which looked kiddy but the style and the back description caught my interest and so I picked it up. Seven volumes later I have to say I’m diggin’ it.

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2 Pics + 1 Fanart

New artwork by me:

And new fanart by Xenomaren!

Okami (For Wii)

You know all those ads around the internets calling Okami "the greatest game you never played"? Boy is that ever the truth. Admittedly, despite hearing how good it was, I never got around to playing Okami on the PS2. Upon hearing it not only featured brushwork as part of a gameplay but it was coming out on the Wii with motion controls for just that, I resolved to buy it.

It was a good decision, and I was certainly not disappointed. It’s an inspired, well-made and artful game, full of wit and humor and many heart-warming moments. It may be an action-adventure open-world game, but it’s so unlike anything else I’ve ever played.

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Vote No on Mother’s Day!

So I heard something rather amusing today. Over 100 Republicans voted against a simple resolution to recognize Mother’s Day. You heard me. The same people who go on and on about FAMILY and how they represent FAMILY and how they’re protecting FAMILY and how everyone else but them is trying to destroy FAMILY voted against a recognition of Mother’s Day.

Why?

Well apparently they’ve been trying to spite the Democrats by just voting against everything they propose, no matter what it is. Aren’t you glad we have such reasonable, level-headed and mature individuals running this country?