Ponyo: Alternate Ending

First off, I want to say that I love Hayao Miyazaki. He's quite possibly one of the best animated film directors of our times. Actually, I take that back. In my opinion, he IS the best animated film director of our times. His works are things that can be enjoyed by so many people of all ages. His are the films I would lay out for my kids for the whole family to enjoy and as my kids would be amazed by these movies, I too would very much enjoy these films as much as I did when I first saw them, full of mature themes without being completely inappropriate and even then, I think they're some of the better movies out there.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World: Hipster Trash or Glorious Nerdom?

For the longest time, various fans of comics, video games, and other form of nerdity have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Based off the comic series of the same name, trailers portrayed the film in a form that at first made me think "Oh, just another boy meets girl movie. Well, time to move on to the next big mo-" And then suddenly there's Evil Super powered boyfriends involved. Trailers don't do that often, so this film certainly peaked alot of peoples' interests. Is it glorious nerdom or just hipster trash?

Zerg Rushin!

"Hey fellow terran! Better get to a bunker! Zerg are invading!"
"Really? When?"

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Beyond Good and Evil

This review was written in Spring 2007

Some time ago, Ubisoft came out with a series of really good games: Prince of Persia, XIII, Splinter Cell; just a lot of good games, most of which are still played today. However, in the midst of so many good games, it’s actually an often occurrence that some of those good games don’t get the credit they deserve. No doubt, you’ve might have seen the ads for Beyond Good and Evil, showing a girl sneaking around with a camera. By looking at these ads, one might think that this game is just a rip off of Pokemon Snap with more edge! Let me assure you that is and never was the case.

Melty Blood: Act Candenza (Vampires, Magic girls, and demons, oh my)

This may come as a surprised, but you know text-based games? The kind that are more about puzzle solving and finding out what to do next rather than full out combat and action? They’re actually pretty popular over in Japan and while a import of games like that might involve a big English patch or mastery of the Japanese language, certain text-based games can be so popular that they invoke spin-off titles. Such is the case of Melty Blood, a fighter based off the text-based game Tsukihime.