The Daily J

Leading up to and continuing past the release of Plasma Storm, I've found that a lot of people have been dismissing Victini-EX out of hand, mostly due to it's lack of HP.

Matching Celebi and Shaymin at a low 110 Hit Points, Victini finds itself blitzed by quite alot and just absolutely crushed by even a Turn 2 DCE'd Keldeo-EX, the variants of which are some of the most common and powerful decks currently in format.

Even Lugia-EX, who is kind of terrible in and of itself, can one shot a Victini for 3 prizes with ease.

But what people seem to be forgetting is that's sort of the point. Sure Lugia, Keldeo, Articuno and a slew of others can blitz Victini with ease, all 3 take time to set up. Keldeo takes at least 2 turns to set up, barring a miracle Ether, and most all other EX's are just as Energy Hungry.

Only Cobalion, Landorus
read more..

Hello peeps and cronies, its been too long. Welcome to a new year and a new slew of movies to look forward to and despise, 2012 is going to be massive.

And what a year its looking to be, with the year kicking off to a resoundingly fantastic start with the likes of Hugo, The Muppets (Delayed release here, the 12th of Jan) and the imminent release of the tantalizingly good looking adaptation of Tinker Tailer, Soldier Spy (Oldman, Strong and Cummerbatch ftw!) the sultry My Week With Marilyn, the give it a watch you might like it Remake (Why?) of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and of course the long awaited, anticipated and studio hyped The Avengers (Fyi, its going to suck). Of course you also have the things that just scream sucka
read more..

So, having been quite the Digi fag as a child, and an avid fan of Adventure, Tamers and Frontier, with just a bare tolerance of Adventure 02, when I stumbled upon Xros Wars after having not seen a new episode in years (Just lots and lots of re-watches) I was understandably excited.

And then the Digimon became Voltron. True. Fucking. Story.

So no question, I dropped that pretty quickly. But having seen that I decided hey, lets see if there's any other seasons that I missed.

And thus I found Data Squad.

Oh Data Squad, where to start, where to start. There's just so much wrong with this show, oh so much wrong, that it's almost hilarious, but the end result is just bad.

Now I'm not sure if this is just a problem with the dub, or if the Japanese was just as bad, but within the first 7 minutes we're given some truly h
read more..

The radio was born in the dying days of the 1800's. It took 80 years for it to become portable. 20 years for it to become pocket sized after that. 10 more years to become digital and small enough to fit in your hand. Less than 5 for it to not need replaceable batteries, and become the size of the average persons slightly open mouth.

It took 100 years for the Plane to be invented after the Hot Air Balloon was first conceived. It only took 50 after that for humanity to reach the black of space, 60, to put a man on the moon.

The TV took 50 years to come around after the radio was born. Computers haven't stopped evolving constantly since Windows 95 was released.

The internet was born in the 1960's, it took 20 years for it to become a mainstay of interoffi
read more..

Get ready to scream.

Seriously. If you've chosen to play Mean Bean Machine (From now M.B.M) you will scream at least once, and maybe rip a bit of hair out too. But that's for later.

M.B.M is a puzzle game developed by Sega to capitalize on the success of the Sonic games and make a couple more million dollars for the compony. (Much like Sonic Pinball, but that was actually Sonic-esque.)

M.B.M is a spiritual precursor to games like bejewled, and also a large rip off of Tetris.
The goal is to line up four "beans" of the same colour to pop them and gain points.
At the same time a computor controlled opponent will be doing the same. Go over the top of the screen and it's game over.
The more beans you pop at once, the worse it's going to get for your opponent, who will have stone beans dropped on them,
read more..

*For review purposes, I've been playing Subsistance, this review may refer to control schemes or mini games not available in the initial release. Don't bite my head off because you think I'm wrong. The Online Gaming will not be touched on in this review.*

In 1987, Konami Games published a game for MSX2 and SNES (Depending on Location of the consumers) that did mildly well, at least well enough to spawn two sequels. This game was Metal Gear. The story of an elite military operative in the employ of FOXHOUND, where only the best of the best reside, who has to sneak into a military compound known as Outer Haven to destroy a bipedal tank with Nuclear Launch capabilities to avoid a worldwide plunge into nuclear war.

The first sequel,Snakes Revenge was an ultimately forgetable spin off, and didn't offer much in value as it's predecesser did, but the story of Metal Gear was followed up in the dir
read more..

I know I said I'd have an old school review on Dr Robotniks M.B.M out this week, but I felt the need to comment on Dragon Age: Origins first. I know it goes against me saying I wouldn't do current games, but I have a slight bone to pick here.

Now in saying that, Origins isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, in fact it's quite decent, gameplay works well, party members are orginised and controlled quite seamlessly, and the option of 6 different stories based on the race {Human, Elf and Goblin) and class (Warrior, Mage Rouge) gives you a good reason to start at the beginning and see how things pan out. Plus the game itself looks pretty polished.

I started off by choosing a Human Rouge, because we all know Rouges are awesome.
So I started off, ready to fight off demons and the hounds of hell itself, and ended up doing what...?
I need to get my dog out of the damned pantry? Oh the
read more..

Ever since the introduction of the Playstation 2 and Xbox, the fuzzy marsupial has been passed around more times than a $2 Hooker in New York. Staring in games ranging from weirdly animated Wrath of Cortex, horrible buddy game, Twinsanity and the multitude of racers (ala Nitro Kart) and strange Creature (riding) Features. (Mind Over Mutant and friends)

But to get to the point where Crash is at now, nothing more than a symbol of commercialism and greed, surely he and his pals must've been somewhat of a gaming success at some point. Right?

Right.

The original Crash Bandicoot game wasn't full to the brim of anything too new, infact the first few levels seemed to be like something out of Donkey Kong Country on th N64.

But to those of us who grew up with him, Crash Bandicoot was a way of life.

I know personally myself I spent hours of my youth in my friends garage, playing by the 1 Life/1 Level ru
read more..

Screw general babbling, I want to kick start a review column again, but what the hell can I cover?

FMA finished a while back, and I coluldn't keep up with that, so I probably shouldn't look into anything weekly, and video games and movies are just so, dull.

So the question remains, what the hell can I review. Well that leaves books and music. And while I enjoy the odd book here and there, I'm not fully avid, so that would leave music.

I suppose that could work. Music's a generally steady medium in it's releases and I doubt it would require me to review every single release ever...

But then comes the kicker. No idea how to pull it off.

So it comes back to Video games, and really, I don't want to do that... I'm stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place, it's frustrating.

Hmm, what's this? Sega Megadrive collection? with all my favourite games from the '90s and '80s?

Oh hell yeah.

Tune in soon for my
read more..

So without further ado;



With Episode 47, Emissary of Darkness, and the massive 67 page beast that was Chapter 105 coming out last week, Fullmetal Alchemist's next offering, Episode 48, has quite a lot of epic to follow up on.

And only seconds after the opening credits roll we're force fed epic as Lan Fan slices open Gluttony's Face, and disconnecting his arm from the rest of his body.

Of course this is continuing on her last minute appearance last week, as she turned up in a whirlwind of elbow dagger goodness, turning the large Homunculus into red jelly.

Anyway in episode 48 we have
read more..