Review – Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
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Review – Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)

Metal Gear Solid 2 Konami - PS2 - 1 Player I'll just start by being courteous. There may be evil story spoilers in this article, though at the same times things that seem like evil story spoilers may just be exaggerations or even just made up to confuse you. With that said, It seems a recent trend in video games anymore is to simply rehash some old classic. 90% of games today are remakes or sequels to sequels. Sometimes a game comes along and tries something new and fresh though. A game with such neat innovative features the moment you…
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Review – Anime – Spirited Away

The first time I watched Spirited Away, I came away with a so-so opinion of the film. On one hand, the animation was rather amazing and stylized, the story seemed to have some good moral messages going, it was generally entertaining; on the other hand, it was just plain weird. It probably didn’t help that I was distracted and only half paying attention to the film. It’s still quite a surreal experience, but things tend to mesh a bit better on the second or third viewing. The core plot follows Chihiro/Sen, a young girl, as she works her way through…
Manga – FLCL Volume 1
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Manga – FLCL Volume 1

What am I supposed to be reading here? Seriously now, is there any plot even remotely to this book? I realize that FLCL is more or less about "random nothingness", but the manga seems to take it to an extreme case. I do not know which came first, but I do know that if I had not watched the show before reading the manga, I would have absolutely no concept of what is happening. The book feels like someone wrote a full manga, then ripped out ever other block of ten or so pages. There is an extreme lack of…
Review – Transformers – Energon – Alpha Q
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Review – Transformers – Energon – Alpha Q

Every once in a while we get a Transformer’s toy that doesn’t actually Transform into anything.  Alpha Quintesson (Alpha Q) is one such Transformer.  We first met the Quintessons back in Transformers the Movie.  They led a pack of hungry Sharkticons and liked to toss random bots into pits of doom.  As it turns out the Quintessons were more intertwined with the history and origin of the Transformers race then was originally believed.  Of course those Quints also looked like Eggs and had 5 faces (of darkness!).  This is Energon.  I couldn’t tell you what alpha Q’s role is in…
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Review – Anime – Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean

These two are actually more or less the same series. Rally Vincent appears in both as more or less the same character (they look different), and Bean Bandit appears in the Gunsmith Cats comic. Also they are done by the same creator (Kenishi Sonoda). The point is they really fit together. Like Apples and… slightly… differet…Apples. So the plot goes like this, there are bad guys, usually criminals of some sort with drugs or some shit, and the bad guys are chased down by vigilantes. Lots of Car chasing and shooting later, the bad guys die. Hard. With a VENGANCE.…