Database Ranger's Power Review

My favorite type of review is a summary interspersed with jokes followed by an analysis. I'm also a fan of looking at single episode when talking about a television show like what sf debris does. But I'm not here to talk about that. Let's talk about Database Ranger's Power Review. Simply put he review Power Rangers by a episode by episode base. What makes him different then anyone else you would find with a quick youtube search? Two things really. First off is that his actually reviews are done in the style that I said earlier which in a world of mostly reaction videos is really refreshing (says the man who does a show called Live Reviews). The second thing is the story line. While I won't say the stories always keep me at the edge of my set, it has created a lot of really fun characters that I love to see going on these adventures.

As you can guess I really recommend this show, but only to people who knows about Power Rangers. I'm afraid a lot of the jokes may be lost on you if you aren't aware of Power Ranger's fandom. But then again maybe you'll find some joy in watching a nerdy guy fan out about his favorite show.

If you want to watch it the show start from the beginning here.

I hope you enjoy.

Isn't the song that's played in Castelia City Gym cool?

In the various gyms throughout Unova you would get a remix of the gym theme in each gym to fit the theme of the gym. Instead of talking about them all I'm just going to make a quick post about the one I'm listening to now. With Black and White 2 the Castelia gym got a redesign from honey to silk. When I first played through the game it gave me the creeps and the slow music was a big part of it. Now that I'm listening to the music away from the game, I still feel unsettled but I also has a strange calmness to it. But I don't study music so it might be best for you to hear the music yourself here.

The rise and fall of Ben 10

I was 9 when the original Ben 10 first aired. Hell, I remember some of the trailers for the show before it even started. When the show started I loved it. Ben 10 was my favorite show as a kid. What's more I re-watched the show last year and I still enjoyed it. I recommended the episodes "Hunted", "A Small Problem",and "Ultimate Weapon" if you want to try out the show. 

When I first saw trailers for Ben 10: Alien Force I was worried, but the idea that Kevin being a good guy this time around made me curios enough to watch. Thankfully I loved it. These kids no longer had a mentor in Max to guild them. They had to do it on their own. Kevin was really well done. While Gwen was hit or miss for me in OS, I turned into a fan of her in this season. I liked Julie. I enjoyed the more serious tone of the series. And most important I loved Ben. In five years he had changed from a kid who was giddy at the idea of being a super hero to a teenager who understands the importance of of what he did. Needless to say this is my favorite series of Ben 10. Some of my favorite episodes of Alien Force are "Paradox", "Con of Rath", and "Alone Together". As a side note: alone together is my favorite episode of all of Ben 10. 

Ultimate Alien is weird for me. It's really more of the same but with Ben's character being a little different, but I'll talk more about that later. I thought making Ben's identity public was a good idea at this point in time (why his identity becomes public is silly, but I'm amused by it). The idea of having an evolution function was a cool idea but at the end of the day wasted. This season also has the most episodes I recommend: "...Nor Iron Bars a Cage", "Prisoner Number 775 is Missing", "The Ultimate Sacrifice", "Catch a Falling Star", and "Absolute Power part 1 and 2"  

Pokemon Episode Pictures

Their comes a time when you're looking at the newest Serebii's Episode Pictures were you just stop and you  have to ask yourself, "What the hell is gone in this episode?"

Also, Mega Rayquaza looks awesome!

TMNT 2012 Season 2 finally: SPOILERS

Damn. Just...just, damn.

Seriously that was pretty awesome. I wan't really feeling it at the start with Casey being an idiot but when Erma turned out to be a Krang it really elevated the story for me. 

This two parter never let me forget how serious the situation was. A few notable moments were when Leo was alone fighting the Foot. You could just feel the exhaustion and desperation coming off of him. Also I know it's kind of cliche, but I also really liked the broken picture with the turtles that Splinter finds. I just love the imagery of it.

Now for the ending. It actually reminded me a lot of the season two finally of The Last Airbender, were the victory that the heroes get is only surviving to fight another day. Mikey asking Raph what's next was an especially sober moment for me.

So encase you couldn't tell I really enjoyed it and I can wait for season 3.

   

P.S. Mikey throwing the cough on Rahzar made me laugh so hard. 

Fucking tutorial!

There are a lot of different games to play with your buddies. Mario Party, Mario Cart, and Halo to name a few. A game people don't tend to mention as much is Fire Emblem. In theory Fire Emblem could work well. You have a game that, to do well in, you need to focus on an entire battle field. So having two friends coming up with the plans could help win with less character death. That's what my friend David and I thought when we wanted to hang out and play some video games.

Now, the copy of the game was David's but he had not played the game in a really long time while I had never even played anything from the Fire Emblem series. Because of this we decided to have the tutorials on. And this is were the title comes.

There were so many tutorials in the few levels we played through. While the two player idea did work well all the tutorials were just insufferable for two guys that just wanted to have fun. With that said, I have now played through some Fire Emblem games on my own time with the tutorials on to learn how to play the game, and they do help for new players.

So the moral of the story here is that if your going to play Fire Emblem as a group then be positive that everyone in your group has a basic idea of the game before you play.

Don't worry game. I'll voice act for you.

I got into the Ace Attorney series from PrinceBoo21's Let's Plays of the first three games. He provided voice acting for the characters because the game had none. When the time came for me to play my first ace attorney game, Apollo Justice, the game itself did not have voice acting and with no Prince Boo I just started voice acting myself. Apollo was my normal speaking, Trucy was a higher pitch of my normal voice, ect. But the weird thing about it was I didn't really relies it was happening. I just did it, but the strangeness of it does not stop there.

When I downloaded Dual Destinies I started playing it instantly and I started voice acting it again even thought the game had voice acting, all be it very little. I noticed this time when my mom asked who I was talking to in the living room. Even after I became aware of my voice over I still spoke all the characters dialogue out loud. The most humorous part of it being the fact that I gave Detective Fullbright a high-pitch nasally voice when he really had a normal, if some what deep, voice.

And then came Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. As you may have suspected I started doing voice work in this game as well, but ONLY in the court cases (of which I've done two so no spoilers). It's just something about the Ace Attorney style that makes me want to read it aloud. It's strange what some games can make you feel like doing.