Daily Archives: Saturday, September 22nd, 2001

For the honor of Dan Star!

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I do like Bangai-O. Here’s a conversation which broke out in the middle of a nerve-wracking battle in a round filled with explosives which get set off in a chain reaction with one false shot:

Mrs. M: The legendary space fruit.
There are 5 types of
the huge Space-Fruit.

Mrs. M: Mandarins, apples,
Bananas, pineapples,
Water Melons.

Mrs. M: The Points rise
according to the series.

Riki (stressed): Points!?
What are the points?

Mrs. M: I do not know. Ask
The points counter.

Riki (calm, anticipatory): Is there no civet fruit?

Mrs. M: What? You’d like them?
But they stink!
Anyway there aren’t any!

Riki (freaking out): If there is no civet fruit,
then I don’t want to go on!

Mrs. M: I don’t know whether there
are any. Go and buy some
Somewhere else.

Deep Bang Blade

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I finally got a chance to play Bangai-O and Last Blade 2. Both were quite worth grabbing hold of, in their own particular ways.

Bangai-O is essentially everything I thought it would be, only more addictive and weird.

Last Blade 2… I really wasn’t sure what to expect here, but I got more than I was looking for. The animation is very nice, and the voices are some of the best I’ve heard in a fighting game. I’m actually liking some of the characters who I hadn’t noticed before (though the names aren’t sticking just yet), and I think I am going to like the fighting system. It’s quite complex in theory, but somewhat simple in execution. The characters also have a nice sort of a feel to them — more limber and mobile than the SF/KoF style and somewhat tighter and easier to deal with than the likes of Darkstalkers. The game’s minimalistic use of music in favour of background noises is quite interesting as well. I think I’m actually going to spend some time learning how to play this properly. It’s not often I think this about a fighting game.

On the way home I saw The Deep End, a smallish film I’d been wanting to see for a while. If I can do the research to refresh my brain on peoples’ names, I’ll talk about it some more. As it is, I’m feeling a bit dumb saying much. It was, however, something to see.