In yesterday’s Endurance Run, Vinny and Jeff did a fair amount of fusing to prepare for unleashing Black Frost upon the demons of the Midnight Channel, only to find that they were two levels too low to manage the fusion. While it is a mostly fusion-centric episode, the gang does also venture into the Void Quest to make some progress. Will they level up enough to fuse Black Frost?
The Persona 4 Endurance Run continues! After an embarrassing defeat yesterday due to a lucky Hama strike on Charlie Tunoku (protip: carry a homunculus), the Persona 4 Endurance Run continues from the exact same place it left off yesterday. Part 82:
With E3 finally over, the Giant Bomb guys have returned to Inaba to keep the Persona 4 Endurance Run alive! I get lots of hits from people looking for the ER and Vinny Caravella (but none for Gerstmann…sorry Jeff!), so here you go. Enjoy!
I think we can officially call it right here: MLB Power Pros 2009 is not coming to the states. By this point last year we already knew that the 2008 edition was launching in July past the All-Star game. On the other hand, we didn’t know about the first one until about September or October, so I still had some hope. Until I saw this post on Kotaku. What a shame that 2K is missing a tremendous opportunity to publish a great game that people in the US do actually love. ...
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. When I was a kid I became saddled with the unfortunate notion that Japan did pretty much everything better than the United States. I don’t think I would have gone so far as to call myself a Japanophile, but it was definitely close. Their video games were all sweet (FF VI and Chrono Trigger!) and their cartoons sure beat the heck out of the asinine stuff I was sometimes watching on the Disney Afternoon. This may have had something to do with the fact that I was watching Bubblegum Crisis and Ranma at a time when the best cartoon I could watch was Timon and Pumbaa, but it would be foolish to think that the allure of the unknown didn’t factor into it too. ...
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. If you’re trying to find the common thread that weaves all of these games together, don’t keep racking your brain, I’m just covering a ton of different stories and experiences. Tangled Up in Blue Street Fighter IV created within me something of a fighting game…well I hesitate to call it a renaissance, cause there was never a naissance, so to speak, but, should naissance actually be French for birth, it did birth in me the fighting spirit. I haven’t played the game in a while, mostly because I’m trying to save the world and attend high school (Persona 4) at the same time, but I figure I’ll get back to it soon, especially with that new tournament mode in. ...
Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. Now, I know this is going to sound both bizarre and boring in concept, but hear me out on this, cause it’s actually pretty awesome. Here’s what I’m proposing to you: Watch two other people play an ~65-80 hour game on a daily basis at about 20-50 mins long. Sound awful? Well you haven’t heard the icing on the cake: they’re going to Mystery Science Theater 3000 the whole thing! ...
Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. 2K has been silent as to whether or not this will be localized, but here’s the latest trailer on my favorite baseball series: MLB Power Pros! Bring this stateside 2K. There’s a dedicated fanbase that will buy it.
Oh man! Amazing! Sony finally dropped the price of the…PS2? Yeah, it makes no real sense to me either, at least not when you look at the serious problems that Sony’s been having with the PS3 since launch. Yeah, they’ve got that whole ten-year plan going for the PS2, but one would think that they would, I dunno, refocus their efforts so that they could drive the sales up of their flagship console. ...
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. With every Final Fantasy game there exists great (and not so great) teams of heroes bent on saving the world from some sort of evil force. While we could take a look at those heroes, let’s instead take a look at the evils that motivate these heroes to do what they do. ...