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Re: UK Anime Network News - MVM Entertainment hints at new anime license

British_Otaku — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:29:36 -0000

It better be Welcome to the NHK.
Though it would make sense for them to be relicensing Black Lagoon after the explosive demand and bringing at least the first and second barrages over in decent stock.

Re: UK Anime Network News - MVM Entertainment hints at new anime license

British_Otaku — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:20:43 -0000

I was fast enough to pick up one of the singles for the second barrage for £0.99 (from MVM's Anime On-Line store) though we are likely going to be treated with boxsets according this source: http://mangamarket.wordpres...

We may be getting a larger boxset (either complete barrages like the past or the barrages sold in one amaray each without any singles) when it comes.

Re: UK Anime Network News - Catherine coming to Europe this year

British_Otaku — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:31:26 -0000

Hope that the Pizza Box Limited Edition comes around as well, I'll take two.

Re: UK Anime Network News - MVM Entertainment licenses Welcome to the NHK in the UK

British_Otaku — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:01:30 -0000

A very promising future release for MVM. With this, they have licensed four of the anime which had some input from Yoshitoshi ABe... I'll be preordering this one.

Re: UK Anime Network News - MVM Entertainment licenses Welcome to the NHK in the UK

British_Otaku — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:46:25 -0000

MVM stated that they are following up this license with (source: http://forums.animeuknews.n... two classics which they already acquired in the past.

Since, they licensed Haibane Renmei (along with Black Lagoon) at a point, we could have Haibane Renmei stock pretty soon. Worth ignoring the US stock for a while longer, perhaps.

Re: UK Anime Network News - Kaze UK to release Black Lagoon on Blu-Ray

British_Otaku — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:11:20 -0000

I was looking forward to MVM rereleasing the franchise, though a rerelease with Roberta's Blood Trail is hard to argue with.

Re: Unlimited Cruise or Unlimlited Cruise? Another Spelling Mistake on Latest One Piece Spine for Nintendo 3DS

British_Otaku — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:21:25 -0000

Well done Namco Bandai. The advertisement for the game (look at Anime News Network's ads and consider that Nintendo is pushing it) well disguised your laziness in the localisation from the fact that it lacks a whole episode from the original Japanese game (an episode is half of the story here, not a downloadable portion you can find on a downloadable store) to the name being typed incorrectly on the spine.

Re: Unlimited Cruise or Unlimlited Cruise? Another Spelling Mistake on Latest One Piece Spine for Nintendo 3DS

British_Otaku — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:18:15 -0000

For as long as it carries the same name as the original Japanese game (which features TWO EPISODES) and they show no immediate interest in supplying greater qualities of the Wii Episodes (or Ep 2 on the 3DS), I feel inclined to complain even if they had promos stating the contents.

Normally people don't consider a localisation to be okay when half of the content, be it characters, voice clips, story or mini games (see Yakuza 3 for bits of all of this), this shouldn't be tolerable at all whether it was stated that they wanted to give us 2 episodes or not. People often import over just music being screwed over.

Re: UK Anime Network News - Sponsored Video for Last Story

British_Otaku — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:04:05 -0000

Shame that so many names had be changed for no good reason and that all of the promotion seems to be through Operation Rainfall and online. I just saw a Mario Party 9 advertisement on Cartoon Network 2, that slot could have been great for pushing this game.

Re: UK Anime Network News - Exclusive: New MVM releases

British_Otaku — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:21:42 -0000

Mayo Chiki! seems to have a similar premise to MariaHolic and doesn't have a dub yet. Perhaps another case of us, getting a dub announced before FUNimation announces their licensing of a show as with Fairy Tail.

.Hack/Quantum is a pretty large meta-series so I'm going to probably wait that one out and hop in for the deal of the week someday unless I hear many recommendations.

Re: Mass Effect 3 leaks onto torrents before launch

British_Otaku — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:02:56 -0000

Demo? Sorry but even if I respect piracy if it doesn't or can't damage profits for a respectable title or game, I don't see why you have get a game EARLIER than the normal means.

I saw you said you bought/preordered the game in question, but it still comes off as weird as a demo would normally do that job. :/

Re: Yes, Dragon Ball Z For Kinect Is Real. It’s Coming In October

British_Otaku — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:59:04 -0000

The potential audience is filtered down to the Xbox 360, who have Kinect and think that a scheme heavily based on it will well represent a franchise which has a split fanbase due to over half a dozen successful franchises. It is likely to have a small consumer base, even if it isn't likely to have the same expected sales.

I just hope it doesn't embarrass Spike anymore, Ultimate Tenkaichi was supposed to be their final DBZ game and it received more criticism than even Raging Blast 2. Coming back a year later with an odd Kinect idea despite the acclaim other concepts (that they even made at a point) received seems like they are gluttons for punishment.

My DBZ game of the generation is Dragon Ball Kai Ultimate Butoden, a solid DS fighter with a great character cast, promising ideas and great cinematics. Guess what, that one hasn't even been localised in a year. Namco Bandai needs to step up their game, it is on the same level of Capcom leaving Ace Attorney Investigations 2 in Japan.

Re: | | NeoMag.co.uk

British_Otaku — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:06:24 -0000

Manga UK tweeted that "it's the same version released by Madman and Funimation." https://twitter.com/#!/Mang...

So you are out of luck. On the other hand, there are a variety of FUNimation produced dubs so perhaps it might be a different FUNimation dub cast, voice type or such to the one you didn't enjoy.

No chance of using the Ocean score though, you should expect the FUNimation score and Japanese score along with the voice options if this is the Orange Boxes again.

Re: UK Anime Network News - Kodansha release bilingual Chihayafuru volumes in Japan

British_Otaku — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:02:15 -0000

YES! The first step to having a good show localised! I'll have these ones ordered.

Re: The Missing Half Of One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP Is Sailing To PAL Land

British_Otaku — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:01:47 -0000

Wouldn't multiple voice tracks take more space than multiple subtitle sets especially if they don't drop the latter? Don't be surprised if Namco Bandai releases yours in three pieces. Episode 1, Episode 2 and the extra Marineford content as download only content...

Re: UK Anime Network News - What's On at the May 2012 MCM London Comic Con

British_Otaku — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:38:08 -0000

I wasn't interested till I saw the Berserk stuff. Seems I'll be going to another one.

Re: A Look At The Colourful Cel-Shaded Style Of Capcom’s E.X. Troopers

British_Otaku — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:15:20 -0000

Normally, I wouldn't refuse a new IP which looks promising but resembling Megaman Legends 3 and coming from Capcom... Well, I'll just hope they don't cancel it for now...

Re: The Missing Half Of One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP Is Sailing To PAL Land

British_Otaku — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:50:14 -0000

I doubt Blazblue only had English subtitles in Europe, perhaps it may have had over five subtitle sets with additional language tracks much like Arkham Asylum which they didn't need to cut content from the PS3 or 360 version for European release... Nor Revelations, another 3DS game...

It doesn't make sense for them to be LESS welcoming to people in the same region.

Re: New Dragon Ball Z Game For PS3 And Xbox 360 Is The Final "Budokai" Title

British_Otaku — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:48:50 -0000

So this is "Spike's last game" huh... I thought that was Ultimate Tenkaichi or that they were going to crash and burn with their greatest disappointment yet on the Kinect this year...

I have no hopes for this game due to Spike's poor performance in general and how the PS/360 duo seems to have made both Spike and Dimps (to a much lesser extent but yes) incapable of providing content (too much work on the graphics? I don't know for sure), good fighting mechanics and character variety ranging from the separation of techniques to the number of characters...

Re: New DmC Devil May Cry Footage From E3 With Director’s Commentary

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:00:45 -0000

While I think the project is laughable, you should present your argument better so the people who see complaints can't ignore us without looking bad. Poor presented arguments is the reason why sequels which disappointed or missed the mark like Ninja Gaiden 3, Mass Effect 3 or Ultimate Tenkaichi had demand in the first place.

The first thing you address should be the gameplay flaws in comparison to prior games. In this case, how taunting is gone, how two buttons are doing the same dodge and lock on is now automatic only. Heavy language use is something to note as well, in No More Heroes (Suda 51, top ten assassin story with otaku lead), it had it's place from the beginning. You can go on from there and mention that Tameen and Capcom are being disrespect to the fanbase as well.

Re: New DmC Devil May Cry Footage From E3 With Director’s Commentary

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:11:32 -0000

Actually, Dante isn't supposed to smoke at all if you go and look at the foundation that the series creator set up for him.

"Series' creator Hideki Kamiya has said that the titular character from the manga series Cobra by Buichi Terasawa
served as the basis for Dante's personality. Kamiya based his idea of
Dante on what he perceived as "Stylish" -- wearing a long coat to make
the character "showy" and a non-smoker, as Kamiya saw that as more cool."

On topic, I find your argument appealing as it questions why we accept X (killing and fighting people and animals) but not Y (smoking and gambling - no harm done and kids can't even do it for real thanks to ID systems). I want my Pokemon to have casinos! However, just because the game has the player doing worse than smoking doesnt mean we should make them smoke.

Also, the prior games were kid friendly language wise so I find it odd that this one wants to be House of the Dead Overkill.

Re: New DmC Devil May Cry Footage From E3 With Director’s Commentary

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:29:15 -0000

It frightens me that unlike Ninja Gaiden 3, this is going to get some degree of critical acclaim. Both of them basically have a new team and new fundamentals for the gameplay and story which contridict prior titles. In this case, they rebranded the franchise completely (smart move if you want people to forget how it was like or hop on as if this was the first) and waited long enough that some people are actually pleased with the project independently despite missing features, a different engine, a lower framerate and completely different direction.

Re: New Dragon Ball Z Game For PS3 And Xbox 360 Is The Final "Budokai" Title

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:32:01 -0000

Sorry to burst your bubble but this news is fake and the source translator admitted it. To cap it off, the only DBZ game at E3 was the lovely Kinect project.

Re: Code of Princess Hands-On: An Explosive Brawler

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:42:14 -0000

I never consider working out licenses with voice actors to be a problem. I've noticed publishers say that crossovers like Tatsunoko vs Capcom (which got worldwide thankfully) are often out of question as they would have to contact the licensor in North America and Canada for an anime who could be different. And in the case of going to PAL Land, Europe could have one for every country not to mention Australia.

Music is also an issue, I've seen many games or shows drop the original OST or intro as they obviously couldn't pay enough.

I'm willing to hear how keeping resources such as voice clips which you presumably pay for by line and not to be able to have the songs play in the game by region.

Re: New DmC Devil May Cry Footage From E3 With Director’s Commentary

British_Otaku — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:48:31 -0000

I agree that this game seems to be a on a different level to NG3, though I see the first games of a franchise or style as core to judging whether a new title is respectable.

NG3 earned hatred for trying to push in a guilt driven plotline into games which even from the NES and Xbox sent you killing without a care in the world as everything is trying to kill you. It also took weaponry from the get go (free DLC is still bullshit), made gameplay easy and added a special technique which BOTH make you contridict the direction of the story and make it easier.

To someone who first played it or liked hack and slash games with crazy storylines (let's say Dynasty Warriors), they might have liked it. I enjoyed Apollo Justice for my first AA game as someone who heard of the Objection fad from a distance and knew only that Phoenix Wright was a lawyer. Look at it after the prior games and despite it being a good project, it throws Phoenix Wright out of character, throws away the entire cast who may have appeared in the three original games or just in two of them and uses the DS features worse and less than the DS exclusive case in the first GBA port. It isn't very good for an Ace Attorney game even if it is a very good visual novel.

As an independent project from Devil May Cry, it would be like "ANOTHER NEW IP FROM THESE GUYS! AWESOME COMBO SYSTEM! LOVE THE SETTING! SUPPORT THIS ONE GUYS WE WANT THEM TO HAVE A SEQUEL UNLIKE HEAVENLY SWORD!" instead of like "GET TAMEEN OUT OF MY DEVIL MAY CRY! WORKS NOTHING LIKE THE ORIGINAL NEEDS TAUNTS 60FPS LOCK ON WHITE HAIR RAEG! WAIT HALF ANGEL!?".

I'm not convinced that it needed to be a reboot on that note, or at least one which chooses to abandon the original franchise in the ways it has. Good sales so far, an established style for four games with a single voice actor for 2 (plus Marvel vs Capcom 3) for Dante then this...

tl;dr

Being a good game isn't good enough. It needs to be good within the franchise to satisfy the original audience. Even if that means following a formula to an extent.