viernes, 26 de marzo de 2010

Enemy of the Year.

Goddamn.. why would this giant turtle get such an award? simple. The Adamantoise from FFXIII is a common beast, you can find them normally on large groups , its probably one of the biggest monsters on history of gaming, and... well it has literally million and million of HP... near 60,000,000 actually. Sure, theres actually a stronger enemy on the game. But its the game optional superboss. This guy is a damn common monster for god's sake, It's actually much much much stronger than the game final boss, I'v already beaten the game twice and still can't stand a chance against an Adamntoise. They can inflict over 10.000 points of damage to the whole team. while your team members barely have like 7,000. Enemy Of the Year. you deserve it Adamantoise!!!

martes, 23 de marzo de 2010

Final Fantasy XIII


Finally, the time has come, the first entry of Final Fantasy series in nearly 5 years, be ready for my review as soon as I complete it at 100%. might take a while though... but belive me... this one is not a dissapointment like LOLwhite knight chronicles.

jueves, 18 de marzo de 2010

Ifrit

Today I found this awesome pic, It seems to be Ifrit from the Final Fantasy Series, the draw also seems to be a fan art, because it doesn't look like anything from the original character designer from Square Enix, Nomura, but it's pretty good and very professional, I think it's made on photoshop, by the way, ifrit its one of the inspirations I got to create my username :D

jueves, 11 de marzo de 2010

White Knight Chronicles: Review.






All right, the long awaited JRPG has arrived. but does it lives up to its expectations?

Developed by the renowned creators of Dark Cloud and Dragon Quest franchises, Level 5 Studios bring up their so Hyped next gen RPG, unfortunately White knight Chronicles is nothing else than a bland and repetitive experience hidden under a good story, a superb presentation and some like able characters.

All right, lets start with the pros, first, the presentation is impeccable form the opening CGIs to the incredible overall design, the animations are top notch some textures seems kinda washed out but considering the size of the areas u'll explore its completely understandable, the towns around the world are some of the most lively and vast ones you'll be able to explore on any current gen RPG, almost every NPC on the game has something to say, though they basically repeat the same dialog again again, its a fresh change after all those mindless FPS that have been plaguing the market over the last few years.

Almost on par with the presentantion, it's the story, though is more or less the typical anime cliche of "The choosen one", the game manages to immerse the player with it's incredible narrative, which at certain point makes him feel emphaty with the characters.

At first the game game will let you create your own avatar who will be used through the main campaign, and the online mode.

Not long after the introduction, your avatar will join Leonard, who is actually the game protagonist, yes, your avatar is merely an extra on Leonard's quest.

During an average day of work, leonard is asked to make a delivery to the town's castle, this is where things gets ugly, some crazy guys called "The Magi" attack the castle with the intensions of killing both the king and the princess. After the success of killing the king, Leonard and his friends quickly meet Cisna, the princess. Leonard grabs her hand and takes her to the Castle's underground passage in order to escape, unfortunately they find themselves at a dead end, and being attacked by a huge monster summoned by the Magi, here's where the princess does that magical thingy(I'm not spoiling the plot) and allows leonard to transform into the legendary White Knight which has been sleeping under the castle for thousands of years, now leonard possessing the power of the white knight is able to repel the Magi assault to the town, but he's dumb enough to let an average grunt kidnap the princess >.>. from now on Leonard and his friends must embark on a quest to save the world form the mysterious magi plan of resurrecting the rest of the "Knights" using the princess powers.

Ok, so how does a game like this can go wrong?
Simple. the incredible boring combat, the horrible and repetitive outdoor areas, and the fact that you'll be fighting the same 4 enemies the ENTIRE game, thats right the same worms, bees wolves and trolls you fight at the tutorial, are the same enemies you'll fight until the end of the game, even the bosses are just re-skinned versions of the average enemies, same attacks, same animations, just different colors and sizes.
another big problem with the game is the difficulty... it's retardly EASY, you can easily beat the game under 15 hours just spamming the "X" button, no enemy on the entire game has a chance against the White Knight, and if its not enough after the first half of the game another character will join Leonard, and guess what... he's also a knight. the Dragon Knight, making the game even more easy that it already is...
1 Knight = overwhelming, 2 Knights = Chuck Norris plagium... This also makes the rest of the characters in your team who doesn't have a knight completely useless and out of context... why include them in the game then? who knows. Its also a waste that the game includes an incredible combo system, on which you can custom your own combos moves, ranging a great variety of weapons, too bad those moves are for fashion only, because never in the whole game they'll be needed, it's much easier to switch to Leonard, Trasform into the white knight, bring the apocalypse to every living thing on the level and finish it under 5 minutes... neither the games encourages you to develop your characters to higher levels. because its not really necessary, and even if it does, it would be too boring...

Conclusion: White Knight Chronicles, is a disappointing experience, even the most diehard fans of the RPG genre will find it tedious, easy and boring. The only thing that saves it form being a completely failure it's the interesting characters, the well narrated story, the immersive and inspired music, and the great overall game visual design.

SCORE: 6.7 "PASSABLE"



martes, 9 de marzo de 2010

Drager


My latest work, isn't it awesome? This is one of the characters i made for a graphic novel. called ancient realms, more character designs will come in a few days.

jueves, 4 de marzo de 2010

blade runner y mi opinion de los Cyborg ninjas,(spanish)

Esta película es un ejemplo de como era la ciencia ficción de los años 70 en el cine, la pelicula toma lugar en el año 2019, tan solo 9 años en nuestro futuro, y en la película se muestra una sociedad demasiado avanzada con autos voladores y cyborgs(androides), en mi opinión la creación de estos últimos seria una muy mala idea, porque aunque realmente al principio el uso de estos tendría beneficios, los desempleos aumentarían en el mundo, y muchas personas perderían su trabajo a causa de ser remplazados por los mas capaces androides, lo peor es que conforme la tecnología avance, y su estructura tanto anatómica, como cerebral, terminaría siendo idéntica a la de los humanos, puesto, a que siendo realistas,, desechando la religión , el humano es como es gracias al complejo cerebro y sus increíbles funciones, y no al alma o espíritu y otros cuentos de hadas, por lo tanto teóricamente el cerebro humano podría ser recreado a la perfección de forma artificial, causando así el nacimiento de otra raza humana creada artificialmente, los cuales tendrían pensamientos, emociones, gustos etc... y por esto la humanidad se dividiría en 2 facciones, Humanos y Cyborgs. Y debido a que serian idénticos a nosotros ya no serian perfectos en un sentido laboral, porque serian mas humanos que maquinas... y esto haría su existencia en un principio irrelevante...
En mi opinión los androides o cyborgs solo deben ser creados para tareas demasiado especificas para que fuesen útiles.. tareas peligrosas para el ser humano. como por ejemplo. mantenimiento de submarinos nucleares, dummys de pruebas, o en el peor de los casos para formar ejercitos de Cyborg ninjas , en lugar de ejércitos formados por personas.

lunes, 1 de marzo de 2010

God Of War III

It's coming. It's finally coming, the long awaited conclusion to the epic santa monica franchise God Of War III, has gone gold, and it's due to release on march 16 , so prepare to ditch your school and forget about your
familiy cause this game will blow your mind for a week. I can't wait!!!