I made some flashy Pokemon

I drew some Pokemon in flash but I'm only really happy with Bulbasaur... Oh well here they are anyway. (Click on the image to big it!)

Pokemon on the brain ~_~

Well today my flatmate Sean told me of a wondrous thing, a Pokemon tabletop role-playing game!!! So now I'm in a Pokemon mood (I want to play my Pokemon White but I have too much work to do @@). While procrastinating I found some amazing Pokemon fan art and such things.

Amazing Pokemon plush toys by BabyLondonStar.

Cool Lego Pokemon (and other things) by invader_quirk

Marina Gardner's Blogging Monsters blog with so many awesome pictures in different styles.

Paper Pokemon


Also you can find all the Pokemon fan art you could ever wish for here

I'm surprised I haven't really done any Pokemon fan art... I'm a fan and I like drawing... Maybe I should do some. I did do this however...

It's an emo Jigglypuff...

Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar

If the title isn't reason enough to play it, YOU HAVE NO SOUL!

Therefore I think it wise you play it. Here!

(I think more games should have titles that sum up the whole thing.)

Namco Halloween iPhone sale

For anyone who has an iPhone and cares Namco are having an iPhone/iPad sale over the weekend, including these games.

I got BIT.TRIP BEAT. :D





EDIT: Also there is a Steam Halloween sale too...

Egyptian god at the laundrette

I was reliving my past, instead of doing my coursework (as you do), and searched up Super Flash Bros. Super Flash Bros made a short flash series on Newgrounds I used to watch when I was 14 called Decline of Video Gaming. I was originally just going to show my friend Sean (who's blog is Multi-Purpose) the videos, but I stumbled across some of the new stuff they have done. First off they have this beautiful animation Wash, Seth and Dry, which is only 20 seconds long but very cool. They also have a cute little game called Haunt the House where you play as a ghost that can posses object to scare people out of a house.

The video below actually shows the whole game, (I couldn't find a shorter one) so you might want to just play the game rather than watch it.

Twitter actually tuns out to be quite interesting

Through twittering I've discovered, Suda 51 is working on a new IP (woooooooooooo! I like this BTW) and this website has awesome No More Heroes 2 T-shirts, as well as a lot of other kool stuff. Now I just need to work out if they'll send to the UK.

My top 10 games I can remember right now.

So I was thinking I should probably go to sleep, then I came up with an amazing bed time alternative. A list of my top ten favourite games of all time (that I can remember right now). This is what I came up with. I'm not 100% happy with either order, or content of the list, but it's what you're getting so live with it.

10. Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II

I'm not really sure why this game is here (and at 10th place it barely is) but for now it stays. I can't put my finger on it, it was supposed to be an online RPG, but I never played it online. I played alone or with a few of my friends, sofa style (in the same room, shock horror). I suppose it must have scratched my collectors itch (which I clearly have *coughPokemoncough*). Later attempts SEGA has made to tickle my phancy, (get it? like fancy but with a "ph" like Phantasy Star. Anyway... ¬_¬) such as Episode III: C.A.R.D Bullcrap and Phantasy Star Universejust didn't have the same flare. Maybe I'm just getting old. I played Phantasy Star on the Gamecube BTW, I really miss this sound.

9. Parappa the Rapper 2

In an earlier post, I mentioned Meat Boy had taken Parappa's place as my favourite game. In actuality, Parrapa the Rapper was only my favourite game so I would have a quick answer to the question "what's your favorite game?". After some thought I placed Parappa here, at number 9 because, although the gameplay isn't so amazing, it's full of super funky songs and I love the 2D/3D mind fuck graphics (technical terms). Not forgetting that being the first rhythm action game must count for something. I know most fans would consider the first game to be better but quite frankly, I haven't played it.

One thing's always certain "I Gotta Believe!"

8. BlazBlue

I'm normally not too great at fighting games, and although I do enjoy playing them, I wouldn't have thought one would appear on my favourite games list. But here BlazBlue is in full blazing glory. It has enough wacky, colourful characters and fast paced @_@ (another technical term, I think it would be pronounced "werrr~") to keep my short attention span on it's toes. Also, I think the fact that I beat a Japanese guy, in a Japanese arcade, IN JAPAN!!! at the game has something to do with it gaining my affections.

7. No More Heroes

Ok this blog post is taking a long time... No More Heroes, well this is a sort of Japanese take on western games. Set in a faux America, an otaku character (based on Johnny Knoxville) orders a light sabre beam katana on the internet and becomes an assassin. Coupled with the brilliant cast of the other assassins I don't quite see what's not to like. I wish I was at the Japanese launch event; Suda 51 (the games creator) was there to sign copies of the game and give out toilet paper (the save points in the game are toilets) but no none turned up. A member of the press ended up buying a copy of the game because he felt sorry for them. I want No more Heroes toilet paper...

6. Jet Set Radio Future

I love the music, I love characters, I love the style. After playing this game I actually bought a pair of roller blades, got a group of friends to get roller blades and skated with them for around 2 years. Our skate crew was called 'Foot Feeling' (named after the aching in our feet after a good skating session), we had individual names (mine was 'Console' because I played the most games, surprise surprise), we even had a logo. I think that's reason enough for JSRF to be on this list.

5. Final Fantasy IX

Wow I'm tired, I should have gone with my original thought of going to sleep. Too late I've started now, I have to finish. This is here because I played it around the time I was getting into gaming in a big way. It was also the first Final Fantasy game I played and sparked my love for JRPG's (something which is now however waning). I'm also quite fond of the art style and character design (two things which are probably more important to me than they should be). This game in particular brings back memories of begging my parents to let me, "just get to the next checkpoint".

4. Beautiful Katamari

Like Parappa the Rapper 2 this certainly isn't a fan favourite, within its own IP, but it's the one I've played, so its the one on the list. The concept is just beautiful, roll everything up. EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

3. Mass effect

This is certainly the most serious game on the list, I tend to be deterred by the word serious (especially when paired with sci-fi) but somehow I really enjoyed this game. I was blown away by the immense amount of detail put into the game world and the complex dialogue system. I suppose I can live with cliché sci-fi if it seems like the developers tried really, really, hard. :P

Oh the video below may be spoilerish...

2. Pokémon (any and all)

This is where it all started for me, the beginning of K the gamer. This series is the root of my interest in games and Japan. I think it's fair to say I owe Pokémon my life. I also have a Pikachu mouse mat!

1. Super Meat Boy

Is mega.

G'night.

Aristocratic slapping...

I was browsing though the sites I had bookmarked in firefox and I came across this gem, Rose & Camellia. The premise is that you play as a woman who has recently lost her husband. The player has to slap their way though the dead husbands aristocratic family and eventually claim their house. That's about it.

I less than three Super Meat Boy!

I have found a new love... Super meat Boy. I never thought a game where I die so much, could be so much fun. Meat Boy is hard (Some people get stuck between a rock and a hard place, Meat Boy is that place.) and hard games usually frustrate the hell out of me. Meat Bot doesn't. I don't know whether it's the controls, the speed or the replays that show all my pathetic attempts, but I think (at least based on mechanics) this may be my new favourite game. Sorry old default favourite, Parappa the Rapper, your 2D/3D/whatever charm is no match for Meat Boy's raw, bloody gameplay...

In other news, I'm enjoying my Japanese lessons and I also got a language exchange partner so I can practice speaking. I also went to the Barbican with my mum to the Future Beauty: 30 years of Japanese Fashion which was pretty interesting. I ended up buying a DVD, which I thought was a documentary about street culture, which had strange textless menus. After some confusion it turned out to be a sort of documentary with no words. It did make me quite nostalgic about Tokyo. I was going to say more stuff but I'm tired so I wont. The End.

A nice chill song from 8OTTO for you.

Lego Wii-mote

I just woke up and I have to write my dissertation proposal for tomorrow @_@ but I did the early morning (it's 2pm) rounds of the internet and came across this on Kotaku.

I'm not saying I need anything but...

Also how did Sonic 4 manage to come out without me noticing..?

Video Games | Sonic 4: Episode 1 | UK Mad Gear Zone Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Sleepy K

I am very sleepy and in uni looking at games made in Unity. I came across this piece of game design genius. Also I'm sleepy.

Time Donkey Trailer from Flashbang Studios on Vimeo.

Time for Bedcraft...

Everyone I live with got Minecraft. Then we played it. Then we forgot to sleep. The end.

Eurogamer and laptop.

I got a new laptop yaaaay!

Anywho yeah, today I went to the Eurogamer expo and it was actually better than I expected. (based on my previous experience of expos) As well as a large amount of unreleased games to play there were a couple of talks which were quite good.

The first talk was by Peter Molyneux, it was pretty kool he gave a brief history the inspiration for the various Fable games (mostly consisting of films) and talked about how much trouble he usually gets for over hyping things. Oh and I got a Fable III T-shirt. :D

The next talk was about the new Deus Ex and it was mostly a gameplay demonstration. All I can be bothered to say about this is wow! The double-decker city is awesome. As soon as I got home I bought the first 2 games on Steam. Here's a trailer.

The last talk was about Infamous 2 it was kinda lame and the guy couldn't answer any questions but I guess it was ok.

I played a few indie games which were quite good but I'm too tired to elaborate so heres the links to the game websites.

http://hohokum.posterous.com/

http://www.pieceofpiestudios.com/

Pa pa pa poker face pa pa paaaaggghhhh shut up!!!

Well I can't sleep because I need to get up early and my brain is a bitch; it's decided to put Lady Gaga Poker Face on repeat... Anywho I decided to download and play Minecraft because Destructoid told me to and its free to play for a few days due to some technical reason. I played it for a few minutes and I don't understand @_@ I'll put this tutorial video that I can't be bothered to watch here and maybe I can work out how to play later.

I have been Vanquished...

Vanquish wasn't really a game I was paying much attention too. My main thought about the game was what a pity it is the dog in the concept above didn't make it into the final design. (You could use it as cover and it was going to have missiles...) My flatmates complaints about the cover systems that requires the player to press X however, prompted me to download the demo. I actually really enjoyed it cover system and all. I particularly enjoyed the slip and slide action that allows you to wizz all over the place at the touch of a button. There's certainly enough going on on screen to satisfy my ever shortening attention span. Vanquish is also by the same developers behind Bayonetta and MadWorld, both games I'm quite fond of, so it must be good... Right?

Video Games | Vanquish | GC 10: Sam Gideon Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Armed to the teeth...

I hadn't actually heard of NeverDead before a few minutes ago but I just saw this Image over at Kotaku and the game has already been sold to me...

...Ooo and I found this trailer on Gametrailers and although it seems a bit campy I'm still very interested. I suppose there's just something intriguing about detachable limbs and bad comedy.

Pokemon sprout the seeds of life...

I pre-ordered the Japanese version of Pokemon White which comes out on the 18th. I now have no money but Pokemon is more important than food. I just have to make the all important decision... Do I choose the snooty lizard thing or the pig whatsit... (I'm not choosing the otter.)

OMG! Phantasy Star!!!!!1111111!!!1111!!!! (Ok I'm not that excited...)

I've been browsing the news from Tokyo Games Show and there are quite a few games that are sparking my interest (I may make a few posts about them later.) One game in particular that caught my eye while browsing Destructoid was Phantasy Star Online 2. I had Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II back on the Gamecube and although I never actually took the experience online I quite enjoyed it. I did however play Phantasy Star Universe online but wasn't very impressed. I think I'll keep this one on my radar and hope it has the same charm as gamecube version.