Pokemon PETA version

Soooooo...

The 12th of October, we european guys will be able to get our paws on the new Pokémon games: White 2 and Black 2, the first direct sequels in the Pokémon main series (not counting Gold and Silver, even if it's set in the same region, with a little time skip, and...oh well...).

There is, however, something else, related to the franchise, that is making some news: the (in)famous organization for the animal rights , the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (or PETA) has once again started a campaign against the Pokémon games.

The motive is the same: Pokémon is showing childrens that keeping animals stucked in tiny little balls and making them battle is a good thing, so, logically, it's positive to animal abuse and cruelty.

"It doesn't make sense", you say? Don't worry, nothing related to PETA makes sense...remember the "Super Mario 3D Land" promotes raccoon hunt because of the Tanuki Suit?

Aaaaaaaaanyway...to show the real intention of the evil Pokèmon games, PETA counterattacks with a parody flash game based on it, called "Pokémon Black & Blue: Gotta free 'em all".

As you can see, the theme of this kids game is REVENGE...wait, what?

In this game you control an abused Pikachu and other injured Pokémons, in short battles against the evil and abusive humans like Cheren and Professor Juniper.
While still possessing the basic attacks like Thundershock, there are also some special ones like "Protests" and "Group Hug", I guess because they want to show "the good thing to do", duh...

Successfully beating the crap out of the humans, you'll gain some little bonuses, like wallpapers and cards.

Tepig - Your Lotta Hart cosplay is awful!

You can try the flash game by clicking the link below

http://features.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/

Now, after playing the game, I guess I should say my opinion, it's also perfect 'cause it's kinda RPGish, so it's totally my department! x3

I really don't have a lot to say, I have just one thing to say...


Why?


Why this? What is the purpose of it? What does it try to accomplish?They're really trying to pin animal abuse on a children game/anime? What the hell are they thinking?

It almost feel like nobody is giving a shit to this organization and that they desperatly need attentions, so they just say the greatest idiocy in the world, so people will start talking about them, and somehow, it worked.

I'm not even against what they're trying to say, of course, it's totally understable what they're trying to say...to bad that even their message is wrong: I mean...you want to show us that forcing animals to fight other animals and hurting them is bad, really bad, so, what do they do? They let us play a game where we use INJURED ANIMALS to fight against HUMANS, that's almost worse...

What everybody see

What PETA see

It's...really...it's impossible to take it seriously...I'm trying, really, but with things like that...

Just...just try something else, PETA, flash parody games totally aren't your things...


On the good side, nice drawing and nice music

Back from vacations x3

Yay, I'm finally back from a long month of vacation...it was nice, but after a bit it became boring XD

So I'm finally here and I'm ready to start using this blog seriously...or at least I'll try ^_^''

Time for some art

Well, I'm kinda short of things to say recently, so I'll let a pic I just finished to do the talk in my place XD

Here's Zephir Proudhon with his new clothes, hope you'll like it ^^

Bad news for Italian and Spanish Kingdom Hearts fans

Well, even if it's incredible to hear and impossible to accept, it looks like "Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance", the last chapter of the well known Square-Enix saga coming in July for Nintendo 3DS...will not be translated in Italian and Spanish.

Yup, that's right...the european version of the game will contain only English, French and German subtitles.

Is this a marketing move from Disney to sell more "Magic English" here in Italy?

Here's the direct quote from the Square-Enix blog...

As we get close to the launch of Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], we want to make it clear to European fans which languages the game will be available in. Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] will be localised into English, French and German. The VO will be in English only, with English, French and German subtitles. In Spain and Italy the game will be available in Spanish and Italian boxes with accompanying documents, but the game itself will be playable in English only.

 

We want to make this completely clear for our European customers so there is no confusion. We hope all fans of the series will still be able to enjoy Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] and the fantastic new features it brings to the series; it’s a game we are really proud of.

Now, personally, it's not THAT big deal...I mean, I know English, I can read it, I can speak it...but it's kinda strange to see a series with many spin-offs, every single one translated in the main european languages...and then, the new chapter (that, as they said, will be directly connected and will act as a prelude to the final game "Kingdom Hearts 3") will not receive this treatement...does this mean that any future "Kingdom Hearts" game will not be translated? Is that because the past games didn't sold enough in those countries?

I don't know and probably nobody will know, I also asked directly on the blog, and this was the answer...

Unfortunately we can't go into any further details other than what has been outline in statement above, sorry.

 So...well, it looks like the 20th of July we'll have to pick up our high school English textbooks...it sucks anyway.

Link to the news - http://eu.square-enix.com/en/blog/product-information-kingdom-hearts-3d

RPG News : Final Fantasy, Pokemon and more...

Plenty of news recently, mostly about Final Fantasy

FINAL FANTASY


- Nomura recently stated in an interview that he's aware that fans really want a Final Fantasy VII remake more than everything.
However, he also stated that Square-Enix is now mainly focused on new games instead of remakes, as they want to create something even better than the seventh chapter. He also said that Yoshinori Kitase (FFXIII-2 producer) is gonna be his successor for Final Fantasy leadership in the future.
Not a bad idea in my opinion, FFXIII/XIII-2 are really good games.

- Speaking of FFXIII-2, new DLC were released: a new colosseum battle against Snow and Valfodr and the Story DLC with Lightning: this one will feature a different battle system, but not really a revolution.
Lightning will have some new roles, different from the Ravager, Commando and Medic ones and will feature a Level up system based on how you do well in battle.

- Final Fantasy Versus XIII will not be at the upcoming E3, big surprise XD

POKEMON


Anime trailer for the new Pokemon Black 2/White 2, and wow, it's awesome XD

PROJECT X ZONE


New info for the crossover game between Namco, Capcom and Sega:



- Support Attack and Cross Hit systems detailed
- Support Attacks are special attacks from your fellow party members
- if another unit is near your unit (around 8 spaces), you'll be able to trigger a Support Attack 
- the support unit will perform a followup attack 
- this can only be used once in battle
- Cross Hit is related to Support Attacks
- if the main unit and support unit strike the enemy simultaneously, you'll trigger a Cross Hit 
- this freezes the enemy and allows for easier combos


Also, new characters:



- Street Fighter’s Chun Li
- Darkstalkers’ Morrigan
- Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier’s Haken Browning and Kaguya Nanbu
- Sakura Wars’ Erica and Gemini
- Dynamite Deka’s Bruno
- Valkyrie no Densetsu’s Valkyrie


TALES OF...


According to a recent interview with producer Hideo Baba



- catch phrase for the new game is "Are you prepared to destroy the world for the girl?"
- this ties into both the story and gameplay systems
- this game will have a more modern theme
- consider this the team's challenge to take the Tales series to the next stage
- Namco Bandai has other Tales games in development besides this entry
- when Tales Studio closed, that studio's staff moved into Namco Bandai
- now members of the Tales team can move to the Idolmaster team, and members of the Soul Calibur and Taiko Drum Master teams come to the Tales team




That's it for now, see ya XD

RPG News: Atelier Ayesha opening

As the title says, they released the opening of the upcoming new RPG "Atelier Ayesha"

What to say...very...flowerish x3



I remind you that Atelier Ayesha is developped by Gust and it'll be released on PS3 during summer in Japan.
American and European releases still unknow

Echoes of Eternia

Now, I feel like I really HAVE to talk about this, being a blog about RPGs I think it's pretty mandatory.

Ok so, a lot of friends pointed me to this indie j-RPG game still in development called "Echoes of Eternia". The director of the game was raising money for it using Kickstarter which is a website used to raise money for various projects from arts to games.
I thought there was nothing wrong with it, I mean, donating a bit to show faith and interest in a game? Cool, it works. But then, I saw this "Echoes of Eternia" project and I realized that sometimes things are just WRONG in any way.

Here's for you the link to the game's Kickstarter

Echoes of Eternia

There you can see the "interview" with the so-called head developper Ryan Harmon. If that didn't gave you a feel of wrong, then, let's analize this game.

First of all, take a look at the in-game screenshots

This game is made with RPGMaker VX, a program that makes you create j-RPG style games...so...a guy is using a program, made by somebody else, using graphic and tilests already inside the program, no added coding, very little efforts...and he NEEDS 10.000$? For what?

I mean, wow, I didn't even know it was legal to sell your games made with RPGMaker, but, apperently it is if you actually bought the program licence (which is 60$) and you use the pre-installed RTP or custom graphic made by yourself...but take a look again at the pictures, the game is made TOTALLY with the pre-installed RTP library, what is the point in asking funds if you don't even try to add something different from all the others (and free to play) RPGMaker games?
Also, I think it'll be good to point out something else about the graphic.
Take a look here...

And now look here...

http://kiwinuptuo.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d2fbhd1

Notice anything? Little hint...IT'S TOTALLY THE SAME!!!!
I mean, did he just cropped the grass down the tree? Are we serious? This is art steal, plain and simple!
In his update journal this guy never mention this artist.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465600975/echoes-of-eternia-a-modern-take-on-a-classic-desig/posts/212855

And on the other side, the artist never said that it's a sprite for the game...also, I mean...a sprite for a 2012 game, made in 2009??? No shit, you definitely failed here, Ryan...

Ok, enough with the graphic, let's talk about something else.

Stating the official description of the game, Echoes of Eternia has incredible features like...

• 30+ Hours of gameplay. ( Not including all Side-Quests )
• Active Turn Based Battle System. Ex: Final Fantasy
• Highly tactical Battle System. Focuses on player enhancements and Elemental weakness/resistances.
• No random encounters! All enemies will be present on screen and it is up to you to decide whether you fight them or not.
• Complex puzzle solving.
• Emotional and Compelling story line. ( Details coming soon )
• Gorgeous hand drawn battle sprites for Players and Enemies.
• Completely original soundtrack.
• Fully voice acted. ( Only in cutscenes, not for general text. )
• High Quality 32bit Goodness! 
• PC exclusive. ( see FAQ section for more details )

Half of these aren't features but, whatever...
As a special thing this guy added for the donators who gives a lot of money, he give the possibility to add his own voice to the characters, to create a character on their own or even design a sub-quest or an event...what is the purpose of that??? Using inexperienced people to do some of the most important aspects of the game for free? No wait, after they paid you? That's not how GOOD games are made!

As a recap, what are we paying for?

   Your Donation will be used to make Echoes of Eternia as best as possible. The money will be used to fund the Amazing art from Melissa Hui Wang who has done so much to help out this project and has made it so much better than it ever could have been without her. It will also fund an Original Soundtrack produced by Dream Orbit Music Corps, Animation by Josh Buchanan, and Legalities like Copyrights and Trademarks. Any extra funds generated will be used to produce higher quality content and ensure us that we have full creative freedom.

Basically, our money will be used to grant him some commissions from other guys and AFTER THAT, he could use the money for the actual game...nice job pal.
No, seriously, if the artist is in your team, why do you have to pay her for every single art? In fact, is she in your team actually, or you just want to squeeze pictures out of her?

Guys, I REALLY could go on, saying about what is wrong with it, but, I guess it's pretty useless, you just need to analize it to understand that a game that doesn't show any sign of work, doesn't need to be supported with money.
Now, don't get me wrong, I highly support indie developpers, they're part of the gaming future, but the real ones really put efforts in their products, starting from scraps to create good pieces of games.
This is just a preposterous mass of shame. This guy should be ashamed of himself, asking money for something he didn't, promising stuff that (I'm fairly certain about it) will never became real.

But hey, his goal was 10.000$ and looks like he already have almost 35.000$, so well, we'll soon be able to enjoy a really expensive RPGMaker VX game...or...not very soon, since the game is scheduled for release during Q1 of 2013...wow...

Meanwhile, I think I'll probably to play some Tales of Eternia...





Wait a sec...Tales of Eternia...Echoes of Eternia...Eternia...Eternia...





Nah, it's DEFINITELY a coincidence...