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Welcome to the first of 7 posts detailing my thoughts on the Yakuza games from Sega. The first entry will be detailing my thoughts behind the 2016 remake of  Yakuza , or better known in Japan as  Like A Dragon , originally released in 2005 on the PlayStation 2. I played this on a PlayStation 4 as I will the rest of the games. I just beat  Yakuza Kiwami , and I have a lot on my mind. This is easily without a doubt, one of the most enduring video games I have ever had the chance to play, and probably one of my favorites, of all time. There's so many ideas that go into it, whether it'd be the story, the random substories, the mini-games, etc., it's all done with a clear level of passion by whoever was developing the game, and it brightly shines as the in-game indicator for a MesuKing Card or a random locker key. It all culminates into this brilliant package that I absolutely can't stop being obsessed with it. I might as well get the negatives out of the way first, and the ...

I have decided that I'm gonna use this blog for game reviews for a bit, which, yes sounds a little out there, but here me out. I recently just started playing the Yakuza games and they're pretty great, so I wanna use this blog to detail my experience with each title up to 6, the first review, Yakuza Kiwami, goes up tomorrow. The rest though, I'm not sure, as I have to balance my personal life and interests as well with these games, speaking of which, Radio 36.5 Episode 3 has been delayed to October due to me being lazy. The plan though, is to have the games done before 2023, at least, which I know is semi-possible. This won't affect anything about the blog as I wanna take breaks between each game before diving into another one, and I'm very passionate about the research driven direction the recent posts have been taking. I want this to be something you'd enjoy reading as I've enjoyed writing and playing the games. I plan to start with Kiwami and end on 0, wi...

Did you know that the original 1954  Godzilla  film actually isn't the debut of Godzilla? You'd think it'd be as it sparked a whole new genre of film, and has caused such a big influence allowing the character to be celebrated to this day but actually, his first appearance was a 1954 radio drama based off the first draft of the script, which ran from July 17th to September 25th in 1954. It was titled  怪獣ゴジラ  or, translated into English,  The Monster Godzilla . Unfortunately, not much is known about this little oddity outside of the cast and crew, and the fact it even exists. It's a little baffling, not gonna lie, it's weird to think the first public appearance of Godzilla wasn't actually the movie, but some tie-in radio drama from the 1950s most people, if not all, seem to have forgotten about, you'd think for how large and important Godzilla is, it'd be archived better as much more, random obscure stuff is archived, like the 1993 comic  Godzilla vs. Cha...

Hello, Ruby here, I've been deciding and thinking about some things for some time now and I think I've decided to make possible the best decision for this blog, I think I'm gonna stop making posts that detail my day, or at least severely limit them to at least once or twice a month. Why, you might ask? I'm doing it because it'll allow me to actually write what I genuinely wanna write about, and it's not as exhausting. Does that mean they're gonna stop? No, not at all, I enjoy writing them a bunch but they unfortunately don't allow me to have the energy for the actual posts I wanna do. The post earlier today, the one about Natsuki Ozawa, I loved doing that a lot, doing the research, looking and looking just to document here through this blog, that's what I love, that's what I made the blog for originally, but it felt like the posts about my life took over and I'm not into that at all. I hope my enjoyment in writing those posts became really ob...

I've recently stumbled upon something I can't really explain, if you're aware of the type of person I am, you'd know I have a strong fascination and love for tokusatsu, the Japanese genre of live action media that has a ton of special effects. It's a very broad definition so whenever I refer to it, I'm more or less referring to the super hero section of it, such as Kamen Rider, Ultraman and Super Sentai as those were my introduction to the genre. The driving force behind tokusatsu though, in terms of the super hero parts, is Toei, I bring this all up because it all seems to relate to each other in one way or another, as in 1989 Toei debuted a new show as part of their Toei Fushigi Comedy Series line up called Magical Girl Chukana Paipai , which the series is about some girl who has magical powers and fights people I believe, I'm probably wrong but it seems to be something in line of typical tokusatsu of that time, my best guess is Sukeban Deka mixed in with...

I know it's not Monday but I'm not doing much tomorrow and the rest of tonight so might as well crank out a post in the meantime, it's been a pretty eventful two days so this post is gonna be a long one in comparison to the past few posts. I actually did stuff this time, and one major update I'm pretty happy about. I'll cover yesterday, Saturday to be exact. I'm not sure if I talked about this but I'm pretty sure I did but I ended up taking a trip to Georgia for a trip in general, as I go there a few times every year for family. I left pretty early, somewhere like 6 in the morning which is pretty unusual as I usually head out around 8:30 or 9 in the morning and end up getting there pretty early in the afternoon but we ended up getting there about 10:30, which was very off to me as I'm so used to getting there later than that so I wasn't sure what to do, but that quickly changed as I ended up going to this weird little glorified thrift store in town t...

Really does seem like I'm sticking to that one post a week model, thankfully. There's a lot on my mind racing and I'm not sure exactly where I should start with, I sound so depressed right now but it's actually the quite opposite, I feel quite great today. I've been watching a lot of movies again which feels great to get back into the swing of, I picked back up on the Lone Wolf And Cub films with the two titles Baby Cart at the River Styx and Baby Cart To Hades , I'm frankly blown away, they've managed to be completely consistent with being great considering they're all made in the same year. I'm not exactly into samurai movies but after watching Sion Sono's Antiporno , a shallow critique done through very basic and boring surrealism, I needed to get back into what I really enjoyed, old Japanese cinema. Old is a vague term if I'm gonna be completely honest with you but in my eyes everything made before 1990 is considered old, film wise at le...