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Hey, it's been a while hasn't it? Well, I figured it'd be nice to give a little update about life in general, and some extra information. I turned 18 recently, I'm an adult now, it feels sureral, honestly. I must admit, I am a child of the internet, so most things that I can do now I've already been doing but I will admit, there is a sense of power that comes with it but admittedly it doesn't really mean much to me, it's just cool and a little bit scary I can go out and buy a house (Realistically that will never be possible in today's economy). I wanna apologize for the lack of posts recently, I've been caught up in real life and some extra stuff on the side to want to make a post, that and I had no clear idea of what I wanted to write about regardless, outside of the LOONA archive I did. Oh yeah, LOONA! I never really gave my thoughts on it, but it's pretty clear where I stand. I'm upset, disgusted and not shocked. I swear there's so muc...

As I turn 18 in a few days, everything in life comes to me in a weird, melancholic way. It's amazing how easy a person's emotions can change, it feels like a switch that you can turn on and off every few hours, if not minutes. I'm afraid of turning 18, I'm not sure why, but it's a feeling I can't begin to explain, and if I try, I easily can get my words confused. It's been a while since I opened up Blogger to make a blog post but I feel comfortable enough to just, type away. About what? I'm not really sure, but it's fun to make a blog post every once in a while. I've had quite the eventful month since I've been away, and to be honest, I don't want to get into it, and I'm glad I never talked about it here. Why, you might ask? Well, in the words of the now neo-nazi Kanye West, I guess we'll never know. I think that Kanye coming out the way he did has got to be, easily, the worst thing that could ever happen, but I don't want to ...

It's been a hot minute, hasn't it? I'm sorry about that, I meant to write this post way sooner but I have been busy doing nothing but contemplating and playing Yakuza 4. I was originally going to make a solely dedicated post about Kiwami 2 at first but unfortunately I just could not find enough ground to form a post, as a lot of that game I shared the same opinions with the first Kiwami , outside of story and combat. Kiwami 2's story is a direct continuation of the first one, and it's very good to say the least. It's obviously not as impactful or engaging as the first one, but for being a sequel to one of my most favorite stories, it did a phenomenal job. I noticed a lot of improvements such as the ability to walk into buildings without loading screens and transiting into battles seamlessly, which improved speed a bunch and overall made the experience much better in comparison to Kiwami. Another thing that vastly improved from Kiwami is that the combat in th...

I have decided not to write a detailed review for Yakuza Kiwami 2 outright because I found it to be very similar to Yakuza Kiwami outside of the story and there's not really much I can or could say about it. Don't fret though, as it'll be apart of the Yakuza 3 review, which I thought would fit best. I'm currently going through Yakuza 3 right now so be on the lookout for the review in the next few weeks, as long as real life doesn't intervene. I'm hoping to have more to say than the last few games, but that can wait for the review. Alright, I'll see you guys in the next post. Until next time, peace!

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...

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...

It's been a long time, or so it feels but unfortunately, not much has been happening in Ruby's world, in terms of media conception though, oh boy. I have gotten into Wong Kar-Wai over the last week. His style of directing is amazing. In terms of visuals he excels incredible over any other director I have watched. A perfect example of this is his film Fallen Angels , which is exactly everything I look for in a film. The story is absolutely enticing, luring you in every single second with a high level of energy and suspense as what will happen next, you really care for everyone in the film, and what they're doing and why they're doing said thing. You really don't get that with many movies, and the only ones you do are the ones that are written incredibly well, which is already a huge plus right off the bat, and then you get the visuals. This is probably, and I'm gonna say this with my full chest, the best looking movie ever made, everything about it is absolutely ...