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Keeping a Princess Alive is Harder Than it Looks
You know, I thought that getting a young princess through her final year before her coronation wouldn’t be too tough—even with all the court intrigue, invading armies, and economic issues. I was wrong. She died… a lot. Like many PC gamers, I love Steam sales—even though they do little more than leave me with less…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 11, 2014 -
Kotaku EastYour Guide to Gundam’s Video Game Side Stories
Ever since the 16-bit era, there have been side-story games that help flesh out the world of the original Gundam. Now these have been abridged and collected in the new PS3 title Gundam: Side Stories. But what are all these titular side stories and what are they about? Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079 System:…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 11, 2014 -
Kotaku EastYour Complete Summer 2014 Anime Guide
Summer makes the world a sweltering wasteland, so why not hold up in air-conditioned comfort with the new anime season. Of course, with 44 new anime in the pipeline, how do you know which ones to watch? Check out the trailers and brief blurbs about each to see which of them catches your interest. [*Note:…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 8, 2014 -
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The Excellent Pokémon Art Academy Art of the Past 24 Hours
The new game, Pokémon Art Academy, allows you to upload your Pokémon artwork to the Miiverse. As the game released in PAL territories last week (and Japan two weeks before that), there are already scores of artwork to browse though. Some of it is pretty amazing—even just in the last 24 hours on the Japanese…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 8, 2014 -
Kotaku EastThe Creator of Robotech Predicted Crowdfunding in 1995
Yesterday we learned that 80s classic anime Robotech will be returning with the new series, Robotech Academy. It will be paid for via Kickstarter—which is more than a little apt as Robotech’s creator, the late Carl Macek predicted the eventual existence of crowdfunding all the way back in 1995. Check out the video above to…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 5, 2014 -
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A New Robotech Series Is Coming
Today at Anime Expo 2014, Harmony Gold announced their plans to bring back classic 80s anime Robotech via Kickstarter In 2008, Robotech creator Carl Macek (i.e., the man who took three completely unrelated anime and turned them into a single, coherent, multi-generational sci-fi epic) came up with the idea for a new Robotech animated series:…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 4, 2014 -
Kotaku EastToday, We Remember the Most “American” Game Ever Made
Every July 4th, I like to reflect on the most American game ever made—so American, in fact, that it could only be made in Japan. I’m speaking of Metal Wolf Chaos—a game which opens with the President of the United States exploding out of the oval office in a mecha suit, sporting more guns than…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 4, 2014 -
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Pokémon Art Academy Will Teach You How to Draw Pokémon
So, you like Pokémon? Are you looking to learn how to draw or to improve your drawing? Well, Pokémon Art Academy can help you with that—as long as you’re drawing on the 3DS anyway. Good – Teaching By Doing It is no secret that I am just abysmal at drawing. In truth, I’m barely competent…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 4, 2014 -
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We Love Lilly’s Amazingly Terribad Pokémon Art
Pokémon just wouldn’t be Pokémon without a rival to constantly challenge you. Thus, even drawing game Pokémon Art Academy has a rival—a girl named Lilly. But while I thought I was the worst artist in the world, Lilly proved me wrong. Her art is terrible—so terrible, it loops all the way back around to wonderful.…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 1, 2014 -
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The Newest Ghost in the Shell Explores Romance in a Cyborg World
This past weekend saw the release of the third part of Ghost in the Shell Arise in theaters across Japan. And while it is still full of all the cyberpunk police action you’ve come to expect from the franchise, Ghost Tears also delves into what romance is like in a cybernetic society. Good – Interesting…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 1, 2014 -
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A Week with Pokémon Art Academy Actually Improved My Drawing Skills
When I first sat down with Pokémon Art Academy over a week ago, I decided to do a little experiment. I drew the first three drawings of the game freehand on a notepad as I came across them. Then today, I tried again—and I’m truly surprised at the improvement. It’s funny, as I was drawing…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 1, 2014 -
Kotaku EastWatch As I Attempt to Draw Pokémon
I may be the single worst artist on the face of the planet. So let’s see if Pokémon can teach me to draw in Pokémon Art Academy Pokémon Art Academy was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS on June 19, 2014. It will be released in Europe on July 4, 2014; Australia and New…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 27, 2014 -
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No Game No Life is a Must Watch for Any Gamer
What happens when you take two expert gamers and drop them into a fantasy world where everything is centered around games? You get the smart, beautiful, funny, and just plain all-around enjoyable No Game No Life Good – Two Sides of the Same Coin No Game No Life is the story of a brother and…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 27, 2014 -
Kotaku EastNintendo’s Student-made Wii U Games are Full of Imagination
The Nintendo Games Seminar is an annual program where teams of college students are given weekly classes on game development from Nintendo. Over the course of eight months, the groups design and build their own game. And now, last year’s four games are available for free on the Japanese Wii U’s eShop. The first game…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 27, 2014 -
Kotaku EastPersona Q is a Mixture of Old School Gameplay and Fanboy Joy
I love Persona 3 and Persona 4. They are easily among my favorite JRPGs. So a game that mixes together the characters of both games in an all new adventure seems right up my alley—which it is for the most part. But when it comes down to it, Persona Q lives or dies based on…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014 -
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One Week Friends Teaches You All You Need to Know About Friendship
There are a lot of anime out there about falling in love, but rare are the series that are willing to spend 12 full episodes doing nothing but exploring the growth of two people’s friendship. And still rarer are those that do it even half as well as One Week Friends Good – Real-world Exploration…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014 -
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A Diary of My First Day at Pokémon Art Academy
Dear Diary, after Mom kicked me out of the house because of my radical views on the role of Pokémon in our society, I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. Everything in our world seems to rely on Pokémon slave labor—from construction work to farming! Heck, even photography seems to…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 24, 2014 -
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Persona Q Reminds Me of Playing My First Online Game… in 1991
New Persona series spin-off Persona Q has a fair number of elements that are a direct throwback to the first video game RPGs. But instead of reminding me directly of those, the first thing it brought to my mind was the first online game I ever played way back in the mythical year of 1991.…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 20, 2014 -
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The Original Sequel to Persona 3 is Better Than I Was Led to Believe
As I was recently watching the new Persona 3 movie , I remembered that before Persona 4, there was already a sequel to the hit PS2 game Persona 3 in the form of the anime Persona: Trinity Soul. However, only hearing negative things about it for years, I wondered if it was as bad as…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 20, 2014 -
Kotaku EastThe Gargantia Game is Basically a Bare-bones Version of Pilotwings
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet was one of last spring’s best anime. Now, just over a year later, it finally has its own (free-to-play) game—a game that is basically a visual novel mixed with a bare-bones version of Pilotwings Gargantia: Sky Courier takes place between episodes five and six of the anime, where Ledo—the pilot…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 20, 2014
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