Posted

Sep 6th 2008

Mood

Restless

Assorted thoughts on my mind, but I'd like to share three. Or perhaps four.

Firstly, I'm sure a lot of folks out there have witnessed some of my Pokemon sub-fanboyishness. I say that term because I'm not the die-hard fan I once was, but the series still resides in my heart as a strangely significant part of my life. I'm definitelynot beyond saying that since then I've had my share of beefs about Pokemon, and not just the games...the universe in general. I'd written down some of my thoughts on a "Wordpad" and have begun to wonder if I should share my feelings and how. I could easily clean it and post it all here as either a journal or prose here. Or I could attempt to submit something else for my rather bare YouTube channel. Currently it only has an emulation play of a past Digidrive record (FYI, the new record I have on a REAL copy of the game is 247562m, also on Expert), and I've been wanting to put at least something else on it for a while. I wanted to put the Mega Man and the Pompous Robots cartoon on it, but I don't have the tools to do it. What's more, I've wanted to do commentary and possibly subtitles on it, but since the original Flash file for the cartoon had since been lost in a computer crash I can't do it on the original. So yes! On the topic of what I've called "My Pokemon Beef" and my other little MM&PR dilemma, suggestions are appreciated!

Relating to Pokemon, I've been stirring up a currently unrefined universe idea of a vaguely similar nature. It also involves little creatures with magical powers, but there's not as many to take into account...seven in total, and each one bears an "element." I have no clean base for the concept at the moment, but like much of my overactive imagination it's likely to grow like a wildfire. It'll just be tough designing the creatures and putting a solid story and such together. We'll see what happens. I call this "THE E7EMENTS."

And now I must shout to Europe. LUCKY!! I know in terms of video games America seems to get a lot of the stuff before Europe. But why is it that some of the stuff I'm interested in comes to Europe but never comes here? It's happened to Vib-Ribbon, it's happened to Kurukuru Kururin...heck, they even got the superior version of our "Intelligent Qube!" And now in the past week they got a WiiWare title that held my undivided attention the moment a video was put up... "MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade." The game looks simple yet challenging and addictive, just the kind of thing I like. But I noticed a deceptive amount of depth to the whole experience that you couldn't possibly find in screenshots, which in regards to original Japanese screenshots didn't hold my attention at all. And the successive videos I see really show off this incredible depth. For those unenlightened, look up "maboshi" on YouTube and take a gander at the videos available. The two outlets that reviewed the game gave it very high marks, and it just pumps me up more! I really want to see this game come stateside. Oh, and congrats to you, Europe, on finally getting Super Mario RPG! I hope you enjoy. :3

Oh. And do you think I should post my other little "O SNAP! Brawl" pictures made from shots submitted on the interweb? There are just some I can't reproduce...

--Malamite Ltd.
"Sometimes I feel like rubber, sometimes I don't."