Donkey Kong Country 2: Video Game Review

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Theodor Mommsen


Released:  December 14, 1995
Publisher: Nintendo







Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (also known as DKC2 to fans) is an adventurous platform game developed for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), produced by Rareware, and published by Nintendo. It stars Diddy Kong and his girlfriend Dixie Kong. 


Donkey Kong Country 2 begins after Donkey Kong has been kidnapped by Kaptain K. Rool, leaving Diddy Kong and his girlfriend, Dixie Kong, to rescue him. Together, the two of them travel to various different and distinct parts of Crocodile Isle and rescue Donkey Kong.

Unto the game play

My favorite game of the series and my top game for the snes of all time. This game brings many good memories about my childhood and I shall review this with honor and pride.

As mentioned above, you control two characters and you must guide them through the end of the level. That is not the only action a person is going to see here, There are also underwater levels that people need to explore as well as barrel shooting from one barrel to the other. At certain stages, there might be a animal friend that will help the player out, This gives some extra depth for the game play and I always welcome animal buddies.

My perspective: The first action people might notice about this game is how the kongs are moving around. With them being kongs, it made sense that it will be a game about platforms. This is true, though the main concept comes from the Mario games many people come to know and love. I bought this game because I did not know what to expect since I was a young kid around the age of seven. I just took games that people seem to recommend to get because back in my days, the Internet was not known as much as people would want to know.

I picked this game up because my cousin recommend me this game. I bought it, played it, and was not disappointed on the purchase. The game consists of eight worlds total. Each world has their own theme from pirates, volcano’s, swamps, amusement park, and much more. The difficulty was not that bad. This game will be hard if the person playing is young and does not have patience with platforms.

Nostalgic: This was my second game I picked up for my SNES and took care of it as a dog would take care of its bone. The game’s music is one direction I did not took seriously and took it for granted. If a person compares music from today and the past, I wonder where did artist today got the idea of having beats with pathetic lyrics of women in bed. I got nothing against people who like rap. I am just the guy who prefers music with no lyrics.

Overall, if you own a Wii or a SNES, get this game.

9.5/10

Site used:
http://www.co-optimus.com/game/1672/classic/donkey-kong-country-2-diddy-s-kong-quest.html#

Water for Elephants: Book Review

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
A.M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Water for Elephants review

A book I read as a twelve grader. This is one of those objects I quickly judged because of one glance of the cover. I thought it was going to be about someone who works in the circus feeding elephants. My guess was proven correct, this was about a circus, but the novel had a darker tone.

The story is about a man by the name of Jacob Jankowski, a "ninety or ninety-three year-old" man who lives in a nursing home. Jacob is told what to eat and what to do.

Jacob Jankowski is twenty-three years old and preparing for his final exams as a Cornell University veterinary student when he receives the news that his parents were killed in a car accident. Jacob’s father was a veterinarian and Jacob had planned to join his practice. When Jacob learns that his father was deeply in debt because he had been treating animals for free as well as mortgaging the family home to provide Jacob an Ivy League education,.. One night, he jumps on a train only to learn it is a Circus train. When the owner of the circus, Uncle Al, learns of his training as a vet, he is hired to care for the circus animals. This consequently leads Jacob to share quarters with a dwarf named Walter (who is known as Kinko to the circus) and his dog Queenie. 

The author did  research for this book as they state

"The major themes explored in this novel include circus life during the depression (Gruen did extensive research on the subject), the testing of a man’s moral compass, self worth, mental illnesses, acting on emotions, illusion vs. reality, and love triangles."

My perspective: As I mentioned above, I did not expect the book to have a huge twist on escaping reality and getting into drama. The book showed me that behind the clown make-up is either a depressing man trying to live during the great depression. I like the idea how the story is told as Jacob being an old man and then showing him as a young lad. The young Jacob only did what he was told. In exchange, he gets to learn other people’s view and opinion about characters. He still treats animals as his he wanted to. The story kept its promise of having a love triangle with Jacob, his boss Austen, and Austen’s wife. The beginning of the book was quite good. If it was not for his parents death, where he would go had many possibilities. Throughout the story, I felt that I went at an odd direction that I did not expect and it was not good in my view. I lost interest  at the end of the novel. The story was good, but maybe because I read about the theme of a love triangle to much that it felt stale and repetitive

Nostalgic: Once again, I read another book because I was assigned from my teacher. I thought I was going to enjoy this book as much as I like Pride and Prejudice. I liked the book because it showed me that it is okay to judge a book by its cover when a person had a gut feeling about the person. I read the book because I found the plot interesting about a corrupted circus that is trying to survive the great depression. It was good, however it felt I read something similar when the book tries to connect to other themes. The ending was satisfying enough for me to give the novel a thumbs up, though this was nothing new on my side, and my grade will stand.

7/10


site used:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1826

Super Mario Bros. Nes Review

History, in brief, is an analysis of the past in order that we may understand the present and guide our conduct into the future.
Sidney E. Mead


Take a look at this Picture, who is this character you see?

Year:1985

Publisher: Nintendo

By now, I am one hunded percent sure you have seen him in one form  or another. In case you do not realize this person (that would suck).

In 1980, Nintendo, a Japenese toy company is trying to break in the already crowed American arcade market. Nintendo wanted to have a piece of the market so they developed a game called Radar Scope and release it to the market. People absouletly hated it. Nintendo then turns to a staff member to change the flop into a hit. The president of Nintendo looked at a young man named Shigeru Miyamoto. This was going to be the first time Miyamoto was going to make a game so this was a gamble. Miyamoto’s goal when he first went to Nintendo was to design and make creative toys in the company. Miyamoto as stated earlier, never made a game but was very eager to learn how to, he studied the systematic and met with designers and programmers. Miyamoto said the Radar Scope was just so bad they couldn’t use it to make another game, he did say though that they were going to use the same technology to make a game.

Miyamoto has said in the original idea/story of Donkey Kong they were going to use Popeye as the character, but because of extended contract negotiations he was not used. The problem was that if they did use Popeye for this game, some other company later on could get the rights for Popeye which meant that Nintendo used him, but would happen if the rights changed and they couldn’t use him for the sequel. So Miyamoto decided to make the story about a stubborn gorilla escape and kidnap the keeper’s girlfriend. The goofy carpenter who has to save the girl is a little man with a big nose and an even bigger heart named Jump man.

Since back then there were many restrictions to technology since it was new, Miyamoto has to get creative with the character design of Jump man. Jump man was this tiny little sprite with a moustache, overalls, and a hat, we recognize him better now then back then. The reason he had this design was because of the limitations of the hardware, Without the moustache the sprite would look weird because you would not see the nose or face, hair would look weird with hair so they decided a hat would suit him, he has overalls because without them the walking animation would not have worked. So there you go that’s how he got the design. In 1981 the finished game is released where there was a certain resemblance with the landlord of Nintendo.

It was a hit, not Pac-Man huge, but huge enough that Nintendo was in business.

NES time era

This is not really the Donkey Kong sequel, but it is more it’s own game. Before I begin writing about the game, watch this video

Looking at this, some will consider this a classic.  The person has to help Mario go through various obstacles to reach the final castle and rescue the princess from the evil Bowser.

The gameplay is pretty simple since the player only needs two buttons and a d-pad to play. To finish the level, move Mario from the left screen to the right. If an enemy or an obstacle is in the way, jump over or stomp your opponents down. If you want some extra power, eat a mushroom to make Mario into Super Mario. If you want extra fire power, grab a flower to shoot down your opponents. With only two power-ups, a person might think wonder how can a game like this is fun. I will tell you, it is a simple game with a lot of potential.

My perspective:

This was the first game I actually played before I became a video game player. Around my early childhood, this was the best game I have ever played because anyone can pick up and play the game. The game is hard for new players because to beat the game, a person may have to know the game’s secrects, tricks, power-ups, and time their jumps to victory. It took me about three years to beat it, but it was worth the hours of multiple deaths due to jumps or I was not careful on where I was jumping.

Nostalgic: This was the first game that revolutionize all the games we have today. Without Mario, we would never expect having the consoles we have today. Xbox, PS3, and Wii are all here today because the NES provided one game that that gave all of us hope for gaming. I give my thanks to Nintendo for creating an icon that people will continue to remember no matter how many years past.

10/10

sites used:
http://www.snesclassics.com/history/mario-bros.php

Special thanks:
Juan Gonzales with the history section

Sonic The Hedgehog (Sega Genesis) (Or Sega Mega Drive to some countries)

 Sonic The Hedgehog, an icon who's main purpose was to take on Nintendo's famed mascot, Mario.
Up to this day, these two companies are still trying to win the consumer. Even though Sega has been making games for Nintendo, the rivalry for these two companies will never die.

Mario's first original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) debut will be later. This review is all about the Hedgehog.



Sonic 1, is a platform game developed in Japan by Sega and published for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the first instalment in Sega's flagship Sonic the Hedgehog video game series and the first title developed by Sonic Team. The game was released in 1991 in North America, Europe, and Japan.


Sonic the Hedgehog is a blue hedgehog who lives on South Island with his animal friends. He meets an evil scientist named Doctor Ivo Robotnik, known as Dr. Eggman in the Japanese version. Dr. Robotnik/Eggman seeks to obtain the seven Chaos Emeralds so that he can take over the world, and sets about transforming animals into robots to serve his ends. Sonic pursues him though several of the world's "Zones" before eventually defeating him in Scrap Brain Zone. 

In this game, Sonic must prevent Doctor Robotnik from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds in an attempt to rule South Island. The player controls Sonic as he traverses six zones, each of which is split into three "Acts".At the end of the third act of each zone, the player faces Dr. Robotnik in one of his vehicles.

The game play centers around Sonic's ability to run at high speeds with levels that include springs, slopes, high falls and loop-de-loops. Hazards the player experiences include a wide variety of badniks, animals trapped inside mechanical bodies. The player must also avoid rows of sharp spikes, bottomless pits, and other obstacles, like water. Hedgehogs cannot swim so the player must quickly get out or they will drown!

If you look at this game's gameplay and you compare it to Mario, they seem to be the same concept. The creator of Sonic Hirokazu Yasuhara,  wanted to make a game similar to Mario since it was very popular. The difference between Mario and Sonic is that Sonic only uses one button and he has attitude. Mario is as they said "child's play" While Sonic is where real gamers play. They always pick on Nintendo for being too friendly, but they make games that are original that does not need to have a gun.

My perspective: I did not get the original cartridge but I got a disk that had all the games inside. I played the first one and through my first impression I thought, "oh, this has a similarity with Mario. I wonder why this was popular." That soon change into a I am happy I got this disk for ten dollars. The game play as mentioned on the video on top is fun and easy to get into. The game has a sense of speed that not many games had in the past. I do my best in trying to speed run every level I can, however be careful because there are enemies and traps just waiting to kill you.

Nostalgic: The game had something that I thought the Mario game had but not any more. The music in this game is beautiful. If you listen to the game's sound track, there is going to be one piece of music you are going to love. The music fits all the themes, though there is only one way to find out.

Overall: This game is worth getting your hands on. The only issue I had with the game is trying to get speed sometimes since there are many hills that are impossible to walk across because it requires a certain amount of speed. Even so, check this game out, you will not be disappointed.

rating : 9/10



This is a real hedgehog. This only lives in Japan, though I want one. Someday I will get one!

Sites Used:
http://info.sonicretro.org/Category:Prereleases

Arcade Review: Pac-Man

We cannot escape history.
Abraham Lincoln in Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862


Everyone should know who this guy is or I will know you have been living under a rock all this time!
To avoid offending everyone that does not know, I will still explain this guy. He is known as Pac-Man



Also known by my little brother, whacka whacka.




 a young japenease game designer named Toru Iwatani is inventing something new, something that was going to change video games forever. He came to Namco wanting to make an arcade game that was based on pinball he also wanted to make the game appeal to women. To appeal to a woman, it had to be non-violent most arcade games were about guns or killing an objective. He wanted to make a game based on the word taberu which mean to eat. Namco’s president liked this idea. Iwatani was assigned nine other developers to bring his vision to life. Since games back then were limited to what they could use, they came across their  first problem. What would the character look like? Iwatani has said that he went to a pizza parlor and one of his co-workers took out a slice, and he said that would be the design. 





The main design of the game was going to be based on a maze like structure, avoiding dangers or in this game ghosts, while trying to collect all the pellets. Simple game, simple design. The team soon released Pac-Man abd hoped for the best.


Pacman was a hit right of the bat and for the second time in history Japan had to make more 100 yen coins since all were going into Pacman machines! It had fresh new gameplay and was challenging so it would make the person whose playing addicted. In Japan the success of Pacman would cause an unexpected career change, vegetable stores would take out the vegetables and buy ten Pacman machines to make the store into an arcade, this made the stores gain much money. 


The success in Japan made it possible to bring the game in the U.S. It also became popular in the United States. Women also liked the game for being simple and addictive. Iwatani vision was a success




Now unto the gameplay

By looking at this video, a person can see how simple the game is. The main objective of this game as mentioned before is simple: collect all the pellets in the maze while avoiding the four ghosts in the maze. Nothing much can be said about this game, however something this simple can be addictive if given the chance to try out!


My Perspective:
At first, this game looks boring since there is nothing happening other than a yellow guy going wacka wacka. My uncle told me to review this game since I told him about the blog I have been posting on. He told me how addicting this game is and told me to give it a shot. I played the game through xbox live and I am going to admit that this game is fun. I played up to two hours of this game. I am happy to know this has a save feature because in the arcade version, once you die three times, the game is over with no continues. Not only that, but there are 245 levels! Good luck trying to beat it, because I am not.


Overall:
For being such a simple game, not much can be said. The creator manage to make the game he envisioned and people loved it. If you are a person who never played a game before , give this game a try. There should be an arcade area somewhere in this world who should still have this arcade or look through a console. Overall, this shows us that something simple can make a huge difference, long pong


9/10 


and remember....



wacka wacka wacka!


site used:
http://www.pacman1.net/history/

Special Thanks:
Juan Gonzales for the site for the history of pac-man

The Game of Death: Movie Review

History is not history unless it is the truth. 
Abraham Lincoln in a letter to W.H. Herndon, 1856


The Game of Death, a movie that was never finished due to the untimley sad death of the producer,  Bruce Lee.

At this point, every one should know who Bruce Lee is. But just to make sure, Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor,philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement. He is widely considered by many commentators and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of modern times, and a cultural icon. 

Lee was born in San Francisco, California in the United States, to parents of Hong Kong heritage but raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. Upon reaching the age of 18, Lee emigrated to the United States to claim his U.S. Citizenship and receive his higher education. It was during this time he began teaching martial arts, which soon led to film and television roles.

Bruce Lee was in production of making a movie called The Game of Death. He soon had to put the project on hold when he had the opportunity to be in another movie Called Enter The Dragon where he became a star.

After the movie, he continue d to work with his previous project. He managed to get a few fight scenes, and completed some of the dialouge. Sadly, he never got to finish due to his untimely death in May 10, 1973. He was filming a scene of his movie and soon feel to the floor. He was quickly taken to the hospital to find out he had Cerebral edema (or tumor for short)

Bruce Lee died the following day.

At this point, people who were part of the recording team wonder if his movie will ever be finished. At the end, the producer of Enter the Dragon decided to finish the movie.

The movie, was a complete disaster.

At the beginning of the movie, it shows old clips from Enter The Dragon. This will attract people’s attention to only realize they are going to see horrible editing. When they show the new Bruce Lee going into his trailer, there is an clip that shows the real Bruce Lee. At one glance, the main hero’s dialogue does not add up to what is he saying. If looked carefully, a person can see Bruce Lee talking, but it is not synched correctly. Lastly in this scene, look at the towel. Again, with one glance, a person knows that towel was edited in. why did they do that is a question I will never know how to answer.

To make it worse, There is a scene where the fake Bruce Lee looks at the mirror. Again if a person examines that scene closely, there is a cardboard cut-out of the real Lee’s face covering the fake. I do not understand why they did this. To the creators of the movie believe terrible editing like this can be accepable? Well I can see why they had a pathetic excuse of an edit becuse it is old for its time. However if people mange to notice the horrible subbing and editing in a movie, get rid of that idea.

The plot is way worse than the editing/cutouts. A gang wants Bruce Lee to join thier syndicate but he refuses. Soon, the gang shoots him in the face, but the transaction does not make sense at all. The reason for such an odd transition is because they keep swapping out clips from the old and new, showing a fatal flaw on flow, and how the fake Bruce got shot make no sense to me at all.  

So after the fake Bruce fakes his death, the director does the unthinkable of adding insult to injury by actually showing real footage from the real Bruce Lee’s funeral. This is a discrace showing a clip of someone who is already dead.

The movie only gets good at the end since they use the footage that the real Bruce managed to finish. From there, it is all action and nothing more.

My Perspective:  A point I still want to point out is the idea of trying to finish the movie. I understand not wanting good project go to waste, however the edits of this movie were awful and the directors should have taken more time to fix them. Bruce will be disappointed from the outcome of the film, but at least his project was finished.

Nostalgic: martial art, but I never had the time. This film reminded me why I love it so much, to beat the crud out of people, look cool, and get my own battle cry.

Even though the movie had horrible editing, see the ending, that is where the real Bruce will be proud of people liking his work.

Movie beginning and Middle: 4/10    Movie at Ending: 9.5/10

sites used:
http://www.brucelee.com/site/biography
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=30899

Jurassic Park Review

The only movie that deserved to be its own movie and does not require a sequel.This is Jurassic Park



Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg (the guy who also created E.T. that movie itself gain him popularity, literary).

This was based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Who knew that his book was going to be made into a movie? I would enjoy helping them by sticking to the book as much as possible because movie nowadays are getting put of control and barely put time and effort to make a fan happy.

The film centers on the fictional Isla Nublar near Costa Rica in the Central American Pacific Coast, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and a team of genetic scientists from his company InGen have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs.

Before Crichton's book was even published, studios such as Warner Bros., Columbia TriStar, 20th Century Fox, and Universal had already begun bidding to acquire the picture rights. Spielberg, with the backing of Universal Studios, acquired the rights to the novel before its publication in 1990, and Crichton himself was hired by Universal Studios for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel into a proper screenplay. David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence, and made numerous changes to the characters.


Jurassic Park is regarded as a landmark in the use of computer-generated imagery, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the effects, though reactions to other elements of the picture, such as character development, were mixed. During its release, the film grossed more than $914 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film released up to that time.


Now lets talk about what I thought about this movie

At first glance, when seeing science had discovered that they can clone dinosaur makes me thinks about they are playing god, humans man. The characters in this movie are actually good and they do not make me want to smack on thier decisions they make. The good part about this is that the dinosaurs do not overpower the humans, which is a step in the right direction (but why did the movies get worse from there, literary). The CGI dinosaur do not look at the place, it looks really good and it still holds up to this day an I love it!

Nostalgic:
I got to admit I was not looking forward into this movie since I thought it was going to be the old formula of "oh look, a dinosaur that is going to eat humans", luckily I was wrong and it turned out to be a good movie.
I was cheering for both sides most of the time, but I mainly was rooting for the humans that were escaping the island, that is how good the characters are, I do not want them to die, literally.

Overall
This is a good movie, I would recommend this movie to anyone. The only beef I had with this is that it hints a sequel that is not needed. Up to this day I am still mad that they were sequels. Still, watch it!

9/10

Pride and Prejudice: Book Review

A page of history is worth a volume of logic. O. W. Holmes


pride and prejudice

Published 1813

Author Jane Austen

A book I read in the 12^th grade. Certain people call this book a chick book, but I have to disagree with them since this book an interesting overall plot.

The book talks about a family known as the Bennet family about two parents trying to get their four daughters married. Around 19^th Centery, manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry in England.

Around this time, the main purpose for a man is to have money to gain respect from people. The main goal for woman is to get married with a man who has money.

The mom from the Bennet family wanted one of their daughters to get married so she could have a place to stay in case Mr, Bennet die.

The main charcter, Elizabeth Bennet believes there is more than just to marry a man and expect to be happy. There needs to be a connection or be in love or else the relationship will not be a happy one.

People around these parts are well mannered and people in our era should pay attention on what they might be saying.

She did not want to meet someone, but that all change until a man by the name of Fitzwilliam Darcy.
They both hated thier guts and every time they had an oppurtunity to make mockery of each other, they do their best to reduce thier respect with others.


Oddly enough, all this ended up being the good old chilche of everytime a woman and man fight each other, they seem to have a thing for each other.


They ended up loving each other, throughout all the odds and married each other.


My perspective: This is not one of those Twilight moments of a confused girl with unimaginative creautres, this is a book with common sense! I got to admit I was rather shocked to think that I was going to read a book about a family full of daughters who all want to find the perfect man. I thought it was going to be stale mainly for the reason of being a 1913 book. I began to read it (and after passing their wording) this was quite the book. The title of this book fits the theme well. Darcy was full of pride and Elizabeth was the prejuidce of against him. This was the main story line while the rest of the book is a side story about her other sister.


Nostalgic: This is a good book and I can remember the book pretty well (it has been over a year so that is a long time (well in my view). I would gladly reread this book if I had the chance, but I lost my book a long time ago. I will recommend it to anyone. Once again, it is not a twilight, this is better.


8/10


site used
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

Guilty Gear Special part 2 (Look at the previous post, it will explain)

I forgot to mention the amount of characters they are in the game. There is a total of 25 characters and after doing some reaserch, all of these 25 characters have references! For now, I will only pick 4, why? because some of these references are from Japan and people might not know about them

Faust: It turns out that Faust is the first one who references another topic other than music. It turns out that this doctor (in the game, yes, he is a doctor) gives out comic/manga references (sadly, I cannot find information about this, but I will update this section after I play the game and see what I can find).  There's also an ambient sounding German "rock" group called Faust that makes use of spliced sounds in their music.

Slayer: Slayer references a band call slayer that came out in the 80's. They were one of the many bands of being accused of being Satanic over the course of their career. He has three attacks called
"It's Late", "Under Pressure", "Dead on Time", and "All Dead".

"It's Late", and "All Dead All Dead" are Queen songs that were on the album, 'News Of The World', released 1977.
"Under Pressure" was a song Produced by both Queen and David Bowie.
"Dead on Time" is a song on Queen's album, "Jazz", released in 1978

Testament: One of the more blatant references in the game, our little mopey goth is named for "Testament", a thrash metal group founded by Derek Ramirez, Louie Clemente  Greg Christian , and Eric Peterson  that came out around 1983. They originally called themselves "Legacy", but two years later renamed themselves "Testament".

Bridget: Bridget has an attack called "Kickstart My Heart". This was a Motley Crue song released in 1989 in the album, "Dr. Feelgood".

there is not much about this particular character. I know another reference, but I will spare the many people and keep this one  up to the viewers if they want to reserach this character.

Nostalgic: This game is by far the best fighting game I have ever played. This is the first game that intoduce a new type of fighting that does not invlove who has a better combo and repeat. In this game, a person needs to experience all the moves this game have because most moves can be connected in mid-air (not a marvel vs capcom clone, this one is way different). As the video up above showed, it feels as if the fighting is more free and you can play offensively and defense, whatever fits your boat.

History: look above, yeah that was the history

Overall: This game is an epic music 2-D fighting game. I will recommend it to anyone, but if you are the kind of person who hates to learn how to let your fingers go and learn a particular beat on the figthing,then look somewhere else. The only thing that sucks about this game is some characters needs some balancing (ahem, Justice), this game is overall good and enjoyable.

Rating: 9.5/10

remember...

Anime fighters are Awesome. 

Guilty Gear Special (part 1)

History teaches everything including the future.
Lamartine


Hello People of blogger, this is going to be one of my biggest review ever made. This is going to be a 2 part blog (I hope this counts as two) that involves a fighting game but it has music references from old bands. Sure, It may not be from the past, but the historic value the game has gives it a charm that I want people to know about

Well Here it is
Guilty Gear
Publisher: Aksys
Relased on:September 11, 2007 (PlayStation 2)
                 Wii version on October 16, 2007


Guilty Gear is not your typical type of 2-D fighter. When people think 2-D, they might think other famous games, like Street Fighter, King Of Fighters, Tekken, etc. All these games have a reference of a fighting style people should be familar with, ex: Karate , jujitsu, kick boxing, and so on.


Though what would happen if there was a fighting game that gave characters personality and moves based on music? References to famous artist and their music. Seems impossible, but this game makes it all possible.


Welcome to Guilty Gear (Accent Core Plus, also known as XX or X2 for Europe)

First glance, a person would be saying "I look at these picutres, but I do not see anything that is music related".


I agree that the music reference are not easy to pick up fast, however if a person takes thier time and analyze specific characters, personality and move sets, it is easily shown.


It may look like this right now, but after seeing a video or two, a person can see some music references.


















Here is one video on what I am talking about, examine this closely, there are two references here if a person thinks carefully

Well? any luck finding a reference? if not, I will tell you. The first reference is the announcer. The announcer says before each fight "Heaven or Hell", which could be a reference to the Black Sabbath's album Heaven and Hell, or to the song by Gamma Ray


The other music realted note would be the "combo" which says beat. Not a big reference, but just pointing it out.


The next point I want to point out would be the chatacters now, there is a bunch of them that ressemble a  reference and it will take time to get them all.


First Up, Sol Badguy


Ishiwatari originally voiced Sol Badguy (whose real name is Fredderick, à la Queen's late lead singer Freddie Mercury, a leading character in the game whom the manual describes as an avid fan of Queen.


The name "Badguy" is in reference to Freddie Mercury's nickname of Mr. Bad Guy. His theme has the same name as a Queen song.]





Ky


One of Ky Kiske's special moves is called Ride The Lightning, which comes from Metallica's 1984 recording "Ride The Lightning." Ky's Instant kill move is called "Rising Force", which is Yngwie Malmsteen's first album released in 1984. Also, Ky Kiske is a reference to Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske, both ex-vocals from Helloween.

I will continue this review in the next part. There is a TON of references....