Marvel vs Capcom 3

Easily the best game in the franchise thus far, without a shadow of doubt.

BERSERKER BARRAGE!

exploding inside;

This is a personal post, so if you don’t want to read angst feel free to ignore this post. I just need somewhere to let go and type to my heart’s content.

The Awesomeness That Is Heiwajima Shizuo

Whilst I may not be the most widely-watched person in terms of anime, I would think that scarcely anyone would disagree that Heiwajima Shizuo is one of the most awesome characters to ever grace anime.

Makoto Nanaya: A closer look

I know I’m a retard for getting her this long after release, but what the hell. Here it is: a review on Makoto Nanaya, the (not so) new DLC character for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Bouncy, isn’t she.

No Longer a Recruit

“Training to be soldiers
Fight for our land
Once in our lives
Bloody waste of time
Have you ever wondered
Why must we serve?
Because we have no choice
And we lan lan* have to serve, have to serve, ya!”
-One of the songs we sang while marching

Devil May Cry Reboot

Do not want.

I completely disagree with the design on the new Dante. And what’s up with the black hair?

The action, of course, looks slick as ever, despite the game being developed by Ninja Theory of Heavenly Sword fame instead of internally by Capcom. I dunno about you, but I found Heavenly Sword sluggish compared to DMC or God of War. Hopefully the game will retain its fast-paced action and Smokin’ Sick Style.

Hopefully there will be a proper explanation for this nonsense.

BlazBlue: Valkenhayn R. Hellsing!

I haven’t been able to keep up with news so this is pretty late, but I stumbled upon this on YouTube:

Freakin’ awesome stuff. Looks like his Drive allows him to swap between his human form and his wolf form. He also has a meter (typical ArcSys) that drains as he uses his wolf form, so safe to say it denotes how long he can stay transformed. He looks like a close to mid range specialist (the range on one of those kicks seems to reach as far as Ragna’s 5B) without any sort of projectile, so, true to many a fan prediction, he’ll probably play somewhat like Guilty Gear’s Slayer.

This also makes it the third of the Six Heroes who have become playable, along with Haku-men and Terumi. We all know Platinum is next on the list, but when Jubei will make his appearance as a playable character is anyone’s guess.

Vocational Training

That’s what I just spent a week doing, after passing out from Pulau Tekong. So far its all been lecture after boring lecture, with a few sessions of physical conditioning. I don’t know whether life here can be considered better than life on the island, but the conditions here are surely poorer; this used to be my father’s camp. That’s how old it is.

Again, I can’t say much else about what we do but suffice to say we’re being trained to support the combat units.

On an unrelated note, do check out a series of videos titled “Every Singaporean Son” on YouTube if you want a peek at what goes down in Tekong. It skims the surface of what we do, and should provide watchers with an idea of our training.

Which is odd in itself, because we’re actually not supposed to talk about our training.

The Tip of the Iceberg

That’s what we are told we are being given a taste of, here in my first two weeks of National Service, otherwise called the adjustment weeks.

Being trained to defend the country, or some crap like that

That’s my one-liner summary of what Singapore’s National Service is. Of course, that’s one of many ways to put it, and the others are not so polite.