I'm a casual gamer so I rarely browse video game websites, so it was by pure chance I found these awesome videos by way of Digg's video section last night. These are multi part retrospectives of Zelda, Metroid and Final Fantasy.The Zelda one was completed some time ago, while the other two just started. I'm looking forward to them talking about Final Fantasy VI.

Legend of Zelda Retrospective (6 Parts, Complete)

Metroid Retrospective (5 Parts, Incomplete)

Final Fantasy Retrospective (13 Parts, Incomplete)

I changed the color scheme recently, the more I saw the old colors the less I liked them. I like this blue though, it should work for a while.

I removed the Guestbook also. I appreciate the few honest posts that were in there, but most of the posts were gibberish generated by spam bots. My filters removed what they were trying to sell, so all that was left was the gibberish.

I'm not quite done tweaking things here, and I still have a few things I need to add by way of code as well as content. I'm getting to it though.

On the 4th of July I went to see Transformers 2007. I was a fan of the original Transformers series in my younger days, so I was a little apprehensive over what Micheal Bay might do to my beloved childhood.

I went into the theater with zero expectations. Granted, I figured it would be a fine movie on its own, what with all the money they threw at it, but I wasn't expecting it to do the franchise any justice.

As it turned out, the movie was great, on its own and for the franchise. There is plenty to nitpick about, and the plot is as thin as most heavily CGI summer blockbusters these days, but it was entertaining regardless. It turned out that the designs for the Transformers themselves worked really well. When the designs were first leaked I hated them, but I have to say that seeing them in action really changed my opinion.

I suppose it didn't hurt the movie that much, but I felt they made it a little too kid friendly. I understand why they did it, to get a new generation into the franchise and make that much more money at the box office, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

My only other real gripe about the film was that Bay had seen fit to not take Frank Welker on to voice Megatron. Welker did audition, but Bay didn't hire him, saying that Welker's trademark voicing of the original Megatron was too soft for his vision of this new Megatron. He says that, but Welker voiced Megatron in the movie's video game, and I think the classic voice worked for this new Megatron just fine, it fit perfectly.

I think this is a flick worth seeing, it can even entertain those who never heard of Tranformers before.

An anime series has just started based on the Lovely Complex manga. As of this writing only the first episode has been fansubbed.

My previous entry discussed the live action movie, the anime follows the same premise, though it will likely be able to tell the story in more detail as it won't be crammed into the limited length of a movie.

Information

Anime News Network

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Lovely Complex - OP (Hosted Locally)

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KissSub

This is a live action movie based on a manga series. I guess you might call it a romantic comedy, though far more comedy than romance. The story revolves around a pair of classmates, Risa and Otani, who both suffer from height complexes. Risa is taller than the average girl while Otani is shorter than the average boy.

Their height makes things difficult in dealing with the opposite sex. Risa finds that guys don't much like to have girlfriends that are taller than them, while Otani discovers that girls find it silly to have a boyfriend shorter than they are.

The two, like a comedy duo, tend to tease each other about their height. They have lots in common, and often speak in sync without intention. Their friends and classmates think they would make the perfect couple, but they refute it at every step.

The movie follows the growth of the two's friendship until Risa realizes she does have feelings for Otani, and she must decide how to deal with it.

I think they did a great job of telling this story with the perfect amount of humor, and weirdness that is usually only seen in anime.

Media

This movie is about a year old now, hard to find torrents or anything for it. I downloaded my copy off of usenet. However someone has posted it onto YouTube in multiple parts, starting here.