'The King of Fighters' Promotional Trailer.

'The King of Fighters' Promotional Trailer.

Don't tell me I didn't warn you later, though. While searching for a Buddhist demon, I came across, by chance, the promotional trailer for the King of Fighters, the Movie on YouTube. I couldn't help but to skip the bad, BAD fight scenes on the video and go directly to the end only to see the words "The King of Fighters" and grimace for the future of this film. I believe my reaction is only natural; after the disaster of Dragonball, Chun Li, and Dead or Alive, what can I expect?

You're warned. Click here to see the YouTube trailer

NIER: Five months later, but yeah.

NIER: Five months later, but yeah.

I found out about Nier by reading news on the Sword Machine blog, and quickly picked interest on it, so I rushed to the official website and several others to find out more information. Here's the main data from the official website:

NIER™
Developer: Cavia, INC.
Publisher: Square Enix, Ltd.
Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Date: 2010

Nothing is as it seems in Square Enix's latest action adventure game, set in a crumbled world plagued by disease and dark, unrecognizable creatures. Players assume the role of the unyielding protagonist, NIER, resolute in his quest to discover a cure for his daughter, who is infected with the Black Scrawl Virus. With powerful allies and a mysterious book, NIER encounters things that will confound even the mightiest of the warriors

There are, however, some differences between the 360 and the Playstation 3 titles;
First and foremost, each console will have its own game: The 360 will have NieR: Gestalt, while the PS3, NieR: Replicant. Thus far, the versions are only confirmed for for Japan.

Replicant's version will have a smaller version of the protagonist Nier, and his quest will be to save his sister instead of his daughter. This is the only change confirmed between the consoles: The weapons, skills, scenarios and enemies will remain the same.

Odd, though. I had the feeling that Sony always targeted to higher audiences than Microsoft. Nevertheless, Japanese gamers' response to the character's age was unfavorable, so a smaller version of the guy was created for the PS.



My personal (and obvious) guess is that it'll be similar to Kingdom Hearts,  a hack n' slash game with swords, some magic and combos; with a more-adult world and, judging myself by the amount of blood and personal history of the He/She partner of the hero, more adult themes. Oh and, you can find the debut trailer for the game on YouTube.

Ahhh blog updates.

Ahhh blog updates.

Eh, I'm not one of those guys who updates a lot his blog.
I don't have the urge nor the desire (aren't they synonyms?) to publish new articles, mainly because I do not form entire ideas on my heads, just little pieces of information. That's right, little scraps of information.

"oh hey, cool thing over there", "oh this band launched an album". Stuff like that. Nothing major; Just daily information that I process to a certain degree of interest, which apparently is just below the "enough to write a blog entry" category. Oh well.



Founda' cool article on Tutorial9 which has some advices on designing blogs. I find the latest three to be opinionated and subject to personal criteria, but most of text contains good information. Worth a look, or two.

The link's on the picture, or can be found here: 9 Things You Can't Forget When Designing a Blog