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  • Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva: First Impressions of the First Layton Movie

    [The first Professor Layton movie came out on DVD in Japan this week! See how many Picarats this movie is worth in this English gentleman-worthy review. (Also, a rating of the main characters by their usefulness in the plot!)]

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    [The first Professor Layton movie came out on DVD in Japan this week! See how many Picarats this movie is worth in this English gentleman-worthy review. (Also, a rating of the main characters by their usefulness in the plot!)] The Layton Movie is just... More
  • So the star of FF12 was supposed to be... Balthier?!

    Flipping through EDGE magazine, this pull quote grabbed my attention:

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    Flipping through EDGE magazine, this pull quote grabbed my attention: "Balthier was sidelined to make way for Vaan, a composite creation made of teen girl dreams and marketing man visions,vanilla to the bone." (Vol. 209, p. 110) Ohhhh, snap... More
  • Professor Layton 3 *MUST* come to America

    Yes, I realize how uncouth and un-gentlewomanly all-caps look in a title, but, trust me, the message is that important.

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    Yes, I realize how uncouth and un-gentlewomanly all-caps look in a title, but, trust me, the message is that important. I was at E3 this year and noticed the demo for the Diabolical Box at Nintendo's booth... I fumbled through the Japanese demo and... More
  • An Ode to Japanese Bread!

    (and to my first subtitled video!)

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    (and to my first subtitled video!) Melon bread is delicious. So it's natural it has its own YouTube video complete with trippy colors and patterns. The subtitles are mine, but the video is not. Enjoy. More
  • A Localization Staff's Nightmare (Part 1 - Prof. Layton 3)

     

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    They better be getting paid in more than Picarats to translate this series… Ever since I noticed differences among puzzles in the Japanese/English versions of the Diabolical Box, I’ve been trying to pay more attention to puzzles in the third... More
  • Pacman Powerpoint

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    It’s pretty slick, a little dorky and an effective communication tool.

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    It’s pretty slick, a little dorky and an effective communication tool. So I've been trapped in a vortex of schoolwork these last two weeks, and this is one of the results: my thorough analysis of Game Developer Magazine for my specialized business... More
  • Professor Layton 3 : Review in Progress (1)

     

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    This third installment of Professor Layton is shaping up to be just as fun as its predecessors.Because I haven’t updated since I started this blog a week+ ago, I thought I’d do a quick post on a few new features in Japan’s most recent... More
  • the obligatory welcome post!

    Woo woo, decided to start up another blog. It's funny how I've never felt motivated to start one at IGN or Gamespot (I did have one at 1UP back in the day, I guess), but I visited GI, saw they had blogs and thought, "eh, what the heck." Possibly because I always feel claustrophobic on the cluttered sites of IGN/Gamespot/gaming sites with black backgrounds and super saturated with advertising. I'm also going to put my guess out here that GI's new site is Wordpress-powered. Just a hunch.

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    Woo woo, decided to start up another blog. It's funny how I've never felt motivated to start one at IGN or Gamespot (I did have one at 1UP back in the day, I guess), but I visited GI, saw they had blogs and thought, "eh, what the heck."... More