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Chrom: “Alright Uzuki, here’s the situation: They have several Archers posted around the perimeters, with various warriors, knights, and mages surrounding the walls. Four of our eight units are dead, three of them are below half health, and all of our weapons are one hit away from breaking. What can we do with this situation?”

Uzuki: “……….”

Chrom: “Umm…. Uzuki? You’re our Grand Tactician; you have to have a plan.”

Uzuki: “Well…. we could bend over, put our heads between our legs, and kiss our arses goodbye.”

Chrom: “That’s… a horrible plan”

Uzuki: “And you have blue hair so I guess we’re even.”

Hello my friends and welcome to yet another thrilling post from your 1 & only, Uzuki. I know it’s been awhile since my last post. And I mean awhile. But to sum up what’s been going in my life let’s just say ‘Life is a bitch’. But it’s not like there’s anyone actually reading this in my tiny corner of the internet sooooo……… with that out of the way let’s talk about something a lot better than my personal life: Fire Emblem: Awakening.

I just gonna be honest I have never played a Fire Emblem game. I know, I know please put your pitchforks down I know I’m a complete shame to the entire nerd population. Please don’t rub it in. Frankly I blame my 12-year-old self for being a massive Final Fantasy fanboy. I missed out on a lot of good things because of that bastard. But now isn’t the time for regrets, I have a game to review!

I have never played a Fire Emblem game before. The only contact I had with this series was through “Smash Bros Brawl” with Ike flying in and slicing a nuclear bomb in half (Yeah let that image of badassery soak in your mind). Of course I knew nothing about them and like Lucas dismissed it as another series that I would never play. Fast forward several years and one obsession with strategy games later I saw this at a Gamestop and decided to check it out.

SkullGirls

What you tell your friends:

 “I play this well-programmed fighting game for the beautiful artwork, great music, engaging story, and a fighting mechanic that keeps you entertained and challenges you at every step.”

What you tell yourself:

 “I play this game for the jiggling boobs, panty shots, and the shameless, shameless poses” 

Hello fellow fanboys and fangirls and welcome to yet another sad attempt at social network interaction via a blog. And by doing so I have reached a new posting level! WWWOOOOHHHHH!!!! TWO WHOLE POSTS WITHOUT HAVING A RESTART! I AM ON A ROLE! OH YEAH! LET’S DO THIS THING! And so with that I want to talk about is a little something close to my heart: Indie Gaming.

Now I’m not saying that buying a game from a major company is a bad thing or giving in is bending to the corporate demands and becoming a sellout or something hipster like that. It’s just nice to give a try and a shoutout to the small guy. And as a game designer-to-be I like to give what little support I can to keep these little sparkly gems of talent and love in a giant sea of equally and unique sea of varying art. Buy a game from a company you never heard of once or twice a year and you and your gaming system will be better off for it. I took a chance and brought this little beauty of a indie title and was a better person for it. And with that Segway let’s talk about my favorite fighting ever, Skullgirls.

Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online

Hello my fellow fanboys and fangirls and welcome to the THIRD reopening, re-imaging, and renaming of a sad excuse of a blog. But with every falling, a new Empire arises slightly better and crazier then the last.

So I've decided to build my new blog Empire on a game that got a lot of hate when announced: Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online or as the land of the west would call it, Dragon Quest 10: Rise of the Five Tribes Online. Now as a semi-hardcore Dragon Quest fan I, of coursed, raged like a spoil 16-year-old American girl at her birthday party: "Blue ribbons? The ribbons aren't supposed to blue they're supposed to be baby blue! I don't care if everyone enjoyed the Ipods from the gift bags and Justin Bieber is dancing on the stage with his shirt off! My party is RUINED!"

So after fuming from the mouth for a year I decided to give this game a chance. And rejoice my fellow fanboys this game delivers almost everything that you would want from a Dragon Quest game and more. Now for anyone who doesn't know about Dragon Quest, here's a very brief history about Dragon Quest: First released in 1986 in  Japan as Doragon Kuesuto, or Dragon Quest in English, the game was a financial success and has had ten main games and dozens of spin-offs. The Dragon Quest series has such a commercial success in Japan that the game and it's creator, , are a house hold name and everyone and thier mother knows about. The game didn't reach the shores of America until which it did pretty well, but not the way that it did in Japan. But nonetheless the game is still a success and has gained quite a following world wide.

For the most part RPG gamers will tell you that the Dragon Quest series is the best series ever made. And they, including me, are right....to a certain degree that is. The first six games were created for the NES and SNES so that should tell you that this series has survived for a reason. There's just something so entertaining about it's simplicity. The simple turn based system which at it's most complex is reading the spells, it's rich and simple story plots that even a five year could understand, the interactions between the characters that don't turn into emo whinefests when something goes wrong. And it's with this simplicity it stands to reason why this series has endeared for so long. Unlike it's sibling/rival series, Final Fantasy, the Dragon Quest series has stayed the same up until DQV and which it kinda mixes it up a little, but not enough to throw off the veterans and hardcore gamers of the series. Outside of the first game they all pretty much all have the same premise and setup. Your person A who has to team up with person B, C, D, etc to defeat the Evil Lord/Emperor/God who is out to destroy the world. That's the series in a nutshell. But it is this nutshell that keeps us coming back for more and more until the day that we die or the earth stops spinning. Which ever happens first.

But alas the formula that a generation of gamers grew up on has changed. But not for the worst, but for a better and brighter future.

Another restart coming soon