What have you done with your life? Have you ever accomplished a dream you set out for yourself. This here is the story of one mans dream.

Katawa Shoujo

Starting all the way back in 2007 a design was posted on a Image board with one simple wish behind it. I want to date a disabled person. Not one for moral standards but mindful of the risk's of pursuing these goals in real life a team formed to help this man. We shall make it a visual novel a storybook game they said and cried together with joy long into the night..


On a more serious note after 2 years of hard work the team has something to show for it. A download able version of the latest work is available from their website here.
http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html


The main character suffers from arrhythmia meaning he has a crazy heart and is at risk of heart attacks.

This in turn sends him to a special school where he meets and interacts with other people with disability's. Heres the image that sparked the entire thing off.


on that note it seems to have quite a few fans already and is drawing in a lot of fan art.
The designs have changed and the team behind it has grown.I may have more if i can get over the feeling of shame to download it.

So here it is the first lets play of mass effect.
This video is just the first 15 minutes of game time from character creation to getting used to the controls.So bask in the glory of the character creation tools and admire the musical score but don't forget to Tune in next time for the rest of Eden prime and the beginning of this massive adventure.

Go Shepard go.I sure hope Jenkins grows a beard at one point.

now any ideas on where to put the stat points. Plan a little ahead as i don't intend to stop and ask every time i level up. 50-60 videos would be a bit to much.

Ok its time to start off our lets play section of the website.
The opening act this time is a much beloved title Mass effect. This entry is all pictures at the moment but once i get the embedding down the later Mass Effect articles will all be hosted videos.


So lets begin.
The characters past and play type i will leave to you and your comments. The class will be soldier and play will be from the PC version of Mass Effect using my wired 360 pad.







Ok first things first we need a gender and toto give the commander a first name.As well as what he/she did before joining the alliance military.







Now a psychological profile this affects the way some characters may treat you as well as some addition quest lines later in the game. Its not hugely important but feel free to pick one anyways.



Here we have a few Facial builds to show you how a face can be built with the sliders. This is not a finalized look so feel free to ask that i make the commander the ugliest SOB to ever walk on any planet.

I'm just gonna call this the greatest news ever. so much so that it needs its own blog entry. Its also going to have co-op play probably making this game of any year its released. This year or next i'm waiting for you DR2.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dead-rising-2-does-have-multiplayer

Disappointment were all familiar with the grunting sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach which is not quite the need to poop or indigestion. It lingers on and stick with you much like a child hell bent on ruining your day.


So here we have the 5 most recently Disappointing things.


5.The KIA

Perhaps the shock trailer of Mass Effect 2 showing up after confirming that we could transfer our original Mass Effect data and our commander Sheppard across kind of puts a damper on what it appears bioware has been trying to do. The idea that you will no longer play the much beloved created character from the first game brings back fond memories of Knights of the old republic 2.


This is bad because KOTOR2 was not as likable as its predecessor


Picture is fake and more likely a candidate for the Bam your gay article


4.Lego RockBand



Seriously


Is this what we the gamer who enjoys playing fake instruments because we are much to ham fisted, lazy and generally ashamed of our outward appearance? Is this what we have reduced the industry to? Yes and we should all be disappointed in ourselves.


3.Tales of Vesperia

My breathing is heavy as i check every vent shaft i see. I then proceed to stomp every one of my fallen brethren in red gooey mush Cause i'll be damned if the fallen are going to be used against me.


But up here im not alone i came with others 2 non-chalantly ripped to shreds about 4 minutes after landing in the hell hole of a ship. I have my commanding officer who's locked himself in the bridge and sent me of on my lonesome to trod through the body stealing monsters to bring everything back online. I also have some random female shipmate who has done pretty much nothing bar locking herself in somewhere.




What was that!!! Something lunges at me from out of the dark. I raise my weapon the best i have on this mining ship which is in summary just a futuristic nail gun. It runs at me quicker than i remember but 2 shots and its down. So we come to the first of dead spaces flaws.


Variety is where it really suffers there are around 8 types of the normal necromorphs and quite a few look very similar Making it hard to differentiate when four or five come towards you. But i digress everything looks very nice Smooth textures and a great feeling for the maintenance sections of the ship.This is fine however but the look is constant. Its hard to believe that the crew quarters has not received any kind of decoration. No fancy lighting or different types of desks. Theres not even any carpet even bioshock had itself carpet's It certainly is a Grim future ahead of us EA.

There are things! horrible things that should not exist.
Saw the videogame is with out doubt one of them.



What could be wrong with a saw videogame you ask. Well lets begin with the 5 key signs it wont be enjoyable.


1. its made to be released at the same time as the sixth film. So its a movie tie in of a film series not deemed suitable for games till past its fifth iteration. Now film tie-in does not mean terrible there was a time in my younger years where things were still out of my reach where film tie-ins were great fantastic however the problems seemed to surface around the time 3D came into play.


2. Its a puzzle game. Now puzzle games are by all in all fantastic and a great way to whittle away the time. The problem here is its a series of Timed puzzles. Now the inclusion of the timer is going to make puzzles either stupidly easy with mash this to win unequally hard and its something rarely balanced right.


3. Content. WHAT CONTENT!!! its like a CSI game. Whoops been done already. The point of Saw was that each version seemed to tell 3 interlinked stories. So why pick One when none of them would make a good videogame. Unless you do the serial killing a bit like Evil genius that could work.


4."Because we have leadership in the survival horror genre, we're passionate about it and wanted to find another property on par with 'Silent Hill," explained David Daniels, director of marketing for Konami. This guy is reason 4. David here does not seem to grasp the genre of what the saw game should be. It is in no way a survival horror game and likening it to Silent hill is the out the arse manner of speaking that's going to send this shooting down the tubes to the waste bins.


5. They should have made a game about this guy.
At least it would be entertaining.

Miniboss out.

Hes back after a 7 year break gaming has its prodigal son returned to us. I am of course talking about MATT HAZARD whats that you have not heard of MATT well no problem it seems no one else has either.


I introduce to you all Eat lead the first and probably last installment to the gaming stars impressive mostly fictional back history. It seems I probably have confused a few of you here. Its nothing to be ashamed of since the game itself is a best described as a practical joke gone awry.


See you play Matt who after 7 years with no work is trying to get his career back on track by starring in his new game thanks to a change in the management of the gaming studio he works for. The management does not like Matt however and decided to kill him off for some inane reason or other.


There were pretty much bang up to speed with story. Its a story about a video game star who took things to far trying to get back on his feet. On to the gameplay and this is where things will get hard. Its difficult to bring a valid opinion on this game since it seems to parody itself as much as other series. Is the cover system bad due to lack of testing or left in on purpose?

And what of the parody element? Well its here in spades iconic characters from the past thrown in,Buffed,morphed and colours slightly changed seems to be the way of it. Heres a shot.

I wonder who that could be.

But i digress its time to put opinions to page and get on with it. The controls are fluid but the cover system is balls annoying. To often your fiddling around with cover while some cowboy or soviet ops rushes you with a magnum resulting in death.The ability to select and with one button press assign new cover which Matt will run to is nice. But used wrong and you will get shot up as you slowly roll over your previous cover.

Before i begin adding new content its time to bulk up the site with some previous opinions off the test run site. Also to note since writing this i discovered there is a new act in the comedy club making my opinion of the worth of this purchase slightly higher. (Still to many points for it though)


Well downloaded content for GTA4 is now available for all 360 users with live. But is it simply worth the cost.

The answer lies with you and what you would be willing to pay for.
New music on the radio stations yeah you can have that 2-3 new tracks per station adds up to about 30 new songs with some new audio dialog interbreed it all. We have some new television content not altogether an awful lot of it but it seems rockstar has listened to its consumer markets and give us more of what we wanted. Republican space rangers makes its triumphant return to the television screen within your television screen.

The plot involves johnny and the biker gang "the lost" as the head of the chapter they belong to is released johnny and jimmy "not the most original of names for them i agree" are thrown back into a war against rival motor club"biker gang" the angels of death. You may remember johnny from ONE MISSION in the vanilla GTA4 where you first meet the much more interesting playboy and yes Nico does reappear however briefly in this expansion to.

additional features include following in formation to converse with the other bikers on your way to a shootout. A battle hardened meter that pretty much just tracks Jim and Clays toughness. Dont get to attached to any other cannon fodder that joins in on your activity's. Now you can take part in gang wars. A lovable throwback to the old GTA turf wars go somewhere and kill the red dots however you want. This seems to be the only way to upgrade Jim and Clay and get them better weapons.

I am an overmuscled, testosterone for blood ape - with a chainsaw bayonet on his gun.I have ploughed through a hundred, nay a thousand locust bodies to get to this point.


Wait no i did not. I am in fact a overweight bear with a square nose and a redesigned face much akin to a gargoyle. Welcome to the world of nuts&bolts where the once athletic duo has spent the last couple of years in less than pristine shape. The game starts with the revival of grunty the witch without a body anymore. Your first "challenge" in the game is to race the bouncing head around the local hill. No problem right?


Wrong i am infact so out of shape that the head zooms off into the lead as i am left wondering why i move slower then a snail in a full body cast. Thankfully i dont need to continue with this as the showdown is interrupted by L.O.G the lord of games. Who decides much like a child being ignored that everything must be done his way. Banjo being stupid as he is fails to take this chance to sit on the witchy head and crush it into a fine dust with his immense weight and goes along with the plan.


So we finally get to the game and are given a magic wrench. This allows us to build any vehicle we want however we dont have many if any parts so early into the game. In the games central hub zone "Showdown town" we set of in what can only be described as a shopping cart with a weak motor in the bottom. We cant go up steep slopes at the moment so were left with doing the tutorial levels.


Yes like every tutorial ever made they are a drag a huge drain on the willpower to keep going with the game. However there easily disbatched and bested despite the best vehicle i can make is the same slow as hell trolley from showdown town with better wheels and three engines. It fails to steer like anything else constantly ramming itself into the wildlife and anything else it seems to be able to find.