Ok, it’s been a while since I last wrote about games. This one here is a remake of an old game, a near-perfect RPG.

Rhapsody was originally released for the Playstation. I read a review about it and really wanted to play it, but I don’t have a Playstation, and it was long off the market by the time I read about it. Luckily, it was re-realeased for DS last year, so I’m finally able to play it now.

The setup is pretty simple: A girl embarks on her journey to save a prince. Yes, folks, it’s a game with a cool female protagonist. A PIXEL RPG WITH A COOL FEMALE PROTAGONIST. I’ll just let that sink in for a while.

…Ok, back to the article.
The developers did, however, add some more ingredients to the mix. Like the fact that Cornet, the main character, talks to puppets and uses them for battle. There are musical scenes, too.

Yes, there are musical scenes. The songs are in japanese, but there are subs on the bottom screen for you to follow. The sprites dance cutely in little musical routines, it’s adorable to watch. You can rewatch all the scenes in the menu once you unlock them. While some seem rather mediocre, they aren’t exactly bad. For a game, they’re pretty good. Not in the “This song rocks!” way, rather in a “Cute song, it’s OK” way-Although there are some gems, like the villanes’s song.

And the pixels. This truely is pixel RPG at it’s best. The characters are drawn in cute, anime-styled graphics, and the backrounds are gorgeous. The sprites are cute, too! You can choose to view all the sprites and faces you unlock in the menu of the game.

To summarize, this is a great game that really needs more attention. I hope more parents will buy this game for their daughters instead of the usual pink-princess bullcrap.

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Ugh, saving up is so hard… But I made it. I made it. I saved up 500 SEK to buy myself some books with, ^W^ So I finally ordered Cyborg 009. I have the first two books, but it’s out of print, so it’s not in stock anywhere I live… (Cute Joe is Cute) And, I found out that it was actually released in Sweden during the 80’s with Swedish dub. Sweden, like a few european contries during the 80’s-early 90’s, imported a decent amount of anime from Japan. And while Sweden does decent dubbing on high-budget Disney films and so…

Well, they didn’t give anime much quality. The best anime dub I know is Digimon, and that was imported from 4kids. Most Swedish anime is dubbed with unfitting voices and has a cast of 3-7 voice-actors. The result, if you like bad movies, usually turn out hilarious. I try and buy them if I can find them, for the FAIL=WIN factor.

Take the Terra E dub, for instance. There was one man dubbing Jomy, Toni and Soldier Blue(They never translated his name. It sounded really wierd.), and he made them all sound like old men. They messed up translating several lines, ending in conversations that were impossible to follow and qoutes like
“We will fight them.. And after that, we will make freinds!”

Everybody were laughing their asses off. Even the grown-ups and a girl who hated comedy.

…Back to the 009 dub.
Turns out, it’s avadible on youtube. It’s fantastic, really. There is one person, ONE SINGLE PERSON doing an entiere fifty episode series. Sure, he was a decent voice actor, but, man. He did the girls, the children, it all sounded really stupid and wierd. His grammar was very lulzworthy, too. I mean, in a “People die if they are killed…” sense.
Link(It’s in Swedish, gomen…):

I simply must have this dub. I’m pretty sure this isn’t fansubbed, either…

Oh, and for those of you who don’t speak Swedish, here’s an extra. I went on a Rock drawing spree in class today:

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It’s not a very known fact, but I am quite a fan of silent movies, Chaplin, and Asta Neilsen. Although I do mostly watch movies by those two (And hoping to get my hands on the Henry Lloyd box), I occasionally dig up really old things from the time when “moving pictures” were considered entertainment in themselves, while developing precursors of modern filming technique. While most are primitive and of poor quality, they still manage to make me smile from time to time.

This gem here is, according to sources, the very first science fiction movie ever made. It was filmed in 1902, and retains certain elements detectable in Sci-Fi through the ages; A voyage to a diffrent planet, aliens, et cetera. Sorry for all the ado, here is the movie: 

…So, I finally got my Black Jack books in the mail last week. (I’ve been busy and not had much time to write until now) They really PWN, even if they are much darker than the anime. The manga is a really great piece with gritty realism, bad endings, and not the uppity-happy-happy optimism that the anime posseses. The anime was kind of a family show, were Pinoco showed up a lot more often. Probably because the younger viewers identified with her, and this was broadcast on television after all.

I’m happy that I got to see the anime first, because otherwise I might as well have been one of those people bitching that “Hey, this ain’t Black Jack! This is wholesome family entertainment!”

Well, I kinda like the fact that the anime and manga differ, because that means I get to see something new weather I watch the anime or read the manga. I usually stop watching anime because it fails to impress me and I feel “Ehh, I’ve read this in the manga. It’s exactly the same…” Then I turn it off. But the thing about BJ is that I can read the manga and find a dark treasure trove, watch the anime and see more Pinoco and a slightly or almost completely different storyline, without it diverting too much from the original.

I can only hope that BJ anime will be released in the states soon. I nearly cried my eyes out with happiness when I found it was being relincensed, then cursed a river when I found that I could not buy it, then cried again when the anime came out, and now I have both the anime and manga. Kitty is happy girl, yes?