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I'm Josh "unangbangkay" Tolentino, and this is my cry for attention.
I'm also the News EditorJapanator. Come visit, and see me gush about things not directly related to video games. Or not. But hey, diversifying your interest in me is definitely something I would encourage.
As a bit of shameless self-promotion, I also write about games for the California Literary Review.
Here's a personal blog-thing that I write in when I remember to: Death By Eroge!
Below are some of my pre-staff C-blog works. Consider them an origin story of sorts, as proof that you too may one day "go grayscale"!
-Resident Evil 5 isn't racist, just ignorant and unambitious
- Dude, be cool! Don't hate on Final Fantasy so much!
-Don't Blame the Genre, Blame the Game: Why JRPGs Don't Intrinsically Suck
-Thoughts on The Escapist's Piracy Issue
-Sorry Doomsayers, Japan Isn't In (much) Development Danger.
-Can Critics Be Trusted When They Don't Trust Themselves?
-The Colorless Mask: Insult or Insight?
-Your Fate is in the Cards: "The Fool's Journey" in Persona 3
-Persona 3: The Rest of The Fool's Journey
-Thoughts on Piracy: Why My Eyelid is Twitching
-Persona should be called "Pimp-sona" and its heroes are enviable pimptastic jerks
-Truth and Reconciliation: Why Persona 4's ending is super awesome
-You wanna buy some goddamn eroge. DO IT DO IT DO IT
Promoted Musings:
-Playing With Others: Playing Alone, Together
-A Time to Destroy: To Hell With Your Rules, I'm Cheating
-Feel the Hatred: The Quick Time Event
-The Start of the Affair: My Own Mute, My Own Heartstrings
-Good Idea, Bad Idea: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
-For Those About To Die: A Letter To The Combine Overwatch
-Other Worlds than These: I Left My Heart in Inaba
-Untapped Potential: Talk to us dirty, Mr. Developer
-The Forgotten: A Storm of Romance Under the Banner of Love
Reviews:
-Overlord 2
-Red Faction: Guerrilla
-inFAMOUS
-Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
-Demon's Souls
-Valkyria Chronicles
-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
-Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon
-Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
-Multiwinia
-Crysis Warhead
-The Experiment
Contact Info!
Twitter: unangbangkay
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I'm also the News EditorJapanator. Come visit, and see me gush about things not directly related to video games. Or not. But hey, diversifying your interest in me is definitely something I would encourage.
As a bit of shameless self-promotion, I also write about games for the California Literary Review.
Here's a personal blog-thing that I write in when I remember to: Death By Eroge!
Below are some of my pre-staff C-blog works. Consider them an origin story of sorts, as proof that you too may one day "go grayscale"!
-Resident Evil 5 isn't racist, just ignorant and unambitious
- Dude, be cool! Don't hate on Final Fantasy so much!
-Don't Blame the Genre, Blame the Game: Why JRPGs Don't Intrinsically Suck
-Thoughts on The Escapist's Piracy Issue
-Sorry Doomsayers, Japan Isn't In (much) Development Danger.
-Can Critics Be Trusted When They Don't Trust Themselves?
-The Colorless Mask: Insult or Insight?
-Your Fate is in the Cards: "The Fool's Journey" in Persona 3
-Persona 3: The Rest of The Fool's Journey
-Thoughts on Piracy: Why My Eyelid is Twitching
-Persona should be called "Pimp-sona" and its heroes are enviable pimptastic jerks
-Truth and Reconciliation: Why Persona 4's ending is super awesome
-You wanna buy some goddamn eroge. DO IT DO IT DO IT
Promoted Musings:
-Playing With Others: Playing Alone, Together
-A Time to Destroy: To Hell With Your Rules, I'm Cheating
-Feel the Hatred: The Quick Time Event
-The Start of the Affair: My Own Mute, My Own Heartstrings
-Good Idea, Bad Idea: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
-For Those About To Die: A Letter To The Combine Overwatch
-Other Worlds than These: I Left My Heart in Inaba
-Untapped Potential: Talk to us dirty, Mr. Developer
-The Forgotten: A Storm of Romance Under the Banner of Love
Reviews:
-Overlord 2
-Red Faction: Guerrilla
-inFAMOUS
-Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
-Demon's Souls
-Valkyria Chronicles
-Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
-Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon
-Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
-Multiwinia
-Crysis Warhead
-The Experiment
Contact Info!
Twitter: unangbangkay
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Just as keikaku. "Keikaku" means "plan", durr hurr. We did it, guys! Fellow Dtoider Black Nexus (aka Nexus14) alerted me to this via PSN message, but Valkyria Chronicles has popped back as a top seller this week in American and Japanese sales, according to Gamasutra. No doubt this was due to my and others' unflagging promotion of the game as the best thing since thumbs*. 
Sales push! Keep in mind, Gamasutra's weekly "Saling the World" feature is a rundown of sales figures just from Amazon, with no consideration of retail and/or used sales, so the plucky soldiers of Squad 7 may well have sold even more outside of the monitored channels! Of course, Valkyria Chronicles' recent induction into Japan's Playstation "The Best" line and recent price drops on Amazon.com (39.79 BRAND NEW GET TO IT JERKS) had a hand in it as well, but it's much more satisfying to believe that it was all us. Unfortunately, all is not well on the British front, as our baby is nowhere to be seen on the top-five chart. Only mad dogs and Englishmen fail to go out and buy a great game, it seems. LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2 are at #1 and #5, respectively so it's not a total loss for the folks spreading the love out of platform loyalty. 
Have with some delicious flat che- I mean cake! Celebrate, friends! I hope we can put this kind of promotional weight behind Muramasa, the next worthy Atlus game, and the rumored release of Sakura Taisen V! 
*Good God, I just realized that including this one I've made eight posts solely devoted to promoting this goddamn game.
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"Your chest... is on my arm"
Johann is one lucky son of a bitch!
Is SEGA paying you for these posts yet?
Haven't picked up the DLC yet, but I certainly will!
Thanks for fighting the good fight, meng.
That makes me a sad panda. :[
Still haven't finished it, so I haven't got the DLC yet. But I will. You bet your ass I will.
...I may have to give up that dream and just freakin play it already though. *sigh* I luvs my trophies.