10:55 PM on 06.29.2007
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Thanks to Siliconera we get a prismatic view of Japan's confusing, wacky, and often surrealist culture that seems to be a broken mirror reflection of our own. I'm sure there's an analogue to be found here within an anime about a psuedo-goth fourteen year old girl who meets her sunny counterpart on the other side of a broken mirror (possibly in an attic), but my familiarity with anime extends only a noodle's width beyond Galaxy Express 999.
Anyway, the video you see above is from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra, a title that seems to ape the multi-player, multi-planar fighting style of the Super Smash Bros. series, only all the cuddly Nintendo mascots have been replaced by robots that would be more at home in a Tim Burton movie being fawned over by adolescent girls (and adolescent boys with nary a hint of masculinity).
While this sort of thing would just confuse the standard American gamer, the Japanese are as rabid for this sort of cross-branded gaming mayhem as they are for bleached-blonde pop starlets and over-the-hill baseball players. It's long been my wish that the American gaming industry would become profitable enough that we could see all those titles the Nipponese are privy to on our shores, if only to witness the stampede of lawmakers in Congress trampling one another in order to be the first to decry the societal effects of interactive incestual tentacle sodomy simulations.
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the game doesnt look bad i guess? it seems to be more of that slow action fighting that you see in DBZ games... which i never really found those fun at all =/
I don't know how could anyone not get Evangelion's ending, its easy to understand with a little knowledge of Buddhism...Also, cocks XD
lollerskaters at your comment, it was made of pure win
Good God, how much more Evangelion shit do we actually NEED?! We already have a horrible anime, a horrible OVA, a horrible hentai spinoff, multiple toys and box sets and video games, do we really need to add to the pile of crap for this travesty of a show?
not like its coming to the US anyways
You mean something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ei1C-s2Zus
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xpPMA1mt1_8
Atlus might translate it.
-Izaak, Lord of the Lotus Clan.
Fantastic cause it was Evangelion, and i always wanted to play as a gay blue robot. And pura crap cause it looked bad, really bad, like dog crap.
Cue cheesy pimptastic 70's music
Yes, it looks like crap and prolly plays like it too, but you can't blame the Japanese.
We Americans have had our own crap movie knockoff games since games were born. Back in 1982 people were buying "ET" for Atari... The game didn't even have a discernible purpose for playing, and is ranked as one of the worst games of all time.
Don't even get me started on the Spider-man games...
best show EVA!
o wait, mechs, I C wut u did thar.