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Happy Halloween and a look back on horror month

Friday, October 31st, 2008

 

Even Haru's are festive

Well, Halloween is here, and with that comes an end to horror month here at -1 Credit(s).  Overall I thought it went quite well and I think it will come back again next year.  There were a few things that could have made it better, if there was more posts and stuff done is one big thing.  Though there was a lot covered as is, since I took the time to talk about the lighter side, which I think gets overlooked a lot.

I’m not going to go on forever about it though, it is time to move on.  What the next 7 weeks will follow a lot is development stuff for my midterm class, which is making a game.  So expect to see a lot of stuff on that, then more or less working on a norm for the blog which is mostly thoughts on random anime and video games.

Either way there is a lot of stuff coming so look forward to it.  Also happy Halloween, enjoy whatever you are doing, maybe watching some horror anime, playing some horror video games.  The new Castlevania did come along with Fallout 3 which I will be playing today.

So many jokes I could point out, I won't make them though

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Let’s rant about Horror Anime

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

This is also known as I don’t have anything planned because I have been busy with stuff and things. So, I thought I would look up a list of horror anime and pick one to write about that I know a bit about. After looking around for a bit I noticed the genera is so ill defined, and just about everything is thrown in there, and some things are not even though shows like it are. So as the title suggests, this is all about talking about these errors and things like that, so onward!

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Decap Attack: A horror game that didn’t start out as one

Friday, October 24th, 2008

When horror month started we took a look at the lighter side of horror with the SNES/Genesis classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Then we went into the more mature side with Clock Tower and Perfect Blue. So I’m going to take it back to the lighter side with the little known game Decap Attack. The game didn’t even start off as a horror game either, so how did this happen? Find out after the more thing (oh yes thats right I just built suspense).

Radical Box Art!

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Perfect Blue: This was suppost to be a Boogiepop Phantom post

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

As the title says, this was going to be a Boogiepop Phantom post, until I started watching it and realized I’m not going to make sense out of it fast enough to even do a post on it. So instead of just doing another video game post I saw Perfect Blue on wiki or something, and then remembered that that movie is quite horror and stuff, so why not do that. I have only watched this twice now, and I should have really watched it a few more times, because just like Boogiepop it is a bit confusing; though that is a plus if you ask me.

The J-pop group CHAM!

 

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Clock Tower: SNES Surivial Horror, randomly awesome

Friday, October 17th, 2008

All right here we are with the second post of Horror Month.  A few days ago I took on the lighter side of horror, but today it is going to be the darker side of it.  Believe it or not 16-bit games can still be creepy; it is not just flashy graphics that make a game scare.  Nor is it spring loaded monsters (though a lot of games seem to think so).  Horror is all about suspense, unease, knowing that the unknown is there, but cannot do anything about it, and so on.  Clock Tower for the SNES may not be the scariest of games, but it still is a solid horror game.

The title screen, just because it looks cool

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Zombies Ate My Neighbors: In a time where a water gun was a good idea

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

So, what better way to start the blog off right than doing a theme for the month.  Yes, that is right I am going to start things off with a horror theme for the rest of the month.  Now, while we’re on this topic too, I will talk just a little bit about the schedule I want to take for posting.  For right now, I plan to do 2 posts a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.  This of course is subject to change, but as of now this is how it is.  So that about leaves 6 posts for the rest of the month in which I will keep it even and do 3 Video Game posts and 3 Anime ones.

So to start this off, I will talk about one of my favorite games, so much so I even put a picture of it in the intro post.  Yep, I’m going to start it off right with Zombies Ate My Neighbors!

Trampolines are radical!

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