Scary Movie 3 (2003)

I seen Meet the Spartans not so long ago... was one of the worst, unfunny parodies I've seen since Scary Movie 4.

The Eminem parody is funny, I found it funny, didn't find the rest funny. Didn't find the previous Scary Movie movies funny apart from the parts where they rip-on jocs.

These movies are made to the masses in America, who are often brain dead, or brain-fried. They're designed for watching with your brain switched off. Sit a basket of veg. in front of the TV and put this on, it ought to love it~!

My overal rating: 2.5/10 ...Rated NVF-15 (Not Very Funny)

King Of Fighters '99 (1999, SNK, PS1)

I've heard Neo Geo cartridge games are still avaitable, but cost like $400...

First time I played King Of Fighters was at my Japanese host family's house. Their kid had King Of Fighters 98 for the PS1, and his cousin had the actual Neo-Geo cartridges. That was like 9 years ago nearly, and that was my reason for buying this game.

I'm not sure what makes King Of Fighters soo popular... I think maybe it is SNK's distinctive artwork style, but can't see what's so special about the gameplay.

You get a shitload of characters to chose from. There is no story mode... you fight your way through a dozen of so characters, before you battle with genetically enhanced boss Krizalid.

The graphics look like they could have been from 1994 or 1996, but look dissapointing for a game released in 1999 or 2000. I think Capcom is the king of the 2D fighting genre.

There's this one character, a Chinese midget with a metal claw glove called Chun, who's pretty funny, and there's a character in one of the backgrounds who looks like my friend Frank. That's what I'll remember this game for.

My rating: 3.3/10

Gundam Z (1997, PS1)

Released in 1997 for the playstation, Japan only. Not an entirely bad looking 3D action game for 1997. Some PS1 3D graphics are shaky and terrible looking, but this one doesn't look too bad.

Not a fan of Gundam. Seen clips of the Gundam animes, but based on the story and the fact that Bandai have tried to milk it for like 50 years put me right off watching it. I used to own Gundam F-91 for the Super Famicom/SNES 10 years ago, but only bought it cuz it was an anime game, and back then I thought it was awesome to own any anime game.

There's 2 discs- one is the hero's story mode, the second is the enemys. I completed disc 1 within 2 days, maybe less, and the enemy's within 40 minutes. Anyone can complete this game within this time frame, even a monkey ONG ONG!

I wouldn't recomend this to you especially, not unless you wanna pay $25 for an import game that can be completed in under 24 hours!

My rating in terms of graphics: 7.8/10

My rating in terms of gameplay, etc: 3.4/10

Ghost In The Shell (1997, PS1)

Released in 1997 for the playstation, the game is more in sync with the manga than the anime movie by Mamoru Oshi. The US and European releases were a year after the Japanese release, in 1998.

You play as robot spider-thingy, Fuchikoma (known as Tachikoma in the dull Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series). You can scale walls like Spiderman, hang upside down, shoot grenades and destroy huge cyborg-mechas, lotsa fun! ^^

There's 12 levels to play. I got through the entire thing with one week.

My one quarm about this game is that alot of the mecha don't look very 'Shirow-ish.' In alot of Shirow's anime and what not, you can tell if it's a Shirow designed mecha or not, and alot of the mechas you battle here don't have that distinctive Shirow style, but no matter; one of the bets anime games for the PS1-

My rating: 8.8/10

Macross VFX-2 (PS1, 1999)

Sequel to Macross Digital Mission VFX, released 3 years before this one (which I haven't played... yet).

I had Macross: Do You Remember Love? for the Sega Saturn ten years ago. If you've played Gundam Z for the Sega, it basically looks the same as that- 2D 32-bit graphics with minimal 3D elements. VFX-2 is fully 3D rendered world of Macross though. My only quarm about this game, or some 3D PS1 games in general is that from a distance it looks awesome, but upclose, everything looks like one big pixel.

I think there's about 12 or 14 missions to play. I always play these games in hard mode, and I think I completed the game in 3 weeks. The bosses are very unusual looking, and the gameplay varries from level to level. Along the way you get the option of poileting different mecha also.

One of the best anime games made for the PS1,

My rating: 8.1/10

Devilman (2000, PS1)

Who would have believed they would have released a Devilman video game? Well, they did. Released by Bandai in 2000. *I had to buy a Japanese PS1 to play 10 anime games I bought dirt cheap off yahoo Japan. You can buy a used PS1 from gameshops for like $50 now, but for this NTSC-J PS1, with shipping, I payed close to $210!

Probably what you're wondering is, what Siren/Silene/The Demon Bird will look like in the game... what will the fight-in-flight between her and Akira look like? Well, Silene in the manga and 1990 anime is naked-you can see her jugs, and white pussy hair, right? In the past there has been numerous attempts to 'censor' Silene. On the Manga Video release of Devilman VOL.2, Silene is covered in white feathers/fur from head to toe. There's also one Go Nagai acrylic Devilman paintin in which her entire body is covered in white feathers also. So what does the fight scene look like? Well it doesn't look like anything, because you don't get to fight Silene. The final boss is an amalgamation of Agwell, Ghelmar, and Jinmen... with, I think Jinmen as the dominant consiousness. After that boss is defeated, the creidts roll, and you get to play the game from the start again, only difference is, you play as the 'TV version' of Akira, and not the manga one again. I've heard that if you follow the game through to the end, you get to battle with the TV version of Silene. But why heck would I wanna replay the game just for that? Unless the game was so great I wanted to go at it again (like Metal Gear Solid), but it's not! The once is enough is always enough for me with average games. Especially average PS1 games- there ain;t alot of people who like retro games, especially shakey retro 32 bit games, but so long as they're great games, I don't mind playing em- Die Hard Trilodgy, Resident Evil 2 & 3, etc.

Devilman is a very average game, with very average gameplay involved. I actually think some of he 3D backgrounds look better than the ones from Silent Hill (that looked awful for a 1999 game... the graphics from Silent Hill looked more like 1996 graphics). The character models in Devilman look bad for a game released in 2000 also- I imagine the game would have been under developent for a few years- judging from the aesthetics of the character models, it may have been as early as late 1997.

For me the hardest part of the game was tapping the buttons fast enough to transform into Devilman for the first time- your ceased by a badly sculpted demon, and to stop yourself becoming demon chow (and turnin into Devilman for the first time), you have to slam down triangle, circle, square, and X buttons as fast as humanely possible. It took me 2 or 3 weeks to pass this point. After then, the game was pretty much a walkthrough, and I think I completed it in 8 days or whatever.

My rating: 6.2/10

Golgo 13: Queen Bee (1998)

Directed by Osamu Dezaki, who directed the first Golgo 13 anime.

This time Golgo is hired to assasinate a female revolutionary known as Queen Bee. Why is called Queen Bee? -well, she gives birth to all her men's children. I won't rant on about the story so as not to spoil.

I seen the first Golgo 13 anime, Golgo 13: The Professional on the sci-fi channel on cable 8 years ago. I liked it because of it's realism, and the complexity of the story. It felt like adult GI Joe or something from the 80s. Alot of people bitch about the animation and music in Queen Bee, yet seem to forget that the first Golgo 13 anime was produced on a 'theatrical budget,' whereas Queen Bee was a straight to video release. What I can't understand is, if Golgo 13 is so phenomenal, and sold so many manga throughout the world, etc etc, then why couldn't they have made more OVAs through the years?

Anyway, Golgo 13 doesn't feature in this one as much- he's more of a background character, which will be pretty dissapointing for fans. There's this one scene where Golgo boards a ship Queen Bee is on, and attempts to take her life- when he runs, he's like out within 3 seconds, he literally moves like the devil!

So umm, you're gonna watch this anyway if you liked the first one. It's just not as good as the frist anime, and the gratuitous sex & violence don't seem to quite fit in places, etc. Soundtrack seems less jazzy than the other one in which Toshiyuki Kimori was the composer, and the Queen Bee sex scene at the end is really cheesy...

My rating: 6.5/10