Hey, lookit what I wrote.

It’s a summary of the Mega Man series and why Mega Man 9 will hopefully be a fresh new start for the Bloo Bomber. It’s…pretty ironic when you think about it.

This article sent me back to some of my old fandom haunts to perform necessary Drama Control. People sure take stuff seriously. Talk about a good way to die early.

I made a small comment about how Mega Man was “too busy playing Power Ranger dress-up” to trash killer robots in Mega Man ZX, which was instantly taken to mean I hate Mega Man ZX. I don’t. I enjoy it. But anyone who doesn’t think that people are partially excited for Mega Man 9 because it’s so blissfully uncomplicated is out of their tree. People love nostalgia. More than ever, they want to be taken back to their childhoods. Model X and Model Z doesn’t take anyone back to their childhoods, unless they had an alphabet block fetish.

I love the Mega Man series. I always have and I always will. I will be screaming about Mega Man’s latest victory against Wily when I’m senile and on my death bed. But that doesn’t mean he’s immune to criticism. Lord, no.

Mega Man knows he’s not perfect. He wouldn’t want you to die early of stress, defending him from toothless old women like myself. Please, think of Mega Man.

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In Summation: The Mega Man Series

Hyadain is a game music remixer from Japan who does some excellent work. I respect the hell out of American game remixers (the good ones, anyway), but none of them will be bold enough to ask, “If Street Fighters’ World Warriors decided to break into a musical number, what would it be about?”

(Okay, excluding The Ken Song.)

Hyadain’s done some pretty tripped-out work, so get your ass a-searchin’ and a-watchin’ on YouTube.

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“Lookit All This Cool Shit” Saturday: Hyadain and the World Warrior

Okay, this might not be “cool”. It might be “Freaky.” It depends how inappropriate you think Final Fantasy VII stop-motion musical puppetry is. Should humanity be posing and snapping Final Fantasy VII action figures over and over again, or do one of these yaoi-hungry gals (and the occassional dude) have the potential to produce a life-saving serum if they’d put their toys away and put their mind to something worthwhile?

Awww, let ‘em play with their toys.

Here we have the girls of Final Fantasy VII dancing away to Shania Twain’s Damn! I Feel Like a Woman!. Against every pre-concieved notion any person could ever think up about me, I kind of like Twain’s music. I think this is kind of cute, even if the creator’s bias against Final Fantasy VIII is as detectable as fresh dog poop against a dusting of virgin snow.

One more, because I’m sure that’s all you can tolerate:

Here’s…that Sephiroth-type guy who’s not Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children declaring his love for Cloud Strife through Sin With Sebastian’s “Shut Up (And Sleep With Me).” A quick search through YouTube reveals that this song is the #1 Choice of yaoi fangirls, probably for obvious reasons (hint: It’s a song about taking the other bus).

I actually have the first generation of Final Fantasy VII action figures. I think Sephiroth is actually worth quite a bit now. Too bad his arm keeps falling off. Too bad my cat carried Tifa’s head off to some secret cat den.

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“Lookit All This Cool Shit” Saturday: Final Fantasy VII Stop-Motion

For the NES!

I’m sorry, that was very cruel of me. I know that Final Fantasy VII is the world’s favourite RPG (to poop on). I still retain a lot of affection for it; it was the title that changed video games forever, which is kind of funny to hear if you were into the Final Fantasy series since the sunset of the NES. Nintendo tried very hard to get American audiences to latch on to Final Fantasy, but the series was strictly nerd stuff until Final Fantasy VII.

Final Fantasy VII was a super-soldier in Sony’s battle to overthrow Nintendo, and now…we have a fan-made NES remake of the game. Playing FF VII on a Nintendo system is like mating a puppy and a kitten: It Should Not Be, but the end product is awfully cute.

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Final Fantasy VII Remake!!