Showing posts with label psn. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Getting to know you

Let's get to know each other!


Well, just got done watching another shitty episode of Grimm. How is it that I have watched every episode and have never been enthralled by it? Yet, I have seen every episode? Must be some Hexenbiest spell. Meh.
So let's get to know the main character... Drea LeBas.

Drea Cuadra
So she had some bad luck in the past year or so. Her planet was overtaken by an alien virus (boo hoo). She was ripped in half and put back together with cybernetic parts (double the boo thrice the hoo). And to top it off she is now back on Earth and fighting an army of creatures to find her long lost brother (cry me a river, then jump in said river and drown yourself, please). So, basically she is a drama queen. Possibly a diva. Still working that out.

Drea has a military background but for her recovery process, she has been working for the UDF drilling company mining precious ore in the caverns of Mars. She acclimated her motor functions through diligent work and got used to her new cybernetic body.

She is kind of a Bitter Betty since the accident and doesn't talk much. She is pretty legendary around the Mars community due to the fact that she is the only person to ever survive an attack by the alien planet.

My inspiration for this character was of course Samus Aran. Who is of course inspired from Ripley in Alien. Drea is not a rip off but more of a homage to the perfectly competent female capable of kicking some major ass type of character of movie and game lore. At the same time not throwing it in the face of the audience that Drea is a woman. Sure she has some nice bazooms but this character can be a male or female. Doesn't matter. It worked for Ripley in Alien and Aliens (we don't talk about the other movies).
The major difference in character is that this chick is pissed. She has a military background and therefore does not take anybody's crap. Unlike some people that would like to talk out their problems, Drea would rather punch it out. Since the accident where her body and face got mangled, she has become kind of a shut in. She's kind of an emo girl that would kick your ass. On a side note, I pray to whatever cosmic god out there... Please O mighty deity, let there not be this vile emo fad in the future. And if you do not heed my cries, it's no future I want a part of.
"Since your'e rambling, I thought I might add my two cents. I don't know if the emo craze is still officially going on. I think they started as scenesters, evolved into emo then into their latest form of hipsters. Much like the misunderstood nerds turned into goths then eventually turned into vampires after Twilight came out."

Uh... wha? Anyways, you'll get to know more about Drea when the game comes out. During the game you will be able to jump out of the EDU drilling mech and give your legs a stretch. Of course you won't be physically as strong as your mech but you will be able to fit in smaller spaces and be more nimble.
I promised bazooms. You shall receive bazooms.
"Another thing about social classes. Why do the jocks and bros pop their collars? The original collar popper was Dracula. It was used on stage to help the actor disappear into a trap door but a giant popped collar is synonymous with vampires and other nocturnal ghoulish fiends. Why do jocks pop their collars? Dracula is just about as gothic as you can get. Don't jocks despise and pick on goths? Sure Drea has a popped collar but it's because she wears a military flak jacket. It's meant to protect the neck. And have you ever tried to fold those things down? Impossible. Plus a popped collar was how they used to make seemingly boring characters seems more hip and cool."

He is as cool as Mickey Mouse playing a blue guitar without any pickups and not even plugged in. Good job, bro.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Into This World Introduction

No one likes a crab mech.

I am about to pop your Into This World cherry... wait for it... uh... there it is, officially popped. Clean yourself up. You're making a mess on my Krang area rug from Ikea. By the way, my name's Bannon Rudis, creator of the upcoming video game title, Into This World. Let me get the giant Indiana Jones crushing ball rolling.

ITW (that's just an acronym for Into This World, everyone, calm down) is a sidescrolling romp in the same vein as Metroid and Castlevainia SOTN (another acronym, there might be more, stay calm) but with an emphasis on exploration and digging. Everyone loves digging. Just ask these kids.

Couldn't be happier!

Why are you digging in ITW? Why wouldn't you dig? When you were a child and you came to a sandbox, did you ever question the inner workings of scooping piles of sand and then the inevitable conclusion washed over you that no matter how much you would dig, it did not in fact go all the way down to China?
"I never made it to China either. I made it to Singapore once. Nice people. They speak English. Who knew?"
Don't derail my rant, Bannon.
No, ya just dug. But let's suggest that your underdeveloped brain hungered for discovery and you wanted to know... nay! You needed to know what the hell was under all that sand. According to your ignorance something new and exciting awaited you beneath the surface.
Alas, there wasn't shit. But in ITW there will be. But of course the deeper you get into the world, the more dangerous it gets.
"Typical videogame logic. Why not throw all the toughest enemies at the hero first and get it over with? C'mon. If Bowser was the very first thing you came across in Super Mario Bros, you would be ass deep in your own tears."
I said shut it, Bannon!
In the year, let's say, 21XX, the world has been taken over by an alien virus that arrived via a meteor crash. The virus has spread throughout the entire planet and terraformed it into a giant living creature. Gross I know. Like yuck to the extreme, even. Everyone hightailed it out of there and went to the Mars colonies to start over.

You play as Drea LeBas. An ex marine who lost her brother over a year ago while their squad was fighting the creature planet. He was swallowed whole and Drea was ripped in half. Boy howdy, was she ever lucky. Phew! After being stitched up and turned into a half machine, she was off to work in the martian mines with her trusty EDU drilling mech.
But after receiving a mysterious transmission from her thought to be dead brother, Drea takes her drilling mech and journeys back to what used to be Earth. What will she find on the hostile creature of a planet? Tacos perchance? Probably not that actually.


Hey, lady. Get back in there!