Kaye

No The Aristocats? It's sad how forgotten and underrated that movie is to a lot of people.
 
Apart from that one The Lion King will always be very important as a Disney movie.

Man. This project sure Decayed real...fast..........sorry, leaving now..

It's like Die and Kobayashi are first-rate chefs serving McDonald's.

Some disconcerting news coming from Square's recent press release.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. If each part is essentially the equivalent of each of the original game's discs then it doesn't sound so bad, but if it compromises things like the overworld structure or character progression, etc, then that sucks massively.
 
Good shout, that completely slipped my mind.

Considering it's VII and Ishimoto already arranged the songs for Advent Children/Crisis Core before, I wouldn't be surprised if he'd be involved too.
 
Also on the whole Nomura thing, I agree with that assumption. I do seem to remember they lost data at some point so if that had been anything concerning VS, then I'd understand it even more. XV is not VS, as they've mentioned before. It takes VS as a core but has gotten so much more to it. VS wasn't a flagship series installment anyway, and now it's been rebranded as XV it just means there's way more to it than it would originally have been. I'm still of the opinion this is a good thing, but that's also partly because I really love the setting and concept of the game so far.
 
What they could have also thought of is that the battle system they'd come up with would fit a VII remake more (if they were going to do one anyway) than it would have VS when it moved to being XV.
 
All that aside, I just hope all these games come with dual audio from now on. I need them with good voices. Please. Thanks.

I've been out of the loop for a while now but I'll never not like some Jay Chou. Nan Quan Mama had a real nice track too. Or Anthony Neely's whole first album ._.
 

Conspiracy time. I reckon VII started development at the same time Nomura got taken off of Versus. I imagine they greenlit VII, assigned Nomura as the director, realised he couldn't handle three AAAs at once (Versus, KH3, and VII) and so they took him off of Versus and replaced him with Tabata. Then Nomura decided that he wanted to use the battle system he'd been using on Versus in VII, and so they decided to have Tabata just come up with his own action-RPG system for Versus instead. At that point they decided to just rebrand the latter game as XV since it was essentially becoming a different game anyway. This would explain why the gameplay in VII looks extremely similar to Versus' original gameplay (command-based action RPG, character switching, etc) whereas XV's has become increasingly different since Tabata took over (direct input-action RPG, no character switching, etc). It would also explain why the game looks so far along in development now. Rumours about Versus being canned and repackaged started making the rounds as early as 2012, so if my theory is even remotely close to being correct then VII should have had a decent amount of development time already.
 
Conspiracies aside, the game looks decent. I'm not a fan of the voice acting but otherwise it seems to be progressing nicely. I'm glad they had the balls to scrap the original battle system. I've never seen the point in remaking something but then keeping it exactly the same in all areas except for graphics; it's both shallow and a waste of time/resources that could have been spent on creating new things. I'm curious as to who's re-arranging the OST. They already said that it isn't Uematsu which is a good thing; he's just not a very capable arranger (hence why he doesn't even arrange his own compositions any more). It doesn't sound like Hamauzu too much based on that track, and I don't think they'd give a game of this scale and importance to Ishimoto. My only guess at the moment is Narita since he's one of Uematsu's most trusted arrangers (XIV, The Last Story, X HD). Either way, I'm excited to hear more from the OST.
 
EDIT: That track is from Distant Worlds, so disregard my comment about Hamauzu.

It looks amazing so far... Japanese version confirmed the Japanese VA for Cloud is back too so I'm incredibly happy about that as well ._. It better have dual audio.
 
Considering it's going current gen consoles, it's only logical the gameplay changed. No surprise there, nor do I mind. I'm all here for that.

Everything wrong with this post in less than thirty seconds. (< - props to anyone who gets this)
 
I DON'T HAVE AN INTROUCTION THREAD ON MONOCHROME-HEAVEN
 
Thread title typo.
 
 
It's 'hi guys'.
Please don't give us back the old CAT. We like the 'new CAT'. STAY AWAY *makes the topic bumped anyway~*
Copyrighting names.
You mean TWATwes, not CATwes.
OR would be too confusing. Have mercy.
 
 
Captain obvious,
Debatable,
Debatable. [2]
 
= this over your music any day
 
 
Troll alert.
 

 
 
Try me.
 
 
True,
True,
False. 
 
Ultimate hypocrite. Alert number dos.
 
 
Don't give me that.
 
 
No.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ilu reari

hello admin could you please ban this troll??
wait...shit

The original version of the story never had that happen at the end of the first season (probably wasn't even supposed to be a split cour either).
 
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Finally finishing Eureka Seven AO after nearly 2 years. This was a little overdue though I remembered why I stopped halfway through the series. I'm really no good with timeslips. It always feels like nothing but an easy way out when writers got themselves stuck without knowing what to do next.

The original version of the story never had that happen at the end of the first season (probably wasn't even supposed to be a split cour either).
 
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Finally finishing Eureka Seven AO after nearly 2 years. This was a little overdue though I remembered why I stopped halfway through the series. I'm really no good with timeslips. It always feels like nothing but an easy way out when writers got themselves stuck without knowing what to do next.

Judging by the art direction of their visualness... maybe it's an exculsive song for the new Dissidia Final Fantasy game.

Game on!
Without a picture they can completely pass for an American band these days. Hope you enjoy the album. If you checked the video in post that is a really good indicator of the rest of the album.
 
It's so catchy, right?! I am still listening to it about once a day. I like it a little more every time I hear it too. It was so hard to pick just 3 highlights. It's good that between us six songs got highlighted, they're all great. XD
 
Runaway is a great song too! I was really surprised with good it turned out. I was expecting it to be one of the songs I skipped (since I'm not big on Papa Roach), but it holds its own on the album for sure. 

Me when I saw your highlights: "only three?", but after seeing fiction I noticed it was three to get xDIf they use the last 1:45 from WHOLE as the music itself (of course, longer) would be even more boss as it is. But I'm ok with this how it's
@@Kaye I used to like Papa Rouch too, but this was some years ago When I hear the preview, I could feel the promising song it would be.
@@Zeus Give me an amen to this explosive start!

I've been a fan of coldrain since right before their first mini release, but I have to say that ever since they've been going up and down and never really managed to grab a style that is theirs and spread it across a full release. Now with the latest album, VENA, I do feel like they've slapped all of their previous releases together, and have finally found a sound that fits them best. I don't think I've ever listened to one of their albums on repeat as often as I've done with VENA already, even with how much I loved Final Destination back then.
 
Thanks for the reviews! Words of the Youth is definitely a fave of mine, as well as Runaway. Though that might be partly the fault of Jacoby because I still find it amusing they somehow decided a collab was a good idea.

I've seen this on here before and it keeps making me laugh because that's from a local children's show I grew up with.

I've been a fan of coldrain since right before their first mini release, but I have to say that ever since they've been going up and down and never really managed to grab a style that is theirs and spread it across a full release. Now with the latest album, VENA, I do feel like they've slapped all of their previous releases together, and have finally found a sound that fits them best. I don't think I've ever listened to one of their albums on repeat as often as I've done with VENA already, even with how much I loved Final Destination back then.
 
Thanks for the reviews! Words of the Youth is definitely a fave of mine, as well as Runaway. Though that might be partly the fault of Jacoby because I still find it amusing they somehow decided a collab was a good idea.

Day 1: coldrain - VENA

 


Release Date: 2015-10-23
Label: Hopeless Records
Genre: Alternative Metal/Metalcore
 
Impressions from @doombox:


Impressions from @fictioninhope:


Sample song:




Buy the album:
CDJapan | iTunes

i agree w/ Bear, however, if any of you punk-ass motherfuckers dares to even say anything remotely bad about MY favs, i will DESTROY YOU IN MORTAL KOMBAT

Piracy is universal and knows no borders. People stlil pirate in Japan they just have to be less obvious about it.
 
America (the country) is vast and largely empty. Europe (the continent) is small. It's roughly the size of half of America. Touring Europe is easy because you can visit one country and fans can visit from the surrounding country for a day or two because the trip is only a few hours. Touring Mexico and South America is a little more challenging, but the population there isn't spread so thin so it's easier to target fans by hitting major cities. Not so in America. We're technically spread across six time zones. I can drive for a few hours and not leave my state, much less the country. From my current location, it would take 10 to 11 hours of driving to reach Canada. It would take me near 20 hours by car to reach @CAT5 (trains are worse and planes are super expensive)! In the midwest, it can take hours to go from a small suburb to a decently sized city where a band might perform. If the show isn't somewhere within a few hours drive, I can't go.
No matter where they go or what city they perform in, 95% of American fans would have to "break the bank" or organize a trip out of a concert in order to go see them. This is why most (not all tho) Japanese bands that tour North America always hit the same cities. The GazettE may have a lot of fans overall in America but probably not enough to fill up venues consistently and make that money back. In addition they have to go from city to city and that's expensive too. It's not uncommon to hear of a Japanese "world tour" which totally skips North America.
We're lucky the GazettE even goes to Europe. There's a lot more to touring abroad than geography at play like work visas, working with promoters who can secure your venues, money, etc. I've heard of a lot of failed EU tours from visual bands after thousands of fans rallied together to bring UnsraW to Europe but only 100 showed up to the live house because "it was Wednesday and mom won't let me go to concerts on Wednesdays". I also vaguely remember the GazettE saying they hate touring America and won't come here but don't quote me without sources. But if I were to think of one good reason as to why Japanese bands run like hell from America, it's that it's so big it's difficult to tour.
 

The first Digimon Adventures Tri movie came out and I'm still in the middle of re-watching the second season of adventures I need to speed it up because I'm seriously too hype for tri!
 
Also Faner Exodus is so good right now, like omfg, this season is so amazing, like seriously it's like they took everything that was good about the original dead agressor season and then made it even better while also improving on a lot of the weaknesses as well...
 

I didn't take a Computer Science degree because nowhere would teach me 15 hours daily 7 days a week, so I started my own brutal course.