Bullet points!

[taotrooper]

1. His Apeshitness Hugo Chávez just broke his own records of hypocrisy by banning violent video games. How about banning street delinquency? Or leaving Colombia alone? Jesus in a roller coaster, man. My poor home country. See how everyone will keep buying pirate games to street vendors anyway 8Db

2. Am I the only one who sees this and thinks "oh hell no"? My love for Okami is as vast as the ocean, but I don't want a sequel, especially not one made by different people. Sure, I mean, some series created by Hideki Kamiya worked well without him (Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe), but I'm protective of my baby and it's so easy to come up with bad new canon for it. I wouldn't mind that much if it's a spinoff where you don't play Amaterasu, as long as it's good.

I still hope it's just an unrelated game with a similar name, though. I don't even think CAPCOM is even very interested in Okami anyway, when it sort of flopped twice.

3. Ah yeah, apparently they were this close to put Phoenix Wright (and Franzisca Von Karma, maybe) as playable characters in Tatsunoko vs. CAPCOM. What stopped them was that Phoenix's main move would have to be the OBJECTION letters as the attack (fffffff XD) but then they realized that "igiari" and "objection" were different in size and the Western port would've been a bitch to animate. (Why do you even change that...? Let Phoenix throw kanji at people!)

Then I concluded it was a good thing he's not going to be in the roster: that's one more chance for Amaterasu as a West-only character. /asshole

4. I've been reading random manga. Now here are two titles I liked.

4.1 ½ Prince, a shoujo manhwa based in a Taiwanese light novel. It's silly and cracky and set in a virtual reality MMORPG. Nothing spectacular, but it amused me.

4.2 Tegaki Bachi, a shounen manga that I enjoyed for its lack of level-ups and original-ish premise. I think some of you would like it a lot. It feels very DGM at moments. I might watch the anime this fall.

Comments

[jupiterk.livejournal.com]

an okami sequel why ever.....

LMAO I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BEAT PEOPLE WITH OBJECTION LETTERS best thing ever

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

WRight?! Especially going against Street Fighter folks. There should be a Brawl/Dissidia/Tales of Vs. for CAPCOM games in general.

[veneotaqueen.livejournal.com]

Point 1 WHAT
O sea, creo que había visto el rumor, pero no creía que se atreverían.
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oh, yeah, I'm still stuck here, and I'm all but accostumed to the Chavez Cult actions.
However, like 90% of the games here are all pirated, so that law will be as effective as an wristslap.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yo no conocía ni una sola persona que comprase juegos originales para nada, a no ser que fuesen de Nintendo porque son casi impirateables (e igual, esos ya ni son violentos). Así que seguirá rodando todo con torrents y buhoneros as usual.

[outou.livejournal.com]

Chavez, like most political leaders aspiring to dictatorship, does not follow logic. "Logic is bourgeois! It's against the will of the people!!!11!"

Um, anyway. Hideki Kamiya said that he would "like to continue [Issun's story] some day;" even though Mr. Kamiya isn't involved with "Okamiden," Issun's a more likely subject for a sequel than Amaterasu. Actually, I would personally find a spin-off about Issun and his escapades enjoyable--if it was done well. There are just so many things to mess up, it's not even funny.

All things aside, though, it's probably not related to Ōkami.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

The batshit is strong with this guy. I could give worse examples than this, but I'm not want to talk about politics.

An Issun spinoff game would be sweet and hilarious, looking all Minish Cap style, but I'd still be weary without Kamiya and Inaba in the team.

I honestly don't see why everyone is saying it must be OMG MUST BE RELATED. Sure, same kanji, but there are similar names for games everywhere and words that repeat themselves a lot in titles.