Oh yes, Monster Hunter is very popular in Japan. In fact, a few years ago in the 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, for a limited time you could get Monster Hunter furniture to decorate with. Even in the US!
Yeah they are hard! I think the only ninja games I ever beat was I-Ninja and the TMNT arcade games.
Oh that makes "Chiki" sound like even less sense! :)
One cool thing about Shadow is that he has a dog.
I've never played Monster Hunter Stories (or any Monster Hunter game for that matter), but in Japan they did release six different amiibo figures of Monster Hunter Stories and I have them all. I wonder if they'd still work on the US version of the game?
I remember reading about Pocket Monsters in Nintendo Power about a year before it came out in the US. I put it in the back of my mind. A year later I was writing game reviews for a major newspaper, and I went to my first E3 and saw how Pokemon was going to be marketed in the US, and I knew it would be a hit. Speaking of which, according to my original press kit (which I still have), the Pokemon slogan was "Catch 'em if you can," not "Gotta Catch 'em All" and Ash's name was Casey. Anyway, when I got back from E3, I told my editior I wanted to cover everything Pokemon. He was like, "Yeah, sure, whatever." But he kept his word, and when the game did come out, I was writing Pokemon articles left and right when it got popular. I was getting paid for my artciles back then, so I like to say that Pokemon helped pay my way through college. I don't play Pokemon as much now, but I sure do have memories about it back then!
I got a review code for My Brother Rabbit, too! Except I'll be reviewing it on PS4.
I never really saw Tank! x3 as a EDF-alike. I always thought of it as a more colorful and cartoony Tokyo Wars.
Yeah, at least for me, college was a big fat waste of time. Hasn't really helped me get a job once, from what I can tell. Even my dad agrees that nowadays, it's best just to learn a trade or something.
