I've been playing Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier the past few weeks and it has fired up the JRPG-gamer in me again. I've completed Fallout 3, I've cleared Fable 2. I've yet to do any of the DLC for neither, since Endless Frontier's occupying me.

With this.

This game has so much breasts, so much gratitious intense amounts of random bouncing from any character without a flat chest - even a character with AAs has the frontal set bouncing like mad from simply lifting her arm to cast a spell. Add in that the game itself is very self-aware of this and is thus filled with horrible jokes about breasts all over. Take for example a scene where the crew lacks a keycard, and our friendly hyperactive big-titted robot with a love for sarcastic remarks delivers this line:

Why don't you try looking between her boobs, you spend enough time staring at them.

She also has golden moments such as

Shall I pull her dress down, Sir? That would likely elicit a response.

But to the gameplay itself; this game has overdrives making you get an animated scene on top of the battlefied. As KOS-MOS here demonstrates.

D-TENERITAS

The main thing you do to increase damage in Endless Frontier is to keep an enemy in air, chaining together all kinds of attacks by commands on the D-Pad or with a simple press of the A-button. You need to time it right, and you can cancel attacks to increase the "Frontier Gauge", which lets you see bouncing breasts when it fills to 100%. In fighting games, you call this juggling. I would argue that for Endless Frontier, this should be jiggling, and this game is full of shits and jiggles. Did I mention that the first pair of bouncing meat belongs to Yukana, and the cat ear robot is Suzuki Mariko? The voice acting in this game is awesome.

For games like Tales of the Abyss, where I have use for the terminology the translators there used, I have soft-modded my PS2 with a networking adapter and a huge IDE harddrive in it. Works like a charm with HDLoader and I play an UNDUB of Tales of the Abyss. I didn't have the need for this with one of my favorite games, Eternal Sonata, where the game itself came with a Japanese language option. My XBOX 360 is European, which means all the games are usually in English since region codes prevent me from getting Japanese games. And because of this, I had hopes for Namco Bandai, who started out so well on the 360 with Eternal Sonata. Come Tales of Vesperia, and the North American release doesn't have a Japanese language option. I hold my hopes high as I wait for the Asian English release to possibly have it - no luck there either. And this game doesn't even have a European release slated yet! With both Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean 4 probably only having shitty dubs - and both games I would really like to play - chances are I won't even play them. Until I get my hands on a Japanese 360, as these dubs are just plain awful and hurt my ears, and thus also ruin my experience with the game.

So I'm asking whoever's reading this - are there any good current generation games like Eternal Sonata out there - without awful English dubs, that keep the Japanese dialogue? I think Lost Oddysey has kept it, but if there's two games in the pool of many, I'm sad that we're not even being offered the ability to get the original audio as downloadable content at least. I'd pay full price for the game and half the original price on top of that just to get the original audio. Please, Namco Bandai, pretty please!

I figured I'd blog about this, since I've just rediscovered my love for a certain game series. My XBOX 360 just recently got a swift death by playing Fallout 3, no RRoD yet but crashes when I play games. So what's a guy to do? Dish out his PS2 with a HDD in it and play Tales of the Abyss through finally, since the anime is getting close to where I left it off last? Nah, not yet. What I picked up was the latest hacked firmware for the PSP in order to play a certain game.

DJ MAX Portable: Clazziquai Edition.

I'm a huge rhythm/coordination/whatever music game fan, ranging from jumping/stepping like a madman on DDR/ITG, ruining my DS's screen with Ouendan, tapping madly on buttons or ruining my screen more with Taiko no Tatsujin, or - smashing 2-9 buttons in sync with the music on a PSP, like on DJ MAX. For some reason, DJ MAX isn't well known over in the west - partially since the game hasn't been released over here ever. At least I don't think it has? It's Korean, and the latest versions are translated in the Korean releases. I found out about it thanks to my local gang here, where everyone's some level of a music game tard. Not all of us have a PSP (lol DS fanwankers all over) - so it was my previous housemate that gave me the original DJ MAX Portable. I have since bested that, and spent my time on the bus to work playing DJ MAX Portable 2, and gotten tired of that too.

But then I notice Clazziquai edition, which is a DJ MAX Portable game themed to the Korean pop music/whatever band, you guessed it - Clazziquai. This game is a kind of prelude to the coming DJ MAX Black Square, introducing a game using PSP software 5.0 to go beyond with what we could do previous on DJ MAX. I really like it so far, and that is 50% because of the really coal, and very budget-heavy new background videos. I mean shit, this is YEARS beyond what the first and second games had. The animation is smooth and actually flows, and the stuff isn't just a bunch of textures being moved around randomly. The game has always had great designs though, so there's nothing but improvements to the already coal designs by making them more smooth and pretty.

Currently I'm not very far in the game, but I can tell that you're supposed to be re-introduced to the game concept through the Clazziquai Edition, playing in Club Mode has so far been so easy that you could expect me to get bored - but I'm not! I can focus on the background video when the music is simple and just have half focus on the moving arrows and still 95% accuracy the songs. I've stuck YouTube videos in this post with some of the better videos from the game, although the people playing the songs are kinda meh.