Finally, after searching for at least a year, I have found a copy of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for Nintendo DS!

Best of all is that I got it for $20. That’s pretty lucky, considering that this is supposed to be a rare game.

I can definitely see what all the hype has been about. This game really is truly enjoyable. The characters are all very well realized and there’s a lot of humor. Yeah, it’s kind of weird to be playing a lawyer video game, and you don’t really “do” a whole lot except look around and present evidence, but it’s fun! I don’t know what it is, but there’s just something really engrossing about it. I can totally seeing myself quickly going through the entire game in no time, and then picking it right back up and playing through it again.

It’s good to see that this game has not only been released in English, but also that it’s gained a significant fan following. We should have more games like this.

Sayonara.

Geeze, I’ve been so busy with posting on other message boards and responding to threads about the convention this post weekend that I haven’t had any time to update my own Weblog.

Well, anyway, TransformersCon was awesome. But I knew it was going to be awesome.

I won first place in the trivia on Friday night. I’m awesome. In the final round, I was up against a good guy from LA who has a website that I bought from a long time ago, and who I had met at BotCon 99 in Minnesota. One of the questions we had to answer was about a toy that I bought from his table back then. The circle of life is complete. I won a piece of paper with my name printed on it. Yay.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the comic. I even signed a few.

My art contest entry was finished just about an hour before I got there on Saturday. It was a bit of a challenge to even be ready by then. I stayed up all night with only a few hours of sleep. My printer wouldn’t print on the large paper I wanted to use, and when I switched to regular sized paper, it was out of yellow ink. Then I got a paper cut. But it was all worth it because I really wanted to finish, having started it a year earlier, and people really liked it so I got to talk to some cool folks about my art. It’s now on my deviantART account, so take a look at Cybertron Forever, featuring Vector Prime and friends.

While I was hanging around the art table and overheard another artist badmouthing the other art to his friend. He was saying things like how this was copied, that was cheating, his was better, and so on, all with a very whiny tone of voice. Then he looked at my entry and said “Oh, look at this anime! That’s copied from a poster!” (or something to that effect, I forget exactly). So I questioned him on it, not letting on at first that I was, in fact, the artist he was talking about. When I finally clued him in that this was my artwork, that it was most assuredly NOT copied from anything, and that I didn’t appreciate the insinuation that it was, he continued to insist that he had seen it before and that he had no reason to lie to his friend who was listening to him ragging on the other art on the table. Of course, he wouldn’t look me in the eye and say any of that. Probably because he was scared. And rightly so! After all, I’m Ninjatron, dammit. Anyway, I’ll just take it as a backhanded compliment that he thought the art was so good that it had to have been copied. I don’t sweat it, but that was pretty much the only negative experience I’ve ever had at this convention in all the years I’ve gone.

The highlights were definitely the times spent sitting with friends and chatting over pizza. On Saturday Michael Bell even joined us, and listening to him share his stories about the voice acting industry (without having to worry about any kids hearing it) was something I will not soon forget.

I didn’t buy anything. At all. Unbelievable, I know, but it’s true. Didn’t need to. I was there to see my buddies and promote my artwork, and that was successful on both counts. Looking forward to next year!

I’ll make another post when the comic I drew is available online.

Sayonara.

Yeah, so, if you haven’t figured it out by now, last week’s post about the Transformers movie sneak preview was my April Fool’s Day joke. The first video was obviously real, and you may have seen that running on TV by now. The other one was obviously not from the movie at all. It was a scene from the terrible and thus hilarious international English dub of the Japanese Transformers: Headmasters series. These episodes were made for the Japanese audience and based on the toys that the Japanese market was getting, and they never aired in North America. However, they were (badly) dubbed in English for other countries, and these English dubs have pretty much become infamous as some of the worst anime dubbing ever.

There are more English Headmasters clips that have been floating around YouTube, and here are some of my favorites. So the next time you feel like complaining about how your most beloved show has been butchered in the transition to English, give some of these a watch and realize that it could have been worse.

This one is great. Watch out for MILOOOOOO!

I wish I had a job that was this easy. “Darn!”

It’s so obvious why this is funny.

Sayonara.

Some short previews for the upcoming Transformers movie have recently surfaced online, an will presumably be airing on television as well. There are two of them so far and they’re both pretty cool. Here’s one of them.

Well, I did some sneaking around and I think I have uncovered another movie preview that isn’t supposed to be viewed by the public yet! This footage has never been seen before. The imagery is really powerful and the dialogue shows a lot of depth to the story line, and I just have to share it to prove to all those doubters that this movie is going to be spectacular. I’m risking a lot by putting a link to the video up here on my website, but I just couldn’t keep it to myself. Watch this!

Awesome! This movie will seriously rock! Only a fool would disagree now!

Sayonara.

Or rather, all of Justice, for me. Justice League, that is. I now own every episode of Justice League on DVD. I’ve been watching random episodes, mostly from the final season. It rocks.

This show is damn good. They really shouldn’t have ended it. It could have continued until eternity. But no, instead quality is pushed aside in favor of shows with thinly veiled attempts to appeal to target demographics and toy companies. Shows like, for example, “The Batman“. That show is lame in comparison to JL.

Oh well, at least the DVDs will last forever.

Sayonara.