Bideo James- Mayan Apocalypse Edition

     Folks hear about Bioshock Infinite being delayed another month? It totally happened. It's coming out in March now, with the mediocre multiplayer I so loved in the previous game completely removed. So that'll be interesting. Y'know. If it comes out. On a more... Japanese-y note, 90 seconds ago I purchased Disgaea 4 over the lovely Amazon internet service. I played the first one on the Nintendo DS like 4 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, and sunk about fifty million hours of my life into Disgaea 3 about three years ago. This most recent entry has uprezzed sprites for the first time in the series and from what I've seen it has a lot more to offer than the previous games. Not to say that the other games didn't have an incalculable amount of content. But still. Anime games.

This is video game. 

Dark Souls 2- From Software-lectric Boogaloo

     So Dark Souls 2 was announced. Normally, this'd be the most incroyable thing on planet Earth, but the folks who played the last game are worried. The main dude, Miyazaki, is off the team and without his influence, the game might not be the Souls everyone knows. With the talk of an easy mode for the OG Dark Souls, the charm of the game was lost for a lot of folks, and with From Software's mention of "A more accessible experience", it seems like the crushing yet beautiful mix of rage and reward that the series has provided up to this point might vanish. The sequel apparently isn't coming out until 2014 though, so it might very well be on the next generation of consoles, giving chumps like me a loooong time to think the purchase over.

Really though, that's pretty hype. 

Goichi Suda you are my favorite boy.

     So, much to my chagrin, a new Suda 51 beat is coming out in 6 days. It's called Black Knight Sword and it's a kinda Castlevania homage type deal, from the two minutes of gameplay I've seen. Grasshopper Manufacture's last game was only half a year ago in the form of the fun to watch, not-so-fun to play Lollipop Chainsaw, but they've been collaborating with other developers so it seems like they've been able to put out games a lot faster. I'm a bit iffy on the quality, but at least this upcoming game looks fairly swanky. It has a really crisp paper-y 2D art style incredibly reminiscent of the 2D segments of Shadows of the Damned, Suda's 2011 spin on survival horror. What's especially cool is it's going to be a downloadable title off of Xbox Live, so it'll be a short and sweet ride for like 15 bucks or something, which is perfect for a street urchin like myself. So yeah. The hype train. It's running tonight. 

The most hypest.

Pole Position is bigger than Jesus.

     So tomorrow Yakuza 5 comes out in Japan, which is the hypest game of all time. I don't know when we'll get it here in the land of the rising McMuffin, but I recently finished Binary Domain, which is by the same dude. There's so much going on in that game, that I'm not going to be able to lay it all down right now, but the game actually rewards you for not being dicks to the AI teammates in both gameplay and story events in a way that I've never really seen before. Most of the environments are pretty uninspired, and that's about my only complaint, but I'l get more into that on Thursday. Also. Played Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City on a whim, and it may have given me turbo-cancer from sheer awfulness. I'm just saying. Turbo/