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You know, its really awesome when you can bring a smile to someone’s face especially when they are practically at the other end of the planet. Check out at about 3:47 in the video when Luke from Japan opens up a parcel I sent him. Especially since he can’t get these in his country. Every once and awhle I buy games in bundles and I get doubles. I happend to have two SNES doubles and one NES double that I got in my last bundle that came in the mail, so I figued I’d send that; as well as some Halo stuff.

Maniac Mansion was one of those classic NES gems that in my opinion never got the attention that it should have received from gamers at the time. In this episode I cover the story of the game as well as show off some game play.

This is the last episode of Gamer Logic for June. We’ll return in July with an episode on Street Fighter and more!

Legend says: It sucks.

On this episode of Gamer Logic I review a rather obscure came called S.O.S. for the SNES system. I have to apologize in advance if I seem like I’m completely out of it in this video. It was shot pretty late and I did make a few mistakes:

1. The character I refer to as Cristof is actually Capri.

2. You have an hour to escape the boat. Not 30 minutes. Enjoy folks!

I’ve been playing a ton of the Street Fighter series and have received a bunch of Street Fighter material from both NECA, Capcom and Udon. So I thought it would be cool to do my own little tribute to Street Fighter with one of my songs from my last album. Cinematic Showdown really seems to fit the bill for Street Fighter because after all, the song is all about the struggle of fighting others and your inner self. Enjoy folks! Be sure to hit th HD button for the best quality!

Persona 4 has several interesting concepts to it that would attract RPG and anime fans alike. First, rather than your standard medieval or futuristic setting; the game takes place in 2011 giving it a modern setting. Second, is it’s interesting game play mechanic of being both an RPG and a friend/date/life simulator. Toss in a rather intriguing plot and it sounds like you have a winner, though there are a few aspects keep the game from elite status.

The story takes place in Japan in a small back water town called Inauba. You’ve been forced to move from the big city to this small town to live with your Uncle and his daughter for the year. You begin to think that this town will be nothing like big city life but the murder of a Japanese TV announcer sends this once quiet town into a frenzy. As the rumors of who the killer could be spread across the town, you begin to hear rumors of a something called the Midnight Channel in which on a rainy foggy night, if you turn off the TV your soul mate is suppose to appear on it. When the images of these people on the channel end up dying in real life though, you and your small circle of friends are hell bent on bringing the killer to justice. One by one people are vanishing and are appearing on the Midnight Channel and only by going into the Midnight Channel itself and exploring the other world can you solve the mystery of how these murders are occurring and what the Midnight Channel is.

The graphic presentation of the game is pretty decent, major cut scenes are presented in full blown anime scenes and even the in-game cut scene environments look decent. The only point in which the game suffers graphically is in the dungeons and that is mostly due to how plain and repetitive they are. Musically, the game is hit or miss. The intro song has a unique J-Pop/Jazz sound and its very catchy, but the rest of the music is overused way too much and gets annoying quickly. I like a good amount of J-Pop music, but this just doesn’t do it for me.

Game play is mainly divided into two portions. The first is in the real world where you will spend time working, going to school, hanging out with friends, buying items and finding various clues to solve the murder mystery. The game has a weather system which affects what jobs and activities can be done and is also what cues when a person will appear on the Midnight Channel. The game makes it sound like you can miss seeing a person on the Midnight Channel if your not careful, but in my experience that was never the case. Once a student who has gone missing appears on the Midnight Channel you have a limited amount of time to mount a rescue to the other world. If the fog returns to the town while a student is stuck in the Midnight Channel, the student will die by the hands of the other world’s monsters and the game will end. With that being said you will find yourself checking the weather forecast from time to time to see if you can build up your character before making a trek into the other world before the fog rolls in. With all the activities you can do the game seems to give a lot of variety, but they eventually do become kind of boring from time to time. Doing them pays off in the fact that it helps develop your characters combat skills or earn money for new items.

The major flaw of the game that I mentioned before is the dungeons. Each missing student has their own dungeon that is formed based on his or her inner thoughts and while graphically they look different from each other; its easy to get lost in them because they lack graphical depth and variety. You’re either looking for the stairs that you go up and down until you eventually run into the dungeon’s mini boss or main boss. Another annoying thing about the dungeons is that you can usually get to the very last door in each dungeon, but if you missed the mini boss than you’ll have to go back several floors and beat him to proceed to the final boss. With the graphics bearing no variety you have to keep an eye on your map to try to figure out where that mini boss. Annoying to say the least.Combat is pretty fun and is started by running into a enemy on the map screen just like in the classic SNES game Earthbound. Each character has its own Persona that develops with the character as they gain levels and the enemies you fight have a variety of skills that counter certain abilities of your Persona so you really have to think about how you fight your enemies.

I played Persona 4 all the way to the end and overall it took me about 32 hours to complete, while there were some times that it got boring; the story, characters and unique simulator game play kept me interested enough to beat it.  The ending of the game was pretty satisfying and didn’t make me feel like I was cheated for playing through the thing. Keep in mind that there are a few different endings you can get, so you may want to consult a hint guide when you reach the beginning of December in the game.

Persona 4 is a pretty decent game and I do recommend checking it out even if some of the music and the lack of creativity of the dungeons made me dock the game a few points.

Final rating: 7.5 out of 10 stars.

Something Else Music will be releasing yet another single for Unleaded Logic!

Freedom, a melodic trance anthem featuring the vocals of Cassie Nelson will be released during the summer with “Like Love” as the second track.

This makes two brand new singles to be released by Unleaded Logic for the summer months.

I stumbled upon the Happy Console Gamer video series a few weeks ago when I was looking up new ways to organize stuff in my video game collection. The caption for the video happened to pique my interest and after a few minutes of watching this awesome video show, I was hooked!

Johnny Millenium, the host of the series doesn’t have any kind of gimmick like the Angry Video Game Nerd or Screw Attack; rather he focuses on what’s really important in the first place and that is the games! He doesn’t just review retro games and consoles, he covers current games as well; but the unique thing about his videos is that some of the games he covers are forgotten gems that are just begging to be played. His game collection is vast and so is his knowledge! If you watch one of his videos, you’ll stop and think “Wow! I never really knew that about that game series or that this particular person worked on these games.” Johnny knows his stuff and it shows in these videos, he’s a gamer who just wants to show his appreciation for the great stuff that was released over the years.

Johnny Millenium studied in film for a few years and by combining his love of films and the vast knowledge of video gaming the Happy Console Gamer Show was born! Almost all his videos are recorded in HD and the quality of it really just raises the production values of the show that much more. As a beginner YouTube video maker, I know that it takes quite a long time to get stuff together and shoot things when you’re doing it by yourself and sometimes the video suffers from that. Johnny doesn’t show any evidence of that issue on his series.

So whether he’s covering classic game series, current games or gaming conventions, if your looking for a new game to play may it be old or new than this is the video series to check out! See the links below to watch one of my favorites and subscribe if you like the show!

Rating: 5 out of 5!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyConsoleGamer

I stumbled upon the Happy Console Gamer video series a few weeks ago when I was looking up new ways to organize stuff in my video game collection. The caption for the video happened to pique my interest and after a few minutes of watching this awesome video show, I was hooked!

Johnny Millenium, the host of the series doesn’t have any kind of gimmick like the Angry Video Game Nerd or Screw Attack; rather he focuses on what’s really important in the first place and that is the games!. He doesn’t just review retro games and consoles, he covers current games as well; but the unique thing about his videos is that some of the games he covers are forgotten gems that are just begging to be played. His game collection is vast and so is his knowledge! If you watch one of his videos, you’ll stop and think “Wow! I never really knew that about that game series or that this particular person worked on these games.” Johnny knows his stuff and it shows in these videos, he’s a gamer who just wants to show his appreciation for the great stuff that was released over the years.

Johnny Millenium studied in film for a few years and by combining his love of films and the vast knowledge of video gaming the Happy Console Gamer Show was born! Almost all his videos are recorded in HD and the quality of it really just raises the production values of the show that much more. As a beginner YouTube video maker, I know that it takes quite a long time to get stuff together and shoot things when you’re doing it by yourself and sometimes the video suffers from that. Johnny doesn’t show any evidence of that issue on his series.

So whether he’s covering classic game series, current games or gaming conventions, if your looking for a new game to play may it be old or new than this is the video series to check out! See the links below to watch one of my favorites and subscribe if you like the show!

Rating: 5 out of 5!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyConsoleGamer

Microsoft:

Metal Gear Solid on the Xbox:

Sony fans have to be pissed and Xbox fans must be pretty excited. Xbox fans have been waiting for the Metal Gear saga to come over to their platform for awhile and now its going to happen. As of writing there is no announcement that this game is coming out for PS3 which is somewhat shocking to me. Microsoft has always had Splinter Cell in its corner and now it has double the stealth goodness with Metal Gear?! Wow.

I seriously doubt that Kojima would screw his fans though, I expect either this game to be announced for the PS3 as well or we will see a special enhanced version of the game for the PS3 much like we saw with Metal Gear Solid 2 for the original Xbox.

Alan Wake:

This game just screams awesome and was long though to be going the route of Duke Nukem Forever. Not so, as at E3 the game returned with a brand new trailer. It looks freakishly awesome.

Halo ODST and Halo Reach:

I haven’t played Halo 3 in almost a year, but its nice to hear the series will continue with another game even after ODST. The story of Reach is very well documented in Halo history and it will be interesting to see how it plays out on a visual scale. Also, I’ve heard that people are pissed that Bungie is charging 60 bucks for ODST when they said its more of an expansion pack. If you know the rabid fan following of the series though, then you know people are going to buy it anyways.

Modern Warfare 2:

More modern Call of Duty, give it to me baby!

Splinter Cell:

Good to see Sam Fisher back in action, I’m a huge fan of the series and will definitely be picking this up. Its good to see that the series didn’t take a dive into the Assassin’s Creed style of play.

The odd:

Project Natal:

Don’t know what to say about this one. The concept looks like cool, but the demo that was shown really looks like nothing more then a…well a concept! I guess we will see how it develops, but I hope developers don’t stray away from using regular controllers on all three platforms now.

Overall, it looks like Microsoft has the edge at E3 this year.

Thoughts on the other platforms will be coming soon.