Binary Domain バイナリー ドメイン : Revenge Solves Everything

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Wow the roleplaying during bed time must be awesome.

Not to mention that Laura Bailey has done like half the female English voices in anime the last 10 years, so more props your anime intros RK47.

Seems to be the case with Jap translation VAs. Though personally I didn't touch the English VO, I understand the English language voice actors for Valkyria Chronicles were also anime staples.

Never ever play Japanese games with english voice actors.
I don't know how they manage to do it, but it's always ALWAYS atrocious...
Mana Khemia, Valkyrie chronicles, Parasite eve, Crisis core, Persona 3, all the Tales of...

I dislike English VA's because they lack Hot Bloodedness! G Gundam english dub, Gurren Laggan I can't comment on it as I watched 10 mins and skipped when I heared them say "Simone".

I found Persona 3 acceptable, Disgaea is only worth playing if the VA is english.
Bayonetta and Megaman X8 is well done.

There are some cases where the English VA is better. For example in the original anime adaptation of Hellsing, the English Alucard is much better. And of course there's the Metal Gear Solid.

Then there's the times when the English VA is an EXPERIENCE. You know, like Fist of the North Star movie and Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie with the rapid-fire talking M. Bison.


But yea, English VA's just don't understand why you need to shout everything you do and overact the living fuck out of things in the name of hotbloodedness. Characters like Bang Shishigami are unbearable with English VAs.

Well, MGS is the exception which proves the rule.
It really depends on the game for me. If it's anime-ish in any way, there is no way i'm gonna enjoy it in english/french/whatever.
It's mostly because of my anime-watching and manga-translating: I love being able to see pro-translations mistakes and bitch about them.

I love Crispin Freeman's voice.

Also damn you RK, you are making me want to play this, but I don't want to spend money right now! (This game has been a very pleasant surprise to watch, and seems to be more difficult then what I have come to expect from these types of games.)

What about the time when Keith Giffen translated Ikkitousen and just wrote whatever the hell he wanted (not that there's much to translate in something that exists for three reasons only)?

EDIT: Speaking of other manly man voices, it was quite curious how good the English VA for Piccolo in DBZ was. You wish he was the main character just for that fact.

Never read Ikkitousen. I absolutely cannot into ecchi/basic shonen. I probably watched too much Naruto when I was a kid
Now the only stuff I can watch/read is Berserk, Oyasumi Punpun, Franken Fran and the like.
Guess I should do LR of those some day, they are bro-mangas after all.
Or I could do a bro-weeaboo stuff list. Oh well.

PS: Keep up the good work RK, you make me wanna play the game o/

Never read it either (again, why, it only has exactly three reasons for existing), I just know Keith Giffen translated it and wrote whatever he pleased without caring for the original text.

The last time I tried to purchase an anime was when I asked one of the local comics stores about Abara, though it had no translation yet outside of France.

Personally I could never stand Naruto. It had the typical elements of all the bad sides of long-running manga, along with boring characters. At least it had a good soundtrack. I hear that eventually the fandom hijacked the manga's direction, which I suspect got spectacularly awful afterwards.

I actually don't even know who Keith Giffen is

As a frenchman, i can say but one thing: there is a lot of love for japanese stuff here, but most of our fans are naruto/bleach/one piece maniacs. And french editors sell their stuff at friggin' outlawish prices - 5,6€ each translated book whereas i can buy them raw for 2€.
But yeah, we get a lot of official stuff. Our off-the-book translating teams are pretty shitty though, they mostly do english->french so we have a lot of translation discrepancies.

Naruto was my first manga ever, and i was like in middle school when I started. Didn't take me long to get annoyed by it though.

Keith Giffen is a fairly famous and talented American comics veteran writer.

But yea, it's kinda like that over here too. Naruto/Bleach/Weed/DBZ/One Piece and so on are the ones that are everywhere, though the initial sales boom has tied down. Specialist stores have an overwhelmingly female customer base for manga though as far as I've noticed, which is reflected in display racks mostly having romantic stuff and the like.

Personally what holds me back a lot when it comes to manga is that it doesn't have the same kind of "shopping list" of prolific authors who have done multiple series. It's kinda like the case was with Hellsing (only manga I've fully collected, mostly because Kohta draws clothes, glasses and old men so well, the series jumped the shark when it came to writing ages ago), Kohta Hirano seemingly vanished off the face of the earth when he finished with it. I can't really just go and think "hmmmm, I'll go through this shelf of comics here and look for writers like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Rene Goscinny and the like, and buy something by them that looks interesting."

Though when it comes to manga, there's one claim I've always found rather bizarre: The obsession with a series being by itself alone and having a definate ending, and how the supposed total aspect of that in Western comics ruins them. See, I don't really buy that, a lot of characters just have too much vitality in them to lay them to rest. Hercule Poirot will be solving mysteries to the end of time, Superman will be saving the world, and Asterix and Obelix will have new hijinks to frustrate Romans with (or would, if anyone could write them like Goscinny could). I appreciate a good, closed story as well, most of the time I prefer such things. But the key point is that they're not absent, not even in American superhero comics. Even series that started as ongoing have ended up as the definate run after which everyone considers to be THE story about them, for example my recent Let's Read, Doom Patrol, started as a takeover of a monthly series... And ended up being so great, so complete that almost no one has ever considered that more could happen to Cliff, Jane and Larry, the story began and ended for them then and there, and everyone prefers it like that. And most of all, it DOESN'T MATTER if someone tries to do more with the characters, the original story remains forever the same, and the volume stay on your bookshelf.

In before one truly awesome and beautiful boss battle.

Well it's the same problem in japan, so I guess I can understand why it's the same everywhere. Shonen sell buckets, then shoujo sell quite a lot too, that leaves seinen for the older fans. That's why it's a bro-category ;-)

Kohta is currently doing Drifters, but I don't know anything about it. Hellsing is pretty much dead though nowadays.
Well i don't know about comics, a lot of french/belgian artists worked on the same serie for their entire life. There are exceptions like Goscinny, Raoul Cauvin or Jean Giraud (also known as Moebius, passed away 2 months ago ), but even Franquin mostly worked on Spirou and Gaston his entire life.

You're totally right, and that's...typically japanese. I must say i'd love to see a sequel to a LOT of short mangas or animes. Potemayo, Azumanga Daioh, Pani poni dash, all those short 4-case based mangas were awesome, and I know i'll probably never be able to read them anymore. Closed story are nice, but it takes a great scenarist to make a nice ending, and they are quite rare in mangas (and bande dessinée). Most non-story based anime never get any closure, they just stop and keep you waiting for more, sadly. That's really the big difference with french comics for example. I read the Spirou and Fluide Glacial periodics every now and then, and you can still find the same old Pierre Tombal, Mélusine and such. I miss Achille Talon though...

By the way, is it usual for comics to be kept alive by other artists/scenarists ? It's quite rare in bande dessiné (except for Spirou & Fantasio, Asterix and Thorgal Aegirsson I believe) and I don't think it ever happened in mangas. Though I may be wrong, i don't really know.

PS: New Asterix are...pretty bad

Well, I've finished Binary Domain just now (and now I keep wondering why it's called the way it's called.). I have to say I had loads of fun with this game. Loved fighting skirmishes and most boss battles. Hated gimmicky gameplay segments and QTEs. I had lots of laughs at the story - it covered pretty every anime cliche in the book, but had a little twist in it. I kinda wish though it didn't force that whole 'Hollow Children' (only the Japanese could come up with this name) dilemma on you in such unbeliveable way (if you thought the idea of sapient robots unbelieveable, you are in for a major shock). The major twist with them was retarded even for cheesy sensationesque action game standards. Also, I was really disappointed when it turned out your comrade at the sewers can't die.

Stil, I must say I was very surprised with the final battle. It totally wasn't what I expected (though seeing its a Japanese game I should have seen that coming). In fact, up to last seconds of the cutscene you were actually teased with the most predictable scenario. A nice change.

Overall, good game, and great time-waster. Pretty fucking bad RPG (but at least it wasn't marketed as such). Still I think I had more fun steamrolling scrapheads than outgunning Cerberus and Reapers in ME3. Sadly, I can't shake off the feeling I paid too much for it. It's a good buy once it hits bargain bin - no question that. Will definitely play sequel if it's ever released.

Are you implying Asterix, Lucky Luke and Iznogoud didn't end with Goscinny's death? Are you?! What are these "new" stories you speak of?

You know, that new classic one with the gauls and the roma-

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Guys, I'm all for lamenting the awfulness of the last Asterix album, and the poor quality of the 2-3 that came before (IMO, the first two albums Uderzo did by himself aren't that bad). But maybe the Library would be a better place...

Greately done with that four-arm robot.

Myself, because I am a cheapskate who didn't want to use up boson charges, I kept rolling around the warehouse, dodging boxes until the robot went batshit insane. Coming up next - one loooong fight.

lulz Japanese accents. Also uh, don't they know about this truck having been jacked now?

Also huh, they actually animated the kissing, instead of having the heads clip each other. Not something I remember seeing before in vidya games. But maybe I don't play enough Japanese kissyface games.