With EVOL in the trash can, I decided to view another shounen/seinen anime.

Brave 10, so called that because there will be ten people with magical powers too… save Japan or something. I’ve heard it’s based on a specific historical event, but forgot which one. You can be assured that history didn’t play out exactly like this.

This anime feels like one of those anime they are making that’s targeted at men, but women are supposed to secretly like it. However this just feels… boring. The character designs are more like what you’d see in an otome game or a shoujo anime, which makes this feel like a ‘for women’ but targeting men anime.

The whole point of the anime is to show how awesome these men are and how sexy and awesome and… yeah. I don’t mind if characters get that crowning moment of awesome, or even if there’s a fight. Here’s the but, when the whole anime is crowning moments of awesome, it kinda dulls the feeling and makes me go “Yes yes he’s awesome, get on with it!”. More than “Squee, he just awesomed those ninja to death!”.

Another drawback is of course the maiden in distress. Izanami doesn’t really do much UNTIL she’s put into extreme danger, then she faints out and this hair ornament does some explodey zappy thing and everything is withered and decayed instantly. Yay passivism. While she seems to be a more active hero in that she knows she needs help and seeks it out, she’s probably never going to be given her moment to shine like the other heroes will.

I’m going to watch a few more episodes to see if they get better, get horrible, or stay the course. Right now I would give it a 5 on a 1-10 scale. Average as average can get.

There’s a new game I was turned onto by Joe Tortuga on twitter. This new game is Spiral Knights from Three Rings (Puzzle Pirates) and SEGA, yes that SEGA.

Spiral Knights is a new MMO game out that has instanced levels, item crafting and and is a play for free setup. What makes this game different is that you CAN play for free, also it’s not set in notEurope. It’s also an adventure game with no levels and no skills to worry about treeing or what skills you need. You don’t even need to worry about what class you want to be.

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This game play similar to Class of Heroes, only with less people. You still have people in the back that can’t fight…however with class restrictions, they won’t be able to get weapons to fight in the front at all. I might go and remake my party to compensate for this.

So far though I’ve been enjoying the game play, I really wish they have a middle ground on the Modern/Classic dungeon, as I love the classic enemies and the dudes, but I want more than lines for the walls. Something more like the newer remakes of the old Wizardry, or Eye of the Beholder. Something sprite art, but more than lines.

Also, I like classic mode as the music sounds better. :3

There are no voices in this game.. at least not yet. So no worries about dubbing..

I picked up Class of Heroes and Dark Spire wanting to satisfy my dungeon crawling spot.

My first impression is that the game seems a little haphazard. One of the beginning quests want you to go to the inner sanctum of a dungeon to meet the professor there. However there are one hit kill enemies in the newbie dungeon. Not even Etrian Odyssey was that hard. Also, the back row people can’t attack, not even for half damage. This wouldn’t be so bad if the ranged weapons were actually affordable, which they are not. So, I ended up spending a good chunk of my money on revives

The game does have voices, the good part is that they are not dubbed, which is unlike Atlus to not rip them out.