“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
Any entries following this, and for the next two weeks, will (hopefully) be made in Hawaii. Cell coverage notwithstanding, I hope to update at least once daily via text messaging and/or cell phone pictures. Wish me luck.
And sorry mum, for being so tired I could barely converse on the phone last night 🙂
I’ve been a fan of the Guyver manga for many years now. It tells the story of a young man able to transform into the ‘bioweapon’ named Guyver and fight many different monstrous foes. Over the years I have aquired the various DVD series as well as a slew of different figures/models/toys.
Last year in Japan I purchased three figures from the recently launched (and quite expensive) Max Factory ‘Bio Fighter Collection’
From right to left they are Guyot (a Zoalord; one of the baddie leaders), Aptom (one of the good guys) and ZX-Tole (one of the more powerful, non-leader bad guys).
Recently, whilst trolling ebay, I found that Max Factory had released a new figure in the line. Behold, Pluqstahl:
As with all figures in the line, he comes with a range of accessories. In addition to the cloak and armor pieces (removable), he also has four sets of hands and the ‘lightning drive’ attachment.
I bought him of course, and yesterday he arrived safe and sound from Hong Kong. He is the most expensive ‘action figure’ I have ever bought. I’m very pleased with him as well – he’s second only to Guyot in my opinion in this line.
Incidentally, Pluqstahl (as Max Factory calls him), is another of the evil Zoalord leaders. His powers included the ability to control very powerful lightning and summon great storms. He was killed several volumes ago in the comic after a battle with one of the good guys (Dark Gigantic). He did not die at our heroes hand though, but as a result of an attack by three other Zoalords. It was suggested these three were rogues who were planning some nefarious act. Friedrich von Purukshterl therefore, could be considered one of the ‘good’ bad guys. Here’s what he looked like in the manga:
There was a debate on one of the gaming blogs about the accuracy and response time of the Wii controller. Now from personal experience I know it’s pretty damn accurate and pretty damn fast, but others suggested the opposite – and that a limitation on response time would prevent very fast action games to be created.
The someone posted this video and the debate was over 🙂
To those that haven’t yet used a Wii – think of the remote as sort of a light gun. It’s a wand you point at the TV to use (the cursor in the video is where the player is pointing the remote). It has other functionality as well (accelerometers, positional detectors), but they aren’t in use in this game. The game show is one stage from Wii Play, and is basically a shooting alley type game (Duck Hunt clone).