A look at No More Heroes

Group picture from the first game

No More heroes has always sparked my interest because of how stylized everything is, the graphics, the combat and most of all the characters. I'm not usually one for mindless violence, but because this game doesn't take itself too seriously its really all in good fun. Not only that but there are some really interesting and impressive designs in this game, especially for the assassins leaving the main character, Travis looking kind of bland in comparison. I don't think that is bad thing however as it kind of shows evidence of the crazy world he has been tossed into. The sequel only improves on these designs with even more cool characters.

Mega Man Legends 3

Capcom decided to take an interesting approach to designing their new heroine for the upcoming Mega Man Legends 3. Nine completely different designs by nine famous designers were put to a vote; the public made the final decision. The winner Aero, pictured above in some early game model shots was the victor. I will admit at first i was not taken with the design at all, those leggings and weird arm things just seemed so silly and odd to me. However she has grown on me and I think she is a good choice of heroine.

This design by Tatsuya Yoshikawa was my choice. The cape, the glasses and the shoes all look really awesome, and I think she looks especially good with the hood up. But alas, perhaps this design was too girly? I can understand the need for a heroine who looks a bit less high maintenance or something. I do applaud the MML3 team for having the courage to choose there heroine this way and as the saying goes, the customer is always right.

Other designs included a bunny girl, an American Indian native and a girl that kinda reminded me of a design from animal crossing. You can check all the designs out at http://megaman.capcom.com/mml3designers/

Note: for some reason the above link will not let you scroll, so if you can not see the links to other designs just press F11 for full screen.

DOA Dimensions

The new trailer for Dead or Alive Dimensions came out recentley featuring these two newly designed costumes for Kasumia and Ayane. Loving Ayane's mask and generally her whole outfit but I'm not sure about kasumi's. I don't really think the colour suits her and the scarf looks a little silly.

Evolution of Nina

Nina Williams is probably one of the most recognisable tekken characters, being the only female character to appear in every single tekken game as well as starring in her own game, Death By Degrees. Needless to say, she has gone through quite a few changes over the years as you can see in the picture above. She is my favourite tekken character, and probably one of my favourite video game characters ever.

In my opinion she definitely looked her best in death by degrees. So many great costumes such as my personal favourite, the epic cocktail dress (in the picture above). What bothers me is that while she was making steady improvements up until tekken 4, it seems that from then on things have gotten worse. In both tekken 5 and 6 her default costumes have been ugly and while in tekken 6 she can be saved with customization, unfortunately in tekken 5 she can't. I also am not impressed by the way they model her face now, i much preferred how it looked in tekken 4.

Favourite looks: 

• Tekken 2 - 2p
• Tekken 4 - 2p
• DBD - all

You can check out these outfits as well as all her others ones here

What I would like to see in the future: Nina desperately needs to rid herself of that awful purple camo jumpsuit. Give her that cocktail dress from DBD or something similar. Re-do her face, and make it look similar to that of nina's tekken 4 headshot, or like DBD. Even adding in the long ponytail would be cool.

Quantum theory

Quantum Theory is an upcoming fantasy shooter by tecmo for the PS3 and 360. It looks pretty interesting although parallels have been drawn to gears of war gameplay-wise.

The two main characters are pictured above. Syd is the boy and the character you control and felina is an AI controlled co-op who you can fling (?) at opponents. The idea seems kinda silly and really is when you see it in motion. Hopefully there is more to her than just an extra weapon in syd's aresonal.
Anyway in terms of design Syd  looks fairly badass albeit maybe a bit dull and boring. The gun thing attached to his hand is a nice touch. When i first saw felina it was in the first picture (up top) and i thought she looked really cool with her almost elf-inspired armor and looks. However upon looking at her full body she also seems a bit boring. I'm definitley loving the weapons though.

Here's hoping for some alternate outfits, if it was team ninja making it I would be expecting it but i will not be holding my breath.

First post! - Kof Xiii

King of Fighters XIII was announced a while ago, and looks like it should shape up to be what Xii should have been. (Let’s hope anyway)

Costume-wise not too much is going on. Mai is FINALLY back using a slightly different costume to usual but still looking as top-heavy as ever. I am glad though, KOF without Mai isn't really KOF at all. Vice also gets a re-design to match Mature's from KOF Xii. Unfortunately it's pretty bland and I would much rather the old one back but hey, it’s rare to see new outfits in KOF so I take what I get... One thing I am especially disappointed in is Athena does not get a new costume this time round. (!!!) She's stuck with a lame old sailor kufu.

I am really digging the art style and all the official artworks look great. You can check them out here.