First, the 3DS will indeed be region locked, just like the DSi -- US, Japan, Europe/Australia, and Korea are the known regions.
Second, currently there are "no plans" to release The Last Story in the West, just like how Nintendo apparently plans to sit on Xenoblade forever. Whatever those idiots that thing Westerners don't want RPGs are thinking I don't know, but it's stupid. I know it's not the best selling genre here, but there's certainly enough of a market to sell good games like those.
Madoka Magica 01 - Yeah, that was pretty interesting. I like the near-future setting, all that glass-walled architecture is unique stuff for anime. They put some effort into the architecture of this series, for sure. I'm not so sure I like the odd character faces (they're so ... square or something), but the backgrounds make up for that.
The first couple of minutes reminded me of .hack//Sign crossed with Black Rock Shooter, stylistically, or something like that... pretty cool stuff. Then came the glass-walled architecture, and then the full-blown unexpected-even-though-people-had-said-it-was-unique awesomeness of the last part. That was so crazy, visually, awesome stuff. :lol This has got to be one of the most visually unique magical girl shows ever...
As for the story, it was okay. Not amazing, but enough to make me want to keep watching, which is good enough I think. Characters seem decent as well, if not exactly original.
(looks up Yuki Kajiura)... Huh, so the music's by the same composer as .hack//Sign, as well? Maybe that's part of why I was reminded of it at the beginning. :) That and the visual style of focusing attention with shots of interesting and unique environments, hack sign did a lot of that and I saw some of it in Madoka Magica too.
Gosick 01 - And again I agree with what most people are saying about this, this was boring. It wasn't bad, really, just dull, predictable, and generic. I know someone mentioned this, but really, it's the kind of thing that bothers me so, so much... why is this "European" school so Japanese? Everything about this school is Japanese, and just about nothing is Western. Come on, put at least a LITTLE bit of effort into your setting... no, I won't just accept that anime only very, very rarely does any of that, it always bothers me. :( Also, this is set in the 1920s, right? The 1920s were the flapper era, not the goth loli era.
1. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
2. Tron: Legacy
3. Toy Story 3
4. Inception
5. Tangled
6. Trigun: Badlands Rumble
7. The Expendables
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. Shutter Island
10. Loups=Garous
Still want to see Black Swan, True Grit, and The Social Network.
One of the best pure platformers since Super Mario Bros. They both share the same acronym. Coincidence?! I think not.
Also, I love this game and hate it. I love it because it's an amazing platformer with great music and great style. I hate it because it tears at my soul with its cruel talons, ripping away the will to live with each successive death my character faces. :(
It was released a while ago in German but it's now in English. It looks like they put a lot of work into this one. It's a "total conversion", IE, more or less a completely new game using the Oblivion engine. I'm going to give it a play and see how it is. Apparently it won some "mod of the year" aware so people like it.
