DRAGON BALL SUPER

Phew...

After the serious DBZ/KAI this SUPER season is like a silly childish show aimed at kids and dumbasses. I watch it only out of the love to the previous seasons and all the time can't help but compare them and SUPER loses on every turn.

First, it looks ugly. The design of characters has changed to the worse and there is nothing more painful than to see main characters look like they suffer from dystrophy. It's unforgivable! I hate Toriyama now for making them look like scrawny idiots and making most of them abandon training and martial arts practice with no logical reason. Even without training they still should look something better than what we see in SUPER. Just plainly ugly and nothing like before. Backgrounds look dull and with no detail, characters are drawn too simply, with no detail. CG animation and drawing took the upper hand in the show. It is to simplify the workflow, isn't it? Not to simplify the show! Motherfuckers!

Second. The show suddenly became all about aliens and other rubbish akin DRAGON BALL GT. Too many alien life forms come to Earth these days with too little explanation as to why. Jaco, those dog-like aliens with a prize for Mr. Satan and such. It all makes the show look stupid and unreasonable. No more rules of any sort apply. Wacky stuff, silly acts - just for kids. But what about us who are not kids anymore but still love the universe and characters from it? We were left out or made spit at the screen and grind our teeth in the face of another stupid scene of Gohan being dumb with his daughter, or king Pilaf and his team being children and doing stupid stuff. By the way there was no explanation of why they are children now, how did it happen and when. They just show it to our faces as a fact without ANY fucking backstory to it! Don't tell me it's somewhere in some full feature film or something like that, because I am not obliged to watch those since they are not shown on TV as a part of the series. I watched DB, then KAI and SUPER back to back and there was nothing on the topic so it's just a stupid thing to make Pilaf and his team take so much screen time without saying a word as to why they are children now!!

Speaking of children... Everybody is obsessed with babies in the show now. Everybody is pregnant and giving birth... Disgusting. 

Third, TOEI or Toriyama or whoever is in charge made main characters as weak as bugs and some new guys are made way too strong while their bodies look nothing like that! So even Goku still has muscular body he is weaker compared to some idiots like Caulifla and the lot. It's just impossible, impossible, impossible in a logical and rational world which DB stopped to be!! There is healthy spirit in a healthy body as the saying goes and we see SUPER doesn't follow this simple truth. You can't store more and more energy (Ki) in your body if your body is a small weak vessel with chicken muscles on it. Toriyama was hit in his head probably since he turned his masterpiece into some stupid kids show with no logic, reason and beauty of the physical and spiritual strength.

There are many bullshit things in SUPER if you keep tracking things since KAI and DB. THey should have remade the whole series from the beginning to the end to make it in line with this new SUPER style and shittery otherwise it just pisses the real fans off more and more when there are discrepancies between the seasons such as KAI and SUPER.

Here are some things which I find the most annoying or strange in the show which don't have any explanation inside the Dragon Ball anime universe. There are many others but they can be explained by some far-fetched answers so I leave them out even the explanation can be arguable.

If you look closesly at the button on Bulma's clothes then you can see it shrinks and expands slightly which is strange.

Gohan looks as weak as a patient of cancer clinic yet then suddenly out of blue he becomes as muscular as in DB KAI when he entered king Zen's exhibition tournament!! What a twist! How did he do that? If he used the same technique as master Roshi then he should not be able to maintain this form for a long time. But it seemed that the muscles were on him naturally and not due to some technique. We know he didn't do a shit of a training except for one sparring time with Piccolo which couldn't make him like that! Bullshit!

Jaco. Who the fuck is Jaco and why he is even in the show? What fucking sister does Bulma have? She was never mentioned before and even when they showed her in SUPER and introduced this Jaco character they didn't explain how exactly did they meet and why doesn he call Bulma princess. Another just-shove-him-in character with no background story. And he looks ugly, just like a mutant human baby from which Toriyama probably drew inspiration for Jaco. As his real life prototype he should just die, as soon as possible and never to be shown in DB again.

 Kaioushin of the 6th universe was never a tall guy, but in SUPER he shrunk to even a smaller size. Such a tragedy for a shorty. Compare his height to Gohan (who is the same height as Goku) and Kibito in DB KAI and to GOku and Kibito in SUPER. Do you see any difference? They just made him a dwarf for no reason. Seems that Kibito became smaller as well...

Mister Satan's eyes were always blue in DBZ and KAI, and then they became grey colored in SUPER. Why???

Trunks was always gifted with pink hair in DBZ and KAI and then when he comes back again in SUPER he has blue hair and Bulma even says he was with blue hair before. Okay, Bulma may be daltonian (a color-blind person) but we are not!! Why the fuck he has blue hair now? What is even more interesting is that the little Trunks still boasts pink hair!

Here's a big blooper of DBZ and KAI - all the bad guys are retaining their bodies in Hell while they all should be turned into cloud shaped souls. WHy they all have their bodies? Okay, I don't know. Let's go to SUPER now and what do we see?? We see Frieza in a different Hell and he has his mechanical body instead of his normal body which he had in KAI's Hell!!! HOW THE FUCK COME??! If they knew that they would change his Hell and his condition in it why they didn't cut the scenes of Hell from KAI and be with it? Then Nobody wiould raise any questions. But they failed miserably as planners and scriptwriters! When they were producing DB KAI they knew they were going to release SUPER and they knew they would bring Frieza back to life s owhy the hell they didn't take care of this nonsense?? Who knows... monkeys should throw their shit on the makers of the show each time they visit a zoo.

Where the hell did zenkai power go? Sayians boasted to have this unique power of getting much stronger after experiencing near death injuries or exhaustion. Where did it go? Why no mentioning why they don't use it anymore and why it doesn't work anymore? Here in SUPER we see Gohan nearly die from a wound inflicted by Tagoma. He was revived then by Senzu bean and yet he didn't become stronger even a bit which Tagoma's words prove.

Another thing got me thinking is Trunks' time travel. Look what I came up with.
Traveling through time as it is shown in DBZ and DBS is impossible. Here is why. Trunks travels from the future of the world into it's past where Goku is still alive and didn't die from the heart disease. Ok. Then he stays for a while and helps fighting Cell. Ok. Then he goes back to his future which is already became a separate alternate world where Goku and others are still dead and Cell and androids were alive and Trunks had to defeat them by himself. And this is the "impossible" part of the travel. Why? Because Bulma invented a time machine, not an interdimensional alternate worlds traveling machine! Once Trunks set his foot in the past of his world which is the present shown in the anime then he would never be able to return to his future world since by logic he should travel into the future of this world where Goku and others are alive becasue they were warned and thus saved by Trunks. So, the future Trunks should go back to is the future where Goku fights Beerus and everybody is alive and kicking, where Bulma gives birth to Bra and where there should be two Trunks - one younger and one older (the future Trunks) who comes there from the present time world (after defeating Perfect Cell with Gohan and others). Right? Right! Bulma's time machine doesn't have any settings to go to an alternate world which appears once a time travel is done. It has only time destination settings which logically would take you to the same world's future and past from which it is started! Which means that one and the same Trunks could go through only one timeline of the one and the same world. Theoretically it's possible that Trunks from the other alternate future which was formed after changes in the past done by time travel could come into the past (present in the world we watch in the show) because that past is still the same past so there can be two Trunks from two different futures in the present time, only if they try to go back to their respective worlds they will end up in the future of the world where Goku was saved and Cell defeated by Gohan and others, thus two Future Trunks will appear say in the time when Beerus appeared.
Let me try to make it clearer on examples. Let's call World 1 the world where Goku is saved by the medicine from the future brought by Trunks from that future. Then let's call Future 1 the world which forms after this interference in the past caused by Trunks time travel to save Goku. Then let's call Future 2 the future world where Goku is dead and Trunks is supposed to travel to after coming to the past (World 1). Now there are 2 Worlds and 2 Futures - Future 1 where Goku is alive and Future 2 where Goku is dead.
Future 2 Trunks goes to World 1 - the past of Future 2 world. Then Trunks presses buttons in his time machine and sets to go 10 years to the future - of course he travels 10 years into World 1's future and upon arriving he should meet Goku and others 10 years older and himself at age of 11 years old (two Trunks, 1 from the Future 2 and 1 from World 1). The time machine doen't know which world he wanted to go and doens't have such technology anyway, only time travel, not dimensions travel. The Future 2 would be left with no Trunks at all after he went to the past and androids would keep rampaging it without anyone to oppose them until maybe Cell appears and consumes them, but that needs another analysis to see if he would appear at all or not due to this time travel paradox.
The whole story about Trunk's future and him fighting anyone in it and Zamasu (Black Goku) appearing in it is a huge BS which never happened assuming Bulma made just a time machine and not an inter-dimensional time travel machine.
What should really happen is Trunks appearing in the near future of World 1 and settling down there alongside Vegeta and Bulma and his younger self since he can go nowhere else except for further into the future of World 1 or further into its past which he would have no interest in.

So many question and so little answers. The show is not over yet so there may be more.

FINAL FANTASY XIII stupidity

Hello

I recently beat FINAL FANTASY XIII and I want to tell you my impressions.

First of all the game is terrible as a FINAL FANTASY main title as it has very little to do with the main series mechanics and gameplay. This game should have been called a spin-off, not the main title entry.

The game lacks all the charming points of a FF RPG and it falls flat at delivering the old fans of the series good things. I was excited to try the next gen game after finishing PS2 FF title and some NDS spin-offs. FF XII was quite alright but I still couldn't forgive the developers for not including the ability of a free roaming on a world map which was included in FF IX last time skipping next two entries in the series. In any case both PS2 FF titles were much more limited in terms of exploration and your actions compared to PS1 FF games, but at least they were still "FINAL FANTASY" games, you could feel it and you could still enjoy it. With the coming of the next gen console (PS3) and the FF title on it I expected all the limitations to be lifted and I thought the new game would give me freedom like never before plus amazing graphical improvements  which didn't happen.

The game became even more limited and almost completely lost all RPG parts which before made me a FINAL FANTASY fan. There are no cities, there are no villages, there are no NPCs to interact with and get some hints on finding treasures or secret places because there is no world map to explore, no big locations to roam, only a corridor style levels with the same boring battles with the same boring monsters which lack in variety. All the interaction goes between party members but the player is not involved as he is not given any choice in dialogues, the player just watches and listens to animated cut scenes and he is never given any choice. The story of the game has a main idea of not giving up and not agreeing with your destiny or whatsoever, but to fight and to follow your own choice and heart. Surprisingly the game doesn't give any choice to the player who blindly follows the plot unable to make any changes to any aspects of the story or even to dialogues between the party members or those rare and fake NPCs which don't bear any meaning at all, were they absent in the game, it would change nothing. Those few NPCs are in the game only for the sole purpose of telling the players that the developers put them there and they are there! That's all.

There are no mini games here which were very popular in previous FF games. The game is easy and the only place where the difficulty suddenly rises to an inadequate level is chapter 11 (there are 13 chapters in total) where I had to switch to EASY difficulty level as killing monsters became too difficult and impossible in many cases without a long and boring grinding which still doesn't help as the party members' levels are limited by the story. You just can't level up unless you go farther in the story and when you do you will have already lost the interest to come back and fight those tough monsters because you have already beaten the game! You saw the end credits, you saw the THE END screen, you don't want to play more since there is no point. Getting some stronger weapons or rare armor or making more money loses its point since the game is over and you don't feel like continuing playing when nothing will happen, no story advancement, no new twists or anything.

I am not afraid to say that FF13 was the worst game in the series. If they called it something like "FINAL FANTASY the defenders of Cocoon" without putting number XIII in the title and considered it as an experimental spin-off then I wouldn't have any complaints because it wouldn't fail at satisfying my expectations, but since it was called "FINAL FANTASY XIII" I had the right to imagine a FINAL FANTASY game only improved and better than the previous ones.

I forgot to mention how stupidly the invisible walls are placed in this game. You can't move your character anywhere except the straight path in front of you, you can't fall off a cliff and such - everywhere are the invisible walls. Jump points are stupid too, where developers put the jump points you can jump like a flea flying over huge crevices and taking up on 20 meters heights or more, but when there is no jump point placed by the developers then you become a toddler who can't climb or jump even on half meter height or jump over a crack in the floor of the same size. Looks really stupid.

I hate this game on which I wasted about 70 hours of my life and unfortunately there are two more of the same shit quality fake Final Fantasy titles with the same protagonist female called Lightning. :(

You may say that I can skip the two, yet I can't because I must play them all being the fan of the series and all. I heard that the next number entry (FF14) is much better than this spawn of the otherwise great series and goes back to an RPG game style. So while waiting for its release for PC I can go through the worst to enjoy the better even more than I would if I had never played "FINAL FANTASY XIII, XIII-2, XIII Lightning returns.

Now, there are some really idiotic designer decisions in the game concerning monsters. It may be the same in some previous games but I somehow didn't notice these things before and in this game they popped right in my eyes so I couldn't let them go.

Some monsters in the game wear clothes and use some tools and equipment which is hard to believe since you never see anything like monster towns and cities nor factories where they would produce all the needed equipment for themselves. You never see them sitting and making clothes or braiding their hair. You can't imagine that too because there are no prerequisites for it in the game.

So you have a complete feeling of an utter nonsense and falseness of the world of the game. You can clearly see that it's just some dumb developers silly ideas and not "real" monsters of this game universe. Everything is false from the beginning to the end starting with invisible walls around you and ending with disappearance of monsters or humans after a battle (they promptly disintegrate instead of their bodies falling to the ground at least).

Look for yourself and try to imagine all those beasts sewing clothes and making tools (just some examples, there are more monsters like this):

This Ahriman has a cape on him, but I don't see any hands on him which could sew the garment

 The goblin chieftain has a neat pair of goggles, leather pants and a hat which were all produced by who and how? Do goblins rob humans of their clothes? How do they make sure the size is correct? Do they make them on their own? How? When? Where? Goggles, how? Wheels and boots on them is a unique feather of goblins so I think these items couldn't be stolen from humans, then how do they make them?

 The humbaba monster has huge leather sleeves and laces on them, leather shorts, bracelets and a giant sword. Then there must be humbaba clothes makers, humbaba smiths and humbaba armorers to produce these things. Do humbabas buy the equipment from their kin? then do they also have money? then do they have cities somewhere? Families? Tribes?

 Tonberries were present in other FF games too and now I can ask the same questions to the creators of older games - who makes the clothes for them? There must be big settlements of Tonberries somewhere where they live their lives making the shoes, clothes and knives with lamps, right? Why we never see that?

 This Yaksha has his hair (is it hair?) braided and obviously he has clothes on him but he doesn't have arms and hands so it's a mystery how does he make it. So there must be times when all yakshas and their friends get together and help each other with their beaks or something to do the hair and put up some clothes, yes?

The whole idea of this so called Cie'th stones is a total bullshit. Not a single word of truth behind it, nor logic. The story of these stones has it that they are crystallized people who once were chosen by Fal'Cies to do some missions but failed and firstly became Cie'ths (a mindless zombie-like monster only not rotting but crystallizing)  and then after a long-long time of wandering about in the form of Cie'th and finally losing all the energy they became these stones who still try to relay their missions on other chosen ones who happen to pass by.

What is so stupid about it you may ask? The stupid thing is that all the missions are still available for our party. The background story of the stones clearly said that they became like that only after a very long time (hundreds of years) of staying in a form of a mindless "zombie" which is Cie'th. Their missions are usually to defeat a usual monster or another Cie'th. How the hell all those very specific to the mission monsters survived through centuries and are still available in the same place where those Cie'ths were supposed to find them? How those other Cie'ths who were supposed to be defeated by the chosen ones didn't become Cie'th stones? The chosen ones failed at defeating them and became Cie'ths themselves and then after a long time became the stones, but their original Cie'th targets outlived them and didn't become those stones? Why and how could that be? The game doesn't follow it's own rules and logic because there are seems no rules and logic in this game even it pretends to have them. So, if only the mission target is not some immortal never aging and never moving from its place creature the whole "stones missions" crap is just a crap and impossible to exist which gives us another blatant smack in the face of the falseness of this game's "world".

Spoiler alert! Don't read further if you still plan to play this game!

The whole story is actually a piece of shit which doesn't make any sense.

Our playable characters were talking the whole was through the game up to the last battle about fighting against their mission and not following the plan of the biggest baddie in the game but all their actions were playing along his master plan. As the ultimate purpose for our heroes the bad guy wanted them to fight and kill the Orphan which would make the whole world collapse and kill off all the inhabitants in it as a sacrifice to summon the original god who created the world and Fal'cies in it. So our heroes were always blah-blah about not letting that happen and about killing off the bad guy and not the Orphan, yet in the end they fought the Orphan and successfully killed him which should have invoked the end of the world and deaths of all the people and animals in it. Somehow nothing like that ever happened and we had a happy end! How the hell? Again just no logic or any explanation. They did everything to the last letter what the bad guy Barthandelus wanted but his plan didn't trigger the end result of what he hoped to achieve. In other words it goes like this: you, cut off your finger and throw it away, then you'll live the rest of your life without your precious finger! then you really start cutting off your finger and successfully manage to do so and throw it away, but the next minute instead of 100% guaranteed result of the lost digit on your hand forever and ever you find that your finger is still on it's place and maybe there is only a little scratch. Wouldn't you be surprised by such a twist in your tale?

MINDGAME (anime) mini-review

This is an interesting experience, unusual and mind boggling, entertaining and colorful. Give it a try, but keep in mind that you must be open-minded in order to enjoy this work. It's certainly not to everyone's taste.

One mistake I found is "LoRding" instead of Loading: