Clearly there was some sort of conceptual story in place, but they could not have gone about conveying it to the viewers in a worse fashion.
It’s actually hard to believe that people who clearly don’t have the foggiest sense of even the most basic elements of storytelling were getting paid to animate this trash. The plot, setting, and characters are all an absolute muddle of incompetence that leave you awestruck out of sheer incomprehensibility. Not good ole’ Gunslinger Stratos though! Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about this show’s writing and directing is an absolute disgrace. Usually anime that don’t make sense have a passable script that was poorly executed or an awful script that was executed averagely. So in case that synopsis didn’t clue you in, the biggest and most glaring problem that Gunslinger Stratos has is the fact that it makes NO sense. There are two parallel universes with completely arbitrary differences, the inhabitants fight each other for no reason whatsoever, and people turn into sand sometimes. Ladies and Gentleman we have been gifted this season with one of those remarkable anomalies that defy all human comprehension. A show that is so awful, it feels like an accomplishment. A show that lacks so much as a single redeeming quality. A show that quite literally could not be worse than it already is. Moon, you may stumble across a special show that falls into that remaining 1%. Or maybe the show just provided some mindless fun at times. Maybe that comedic relief character was actually funny occasionally. It doesn’t matter how incoherent the plot is, how god-awful the characters are, how piss poor the animation is, or how maddeningly awful the sound effects are there is almost always SOMETHING that you can take away from a show. Despite that fact, 99% of anime created over the course human history have at least some sort of redeeming quality. That’s the state of casual gamedom I suppose.Let’s face it: There are a LOT of bad anime out there. But I’ve been surprised by how often I see customers become totally confused by a standard, everyday light-gun game. Seems like it wouldn’t be any more difficult than a typical Wii game with the nunchuck, which millions of people are accustomed to already. Of course this is much more than a typical light-gun title since it’s off-rails and has thumbsticks but I wonder if it’s easier to work out than it looks. I’m not really sure we’d ever see this one as an import although light-gun games aren’t something the West shies away from. Here is a new trailer for the game:Īnd a video of a guy playing the game for the first time The main website for the game has been updated with a bit of information although a good chunk of it is in Japanese that an online translator doesn’t work on since they like to do a lot of text as pictures. They are going to hold some events in Tokyo and Osaka for the game where SE will be holding prize give-aways and a chance to play the game as well. reports that the game is on-track for a summer release with a suggested charge of 200 yen for 2 plays. Next up there has been a bit of news about that hot new AAA arcade game coming to Japan, Square Enix’s Gunslinger Stratos. I could see a few places out West importing this one since Konami probably won’t bother with an official release, despite this being the kind of game that wouldn’t present a difficult barrier for players to get into (just a difficult price for some operators to swallow is more likely).
UPDATE: Looks like it’s just a software upgrade, no hardware changes at this point.Īlso the Kinect-enabled Dance Evolution Arcade launched in Japan on Tuesday. The last possibility is that Konami is gearing up early for a fun April Fools joke. While most of us won’t ever see this unless you frequent Japan, there’s always a possibility if you visit certain arcades in California.
Switching over to speculation mode, it could just be a software update but at the same time the “saucer” moniker could imply something new with a round display to compete with Sega’s new MaiMai rhythm game. Per usual we don’t know anything about it yet but that will change soon enough.
Let’s cast our eyes over to Japan for some news, as there are a few developments going on there.įirst off, Konami has a new entry location testing there starting tomorrow called Jubeat Saucer(not-so-much-better known as uBeat outside of Asia).