COMIC BOMBER

STORMWARRIOR is awesome.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:07:01 GMT

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:14:12 GMT

COSMIC SMASH RETURNS?

It'll probably end up being some XBLA bullshit, but, here's hoping for a new COSMIC SMASH.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:49:30 GMT

VIOLENCE 24: INSECTS OF THE ABYSS

"RE.. REMEMBER THIS...
YOU MAY BE ABLE TO TAME A WILD HORSE BY MUZZLING IT...
BUT A WOLF WILL TEAR THAT MUZZLE APART!!"

THIS WAS AN AMAZING CHAPTER.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:56:38 GMT

DID YOU RIKE IT?

!!

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:03:46 GMT

VIOLENCE 23: FALLEN ANGEL
"EVEN IF GOD DOES FORGIVE YOU, I NEVER WILL!!"

The ending to this was very exciting and makes me impatient for next week :(

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:48:33 GMT

METAL GEAR ONLINE 2 is fucking awesome.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:40:14 GMT

VIOLENCE 22: THE LAW OF FLESH AND BLOOD

"I... I EVEN... BLEED... THE SAME BLOOD... AS YOU..."

GODDAMN. THIS WAS A MANLY, MANLY CHAPTER.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:06:18 GMT

If it comes on a bun, chances are it'll need tomato. Oh man, this sandwich is dying for some.

SUGAR -The most elegant of champions-

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:58:28 GMT

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:48:08 GMT

SUGAR -The most elegant of champions- v01-08

I've just started on the first volume. Seeing Hideki Arai go from his special brand of brutality, as shown in THE WORLD IS MINE, to a boxing comic is pretty interesting. It'd be even better if I knew what the hell was going on. From what I hear, it's as good as his other stuff.

This and Kiichi! are dying for translations.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:59:29 GMT

THE WORLD IS MINE v07ch75

HIGUMADON FEJKWKJBHDRR FUCK YES.

RIKI-OH FRIDAY

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:23:27 GMT

NO CHAPTER THIS WEEK SO FAR...
SO LET'S ENJOY LAST WEEK'S CHAPTER. (CHAPTER 21)

"K...KILL ME! JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH YONABARU, SAVE ME FROM MY SUFFERING!"

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:26:56 GMT

Since when was FFVII worth money on eBay? Are people that fucking stupid?

Shiren the Wanderer: Adventure Recap and Rant.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:39:14 GMT

Last night I played more Shiren the Wanderer. I died on floor 28. Floor 28 happens to be near the end of the game. If I recall correctly, the game ends at floor 30. I was so close and I just had to die on FLOOR FUCKING 28.

Floor 28... I-It just had to be a MONSTER HOUSE.
Those just happen to be a large, wide-open floors housing many treasures as well as monsters.
The exit was nearby, but the monsters were even more so.
I had a Blastwave Scroll, but I used it on the previous floor.
Those damn hunger inflicting monsters were causing Shiren to be hungry.
I had to stop them or I'd die from hunger. I wouldn't have been able to go to 28F.
And I had no fucking riceballs left.

Garghfkjdsavbeneth

And despite the frustration, I love this game a lot. I love the perma-death. I love losing all my progress. That Katana+6 and Bronzeward+6 with the rust protection, all my money and those experience points... who gives a shit? They are easily attainable commodities in Shiren, but that's not the point. Dying in Shiren gives you all the tension that you'd feel in an arcade shmup. You never ever continue in a shmup because it ruins the sheer THRILL you'd get from the game. The feeling of having only one life left, that "all or nothing" feeling. You can't fuck up.

Oh, but you will. Only because it's inevitable. Not to sound pessimistic, but it's the nature of the game when you start playing it.

Every time you inch further, you feel like you're accomplishing something. Sometimes big, but mostly small, however not insignificant! You lose your progress, but in turn you receive a deceptive feeling of accomplishment. You're getting better. You can tell because you just did something you weren't able to do not too long ago. You were able to conquer those annoying types of enemies you've previously feared more easily because you now know how they attack and how they work. You've ventured further into the dungeon, much deeper than ever before. You've pick up simple tricks and learned something new about the game. Simple things like that can go for miles.

Gamers these days need achievement points and game completion percentages to give them a sense of accomplishment. Games shouldn't have stuff like that at all because it places more of an emphasis on DOING EVERYTHING IN THE GAME instead of SURVIVING and LEARNING the game. Why should I have to play through 20 hours of mediocrity for the sake of collecting pointless, uninteresting (and perhaps unusable) trinkets and plow through boring sidequests when I can have not only an exciting, heart-pounding hour of gaming, but a fulfilling one?

If Shiren 3 comes over here, I'm buying a fucking Wii. As tempting as Brawl is, if that can't convince me, this will.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:39 GMT

RIKI-OH 20

"NACHI! WHERE'S THE COMPASSION IN KILLING SOMEONE!?"

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY (?)

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:13:36 GMT

RIKI-OH 19 (and RIKI-OH 18 from last week :*)

"UNTIL I MEET MY BROTHER AND ATONE FOR MY SINS, I SHALL NOT DIE!!"

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:15:10 GMT

Shiren the Wanderer is such a great game.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:53:43 GMT

My froth for VIKING: BATTLE FOR ASGARD is uncontrollable after watching those trailers. This game is going to be too fucking awesome.

By the way, I now have a ps tripple. The PSN is "trampsintrouble"

Goddamnit, I don't want a 360.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:23:06 GMT

Fucking Ketsui and DDP:Black Label are coming for it

SADFACE.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:24:46 GMT

RIKI-OH 17

This was a good chapter. I really liked that rock-in-the-mouth/punch combination.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:36:04 GMT

Alright, I nearly shat myself. I'm getting a $1700 tax return.
So far, I've thought of gettin' this 26" HDTV and a PS tripple.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:12:29 GMT

RIKI-OH 16

Not enough VIOLENCE, but the next chapter should be good.

IT'S RIKI-OH FRIDAY

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:43:23 GMT

"THOSE OIL DRUMS OVER THERE ARE FILLED WITH CHILDREN WHO DIED DUE TO EXPOSURE,
YOU BASTARDS ARE JUST "ANGELS OF DEATH" SPREADING AROUND RADIOACTIVITY!"
RIKI-OH 15

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:45:55 GMT

Look at that, a nice site filled with a bunch of nice doujin shmups. Time to download some of those Platine Dispositif games I've been missing.

rickthehamster@gmail.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:09:16 GMT

I've been playing UNLIMITED Saga lately.
I really shouldn't be having this much fun with it.