Video Game of the day: "Blood Will Tell." You play as Hyakkimaru, a man who had 48 body parts removed when he was a child. Now grown, he fights demons that terrorize Japan. When he finds and defeats the 48 Fiends that have stolen his body parts, he regains those parts, to sometimes extraordinary results. When he wins his left eye, the game goes to color for the first time (it begins in black & white). When he regains his nose, the controller vibrates to alert you to the presence of other Fiends (who are hidden in different areas of each stage); he begins to "smell" demon aura.
You have a nice amount of combo abilities, and you have an interesting array of weapons, including swords in the place of your arms, a machine gun in your right arm, and a cannon in your leg. And all of these weapons deal some serious destruction.
The boss fights are sometimes repetitive, but for the most part enjoyable and with just the right amount of difficulty. You also can find and upgrade your swords with careful stage exploration.
Overall, an incredible game, for what it is. You can probably find it for approx $20 in some game shops. Definitely give it a shot.
I've been doing the research for a background for the message board, and in a roundabout train of thought, I gotta say ... Amee Donovan is one hot chick. That's one all-natural chick that oozes intensity.
Who's the better tag team: World's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) or Triple X (Christopher Daniels & Elix Skipper)?
Haas & Benjamin worked great tandem offense, as did XXX. When the split, Daniels and Benjamin went on to outstanding singles careers, while their respective partners struggled to find characters that connected with the fans. WGTT cut their chops in OVW; Daniels and Skipper paid their dues in the indy circuit & WCW, respectively.
Both held world tag gold. Listed on the TNA website is an upcoming best-of DVD for Christopher Daniels, and hopefully it will display some of the talents of XXX. Shelton Benjamin should have a DVD out any day now, as he's had some incredible matches since he touched down in the WWF; that would showcase a lot of the WGTT talents.
Both teams host members that ranked pretty decent on the SGM Super 30 Black Professional Wrestlers - Benjamin (#6) and Skipper (#13).
Haas is allegedly heading to TNA within the next few months. Maybe he can form a tag team with Elix Skipper to try to recapture their collective glory days in TNA's tag division.
Ric Flair, by winning the WWF Intercontinental championship, he's done something that only two other individuals have done in wrestling history: Won both major WCW individual titles and both major WWF individual titles. The other two wrestlers? Bret Hart & Chris Benoit.
Coming up this weekend, hopefully, will be the horror double bill of "Exorcism of Emily Rose" and "Venom." Expect reviews, should that come to fruition.
Now playing: "The Best of Hammer Horror." I've ventured somewhat outside of my usual rap music boundaries and have been getting more into film scores. The CDs in the car before this one were "Vertigo," "The Best of Godzilla 1954-1975" and "The Best of Ennio Morricone." The Hammer soundtrack has some very good, atmospheric tracks on it, some of which even create a nice bit of chill up the spine. It was an import available through Amazon, and I managed to get it pretty quick in the mail.
From the exam on Sept 22:
George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," most closely illustrates what interpretation of the death state?
a. Death as cycling & recylcing
b. Death as continuation
c. Death as a waiting period
d. Death as enfeebled life
The light that came in from the window woke me up, stabbing into the back of my eyes. I rolled slowly out of the bed, about two hours later than I was hoping to. I hopped in the shower and washed as much sleep out of my head as I could. And something occurred to me: The only thing we have is truth.
The world around us, that's what's true. The world is a beautiful place. And it's horrible and unfair. The people around us are inherently good. And they are miserable and manipulative. And all of those statements are true.
There are no absolutes ... not in religion, not in society, not even within ourselves. As good as we think we are, we let ourselves down. As much as we think we fall short, we excel. We don't know the extent of our capabilities; we're doing the best that we can, but we must do better.
We can argue, then, that we're at our best when we doubt our abilities, our saviors, our mentors, our surroundings. What are we? The sum of our experiences? Our abilities in times of crisis? Our interests? Our talents? Our personalities? Or what our personalities are not?
Then I got out of the shower, popped in a DVD and watched Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle from the Rumble 2003. And I realized that nothing is true ... everything is illusion. The world is what you make it.
Signing out for tonight.
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