SteelSkin.net – The Ramblings of Chris Nutt

Happy 2009 you all!

My good friend John got me a GameStation voucher for Christmas. So just after Boxing Day I headed into the Kirkcaldy to see what I could get with it. I managed to pick up Valkyria Chronicles for tidy price of £19.99. ‘Bargain’ I thought.

I am no strategy fiend, in fact I am pretty bad at them. I have tried a couple of RTSs in the past and a strategy RPG in the form of Ring of Red for the PS2. Never with much success. However I had hope after hearing that Valkyria Chronicles was developed by much of the Skies of Arcadia team. Which is my favourite game of all time. Please bare in mind this is the game that got me to try and try again Japanese RPGs. So they could make just about any genre (bar rhythm music games) and I would play it.

Valkyria Chronicles is awesome, wonderful and lovely. The art style is inspired, the characters almost universally likable and the game play somewhat unique. It is a Strategy RPG, but with real-time moves and aiming. It’s parallel world of the Second World War could have been crassly handled, but they don’t pull their punches in delivering some hard truths.

I am currently half way through, so no doubt I am in for some exciting times.

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Hi there LTNS. I have been rather lazy in updating.

I have started getting into Gundam lately. I never really bought into Wing or the older series, although the 2D beat-em-up for the SNES was pretty good. Gundam 00 kinda broke my back when it came to Gundam, it seemed like quite a nice series so I caught a couple of episodes. It broadcasts in HD and looks fantastic on my monitor. I like the characters and I really am starting to get the Gundam’s they look better on reflection.

Anime Central have been broadcasting Gundam Seed, it’s older with a few more tried and tested cliches than ’00′, but for free who cares.

I am really back into my mecha stride, right now I am really weak against the Revoltech figures.

498Fucking hell this is good, I’m sorry to swear online, but this is THE toy I would want out of any other. Guess what I they were selling it in Edinburgh for £18. This thing is awesome. The joints are far beyond your bog standard figure, You get all the kit, the revolver the Stun Baton (extended or collapsed), a variety of hands, a base for stabilization in extreme postures. It just rocks!

For more info: Forbidden Planet UK (only £15 Online!)