CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Ok, I know that Aaron and Steve are probably laughing at me already.

After convincing him that I could not survive the wait for Soul Caliber 2, my good friend lent me his Dreamcast. Being the generous soul that he is, he also packed lots of games with it. One of them was Space Channel 5.

At first, I only took time to laugh at the concept of the game, along with the name of the main character. Then I put it in and tried it. Somewhere between laughing at the music and being impressed with the smooth graphics and motion captures ... I found that I had been playing the game for 2 hours. What's more, I liked it quite a lot.

What do you guys think. Is it deceptively addictive, or am I not nuts and it really is a fun game?

You are not nuts. I saw it in the bargain bin for $5 and said even though it looks kooky I can't pass it up, and I ended up blowing an entire afternoon on it. That big pink blob moved too erratically for me, though (just because I dance erratically in real life doesn't mean I can match erratic dance moves ).

Good! Always nice to know you're not crazy. My brother told me last night that a Japanese Pop singer is suing the makers of the game, because I guess Ulala matches her looks and dance moves. I have no idea where he got his info, but I found that interesting.

I wouldn't be surprised. It really has a very J-Pop style to it.

One thing the game does very well is blend pre-rendered backgrounds with the characters. It really does do a very good job showing off the DC's capabilities. How far did you get, anyway?

Beginning of the second level ... (I had to re-do the first level so many times because my rating was really low). I was playing fine until I started thinking about what I was doing. Somehow it's easier to play that game with half your brain shut off. All you need is your ears, thumbs, and you eyelids to blink once and a while.

My final attempt to rescue hostages went something like this:

Up down up up ... left left left up down ... ... up up ... right up right down down ... up shoot left shoot shoot ...*Gypsy tips over in a death-like state while still grasping the DC controller*

Sigh...next think ya know Ami is gonna be a DDR fan...*eye roll*

That *did* drive me nuts -- you actually have to be a tad bit *ahead* of the beat in order to properly do some sequences, which is somewhat irritating.

I'd like to try DDR ...

DDR is available for PS2, isn't it? (Haven't checked.)

I used to have this game, but I tried to buffer the disc and it stopped working. I loved it, though. It was a very fun rythm game. I prefer DDR, though. DDR is on PS2, but I only have the first PSX version. I don't even have PS2 yet.

Shoo showed me this one once. That was enough. I guess I just can't deal with these kinds of games because my brain's rythm lobe was cross wired to my william shatner dramatic reading node from watching too much Star Trek.

Hate it when that happens.

He does that a lot. It's easier to understand if you know him personally.

"Is that a Robot? I can't tell.

Well, obviously, as you can see from the above, I have SC5 for the DC. Haven't had much time to play *anything* on the DC lately though ... I was intending to sink some serious time in on Grandia 2 but that sort of went by the wayside.

Ahh well I have something to

Volt wrote:Ahh well I have something to tell ya... It's NOT Space Channel 5 Part 2....Oh no. that's a misconception. It's NOT a sequal in any way...

Space Channel 5 Special Edition

At http://www.Compusa.com for only $12.35 everywhere else $29.99

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sold out.