Ergo Proxy wasn't bad at all... I actually liked it quite a bit...  very character driven with a far more straightforward plot than texhnolyze. Not too much action, but the action that is there  really counts. This  one is far more about character development and relationships than it is the eye candy and visual flare, though that is not to say it is pleasing to the eye which it is. One thing I didn't like about ergo proxy though, was that alot of plot points weren't really addressed til the last few episodes.... in other words pacing was a bit slow for my taste....

Now that I'm thinking about it though, I'd venture to guess more people would like Ergo over Texholyze.... Texhno REALLY makes you think.... Your brain could rest a bit easier and enjoy ergo.... but I like making my nogan work and the ending to texhno totally beat the conclusion to ergo IMO thus it wins my vote hands down.

Once again though, be warned..... Texhno is totally an acquired taste..... One well worth acquiring mind you, but initially I'm not gonna promise you enjoy the flavor.... Episode one, if I recall correctly, didn't have one drop of dialogue...

EDIT: as a cool little "cyber-punk" side note.... Radio Head's "Paranoid Android" is the closing theme for Ergo Proxy.... Cool or what??? Klyde says yes!!

Texnolyze (i don't know if I spelled that correctly though).... just mind the first few episodes... super slow to get moving, but freakin' awesome beyond that.... its another one that Yoshitoshi Abe (Lain, Niea Under 7, Habane Renmei) had a hand in.... I highly highly highly suggest this one if you dig the cyberpunk stuff.... in fact I stress it so much so that I'm not even going to suggest anything else, I say go and watch this immediately.

Thank you for clearing that one up for me :)

I'm sorry to double post... but seeing as how this post was more or less completely unrelated to my last and in the form of a question I need answerred I thought it more appropriate than doing a re-edit.... if this is improper forum conduct please forgive me :)

So I just beat the main arc and need some help....

This game looks freakin' horrible! Not that it should surprise me... but come on.... publish something I can at least pretend is worth waiting for only to be dissapointed with another square/enix let down..... I can't say anything about this looks appealing to me at all....

Damn... I still have Rorona backlogged.... no way I'm catching up on the atelier series before this comes out..... I feel like skipping the rest of it and hopping directly up to Meruru though..... All depends on how badly my OCD is around release I suppose....

You guys probably think I kid when I say "OCD" but truly I do not speak in jest.... As a child I was diagnosed with ritualistic OCD at the age of 7 because I couldn't go to sleep or get to school on time without "properly" tending to my weird bedtime/wake up routines.... additionally for years I hated shopping because I "had" to walk back out of stores the exact path I traveled through them.... highly frustrating..... I'm getting better though.... I skipped half of Hyperdimension Neptunia to indulge MK2 when it came out.... that is progress my friends!! LoL

I too am tackling the side quests at the moment and let me just say..... sandshroud ruins puzzle? yea..... that sucked away an hour and fourty five minutes of my life... and I still needed a mapped out path even after I figured it out due to the mechanics of that final color puzzle so I could arrange the switches ahead of time and not screw myself...... Kudus to ToGF, as that proved to be the most challenging puzzle I've encountered in a long time.... and man I did not see that coming at all given how easy the earlier puzzles were....

I feel as though I've done enough to move on now but I like this game so much I'm tempted to FAQ-it to catch what I've missed.... I haven't felt like that about a game in awhile..... Even Xenoblade, by the end of it, I was so fetch-quested-out I could care less about what I was missing and just wanted to finish it....

EDIT: So I finally concluded I was through with all I could find on my own after hours of trying to figure out what to do with certain things in my inventory that didn't make sense to me.. decided to FAQ-it to see what I was missing..... much to my surprise, save a few town-item-requests, some titles I could care less about, a title for malik (I do care about missing although he was my least favorite character) and a swimsuit I didn't miss anything! That means it is time to off the main arc of this baby today!!!! Maybe this should be in the game journal.... oh well, I'll be heading over there once I am through.....

A FINAL WORD: I find it safe to say at this point that this is, by far, my absolute favorite PS3 exclusive title yet.... I can honestly say, in a world where the JRPG is becoming something....well.... something that is not quite as sacred as it once proved to be here in the west.... The Tales series has not disapointed me in the least... In fact, this month I'm gonna go buy an x-box just to play vesperia as its the only member of the franchise I've yet to indulge. Good stuff here, good stuff indeed.

I love to do asain style dragons.... this was one of my favorites I got to do :)



As for the bottom of the hand, it isn't so much that it can't be done as it is VERY difficult to get to heal properly and "stay" . ink tends to suffer from something called "cellular migration" and it is pretty nasty on fingers, palms, and the soles of your feet and once again that is IF you can get it stay at all... there are techniques that can be employed during the tattooing process which do increase the probability of it holding up, however whether or not it still looks pretty in even a month or two depends on how little you use your hand and how infrequent you can manage even opening and closing it for a good while)....


Someday I will increase the value of the sculpts a great deal for you my friend.... unfortunately you will probably have to wait until I'm dead, even if I do foster some acclaim in my lifetime, as that is typically when most artists work is worth anything to write home about-LoL

I must say that I acredit my vocabulary entirely to the fact that I poured over Tolkien novel's, Discworld novels, played text-based MUDs and RPG's loooong before there was such a thing as "voice acting" in video games, all well before my comprehension was appropriately developed for such.... I remember always having a pocket dictionary with me for these endeavors as a young child because it drove me nuts not knowing what words meant..... I still have quite the collection of handy little pocket dictionaries might I add.....I was a strange kid... I never grew out of any of that come to think of it.... including the "being strange" part :P



Thanks for your kind words friends but in truth I typically am, in most respects, a complete klutz and embarasment to myself.... clumsy doesn't even do it justice... I'm like a walking hazard... communication, speaking and art are the few respects were I tend to shine on occasion.... otherwise I'm something of a sentient trainwreck with interesting hair.

@ Dice: Love of the tat tis the seed from which all ink is born my dear :) I once thought I would never EVER (even working as artist) want to get a tattoo.... now the only spots not adorned with something are my right arm and most my torso (saving em for few particular artists with very long waiting lists).... The thing that always turned me off about them was the permanence of the whole thing.... Once your around em long enough though, you start to realize (especially working as an artist) they are really not quite as permanent as you think, and when that happens apprehension disappears and one day it just seems like the thing to do for the hell of it. Next thing you know your freakin' hooked-LoL

I don't what it is about trophies.... in theory I think they are stupid... just plain silly and pointless really.... but I will be the first to admit to my elation when I earn one... why? well that is what I don't know I guess..... I love that it is linked to my facebook and everyone one of my clients whom have friended me to see my tattoo work get an aggravating update on their smart-phone of my latest digital accomplishment :)

Anyhoo.... finally at the end of Tales of Graces F, or so it seems... tying up loose ends and side-quests and whatnot... man, I gotta say, this game has not let me down at all yet... even the end-game-sidequesting is proving to be awesome fun and adequately challenging, yet not so much so that I have been tempted to look up one thing yet... just enough to keep me heavily engaged

In other news Final Fantasy Friday this week marked to procuring of two new eidolons in FF 4 CC. Asura and Leviathan and, might I add, they proved to be hella-difficult... I decided to fight asura first before getting reflect... dumb move....

Lastly I am currently in the process of attempting to thwart the extermination of our pointy eared friends in suikoden.... I forgot how amazing this game was...

I feel like I'm spoiling myself with great gaming lately, and it is lovely :)

thanks man! I was pretty stoked about it! I appreciate you taking a gander :)

That is as visually valuable as forum threads come.... thank you so much :)

PS: For anyone else seeing this of remote interest in this stuff, this is proving to be a perverbial treasure trove of imagery here guys... Check these suggestions out if your interested in the like.

Yea "traditions elite" is the name of the shop I work at..... don't ask what it means.... I didn't name the place... and to this day, I still can't figure it out...

Hey guys, I made the news!!! Sorry to create a throw-away topic like this, but well.... I was excited... I was never on the news... well for anything good that is... LoL

http://wnep.com/2012/04/27/electric-city-tattoo-convention/

I had to work a convention yesterday and they interviewed me and used a segment of it to kick off the broad-cast.... and holy-heck do I look bad-LoL.... still fun for me none-the-less

Ok, and so that ends the pointless throw-away post. You can all ignore this now.

Freakin' awesome site, can't thank you enough!


Stellar suggestions! I've been browsing minitokyo for hours! Many thanks :)