Hm, I have these projects that I should be working on, things people are actually waiting for me to make progress on. But what if, instead of doing those, I think up a completely new idea! …I swore I was going to get more writing done yesterday, and instead I get the bright idea to do a massive crossover story and fixate on the brainstorming process until 2 AM. So now I have to share what I’ve got, partially to see if anyone’s interested and partially to publicly shame myself for it. Okay
What? This is my 50th blog entry? Well woo-hoo. Actually, I do have some semi-interesting stuff to post about. First of all, I can't believe I forgot to wish everyone a Happy Easter last week!! Related to forgetfulness, BIONICLE: The Forgotten Bond is officially over. I was considering turning it into a trilogy, but since so few people like it, I'm probably just going to drop it. Oh, and while The Legend of Korra already has two episodes online, the first two episodes air on TV tomorrow at...1
But first, Bioni-Lords Book 3: Kako has officially started! Since it takes place 20 years before Book 1 and has a whole new cast of main characters, it's a great place for newcomers to start reading! ...Please? D: Anyway, I figured I'd put up my idea for a sequel to BIONICLE: The Forgotten Bond and see what you guys think of it. I even threw together a banner. So here's the basics: after the events of Forgotten Bond, the official Bionicle timeline resumed and progressed all the way thro
It bothers me when people insist that I am smart. I’m a college dropout working part-time in a grocery store deli. What part of that says smart to you? I need a quick way to shut people up the next time this happens. Unfortunately, I can’t think of one. Because I’m not smart!
You thought RoboRiders Mafia was a bad idea, get a load of this. Glinch Festival Every player gets assigned one of four species from Galidor, and then each round they target another player and say which of their limbs they want to swap. So Player A can target Player B’s Left Arm, and boom, they switch Left Arms. The goal is to end up with one limb from every species. Plus maybe one or two Royals inserted who are wild cards, one of their limbs can be counted as any other species you need.
TECHNIC TOURNAMENT 3 & KNUCKLES will launch Tuesday, February 2nd! Make sure you collect enough rings before then so you can enter the Special Stage, we need those Chaos Emeralds! Also you can reserve a spot in the comments if you want. You can even put together a profile now if you’d like, or you can just put down your name and wait until the topic is live to do the profile. For the profile: you have 13 points to distribute between the four methods of promotion, and each line has a bo
Wait...are people upset that there are going to be more female characters in the next Lego Movie? I read the talkback and I can't really make much sense of it. I think they're saying they're worried that this means the director's just going to toss in some half-sincere female characters for the heck of it? Even though actually clicking the link in the BZP article leads to an article with the headline "'The Lego Movie 2' Director Wants More Strong Women In Sequel"? Which is basically just
I’ve been thinking about some games I like that are sort of underappreciated so I don’t know I’m just gonna spit ‘em out. It’s late and I’m tired, here’s a closer look at how Pahrak thinks. -Mega Man Star Force: Seriously this is probably the least-liked of the Mega Man series…es. Unless you count Xover, but chances are a lot of people don’t even know that was a thing, so I’m not gonna count it. And sure, it has its flaws, and I know fans of the main timeline’s gameplay don’t appreciate the
If you muster up enough shounen willpower, anything is possible, right? Then…I wonder if somebody could actually do it. Maybe…if circumstances aligned, and they found the right path…then just maybe… Someone could rewrite Galidor and make it good.
So it looks like those rumors about the region being based on Hawaii are true! Alola looks kind of small, though. The starters all look great, but Rowlet is clearly the best choice. It’s an adorabird! You must choose the adorabird! Sun lion and moon bat both look pretty interesting. Not entirely sure at this point since we don’t have types and such, but I think I’m leaning Sun at the moment.
My first thought was to use “densha” instead of train but that would just be showing off I can never recall all the anime I’ve seen at once, but I suppose I could at least make a post about what anime and manga I’m following at the moment. I feel like I haven’t been using my blog as much lately, so this will liven things up. Manga: -Naruto: Yes, I know, shut up. I’m following it more out of a sense of obligation than anything else—it was one of the first series I got into when I started to
Recently Famitsu did a survey in honor of Kingdom Hearts' 15th anniversary, asking things like favorite characters, favorite scenes, what Final Fantasy characters you want to see (Bartz placed fifth!!), etc. More recently, Nomura responded to these results, and there were two things that really stood out to me. One: he is disappointed that Riku didn't place higher in the popularity poll and wants to fix that. I wholeheartedly agree. And two: (screenshot from KHInsider) Nomura has ca
So I’ve been thinking I might want to run Technic Tournament 2 soon. My original idea was that future versions of the game would each have a specific theme in what fighters were involved, but now I’m thinking I should hold off on that—TT2 will be more or less the same as the first, just trying out some new system tweaks so that I can perfect the basics before trying any of the theme ideas. As for what changes will be made, Nevermore gave me two suggestions at the end of the last game: that th
On a more positive note, I received an email from GameStop reminding me that Super Smash Bros is releasing on Friday. It mentioned a few of the playable fighters, including "Greeninja." At first I thought "Oh, it's a typo, they mean Greninja," but then I wondered...what if it isn't a typo?! Could this be a leaked announcement of a new fighter?! Now, most of you are probably thinking of Ninjago, but no, this is much more surprising. You know who else has a Green Ninja? STAR FORCE MEGA
I decided to make a content block for my blog with links to my library and sub-libraries (it’s on the left under the Asterisk Guide if you’re curious), and it got me thinking about how I haven’t been writing so much lately. I have been making slow progress on Divine Strength and The Kaita Legacy, and I’ve thought of plenty of ideas, and I guess there was that no context crossover, but the last time I actually posted a work here on BZP was…let’s see…September? I want to try to get myself postin
was released at TGS, as well as the game’s boxart and the announcement that it was being moved from December to January (but January in both Japan AND the US!). Getting some nitpicks out of the way, I’m…not really a fan of the new Hikari remix. LOVE the name (Hikari - Ray of Hope Mix - ), but as soon as I heard it it just seemed kind of off. I dunno, maybe it’s just me. Also it appears there’s going to be DLC for the game (I mean I don’t have a PS4 so I probably will just watch someone play
I made it even simpler this time I was going to go with "Has Lego officially announced it", but then I remembered those BZP articles on stuff found through "guessing URLs" which apparently don't count? Aside from that one exception though the policy is really, truly, unbelievably, extremely simple. Feel free to use this handy image when teling people why you're closing their topics or whatever, staff, I won't even ask for anything in return
So my story-novel-thing Divine Strength has been pretty much dead for a while now, with most of my time trying to brainstorm for it over the past few months being spent on the mechanics of how the main character’s hair color changes. That is a 100% true statement. Unbelievable. (I mean I think I also found a potential way to make one of the other characters interesting but most of it has been the hair thing, and that sounds funny out of context. Always lead with a joke, or something, I don’
I have family flying in from Australia this weekend, so I may not have time to get online tomorrow. So, I decided to post Bioni-Lords Book 3: Kako Preview 2 early! I'm trying out a different writing style in this one--I recently read The House of the Seven Gables, so I think I'm going to subconciously try to imitate it for a while...it'll really come through in Preview 5. Anyway, this preview is a meeting of Element-Lords: old favorites like Norscu and Aile, and we also get another look at Av
I’ve loved JRPGs for a while now, but Fire Emblem was something I never really considered playing. At first, I think it was because I didn’t hear about it all that often, but once I did hear about it, I quickly learned that one of its defining features is that if a character dies in battle, they do not come back. As someone who essentially takes a Leeroy Jenkins approach in most games, I knew that I would never be able to clear a game that featured permadeath. But, a week or two ago I was inf
