History of Digimon - The Franchise of many Faces

With the recent announcement of the newest entry in the Digimon franchise, "Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters", comes the same complaints many fans of the Digimon series make each time a new entry in the franchise is announced. "This isn't Digimon!". "Why must they hit the reboot button every series?". "Why do they keep reinventing the wheel! Digimon was perfectly good as it was" - Of course, these are just a couple examples, and naturally, there are many valid complaints to make about much of the franchise and there are obviously many factors influenced by opinion and personal taste.

Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, the newest entry in the Digimon Franchise.

There are some complaints however that always strike me as peculiar. Specifically, the complaints that fall in line with the examples I gave above. Digimon is a franchise that is at it's core, about Evolution and Growth, changing, if you will. Even just a brief look at the history of Digimon will make this clear and I hope to give you that look in this article. Here, I hope to show you why claiming something "isn't Digimon" because of your own personal notions of what Digimon is may not be a valid criticism of the franchise, by showing you just how vast and different the Digimon franchise is.

Summer of Video Games - Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2

It's currently summer where I live. I recently thought "What better way to spend summer then to play video games?". So that's what I've done.

I wanted to start this last month, "Summer of Video Games", but unfortunately things got hectic because of the Christmas season and things have run late into January, but I already have a few articles ready to be written for it thanks to that. I'm planning on making this simply me discussing and kinda reviewing the games I play (Whether I've finished them or have given up). And to start off with, a game I've wanted to talk about for quite a while, Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2. I won't be going into too much detail though, this isn't a full review.

 

Neptunia is a very interesting franchise, from the moment I bought mk2 I was asked at the counter "Is this game a hentai or something?".

Joeker's Top 5 Tales of Games

Ahaha, I was supposed to do this on the first of this month, woops.

After a not-so-eventful year last year here at JoekerStraightFlush, I decided it was time to step things up a notch; but it appeared with all the video games I've been playing lately I've been a bit too distracted. Well, whatever.

To Kick off the new year, I'm starting it off with my favorite Video Game series, the 'Tales of' series. I haven't been able to play a whole lot of Tales of games so far, but here I'll be counting down my Top 5 favorites. (Please note! I haven't played all of these games through to completion.)

Lack of updates

You know guys, I legitimately feel bad for the lack of updates here. I really wanted to make this blog successful, but it reached a point where it just stopped moving. Even if I actively posted, it wasn't making any progress. So honestly, after a while I just couldn't be bothered.


So, I don't even know. I'll do a game review. Tomorrow. What game is it? ITS GONNA BE A SURPRISE BUT SINCE I ONLY REALLY PLAY JRPGS WELL I DO PLAY OTHER GENRES TOO BUT MY GAME LIBRARY MOSTLY CONSISTS OF JRPG'S IT'LL PROBABLY BE ONE OF THEM. SO YOU KNOW NOW YOU CAN EXPECT IT AND ENJOY IT. AND YOU PROBABLY WON'T EVEN SEE THIS POST BECAUSE IT WON'T HAVE GOOD ADVERTISING THEN YOU'LL SEE THE GAME REVIEW THEN MAYBE LOOK AT OTHER POSTS THEN SEE THIS POST AND BE LIKE "I ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IT I READ THE REVIEW KAY" AND YEAH. ITS GONNA BE GOOD.

I really don't know how active I'll be, but I'll try at least. I'm always trying to come up with ideas for new content, I'm just no good at that kinda stuff.

Anime Rant - Kampfer and C³

Hey guys, Joeker here. This is an article I've wanted to do for a while now, but haven't been sure on a good way to tackle it. Well since we've been very starved of content for months now, I thought I'd give it a try anyway.

Basically, today I want to talk about two anime that seem extremely promising at first, Kampfer and C³ - CubexCursedxCurious. Spoilers ahead.

Candy Boy and Why You Should Watch it

I honestly never thought I'd make a post like this. I've been enjoying the wonderful world of anime for a very long time now, and I'm far past the point where every anime I watch becomes my favorite. But recently I experienced something very similar to what I did when I was younger, that is an anime series called "Candy Boy".

As you can see in this image here, it is indeed a Yuri/Shoujo-Ai series, but even if you have some sort of hate for the genre, I really do ask you put that hate aside for the time being and read this post.

MMPR: A Friend in Need and My thoughts about Masked Rider.

So, guys. I watched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and every other Power Rangers series up to Wild Force when I was growing up. It's no surprise, but I loved them. Recently though, my love for Power Rangers has changed into a love for Kamen Rider and to a lesser extent, Super Sentai. One of the episodes I didn't get to watch as a kid, or at least don't remember watching (I do remember having a Masked Rider and Masked Rider Super Gold figure, though.) was the "A friend in need" 3 parter for MMPR. So, I decided to watch it. Now, i'm going to do a quick review of the episodes, then give my thoughts about what the Saban's Masked Rider series could have been, instead of the garbage we got.

I have to admit, this was an epic moment for me.

Digimon Xros Wars - The Boy Hunters who Leap through time - Impressions.

Yo, guys. Joeker here, as usual. Today I'm gonna give you all my early impressions of Digimon Xros Wars - The boy Hunters who leap through time, the new series of Digimon. I've loved Digimon since I first watched Adventure when I was around 7 and still do today, unlike most people when it comes to Digimon I have a soft spot for every series, because they are all good in their own ways. But, let's take a look at the new series, based on it's first two episodes.

What i'm about to tell you is no secret. I loved Xros Wars. In all honesty, I Think it was probably the best Digimon season we'd had so far. The characters, Digimon, plot and villains were all well done, in fact better done then the past series before it. But how does it's sequel hold up? Well, let me tell you....

JoekerStraightFlush Announcement - Kamen Rider Week!

Hey guys, Joeker here. We originally had a few plans for this blog, and some of the things we hoped to do in the future with it. But at the moment, all of that great stuff down the line is being put on hold, as this week for JoekerStraightFlush, it will be Kamen Rider Week!

"Kamen Rider Week?", you ask? That's right. This week we will be doing multiple Kamen Rider related things, with an attempt to do at least 1 each day, if not more. What kinda things? We'll be bringing reviews of Kamen Rider Series or Movies, Games, Gameplay videos, etc. This will last for a whole week, that's exactly 7 days folk, 7 days of Kamen Rider-ie goodness!

I'll also be adding a note on the blog's facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/JoekerStraightFlush
about some things that i'd like to improve on or add to the blog, so in the meantime, stay tuned and stay excited!

Code Geass Vs. Death Note

Code Geass and Death Note are two anime that are often compared with each other. So, i'm gonna take a look at them both together and see what series is the better of the two.

From left to right: Code Geass - Lelouch, C.C, Suzaku. Death Note - L., Light, Ryuk.

The main cast is also often compared. Death Note has Two Protagonists. The Anti-Hero main character, Light Yagami and the and the actual hero of the series, who is portrayed as an Antagonist, L. There is another major character named Ryuk, who is a Death God. He is the one responsible for giving Light his Death Note. Code Geass follows three characters, The Anti-Hero Protagonist of the series, Lelouch. His childhood best friend turned enemy, who is portrayed as an antagonist, Suzaku, and the girl who gave Lelouch his Geass, an "Immortal Witch" named C.C.

Pre E3 2011 Press Conference - Kojima's Announcements.

Hey guys, Joeker here. I just finished watching the Pre E3 2011 Press Conference, and thought i would tell you guys about the stuff Kojima talked about. Unfortunately, Kojima himself won't be attending E3 this year, so some guy who's name i cannot remember went to Kojima Productions in Japan, to get word from the man himself, Hideo Kojima.

His first big announcement was the "Transfarring" system. Some PS3 Titles will have Transfarring capabilities, which will allow you to Transfer your Game Data from your PS3 to your PSP, so you can play those games on the go. I Believe Kojima himself said this was to help "Bridge the gap" between console and portable gaming. He later went to tell us, that that was only Step 1 of his Transferring plan. With 2 more steps to follow:

For People Unable to See FaceBook Pages Posts in their FB News Feed.

Yo, guys. A few people have told me they've been unable to see posts from this blogs facebook page in their news feed. And i don't mean posts by 'NetworkedBlogs'. But the posts made by the actual page, pictures and such.

To fix this, go to your facebook homepage. Where it says "Most Recent" where your news feed is, click the arrow next to it followed by clicking 'Edit Options' from the dropdown menu. From there, make sure the 'Show Posts From' is set to 'All of your friends and pages'. Facebook seems to have been automatically changing people's settings recently. So this should fix that. You'll be able to see all of new blog posts from 'Networked Blogs' along with all of the sexy pictures that are posted.

Jumping The Guns A Little - Kamen Rider Climax Heroes Fouze Wishlist

Well, with the recent confirmation that this years new Kamen Rider would be called "Kamen Rider Fouze", and since Kamen Rider Decade, we have gotten a "Kamen Rider Climax Heroes" Game. The 3 current games in the series, Climax Heroes (PS2), W (Wii) and OOO (Wii & PSP) have evolved with each new entry, with better graphics, gameplay and character selection for each of them. But, of course, they missed out on things even with OOO. And here's my wishlist of things i hope they put in the next Climax Heroes, if we get one this year, that is.

Boxart for Climax Heroes OOO