Rave: Ninja Gaiden Black

So tying this latest blog with my first blog of this month, I have been dedicating a lot of my spare time lately to beating Ninja Gaiden Black. I have finally completed the side quest 'Eternal Legend' and I have just conquered it's Very Hard mode. Now trust me, Very Hard lives up to it's name. This game is hands down the hardest game I have ever played.

Ninja Gaiden Black takes everything you love about video gaming and takes it to the next level. It's a game that rewards you for keeping on your toes and it never cuts you any slack. If anything it makes your job even harder by lessening things that could help you out like healing potions and stuff like that. Instead it throws explosive bats (I kid you not) and boxes of the most annoying Ghost Fish at you. Never have you fought enemies that are so 'smart' or vicious. Bosses are epic encounters with you dodging a stream of fireballs, energy charges or pillars of stone, all in a row, all the while fighting off his/her lackies.

To top it all off, there is rewards a plenty for mastering the game. You can un-lock the original Ninja Gaiden arcade game and 3 more outfits. Yes, it has been said before but I need to say it as well. This is the pinnacle of action video gaming. Play it and believe.

This game is seriously tiding me over till Ninja Assassin staring Rain hits scenes this Novemeber.



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Tomorrow Comes Today

Just a quick one, letting people know what is coming up next for Apocryphic Visions.
I have uploaded Lee's New Moves video which has gone down pretty successfully.

Coming up next is Jin's New Moves video (should be done by coming Wednesday)

After that I will start working on my Zafina combo video which I am really looking forward to



Also I will be uploading the 'directors cut' version of this video on Blogger using the music I prefer as well, so look forward to that.

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Best of Me

So it is a new month, therefore it is new music time.

My Pledge by Collision. Collision is my little 'big' brother and a hip hop star on the rise. The song is produced by my cousin Mysterious. Both of their myspace pages are Collision and Mysterious. I felt this would be a perfect song, it all about not comprimising your vision and representing your home-town. This will also be the song I am using for my forthcoming Lee's BR New Moves Tekken video, linking it to my King's BR New Moves video which also used Collision/ Mysterious as well.

Supernova by Mr. Hudson feat Kanye West. LOL Kanye had to make his apperance somehow and yep he is still using autotune. However this song is more about his protege, Mr. Hudson. Very anthemic song with a great breakdown (you got it wrong if you say our love is gone). Video is pretty choice (British slang since Mr. Hudson is a Brit) as well.

Best of Me by Jazmine Sullivan. My girl, Jaz kills this song even through I swear she is channeling some Alicia Keys on this iTune bonus track. It is the inspiration for the blog title as well. A really good song and you can hear the emotion in her voice. Got to love her.

Well that's it for this month. Enjoy!

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Rave/ Rant: YouTube

I have this love/ hate relationship with YouTube (YT).

I love the fact that I can watch movie trailers, music videos and matches of Tekken and other games at my leisure. It also has a massive library to watch from as well because nearly everyone uses YT and uploads stuff as well.

I love how it is easy to upload something on YT and I can share it with a friend that lives in Australia without having to send him a raw file over MSN that takes up most of a night. All this is awesome.

On the other hand I hate YT because of it's limitations. WMG and YT still haven't settled their differences so there are no WMG artists on YT... if there music is uploaded, they get taken down straight away. I actually like some of WMG artists so this is frustrating that these two haven't settled their quarrel yet. On top of that, Universal Music Group is awesome with uploading music videos by why don't they allow embedding. I want to share the latest video on my Myspace but I can't because UMG doesn't allow it. Umm... huh? I am giving you free publicity and sharing your artists music with people who might also get interested in it but you don't want me too? How does that make sense?

Don't get me started how you can't upload your own videos with other people music either. I have beaten that horse before and it still annoys me.

And then we have my main beef with YT. The racists, ignorant and down right stupid people who use it to spew their hateful speech. I read all these comments on videos with people just being plain hateful and they are allowed to be because they are hiding under the anomity of the internet. It's digusting and after awhile I stop reading comments all together. I know this isn't YT's fault BUT it really does dampen the experience.

And finally YT is filled with some seriously silly people who don't know how to rate videos and because of that I refuse to allow them to rate my Tekken match videos anymore. People seem to rate videos for dumb reasons, like their favorite character didn't win, or the camera was shaky or something lame like that. Because of that from here on in, all my Tekken match videos I will disable ratings. I given people a chance to rate matches with my first batch of T6 vids and YT audiences failed miserably. Watch the matches, post your opinions that is all.

Well that was fun to get off my chest.

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Rain is Coming Down

EDIT: Trailer is no longer available. View it
Here.

This is what me and my wife have been waiting for. The official trailer for Ninja Assassin starring our fave Korean pop star Rain.

The people behind this film gives me reason to look forward to this. We have Rain, Naomi Harris (from Street Kings) and Sho (master ninja of the '80's) Kosugi.

The film is directed by the same guy behind V for Vendetta and produced by the Warchowski Bros. (of Matrix fame). Add Dark Castle (one of my favorite production companies) and I am more then sold.

Trailer looks awesome too with some serious bad ass moments. I can't wait to see this on a big screen. I am also happy to see an Asian star in a Hollywood vehicle that is not Jet Li or Jackie Chan.

November is going to be awesome!!

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