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    Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

    in Animation Station

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    It's funny, but I know for a fact that once you guys watch this you'll take all that stuff back! You're gonna wish you guys got to it sooner rather than later. Nick, when have I ever put you on to crap (Toxin doesn't count)? I'm gonna go ahead and say this... It's the best anime I've seen since Berserk. There I said it.

    Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

    in Animation Station

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    Props to the folks at Anime & Comics (Anime Hurricane) for this find!

    Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future where human beings have been forced underground and thrive in isolated subterranean civilizations on Earth. These "villages" have no contact with the surface world nor other villages. Since frequent earthquakes damage infrastructure, the villages must constantly expand deeper into the earth—individuals designated to this task are known as "diggers".

    Giha Village is the home of Simon, a fourteen year old digger who was orphaned when his parents were killed in an earthquake. He is respected by the village elder as the best of the diggers, but is ostracized by his peers. After discovering a special drill key deep in the ground, he is recruited by an eccentric fellow orphan named Kamina into his group, the "Team Gurren". Kamina dreams of the surface world, which he visited as a child with his father but had to return home because he was too weak to survive.

    After a failed attempt at reaching the surface, Kamina is jailed by the elder and Simon resumes digging, only to discover "a big face" deep in his tunnel. As he excitedly fetches Kamina to show him the discovery, he is caught by the village elder, but Kamina's punishment is interrupted by the ceiling of Giha Village collapsing as an enormous robot falls into the cavern. A girl named Yoko appears and tries to fight the robot with a large rifle, but initially cannot do much. Simon takes Kamina and Yoko to the "big face" he found earlier and discovers that the small drill key can be used to activate the small robot, which he uses to end up destroying the much larger robot and effectively break through to the surface.

    It is on the surface that Simon and Kamina discover that there are more large robots known as Gunmen piloted by "Beastmen" that terrorize the surface dwellers during the day. Simon and Kamina help Yoko and her village destroy three more Gunmen and Kamina takes one for himself, naming it Gurren. Eventually, Simon and Kamina decide that they will go on a journey to end the constant struggle between Beastmen and humans. Simon and Kamina are initially accompanied by Yoko and a mechanic from Yoko's village named Leeron as they head out to find the Beastmen's Human Eradication Army main head-quarters, while dealing with various Beastmen warriors, including the vicious Viral.

    Man, what a great anime! I had been outta the anime game for a while and honestly wasn't really interested in ever going back... until this show! Well, I still don't care to go back, but this crap was awesome! It's 27 episodes, but it goes so fast and it reinvents itself at least twice so you can never get bored! Think of it as FLCL meets Gundam Wing! EVERY EPISODE is awesome, period! Here's some pics...

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    Achievements

    in The Game Room

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    Normally tennis wouldn't be a game that I would play, but it's so damn addicting! Seriously, it's awesome! Once I get that achievement then I can move on from that game, but I can't until then! Funkin' tennis!!

    Achievements

    in The Game Room

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    The achievement that impresses me the most is the Zombie Genocider one in Dead Rising. Killing at least 53,594 zombies in one play is a tough one. Who am I kidding? It's fuckin' hard as shit. I read somewhere that it was one of the hardest for XBOX 360. I'm getting it by my birthday or my name isn't Panchy.

    Achievements

    in The Game Room

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    That's the thing about achievements that's got me. I really don't have much time so if I play a game, I better be workin' to somethin'. I feel now that I'm wasting my time on any other console. At least if I play for achievements (whether I get one or not) I've got myself closer to completing the game. REALLY completing the game. I know it sounds crazy, but that's the way I feel.

    Achievements

    in The Game Room

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    Oh, here we go...

     

    PS3 guy, huh. Dude, if you only knew. No wait, I understand... you spent allllll that money on the WRONG system and you're just trying to justify it by hating on achievements. Just ask Nick (which has BOTH consoles) which he plays more and why. Poor DOJ... there's always one.

    Achievements

    in The Game Room

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    For those of you that aren't in the KNOW, Microsoft created a video game console that was... so, so (XBOX... you know PS2 was the shizznit). A few years later, when they wanted more money, they upgraded said console and named it XBOX 360. Ok, no big deal, but looks can be deceiving. It was Super-Genius Bill Gates' idea to include ACHIEVEMENTS! Well, I don't really know if that's true, but I like it. Anyways, ever since I got my XBOX 360 I've been wanting to play my other consoles less and less. And it's cause of the achievements! Those damn achievements! Honestly, I don't see the point of playing any games that I'm not working to gaining something. ACHIEVEMENTS, MAN!!! I'M ADDICTED!!! I've spoken to Nick and Jon (Spacecowboy) about this and they agree. What do y'all think? Discuss...

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