Lagarriet Tounes

2010-03-01

Today Capcom released Mega Man 10, a continuation of its 20 year old franchise in it's 20 year old form. After the success of Mega Man 9 done in old 8-bit Nintendo fashion they continued on with Mega Man 10 in the same old fashion. Now creativity has never been a strong suit of the Mega Man franchise, but something a little odd happened with the enemy bosses in this game.

You see in 1992 Nintendo Power had a contest for kids to send in their drawings of their idea for Mega Man enemies. The idea for Blade Man was sent in here by one Lagarriet Tounes, nothing really out of the ordinary, decent drawing, probably around 12 years old at the time. But here we are, 18 years later with the release of the latest Mega Man and we have a Blade Man. Not too suprising except that he looks exactly the same as the drawing, same color scheme, same sword hands and head, very similar style.

I have a couple theories on this, either Capcom is so hard pressed for creative talent that they had to go rummaging through decades old magazines for ideas. Or that with the revival of an old school game they thought they would pay homage to old school fans and actively went looking through the old Nintendo Powers. Or Lagarriet Tounes now works for Capcom, and couldn't come with any good ideas so he stole his own 12 year old selfs idea.

The thing I find most odd about this is that, Lagarriet Tounes has absolutely no web presense. A quick google search of his name returns only a couple of articles referencing the same Nintendo Power. The man would be around 30 now presumably, and yet he has no Facebook, no Myspace nothing else that would bring his name up on a query. It's a pretty unusual name, so you think somewhere there would be something else beyond this one Nintendo Power.

Where are you Lagarriet? Your 15 minutes of fame are back again!

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Hypnotize Quarrelsome Rhino

2009-12-04

Over the 'black Friday' weekend (the worst day of the year) I made one purchase. Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition off of Steam for $2.49, and no waiting in line or anything.

It's a direct remake of an old DOS game, but reminded me that it had one of the best fight scenes of all time, amongst any medium, between the protagonist Guybrush and the sheriff, and neither character are even on screen. If you don't know what I'm talking about you should get the game, only $10 on Steam.

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Scribblenauts

2009-09-15

Two days ago I had a small rant about a game that came out a year ago, now I can rant about a game that is still actually relevant to people, because it came out today.

I really have nothing to say about it here, I just wanted to document my personal and strange experiance with the game through some screenshots and individual comments on them.

I attempted to write the code for the image viewer myself, but since my JavaScript is no were near proficient enough I used the JavaScript from Lightbox2

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Braid

2009-09-13

Maybe this will be a blog ranting about great games that everyone else was ranting about over a year ago, but that I just picked up in the bargain bin and am therefore playing for the first time.

Today that game is Braid, which Steam has on sale for $4.99 this weekend.

Braid does not have any of the fancy 3D graphics of modern games, it is a two dimensional game where the backgrounds seem to be beautifully painted with water colors. It is not fast paced and does not make your adrenaline rush. It is a puzzle game. It is a puzzle game that has you staring at the same screen searching for some sort of new information that was not there a minute ago and seconds away from looking up the solution online before you final figure it out yourself and feel like you just aced a test that everyone else failed. Of course in my case eveyone else has already figured it out, they having bought the game a year ago.

Still, after putting together the final peices of the puzzle for the second world I figured I must have not only been the first person to figure it out, but also the smartest person on the planet, even though the stats on the Steam service told me that 64.2% of the people that bought the game had also already figured it out.

Does not matter though, I am still a genius.

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