First, let me start off by saying that Resident Evil 5 is amazing. My complaints with this game are minimal (like why can't you walk and shoot at the same time?), but this is primarily due to my playing Gears of War so much. I miss being able to duck for cover, run and fire, roll and dodge, but these things were never present in an RE game to date. They should be, in my opinion, now that RE is a third-person shooter, but I digress. I never thought a game in broad daylight could be so creepy, but the graphics are nice and the lighting is perfect. Being able to actually play co-op is a great thing; I can't imagine taking on a mass of running, jumping, weapon-wielding Majini with an AI partner.
Oh, and the scariest thing in the world? Chainsaw-carrying Majini. Not because of the chainsaw (which is instant death, of course), but because of the fact that they have a burlap sack over their heads with a single eye peering out at you. Worse yet, TWO chainsaw-carrying Majini chasing you all over a playground of metal platforms and you have two shots left with your handgun. And worse still, a single chainsaw-carrying Majini in seriously close quarters, doors locked, and you with no where to go.
Totally got a chainsaw blade lodged in my collar bone and nearly wet myself in the process.
And I love it!
And it's not a racist game, like I've been hearing. Believe me, I'd be one of the first people to riot against a game that promotes the slaughtering of a people based on their skin-colour or ethnicity, but this is survival. Yeah, a white guy goes to Africa and kills African zombies. Not because they're black. Because they're trying to eat his face off! There's a difference. No one made a fuss when Leon waltzed into a Spanish village in RE4 and started offing zombies there. And guess what...Sheva's black. And she's right there with Chris shooting the heads off of her people. Because they're trying to eat her face off! I'm convinced that people like tearing apart popular video games just to start crap. "Popular" being the key word here. No one said anything when Luminous Arc came out. Heck, the whole point of that game is to kill the god of your world. But people whined about Assassin's Creed attacking religion, Bioshock for the option to kill children, and Grand Theft Auto 4 for it's drunk driving.
Moving on...
Udon's Darkstalker Tribute book has accepted its fan art, mine not being included, but at least I can say that I tried. I was going to enter the Shojo Beat contest this month, but it was cancelled, sadly, after I started drawing my entry. I plan on finishing the picture just because I want to, but it's been placed low on the priority list.
This session in nearing an end, and while I've learned a lot, this class has been the hardest thus far. I've enjoyed drawing in perspective for once, but I find it difficult and haven't been able to wrap my head around it entirely. Yes, the principle and concept I get, but executing it is another matter. I'm convinced that I need much more practice and will be forcing myself to draw backgrounds with many of my drawings from now on.
I'll be happy when Spring Break rolls around. I need a holiday to catch up with my gaming (Ar Tonelico, here I come!), drawing what I want, and writing. I've picked up my Arden Rain story again after realizing that I had 15 pages of it typed up, and have been adding to it for a few days now. I suppose I could say that it's nearly finished. I always meant for it to be a short story...after all, it's based off of a dream I had a year or so back. The whole of it is plotted out; I know where it's going, what'll happen. It's just doing it. Who knows...with the way I end up dragging things out, it'll probably turn out to be a novel.
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