I finished up Lords of Shadow and had a decent time of it, but I really can't help but feel they just slapped the Castlevania name on a near complete game. I think it would have been far better served as a new franchise minus the expectations/baggage the Castlevania name gives it. Hell, just slapping "From Hideo Kojima" on it would have been enough of a sales boost.

But so much of it already just looks like the same old stuff.

One of the less fun parts of my job, but rules are rules.
 
Ah, who am I kidding, the guy was a bastard and doing his damnedest to bring down everyone with him.

But it looks like our attempts to finish the community quest have gone down in flames. Ah well, if was good, frustrating fun while it lasted.

Great job, but when you are usually on call and live near your workplace, you're never safe.

But a golf club is a pretty weak implement. Personally I would have gone with a bushaxe.

I'm afraid I'm going to get a letter from the UN warcrimes council about what I just unleashed in that bathroom. There was stuff I don't even remember eating!

There, I said it. The secret is out.

I'd like to get through a week of work without having to deal with police or going to the courthouse. Ah well, it comes with the territory...

I know he got a lot of shit for "butchering" anime, but without this guy, anime would probably not have gone mainstream. For all you yung'uns out there, his company Streamline Studios, brought out anime such as Akira, Fist of the North Star, Wicked City, Robot Carnival, and others way back in the late 80s/early 90s, long before anime was "cool."
 
More importantly, he was the man who fused together three unrelated series into what would become known as Robotech, giving this Bomber his first taste of Macross, my favorite anime franchise of all time.
 
Thanks for the hard work, Carl.