NURVUSS'S PROFILE

Cowboy Bebop is my favorite anime series. It's stylistic, self-aware, sad and fun, with fantastic music and visuals. There's a fair bit of symbolism and metaphor in there that goes *way* beyond hyperbole, and it's open-ended enough to allow different audiences their own readings. Really smart.

Coming in close second is Paranoia Agent, which I feel is probably the best anime series available. Satoshi Kon, rest his soul, was a genius who exercised a wonderful understanding of philosophy, fandom and consumer media through his lens of highly-skilled dadaist animation. Everybody should see Paranoia Agent, and Kon's other works, even if they don't like anime.

My favorite anime movie is Tekkonkinkreet, based on the manga of the same name by the inimitable Taiyo Matsumoto. Similar to Kon's works, the film is animated in a distinctly recognizable and unconventional style. While action-packed, exciting and visually stunning, it also happens to be a heartbreaking story of adolescent same-sex love. Makes me cry every time. Coming in close second would be Ghost in the Shell 1&2 for me.

I've just started watching Psycho Pass, which I think is a very competent cyberpunk anime. Almost as good as Ghost in the Shell. It's by Urobuchi Gen, and while I didn't think too highly of Madoka, he's proved himself with Psycho Pass. I'm also watching Crunchyroll's simucasts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Season 3, and DRAMAtical Murder, two anime series which are very ridiculous but visually arresting.

As for animation made outside Japan...I'm enjoying Bob's Burgers a lot at the moment. I'm a big fan of Loren Bouchard's shows and of Jon Benjamin as a voice actor/comedian. I was an avid watcher of Home Movies when it was on the air.

Devil Summoner Raidou 2 was just released on PSN. It fixes a lot of the problems that plagued Devil Summoner R1. The encounter rate is still a bit high, but it's an immensely enjoyable experience and you don't need to play the first game to understand the plot.

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I love SMT IV. Problem is, I think I got stuck in a side quest limbo:

*MINOR SPOILERS FOR SMT IV AHEAD:*

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I got locked into the Neutral Route. Now I have to do every sidequest I can to get myself to #1 in the Hunter Tournament. The problem is, I've done all the sidequests that I can accept, and I'm only at #2. All I have left to do are delivery quests, and I have no idea where to go to get the items. I've been to every Hunter's Association, but no new quests are available for me to do.

Here's a list of the quests you need to complete to reach #1.

Gamecube had a great controller and the best technical performance...

...but the PS2 just has an unbeatable library. So large, so varied. Seven Shin Megami Tensei titles.

I still have my bad boy hooked up. I liked the PSP so much because it felt like a continuation of the core values of the PS2's bizarro library.

SMT4 was so good. Best game I played last year.

If you're concerned about realistic space in a ship, you could make a series of corridors about that size littered with boxes and other barricades that would cause the player to have to traverse the inside of the cabins to navigate around.