|
Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 18, 2012 9:47:24 GMT -5
The entomological misspelling is because my kryptonite happens to be the words entomology and etymology. The study of insects and words. Shoulda checked, but I didn't. •"manoeuvrable" should be "maneuverable" Not in British English! As for the file name, that's just whatever the guy who created it put - the stuff coming after it, regarding pages and so on, was to help prospective emulator users. I left it untouched from how I received the file. Just a filename typo.
|
|
|
Post by blackdrazon on Aug 18, 2012 12:50:37 GMT -5
Might help to add a summary of the film/manga just for context reasons. I've obviously done a summary run since I started reading this article, but wasn't familiar with them before that (except that poster. I have seen that poster). Though maybe you've just skipped that to get the main body out straight away for proofreading?
|
|
|
Post by ReyVGM on Aug 18, 2012 13:25:41 GMT -5
Yeah, a summary would be nice. I've never heard of Nausicaa before.
|
|
|
Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 18, 2012 15:43:11 GMT -5
I assumed everyone had. I'll work on that tomorrow. Or perhaps I'll include a link to Wikipedia on it. It's a fairly well documented manga and movie.
|
|
|
Post by ReyVGM on Aug 18, 2012 19:03:07 GMT -5
A wiki link would be good too, but lazies like me will not click on it, specially since the games look like nothing special.
|
|
|
Post by Narushima on Aug 18, 2012 22:57:12 GMT -5
The film is absolutely brilliant, I encourage everybody to watch it.
|
|
|
Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 19, 2012 2:32:39 GMT -5
Updated.
Also, everyone should watch Nausicaa. It's definitely one of Ghibili Studio's best (though not really Ghibli), and deserves its spot amongst anime's all-time classics.
Also, keep in mind it's from 1984. Nearly 30 years later and it's still incredible.
Plus, you'd be surprised at how many games were influenced by it - I've only listed a scant few, taken from another fansite.
|
|
|
Post by Scylla on Aug 19, 2012 4:45:57 GMT -5
Interesting. I didn't know there were any Nausicaa games, but yeah, there's just about a bajillion games inspired by Nausicaa, Laputa, or something else Ghibli.
To be a bit of a poo-pooer, I actually found Nausicaa pretty boring. I like some Ghibli films and can respect the huge amount of work put into them, but I don't really understand the godlike status. Several of them were pretty dull to me, and some others have plots that completely fall apart into nonsense. I actually think the non-Miyazaki films are some of the most interesting. I don't think any other Ghibli film touches the artistry and depth of Grave of the Fireflies. But as for Miyazaki, Spirited Away is probably my favorite, and I also enjoyed Howl's Moving Castle (even if it's one of the aforementioned titles that turns into a mess at the end).
|
|
|
Post by Narushima on Aug 19, 2012 12:03:32 GMT -5
Well, for a lot of elements in Miyazaki's films you have to know a bit about Japanese folklore, Shintoism and other cultural elements. Here's a very interesting article about how to translate these into other languages/cultures: www.bokorlang.com/journal/48anime.htm
|
|
|
Post by Scylla on Aug 19, 2012 14:57:43 GMT -5
I get most of the cultural references, more or less. I think that's a separate issue from the stories falling apart in some of the films (and it seems like it's often the most Western-themed ones that have that problem). Spirited Away and Pom Poko (the latter not being Miyazaki, though) were both heavy on Japanese folklore and culture, yet they still told tight stories.
|
|
|
Post by jjmcjj on Aug 19, 2012 17:38:58 GMT -5
Isn't that one screenshot from regular Ghouls 'n Ghosts, not Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2012 22:01:17 GMT -5
Very nice article! That last game does look especially cheesy, does the girl have a black outline around her?
I have to admit I've never watched the anime, sounds like it's worth picking up.
|
|
|
Post by Gendo Ikari on Aug 20, 2012 3:41:47 GMT -5
You may like some of them less than others but I think Studio Ghibli's output deserves to be watched even if you are not interested in anime at all. Also, the Nausicaa manga is one of the best buys I ever did.
I first saw Nausicaa in late 1986 because it aired, split in parts like it was a miniseries, on the first national channel here. Problem was that, due to some mismangement, they forgot to pay the rights; it was probably in good faith because, just a few years earlier, RAI (the Italian public national television) had collaborated with Miyazaki to produce the Sherlock Hound series and it's hard ot think they would voluntarily backstab him. However, it wasn't the only problem; the movie producers were opposed to the splitting, the dub quality was reportedfly questionable and Warriors of the Wind came not long after. People at Ghibli were naturally pissed off over this. Mind you: I'm not sure how much of this info is correct, but something fishy happened for sure; even after thanks to some deals, Ghibli films have began bing imported here from 2000 onwards, Nausicaa has never had an official Italian release (and apparently one was ready but cancelled at the last minute).
As for the article itself, congratulations on doing all the research. While badly aged, and the third was horribile to begin with, at least these Nausicaa games are not the "Miyazaki raged because you must kill Ohmus" everyone said so far (and that "factoid" should be challenged at this point - maybe Miyazaki's just biased toward videogames?), and the MSX one is relatively impressive for how they tried.
|
|
|
Post by derboo on Aug 20, 2012 4:41:16 GMT -5
maybe Miyazaki's just biased toward videogames? Or he was pissed because the games were so bad. And shooting Ohmus or not, at least for the first game I can see how he might have been upset about his message taken to the contrary.
|
|
|
Post by jorpho on Aug 20, 2012 11:05:56 GMT -5
Updated. Also, everyone should watch Nausicaa. It's definitely one of Ghibili Studio's best (though not really Ghibli), and deserves its spot amongst anime's all-time classics. Also, keep in mind it's from 1984. Nearly 30 years later and it's still incredible. Plus, you'd be surprised at how many games were influenced by it - I've only listed a scant few, taken from another fansite. And the latest English dub features Captain Picard, Admiral Adama, and Luke Skywalker! There's a selling point.
|
|