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OSMcast: Tales of Vesperia 01-26-2009

After way too long, we are now able to post our take on Namco Bandai Games’ latest game in the “Tales of” series, Tales of Vesperia!

It’s our actual original recording too! We (aka DJ Inubito) were able to salvage it after all. (Which is good because our attempt to rerecord was not so good…)

Protip: We’re still using the travel microphone, so the audio isn’t at it’s best yet. One day Samson will get my original mics back to me!

OSMnotes

Tales of Vesperia is possibly the best Xbox 360 JRPG out there, depending on who you ask. But chances are you’ll like it, if not love. And it’s still crazy-easy to find. So you should go buy it.

However Namco Bandai’s Dragonball: Evolution for PSP? Not looking so hot. But hey I guess it’s still better than Street Fighter: The Movie: The Video Game. Both of them. No wait… I think I’d still rather play those. Sorry Dragonball!

And if you haven’t lamented the fate of Winter, please do so. Giest was an alright game, and the Wii gets precious few enough actually interesting games as of late.

The rules for this contest are very simple! You just have to talk to us! No matter what, we’ll need an email. You can send us one at osmcast@gmail.com. Also, you could leave us a comment in the comments section below this post. Or call us up on the OSMline at (206) 202-0071. However you do it though, we’ll need an email to contact you. As for the prize, well we are having this contest till the end of February so before then we’ll let you know!

Podcast delayed a week :(

Sadly, while we thought we had a wonderfully wonderful podcast for you today, it turned out that our recording session was corrupt.

So we’ll have to rerecord it this week. We apologize for his lack of podcast, but hopefully this means an even MORE awesome one will be had NEXT week!

OSMcast: 2008 OSMawards! (Anime & MORE!) 01-19-2009

It’s a better late than never podcast as the crew at OSM Central takes a crack at our favorite Japanese animated things for the year 2008! The EPIC CONCLUSION of the 2008 OSMawards! Yay!

OSMnotes

I’m kinda tapped out of things to say, so we’ll just repeat the contest again and call it a week. Next week’s OSMnotes will be more awesome, I promise!

OSMcast: 2008 OSMawards! (Video Games) 01-12-2009

What’s an easy way to kill time on the mic when a new year arrives? You talk about the previous year! So here’s our OSMawards! for the video games of 2008.

Protip: We had to raise the gain in order to get this podcast listenable. So it might get static-y at times.

OSMnotes

So I guess Bob’s Game isn’t. Oh well! We talk about it and then what happens? It’s GONE. It’s enough to make a man weep! … or not! Now he just sounds like (more of an) idiot. NO MATTER. But now we are going to talk CONTEST TIME.

PS: The tune we used was Pendulum‘s “Sounds of Life.”

OSMcast: Ghost in the Shell 01-05-2009

Everyone is CAH-RAZY over those zany robots!

Because we just weren’t done talking about ladies blowing up robots, we decided to continue forth with our opinions on Mamoru Oshii’s movie adaptation of the Masamune Shirow classic, Ghost in the Shell!

Spoiler: We lied! The movie is actually about basset hounds.

OSMnotes

One of the pluses on reviewing a hallmark of Japanese animation, especially as one so uh, digital as Ghost in the Shell, is that you can find the DVD for it pretty cheap. I mean, like $12.04 and $12.14 with free shipping cheap. Or if you have a really banging 6.1, 7.1, or Whatever is the Lastest Greater than 5.1 Surround Sound System then I suppose you could pony up the extra 10-20 bucks to grab the special edition that’s floating around. Of course, chances are that if you an afford such a sound system, you can afford the extra money for the DVD.

Apperently tensai means genius. — Apparently “tensai” means “genius.” … Yeah.

Ol’ Robert Pelloni (aka Bob) is still hard at work living locked up in his room as protest to Nintendo for not getting to him the tools he needs to move his project (the eventually DS game “Bob’s Game”) into the realm of retainability. Good luck Bob! After I’ve started playing Chrono Trigger on the DS, I’ve realized I need more RPGs that look and play like they should on the SNES in my life. And yours looks like an SNES-era Enix knockoff, so I have hope!

Robotrek is awesome and Bob should be inspiried to even greater... greatness by these pixels. I know I am. — Robotrek is awesome and Bob should be inspired to even greater… greatness by these pixels. I know I am.

I’m serious here, unheard of Enix games like Soul Blazer and Robotrek are the best. Okay, so most all the Quintet-developed games pre-Grandstream Saga are the best, but still! I loved those games and your (Bob’s) game reminds me off them. I only worry that much like many other projects that started with much fanfare and the developer shooting his mouth off on how the great his game is only for the games to crash and burn, yours will not stand the test of time. I hope you can prove my worries are for naught!

As long as, you know…

Nintendo calls you back and stuff.

OSMcast: Bubblegum Crisis 12-29-2008

Tonight, we dethrone the AWO’s “Last podcast to podcast about Bubblegum Crisis” crown with our podcast about Bubblegum Crisis! … Mostly.

Okay sometimes we talked about Mega Man 9.

But it’s usually about Bubblegum Crisis, really!

OSMnotes

Looking at the various places one can buy the boxed set of Bubblegum Crisis, I discovered that the best place was actually AnimEigo themselves. And if you like anime form the 1980s and/or ladies blowing up robots and/or cool mecha designs and/or awesome synth and rock music, you now have the links.

Get on it.

8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games — 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs ala chiptunes

And as we said, we all here at OSM Central hope you all out there had an awesome Christmas and a future Happy New Year! Like we said you still need some holiday music, 8-Bit Jesus is still there, just waiting for you. To you know… Download it.

Of course, what better way to give the gift of commenting than to give us some comments! We have those whole comments section just for that, too! Or send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com. Or, as always, the OSMline is open to be called up and what not. The number for that is (206) 202-0071.

I’m Changing the Pressing of Casts

After several months of not being able to update the podcast’s publishing plug in, I’ve changed eveyrthing over to Blubrry’s Powerpress plugin. Thankfully it’s able to import all of WordPress’ stuff, so it was really easy!

However, it’s not as nimble to be able to allow me to place the podcast wherever I pleased, so now it’s on the top of every post.

If you see a “[display_podcast]” in a previous post, that was just the code that called up the old player. Also, the new player has volume control! If that means anything.

OSMcast: Macross Frontier 12-22-2008

It’s all about high flying, mecha, idol sings, and guns, lots of guns in this episode of the OSMcast! Of course, the topic is the latest Shoji Kawamori epic, Macross Frontier.

OSMnotes

Okay I think we are back on track and ready to rock. Inubito’s actual main computer should be arriving this week, which means he won’t have to try and hack at editing this podcast on his laptop.

This is good news for the world.

(What’s not good news for the world is that as I’ve been editing the post for this podcast my power has gone out twice. So let’s rush though this and get this suff up before it’s too late.)

Macross Frontier is, like we said, in no way licensed for the US and may never be. So our only recourse is the wide wonderful world of torrents and downloading. I’m pretty sure that the right Google search can point in you the right direction.

This is how Singapore sees Bubblegum Crisis. In very small preview images.

Next week we plan on talking about Bubblegum Crisis, that classic 80’s anime about hot chicks in powered armor blowing up robots. It really doesn’t get more awesome than that. Of course, I now realize that I think that Daryl Surat of AWO is also reviewing BBC in their next episode… So let’s see who updates with their BBC podcast first! It’ll be exciting! … Or possibly not.

As always we are starved for attention so please give us some by either posting in the comments below, sending us an email at osmcast@gmail.com, or giving us a call on the OSMline at (206) 202-0071.

OSMcast: Adolescence of Utena 12-01-2008

The Adolescence of Utena — Adolescence of Utena

The OSMcast rises from it’s grave of computer woe’d-ashes to deliver unto you our take on one of the most awesome, trippy, postmodernist, animated movies ever: Adolescence of Utena AKA The Utena Movie.

Protip: And while I know that this is technically the 15th of December, this was recorded with the intent of getting up on the 1st, so it’s still dated for that time.

OSMnotes

There are still a few options for you to go buy this movie, and you most definitely should.

Sadly, while we have been able to finagle an actual podcast for your listening enjoyment, Inubito’s computer is still down for the count. On the plus side, Lee no longer has mono! But yes, we are back in business so there shouldn’t be any interruptions again for the near or distant future.

We hope.

So in the meantime we give you a glimpse into a world where bulletproof tigers run rampant and polar bears need not fear the arctic wastes:

This could be the end of our race... — The consequences of this action could be… deadly!

Delayment

Sadly, Inubito’s computer has been struck a mighty blow, and until it recovers we can’t finish editing any new episodes.

We have them, but no computer kinda makes it hard to make happen. BUT as soon as it’s fixed we’ll be posting again!