Psychological Thrillers.

You know what would be totally cliché? Writing about the differences about The Hunger Games and Battle Royale. Especially since THG the movie came out recently.

Today's topic of the day? Psychological Thrillers. I'm talking about thrillers like The Hunger Games, or Battle Royale. Or Sandman(FUCK YEA), or hell, anything that effectively dealt with certain elements of psychology as part of its story.

I'm frankly not much of a Psychology guy. I love delving with the many facets of the Human psyche. Hell, I admit that it can be both scary, yet interesting to read about Psychology. About certain philosophies in life.

We have stuff like Bokurano and Madoka

Make a contract with meeeee

The two series dealt with first deconstructing their respective genres. Bokurano's not a mecha anime? AHAHAHAHA. It is.
Then, they MINDFUCK YOU with images and story so revetting and interesting that you keep watching and get totally totally absorbed into it.

I'm only talking about Animanga at the moment. With stuff like Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale and (to me) Norwegian Wood and WATCHMEN, they take commonly taught morals, ideas and notions of Loyalty, Love, Truth, Lies, Heroism, Alturism and absolutely, and TOTALLY upturn them onto their heads.
We have Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale dealing with setting youths against each other in a desperate attempt of survival.
We have Norwegian Wood explaining that Life, Death and Love isn't all as cracked up as it seems, as we observe the protagonists fall in and out of love.
We have Watchmen, a brilliant bit of art that absolutely overturns the ideas of a 'superhero' saving the day, and makes you really FUCKING SYMPATHISE and EMPATHISE with the worst hero EVER in Rorscharch.

And Doc Manhattan's blue wang. Don't forget the Mental Scarring of Doc Manhattan.

It's literature like these that are usually the most controversial yet most fun to read.

Check them out!

-Ry

Side note? Fuck off the Watchmen Prequels. >_>

Why I just love Mass Effect.

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Mass Effect...
One of the arguably best Space Opera/Science Fiction Video Game series in recent years. How did I get to know of it? How did I get so enamored with Commander Shepard and his adventures to save the Galaxy from the Reapers?

Frankly, when I got it, I didn't think much of it.

I had heard the rumors of Lesbian Love Scenes and stuff, and I was all. "Huh. So...that's why it was banned in Singapore for a while?"

I got it in a buncha games from my Cousin Samantha, and I was all...huh? It was in her collection. I read up that it was a Sci-Fi game, and that it had a good story, so I was skeptical.

Sure enough, I found out it was a 3rd Person Shooter + RPG kinda game.

The story...started slow. It started with the first mission where Shepard meets Nihlus, and then meets Saren, the antagonist for the first game.

You start slowly falling into the Galaxy, and you start falling into how the story fits. You start understanding what goes on.

You start meeting the human like Asari, the lizardoid Salarians. You meet the avian-like Turians, the Jellyfish-like Hanar.
The huge gigantic elephants they call "Elcor", and then the giant behemoths of Krogan. The wandering nomads in the Quarian.
You make friends, and some join your mostly human crew.

You learn about how Humanity became part of the Galactic Civilisation.

You just realise that it's that amount of REALISM Behind it. Seriously. I played it, and it slowly dawned onto me after the first 10 hours or so.

"Galactic Civilisation is actually quite realistically handled in this case."

That's what got to me. It's not like Star Wars where you have bounty hunters and a billion species all over the place. That's what I didn't like about Star Wars.

Say. WHAT?!

Yes, Lord Vader. That's what I DIDN'T LIKE about Star Wars.

In Mass Effect, you had things called Mass Relays. They are what links up star system to star system, and helps with FTL travel. It helps build Galactic Civilisation, and it's good.

EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE PLACED THERE as a trap. By Mecha-Chutulus from outer space trying to kill all life as we know it(SRSLY).

Mass Effect as a series...is just plain well written.
Enough Said.

-Ry

HEY BIOWARE?

FUCK. YOU. BIOWARE.

FOR THE CRAPPIEST. ENDING. TO THE BEST GAME TRILOGY. EVER.


EDIT @ 19 March: http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/2012/03/19/mass-effect-executive-producer-responds-to-player-complaints-over-mass-effect-3s-ending/

Casey Hudson has responded with regards to the Ending of ME3...

Mass Effect 1-3, were the best 100 hours of my gaming career. I won't say THE BEST, but I'll say some of the best 100 hours I've had over my years.

They took the last 10 minutes to ruin the whole fucking thing. FUCK YOU.
I'll elaborate more soon.

EDIT 17032012:
So anyway, let's get this post started:



This guy on youtube pretty much sums up everything about the Mass Effect 3 Ending.

Now, what are the endings?
Spoiler alert, check after the jump~