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Chantal and Reese are back, folks!

First Thoughts On - DmC: Devil May Cry

Reese recently bought DmC: Devil May Cry. We just started playing it last night (we have not played it much because of her finals) and so far, I have to say that it reminds me of a mixture of Alice: Madness Returns, Lollipop Chainsaw, and God of War. Alice: Madness Returns is especially like this game. From the ratings while you fight, to how they introduce each new enemy, some of the weapons look different but act in basically the same manner among various other things.

The game character, Dante IS just as attractive as we first though. Score. The gaming world needs more male eye-candy. A full review may be coming later (I cannot make a promise. Sorry!) The graphics aren't the best, but they aren't terrible by any means. DmC: Devil May Cry is definitely not appropriate for children. There's a lot of swearing, almost nudity, sex, and gore. Proceed with caution if you are under 18.

(NOTE: I know that i promised a post about my games that I got for Christmas, I just have note been able to find my camera cord, but I WILL post a "haul" as soon as I do. Which will include this game and two others that we bought from eBay.)

Happy New Year and a belated Happy Holidays as well!

Weirdly enough, Reese did not ask for anything video game related this year. I did though, and I got Harvest Moon: Animal Parade and Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. The Harvest Moon series is a very... comforting series to me. I've been playing it since Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. No shame is felt here.
I shall upload pictures after Reese and I go on our family vacation to Calgary.

I hope your holidays went just as nicely, and you received all the video games you could handle! And I hope 2013 will treat you just as good.

Be back in two or three days my lovelies. - Chantal

Me at your windows watching you on our blog.

Top Five Hottest Female Video Game Characters:

Here is another post about the hottest characters in gaming. This time female. This is another Top Five, not ten. I decided that my list needed it's female counter-part, here it is.

I'll do the twist on the list again aka Activity Time. So ladies and gentlemen, buckle your seat belts and enjoy the ride. -cue circus music-

Starting off the list we have:

5.) Candy Cane from Rumble Rose:

Candy Cane (Rebecca "Becky" Welsh) is a character from the relatively lack luster received game, Rumble Roses. This is another game  in which I could have used only characters from it. Like Tekken. But I'm not going to do that, I am simply going to choose my "main" from it instead. Candy Cane has red hair, blue eyes and is 5'7/174cm and she weighs 119lbs/55kg.  As you can tell from the picture above, she is a rebel. She is the lead singer of The Killer Bambies. I just think she is so gosh darn cute, her alignment is heel and when she is face, she is a cheerleader and her hair is blonde. Her fighting style is cool too actually, she flips all over the place and twirls and it's just plain fun to play as her.

Activity Time:
Candy Cane and I go to a concert. She wants to meet the band and go backstage, I am reluctant. The body guards quickly shoot down our idea of meeting them, she proceeds to kick their asses, knocking them out. She drags me backstage... turns out the band consists of a bunch of sexists jerks, she also beats them up. We go to the bar, someone finds everyone knocked out, they call the police and we run away together giggling in the cold, Canadian winter night. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

4.) Ada Wong from Resident Evil:

Ada Wong is a character from Resident Evil. I have a soft spot for her as well. She is seriously just so bad-ass. She makes me wish that I was killing zombies and shiz in a red dress with a thigh-high slit. Apparently people find her hot because she is Asian, which creeps me out. Please don't fetishize someone because of their ethnicity, 'kay? Ada is 5'8/173cm, as for her weight, I cannot find any information on that. Oops. She is Chinese-American, with short, black hair and brown eyes. Li Bingbing who is also completely gorgeous plays her in the movie Resident Evil: Retribution and is perfectly cast I must say. She is the kind of person I would want to be friend with and have by my side during a zombie apocalypse.

Activity Time:

I'm running through the street, out of breath. Several zombies trail after me, my gun is out of bullets. I turn sharply and run into a dead end 'shit, shit, shit' my heart is pounding. Suddenly shots ring out and all the zombies drop dead. I look in the direction that the shots came from and I see her. Ada Wong in the flesh. A ladder slides down from the fire escape, I climb up, when I reach the top, she's gone. But she left a gun. I smile and wonder if I'll ever see her again. Ba dum tss.

3.) Chun-Li  from Street Fighter:

What would a hottest characters list be without Chun-Li? Incomplete and wrong obviously. She is the first playable female character in a fighting game. I remember when I was younger and I would play Street Fighter, I would only use her, I refused to be anyone else. And rightly so, she was quick, and I was a five year old button masher. Eventually I learnt combos though, and I won because I was skilled, not annoying. Ever since then, I've only played females when it came to fighting games. Chun-Li is 5'6/169cm (her weight is a secret), she has brown eyes and brown hair. She is most well known for her rather... large thighs and lightning fast kicks She is Chinese. Personally I always loved when she flipped upside down and went spinning around the screen. She'll always be my in this fighting game enthusiasts heart. Chun-Li is rather cheerful, her win poses (to me) don't really much her though, I don't know what is. I do like them though, they're funny. And I totally ship her and Ryu. 

Activity Time:

I stare at the pretty brunette in front of me, she looks familiar, it's quiet. She smiles politely at me and turns back to her... tea. I smile back (too late) and return to my book. After finishing her tea, she stands up and leaves. It's not until five minutes later I realize that it was my idol who was in front of me. I feel sad, and wish that I could have asked for her autograph.

2.) Ayane from Dead Or Alive:

Ninja Gaiden outfit

Of course I had to choose someone from a game known for their boob jigglyness. I had a difficult time choosing between her or Kasumi, Ayane won because she isn't annoying and she's my main. Ayane has purple hair, red eyes and is 5'2/157cm and weighs 104lbs/47kg. She is the half-sister and cousin of Kasumi and Hayate. She is cold, but this is due to the way she was treated when she was younger. I've always rooted for her, ever since I first played Dead Or Alive on DreamCast. Ayane talks down to people, just like me. It's like we're the same person. -HighFivesComputerScreen- Ahem, I like her trademark dress best, it's purple with a big red bow on the back and thigh high...socks? I don't know, but it's majorly cute. This chick is perhaps the cutest, and deadliest ninja I've ever seen. 5/5, definitely recommended. (eBay reference.)

Activity Time:

We team up and beat up Kasumi. Sweet, sweet revenge. (I'm sorry, I just really dislike Kasumi.)

AND FINALLY THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR... and we'll be right back after this commercial break.... kidding, kidding.

1.) Juliet Starling from Lollipop Chainsaw:

Juliet Starling is the protagonist of Lollipop Chainsaw. She is a bubbly, blonde cheerleader with blue eyes. I'm unsure about height and weight. I don't think I need to say much, look at the picture. She's adorable, pretty, cute and yes, hot. Which is why she's number one. She is also kick-fucking-ass. She is a zombie hunter and her weapon of choice is a bedazzled chainsaw. She is voiced by the amazing Tara Strong who also voices another gorgeous character in gaming, who is Harley Quinn. Juliet is rapidly becoming one of my favourite characters in gaming as well, so yay for her.

Activity Time:

We are eating strawberry suckers (her favourite) and watermelon (my favourite.) She suggests playing soccer with Nick's head, well why the hell not? She lets me win and we give Nick a makeover. Girl power!

As always, did you enjoy the list? And critiques? I'd really appreciate them if you did. Unless they're overly mean and not at all constructive.

-Chantal.

Top Five Hottest Male Video Game Characters:

I decided to make a short post about the top five hottest male video game characters. I've looked up other lists and I'm just like... really, out of all the possible characters to pick you chose that? Ick. We deserve lists of hot men too!

And if any of you complain that I am objectifying men... so help me God. Like really, you have countless females prancing around in next to nothing (not that there's anything inherently wrong, it's just sad that it's most often the only option.) in an even greater amount of games and you're going to complain that I'm objectifying men? No no, that's not how this works. But you save me the complaints and I'll save you a lecture.

Also when I meant this was a quick post, I meant I'm making this at nearly four in the morning (when I started) but I thought you deserved something new.

Let's do something fun with this, a twist on a list. How about... What would I do with them? (get your minds out of the gutter.) I will describe what I would do with them and dates. Or lack of.

(WARNING! List may contain slightly mature content.)

5.) Jin Kazama from Tekken:

Let me introduce you to... Jin Kazama from the Tekken fighting series. He is the son of Jun Kazama and Kazuya Mishima. Jin is 5'11/180cm, he weighs 165lbs/75kg. He has black, spiky hair, brown eyes and is of Japanese descent.  He is currently 22 years old, and his love interest is Ling Xiaoyu (don't argue with me about this.) His life story is actually really sad, and he seems cold but this may be because he does not want to be close to people since he has the devil gene which causes him to morph into Devil Jin (did they name him Jin on purpose? Gene/Jin. I see what you did there, Namco.) I just have a soft spot for him, and his voice? -swoon-

(Note: The Tekken series is always really good for providing gamers with male and female eye candy. I could probably fill this whole list with Tekken characters.)

Activity Time:
He seems pretty serious, I would probably be his secretary or something equally entertaining /sarcasm. I'm sorry Jin, you're kind of boring. If it was a date I imagine he would take me to a fancy restaurant, but I would be so nervous and spill champagne on his Armani suit. He would then look at me like an adult looks at a child who spilled their milk, sigh, pay for the meal and leave never to see me again. D:

4.) Chris Redfield from Resident Evil:

First of all, I want to preface this by saying that he is not attractive in ALL incarnations, but in the one above, he definitely is. I thought about putting Leon S. Kennedy... but he has a horrible case of Teen Angst Hair. Anyways, Chris Redfield is the brother of Claire Redfield. He is 5'11-6'1/181cm-185cm and he weighs 177lbs-217lbs/80.5kg-98kg. He has blue/grey eyes and brown hair, he is white. He is obviously muscular and his looks are what I would call rugged or what Gamespy.com calls: "a cross between Colin Farrell and Hugh Jackman." I knew there was a reason I liked this guy, maybe it IS his resemblance to my beloved Colin Farrell? (I'm joking, that's not why, but Colin is handsome.) People say he's overrated, he's on steroids, blah blah blah. He's hot and that ladies and gents is what this list is all about.

Activity Time:
Chris and I would probably not get along, we would bicker a lot. One day we would be shooting zombies together, trying to do the whole save the world or at least the whole let's-not-get-our-pretty-faces-eaten-thing, my gun would jam just when an absolutely ridiculously large herd showed up, we'd be overwhelmed... and die. Because this is supposed to be real life, not a game. Sadly we don't get check points or the like. Date wise? I don't think I'd go on a date with him. He's good-looking which is why he's on the list, but I just can't see it happening.

3.) Nathan "Nate" Drake from Uncharted:

Can I just say that for some reason I find him utterly adorable? Maybe it's the eyes. I remember watching my brother playing Uncharted 3, I was like 'woah, who is that?' and my brother (who was eight) said to me 'he's handsome, right?' I laughed and agreed, it was cute. Apparently people have "have noted that he is a rare example of a physically attractive character who is not exploited by designers as a sex object." I never said I wouldn't exploit him. Because I will. I'm sorry (I'm not actually sorry.)

brb objectifying Nathan Drake

-Coughs- Let's get back on track. He is around 5'10, he is fairly muscular (but not overly so) and he has greenish-blue eyes and brown hair. He is white and he's supposed to be average, looks wise he isn't. At least to me he isn't, everyone has different tastes though. He is apparently afraid of clowns,  Drake I understand they freak me out too. If they ever make a movie Colin Farrell should totally play him, he would be absolutely perfect (and no I am not biased because I am a fan of Colin.) Nathan is supremely likeable and is often seen as the mascot for Playstation. The more you know -cue star and rainbow shooting across the screen-

Activity Time:

Let's get imaginative here, Nathan is off doing his thing. One day he meets a beautiful brunette name Chantal. She doesn't like him, at first, but soon they become friends. Eventually he invites her to look for... wait for it, Atlantis. -ShockGaspGasp- The two search for the mythical wonder, they stumble upon it. The Atlantians are nice, with awe inspiring technology. The two become great friend with the leader of the Atlantians. They  give Nathan piles and piles of gems and precious metals. The twosome agree to not tell anyone how to get to Atlantis, and... oh is this too outrageous? Alright, I'll reign it in. If it was a date he would probably take me to a niceish bar, we'd drink beer, play pool and maybe he would show me his various treasures. (Don't let your mind wander.) We would decide that we were better off friends and he would send me the occasional postcard. I just can't ship myself with anyone, and besides it is frowned upon.

2.) Z.W.E.I from Soul Calibur:

Z.W.E.I is not that well known, and he should be. The Soul Calibur games tend to be underrated/overlooked. This beautiful slice of beefcake is 6"/182cm, and 179lbs/81kg. He has tanned skin, short black hair, and turquoise eyes. Ethnicity wise? I am not too sure. I think he's a bit too high on the list... I didn't plan this list in advance. Sorry! He's pretty scary, but look at that chest. -lowwhistle- His character is one of the coolest ones on Soul Calibur 5.

Activity Time:

Since he lives in "ancient" times and he's pretty scary, I don't think I would survive an encounter with him. I'm joking, obviously. He would probably save me, out of pity. And then banish me from his sight, but that is a-okay. If it was a date? Let's not kid ourselves, there would be no date.

DRUM ROLL FOR NUMBER ONE PLEASE!

1.) Hwoarang from Tekken:

He is my absolute number one. Really. Just look at him, and I mean look at him. He's gorgeous. Hwoarang is the bad-boy of Tekken, and every girl loves a bad boy. He just doesn't give a fuck. Hwoarang is 5'11/181cm and weighs 150lbs/68kg. He has red hair (presumable dyed), brown or grey eyes (it's difficult to tell) and is currently 22 years old.  He is brash and cocky, this however IMO adds to his appeal.  I must confess that I ship Xiaoyu and Hwoarang as well. It's weird, he's amongst my favourite characters... but I can't find anything to say about him. Oh! You must watch his Tekken 6 ending, he has never looked better. His win poses are great, especially the one where he sits on his opponent. It makes me giggle every time. If there is one character you agree with me on this list, it has to be Hwoarang. The man is ridiculously hot. You could melt butter on him. He is difficult to use, using him when you have no idea what you are doing is guaranteed laughs. His stances are just funny.

(Note: I told you the Tekken series was good when it came to male eye candy. Two Namco characters on one list, that's bonkers. And I could have put many more on this list. I had to control myself though.)

Activity Time:

I am assigned to follow him around for a week, interviewing him for Fighters Monthly (I just made it up) and just plain ol' observing him. At first he is cold, and indifferent but eventually he warms up and playfully teases me. I note that he's a ladies man and consciously try to avoid becoming another fling. I never do and we remain buddies. I also get to see just how serious he is about training, and how much he enjoys Soju. Once our friendship is cemented we bicker a lot, but never stay mad at each other. If it was a date, well let's just say it would involve a bed and smooth-talking. What?  -innocent eyes-

There you go, my list of the hottest male characters and what I would do with each. Hopefully it's funny, and you enjoyed it. Do you agree with my picks? Sound off in the comments. I may do a part two in the future. I want to get all the basic lists done so I can move on to more exciting things.

-Chantal

Reese is being so so so slow

 when it comes to finishing her damn top ten games list... Oh and obviously we are back from vacation. It was so fun. I love summer.

However in other exciting news, Reese and I are redesigning, redefining and just basically changing the direction of the blog. We decided that our posts are too similar, BUT (and this is a big but) we will still have the occasional posts that are the same, just from our own perspectives and whatnot.  We are both going to carve our own little niche with our own unique posts. We will each have our own domain. She will be the "extreme" gamer and I will be the "frivolous" gamer I guess you could say. I haven't yet found a better word.

She is a lot more serious about video games and everything. I'm more than a casual gamer, I'm just not into it as much as she is. I guess she would appeal to hardcore gamers and I to the casual ones, though I'm unsure  that I would be happy in that role. We haven't quite figured it all out yet.

We are in the process of finding a web designer, web host, getting our own domain and commissioning an artist on deviantArt to create some little characters you can attach us to. We are also going to rename the blog. Because we want to be serious sometimes. We've changed a lot in a year, and so have our views and ideologies. We are only in the midst of changing the blog, so nothing is concrete yet. Our blog isn't too professional ya know, we are just two sisters that decided to dedicate a blog to their combined love of games, we however have decided that we need to take it a bit more seriously. Hopefully we will be done all of this before next year.

I know we don't have a large following or anything like that, so for now this is more for us. I think that this will bring a wider audience to us though and hopefully we will become more visible. And if anyone does follow us, we appreciate you and hope that you enjoy the things that we post.

In the mean time please enjoy any posts that we put up. For now the blog will remain as it is. With normal posts and everything.

He means gaming.

 - Chantal

Oh My God, He's So Hot.

This isn't the post  you were promised, I'm still, uh, working on it... but I couldn't resist posting this. It's another new series of ours called: Oh My God, He's So Hot. As you've probably guessed, the posts will be dedicated to male video game characters we find sexy/hot/cute/handsome/etc. It's all eye-candy here.

This time we are focusing on DmC (to differentiate him from classic Dante) Dante from Devil May Cry. This series is mainly targeted at out female audience or you males too. It's your life.

Watch the trailer below and die from the sexiness.

Isn't he handsome?

 

-Reese, at long last.