Live Magazine April May 2017 Issue

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APRIL/MAY 2017 ISSUE
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EFFECT:
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RANKING
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racing
games:
Past, Present,
Future
Page 6
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Nobody
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2016
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Page 112

The change of seasons - here in the southern hemisphere we’re well into Autumn. Our friends in the
northern hemisphere are in spring and looking down the road to the beginning of summer. The cooler
months are great for us here at Live. We have no excuses to get out and do stuff like the gardening - it’s
going to be too cold and wet soon. So instead, we plan board game and video game nights. We happily
go off to trading card events and enjoy the friendship and competition of Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon.
For some of us it’s X-Wing tournaments or getting online and racing your friends in Forza or GT... Yes,
Autumn can be a lot of fun for us gamers.
With that in mind, this months Live is a mixed bag. We’ve got a feature on racing games - past present
and we even look into our crystal ball at what the future may bring. We also sat down with Pokemon
guru, Unlisted Leaf for an interview which, if you’re a fan, you’ll find most entertaining.
We’ve also got a brilliant feature by our very own Chatty Anny who gives us her unofficial companion
ranking for Mass Effect and Tiffany Dean gives us her wrap up of Comic Con in Adelaide.
There’s the usual brilliance from Retro Editor Paul and our Entertainment Editor Scott.
As always - a big thank you to the team from VG Chartz who share thoughts on gaming and the best
games nobody played of 2016!
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FEATURE
RACING GAMES
PAST,
PRESENT,
FUTURE

I’m sitting in my lounge and
I have my iPad hooked up to
my Apple TV and I’m watching
the Subaru WRX STI Isle
of Man video. The driver, Mark
Higgins, has a camera in the
car and the video editors have
overlaid a few graphics such
as speed, G-Force, skin temperature,
respiratory rate plus
the slightly letterbox view out
the windscreen gives you a
video game feel. But it ain’t no
game and it’s terrifyingly fast.
How he doesn’t miss a corner
or scrape a wall (or spectator
at times) is amazing. True
skill. Watching Higgins scream
down a long straight flat out at
170 MPH+ had me reaching
for the camomile tea to calm
the nerves... seriously it’s fast
and frightening.
After the lap I sit there thinking
that most of us will never
drive like that. Or will we? I flip
on the Xbox One S and load
up Forza Horizon 3, and I pick
a race. To make things a bit
more real I choose the drivers
view out the windscreen and
in a short while my windscreen
is cracked from my less then
perfect race line and bumping
into another car. The graphics
scream past on my 65
inch Sony TV and the sound
through the surround sound
is flipping awesome... until I
crash.
The look and sound gets me
thinking to the future of racing
games, and back to the past
where my first love in gaming
- simulations, started my
gaming journey to working at
Gametraders and Live Magazine.
Back when I was a kid,
I fell in love with driving and
flying sims. We’ll leave the jet
sims for another issue, today
I’m looking back at some of
the driving games that I played
over the (many, many - Giselle
the Art Director... yeah the editor
is old.) years.
Hopping into the GT time machine
I head back to a time of
simpler graphics, simpler controllers
and more hair on my
head.
It’s 1991 and my Commodore
Amiga 500 has Lotus Esprit
Turbo Challenge loaded up
and that sound track is so
damn retro and cool. I’m sitting
at the start line and the
simple graphics show lot’s of
greenery, some mountains in
the background and a 4 lane
highway with my red Lotus sits
in the middle of the screen,
outside only view. Pretty soon
I’m off and racing and trying to
avoid the other Lotus cars and
make the checkpoints. The
game flowed along graphically
pretty well. You could have 2
players and a lot of fun doing
so and it rated pretty well in the
magazines of the time. It was
published by Gremlin Graphics
and the creators were Shaun
Southern and Andrew Morris.
There were three versions
and my favourite was Lotus 2
which let you link two Amiga’s
(or Atari systems) and play on
your own computer full screen.
Brilliant!

Grand Prix Legends - PC
Ok, so I’ve mentioned one GP game
but this one was special. It was published
by Sierra Sports and developed
by Papyrus Design Group. It
was PC only and landed on our hard
drives in 1998. It was quite unique
for a couple of reasons. Firstly it
was set in 1967 and so you raced
cars with less driving aids like wings
and such and that made it hard. It
represented a time in GP racing that
was exciting and extremely dangerous
and the physics and the track
graphics are brilliant for the time. It
took me ages to get to grips with it.
Coming off the Amiga system and
playing more arcade style games,
GP Legends was a steep learning
curve. But I loved it and loved it so
much that I went and bought an analogue
wheel and pedals to enjoy it
even more. Then I discovered the
multiplayer mode online. One word
- humiliating. The first dozen or so
times I was thrashed. I don’t think I
even finished a lap for the first few
races. The excitement of the starting
line and the sound of the engines
really affects you and next
thing you know you’re off and trying
to keep up and that leads to mistakes
when you’re a rookie. It was
the most difficult racing sim you can
buy and probably still is. I found out
that there are hard core fans still
playing today in online communities,
with new tracks and refreshed
graphics as well as a lobby system.
Enjoy a nostalga rush here on Youtube.
See it here:
https://youtu.be/_Gq6U7uH63c

Formula One Grand Prix - PC
The thing that stays with me from
this Geoff Crammond game was
you could turn the graphics up and
down to get a better frame rate. The
game came out in 1992, published
by Microprose and was released on
Amiga, Atari ST and PC. It represented
the 1992 GP season but the
drivers names were fictional as the
game was not officially affiliated
with the FIA. It had simulation type
adjustments such as gear ratios
and wing settings that did impact
the driving of your racer. You could
even turn off and on driver aids to
help you learn to drive or if you were
just not so good, like me, keep them
on and enjoy racing without crashing
into everything on the track...
Graphically and with regard to coding,
the game was ahead of its’
time. On the PC version especially
you could turn on graphics like textures
etc to add more realism, but
you needed a kick-ass processor to
make it look good and run smooth.
I didn’t know this at the time, but it
also had something called “Play by
Mail Mode”. I’ll let Wikipedia explain
it better then I will:
“A special PBM or Play by Mail mode
was introduced in F1GP. Players
would choose one of the drivers for
the particular race and when their
turn was up save the game onto
floppy disk. The disk would then be
sent via second class mail to other
participants in the event to continue
with their turn. This would again be
saved and the disk mailed out to
the next participant. The PBM mode
could extend to include a full seasons
championship.”

Stunt Car Racer - Amiga 500
There’s two things that stood out
for me playing Stunt Car Racer. The
sound, a growling V8 sound and
the crazy track that was elevated
and, at speed, became freaky as
you did your best not to go off the
track. When I first started playing it,
I think I spend more time being lifted
back on the track by the crane then
actually racing. The graphics were
very simple, a simple track in front
of you that you navigated around
with clean blue sky and some far
off vague scenery to fill in the background.
It was damn tough too -
with the track being elevated you
could easily go flying off at speed
and lose valuable time waiting to
firstly crash and then secondly for
the crane to lift you back on track.
You had a view from the drivers
seat, with a bunch of flame spitting
exhausts, a speedo and some
track data and that’s about it. While
a very simple game - 3 laps, it was
addictive in two player mode where,
like Lotus, you could connect up
two Amiga systems (or Atari ST)
via a null modem cable and race
against each other. The trick was to
not make a mistake and hope the
other player got too excited and fell
off, giving you a lead that you then
had to protect by driving cautiously.
It was a game of nerve and skill.
Developed by Geoff Crammond -
yes that Geoff Crammond who also
did - Formula One GP on Amiga, ST
and PC, Grand Prix 2, Grand Prix
3 and Grand Prix 4! The guy was
amazing. It came out in 1989.

Daytona USA and Sega Rally
- Sega Saturn
I couldn’t talk about racing games
without mentioning two of the all
time classics. They started out as
an arcade game and Daytona is
actually the highest grossing arcade
game of all time. Both had
3D graphics with textures and gorgeous
sound.
Both also hit arcades in 1993/94
and a bunch of us would happily
empty our wallets into the cabinets
and race each other. Both were
also released on Sega’s Saturn with
a slower frame rates and reduced
graphics but were fun and one of
the reasons I bough my Saturn at
the time. I spent weeks perfecting
that first rally track trying to get the
best time among my friends. In fact
they’d drop over my place to have
a quick go so we could record who
was fastest on that first track. While
the Saturn version kept many racers
happy playing and racing in two
player mode, to me it was the arcade
versions that I remember best.
We’d go down to the video store ...
yep the mega large Video Ezy had
a bunch of arcade machines in one
area and I’d head down with my
brother and friends and suggest my
wife pick out a VHS to watch while
we raced... brilliant!
If my research is right, there’s a
secret game you can find on the
Dreamcast and PC version (please
let us know if this is wrong) but if
you hit both red cones on the final
turn of the Riviera track and then
turn around 180 degrees you find a
secret area that has the mini game
where you have to hit as many
cones as possible.

Ridge Racer - Playstation One
I couldn’t leave out Ridge Racer by
Namco. I’m talking about the PS1
version that got me hooked so
much so I went out and bought a
NegGcon. The game development
took 8 months and was a launch title
on the new Sony console. The
ability to drift made it a hit with, well,
the drift crowd but it was an arcade
racer and a lot of fun - not to be
taken as a serious sim.
With the slightly blocky cars ( and
start girl) and pixelated tracks you
raced other cars around a track
that had the ocean as scenery as
well as a long yellow light tunnel and
the cityscape. Hitting other cars
slowed you down but you and they
seemed to just bounce off each
other. I liked the speedo and tacho
on the bottom right of the screen
as well as the map showing where I
was on the track top left. The voice
over guy was pretty full on but
you got use to it. Now back to my
NgCon comment - I hear some of
you asking what was a NeGcon - it
was a strange looking but brilliant
controller that for me at least, made
driving games on the PS1 even better.
It featured analogue steering
and the two red buttons were also
analogue so accelerating and braking
felt more natural. To steer, you
twisted the controller up and down
or maybe forward and back is a better
explanation. I had the white one
(pictured) but I see there was a rare
black one also...

Need for Speed - 3DO
Ahh the memories... I can remember
heading to the original Gametraders
store before it was called
Gametraders and hiring a 3DO for
the weekend. My friends would all
come over and we’d settle in for
a night of gaming fun. The key title
we loved was Need for Speed
and it came out in 1994 and was
“Presented by Road and Track” EA
teamed up with the car magazine
and that helped the game have
more realism and also great images
to show of the cars just like
the magazine. The thing we loved
were the police pursuits. Six tracks
featured in the game - City, Coastal,
Alpine (a favourite with some) Rusty
Springs, Autumn Valley and Vertigo.
There was something quite magical
about driving those tracks. Sure
the graphics were e bit blocky but
to me, it was the start of a more realistic
looking game. The graphics
had almost a video or photo quality
about them and the 3DO did its
best to push them along at acceptable
frame rates. Unfortunately the
system didn’t survive and we all
moved on to Sega and Sony and
of course, Nintendo’s systems. But
Need for Speed has a special place
in my heart - those Friday night
game-fets full of pizza and racing
will always be fond rmemories.

Andretti Racing - Playstation One
Not as many people seem to remember
this one. But we loved it
and here’s why - Pitstops. It was
such an exciting game to play. You
had choice of Stock Cars, Indy Cars
and dirt track racing. We loved Indy
Cars. We’d race 3 laps but ensure
that you had to make one pit stop
and the timing of the stop would
always affect the race. I remember
the in car view, whilst blocky,
it worked well but for multiplayer
we’d always choose the outside
view. The sounds were great, and
the crashes were awesome with
wheels and spoilers flying off, causing
expensive loss of time and usually
where my opponent would overtake
me. Then came the tough part,
when to pit. It was always tempting
to let them pit first and do your best
to put in a fast lap time and hope
they couldn’t match it. Then you
had to pit and you’d sit there nervously
waiting to see if they’d catch
up. Seriously good racing fun. The
game came out first on the Sega
Genesis / Mega Drive but I played
the 1996 version on my PS1.

There’s a bunch more games I could
have included here. So many fond
memories of great racing games.
Formula 1 on the PS1 using the cable
to hook up two systems was as
close to arcade racing you could
get back then - some of us even
bought racing seats with wheels
to enhance the experience. Today
there are even more great racing
games. Here’s a list of games you
might want to add to your collection:
F1 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Codemasters put this one out and
it’s a must have. You get a career
mode and an excellent multiplayer
game too.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit - Xbox
360 and PS3 and also PC
Car chases gator, cops chasing
you and brilliant fast graphics - this
will have your adrenalin pumping!
Dirt Rally - Xbox One, PS4 and PC
Ak so it use to be known as Colin
McRae but it remains true to it’s linage
- rally racing done right. It’s fast
and addictive but for the novice,
you’ll need to practise lots to get
those times up. We love it!
Forza Motorsport 6 - Xbox One
So I bought this game, yep paid for
it to play the heck out of it. I could
have probably gotten a review copy
but didn’t want to wait. So why this
one? Well I have an Xbox One S
and Forza is THE race game for
the Xbox. It has beautiful graphics,
great game play , sound is flipping
awesome on my surround (turn it
down hon! - my wife) and it does
have 4K visuals if you have the TV
to support it. The graphics are ...
well life like. This might just be the
game I go an invest in another analogue
race wheel for.
Gran Turismo Sport - PS4
You can’t include Forza with out
GT on Playstation unless you want
a bunch of Sony fans with torches
and pitch forks outside our head office.
It’s the best racer on PS4 (my
opinion) and has a long pedigree of
gaming right back to 1992 when
Kaxunori Yamauchi set out with his
team to develop a race game that
took them 5 years to finish. A version
has been on every Playstation
and no doubt this tradition will continue
with better, more immersive
racing in the future... which leads
me to the future of racing.

CTC
CTC
Two of the best racing games you can get for your console

FUTURE RACING GAMES
A quick hop into our Gametraders
Time Machine (patent pending) and
we dash just 3 years into the future.
Why 3 years? It’s expensive to
travel through time. But seriously I
don’t think we need to wait too long
before the whole VR or AR thing is
really working and mainstream. So
what is VR - Virtual Reality - usually
requiring a headset and sound
so that as you “look around” the
screen in front of you moves like
you are really there.
You can see this on Youtube now if
you don’t already have a headset
from Sony or Occulus or which ever
system you’re tied into. AR is Augmented
reality which blends virtual
reality with the physical world. Think
Pokemon Go and people using their
phones to hunt Pokemon in the real
world. Where as VR will completely
take over your vision and hearing
putting you into a virtual world. How
do I see the future for racing. Racing
seats and screens are expensive
to buy. They are awesome and
give you an amazing race experience,
but to have one in the lounge
my upset your significant other...
plus the cost! So, to me at least, I’m
predicting that a set of goggles or
headset with headphones will block
out any distractions and give you
an immersive experience. I think to
get a real feel you’d need a wheel,
after all we drive cars with steering
wheels and it’s going to feel more
realistic if the wheel is planted on
the ground so you can really turn
into corners. Same with pedals but
if hardware manufacturers come
out with a simple foot pedal connected
by Bluetooth - you could
simply place it on the ground and
rest your feet on them for accelerating
and breaking. I can’t see it
working without some sort of tactile
feedback - holding your foot up
and pressing a “virtual” pedal just
won’t feel the same and you’ll likely
cramp up.
Multiplayer will be more personal -
what I mean is the lobby area that
many games have for multiplayer
gaming will likely have you virtually
interacting, talking, seeing other
players. You may even be able to
virtually walk out of the lobby and
on to the pit lane and get into your
car. Racing will feel more real, faster
frame rates and real world visuals
will totally immerse you. A crash
needs to be a crash without actually
hurting you but slowing you down to
penalise poor driving. There may be
a series of responses you can turn
up or down with regard to crashing,
the same as many games have
driver aids. Crashes may allow you
to spin and feel a bit dizzy or disoriented
depending on the medical
condition you’re in.
Maybe, just maybe we may be
heading for the same simulation experience
as seen in the Bruce Willis
film Surrogates - but that would be
maybe too much?

Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality
Which will give us the best racing experience?
VR Racing including wheel and seat would give the best overall experience at this point in time.

YOUR SAY
FAVOURITE DRIVING GAME AN
LEARN RACETRACKS FROM PL
“In terms of pure driving simulation
Gran turismo 4 would have to be my
favorite, the detail, car selection and
the real world tracks make it feel authentic
and real as if you were there.
I think it is possible to learn a racetrack
from a videogame if it is modelled
correctly with all the correct
turns and corners.”
- Jarrod Dickson
“Mario Kart Double Dash is my favourite
Driving/Racing game. If we’re
forced to clarify more My favourite
arcade racers are Outrun & Daytona
& my favourite sim racer is Gran
Turismo 2. The GT Academy has
already proved that you can learn
the real race tracks from a video
game, so no need for that part of the
question.”
- Jean-Paul Bartolomei
“I like the free roam of NFS Underground
2 and the new Forza Horizon
games.
As for learning the tracks in game, it
is possible but you would not be able
to race the track in the same style
in real life as you would in game, the
game doesn’t account for inertia on
your body or the real threat of death
if you mess up, short of a fully immersive
cockpit I mean...”
- Christopher Franz
“Got to be Gran Turismo 3. The Laguna
Seca track in the unlocked F1
car are what memories are made
of.”
- Derrick Berisa
“Mario Kart has taught me a very
important lesson when driving on
roads myself - trust nobody ;).”
- Bron Lovejoy
“Gran Turismo 2 on PS, so many
amazing hours playing that game!”
- James Allenby
“The age old question is: will playing
driving games make you a better
driver? Quite possibly - if you’re playing
a simulation with a racing wheel
or even driving in GTA as if you were
driving there in real life (I.e. stopping
at red lights and obeying traffic laws
- resisting the urge to cause mayhem).
But there is one game which wont
help and that game is Burnout 3, one
of my favourite racing games of all
time. Love boosting, taking out my
opponents, signature takedowns,
drifting and doing those crash challenges.
It’s the best way to relieve
stress and burn some rubber. Love
the music soundtrack and variety of
tracks as well. Also great with mates!
You cant learn the race tracks cause
they’re fictitious (well you can memorise
them to get faster in-game)
and definitely CAN’T do what you do
in the game in real life!”
- Joseph Ung

D DO YOU THINK YOU CAN
AYING THEM...
“My favourite driving game is eye
spy (laughs). But video game I think
burnout 3 will always and forever be
my favourite.”
- Adam Haidle
“My N64 and all games were stolen
years ago and when I was re-buying
the games I had I started with the
racing games. Star Wars Episode
1 Racer, Top Gear Overdrive, San
Francisco Rush, these were all fantastic
racers that had their own feel.
There’s a lot to discover in between
your Mario Karts and your Forzas.
I think the best thing you can learn
from racing games is the importance
of taking corners at a sensible
speed. Most of the time slamming
into the wall on a tight corner doesn’t
pay off. Utilizing your brakes is a lesson
well learned sooner than later.”
- Lucas Andrew
“For me I love the Forza games, I’ve
only got up to a Xbox 360 so haven’t
played Horizon 3 but from the first
Forza Motorsport they had me
hooked. The car upgrade menus and
the whole mechanic of the games
are great.”
- Patrick Ansell
“Can’t beat the classic Mario Kart.
Many a friendship has been made,
and unmade on those slippery
slopes of Rainbow Road.”
- Matt Taylor
“There are so many racing games
that I would love to pick as my favorite.
So I’ll go ahead and pick Forza Horizon
3, not only that it’s loosely
based in Australia but it has the mix
of simulation and arcade racing, not
to mention the paint job designs can
bring out the artist in everyone if they
have the time and patience.
As for translating the race track from
video games to reality question... It
can work, although it can be very
hard to get it all done properly since
most simulation racing games aren’t
One Hundred percent in the realism
department (inertia, heat,effects
from the car being damaged, etc).
But if you know the layout of the
track very well it can be added to
your advantage.”
- Marc Sola
“I’m loving Dirt Rally in VR on the PS4
Pro. The attention to detail is absolute
perfection and makes for an
exhilarating ride! As far as learning
tracks from games is concerned, I
think it’s entirely possible. Real race
drivers will often use simulations like
Gran Turismo to hone their skills off
the track. Theoretically though, any
game with a half decent recreation
of a circuit would work just the same
with enough time and dedication.
And we can’t forget that each year
Gran Turismo takes gamers and
turns them into real race drivers via
the GT Academy program, so there
has to be something in it!”
- Kieran Braden
“Driveclub vr because its the only
racing sim vr on psvr (cmon NFS underground).”
- Wes Smith

YOUR SAY
FAVOURITE DRIVING GAME AN
LEARN RACETRACKS FROM PL
“I can’t put a title on my favourite
game because I don’t have one but
I do have a favourite style which
would be crash racing. Now when I
say crash racing I don’t mean crash
bandicoot, no I mean the style where
you can race a proper race but have
little twits in it where you can rite off
other cars or damage them while
racing . Examples of these styles
would be burnout, Mario cart , crazy
taxi, carmageddon.
As for learning tracks of course any
game played enough you can learn
the ins and outs the tough corners
etc etc.”
- Jakob Lang
“Mario kart 64, ended a 10 year
friendship with the rainbow road
jump shortcut, was totally worth it
cause I won.”
- Tuan Nguyen
“My all time favorite driving game
was forza motorsport 4, some of
those tracks I knew off the top of my
head, from the sweeping bends of
the Sedona Raceway, to the sharp
complex turns of the Fujimi Kaido
downhill run, I personally believe that
games in the forza collection are
some of the best racing sim games
on the market, with a huge car selection
and each vehicle being as
accurate (performance and visually)
as they would be in real life, those
games were, and still are, absolute
works of art.”
- Chriss Fuller
“If we are talking about simulated
racing games, then the Formula
1 series of games because I love
watching Formula 1, the way that
they accurately create the cars and
tracks is great. This also allowed me
to properly learn the race tracks for
when I raced on them again.
But in terms of my all time racing
games, then NFS Most Wanted
takes the cake. The free roam, the
extensive competitiveness that
comes with climbing the blacklist, all
to achieve the final goal of winning
back the car you were wrongfully
cheated out of. Nothing beats these
games.”
- Jesse Barrow
“Driving games such as Gran turismo,
Forza, F1 and a variety of others,
do put forward genuinely good
tracks with reasonable physics models
providing people with an experience
of what it might be like the real
thing, this leads a continuous player
to learn things like the layout of a
racing circuit, how to drive the circuit
(I.e. Braking markers, turn-in points,
track extents) how different cars
react and how different cars need
to be driven (I.e. Gearing, steering
input and pedal input). So from my
experience they do ultimately help
you learn the layout and how to drive
a racing circuit and help teach you
driving necessities, and my favourite
game would have to be Gran turismo
4 & 6 physics are good, cars are
good tracks are good.
Cheers!”
- Jayden Williams
“Definitely not Gran Turismo. A lot of
the cars sound like vacuum cleaners.”
- Adam Tiny MacNeill

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AYING THEM...
“Grid 3 feels the most accurate of
the ones I’ve tried. And the graphics
look absolutely incredible!
I do think I could learn racetracks
from it. But how well that knowledge
would apply to real life driving, I’m
not sure. You’re welcome to sponsor
me to find out.”
- Taao Quinn
“Honestly my Attraction to racing
games started when i was a kid. With
old school Mario kart. It evolved to
gran turismo on the ps1, I think the
idea of attaining licences before you
could participate in higher levels was
a great idea. It got you used to certain
techniques and is probably what
paved the way for me to experience
more challenging type games such
as forza and the later GT games.
I think as far as learning tracks go,
as long as the track is accurately
portrayed in the game then you can
most definitely learn a track. I could
probably race at Nürburgring pretty
successfully with what I’ve learnt
haha.”
- Ryan Walsh
“Driving games for me started with
Mario Kart DS, I took that thing everywhere
with me when I was a kid.
It grew from there, delving into sims
like Gran Turismo, and arcade types
like Burnout. Recently, I’ve been enjoying
Forza 6, and The Crew. I’m a
drifter at heart and you could definitely
see that if you looked at any
of my builds!”
- Jayden Williams
“Need For Speed Underground 2 for
driving, race variety and level of car
customization.”
- Glen Nilsson
“Need for speed most wanted my
mate and I spent many hours trying
to complete this one small track in
the fastest time.”
- Blayne Bevington
“Ive learnt 75% of my track knowledge
from Sim Racing the rest TV
Broadcast and Living in Bathurst
NSW home of Mount Panorama for
10yrs , First public Road i Drove on.
Games like Iracing and Assetto Corsa
have real world implications and
Pro Race drivers use both to their
advantage to learn tracks and tunes
etc . Laser scanned tracks and real
time noise and engine data is what
they can transfer to their real world
racing . Forza Motorsport / Horizon
and the like are fun games to get in
and have a cruise and feel a semi
realistic feel of a car , BUT nothing
comes close to Assetto Corsa and
Iracing . Also Project CARS is a great
half way line between the Forza Series
and Iracing etc . In the end if you
want realism and feel what it is like ,
Play AC or Iracing with a wheel if you
can . If you are new to motorsport in
general , Play Forza and learn how to
race and how to run tracks for laps
on end then step up to the Big Boys
in Iracing and Assetto Corsa.”
- Daniel Penrith-Smith

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GAMES
BOARD GAMES
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GAME & POP CULTURE FU
We’ve looked at some classic racing games this month so we thought we’d
feature some car trivia too - here we go...
Did you know the Ford Mustang got
its name from the P-51 Mustang
fighter plane?
The first true “muscle car” is considered
to be the Pontiac GTO that
came out in 1964.
The first racing game is said to be
the 1959 game, Mini Drive where
you used a steering wheel to control
a car the scrolled across a conveyor
belt. But in the late 60s Kasco
had a game called Indy 500 which
used a rear-projection screen to
display a first person scrolling track
on the screen.

U KNOW...
N FACTS & TRIVIA
What’s the top selling racing game
of all time... guess.. Yep its the
Wii version of Mario Kart Wii that
came out 2008 and sold a huge 35
million+!
Every issue I search the globe
for game and pop culture trivia,
I get sent out across the globe,
(first class) to scout the world of
video games to bring you some
fun facts.
(Um... no. We gave you a crappy
old laptop and told you to search
the web... Ed.)
What year did the first Super Mario
Kart come out...? Try 1992 - it came
out on the SNES. (Super Nintendo
Entertainment System) and sold a
whopping 9 million copies!
Second highest racing game is
Mario Kart on DS with 23 plus million
sold.
As for true race or driving sims we
need to look at Gran Turismo 3 : A-
spec with almost 15 million sold for
PS2.

YOUR board SAY games
BEST
SELLING
BOARD
GAMES!
Love board games - yeah us too. So
we got hold of a ranking of the best
selling games this year (so far).
So if you’re not sure what to buy -
here’s what other board and table
top game fans are buying, playing
and loving.
With autumn here and winter (oh
dear) just around the corner, now’s
the time to try out some fun board
games. Our review team listed their
5 top reasons to get into board and
table top gaming:
1 - You love sitting around with pizza
and a few drinks with friends and
having a grand social time
2 - You have friends... to play with.
3 - Games can bring out the competitive
beast within and so there is
no better way to express your competitiveness
and proclaim you’re
the best!
4 - Board games have good replay
value - you can play many of them
over and over.
5 - Think they are tricky to learn?
Well there’s excellent resources
on sites like Youtube that walk you
through how to play
Have fun and get gaming!

YOUR board SAY games
BYE BYE BARS
www.byebyebars.com
Recently we sent our editor to visit
Romania so as to catch up with
some game developers. The reason
being ..
A) We don’t like him and hoped he’d
run into some sort of mythical vampire
from that part of Europe.
B) We really don’t like him and
hoped he’d get lost in translation.
C) He’s actually got some Gypsy
blood in him and was wanting to visit
Hungary and Romania isn’t that
far from Budapest so let’s get him
to do some damn work for one...
Romania is in Southeastern Europe
and borders the Black Sea. It
has around 19 million people and
some Romanians have changed
the world in very positive ways.
For example, Nicolae Constantin
Paulescu discovered insulin. Eugen
Pavel invented the Hyper CD-Rom
and Petrach Poenaru invented the
fountain pen.
It’s also the home of the team behind
a game called Bye Bye Bars,
a prison based game where the
player that gets rid of their cards
first, wins.
So while our editor isn’t really travelling
the countryside of Romania (we
do like him... sort of) he did manage
to catch up with the team...
Firstly tell us about yourselves.
Where are based and how many in
the team?
We are a small team from Romania
(Transylvania to be precise) Andrew,
Cipi and Dani, three guys who
met first during high school, where
we studied art.
Later we went to the same college
in Cluj, again studying art (graphic,
sculpture and design) and even
lived for a while in the same apartment.
We currently moved back to Sibiu,
our hometown, and started working
on our first project together- Bye
Bye Bars.
How did you come up with the idea
for a board game and why a prison
based game?
We always liked to make stupid
jokes/illustrations about people,
events and just about anything. You
know there’s always that kid in class
that likes to sketch all day, well we
were that kid(except we were 3),
needles to say our teachers didn’t
like our depictions of them. The inspiration
came from the tv show
“superjail!” because thats the kind
of humor we like,very exaggerated
and absurd humor. We saw a niche
in “prison” based games since we
haven’t really seen any games with
the theme. We initially wanted to
create a little book of stupid illustrations
about prison/prisoners but the
idea quickly died because it was
kind of boring and we wanted people
to interact with them rather than
just look, have a chuckle and move
on,so that’s basically the reason we
chose a card game because it gave
us an excuse to make these absurd
jokes and give them a purpose in
which people actually had fun after
seeing them. We used race as
way to differentiate card colors, it is
not meant to make a point or political
view about race, its just a game
mechanic that we believe is appropriate
in the context of our game.
We`re not really experts in board
gaming and we just wanted to make
something fun and easy to pick up
and play, so a card game seemed
an appropriate fit.
Interestingly the game takes between
8 and 15 minutes to play -
that’s a nice time frame for a quick
game, is it easy to learn to play?
This time frame was chosen because
we want this game to be
playable at any time and any place,
so you don’t have to plan a game
night with your friends for a 10 hour
game, you can just take it out to the
bar or cafe to play.
Statistically it takes about this much
time to play, (it all depends on how
many players are playing, and how

We made a lot of sketches,in search
of a style and after trial and error,
we finally picked the one that best
fit our humor. After the sketching
phase we gave ourselves different
tasks, Andrew started to redraw the
cards digitally, the layout and site
were made by Dani and Cipi was
responsible with the packaging and
research.
well the deck has been shuffled.
Gameplay is easy to learn because
there are only 2 types of cards: 1
prisoner cards which are played as
regular cards and 2 action cards
which have 8 specific functions
you have to learn but the icons and
name of the cards help a lot in making
you understand what they do if
you happen to forget. Oh and there
is on special surprise card that can
change the whole outcome of the
game but we’re keeping that one a
secret for now.
In terms of feel,the game feels a lot
like “Uno” because we used it as a
base and developed over it with our
own set of rules and functions because
we wanted the game to be
familiar but not the same.
The artwork on the game and particularly
the game cards is amazing,
who did that and what inspired the
look?
Well the artwork was made actually
by all three of us, searching characters,
making them look funnier
and finding fitting names and text
for them.
We like to watch animated series
too, like drawn together, rick and
morty, samurai jack, southpark and
a very important role was played by
superjail! as we wrote above, we
watched it many times, we like that
kind of humor.
So what’s next - is the game for
sale yet and where can customers
find out more...?
The game is not for sale yet. Our
main focus for now is to make some
sort of community, inviting all who
are interested, so we can have a
solid base to start when we launch
our campaign.
The main problem for us is to get
our work to be known, it`s is also our
first try at this and we will give our
best to turn this game into reality.
We would be glad if the people who
want to know more about the game
and its release to subscribe to
our newsletter.
We also have a facebook page at
www.facebook.com/byebyebars,
a website: www.byebyebars.com
and an instagram page here:
www.instagram.com/byebyebars.
ONLINE:
www.byebyebars.com
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YOUR RETRO
SAY
BOX OF JOY!
We’ve been using the Gametraders
Time Machine (pat pending) a
lot this month. We’ve loved going
back in time to pre 2000 and going
over all those amazing systems like
the beautiful 486 PC, the SNES and
Sega, and who can forget our Retro
Editor’s personal favourite the Amstrad
computer and our Editor’s favourite
- the humble Commodore
Amiga 500..
One thing we’ve noticed is the manuals.
Back in the day of PC gaming
using 386, 486 and Pentium
processors, you’d buy games like
Falcon 4 and get a huge box and
inside was not only the game but
also a manual. In fact some games
came with manuals, maps, novella’s
and other bits and pieces.
I remember the day I bought Falcon
4, it was on PC and I couldn’t wait
to get home. I didn’t want to get
straight into the game, I wanted to
enjoy the experience of reading the
manual - and this was a thick manual.
After a couple of days browsing
the manual when I had time, I loaded
up the game, kept the manual in
reach and began to play.
That was common with gaming in
those earlier times. Boxes came
with books you’d read. Sometimes
a comic with amazing artwork and
all this got you into the “zone” ... or
the mood to play. Almost like when
you’re a kid and you see a football
match you suddenly get pumped to
play footy. For me it was surfing - I’d
watch some surf video and within
10 minutes be packing my board to
hit the beach.
Game publishers that understood
gaming did things like that back
then. They wanted you to be immersed
in their game, to enjoy the
whole experience. It’s not done as
much these days and while some
publishers offer game manuals via
a PDF download - well it’s not the
same. Yes as the publisher of Live
Magazine, we understand there’s a
certain irony here, we publish online
only as it is affordable for us, but
also means our magazines are free
for our readers.
Back to manuals, the other day I
bought a camera and the manual
was huge, but to get it to fit nicely in
the box, it’s the height and width of
a pack of cards but thick as a couple
of laptops... that makes it fiddly
to read I can tell you.
So what do you prefer? Online manuals,
downloadable PDFs? Learn as
you play (so no need for a full manual)
...? We asked our readers and
Facebook fans to share some of
there old game manuals and over
the next few pages you can take a
look.
Oh - here’s a gem we found for you
- a site dedicated to replacement
manuals for games... all as PDFs
but at least they are there. You can
download and maybe go print it
out...
www.replacementdocs.com/news.php

YOUR SAY
SHARE YOUR OLD PC MAN
“I still have my original big box edition of South
Park on PC from 1999. Has its original Instruction
Booklet and everything is in excellent condition.Not
the greatest game from its era but so
much fun! :).”
- Aaron Ajay Hunter
“We some MSDOS grand prix game
where it actually goes into full description
of each track included as
well as upgrades and settings. It is
doose.”
- Das Dos
“Back when flight Sims gave you a manual that thought
you how to fly the real aircraft. Even janes longbow goes
into great detail on how to fly an AH64A Apache attack
helicopter. No boxes left but still have ALL of my old pc games this
is just some out of about 100.”
- Rodney Broughton

UALS AND GAME BOXES...
“Frontier Elite 2 for Amiga. Not only do you get a thick game manual but also a full star chart, a Gazetteer of
some of the planets in the game and a book of stories from the game.”
- Josh Daws
“Oh I have heaps. All out in the shed. I have a folder just got maps..”
- Aaron Yanner

YOUR SAY
SHARE YOUR OLD PC
MANUALS AND GAME BOXES...
“First Edition Fallout 1 manual from original launch in 1997
(I got it in 98) It even has recipies for wasteland survivalists
in it XD I have the second game and tactics original
manuals too.”
“You want old school with a bitchin’ and
funny soundtrack...”
- Shane Ellis
- Glen Nilsson
“Here i have the Sims Life stories! including the manual the
hotkeys and the original advertisments.”
- Danae Johnston

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YOUR RETROSAY
The Gamer
THE CONTINUING STORY
The Nintendo 64 era was upon us,
yet James and I continued to persevere
with the Super Nintendo.
The internet was providing us with
a plethora of ROMs that we could
download and try on the Super Wildcard.
James and I had enjoyed The
Legend of the Mystical Ninja, otherwise
known as Ganbare Goemon in
Japan, but we now had access to
the sequels. While the original title
was a 2.5D game, the sequels varied
in their approach. The second
and third games in the series began
as traditional platformers, though
the fourth title is similar to the
first. The sequels introduce a giant
mecha Goemon, making it feel like
it was inspired by the Super Sentai /
Power Rangers series. They were a
little confusing, but quite fun.
I have already mentioned my interest
in anime, and thanks to import
reviews in the pages of Super Play
magazine I knew that many anime
based titles were never released in
the west. Now that we had the magic
of the dial up modem, James and
I could finally play some of these
classic, and not so classic titles.
One of the ROM sites was heavily
promoting Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle.
It was the release for this particular
site. We decided to download it and
give it a try.
Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle is the second
fighting game on Super Famicom,
and while it is vastly superior
to the first, it is quite inferior to
the third. Graphically it looks quite
nice, but at the time I had no idea
who the characters were. It would
be several more years before I discovered
the animated series. In
the meantime we tried to enjoy the
game. It’s a typical Street Fighter 2
clone, and it was the first of many
that we found. The biggest problem
was that you have to push a
button to jump. As well as that, the
game felt a little sluggish, and after
Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
sluggish clones were definitely not
acceptable.
Another anime that caught my eye
was Dragon Ball Z. I had already
heard of Dragon Ball, but I couldn’t
honestly tell you where. The anime
started in 1985 and official and
bootleg merchandise had been
released all over the world, so it’s
possible I stumbled upon something
dodgy that had Goku’s face planted
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diaries:
Butoden series, and found them to
be somewhat of a mixed bag. Super
Butoden 1 looked nice, and it elaborated
on the standard 2D fighter
by allowing you to fly in the air. If
you backed right away from your
enemy the screen would split and
you would keep moving backwards.
This meant that you could put a
lot of distance between yourself
and your opponent, allowing you to
charge energy or attack from afar.
The Ki blasts looked good, when we
managed to execute them, but the
gameplay felt very rigid.
The game engine for Super Butoden
2 felt looser, though the game was
similar to its predecessor in every
other way. I remember the character
select screen having a bunch of
blonde people and a big green guy.
The Super Play review mentioned
that he was called Piccolo, so I tried
him out but found him too slow. We
played this one for a bit longer than
the previous title. The third game in
the series is pretty much the same,
but with different characters. With
the Super Butoden games out of
the way, we moved on to Sailor
Moon.
I had watched Sailor Moon on
Agro’s Cartoon Connection in the
years prior. I was aware of the story,
an the game followed the first arc
as closely as a Final Fight clone
could. The graphics were nice and
colourful, and they reflected the
source material nicely. The game
1997 - 1998

looked like Sailor Moon, and for a
semi fan it was a joy to play. Each
of the Sailor Guardians play slightly
differently. I preferred Sailors Mars
and Venus, as like Donatello in the
TMNT arcade game, they had the
best reach. We never ended up
completing it, but we played it more
than Ranma 1/2 or Dragon Ball Z.
With our games libraries growing,
James and I didn’t really have much
interest in the Nintendo 64. We
were both curious, and I can recall
us both wanting one, but there was
no rush. There was clearly more
to explore in the Super Nintendo
library. Over the next few months
James and I would regularly catch
up and explore more downloaded
Super Nintendo titles.
1998 was a year of changes for
me, the first of which was James
moving away. His family had purchased
a hotel a couple of hours
out of the city. I was told that I was
always welcome to go and visit, but
my mother had an issue with me
driving so far away, so I never went.
As a consequence we grew apart
rather quickly. I wouldn’t see James
again for about 18 months.
The second change was that I met
my first girlfriend. Amy lived a reasonable
distance away as well,
though not as far as James. Each
weekend I would endure the 2 hour
drive, and though her parents allowed
me to stay over, we never
ended up doing... stuff... We only really
dated for 6 months before she
ended it. Amy came from a close
knit family, which was totally foreign
to me. They would all sit around the
table and play Trivial Pursuit, or settle
down in the lounge room and
have a bash on the Playstation. One
regret I have was that her brother

was selling his boxed Atari Lynx,
with games for $50. He offered it to
me, but I turned it down. I was still
very heavily into my Gameboy, and
there was no room in my life for 2
handhelds. If only my past self could
see my collection now...
One weekend, as I was driving back
to Adelaide, I went through a small
town called Kulpara. I approached
the town’s main intersection and
saw a blue Commodore to my left.
I had the right of way, so I continued
through, then tragedy struck.
The girl driving the car didn’t stop
and ploughed straight into the rear
of my car. I remember the vehicle
spinning 2 or 3 times, but that
might have been my head. When it
stopped I found myself in front of a
house. The elderly gentleman who
lived there came out and hurried us
both into the house. The girl and I
settled down, and I admit that I spat
a little venom her way. Her excuse
was that she was a country girl who
rarely sees any cars going through
that intersection at that time of
night, so thought it would be OK to
keep going. My first car was a write
off, so for the remainder of my time
with Amy I would catch the bus.
TAFE was proving interesting,
though I was starting to gravitate
away from coding. It just wasn’t
something that I enjoyed doing,
which is a bit strange considering
how much I used to enjoy programming
in BASIC. I suppose interests
change, and communications and
networking were looking like better
options for me. I also enjoyed
the arcade machines at TAFE.
Street Fighter Alpha 2 was in the
student lounge, and as a result so
was I during my breaks. This latest
addition to the Street Fighter
Alpha series had me hooked, and I
pumped many coins into it. I still enjoyed
playing Street Fighter 2 on my
SNES at home, but this just blew it
out of the water.
Set as a prequel to Street Fighter
2, the Alpha series takes place between
the first and second games in
the series. Returning warriors from
Street Fighter are present, as are
some future SF2 alum. The controls
feel very fluid, which is a stark contrast
to the Mortal Kombat series. I
am still convinced that without the
blood and gore there never would
have been an MK2. Those games
feel so rigid, while the animated
goofiness and smooth controls of
the Capcom’s fighting series just
appealed to me so much more.
The graphics were a step up from
Street Fighter 2, while the Q-Sound
music blared out of the speakers.
The game is full of battle tracks that
set the tone, and the sound effects
are crisp and clear.
Bering that Amy was my first girlfriend,
I found being dumped quite
hard to take. I wasn’t to remain
single for too long, but that will be
covered in the next episode of The
Gamer Diaries. In the meantime a
couple of the guys in my TAFE class
had CD burners, something that
was still a bit of a luxury in the mid to
late 90s. I can remember one of my
buddies, Arthur, coming to my front
door with a pile of about 10 CDs
full of pirated games. A few games
stood out of the pack, and the first
one that grabbed my attention was
Fantastic Dizzy. Having missed out
on playing the Dizzy adventures on
the Amstrad CPC, I wanted to give
this one a go and see what the fuss
was about.
Released a number of years earlier,
Fantastic Dizzy features the adven-
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turing member of the Yolkfolk out to
rescue his girlfriend Daisy from the
evil sorcerer Zax, the villain from
the first game. The Dizzy games
are arcade adventures that require
you to collect items and use them
in key locations, which will unlock
newer parts of the game for you
to explore. As with all of the other
Dizzy games, once you’ve made
your jump you have no further control
over Dizzy until he lands. To the
casual Mario and Sonic fan, this
gameplay element can be a little
frustrating, but accurate jumping is
a skill that you will need to master.
Fantastic Dizzy also featured stars
that the player needed to collect.
I’ve read that different versions of
the game had a different number of
stars to collect, either 100 or 250.
Another game featured on this CD
collection was Crusader No Remorse.
Having enjoyed 3D isometric
games from my Amstrad days, I
really got into the game. The controls
weren’t confusing, something
that isometric games can suffer
from, the graphics were nice and
sharp, though the sound effects
were pretty standard fare. I can remember
thinking about how far we
had come since Gunfright, another
isometric shoot em up I used to enjoy.
One big problem with Crusader
No Remorse was a bug that prevents
you from getting any further. I
did find a patch, but it wouldn’t work
on my copied version of the game.
That was pretty much the end of
that...
Another standout title was Gobliiins.
A point and click puzzler, Gobliiins
had you controlling 3 goblins,
hence the triple i in the title. Each
goblin had their own abilities, and
you would use them to punch or use
magic on items. These could then
be picked up and used to solve puzzles,
all in an attempt to save the
king. Oh, don’t worry, he hasn’t been
kidnapped. This king has gone stark
raving mad, and the goblins need to
find a way to get him back to normal.
The bright, colourful graphics
were a delight to behold, and the
animations were quite humorous.
The only complaint I had with the
game was that a majority of the
puzzles were a little too easy.
Without James around my Super
Nintendo was starting to become
neglected, as much of my gaming
was now done on the PC. I
had played my SNES cartridges to
death, and I could download ROMs
for free on my PC. Emulators were
getting better with each release,
and releases were coming weekly
or monthly in the early days. I was
also starting to play around with
MAME, the multi arcade machine
emulator.
More on that next month though.
If you like what you read then feel
free to give me a follow on Twitter
@dizrythmia.
A lot of my other ramblings can be
found on www.retrospekt.com.au.
1997 - 1998
WRITTEN BY PAUL MONOPOLI

YOUR MOVIESAY
LET’S GE
The video game movie is a strange
thing. Last year we saw Assassins
Creed, Angry Birds, Ratchet &
Clank and Warcraft grace our silver
screens, none of which lived up to
the hype. It seems the video game
movie is cursed, something that
simply can’t be done well. That’s the
popular opinion anyway. There have
been many over the years from
Super Mario Bros, Mortal Kombat,
Street Fighter, Need For Speed, Hitman,
Silent Hill, Max Payne, Tekken,
Prince of Persia even Far Cry got a
movie. Nearly all of these films have
been failures (Silent Hill is pretty
good though... Right?)
So for all of these poor attempts
to bring the stories from our gaming
consoles to the big screen there
has been one franchise that for all
its flaws seems to have worked,
none other than Resident Evil. So
why did Resident Evil spawn a six
film franchise that has grossed over
a billion dollars worldwide when so
many others have failed? Well I
think there are two answers to this
question, one is writer director Paul
W.S. Anderson and the other is star
Milla Jovovich. This impressive husband
and wife combo is the reason
this series which started in 2002
is still going, with 2017 seeing the
release of Resident Evil: The Final
Chapter in January this massive
fifteen year saga came to a close.
We may never see something like
it from the video game movie world
again.
In 2002 Resident Evil hit cinema
screens with a bang. I remember
as a young lad in high school when
this movie came out. I’ll be honest;
it had an effect on me. It had a slick
shine to it. It is glossy yet gritty. It
contains all the trademarks of the
conventional gory zombie movie
yet the hyper action of an Asian
martial arts film. It had a seedy
corporation whose motives were
horrific and added an element of
corporate espionage to the film. A
strange cast of characters that are
for the most part hyper masculine
army types with the few cowering
civilians thrown along to be eaten
one by one. It also gave us Alice.
Milla Jovovich burst off the screen
as the ultimate action babe. She
was shooting hordes of zombies,
fly kicking dogs in the head. As a
child in the midst of puberty there is
no doubt that this gorgeous action
woman thrust me into some form of
sexual awareness. She was beautiful
yet powerful, I think every teenage
boy I went to school with fell in
love with her. She has a grace and
real presence on screen that I feel
rivals any of the 80’s action stars.
Not only that, she is a woman of
power in an industry dominated by
men with large muscles. Not even
the likes of Marvel have given a
woman this much respect in film.
Alice saves the world again and
again and any man who gets in her
way usually gets a swift kick to the
crotch or bullet to the head. She’s
just a badass character.
Paul W.S. Anderson is one of those
oddities in the directing world for
me. The way I explain it best, is that
I have a rare medical disorder I call
“Paul W.S. Anderson syndrome”.
I know he doesn’t make the best
movies, but I love them all anyway.
He could key my car and I would
think it was a masterpiece. There
is something about the way he
shoots action and horror, this hyper
gloss that is just so visually appealing
to me. He seems to be the
kind of guy who makes a movie he
wants to watch. He is there to make
great, silly, escapism cinema. While
it may not have the artistic merit a
lot of people look for, sometimes
all I want is to see guys in cars that
have machine guns on them (Death
Race). Or see the Three Musketeers
fight on giant flying ships (The
Three Musketeers). He knows how
to make great popcorn films that always
seem to be fun.
Regardless of why I think he is talented,
it seems his love of horror,
over the top action and so –badits-good
dialogue have obviously
grabbed the public because these
films have certainly made money.
The other main reason why An-

T EVIL
RESIDENT EVIL
derson has a lot to thank as to
why these films are successful is
that he made them his own. While
there are commonalities to the video
game series the plots truly go
off in separate directions. He was
never afraid to steer away from
the games. Sticking too close to
the source material can obviously
cause problems, the main example
being 2016’s Warcraft. While it
was loved be fans of the old RTS
games most other people in the
audience seemed to have no clue
as to what was going on. Anderson
just took the bare bones concept
and fleshed it out his own way.
The series continued with Resident
Evil Apocalypse (2004), Resident
Evil Extinction (2007), Resident Evil
Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil Retribution
(2012) and this year we
got Resident Evil The Final Chapter
which saw the end of Alice’s story.
It was the action packed ending
I think fans will be satisfied with. I
certainly was. This film series while
silly does mean something to me. It
was something cool and fun when
I was in high school that followed
me into adulthood. They are great,
fun escapism films. Sometimes it
is nice to get out our pens and critique
a film for its artistic merits, and
then sometimes it’s fun to watch a
chick launch a motor bike through
a church window and kill a monster
with it. I doubt we will ever see another
franchise such as this, one
that embraces its own silliness with
no apologies and exists purely so
you can have a good time. Just remember
to aim for the head.
BY SCOTT F. SOWTER
@SCOTTFSOWTER

TCG NEWS
YU-GI-OH DUELIST
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Saga came out late
March and if you haven’t jumped on it
yet, here’s the rundown...
It’s a 100 card set size with 15 cards
per set according to the Konami site.
The set features new cards from all
five incarnations of Yu-Gi-Oh! With
new cards used by May and Bakura
in the original series including the requested
Diamond Kernel from Bakura’s
Deal against Kaiba. Konami also
detail the following:
The power to unleash any of the Sacred
Beasts from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX in
any Deck and draw an extra 2 cards
per turn if you do!
Yusei’s secret ace Synchro Monster
whose existence was revealed in
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, but was never called
to action in our timeline.
The terrifying influence of Don Thousand,
the ultimate foe from Yu-Gi-Oh!
ZEXAL!
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and get rewarded with extra draws
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signature moves of famous monsters
have always been a hit with fans, and
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Magic fans will be waiting for the
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22-23. If you’ve never been to a prerelease
here’s what Wizards suggest
on their website :
You’ll experience the thrill of opening
new cards for the first time, at an
event filled with other Magic players
who enjoy the game just as much as
you. Everything you’ll need to play
should be provided as part of your
entry fee - you simply show up and
play!
You’ll build a 40-card minimum deck
using the contents of a themed Prerelease
pack. This play format is
called “Sealed Deck.”
After you build your deck, you’ll be
randomly paired with another player
for a best-two-of-three match. Each
round, you’ll report who won and be
paired up with a new player. If you do
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YOUR TRADING SAYCARDS
Unlisted Leaf
youtube.com/user/UnlistedLeaf
“Who would have
though you’d get paid
to open Pokemon cards,
talk to a camera in your
bedroom? The weirdest
thing of all time..”
- Unlisted Leaf (Michael Anderson
from an interview on In Daily.
He’s the poster boy for success
on Youtube for those who chase
the dream of turning a passion into
profit. So when we found out that
he visits our Marion store and that
Matt (the store owner) knew him,
we had to use this connection to
catch up...
Welcome Ando! How long have you
been into Pokemon (in general)?
I’ve been into Pokemon for literally
as long as I can remember!
My mum tells me I was around 4
years old iwhen the fever came over
me and I haven’t stopped since.
When did you get into the TCG?
I think it was in kindergarten because
I would do chores around the
house and instead of my parents
paying me money for them they
would give me individual Pokemon
Cards because they were the most
important thing in the world to me.
What was the first set you had?
Probably the base set. I have a vivid
memory of buying a TV with my Dad
when I was 5 and seeing the base
set boosters for sale next to the
cash register but I couldn’t afford
them and went home without them.
Do you have an all-time favourite
card?
I love the Full Gold Cards from Legendary
Treasures! It is such a collector’s
item and the feel when you
pull one of those is like no other. Of
course there are the classics like
Base Set Charizard & The Shiny’s
from the Neo Series - I like them all!
How had being involved with Pokemon
TCG impacted your life, both
before and after YouTube success?
In primary school I remember it being
a huge part of my life and I had
two friends who also collected. We
would spend all lunch time discussing
the Pokemon Games and all the
tactics we found out the night before.
As an adult not much has changed.
I am still discussing Pokemon with
my friends, the only thing is now, it
is my full-time job. I am a full-time
Pokemon addict.
What’s the best thing about the
Pokemon TCG community?
I feel like now the Pokemon Community
has got so much bigger
through Pokemon Go as displayed
in the first six months of the game
the friendships and how easily they
can be made through Pokemon, is
unlike any other game.
Do you attend TCG events at all?
Do you compete?
I played once at a PAX convention
in Melbourne and got my butt kicked
by a ten year old. I still cry myself to
sleep over the embarrassment of
losing.
Do you play any other TCGs?
At the start of my Youtube career I
was definitely looking into about 4
or 5 other TCGs but with Youtube
as hectic as it is, I unfortunately
don’t have the time to play the other
games.
Which is your favourite, or preferred
starting Pokemon?
This is like choosing your favourite

ice-cream but if I really had to pick,
Mudkip always has a special place
in heart, because that was the first
ever Pokemon that I completed a
whole Pokemon game with.
What kind of Pokemon would you
design if you got the chance?
Two Pokemon that have always
intrigued me are Thundurus and
Houndoom. These two fused together
to make some kind of evil,
electric dog, that is also legendary,
- I reckon that would be pretty wild.
There are scores of conspiracy
theories about various Pokemon
origins, inter-type relationships, and
even the place of humans in the
Pokemon world, do you have a favourite
conspiracy theory?
My favourite conspiracy is one that
is a bit out there. It is that Ash’s father
is Pikachu. I mean if you really
think about it, we never actually see
Ash’s father, and Pikachu always
gives that helpful, fatherly advice.
On top of all this, there is some seriously
hard core evidence to back
it up, that makes for an interesting
read.
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PAPER MARIO: COLOR SPLASH
Maybe it’s simply down to the fact that the WiiU is now approaching the end of its lifespan, especially
now that the Nintendo Switch is on the horizon, or perhaps Nintendo didn’t market the
game to its full potential. Whatever the reason for its modest sales, Paper Mario: Color Splash is
a charming and enjoyable game that deserved more than the sub 500,000 sales it’s managed
to chalk up thus far. Fortunately Color Splash is showing some solid legs through the holiday
period, so there’s hope for it yet, but it’s still a far cry from Super Paper Mario’s almost 4 million
units sold, or even Sticker Star’s 2 million+.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment announced
WipEout Omega Collection
launches for the PlayStation 4
in North America on June 6 and on
June 7 in Europe for $39.99.
The game features all of the tracks
and ships from WipEout HD, Fury
and 2048. The game has been remastered
in 1080p on PS4 and dynamic
4K on PS4 Pro.
View the release date trailer here:
youtube.com/watch?v=otsTMJytt9A
“We have been able to take advantage
of the power and memory
bandwidth of PS4 to rework all
textures in the game. Compared
to the original games, textures are
now clear when viewed up close:
you can even read some of the
small text on the ships for the first
time. As well as a host of improved
graphical effects we have also
added in HDR which massively improves
contrast to what was seen
before.”
Here are the key features:
Enhanced Visuals: Compatible
with PS4 and PS4 Pro.
Enhanced with PS4 Pro.
Under The Hood: WipEout Omega
Collection features content
from WipEout HD, WipEout
HD Fury, and WipEout 2048.
Rapid Combat Racing: Rip around
sharp bends, power through stomach-churning
loops and dive down
sheer drops as you take out your rivals
with well-timed weapon blasts.
Competitive Multiplayer: Play online
with friends in eight-player races,
or classic two-player split screen.
Nine Game Modes: There are
nine modes available in total:
* Zone, Tournament, Speed Lap,
Time Trial, and Single Race from
HD
* Zone Battle, Eliminator, and Detonator
from Fury
* Career Mode from 2048
Thumping Soundtrack: Featuring a
few classics as well as tracks from
the hottest up-and-coming artists.
WipEout Omega Collection is a
feast for both your eyes and ears.

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DRAGON BA

LL FUSIONS
review

REVIEW
DRAGON BA
In the beginning of time, before
land, before water, there existed
only fire, a fire that rages to this
day, deep within the core of the
earth. It is said that within this
heart of fire there dwells an eternal
dragon, who can be called forth
only when the seven magic dragon
balls, now scattered over the face
of the earth are found and bought
together. When the seven magic
dragon balls are united, the eternal
dragon will appear before the
adventurer who bought them together
and grant that person a single
wish. Then, once more the balls
will be scattered to the four winds,
and the dragon beast will return to
his fiery lair to sleep in peace, until
another brave or foolish soul rediscovers
the balls and tries to bring
them together again.
Few know of the existence of the
dragon balls, and it is considered
a fools errand to attempt to unite
what is not supposed to exist. But
you have faith in the legends of old,
and after finding the first ball you
just knew that the other six had to
exist. For you and your friend Pinnich
the goal is simple; recover all
of the dragon balls and have your
wish granted. The journey has taken
you to the four corners of the
globe, but nothing was going to
stop you. Not wind, nor fire, nor any
form of danger would prevent you
from meeting the mighty dragon,
Shenlong.
As the game begins, you have
found the seventh Dragon Ball, and
the time has come to call upon the
eternal dragon to grant your wish.
As the Dragon Balls glow, and
Shenlong ascends from their position
on the ground, the clear blue
sky fades into black. If not for the
glow of the Dragon Balls and Shenlong
it is doubtful that you would be
able to see anything at all. After he
has risen the dragon god demands
that you tell him your wish. Finally,
after searching looking all over the
world for these mystical orbs it is
time to reap the fruits of your labour.
What will you wish for? A million
zeni? Eternal life? No. None of
these things are important to martial
artists like Pinnich and yourself.
There is only one thing that eager
young fighters like yourselves
could possibly want:
The ultimate martial arts tournament,
to determine the strongest
fighters of all time!
You speak your wish and the almighty
Shenlong booms his response
from above:
“Your wish is granted!”
The Dragon Balls rise, then scatter
in multiple directions. Their destination
is unknown, but once they
have arrived they will lie in a dormant
state for a full year before
they can be used again. A portal
opens up and the two of you are
sucked into it, and everything goes
black.
An undisclosed amount of time
passes before you begin to regain
consciousness. As you open your
eyes open you are greeted with
a slightly mixed up looking world.
Pinnich is still unconscious, but
you wake him up and fly around
to explore the new world you have
found yourselves in. You realise
that Shenlong has granted your
wish by teleporting you both to a
world that incorporates all time periods
of the Dragon Ball universe,
and they are going to have a five
on five tournament to determine
the strongest fighters of all time.
A group of five... well there are
only three left to find, right? Pinnich
declares that this is not the
case as he will not be entering the
tournament with you. He states
that you are his rival and that he
will meet you in the ring, as he flies
off and leaves you stranded in this
unknown world of mixed up time.
It is at this point you realise that
you must find other fighters who
will compete with you, so that you
can win the tournament and beat
Pinnich.
A trip to the Capsule Corporation
leads you to Goten and Trunks.
The Saiyan kiddies are quite powerful,
though Trunks is clearly the
stronger of the two. As you travel

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along and build up your levels, Pan
(from Dragonball GT) and kid Goku
(from the original Dragonball) will
join your party. Each character has
their own abilities, with Pan being
able to heal your allies, Goku being
insanely strong, and Goten
and Trunks being able to fuse into
Gotenks.
The game features an extensive
tutorial with key aspects of
the battling system explained by
Nappa and Raditz. As the game
continues you learn that while you
currently have a team of five warriors
you will need to recruit more.
Fighters can be found through side
missions or by recruiting them in
battle. This is where the parallels
to Pokemon begin to appear.
Battles are a strategic affair, and
it can appear to be a little confusing
at first. Your fighters square off
against each other, five a side, in
a round arena. The bottom of the
screen has a scrolling bar with the
warrior avatars moving along it.
Once they reach the end they can
make a move. Some characters
will move faster then others, but if
you hit them their turn will be delayed.
If you knock them out of the
ring and they go right to the back
of the bar.
As you fight your team will move
around the battle arena. This can
make for some entertaining attacks,
as you are able to hit enemies
into other members of your
team, who will promptly hit them
back. Playing pinball with the enemies
will cause additional damage,
and hitting them into their team
mates will injure those they hit.
One immediate criticism of the
game is that it can take a good 20+
hours to get to the point where you
can recruit warriors in a fight. After
a short tutorial with Master Roshi,
and a side quest to recruit a lady
he is keen to meet you’re good to
go. There are over 1000 warriors
in the game, including various incarnations
of Goku and Vegeta.
To unlock areas of the game and
meet more powerful fighters you
need to collect the coloured orbs
that you are awarded for battling.
There are 5 colours, and one of
the benefits to recruiting more
warriors to your team is that you
can hold more orbs.
While most of the fighters you recruit
along the way are made up
fighters for the game, who you are
likely to never use, occasional battles
will see you fighting some of
the main heroes and villains from
the franchise. Finding special areas
of the game will see you facing
enemies from that part of the main
storyline. For example, a quick trip
to Dr Gero’s secret lab will unlock a
battle with Androids 16, 17 and 18.
Many of the characters designed
for the game have clothing or accessories
that any fan of the franchise
would recognise. Chi Chi’s
helmet from Dragon Ball has made
an appearance, as has the clothing
worn by Beerus. 30+ hours of
gameplay has seen 85 characters
unlocked, so there is plenty to
keep you busy.
The game has been criticised in
the media for repetitive battles, but
at its core this game is a JRPG. The
question you need to ask yourself
8/10
is how many games in this genre
don’t have repetitive battles with
hours of required grinding? Not too
many, it comes with the territory
and has done so for a good few
decades now.
The music is a little strange, with
the odd Disney-esque track playing
while you fly around. It just
doesn’t sound like Dragon Ball
music, but this is why Nintendo included
volume control on the 3DS
console. The voices are all in Japanese,
which is a little disappointing
considering many of the Dragon
Ball games released in the west
feature the Funimation dub cast.
The graphics are nice and colourful,
and a lot of care has gone into
the character designs, something
that wouldn’t have been easy
when dealing with over 1000 generic
characters. While Dragon Ball
Fusions doesn’t take advantage of
the 3D features of the 3DS, it isn’t
something that you miss.
Dragon Ball games have been a hit
and miss affair since the first title
released on the Super Cassette
Vision console in 1986. Thankfully
Dragon Ball Fusions gets the formula
just right. Whether you’re a
Dragon Ball fan or enjoy the Pokemon
series but need something
new, you’ll definitely find something
for you in Dragon Ball Fusions.
BY PAUL MONOPOLI

OPINION
MASS EFFEC
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPA

T:
NION RANKING
BY ANNY SIMMS
Mass Effect is Bioware’s cult classic
sci-fi video game series that
has sold over 10 million copies in its
lifetime, with billions of articles, art,
cosplays and stories based on it.
Following the adventures of Commander
Shepard and her journey to
defeat the alien Reapers who want
to destroy the universe, Mass Effect
has a system of squadmates
who you recruit throughout the
games and who accompany you
on missions throughout the games
as your companions (and optionally
lovers). With the recent release
of Mass Effect: Andromeda, I felt
it was time to face the most controversial
of all Mass Effect topics:
who the best squadmate is.
Disclaimer: these are my personal
opinions and do not reflect anything
but my own experiences and
really good taste. Contains major
spoilers!!

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
19: Ashley Williams, Mass Effect 1, 3
Ashley apparently is pretty good
in Mass Effect 3, but since I killed
her in the original because she
wouldn’t stop being xenophobic
to my actually cool squadmates, I
never knew her like that. My Ashley
was a weirdly religious xenophobic
pain who wasn’t even good on missions.
Her death at least was pretty
cool, where she followed my orders
knowing it would lead to her death. I
might have teared up, but you don’t
have any proof.

18: Jacob Taylor, Mass Effect 2
Jacob honestly isn’t bad in any way
(other than the fact he very happily
marries someone else in Mass
Effect 3 even if in a committed relationship
with him) but he is very,
very bland. Jacob’s personal quest
where you confront his lost father’s
weird jungle harem and realise his
dad’s just a giant dropkick rather
than the idol he’d aspired to become
is interesting, but he gains
absolutely nothing from it. Jacob is
just basic nice guy who just wants
to fight your alien pals for no reason.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
17: Zaeed Massani, Mass Effect 2 DLC
I appreciated Zaeed: he was a
straight forward, gun wielding guy
who just wanted to kill a dude who’d
ruined him in the past. My Renegade
(aka aggressive unyielding) Shepard
loved having Zaeed around, and
for a DLC character he was pretty
ok. Unfortunately just like Jacob,
there wasn’t much else to him.

16: Kaidan Alenko, Mass Effect 1, 3
Jacob honestly isn’t bad in any way
(other than the fact he very happily
marries someone else in Mass
Effect 3 even if in a committed relationship
with him) but he is very,
very bland. Jacob’s personal quest
where you confront his lost father’s
weird jungle harem and realise his
dad’s just a giant dropkick rather
than the idol he’d aspired to become
is interesting, but he gains
absolutely nothing from it. Jacob is
just basic nice guy who just wants
to fight your alien pals for no reason.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
15: Javik, Mass Effect 3 DLC
I might be biased by the beautiful
Citadel DLC scene where if you
don’t have a significant other (or in
my case, if they recently died) you
wake up in bed with Javik, but I really
liked this guy. He was mean, had
an entirely new view on the Mass
Effect universe, and his arguments
with Liara were just hilarious. Additionally,
his design was cool and his
actual creation added to the universe.

14: Jack, Mass Effect 2
Jack scores low here for two reasons:
the fact she constant fought
with Miranda, obvious best girl, and
the fact she was so aggressive
she made even me uncomfortable.
Jack’s personal quest was interesting,
her development into ME3
was probably the best of all the
companions, and as I write this I’m
tempted to move her up the list; but
in the end, Jack was an angry and
aggressive girl that made me not
like her most of ME2.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
13: Tali’Zorah nar Rayya, Mass Effect 1, 2, 3
I know Tali is a fan favourite, but
she never did it for me. She’s sweet,
and her development was good,
but I just never picked her for my
teams for me she wasn’t too interesting.
She’s often compared to
Merrill from Bioware’s other main
franchise Dragon Age, but the difference
to me is that I actually like
Merrill.

12: James Vega, Mass Effect 3
It’s probably sacrilegious to have
James this high, especially above
Tali, but here we are. James was hilarious
to me, even if probably not
in the way intended. Flirting with him
whenever he got to flirty just to see
him backtrack extremely fast, and
seeing his weird hero worship while
constantly trying to one-up you
(spoilers: he never does) was just
entertaining to me.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
11: Legion, Mass Effect 2
Even if you only pick him up really
late in the game, Legion is such a
good boy. He’s developed a personality
and has decided to help
his people to develop and honestly
he’s so good. It’s also super fun to
take him onto Tali’s personal quest
just to see everyone react in horror.

10: EDI, Mass Effect 3
EDI is a very interesting character
– someone who has existed in past
games as a helpful AI sudden has a
hot robot bod and wants to help you
destroy your enemies (also bang
your pilot). Watching EDI try and
navigate humanity and ‘feelings’
is interesting and a nice addition
to your capable roster. A fun extra
is how your crew can react to her
since they’ve previously thought
she was just a computer program,
such as Samantha Traynor talking
about how hot EDI’s voice is.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
9: Samara or Morinth, Mass Effect 2
So I’ve never actually recruited
Morinth despite my best efforts (I
love Renegade, but I REFUSE to be
outright mean to my companions)
but I have access to YouTube, so I
love her anyway. Samara herself is
such a badass older woman who
has an interesting outlook on life,
and a really great voice. Samara
and Morinth’s face-claim also regularly
cosplays them, which is just
awesome as well.

8: Grunt, Mass Effect 2
In stark contrast to Samara, Grunt is
the youngest member of your roster.
He’s your son, and you take care
of him as he becomes a badass of
his own. Hilarious, adorable, and an
outright good boy, Grunt is the perfect
son any mother (because who
plays Mass Effect as a dude) could
love.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
7: Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect 2 DLC
It’s so rare to get a DLC character
who is actually more than a onedimensional
party trick, but Kasumi
is just that. A reserved but mischievous
thief who grows a conscience
about the world and wants your
help to recover sacred memories
of her partner is such an interesting
character, and talking to her was always
a highlight on my ship. She’s
definitely worth the money to meet
her, which is more than I can say for
most DLC.

6: Thane Krios, Mass Effect 2
My lizard husband is such a great
character if you ignore his awkward
romance obsession with his dead
wife. A sensitive assassin who falls
in love with you no matter what and
is dedicated to helping your cause
is one of my favourite tropes so it’s
no wonder I love Thane. Soft char-
acters who can do hard jobs without
sacrificing compassion are fantastic,
and his death scene made
me cry because I wasn’t expecting
it (I couldn’t play his Citadel DLC
wake and messages without some
tissues around). Thane for best ME
romance 2k17.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
5: Liara T’Soni, Mass Effect 1, 2-DLC, 3
Liara sucks in Mass Effect 1. She
won’t leave you alone, constantly
wants to probe your mind, and if
you’re romancing anyone else they
have to pull you aside and make
sure you’re not cheating because
she’s so obviously in love with you
it’s uncomfortable. This entirely
changes in ME2 and ME3. Liara,
while away from you, has become
this stone cold badass who isn’t
afraid to roast you for your life decisions
while also gathering information
on your enemies to take them
down without even meeting them.

4: Urdnot Wrex, Mass Effect 1
Who doesn’t love our favourite krogan
warlord? While Wrex is a character
not many encountered (the
default for all other games is that
you shot him in the head in the first
game) watching Wrex mature and
become the leader of his people is
so satisfying. Wrex is a great friend
and a character who doesn’t take
things seriously and getting to kinda
wing-man him with Eve is such
a great experience. His brother is
also a pain so you should definitely
import a save to meet Wrex.

MASS EFFECT:
AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING
3: Mordin Solus, Mass Effect 2
This section was the hardest for me
to write, because it’s hard to explain
how great Mordin is. A mad scientist
who founded the almost-genocide
of a race, who also gives you alien
sex advice should you walk into his
clinic at the wrong moment, Mordin
is a plethora of ideas that work perfectly
in sync. He’s kind but practi-
cal, and even his recruitment quest
was a very interesting point of
kindness versus realistic goals. His
death in ME3 again had me tearing
up as he sacrificed himself to fix
his own mistakes was the perfect
way to end his story (and Eve’s child
having his name is gonna always
mess me up).

2: Miranda Lawson, Mass Effect 2
I would’ve romanced Miranda if I
could’ve. She’s hot, Australian, hardcore
and once you get over your
weird posturing storyline of ‘who’s
the real boss here’ with her, she respects
you as a leader and warrior.
I really appreciated that she was a
character who fully challenged you
as a commander and person, and
who you could earn the esteem
and loyalty of. Unlike other games,
she wasn’t outright aggressive or
rude to you during this, and it felt really
good to be able to become her
friend.

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AN UNOFFICIAL COMPANION RANKING

Garrus
Vakarian,
Mass Effect 1, 2, 3
1:
Was this really ever in doubt? Garrus
is your idiot badass sweetheart
best bro. A smooth talking ex-cop
more interested in justice than procedure
who isn’t afraid to talk dirt on
you to your face. I love your banter
with him, the fact you both rag on
each other’s races and faces, and
that Garrus throughout all games is
loyal to you to a fault. Throughout
everything, I knew he’d always have
my back because he was my best
friend. I personally never romanced
him, but boy is that weird cat-bugboy
great. By the way, if you let him
win that sniper competition, you’re
a weak link.

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In a previous issue of Cosplay Live
(2 years ago almost to the month)
we spoke to Harley’s Joker, a brilliant
designer, photographer and
Joker themed cosplayer who goes
to incredible lengths to create art
that shines in the world of cosplay. If
you’ve ever thought about undertaking
a cosplay project that is complex
but ulitmately worth it, this is the artist
to follow. We caught up with him
recently on his latest project...
Your latest project is a wonderful
tribute to the original, did you do the
graphic art too?
Of course I did, and thank you very
much. I’m extremely protective (and
a bit obsessive) of my projects, and
typically wouldn’t feel comfortable
letting anyone else handle them. If
it’s something I put out there, well
over 90% of the time I’m the one behind
the whole thing. I think my obsession
over details simply comes
out of the premise I apply to these
projects, which is “if this were real,
and a camera was simply there to
capture this moment, what would it
look like?”. I want the pieces to feel
as if the original comic book art to
which I am paying tribute is actually
a drawing based on this photograph,
instead of the reality which is the
other way around. I hope that made
sense.
You’re doing brilliant and complicated
art projects, does that cut into the
time you’d perhaps spend at Cons?
Not at all. Keep in mind none of this
is employment - these are all just
different hobbies that occur in my
spare time.
Let’s talk design for a minute - the
comic covers - how long does it take
to do one?
Every project is different in terms
of scope and time, though each
is approached the same way. I approach
them a bit like film making.
Most of your time is spent in development
and pre-production. A very
small, dense, but occasionally costly
amount of time is spent in production
(shooting the material). Lastly
a large chunk of time is spent in
post-production, editing. Recreating
“The Killing Joke” cover took a couple
weeks. “Trophies” took about a
month. “Five-Way Revenge” took
over three months, primarily because
I had never done any sort of
3D design before, so I had to teach
myself as I went along, running in to
MANY roadblocks and speed-bumps
along the way.
How do you source the additional
graphics such as fonts and images?
There’s no sourcing going on, I want
to create everything from scratch.
That’s why I photograph as much as
possible. In “Five-Way Tribute” I photographed
the Joker, Batman, the
playing card, the sky, phosphorus
streetlamp lens flares, automobile tail
lights & headlights, and even bits of
graffiti. If you look VERY closely you
can even see a poster on the side of
one of the buildings for “Amusement
Mile in Old Gotham”, styled like a vintage
circus poster complete with a
clown painted on it. I actually painted
that with watercolor, scanned it in
and shrank it down. However I will
confess to using some stock images
for things like asphalt and concrete
textures. And all the fonts in this image
aren’t “fonts” technically, they’re
illustrated letter by letter, just as Neal
Adams himself did when he drew the
original in 1973. I used to do playbills
for theaters and would do all the lettering
by hand. I even worked for a
while when I was much younger at
a Trader Joe’s as the store artist
creating the signs. The truth is I’ve
been drawing since toddlerhood.
Art and design come very naturally
to me. This isn’t to say that they’re
easy tasks that don’t require a lot of
effort, simply that given enough time
and focus I’m determined to achieve
it “baking from scratch”.
For readers who didn’t read our first
interview 2 years ago - tell us how
you got started in cosplay and cosplay
art creation and where does
your partner Joker’s Harley fit in?
Cosplay happened sort of by accident
for me. Halloween was always
my favorite holiday, and (to make a
very long story quite short) I spent
about a year off and on working on
a Joker costume intended for Halloween.
I decided instead to wear
it to San Diego Comic Con in 2012,
and the internet went kaboom. The
art pieces were a natural way for me
to connect my lifelong passion of art
and photography to something else
I love that had developed an online
following: the cosplay. Joker’s Harley
(or “Alyssa” as I’ve always known
her) is not only my partner in costume,
but in life. We’ve been in love
for five years now and counting. She
is a very talented artist and designer
in her own right and we really have
found a great way to support each
others projects. I know I can always
trust her eye on something, and I’m
fairly certain she feels the same way
about me.
Ok, a bit of a personal question if I
may, when I’m working on photography
post processing I usually have
headphones on and blast music,
what do you do? Also what equipment
are you working with? Some
of those projects would be memory
intensive so I’m guessing you’ve got
some sort of system that can handle
moving all those pixels around?
I will usually listen to music. Often
if I’m editing I’m home alone, so no
need for the headphones. Until recently
I have been using the same
computer since 2009. However this
Christmas I got myself a new present:
debt. I applied for a credit card,
discovered I have a dangerously

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high credit score and was given far
too much spending freedom, and
am now the proud owner of a total
beast of a machine. To be fair, I do
a decent bit of video editing and effects
work as well, nowadays usually
in 4k resolution, so I need it. I’ve got
64GB of ram, an 8GB Nvidia Quadro
graphics card made specifically for
graphics rendering, and an 8 core
liquid cooled Intel processor. And,
again, a lot of debt.
What’s next in the immediate future
and for the rest of 2017?
I actually make my living as an actor.
It’s my greatest passion. I’m still
climbing the entertainment ladder,
one slow passing rung at a time. No
one knows what the future holds,
we’ll just have to keep out eyes
open.
Your artwork is now available to buy,
where can our readers go to buy and
view your work?
harleysjokerart.storenvy.com
Editor’s note:
If you’re serious about Cosplay - this is one
of those artists you simply must follow. His
dedication to his craft is second to none.
Go here - like and follow...
www.facebook.com/HarleysJoker
See next page for
final image!
ONLINE:
www.facebook.com/HarleysJoker
harleysjokerart.storenvy.com

The original inspiration and Harley’s Joker’s tribute - right.

CLASSYCAT
William Tan’s Photography: www.facebook.com/williamtansphotography
Isabel Klapwyk: www.facebook.com/IsabelKlapwykPhotographicArts/

Welcome to Live Magazine Classycat
Cosplay! Firstly tell us about
yourself , where you live and how
you got into cosplay.:
Hello!! I’m Amy otherwise known as
Classycat Cosplay! I’m 22 years old
and I grew up and live in a small town
in rural British Columbia Canada.
Think trees and wildlife, I basically
live in the woods haha. I have always
been really into video games,
manga and anime and by accident,
I stumbled into the cosplay scene
while searching up art online and
seeing someone dressed as one of
the characters. I was totally mesmerised
by the fact other people
were into something like that since
I knew almost no one who had similar
interests to my own. From there
I saved up, ordered a cosplay online
and when I was around 15 years old
I packed up and travelled a 7 hours
drive to Calgary Alberta to attend my
first Cosplay Convention as Haine
Otomiya from the manga, “The Gentlemen’s
Alliance Cross.” by Arina
Tanemura.
What’s the Canadian cosplay scene
like - do you have many cons during
the year and what’s your favourite?
The Canadian Cosplay scene is simply
amazing! There is just an endless
amount of really really talented and
friendly people. It’s like every corner
you turn there is someone you know
or someone who wants a hug or a
picture! It makes you feel really good.
There are a few cons here and there
but as you know Canada is a huge
country and they tend to be fairly
spread out and as such I’m usually
only able to attend one a year. My favourite
which is so near and dear to
my heart is Otafest, based in Calgary
Alberta. I’ve gone every year since
2011 and the staff work so hard to
make it a truly welcoming and fun
event. They have contests, panels
and bring in some wicked Japanese
bands for the dances. I was so nervous
my first year but the Calgary
cosplay community swept me in and
made me feel right at home, and I’ve
made some of the best of friends
and even met my significant other
there. It’s truly my highlight weekend
of the year!
What’s been your most challenging
costume so far? (And why)
Kougyoku Ren from Magi, for sure! I
don’t build the costumes myself but
I usually alter them to my needs and
that one is a huge challenge to wear,
so many layers and crinoline! Trying
to walk around without tripping is always
a task nevermind trying not to
get the bottom dirty! I tried driving to
a location once while wearing her,
I looked like an oversized frill cake
stuffed into a tiny car to say the
least haha. Then there’s the wig, let
me say this, hair spray hair spray and
maybe a bit more hairspray.
How did you learn to do your make
up and hair?
Trial and error! Growing up as rural as
I did I actually didn’t have the internet
at my house, so I occupied my time
testing out makeup and wig styles
based off photos I’d seen. Eventually,
I learned how to wear cosmetic
contacts as well. It wasn’t until later
that I teamed up with my one of my
best friends, who is also my main
photographer, that my makeup really
expanded. Crystal taught me
many tips and tricks involving eyeliner,
false lashes, etc, and always
helps me look photo ready! (She
also once shaved my eyebrows off
for the sake of cosplay haha) Learning
to style and cut the wigs was
something I worked really hard at
with the help of my boyfriend, (who
is an awesome cosplayer) learning
to use fabric glue to hold the ends,
testing different max hold hairsprays
and even glueing the sides to my
face before a shoot! I find the whole
process really enjoyable except for
clean up, of course, haha.
Tell us about some cosplay photo
shoots you’ve done, how do you
prepare and what happens during a
typical shoot?
I’ve done several with so many awesome
photographers! I once participated
as “Annie” in a Cosplay
Music Video, (by Andy Wang) it was
a “league of legends pool party
2014”(you can look it up on youtube
wink wink) shoot and was basically
a whole day filled with water
balloon fights and trying not to soak
the cameras! I met a bunch of really
great people that day and learned
a lot about film and composition.
Though I work mostly with Crystal
Rene Unger Photography and our
shoots are always a blast too. We
get ready together at her house before
setting off to find the perfect
locations, not much stuff is usually
pre-planned and is more often than
not pure spur of the moment.The
coolest we did was probably utilising
the smoke from a nearby forest fire
to make it look like I was in a sandy
desert. Once we find a good spot I
try to get really into character, I basically
just act it out, we laugh and
she follows me around and takes the
photos! It is a ton of fun and honestly,
that’s what cosplay should be about.
What’s coming up for you in 2017?
2017 is my year to get back at it! I
took a bit of a creative break in 2016
so I’m feeling recharged and ready
to go for this year! I’m planning on
building my own Skyrim armour set,
attending at least 2 different conventions
and revisiting some of my
favourite cosplays I already own. My
childhood best friend also recently
got into personal training and is designing
me a “cosplay ready” plan so
I’m really pumped to try that out. (and
maybe a little scared haha) I’m also
looking into doing some “Harvest
Moon” themed cosplays this year.

Crystal Rene Unger Photography: www.facebook.com/CrystalReneU.Photo

Overall I’m just excited to enjoy this
hobby to its fullest and all the great
people that come along with it.
Ok, on to some fun questions -
What’s your favourite movie, TV
show and book?
Hmm! I’d honestly have to say it’s a
hard tie between “Jurassic Park” and
“Final Fantasty 7 Advent children”!
Tv show would have to be “Game
of Thrones” for sure and for a book,
probably “The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Cross”.
What do you do during your non cosplay
time - apart from work or study?
I live on a farm so usually gardening
or tending to my array of animals. My
boyfriend Matsu and I play “Pokemon”
or “Magic the Gathering” together
lots or just hang out and make
crazy food and watch anime! I also
hang out at my friends place lots and
we play a lot of video games, right
now we are super into “Don’t Starve
Together!”. Apart from that, I spend a
lot of time with my family.
If you could have dinner with anyone
from history who would that be and
why?
Oh!! That is tough! I’d probably say
William Shakespear just to listen to
him talk all evening in old English
haha.
Finally where can our readers go to
find out more about you?
My instagram is @Classycat_cosplay.
It is by far my most active
account.
My facebook page is just Classycat
Cosplay.
Thank you so so much!
ONLINE:
www.instagram.com/classycat_cosplay
www.facebook.com/ClassyCatCosplay

Crystal Rene Unger Photography: www.facebook.com/CrystalReneU.Photo

CLASSYCAT
Crystal Rene Unger Photography: www.facebook.com/CrystalReneU.Photo

IRELAND
reid
Ireland Reid’s bio says:
“I truly believe in following your
dreams and that anything you
want to do is possible. I love being
a positive influence and making
this world a better place.”
We just had to interview her...
Hey Ireland, please tell us a bit about
yourself, how you got into acting/cosplay
and where you are based.
Hi! My name is Ireland Reid and I currently
live in Southern California in the
USA. I have personally been involved
in the cosplay community for about 4
years now. Before being personally involved,
in wearing my own creations,
doing online tutorials and workshops, I
worked on commissions for years for
others in the community or other communities
involving costumes. I have a
background in 9 years in school/community
theater along with mechanical
engineering work experience. I am currently
enrolled in my PhD program for
Business Management. Outside of all
this, I am a fitness enthusiast, and love
reading Sci-fi books.
One thing you talk about is making the
world a better place through cosplay,
it’s a wonderful passion, tell us about
that.
Cosplay is a person’s interpretation of
how they view their favorite characters
from a particular fandom or fandoms.
I love being able to have not only the
opportunity to create exotic & heavily
detailed cosplay pieces, but being able
to meet people all over the world who
are into the same thing. Cosplay is like
this worldwide community of amazing
people, that thrive on art and personal
expression within one another. It’s such
a beautiful thing to see firsthand in person
to be honest. I always try to be that
positive light in the community, pushing
that cosplay can be for everyone.
You travel a lot for cosplay and events,
what’s been some of the highlights?
The biggest highlight is getting to be
able to travel all over the world, meeting
everyone & experiencing all new
places & cultures. It is something that
is pretty dear to me and I never take
one second of it for granted. I love
diving into learning about new cultures
and I love meeting new people.
What’s coming up in 2017?
This year I am doing something a little
bit different then I have done in the
past few years. I am not traveling so
much, but focusing on content more
heavily for all my social media outlets.
It will be more content as far as adding
more cosplay videos and cosplay related
education pieces to my YouTube
channel. I will also be filming crafting
and tutorials live via Twitch Creative,
all the way to making more elaborate
costumes to showcase my style of
art & engineering. I have a few other
things outside of the cosplay community
which I am getting involved in, still
in the spotlight per say, but they are
pretty big projects. I will release more
information when I can about them, but
I am beyond excited to be part of them.
Tell us about your favourite cosplays.
Every cosplay build that I create, to be
honest, is a love and hate feeling towards
it. I challenge myself in different

areas with each build, from overall design
to time & costs involved. I try to
always find the best way in both quality
and longevity with all builds. Then I take
what I have learned, and turn it into tutorial
videos for others. This includes
the horrible things that went wrong,
to what is the best bang for your buck
wise, and so forth. It’s all about growing
together as a community and that
is the part I love the most.
You’ve got a huge following on Instagram
and you’re also on Youtube, what
sort of videos are you doing and do you
have some advice for new cosplayers
getting started in social media?
I am always looking for ways to reach
out to my following and connect with
them more and more. I actually covered
this part with some tips & tricks
for building a social media based brand
on my YouTube channel. I do this miniseries
on there, where I break down
little parts for someone, if they are
interested in taking their craft from a
hobby to a profession. One of the parts
I break down is social media, from
what social media outlets you need to
get exposure in, to creating a uniform
image of your name, (or brand in this
case), and more.
Who inspires you ?
My mother. She is my hero and why I
have the drive/motivation I have every
day to push all limits within myself. I am
extremely blessed to have her in my
life. She taught me at an early age that
if you want something in life, you have
to work hard for it.
Finally where can our readers go to
find out more about you?
I will admit that due to the nature of
modern day social media, I am pretty
much everywhere to be honest. I’ve
created a “central hub” for all social
media, cosplay tutorial videos, my
blogs and much more just to help avoid
confusion. You guys can find everything
at www.irelandreid.com.
ONLINE:
www.facebook.com/OfficialIrelandReid
www.irelandreid.com
www.twitter.com/irelandreid
www.instagram.com/irelandreid
www.youtube.com/irelandreid27

ABBY P
COSPLAY
www.facebook.com/abbypeeofficial

The amazing Abby holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Visual & Performing
Arts, and a first degree black
belt in Tae Kwon Do. She hopes to
use her talents to contribute a little
something to this world...
Hi Abby and welcome to Live Magazine
and also Cosplay Live. Can you
give us a bit of background on yourself?
Thank you so much for having me!
I’ve been in the cosplay game for
a while but this is actually my first
cosplay interview in a magazine so
I’m really excited and honored to
be a part of your publications. Really
appreciate what Live Magazine
and Cosplay Live is doing for cosplayers
and the community! As for
my background, I’m originally from
Southern California in the U.S. where
I grew up doing a lot of random hobbies
other than cosplay. I grew up
with strict parents so I guess I had
to find my own ways to keep myself
entertained at home. Once I got into
cosplay, there was just nothing else
like it and my passion for it grew
and grew, simply becoming a part of
who I was and am today. Along with
cosplay, I run my own blog and two
Youtube channels while also working
full-time here in South Korea where I
currently reside.
Looking at what you do, you must be
so busy. You’re a member of Honey
Toast Cosplay - what does that entail?
Honey Toast Cosplay consists of my
good friends and I, and what it entails
is simply the opportunity to be closer
in the things we love: video games,
anime, manga, cosplay, and more.
We excitedly fangirl over things together,
or plan out future cosplays
and cons. We haven’t had much cosplay
activity as a group recently because
each member is busy saving
animals as a vet tech, going to pharmacy
school, or teaching English to
school children in Japan and South
Korea. Since Honey Toast Cosplay is
something that is completely for fun,
we freely and happily try to live our
own lives and also come together to
work on cosplays or attend cons together
whenever we can. It’s always
good to know we’ll have that special
group of friends we can turn to and
still talk to on the daily, and I love and
appreciate my girls Ash, Moni, and
Amelia so much for that. Hopefully
we can show the world more of Honey
Toast Cosplay in the future!
Also, you’re a cosplay ambassador
for Kpop College - tell us about that
too and also Andong in South Korea.
I am that Honey Toast Cosplay
member I mentioned in the previous
answer who is currently teaching
English in South Korea! With this
job and living in another country, I’ve
fortunately had quite a bit of free
time to be able to continue pursuing
my own passions and more. This
includes starting a vlog channel on
Youtube to share my experiences.
And somehow, I also became the
cosplay ambassador for Kpop College
and an honorary ambassador
for Andong, the city I’m living in here
in South Korea. As a cosplay ambassador,
I work closely with Kpop College
thinking of ideas and carrying
those out in order to create more
interest and participation in cosplay,
as well as share about the cosplay
and con scene here in South Korea.
And living here in Andong has been
great because it’s a very comfortable
city where I’ve made lots of
memories. Andong is known as the
capital city of Korean spiritual culture!
If you ever visit South Korea,
be sure to let me know and I’ll gladly
share more about my city!
Now if that isn’t enough, you’re also
into Parkour which stems from your
interest in Mirror’s Edge right?
Yes, haha! I got really into parkour
a number of years back which did
stem from Mirror’s Edge. That game
is still one of my favorites for its
sleek aesthetic and gameplay, and I
love Faith’s character so much.
With parkour, besides the obvious
fact that it just looks so bloody cool,
it feels amazing when you’re finally
able to perfectly land a move you’ve
been working so long on. It’s also a
great physical workout and you gain
stamina and skills that are definitely
useful for something like a zombie
apocalypse, duh. But first and foremost,
parkour has always been a
freeing discipline for both body and
mind. It’s scary to try something
we’ve never done before - jumping
over a huge gap or clearing a high
wall. But as we train, practice, and
build confidence, we can eventually
make it over to the other side. That
same philosophy can be used in
life. Sadly though, my knees haven’t
been in the best shape as the years
have gone by, so I haven’t trained in
forever!
You’re living in South Korea but are
from the U.S. - how did you and why
did you move? (As in, how does a
person get resident status in South
Korea?)
I have a work visa! It was a really long
process, and there was so much paperwork
and documents involved, but
all was made possible through the
teaching program I came through.
As for why - I’ve always wanted to try
living and working in another country
(South Korea, especially!) as a challenge
and new adventure, and being
able to do so by teaching kids has
been so fulfilling.
Ok so on to cosplay, tell us how you
got into cosplay and what your first
cosplays were...
I think I was in high school - I came
across cosplay photos online and
just thought it was the coolest thing.
I think it also stemmed from me just
loving the characters in a game I
played or an anime I watched SO
much that I wanted to literally be that
character myself. So I knew I

Andrew Pandes: www.andrewpandes.com

had to try cosplay eventually. My first
cosplays were at my first cons: Tifa
Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII: Advent
Children, Haruhi Suzumiya from
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,
and I think Misa Amane from Death
Note.
Do you make your costumes and
what’s been your most difficult cosplay?
In my earliest years of cosplay, I
didn’t even know how to sew or
make props, so I would commission
outfits or customize and put pieces
together, in addition to buying wigs
or any other necessary accessories.
For many years now though, I’ve
learned to sew entire costumes and
create any accompanying props
or accessories. Making my own
costumes is always exhausting or
stressful when there’s a time limit for
a con or photoshoot, but I love taking
that opportunity to give all of my
love and hard work into something I
care so much about, and then wearing
the final product. I’d say the most
difficult cosplay so far has been my
Crimson Akali (League of Legends)
because of all the components and
details, which also makes it the one
I’m still most proud of so far.
Who inspires you in life and in cosplay?
In life, I’m inspired by my parents and
pretty much anything around me -
music, other artists, even the other
teachers I work with and the kids I
teach. In my earlier cosplay days, I
remember being inspired by Li Kovacs
aka “PikminLink”, Jin Joson
aka “behindinfinity”, and the Japanese
cosplayer Kipi. I’m also inspired
by my fellow cosplayer friends and
seeing other cosplayers at cons just
having a fun time.
You run a successful blog and social
media sites - do you have some tips
to share with new cosplayers wanting
to do the same?
Sure! I guess for starters, think of a
fun name you’d like others to know
you as.
For me, I started off with the online
alias “hellozombie”, which is the
username I used for my deviantart.
com account and cosplay.com account,
and then later, my blog. It was
really strange but funny when I’d
hear random people yell “ARE YOU
HELLOZOMBIE?!” at cons, haha! So I
just went with that for a while.
A major tip I have though, is to stay
true to yourself and to your art. For
me, cosplay has always existed as a
fun, creative outlet where I can also
utilize the things I’ve learned from
the random hobbies I grew up doing
(they turned out useful after all, yay!),
to my skills as an artist, martial artist,
and lover of music, singing, dance,
and performance, all the while paying
tribute to a character I love so
much. That genuineness will show
on your blog and social media sites
if you stay true to your passion! Stay
humble, be kind, maybe study a bit
of design, HTML, and CSS (or get a
friend to help you), and most importantly,
have fun!
Some fun questions -
Tell us 3 things you can’t live without
Food, sleep, music
Tell us 3 movies you just love
Titanic, 500 Days of Summer, Princess
Mononoke
3 Books you just love
Harry Potter (all of them count as
one), Life of Pi, The Architecture of
Happiness
“Stay true to
yourself and
to your
art ”
Thanks so much for being part of
this issue - can you let our readers
know where they can go to find out
more about you?
Blog: abbypblog.tumblr.com
facebook.com/abbypeeofficial
youtube.com/byebyezombie
Email: official.abbypee@gmail.com
Thank you again for having me! Really
enjoyed the interview, more power
to Live Magazine and Cosplay Live,
and much love to all my fellow cosplayers
out there! ‘Til next time!
ONLINE:
www.abbypblog.tumblr.com
www.facebook.com/abbypeeofficial
www.youtube.com/byebyezombie

Marvin K. Sola: www.facebook.com/MKSolaPhotography

Priscilla Vesper: www.facebook.com/priscillavesper

Jim Lee: jimleephotography.zenfolio.com

Shaun Anderson: shaunandersonphotos.wordpress.com

Jim Lee: jimleephotography.zenfolio.com

suddenly
green
One of the best things about publishing
a magazine is talking to both established
cosplayers and those who
are fairly new to it. Today we spoke
to someone we admire for their honesty
and passion... hello Suddenly
Green, Tell us about yourself - where
you’re based and how you got into
cosplay.
I’m an Adelaide based cosplayer
who, as a child, always had a love for
costumes and dressing up. Cosplaying
as specific characters started for
me as something I did at home with
friends or at theme parties. My public
Instagram account began getting
popular for my gaming content and
unique personality, and when I started
posting photos of my cosplays,
I received overwhelmingly positive
support. I have only started cosplaying
publically at conventions over
the past year, and the community
has been so friendly, welcoming and
supportive that I wish I had started
sooner!
What are your favourite cosplay
characters, and why?
I’m drawn to characters that are of a
stark contrast to my own personality.
I love the crazy obsessiveness of
Harley Quinn, the psychopathic Joker
or the seductive sultry Poison Ivy. I
love to cosplay characters that allow
me to experience something new, or
become a person I would otherwise
never become.
Being in Adelaide, do you go to any
of the cons that are on during the
year?
Absolutely! This year I’ll be at Oz
Comic Con, AVCon and Supanova in
Adelaide and I may even make it to
PAX in Melbourne and Supanova in
Sydney.
You’ve got a large Instagram following,
do you have tips for new models
or cosplayers just starting out?
Social Media is about engagement.
I always engage with my audience.
My online friends and followers are
real people and I’m very aware of
that. I always do my best to interact
with people on a personal level. Your
content should also be clear and
concise. I try to stick to only a few
subject matters, that way I can properly
cater to my audience.
Ok change of direction - who inspires
you?
My cosplay idol has always been
Jessica Nigri and I was so grateful
to meet her when I attended Tampa
Bay Comic Con in 2016. She has always
shown her true self and can be
silly and poke fun at herself without
worrying who will freezeframe on an
awkward facial expression (in fact,
she encourages it!) and I can really
relate to that. Jessica shows brilliant
craftsmanship with her work and
has so many incredible talents. Plus,
she touched my butt... What’s not to
love?!

Steamkittens: www.facebook.com/steamkittens

Sean Pualic Photography: www.facebook.com/shoottothrillbyseanpualic
What are you reading, watching?
Right now, I’m reading these interview
questions and watching my
tray of chocolate truffles disappear
before my eyes. Oh, you meant geek
related!
I’m rewatching Attack on Titan in anticipation
of Season 2 and actually
on the hunt for some new Anime’s to
get hooked on. Recommendations
appreciated!
What 5 things would you take to an
island?
Chocolate, chocolate, Jason Momoa,
more chocolate and... My filtered
water bottle.
Finally where can our readers go to
find out more?
@suddenlygreen on Instagram and
Snapchat or people can follow my
new Facebook page specifically for
my cosplays www.facebook.com/
suddenlygreencosplay
ONLINE:
www.instagram.com/suddenlygreen
www.facebook.com/suddenlygreencosplay

SFX Images: www.facebook.com/SFXImages

suddenly
green

OZ COMIC CON
ADELAIDE
WRAP UP!
The Post Con Blues are already setting
in for the Adelaide Cosplay and
Fandom Community. Our first Con of
the year was here on the weekend
and it’s always sad how fast those
two days go.
I cosplayed both days – Cindy from
Final Fantasy XV on Saturday, and
Cindery’s re-design of Kindred from
League of Legends on the Sunday.
The event again this year was not a
disappointment. There was a good
variety of guests and artists again,
even if some of the guests weren’t
as ‘current’ as they have been on
previous years. I only met Torri Higginson
myself this year, and she
was so warm and welcoming. Fan
favourite Jason Mamoa was back
again and as what is becoming normal
for him, he was a bucket load of
fun over the weekend – some may
have seen the video of him zooming
around on an electronic scooter!
Cosplay Central was again well organised
with two talented and highly
renowned guests – international
Cosplayer Ivy Doomkitty and local
pocket rocket Floksy Locksy Cosplay.
Both ladies are lovely and interacted
with the fans perfectly, and
nothing but positive things were said
about them.
The Photoraphers Wall had a great
line up of talented photographers
again this year, and the line was constant
for them all.
The display mannequins were set up
around the Wall which was a great
touch as it gave people something
to look at and talk about whilst in line.
The backdrops were stunning this
year again and it was great to see
people having fun taking photos in
front of them.
Even though I only witnessed and
was a part of the Championships
of Cosplay (which was hosted brilliantly
by JusZ Cosplay!), it seems
as though the Cospaly Active, Kids
Cosplay and Cosplay Parade events
ran smoothly.
Exhibitors and Artists had a vast array
of booths with great content for
sale / viewing. Exhibitors are always
exciting as there’s a good chance
Con goers can find goodies that
they can’t normally buy elsewhere.
My only minor (VERY minor) complaint
on the event was having it
squished into one side of the Pavillion.
In previous years it has been
spread out across both sides, and
as a result didn’t tend to feel claustrophobic.
Having everything (except
some events) in the one Hall
created a lot of cramped spaces,
bottlenecks and difficulty in moving
around. It also made it seem much
hotter inside so those in heavy /
bulky costumes tended to struggle
a little. I’m sure, however, that there
was a reason for it this year as it is
the first year it has been set up this
way. The Volunteers were pleasant
and fun, with smiles on their faces
which was great to see.
There was a huge amount of Panels
and Workshops this year, all offering
something different. These are
not only interesting and informative
for the general public, but also
a great help for those into costume
making, cosplay and photography.
It was great to see so many people
on board and the numbers attending
each event looked good.
Con goers themselves were also
bright and bubbly, and it was heart
warming to see so many people
interacting positively. It was clear
to see that many friendships were
made and strengthened, only furthering
the love, joy and passion that
unites all of us Con goers.
Here’s to the next Convention,
Adelaide!

BY TIFFANY DEAN
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