Mazinger Day: Mazinger Z SNES

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Now thats how you know a game is going to be good, thats the first line that I had read. Simple awesome. In this game you're actually going along with the story for Mazinger Z a bit better, which is a good thing, though I tend to just skip the little bit of story and get right into the action for a game like this. The controls work well and so do your attacks, though I can't seem to manage to do any special attacks other than what happens if you keep a combo of punches and kicks going.

Mazinger Z is an SNES game and while it looks a little less pleasing graphically than Mazin Saga, I find this game to be a bit more fun. The difficulty is still incredibly high, but its not quite at the legendary level of Mazin Saga. The game also doesn't seem to have any of the problems featured in its cousin over on the Genesis. Overall this appears to be a better game and much more fun, I would suggest that if anyone ever gets the chance, they should play this game if they like Giant Robots or sidescroller-beat 'em ups.

Mazinger Day: Mazin Saga Genesis

Figured today would be a good day to post about this game, so here it goes. Its a pretty old game seeing as how it was made for the Sega Genesis way back when that was popular, this game manages to stand the test of time. For its time the graphics were pretty good, and even today the game looks fantastic.

Mazin Saga is a pretty straightforward sidescroller for the most part, its very reminiscent of Captain America and the Avengers, though you only control one character and it doesn't appear to have any co-op mode for it. The game's difficulty would be rated at Legendary, its incredibly difficult but like most of those old retro games, it makes you feel like you've put a lot of hard work into winning, so you feel like you did something at the end of the game. I can't manage to get that far though, but I have had fun going as far as I could in the mean time. Its very solid and its more fun than I ever imagined it would be, if you can get your hands on this, you really should.

The only problems that I find with this game is the lack of enemies that I can actually remember being in a Mazinger series and the fact that if you use your special you use a large chunk of your own life bar. The enemies look alot like the random enemies you encounter in Captain America and the avengers. As for using your special, theres no point since it just helps you die faster and it also seems to do less damage than just punching a few times. Despite these problems, I still found the game to be fun and exciting though.

Mazinger Day: Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z hen 01

The first episode of one of the newest incarnation of one of the most iconic Giant Robot series ever created is actually a clip show. Normally I hate clip shows, most people seem to agree with me. But this time its actually pretty good despite that.

Due to the fact that the episode was a clip show there really isn't much to say. In this episode we see many people that appeared throughout the Mazinger series before. We see Gorgon, Baron Ashura, the Mazinger Corps, Boss Borot, and even a guy who looks pretty much just like Tetsuya with Great Mazinger. At least thats what I got out of it. The series looks like it will be pretty interesting, though it is a little disheartening to know that the Mazinger Corps will once again be pretty much wiped out. I don't belive they needed to show that.

Now for some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Baron Ashura looking better than ever.

Sayaka-san and her father.

Kouji and the crew.