Month: February 2018

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We’ll Do It Live (Action)

Live-action versions of anime have been increasingly popular, or at least more widely talked about, in recent years. From Netflix’s Death Note to Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson, more and more fan-favorite anime are getting high-profile live-action adaptations.

The latest is Fullmetal Alchemist, which is now available to stream on Netflix. The Netflix library has both the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime as well as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which is often considered the must-watch version. As such, we decided to compare characters, certain scenes, and that chimera between Brotherhood and the live-action film.

Click ahead to see an image from the anime followed by the comparison from the live-action version. We’ve kept spoilers to a minimum, so you’ll be fine as long as you’ve seen the first four or five episodes of Brotherhood.

For more on Fullmetal Alchemist, be sure to read our review. You can also check out our list of the best anime available on Netflix and our top 10 anime of 2017 if you’re looking for more to watch.

Edward Elric (Anime)

Ed is the titular Fullmetal Alchemist and the protagonist of the series. He has a metal arm and leg and is searching for a legendary artifact called the Philosopher’s Stone, with which he hopes to restore his younger brother Al’s body.

Edward Elric (Live Action)

In the film, Ed is pretty much the same, except with a glaringly bad wig.

Alphonse Elric (Anime)

Al is Ed’s younger brother, and he doesn’t have a body. During the brothers’ failed human transmutation, Ed gave his arm to bind Al’s soul to a suit of armor.

Alphonse Elric (Live Action)

Al’s suit of armor is the best-looking thing in the live-action version and is true to how he appears in the series.

Winry Rockbell (Anime)

Winry is a childhood friend of Ed and Al and is Ed’s love interest. She’s an amateur surgeon and mechanic, and she maintains Ed’s prosthetic arm and leg.

Winry Rockbell (Live Action)

Movie Winry is almost nothing like her anime counterpart. Her hairstyle is the same, but everything from her clothing (which is too feminine) to her personality (which is hard to discern due to overacting) will disappoint fans.

Lust (Anime)

Lust is a Homunculus, or a human created artificially by alchemy. She is one of the main antagonists of the series.

Lust (Live Action)

Lust looks similar in the movie, but there’s a certain Hot Topic feel to her outfit that makes her look kind of silly.

Gluttony (Anime)

Gluttony is another Homunculus and antagonist of the series. He’s often found eating human or animal remains and is regularly partnered with Lust.

Gluttony (Live Action)

Gluttony is somehow even creepier in live action. Maybe it’s the eyes.

The Elric Brothers As Children (Anime)

After their mother, Trisha, died, Ed and Al set out to bring her back via human transmutation–a taboo in the world of alchemy.

The Elric Brothers As Children (Live Action)

The kid versions of Ed and Al are pretty similar, though it kind of looks like someone spray-painted their hair.

Transmutation Circle (Anime)

In order to perform the human transmutation, Ed and Al had to make a transmutation circle on the ground.

Transmutation Circle (Live Action)

The live-action version of the circle is similar, though it unfortunately doesn’t glow.

The Gate (Anime)

As the human transmutation begins to fail, Ed finds himself at the Gate, a very important (metaphysical) location in the series.

The Gate (Live Action)

In the movie, Ed appears at the Gate in a dream, rather than through Alchemy, and he’s an adult. It’s an entirely separate scene from the beginning of the human transmutation and comes later in the film.

Ed and Truth (Anime)

At the Gate, Ed speaks to a mysterious figure known as Truth. Truth appears during human transmutation, which it considers an unfair exchange according to the equivalent exchange laws of alchemy.

Ed and Truth (Live Action)

The conversation between Ed and Truth is more or less the same in the movie. Truth looks extra ethereal.

Ed Loses His Leg (Anime)

Ed loses his leg during the failed human transmutation, and it’s pretty brutal. Truth later takes his arm in exchange for Al’s soul.

Ed Loses His Leg (Live Action)

This scene is also part of the dream sequence. Maybe it’s because it would be pretty gruesome to show a real child losing his leg, but this is a flashback-bad dream combo that comes off as jarring in the film.

Trisha Elric (Anime)

As a result of the failed human transmutation, Trisha Elric returns as grotesque, deformed creature.

Trisha Elric (Live Action)

Yep, that’s Trisha Elric. She’s hard to make out in the film because of all the smoke.

Nina Tucker and Alexander (Anime)

Nina is the daughter of alchemist (and completely evil, horrible man) Shou Tucker. She loves her “big brothers” Ed and Al almost as much as her dog, Alexander.

Nina Tucker and Alexander (Live Action)

Nina still loves Alexander in the live-action version, but for some reason, Winry is there.

Nina Tucker and Alexander, Chimera Form (Anime)

Ed…ward…

Nina Tucker and Alexander, Chimera Form (Live Action)

Onii-chan.

A Way Out, the co-op game from the creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, is almost here. The game recently crossed a major milestone, as Josef Fares announced on Twitter that it went “gold.” That means development on the title has finished.

“I can’t even describe my excitement,” Fares said on Twitter.

A Way Out launches on March 23 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game is only playable in co-op, but there will be a way to pretty much ensure you have someone to play with. At The Game Awards back in December, publisher EA announced a “friends pass free trial” for the game that lets you play the full title if your friend owns it.

There are a few caveats: You need a constant internet connection and an EA account to use this trial. Also, your friend must be on the same platform, and you’ll need PS Plus or Xbox Live Gold if you’re playing on console.

Set in the ’70s, A Way Out focuses on the story of two convicts who are on the run after a prison escape. You can see the latest gameplay trailer in the embed above.

Fares, who is also a film director, made headlines during The Game Awards when he went off-script during a live segment and proclaimed, “F**k the Oscars.” He also gave the middle finger to the camera in an awkward interview with host Geoff Keighley.

At the awards show, spoke passionately about A Way Out. “I live, breathe, s*** this game. It is everything for me,” he told GameSpot. “Even if the whole word told me this is s***, I still know in my heart it’s not, it’s great. I know when people play it, they will understand what I mean, what’s it doing.”

Since A Way Out is published by EA, it stands to reason that a trial for the game will be playable ahead of time for EA/Origin Access subscribers. Typically, subscribers can play a portion of upcoming EA games around 5 days before their public release, though it’s not immediately clear if this will be the case for A Way Out.

HAL Laboratory, the developer behind the Kirby and Boxboy series, has launched its first mobile game, Part Time UFO. Originally released in Japan last November under the moniker Hataraku UFO, the game is now available in international markets for iOS and Android devices and costs $4 to download.

Like many of HAL’s other titles, Part Time UFO puts players in control of an adorable hero, in this case an anthropomorphic flying saucer with an extendable claw. Having just arrived on Earth, the UFO decides to take on various odd jobs to assist the denizens of the planet, using its claw to catch fish, assemble a pyramid of cheerleaders, load up trucks with cargo, and more. You can take a look at some gameplay in the trailer below.

Completing jobs will reward players with money, which can be used to buy new costumes for your flying saucer. Part Time UFO features 27 levels and more than 20 costumes to acquire, with additional jobs to unlock by completing hidden achievements in each level. Players can also post the craziest pileups they’ve created on social media using an in-game sharing function.

HAL’s first Nintendo Switch game, Kirby Star Allies, is slated to release around the world on March 16. Like other mainline installments in the series, the game is a side-scrolling platformer in which players use Kirby’s copy ability to inhale enemies and take on their powers. This time around, players can also throw hearts at enemies to turn them into allies. You can watch us play through several early levels of Kirby Star Allies and face off against a weirdly buff King Dedede.

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CD Projekt Red says its upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 RPG to be more ambitious than The Witcher 3.

PC Gamer reports CD Projekt Red briefly discussed Cyberpunk 2077, comparing it to the company’s critically acclaimed RPG from 2015 The Witcher 3, in a video during Pareto Securities Gaming Seminar.

“Cyberpunk is our new Witcher 3, but even more ambitious,” CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski said. “Our goal is to establish a new blockbuster franchise from the beginning. We work

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