Bleach: Soul Resurrección and Earl Lovelace

Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Development 3 Characters 3.1 Playable characters 3.2 Non-playable characters 4 Reception 5 References 6 External links

Gameplay

Players utilize the PlayStation 3 controller's analog sticks and four shape buttons to control their character in 3D environment. Players move with the left analog stick while controlling the camera with the right. The X button performs a jump and pressing it again while in air performs a second jump. Melee is performed through the square button which can be utilized for combos.

The triangle button performs spirit attacks which consume spiritual pressure from the pressure bar which sits below the health bar at the top of the screen. Some characters have different spirit attacks based on whether they are on the ground or in the air. The circle button performs special attacks. Specials are strong moves that consume most if not all the pressure bar.

These attacks are different depending on if the character is on the ground or in the air. L1 is used to lock onto an opponent and R1 blocks. While blocking, the player can use the left analog stick to use Shunpo or Sonído to dodge. R2 performs a dash maneuver which can be held for a constant dash. L2 activates the ignition gauge which sits at the left of the screen.

Ignition lights the edges of the screen on fire and triples the power of a character's moves. The gauge can be filled by dealing damage to enemies. Once activated, the gauge will slowly drain. By pressing the L2 button again while in this mode, the character will be drained of all their remaining ignition gauge and utilize their ignition attack which is an immensely powerful move and the strongest a character has.The health bar at the top of the screen regenerates slowly as time progresses.

The more damage a player takes, the less health they can regenerate. The pressure bar regenerates quicker so long as the player is not dashing. Dashing also does mild damage. With each hit, a streak bar is refilled. The higher the streak, the higher the soul points multiplier is. 100 for a 2x multiplier, 300 for 3x multiplier and 1000 for a 4x multiplier.

Getting hit does not end the streak. At the end of a level, players are given a grade and extra soul points based on the amount of points collected, difficulty played on, clear time, enemies defeated and Ignition attacks used. Once a level is over, the player can head to the level up menu and use the soul points they earned to learn new abilities and power up.

The player is placed on a grid and can only buy upgrades next to ones they have already unlocked. Paths to different grids will be locked until a certain character reaches a specified level. One level is considered buying one upgrade. Development

The original Japanese version, Bleach: Soul Ignition, was developed by SCE Japan Studio and Racjin. The game was published by SCEI and released on June 23, 2011. In May 2011, Soul Ignition, was confirmed for release in North America under new name, Bleach: Soul Resurrección. Soul Resurrección, was released on August 2, 2011 by NIS America. The game has a total of 21 playable characters that mostly come from the Arrancar arc. Characters Playable characters Non-playable characters Reception

Bleach: Soul Resurrección has received mixed reactions from several video game publications. Metacritic, a website that compiles scores from numerous video game reviews, compiled a "universal score" of 58 out of 100. Famitsu gave a 28 out of 40. The Japanese version of game, sold 24,725 copies in its first week. In North America, Soul Resurrección, debuted with 23,620 sold copies.

Earl Lovelace and Bleach: Soul Resurrección

Earl Lovelace (born 13 July 1935) is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures." As Bernardine Evaristo notes, "Lovelace is unusual among celebrated Caribbean writers in that he has always lived in Trinidad. Most writers leave to find support for their literary endeavours elsewhere and this, arguably, shapes the literature, especially after long periods of exile. But Lovelace's fiction is deeply embedded in Trinidadian society and is written from the perspective of one whose ties to his homeland have never been broken."

Contents 1 Biography 2 Family 3 Awards 4 Selected works 4.1 Novels 4.2 Short-story collection 4.3 Play collection 4.4 Essay collection 4.5 Plays and musicals 4.6 Other 5 Further reading 6 References 7 External links

Biography

Born in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, Earl Lovelace was sent to live with his grandparents in Tobago at a very young age, but rejoined his family in Toco when he was 11 years old. His family later moved to Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and then Morvant. Lovelace attended Scarborough Methodist Primary School, Scarborough, Tobago (1940–47), Nelson Street Boys, R.C., Port of Spain (1948), and Ideal High School, Port of Spain (1948–53, where he sat the Cambridge School Certificate). He worked at the Trinidad Guardian as a proofreader from 1953 to 1954, and then for the Department of Forestry (1954-56) and the Ministry of Agriculture (1956–66).

He began writing while stationed in the village of Valencia as a forest ranger. In 1962 his first novel, While Gods Are Falling, won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence literary competition sponsored by British Petroleum (BP).

From 1966 to 1967, Lovelace studied at Howard University, Washington, DC, and in 1974 he received an MA in English from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, where he was also Visiting Novelist. Winning a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, he spent the year as a visiting writer at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He taught at Federal City College (now University of the District of Columbia), Washington, DC (1971-73), and from 1977 to 1987 he lectured in literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine. He was appointed Writer-in-Residence in England by the London Arts Board (1995-6), a visiting lecturer in the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College, Massachusetts (1996-97), and was Distinguished Novelist in the Department of English at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington (1999–2004).

He is a columnist for the Trinidad Express, and has contributed to a number of periodicals, including Voices, South, and Wasafiri. Based in Trinidad, while teaching and touring various countries, he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the University of Trinidad and Tobago in 2005, the year his 70th birthday was honoured with a conference and celebrations at the University of the West Indies.

Lovelace is the subject of a 2014 documentary film by Funso Aiyejina entitled A Writer In His Place. Family

Lovelace has three daughters and two sons. His artist son Che Lovelace illustrated the jacket of the 1997 US edition of his novel Salt. Earl Lovelace collaborated with his filmmaker daughter Asha Lovelace on writing the film Joebell and America, based on his short story of the same title. Awards 1963, British Petroleum Independence Award, 1963, for While Gods Are Falling. 1966, Pegasus Literary Award, for outstanding contributions to the arts in Trinidad and Tobago. 1977, awards for best play and best music for Pierrot Ginnard. 1980, Guggenheim fellowship. 1985, Jestina’s Calypso voted the most original play at the Trinidad & Tobago Drama Festival. 1986, National Endowment for the Humanities grant. 1988, Chaconia Medal (Gold) from the government of Trinidad & Tobago. 1997, Best Book, Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book), 1997, for Salt. 2002, Honorary Doctorate of Letters from University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, 2002. 2011, Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature, from Regional Council of Guadeloupe, for Is Just a Movie. 2012, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Port of Spain, Trinidad, for Is Just a Movie. 2012, Caribbean-Canadian Literary Award. 2012, Lifetime Literary Award from the National Library and Information System Authority (Nalis), Trinidad. Selected works Novels While Gods Are Falling, London: Collins, 1965; Chicago, IL: Regnery, 1966. The Schoolmaster, London: Collins, 1968. The Dragon Can't Dance, London: André Deutsch, 1979. Faber & Faber, 1998 The Wine of Astonishment, Oxford: Heinemann, Caribbean Writers Series (1983); 2010 edition includes CSEC-specific study notes. ISBN 978-0-435-03340-8 Salt (winner of 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize), London: Faber & Faber, 1996; New York: Persea Books, 1997. Is Just a Movie, London: Faber & Faber, January 2011. ISBN 0-571-25567-1. Short-story collection A Brief Conversion and Other Stories, Oxford: Heinemann, 1988. Play collection Jestina's Calypso and Other Plays, Oxford: Heinemann, 1984. Essay collection Growing in the Dark. Selected Essays (ed. Funso Aiyejina; San Juan, Trinidad: Lexicon Trinidad, 2003). Plays and musicals The New Boss, 1962. My Name Is Village, produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1976. Pierrot Ginnard (musical drama), produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1977. Jestina's Calypso, produced in St Augustine, Trinidad, at the University of the West Indies, 1978. The Wine of Astonishment (adapted from his novel), performed in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Barbados, 1987. The New Hardware Store, produced at University of the West Indies, 1980. Produced in London, England, by Talawa Theatre Company, at the Arts Theatre, 1987. The Dragon Can't Dance (adapted from his novel), produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1986. Published in Black Plays: 2, ed. Yvonne Brewster, London: Methuen, 1989. Produced in London at Theatre Royal Stratford East, by Talawa Theatre Company, with music by Andre Tanker, 29 June - 4 August 1990. The Reign of Anancy, performed in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1989. Joebell and America, produced in Lupinot Village, Trinidad, 1999. Other Crawfie the Crapaud (for children), Longman, 1998. Joebell and America (film, co-written with and directed by Asha Lovelace; Trinidad: Caribbean Communications Network, premiered TV6, Trinidad, 2004). Further reading Aiyejina, Funso (ed.), A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace @ 70. University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 2008. Aiyejina, Funso. “Salt: A Complex Tapestry”, Trinidad and Tobago Review 18.10-12 (1996): 13-16. Dalleo, Raphael. "Cultural Studies and the Commodified Public: Luis Rafael Sánchez's La guaracha del Macho Camacho and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance", Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Hodge, Merle, "The Language of Earl Lovelace", in Anthurium, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Fall 2006. Raja, Masood Ashraf. "We Is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance". Caribbean Studies 34 (1): 111–130. 2006.  Schwarz, Bill (ed.), Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2008. ISBN 978-1-900039-91-8 Thomas, H. Nigel. "From ‘Freedom’ to ‘Liberation’: An Interview with Earl Lovelace", World Literature Written in English, 31.1 (1991): 8-20.
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