I finish the level and dive deeper into the catacombs.
There’s a video game that kinda adapts the Forged in the Dark/Powered by the Apocalypse game mechanics into a PC RPG – let’s talk about that.
Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 5: Kaboom!
This session we finished up the first chapter, along with moving into a little bit of the next with some role-play.
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Video Game Review: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
Playing the first Xenoblade Chronicles game was an interesting experience, especially after having played some of its sequel before it. It end up giving me some new context on how the series has progressed, how the sequel improved on its predecessor – and some ways in which the predecessor was better. Now that I’ve beaten the game in my Let’s Play, it’s time to give my thoughts.
Continue readingIt’s time for a book vlog for the month – this time a urban fantasy YA novel from a Nigerian-American author, Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Anime Review: Majestic Prince
At the end of 2024, having missed the submission date for regular Anime Secret Santa, I decided to take part in AniList’s Secret Santa event (my AniList profile is here, by the way). The show I ended up getting in my pick was Majestic Prince – a show that had ended up on my watchlist anyway due to it showing up early in Super Robot Wars 30. So, after finishing my rewatch of season 3 of Thunderbolt Fantasy for the Anime Explorations Podcast, I moved on to this.
Continue readingBook Review: Emmanuelle II
A while back, I reviewed the first Emmanuelle novel, a book which, through its film adaptation, kicked off what was, for a time, a mainstreaming of erotica. I’ve now finished reading the sequel, titled Emmanuelle II, and it almost addresses some of the problems that I had with the first book, but ends up re-introducing them late in the book, and introducing some new ones.
Content Warning: As with the first novel, I will get into some frank discussion of sex, sexuality, and some of the sex acts that are depicted in this novel.
Continue readingI learn the true story of the world’s creation, see the game’s ending, and I give my final thoughts.
Video Game Review: Trails in the Sky 3rd
Trails in the Sky 3rd is the final installment of the Grancel Trilogy of what has become the larger series of Trails games. While the narrative focus for this game moves away from Joshua and Estelle Bright (their time in the spotlight finished in Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter) – the third installment instead serves as something of an epilogue for the series, and with it sets up not only the Crossbell arc (Trails from Zero), but also the Erebonia (Trails of Cold Steel) and Calvard (Trails from Daybreak) arcs as well.
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Book Review: Akata Witch
I’m finally getting somewhat caught up on some of the more recent Sword & Laser book club picks – this time one of the first YA novels (that aren’t light novels) that I’ve read in a while – Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor.
Continue readingThis week I’m reviewing the first of the game I played through on my Let’s Play channel – Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth.