Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 327 – Rocky Start I
We start off the Earth temple, and have a slight loadout hiccup.
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Anime Explorations Episode 6: My Dress-Up Darling
This month we’re discussing My Dress-Up Darling – a romantic comedy anime (with some fanservice) all about cosplay, followed up by a discussion about this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards and the r/Anime Awards.
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Under Fortunate Stars: Book Review
A time travel fiction concept that definitely falls under the category of “things I didn’t quite realize was a sub-sub-genre” until recently is the “Don’t Meet Your Heroes” story (with the alternative addendum of “Or do, I’m not your parental figure”). Basically, a story where the main characters travel back in time, either intentionally or unintentionally, and end up meeting someone (whether a singular person or multiple people) who are on the eve of doing some thing instrumental to the timeline, and who one or multiple of the protagonists idolizes, with the grand reveal being that they aren’t quite the kind of person that history has remembered them as being. Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Huchings – March’s Sword & Laser book club pick – is a really great example of this kind of story.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 326 – Water Guardian II
Fourth shrine down, 1 to go.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 325 – Water Guardian I
It’s time to take on the Water Temple guardian.
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Final Fantasy XV: Video Game Video Review
As part of the build-up for Final Fantasy XVI, it’s time to give my thoughts on the past couple main Final Fantasy games.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 324 – Perilous Labyrinth II
We manage to get through without Denam getting yeeted into the void.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 323 – Perilous Labyrinth I
We have this temple’s map with treacherous pitfalls to watch out for.
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Slayers – Book 1: Book Review
Recently, the first volume of the Slayers novels – which had been translated twice in the past (once by Tokyopop & now by J-Novel Club) received an audiobook review. This was ultimately the impetus I needed to get around to reading this, and this case, listening to the audiobook, read by Lisa Ortiz – the actress who voiced Lina in the English dub of the TV series.
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Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future – Book Review
Final Fantasy XV had a lot of DLC planned, to expand on the game’s story by providing additional plot details during the big time skip before the game’s final act, expanding on the game’s backstory, and even providing an alternate ending. We got… some of it. We got the backstory expansion. We got some elaboration on what characters were doing when they were off-camera at certain parts of the game. However, we didn’t get the whole story – we didn’t get the expansion discussing the time skip, and we didn’t get the alternate ending. However, the game’s writers wanted to make sure that story was told, leading to The Dawn of the Future – which adapts one released episode, and the plots of a bunch of unreleased ones, to give an alternate ending.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 322 – Stepping Stones II
We prove ourselves king of the hill and take our pro-pain implements onward.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 321 – Stepping Stones I
We get a fight with a big island in the middle with enemies on all sides.
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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Crusade Part 5
We have the return of Victor Fries, and Renee Montoya getting up close and personal with AzBat.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 320 – Red Lizardmen II
We clean these enemies out so we can continue on.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 319 – Red Lizardmen I
We encounter a new type of Lizardperson.
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Rivers of London: Deadly Ever After – Graphic Novel Review
Deadly Ever After is the first Rivers of London story to be published after Amongst Our Weapons, and the first to move the timeline forward after that point, and a little past that point as well. It’s also one that moves the focus of the story clearly beyond The Folly, with the focus being more on the River Goddesses themselves.
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Thoughts on the 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony
Crunchyroll has held their 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony – the first one that was in person since the pandemic and the first ever in Japan, and I have some thoughts on the presentation.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 318 – Slow Current II
I ultimately end up going offline and continuing play that way.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 317 – Slow Current I
We run into some frame-dropping issues that distract me from play.
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Anime Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend
In honor of White Day, it’s time for some silliness with a bunch of horny idiots.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 316 – Pack Your Waders II
We properly open the path to the Water Temple.
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Let’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 315 – Pack Your Waders I
It’s time to take on the Water Temple.
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Book Review: Sailor on the Seas of Fate
When I reviewed Fortress of the Pearl, I was partway through the next book in the first of the more recent Elric omnibus collections, and I came to the realization that book was written less with the thought of “How do I fit this story within the larger Elric saga?” and more “I have an Idea for an Elric story – where do I put it?” By contrast, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, which was published soon after Elric of Melnibone, feels like Moorcock continuing with the concepts he had with that first story – setting up the chain of events that lead to where the first published Elric story – “The Dreaming City” – picks up, and in the process further building up the concept of the Eternal Champion Mythos, based on the other incarnations that had been published at this point.
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Legend of Vox Machina Season 2: TV Review
The first season of Legend of Vox Machina left off on a significant cliffhanger – Vox Machina had overcome the Briarwoods and liberated Whitestone – and had succeeded at their first major act of deliberate heroism. However, the Chroma Conclave were literally on the doorstep. Season 2 kicks off the start of the Chroma Conclave arc.
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