Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 Mars: Ep 08 – Rematch

We have a rematch with the Viola AI.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 Mars: Ep 07 – Gateway

We have to open a gate in a canyon, so we have to blow a couple generators.

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The Anime Appendix N: Introduction

This week I’m starting a new limited series, spun off from my RPG recommendations. This time I’m giving recommendations for anime by genre, based on how they spur inspiration at the gaming table, inspired by AD&D’s Appendix N. This time, I’m getting into why I’m doing this spinoff in the first place.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 06 – Family Reunion

We land on Mars, and get reunited with an old friend of Jahuty’s, who is borrowing a ship from another Konami franchise.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 05 – Total Recall Reference

We help a Space Force soldier escape, before we clear out ourselves.

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Godzilla vs Kong: Film Review

The Legendary Monsterverse has, unlike the last Western attempt at doing a Godzilla film with the 1996 film, has lead from the get-go with the monster fights. Even Kong: Skull Island had the climax of the film be a fight between Kong and the largest of the Skull Crawlers. So, when the film series made it clear that yes, Kong and Godzilla were taking place in the same universe (both with the involvement of Monarch and Skull Island‘s stinger), it was clear that somewhere down the road – Godzilla and Kong were going to have to rumble. And when the time comes for that brawl, you might as well make the main event the title – Godzilla vs Kong.

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The African Queen: Film Review

The African Queen is what I would describe as a “Man vs. Nature” film in the guise of a “Man vs. Man” film, particularly done as a very claustrophobic character piece. It’s also, unintentionally, the latest in a theme of reviewing World War I movies.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 04 – Deus Ex Mecha

We finally get to meet Col. Nohman face to face, and we end up really getting personal with Jehuty.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 03 – Voice from the Past

We encounter an enemy from the first game, in AI Construct form.

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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall, Act 5

It’s the moment we’ve all been dreading.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 02 – Friend In Need

Dingo comes to rescue his co-workers, before going to draw off BAHRAM.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders 2 – Mars: Ep 01 – New Old Rig

We start off ZoE 2, meet Dingo Egret, and re-discover Jahuty.

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Falcon and the Winter Soldier: TV Review

If WandaVision was an experiment within an experiment, Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a much more conventional limited TV series. It’s still very much a MCU work, with the higher budgets that come with a show like this. However, if you were expecting some more standard superheroic action, this is certainly the show for that. That said, this is, when all is said and done, a show in the vein of the Captain America movies, and like Cap’s comics counterpart, while all comics are political to some degree, Captain America comes to the table planning to be overtly political, with things to say, so to really discuss this show, I’m going to have to say upfront, I’m going to have to get into spoilers – starting below the cut.

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WandaVision: TV Review

From Left, Wanda Maximoff and The Vision from WandaVision

WandaVision is the first part of Marvel’s new initiative for incorporating TV series into the MCU. Rather than the long ongoing series like Agents of Shield, or more street-level series that are superheroic but smaller in scope than the Netflix series, these are more limited series that are more limited in scope, while also involving some of the actual Avengers. In the case of WandaVision, they’re also starting off with a series that is considerably more experimental in style and far more personal in tone than the main films.

There will be spoilers below the cot.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders HD: 16 – Run Away!

We have our last words with the pilot of Neith, before running into Anubis.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders HD: 15 – Round 3

We have our final showdown against Neith, after some heavy angst.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Video Review

This week I’m taking a look at the expansion to Marvel’s Spider-Man (which I previously reviewed).

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders HD: 14 – Rematch

It’s time to take on Neith once again.

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Let’s Play Zone of the Enders HD: 13 – “…Straight Down This Trench…”

To proceed to the rendezvous point, we first have to do a Trench Run.

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Silent Mobius Vol. 9-12: Manga Review

The last 4 volumes of the Silent Mobius Manga are, in a lot of respects, representative of everything about the manga that works, and everything that really doesn’t. We have some truly spectacular action in these volumes, but also a reiteration of some of the more considerably cringy elements of the series. There will be spoilers for the ending below the cut.

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SK8: The Infinity: Anime Review

Much as how Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl was created by legendary manga writer and artist Naoki Urasawa in advance of the Barcelona Olympics having the first women’s Olympic Judo competition, the 2020 (now 2021) Tokyo Summer Olympics has had several sports anime released for the various new sports for those games. I’ve already discussed the bouldering anime, and we also got a surfing anime which I wasn’t really able to get into – at least not enough that I felt comfortable reviewing it. However, arguably the best of these is has been SK8: The Infinity, which wrapped just last season.

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