Almost a year after the film adaptation finished, and almost 35 years after the book came out, I have read IT. Time to give my thoughts.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 24 – Guns of Wall Street
Once again we take the fight to Dokurobo and his anti-air guns.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #4: Liberation of Hap
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Video Game Review
The first two Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, and their predecessors in the X-Men Legends series, felt like love letters to Marvel Comics. They had a wide variety of characters who you could team up in different ways – with special modifiers based on characters shared history, and a variety of costumes and side missions that played off with that history. With Team Ninja developing MUA3, I had a hope that they would keep with that experience, and combine it with Team Ninja’s background with presenting stylish action. Instead, they just did the bare minimum.
Read moreGenshiken Second Season Vol. 9: Manga Review
Volume 9 of Genshiken Second Season puts us in something of a double focus situation. On the one hand, Kuchiki has completed his senior project and is going to be graduating, so the Genshiken is going on a retreat. On the other hand, all of the members of Madarame’s Harem are coming along, and at their insistence – so is Madarame.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #3: Road to Hap
On leaving Tilverton, Curse of the Azure Bonds finally opens up – sort of. We now have a larger world to travel through, but we’re still somewhat limited by what quest flags are available to trigger.
Read moreDetective Comics #621: Comics Recap
This time we wrap up the first of the three main arcs leading to the start of Tim Drake’s tenure as Robin.
Read moreLegends of the Force Part 40: Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair
We return to the Rogues as they compete with the Empire to get the plans for a cloaking device in “The Phantom Affair”.
Read moreDetective Comics #620: Comic Recap
When we last left off, the ransom pickup instructions had just reached the Gotham PD – and now it’s time to find out how the pickup turned out.
Read moreDetective Comics #619: Comics Recap
When we last left off the Road to Knightfall, Tim Drake’s parents, Jack and Janet Drake had been kidnapped by The Obeah Man, and their plane was reported missing.
Read moreRogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair – Comic Review
We’re continuing with the Dark Horse Comics take on the Star Wars universe this time, with Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair.
Read moreSpecial 7: Anime Review
Special 7 is the last of the big anime series I’d watched in the Fall 2019 season that finished that season – Azur Lane was delayed, Blade of the Immortal, Fate/Grand Order, and My Hero Academia were two-cour series, and I dropped Babylon. It’s an interesting anime series that takes the concept of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and applies it in an urban fantasy context, but doesn’t quite have as much to say.
Read moreDetective Comics #618: Comics Recap
I’m starting a new project now, which I’m calling “Batman: Knightfall Saga” – this will be taking the place of Legends of the Force for a bit, so I can take a break and cover something else – so I don’t burn out. I’m starting this off with the path to the Knightfall saga, focusing on three different characters and concepts. First off, we’re getting into the origins of the third Robin, Tim Drake.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #2: Sewers and Fire Knives Lair
When we last left Curse of the Azure Bonds we were set on something of an introductory railroad, as we were given a little time to get some gear in town, before being thrust into a series of combats, followed by a flight to the Thieves Guild after our party discovered that a variety of dark conspiracies had tattooed us with some marks that let them control us.
Read morePool of Radiance: Video Game Review
This week I’m giving my thoughts on the first of the Gold Box games, Pool of Radiance, after the conclusion of the first part of my Let’s Play, which I didn’t capture gameplay footage of this time, so this review is going to be strictly a talking-head review.
Read moreGBP – Curse of the Azure Bonds #1: Tilverton City & Thieves Guild
So, because I played a lot of Pool of Radiance back in the day, I will admit that I kind of rushed through that game to a degree. Mainly, that was because this was a project where what I really wanted to do was get into uncharted territory, and at long last, I’ve done so, with Curse of the Azure Bonds.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 23 – Reunited
Shinjiro finds Rosita and brings her back to the theater… just in time to have to sortie!
Read moreWe Never Learn Season 2: Anime Review
The first season of We Never Learn ended with an announcement for a second season. With the manga being based around college preparation and studying for that, I did definitely have a sense that whether or not the manga was actually done at this point, whatever the second season ended on was going to have some degree of finality – with how the anime was paced, I couldn’t really see a way to wrap here without getting into graduation. Without too many spoilers before the cut, it does get to graduation, and in hindsight, I think the ending kind of works well.
Read moreVinland Saga: Anime Review
2019 wrapped up with an anime series that put itself on my list of anime to recommend to non-anime fans. That anime was Vinland Saga – and even better, it was on Amazon Prime, a streaming service that generally a lot of non-anime fans subscribe to.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 22 – Combat Revue No More!
Shinjiro goes looking for Rosita.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 21 – Corporate Raider
Dokurobo and his goons attack the New York Federal Reserve.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 98
We have another 11 games on the Best of the Rest, all from the SNES.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 20 – Duty Calls
The retreat ends just in time for a call to sortie.
Read moreLet’s Play Sakura Wars So Long My Love: Part 19 – Team Building Exercise
The New York Combat Revue holds a team-building retreat!
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