We’re under attack by G-Hound, and some of their number have unfinished business with Kamille and Banagher. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 162 – Who Inherits the Stars I
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 161 – How & Why of SRW V
We get up to speed on what Inez Fressange has been up to since the end of Martian Successor Nadesico.
Vlog: 6 RPG Recommendations based on Video Games and Anime of 2018
In this episode (with its light novel adaptation length title), I give some recommendations for tabletop RPGs based on various video games and anime from the last year.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 160 – Axis Shock Revisited
Just blowing up the colony from the inside won’t be enough – it’s up to a desperate gamble by Banagher to save the world. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 159 – Light of Ruin IV
We finish off the combined Embryo/Gamillan/Amalgam forces so we can stop the colony. Read more
RPG Book Review: Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide
Oriental Adventures was a sourcebook for AD&D 1st edition that sort of re-imagined and re-interpreted the game to fit a setting inspired by various stripes of Asian cinema, with varying degrees of success. However, two things that book did moderately well was to present a setting in microcosm that used the mechanics and the book’s non-weapon proficiency system. What it didn’t do well was to create classes and races that were conducive for adventuring, and it didn’t create a setting that a standard adventuring party could be inserted into.
Film Review: Haxan (1922)
When it comes to horror and documentaries, in the sense of horror films that are deliberately planned to be documentaries, you have two main stripes represented by two big names. On one hand, you have Legend of Boggy Creek, a historical reenactment heavy documentary about a Texarkana cryptid that effectively recounts a variety of local myths and legends in an uncritical manner. On the other hand, there’s Haxan, the film I’m covering today, which is not only a very early work in the documentary genre, it’s also a work that is also very critical of historical accounts of witchcraft.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 158 – Light of Ruin III
We continue pushing the attack on Amalgam and Embryo’s forces. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 157 – Light of Ruin II
Londo Bell continues their counter-attack, but now with some old friends fighting on the side of the enemy. Read more
Legends of the Force Part XXVII: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
I’ve got a short story collection this month.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 156 – Light of Ruin I
Londo Bell launches their counterattack against Neo Zeon and the Gamillan’s Colony Drop. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 155 – Spectator to War
We see the forces behind Ghuli – and they’re currently waiting on the sidelines to see how things pan out. Read more
Film Review: Humanoids From The Deep
Roger Corman is widely recognized as a producer who launched the careers of numerous writers, actors, and future directors. He’s also widely recognized as a producer who churned out numerous exploitation films of a wide variety of stripes almost like clockwork, on the cheap, and without much concern about the craft.
This leads to the problems with Humanoids from the Deep. Part of this film is a very well done horror creature feature, with incredibly suspensefully shot sequences, and is a film that is willing to straight up kill off a kid and several dogs very early in the film. It’s also a film where Roger Corman decided to fire the film’s original director, Barbara Peeters, because he wanted the film’s rape scenes to be more explicit – so he handed those sequences off to the second unit director, and the film is lesser because of this. Read more
Comic Review: Cable Vol. 3
With the release of Deadpool 2 this past year, a whole new range of audiences were introduced to Wade Wilson’s grumpy-Gus soldier from the future buddy, Nathan Christopher Askani Summers, aka Cable. Consequently, Marvel also put out a new Cable book, with a mid-volume shift in the numbering to line up with Cable Vol. 1’s numbering. However, what it was not was a buddy-book with Deadpool, Cable was at the fore of this story. So, the question is, what kind of story does the book tell?
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 154 – Ms. Gearhead (No VO)
After the fight, Nine finishes explaining her backstory some, only for Neo Zeon to fall into their old tricks
(Note: Due to technical difficulties there is no commentary for this episode.) Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 153 – Where Hope Leads II (No VO)
With Ghuli gone, it’s time to take on Ghuli’s boss.
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Editorial: My 6 Anime Holy Grails (as of 2018)
In 2018, a handful of my Anime Holy Grails getting licensed and released. It’s time to replenish the list.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 152 – Where Hope Leads I (No VO)
Ghuli tries to make one final attempt to redeem himself.
(Note: Due to technical difficulties there is no commentary for this episode.) Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 151 – Bruiser or Stinger (No VO)
We come to another decision point, as Nine prepares to reveal some information about her identity.
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Manga Review: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories
A few weeks ago (as of when I write this in October) I came to learn that the most popular tabletop RPG in Japan right now was neither D&D nor a homegrown RPG like Sword World, but Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. Also, I learned Dark Horse Comics had released a collection of adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft by artist Gou Tanabe and had announced a planned release of Tanabe’s adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness. Thus, it seemed appropriate to read the first of Tanabe’s adaptations and get a feel for his take on Lovecraft’s work. Read more
Video Game Review: Castlevania – Lords of Shadow 2
I had previously reviewed Castlevania: Lords of Shadow on Bureau42, and I had meant to get around to the sequel for quite some time. I did do a partial play-through of the portable title, Mirror of Fate, but I ran into something of a wall over how the game handled porting 3D melee animations in a 2.5D environment. However, at long last, I have played and beaten Lords of Shadow 2, along with its DLC, and have some thoughts on the game. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 150 – Three Strengths II
The EVA pilots finally start to work together again, and Brocken realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 149 – Three Strengths I
A little after the last story mission, Team Nagai tries to get the EVA pilots to work together as a team. Read more
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 84
A whole bunch of licensed games (and a couple brawlers) this issue.