Wake continues back to the lodge, and I have technical difficulties that caused my PS5 to restart, leading to my losing the last 15 minutes of the stream, so you don’t get the driving sequence, or Wake fighting off crows, or you learning that the Dark Presence has possessed Rose.
Read moreAnime Review: Oddtaxi
Oddtaxi is one of those truly unique series – on paper it’s the sort of hyperlink-cinema noir story that fits right in with series like Baccano and Durarara (or, for that matter, films like Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, and Pulp Fiction). However, how the presentation of the story helps make it truly distinct from the other stylistic works that came before. There will be some spoilers below the cut.
Read moreAnime Review: Ayakashi Triangle
So, this anime is a little less “spooky” and a little more “fanservice-heavy”, but it’s a series that also involves the Yokai, which are used in both spooky and silly contexts, so I feel okay including this more recent series, Ayakashi Triangle, into my Halloween reviews.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 8 – Flip the Script
Wake turns the tables on the “kidnapper”.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 7 – Alliance of Convenience
Alan finally meets with the “kidnapper” and is forced to team up for a little bit.
Read moreFilm (Video) Review: Deep Red
It’s time for the Spooky Season – so let’s do some horror movies from outside the US – first off is Deep Red, a Giallo film from Dario Argento from before he did Susperia.
Where I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 6 – RIP Rusty
Another supporting character becomes Taken and bites the dust.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 5 – Hostage Situation
Alan learns someone is claiming they kidnapped Alice, but that can’t be right, can it?
Read moreFilm Review: Tentacles
As far as Jaws ripoffs, especially those of the Italian variety, are concerned, Tentacles doesn’t mess around. Within the first 5 minutes of the film, the movie’s antagonist – a giant octopus – has murdered an infant. And the movie barely slows down from there.
Read moreAnime Review: Synduality Noir
Of the Summer 2023 anime series, Synduality Noir is the other of the series that I’d almost describe as “horror adjacent” – in this case not because of the inclusion of traditional gothic horror monsters (Werewolves, Vampires, etc.), but rather because of a few of the elements introduced later in the series.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 4 – The Police Will Not Help You
Alan reaches the service station, and realizes the police won’t help him with the threat he faces.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 3 – Nordic Walking
Alan starts to make his way through the woods.
Read moreVlog: 2023 Conventions & Some Life Stuff
So, I’ve had some life stuff happen, but it’s not going to stop me from going to conventions this year – here’s info on my upcoming conventions, and what that life event was.
Where I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 2 – Cabin in the Woods
The Wake family vacation goes horribly wrong.
Read moreWhere I Play Alan Wake Remastered: Part 1 – En Media Res
We open with a dream sequence tutorial.
Read moreAnime Review: Undead Murder Farce
I’m starting off my October horror reviews with a mystery horror anime – Undead Murder Farce.
Read moreManga Review: Record of Lodoss War: Crown of the Covenant
I was excited to see a new Record of Lodoss War… anything really come out, both in terms of the Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth game (which I’ve just finished Let’s Playing – I’ll have a review of that in November) and when I learned that a new manga was coming out set after the events of Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. I had wondered if it was going to be an adaptation of Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth – but Crown of the Covenant being its own story (albeit one that Wonder Labyrinth led directly into) was something of a pleasant surprise.
Read moreWhere I Play Deedlit In Wonder Labyrinth: Part 31 – Mo(u)rning
The final boss fight ends, Deed says goodbye to Parn, and I give my final thoughts on the game.
Read moreWhere I Play Deedlit In Wonder Labyrinth: Part 30 – Continuing the Final Boss Fight
I continue taking on the final boss fight.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 134
FIFA ’98 might actually be good, y’all.
Read moreWhere I Play Deedlit In Wonder Labyrinth: Part 29 – Fighting My Found Family
I have to fight against the spirits of our Deed’s old party members.
Read moreWhere I Play Deedlit In Wonder Labyrinth: Part 28 – The Rush Overcome
With the Bosh Rush beaten, I head further in.
Read moreAnime Explorations Episode 12: Shirobako
It’s time to get further into the weeds when it comes to how anime gets made.
Read moreAnime Review: Aura Battler Dunbine
It feels weird to call Byston Well, the setting Yoshiyuki Tomino created for Aura Battler Dunbine – a series that many Isekai novels draw their lineage from – as a “joke”. However, arguably no creator has so desperately tried to “make fetch happen” with a setting that Tomino has done with Dunbine – not only with New Aura Battler Dunbine, but also Wings of Rean and Garzey’s Wing. Yet, with the degree of traction the original work obtained, there has to be something there – right?
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