With the help of the Promethean Repair Droid, it’s time to hitch a ride on a Guardian to wherever Master Chief & Blue Team went.
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The October Man: Book Review
The last book in the Peter Grant series of Urban Fantasy police procedurals wrapped up the end of the “Faceless Man” Arc, with the recurring antagonist of that series being taken down, while one of the members of Peter’s supporting cast who had turned to the Dark Side was now on the lam. In the wake of this, author Ben Aaronovitch has decided to, basically, explore a different chunk of this world with the novella The October Man, which moves the plot from the UK to Germany.
Read moreUltraman Vol. 5: Manga Review
The first four volumes of the Ultraman manga were bookended by the sentence “This is the beginning of a new age.” Volume 5 starts with that sentence, but ends with the sentence fading from the page – and that says a lot about where this volume of the manga ends.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 10: Sink the Kraken!
In order to get that Repair Bot, we have to bring down a Covenant Kraken.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 9: A Rescue and a Kidnapping
Osiris extracts the Arbiter and heads off to kidnap a Promethean Repair Bot.
Read moreLegends of the Force Part 36: Jabba the Hutt – Betrayal
This month I’m looking at the last of the Jabba the Hutt comics.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 8: Old Friends
Blue Team reunites with Cortana, while Osiris races to save the Arbiter.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 7: Not in Kansas Anymore
Blue Team arrives on the Forerunner Planet.
Read moreShadowrun: Hong Kong – Video Game Review
The first two parts of what I’d call the “Shadowrun Returns Trilogy” – Shadowrun: Dead Man’s Switch, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall, showed steady improvement over their earlier installments, reaching a zenith in Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Dead Man’s Switch re-introduced the game mechanics and the world of Shadowrun to video games after decades of absence, along with telling a story that adapted parts of the setting that hadn’t been adapted before.
Dragonfall, for the first time, took Shadowrun, in video game form, out of Seattle – and in the process gave some fanservice to the game’s very vocal German fan base. It also demonstrated elements of the evolution of PC RPGs that the first game lacked – regular party members each with their motivations and story, along with quests specific to those characters that helped to progress their story. However, both games had some mechanical hiccups that made them frustrating to play.
Read moreGBP: Pool of Radiance Part 10 – Wealthy Area and the Temple of Bane
These two city hexes are effectively linked, in the sense that one cannot be cleared without the other, and both are light on fixed encounters, so I’m covering them here in one combined post.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 6 – Symphony of Destruction
The “Guardian” is blasting off from the planet, with Blue Team on board. Meanwhile, Osiris Team has to make their own escape.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 5 – Delved Too Deep
Osiris Team discovers that the locals managed to find some Promethean Ruins underneath the colony, and heads there to investigate further.
Read moreLaid Back Camp: Anime Video Review
This week I’m starting my September Anime block with a very chill anime about camping in the off season – Laid Back Camp.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 4 – On the Raggedy Edge
While on the trail of Blue Team, Osiris Team tracks them to an independent colony that is being attacked by the Prometheans.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 3 – The One-Armed Scientist
Blue Team finishes its mission, only to discover some information to cause Master Chief to have them go AWOL.
Read moreGBP: Pool of Radiance Part 9 – Valhaigen Graveyard
The Valhaigen Graveyard is probably one of the more frustrating parts of the game thus far, and definitely, one that I probably could not have beaten had I not been using the Gold Box Companion software. It’s also one where I’m probably going to misspell the name of the area repeatedly as I make my way through the article.
Read moreViewtiful Joe: Video Game Review
For the past month or so I’ve been doing Let’s Play streams of Viewtiful Joe, a 2.5D character action game from Clover Studios. Now that I’ve beaten the game and the last edited installments have gone up, it’s time for me to give my thoughts on the game as a whole.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 2 – Children of the Grave
Meanwhile, Blue Team, led by the Master Chief, is doing a search and destroy mission.
Read moreLet’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 1 – Or the Rescue is Free
We’re introduced to Osiris Team engaging in an extraction deep behind enemy lines.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 93
We return to our regular episodes with two streetball basketball games – one with NBA stars, one with Looney Tunes characters. If there was only some way to get them to meet…
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 23 – Joe and Sylvia IV
One last boss fight for all the marbles – and I’m not skipping through all the save scumming here.
Read moreLet’s Play Viewtiful Joe: Part 22 – Joe and Sylvia III
We face one more gauntlet before the final boss.
Read moreUncanny X-Men Vol. 5: Comic Review
Age of X-Man was a very interesting event, which played with dystopia in a manner that the X-Books hadn’t really done before. However, leading into it and running parallel to it was Uncanny X-Men Volume 5 which, frankly, was something of a slog.
Read moreAge of X-Man: Comic Review
One of the first X-men comics I read was a collection of the first few issues of Age of Apocalypse, back when I was in middle school. While I have still yet to read the entire story, the bits I’ve read left something of an impression on me. When the Age of X-Man event began, I was interested in seeing X-Men writers take on a dystopia that’s different from many of the standard “Pile of Skulls” X-Men dystopia.
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