Earth Fleet Tenku gets back up to speed, as they prepare for a new daring plan.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 238 – Shipper on Deck
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 237 – The Final Push
We deal with what we’re doing with our prisoners and reunite with the other half of our forces.
Read moreAvengers – Endgame: Movie (Vlog) Review
This week I’m taking a look at the end of an era with my (relatively) spoiler-free review of Avengers: Endgame.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 236 – The Reason We Live V
We finish off the Invaders and the mission.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 235 – The Reason We Live IV
We continue to press the attack against the Jupiter Empire.
Read moreThe Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings – Review
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings is part of a series I bounced off of at first. I bounced off of the PC release of The Witcher for a variety of factors. Some of them were bugs – like one where the game would crash whenever I walked into a particular quest-giver’s hut. Some of them were because of the combat, and how the game handled the combat with rhythmic mouse clicks (more on this later). Some of this was due to the re-use of character models and portraits to enough of an extent that it made the game lifeless and hard to navigate.
What kept me hooked enough to finish experiencing the game through a Let’s Play was the story. The narrative was engrossing (though the rampant misogyny was grating). So, when I saw that The Witcher 2 fixed the control issues, was less buggy, was on sale on GoG (and later on Games with Gold), I decided it was time to play this game all the way through.
Read moreSpace Runaway Ideon: Anime Review
Yoshiyuki Tomino has something of a reputation as an anime director, for multiple reasons. Tomino has a reputation for being full of himself. His interviews about Brainpowerd in Animerica magazine demonstrate this. Anyone who has gone to an anime con and asked a Japanese guest who worked with him for a “Tomino story” can attest to this. Tomino also has a reputation for his absolute ruthlessness for killing off characters in his work. The normal examples of this are Zeta Gundam, the last half of ZZ Gundam, and Char’s Counterattack. However, the work that started Tomino down this road was Space Runaway Ideon. (Pronounced E-day-on).
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 234 – The Reason We Live III
The Invaders make their presence known, and the Gamillans react in a manner that I didn’t quite anticipate.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 233 – The Reason We Live II
We continue our push to finish off the Jupiter Empire forces before moving on to the Gamillans.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 89 – Donkey Kong Country Exposed
In this episode, I’m giving my thoughts on the Donkey Kong Country Exposed video that was sent out to Nintendo Power subscribers, alongside the last issue of Nintendo Power.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 232 – The Reason We Live I
We run into the Gamillan, Neo Zeon, Jupiter Empire alliance.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 231 – Food for the Soul
The Yamato’s lance has downtime between sorties – and scheming is afoot among the Gamillan forces (again).
Read moreFate/Extella: The Umbral Star – Video Game Review
One of my guilty pleasures is the Dynasty Warriors games. They’re fun, engaging, somewhat mindless hack-and-slash games. However, they are not without their faults. There comes a point where you’ve put the Yellow Turban Rebellion down enough times that you just can’t play through it anymore. Thus the appeal of the other takes on the concept from within Koei and without. Such is the case with Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star.
Read moreMy Hero Academia: A Neurodiverse Reading
This past year, as part of my weekend anime viewings with my parents, we watched all of My Hero Academia over the course of a few months. As I watched the show, something struck me. Deku and his struggles with mastering One For All are a really good metaphor for my experiences with Autism.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 230 – A Pincer Attack… IV
We finish off the remnants of the three fleets before moving on.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 229 – A Pincer Attack… III
Things escalate with the involvement of the Gardim.
Read moreHellboy (2019) – Movie (Vlog) Review
The Hellboy movie series has been re-booted, now without Guillermo Del Toro and after superhero movies, in general, have become more mainstream. How does this new film fare?
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 228 – A Pincer Attack… II
The battle continues to get a little more complicated.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 227 – A Pincer Attack… I
The Yamato fleet finds themselves in between a rock and a hard place.
Read moreAnime Review: The Magnificient Kotobuki
If you’d read my review of Area 88, you may recall that I gushed over the gorgeously depicted dogfights in that show. Since then I’ve been looking for something that scratched that itch. Not necessarily with the amount of grit that Area 88 did – but still, something that had exciting, tense fighter dogfights. The Winter 2018 anime season brought me the thing that I’d been waiting for. Specifically, it brought me The Magnificent Kotobuki, from the writer and director of Shirobako and Girls Und Panzer. Now, the series had some difficulty taking off for some fans because of the stylistic choices the director made. However, once it got airborne, in my view The Magnificent Kotobuki became a fantastic action anime.
Read moreAnime Review: Boogiepop and Others (2019)
In my review last week of the first Boogiepop Omnibus, I talked about this year’s Boogiepop anime series. Since I recorded that episode, I’ve finished watching the series, and have some thoughts of the show.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 226 – An Actual Electron Fairy
In the wake of sudden transhumanism, the Yamato fleet puts together its plan of attack.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 225 – Contact IV
We finish off this second group of enemies, and one of the characters tries something really stupid.
Read moreLegends of the Force: Part 31 – Empire’s End
This time we conclude the Dark Empire trilogy with Star Wars: Empire’s End.
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