We have our final battle with the Great General of Darkness
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Peter Grant Novels Books # 1-7: Book Review
So, I’ve been behind on my reviews of the Peter Grant novels (having only done a review of the first book – released in the US as Midnight Riot and the second novel, Moon Over Soho), so I’m going to do something of a blanket review of the first 7 novels, which effectively make up one massive story arc, which I’m going to call “The Faceless Man Arc”.
Read moreWatch Dogs 2: Video Game Review
Shortly after watching Ubisoft’s E3 2019 Showcase, I finally beat Watch Dogs 2. Beating that game, in a lot of respects, made clear what my objections are with Watch Dogs Legion. In short, effectively all of those objections are related to the narrative – in particular, how the story will play out with procedurally generated characters.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 266 – Battle of Three Earths V
Leonard and Embryo get their just desserts.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 265: Battle of Three Earths IV
At last, we take the fight directly to Embryo and Leonard Testarossa.
Read moreE3 2019: My 10 Games of Note
E3 2019 has come and gone, and it’s now time to give my thoughts on the games of the show that are of note, both good and bad (mainly good this year).
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 264 – Battle of Three Earths III
Another of Embryo’s Generals goes down this episode.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 263 – Battle of Three Earths II
The first of the two Amalgam sub-bosses go down.
Read moreSavage Sword of Conan #1-5: Comic Review
There aren’t a lot of fantasy comics out there, and the ones we get in the US are generally licensed from another property, whether Games like D&D or Pathfinder, or literary works like Game of Thrones, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, or Conan the Barbarian. So, when Marvel got the license to Conan comics again, I was interested, and when they re-launched their classic Conan titles – Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan, I added those books to my pull list.
Read more20th Century Boys: Manga Review
If I was going to describe 20th Century Boys in a high concept manner to someone in an elevator, I’d describe it as It meets The Stand. It’s a story that takes place over a vast scope of time, almost 30-40 years, with multiple time skips, and an apocalypse in-between, with a fundamental premise of a group of childhood friends being forced to face a great evil as adults. The difference is, the evil in It is a clearly supernatural, unearthly evil. The evil in 20th Century Boys is very, very human.
There are some spoilers below the cut.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 262 – Battle of Three Earths I
While en-route for Earth, Embryo makes a return appearance.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 261 – The Way Home
The Yamato gets the Cosmo Reverse and Earth Fleet Tenku prepares for their trip home.
Read moreLegends of the Force Part 33: Darksaber
Kevin J. Anderson returns with another novel of the Jedi Academy, picking up after the end of Children of the Jedi.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 260 – A Long Expected Party
There have been a lot of Ace interviews saved up, so it’s time for Nine to deal with some of those – and also time for some upgrades.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 259 – Closing the Books V
At last, the Gardim are beaten, so it’s on to Iscandar!
Read moreHayate the Combat Butler Vol. 26-27: Manga Review
After Hayate the Combat Butler Vol. 25, 26 and 27 serve as something of a bridge arc. They don’t tell a complete story in their own right, but instead sort of continue in the shift in the status quo started by Volume 25.
Read moreDarksaber by Kevin J. Anderson: Book Review
After Callista was introduced in Children of the Jedi, unlike other characters who were love interests of Luke, she was not forgotten by other authors, with Kevin J. Anderson’s novel Darksaber.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 258 – Closing the Books IV
Chitose has returned, and she’s brought Nine and Soji with her! Now it’s time to press the attack against the Gardim.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 257 – Closing the Books III
As disaster approaches Gamillas, Earth Fleet Tenku fights off the Gardim to provide an evacuation path.
Read moreGodzilla: King of the Monsters – Film Review
The latest installment of the Legendary MonsterVerse has come out – how does Godzilla’s latest film fare?
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 256 – Closing the Books II
Earth Fleet Tenku overcomes Dessler, only for him to reveal he’s prepared a table flip…
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 255 – Closing the Books I
Meanwhile, Earth Fleet Tenku is closing in on the Gamillan capital, and preparing for their final battle with Dessler.
Read moreAs a quick heads up – for the foreseeable future, my streams will be on hold. My last few attempts at streaming had about 65% of the frames dropped, and that was with attempting to shut down any system processes that used network traffic and after replacing my router.
Part of these issues were what lead to the Lost Episode of my Super Robot Wars V Let’s Play, which I got into on the May 30th installment. Going forward, Let’s Play installments will be recorded offline, and then uploaded to YouTube. This may lead to something of a delay in cases where I run into footage that triggers automated copyright bots.
I apologize for the hassle – I do want to start streaming again at some point in the future. Some bandwidth tests outside of Speedtest that I’ve run have lead me to suspect that my upstream bandwidth is being throttled.
This is something of an unwanted reminder of the importance of Net Neutrality – and I recommend readers contact their legislators in their country of residence to make sure that no-strings-attached Net Neutrality is made the law of the land.
Food Wars Vol. 1: Manga Review
When I reviewed Today’s Menu for Emiya Family, I was impressed not just by the charm of the story, but how well the anime depicted the act of cooking – how well it showed its work. It was a manga about family meals. This wasn’t just represented by the choices of food prepared in the work, but on how the series depicted eating. However, Food Wars Volume 1, which I’m reviewing today, kicked off a sort of boom of cooking anime and manga that lead to series like Emiya Family, and Food Wars could not be more different.
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