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.
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We run into the Gamillan, Neo Zeon, Jupiter Empire alliance.
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The Yamato’s lance has downtime between sorties – and scheming is afoot among the Gamillan forces (again).
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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.
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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.
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We finish off the remnants of the three fleets before moving on.
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Things escalate with the involvement of the Gardim.
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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?
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The battle continues to get a little more complicated.
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The Yamato fleet finds themselves in between a rock and a hard place.
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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.
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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.
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In the wake of sudden transhumanism, the Yamato fleet puts together its plan of attack.
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We finish off this second group of enemies, and one of the characters tries something really stupid.
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This time we conclude the Dark Empire trilogy with Star Wars: Empire’s End.
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Another group of enemies shows up, unlike any we’ve seen thus far.
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We take down the Carrier group in what is clearly a very short mission and totally won’t dump another group of enemies on us.
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When I beat Shadowrun Returns: Dead Man’s Switch, I enjoyed the game but found it lacking in a lot of respects. While Dead Man’s Switch was an RPG that captured a bunch of the feel of the world of Shadowrun and invoked one of the classic adventures from the game, it was missing some of the dynamism of the RPG that other PC RPGs brought to the table. Shadowrun Dragonfall addresses these concerns and creates an RPG that is a more marked improvement over its predecessors.
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Vertigo is probably one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most beloved films, from a director whose entire filmography is almost universally beloved. It’s also a film which has had the appraisal that it peaks a little too early, one that I tend to agree with. There will be spoilers in this review below the cut, because I need to talk about the last third of the film, so I need to lay out what came before.
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The Yamato runs into a Gamillan Carrier group.
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Earth Fleet Tenku is running into more resistance, so they need to draw off some heat, so the fleet splits up, with the protagonist sticking with the Yamato.
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In time for the conclusion of the new Boogiepop anime series, I have a review of the first omnibus volume of the Boogiepop novels from Seven Seas.
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We wrap up the special mission and get ready for another split.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
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We continue to press the attack against the Gamillan supply fleet.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
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