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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Video Game Review: Shadowrun Dragonfall
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.
Read moreFilm Review: Vertigo (1958)
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.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 222 – Contact I
The Yamato runs into a Gamillan Carrier group.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 221 – Diversion
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.
Read moreBook Review: Boogiepop Omnibus 1
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.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 220 – Supporting a Long Journey III
We wrap up the special mission and get ready for another split.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 219 – Supporting a Long Journey II
We continue to press the attack against the Gamillan supply fleet.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
Read moreComics Review: Empire’s End
This weekend we have the conclusion of the Dark Empire Trilogy.
Read moreGold Box Playthrough: Pool of Radiance Part 8 – Mendor’s Library
With the Belt of Giant Strength, at last we can bash through the doors of Mendor’s Library and get this quest completed!
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 218 – Supporting a Long Journey I
The fleet is running low on supplies, so it’s time for some piracy!
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 217 – Clash of the Mazin Redux
Team Mazinger goes on a little training exercise that doesn’t go according to plan.
(Apologies for the audio, I’m getting my new mic set up.)
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 88
This time we have what might be the last new NES game to be featured in Nintendo Power.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 216 – …Long Live the Emperor
Our fleet finishes breaking through the enemy lines, as Dessler makes clear he can’t just be offed off camera.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 215 – Beyond the Gloomy Light V
Finally done blowing stuff up this mission.
Movie Review: The Island of Lost Souls
I haven’t necessarily seen a lot of pre-Hays Code films. A few of the classic Universal horror films pre-dated the code, like Dracula. However, the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls, is one that I’d been meaning to watch but I’d never gotten around to, until now.
Read moreFilm Review: The Sentinel (1977)
I learned about The Sentinel first through the book Paperbacks from Hell, where it was described as a book made in the wake of the success of The
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 214 – Beyond the Gloomy Light IV
Still blowing more stuff up.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 213 – Beyond the Gloomy Light III
This mission doesn’t really have much in terms of plot twists.
Legends of the Force Part 30 – Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
This week I’m taking a look at the conclusion of the Exar Kun saga.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 212 – Beyond the Gloomy Light II
The fleet continues its push.
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 211 – Beyond the Gloomy Light I
Battle Fleet Tenku launches their attack on the Gamillan lines.
Comic Review: Detective Comics (Rebirth) Vol. 3 – League of Shadows
After the end of The Victim Syndicate, I found the volume to be something of a missed opportunity – like the volume was deciding to take on one of the most cliched criticisms of Batman, a dead horse that was beaten into glue, and decided to address it by – not addressing it. By saying that Batman didn’t have an answer to a question that people who are a moderately serious superhero fan would have been able to answer immediately while reading the book.
Read moreAnime Review: Fate/stay night – Heaven’s Feel II. Lost Butterfly
It feels like an unnecessary point to say, but it bears mentioning nonetheless – Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel II. Lost Butterfly is very much the middle installment of a trilogy. While the first film in this route, Presage Flower, had a very dark ending, this film manages to go into darker places and ends in a dire place. While the first two routes had a degree of brightness to their endings, and I have no doubt that
It also bears mentioning going in, and I’m mentioning this before the cut for those who don’t want to read further before seeing the film – even though I’m going to minimize spoilers, that I would give this film a content advisory for sexual assault and suicide. Neither is depicted explicitly on screen (sort of), but it comes up, so it’s important to know going in.
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