Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 45 – Not Your Natto I

I start up another battle against Charlotte Vuitton.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Legends of the Force: Vlog – Solo: A Star Wars Story

The next Star Wars Story installment is out, and I talk about this film’s depictions of Han and Lando, and how they compare to what we’ve seen in the Legends continuity thus far – with the Han Solo and Lando Calrissian Adventures novels in particular.

Opening Credits: Star Wars Theme from Super Star Wars on the SNES.
Closing Credits: Chiptune Cantina Band from Chiptune Inc. – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJtiGFudFlvYMfjiU1NKJg

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 44 – Walk In The Park

On the Nadesco-B’s return to Japan, the crew goes on a recruiting expedition.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 43 – Y’All Are Creepy

We come to a decision over where to go next.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

Role Playing Games

Book Review: Oriental Adventures (1e)

AD&D 1st Edition received a smattering of different settings. The longest lasting of those were the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance settings. However, a little less memorable one is Kara-Tur, which was born out of the Oriental Adventures sourcebook. While it would later be folded into the Forgotten Realms, on the outset it was very much its own thing. Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Brothers’ War

Magic: The Gathering, of all the TCGs that I have played, has held on to me more than any other game – more than WWE Raw Deal, the Star Wars CCG, the Star Trek CCG, and even Weiss Schwarz. The reason for that, more than the raw play of the game and the people I was playing with, was the world of the game, the lore of the game and how it was conveyed. While cards would certainly have a degree of humor to them, the game always took the world somewhat seriously. Continue reading →

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 42 – Blood Spattered Wings II

Ange sorties with the rest of the cast in her new mech.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 41 – Blood Spattered Wings I

The team faces off against a major Dragon attack, as we have to actually pick-and-choose our robots for the first time.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

Video games, videos

Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 79

I continue with the Best of the Rest with a slew of action games.

Games Reviewed: (Links are eBay Affiliate Links – using them helps support the site)

Wolfchild – Virgin Games
First Samurai – Kemco
Super Nova – Taito
Sunset Riders – Konami
Sengoku Denshou – SNK
Alien vs. Predator (GB) – Activision
Lethal Enforcers – Konami
Legend – Seika
Pirates of Dark Water – Sunsoft

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 40 – First Blood

We have a mission within a mission as we get Ange’s first sortie.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 38 – The Forbidden Sea II

And then things got weirder…

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

Role Playing Games

Adventure Review: S1 – Tomb of Horrors

Tomb of Horrors is quite possibly the most infamous D&D module of all time. It’s an adventure that has been credited with annihilating campaigns, and is claimed to be the most broken and unfair adventure ever put out by TSR. However… I think this reputation might be because people are approaching the scenario the wrong way. Continue reading →

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Film Review: Eyes Without A Face

Eyes Without A Face is a very engaging, but bleak horror film. Not bleak in the sense of the horror exploitation films of the 1970s, where the endings erred on the side of “Nobody survived and this is going to happen again” or even just “None of our protagonists survived” as was the case of Night of The Living Dead. The film’s ending does have a true sense of catharsis, and if it was narratively framed differently, it would end on a much more upbeat note.

To get into this, I’m going to have to get into spoilers for a film from 1960. If you want to come in cold, consider this your warning. Continue reading →

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 37 – The Forbidden Sea I

The Nadesico and company team up with the characters from another displaced mecha series.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 36 – Wait, What?

We encounter an unexpected case of tonal whiplash.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

Anime, videos

Anime (Video) Review: Carnival Phantasm

This week I’m taking a look at one of the few Type Moon anime *not* to come to the US.

Tokyo Otaku Mode’s Fate section is here: https://otakumode.com/shop/label/Fate%20Series

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 35 – Blooming Anew

We learn about what happened with Ruri in the wake of Akito and Yurika’s disappearance.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 34 – A Cause Worth Fighting For

We learn what Tobia was up to after he arrived in this universe.

Theme: JAM Project – The EXCEEDER (From Super Robot Wars V)

film, Reviews

Film Review – His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday has aged poorly.

Let’s start off with the fundamental premise – Newspaperman Walter Burns (Cary Grant) has divorced from his reporter wife Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) at some point prior to the beginning of the film. She’s stopped by the newspaper to announce that she’s remarrying, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy), and is going to leave reporting – having been burned out by the cynicism. However, this happens on the eve of the execution of a man named Earl Williams (John Qualen) for murder. Continue reading →

Books, Video games

Book Review: Dungeon Hacks

Procedural content, permadeath, and extremely punishing difficulty has become more and more of a thing in game design. So, that fact, combined by my affinity for the history of technology from a social, technological, and scientific perspective, lead me to this book about the history of roguelikes. It makes for a good portrait of the development of four games, and getting briefly into some of the ways roguelikes have spread into wider gaming culture, though what could be a good look at the larger gaming picture is sadly limited. Continue reading →

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