Adaptations of visual novels to anime are something of a mixed bag. Sometimes, like with Clannad and Comic Party, the adaptation is a hit. Other times, it doesn’t work quite so much. Fate/Stay Night falls into the former case, though there are times where the work stumbles in its execution, primarily on the animation front, though there are some narrative issues. Read more
This time the band as a whole goes to stop a heist on the Council Archives.
This time I’m giving my thoughts on the recent snowstorms in Portland, and why PDX fails at Snow. Read more
This time we end up pulling off a semi-heist in a Casino.
It’s been awhile since I’ve done an album review. It’s time to change that, by taking a look at a science fiction concept album adapting one of the first alien invasion novels – H. G. Welles’ War of the World. Read more
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team was, before the release of Paper Jam, the most recent game in the Mario & Luigi series of handheld Mario JRPGs. Unlike the Paper Mario series and the original Super Mario RPG for the SNES, the game focuses entirely on Mario & Luigi as, in this case, they travel to Pi’illo Island along with Princess Peach, on vacation. However, as per usual, Bowser has his own malign plans for Peach, which Mario & Luigi must foil. Much of the game plays fairly well, but there are a few gameplay concepts that don’t quite work that ultimately ruin the whole experience.
This time we’re invited for lunch with Joker, but it doesn’t go well.
We’re continuing with Marvel’s Star Wars comics with the books published between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Read more
This time we’re jacking into the Geth Consensus to shut down their fighters, and maybe do a little extra.
Gaming licensed fiction is hit and miss. For every Dragonlance Chronicles, you get a bunch of Darkwalker on Moonshaes. With the AD&D campaign setting of Ravenloft, which was born out of an adventure by Tracy & Laura Hickman, one would think that the novel focusing on the character from whom the setting was born would be written by the creator of that character – particularly when Tracy Hickman had gone on to co-create Dragonlance with Margaret Weis and would go on to co-write a bunch of New York Times bestselling novels. Instead, they went with a writer who also had also worked with TSR, and who had a strong track record writing gothic horror vampire fiction – P. N. Elrod. Read more
Michael Crichton has never encountered a piece of technology that didn’t scare the crap out of him, to such a degree that he reminds me a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. Read more
A Quarian Admiral has been downed on Rannoch, and we head down the planet to rescue him.
This week I’m giving my thoughts on the first novel in the Legends of the Galactic Heroes series. Read more
This time we’re checking out a fuel depot that has gone offline.
With the conclusion of the Thrawn trilogy, we’re now taking a look at the comic series that came out more or less contemporaneously with that series – Dark Horse Comics’ first outing in the Star Wars universe – Dark Empire. Read more
How do you take a silent film, that’s one of the most iconic works of German Expressionist cinema alongside the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, remake it in late ’70s and in color, and have it work just as well? You have Werner Herzog do it, apparently. Read more
Tali re-joins the party as we board the Geth dreadnaught.
This time we’re covering issue #46 of Nintendo Power for March of 1993. Read more
This time we meet up with the Quarian fleet.
The 1925 film version of The Phantom of the Opera is a film which, I think gets the Phantom himself much better than some of the later interpretations of the story. It gets the horrific side of the Phantom right, without over romanticising him. Read more
We come now to the conclusion of the Thrawn trilogy. Read more
This time we meet back up with Zaeed and force another hard deal.
On a special episode of Legends of the Force, I give my thoughts on Rogue One, a film which in the new-continuity provides a new telling of events that we previously saw in Legends – the theft of the Death Star Plans. Read more
This time we’re completing some side-quests around the citadel.
