Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 269 – Darker Than the Darkest Black III

Ruri prepares to fire the Phase-Transition Cannon

We focus our attention on the Emperor of Darkness.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 91

Snippet of the cover of Nintendo Power #69 showing X from Mega Man X2.

The Play It Loud era continues with a pair of Kirby titles.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 268 – Darker Than the Darkest Black II

We meet our true enemies – Black Noir and the Emperor of Darkness

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 267 – Darker Than the Darkest Black I

We have our final battle with the Great General of Darkness

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Peter Grant Novels Books # 1-7: Book Review

Cropped excerpt of the cover of Midnight Riot

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”.

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Watch Dogs 2: Video Game Review

Marcus while tagging the Golden Gate Bridge

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.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 266 – Battle of Three Earths V

Leonard and Embryo get their just desserts.

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Let’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.

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E3 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).

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 264 – Battle of Three Earths III

Another of Embryo’s Generals goes down this episode.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 263 – Battle of Three Earths II

The first of the two Amalgam sub-bosses go down.

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Savage Sword of Conan #1-5: Comic Review

Top portion of the cover to Savage Sword of Conan #4

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.

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20th 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.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 262 – Battle of Three Earths I

While en-route for Earth, Embryo makes a return appearance.

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Let’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.

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Legends of the Force Part 33: Darksaber

Excerpt of the cover art of Darksaber showing Han, Luke, Leia and two Imperial Guards

Kevin J. Anderson returns with another novel of the Jedi Academy, picking up after the end of Children of the Jedi.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 260 – A Long Expected Party

Nine grills Tusk on his accidental groping

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.

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Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 259 – Closing the Books V

At last, the Gardim are beaten, so it’s on to Iscandar!

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Hayate 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.

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Darksaber 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.

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