It’s time to earn the Oracle Mark and take on the Earth Guardian.
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Anime Review: In/Spectre Season 2
The second season of In/Spectre is less dominated by a single mystery for the entire story, and is instead broken up into a series of smaller mysteries – generally not one-and-done cases, as they usually take a few episodes to resolve. However, it does mean that if the Steel Lady Nanase mystery seemed to drag for you in the show’s first season, this might be more your speed.
Read moreAnime Review: Trigun Stampede
Continuing with the theme of revivals of classic anime franchises, the Winter 2023 season saw the return of Trigun, with Trigun: Stampede, from Studio Orange (best known for Land of the Lustrous), doing what is effectively a half-reboot/half-prequel to the original series, with Trigun Stampede.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 334 – You Shall Not Pass II
After dealing with the worst of their number, we press the attack on the monsters with a flanking maneuver of our own.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 333 – You Shall Not Pass I
We have our pit-fall level, where we try to force the monsters through a choke point.
Read moreBook (Video) Review: Final Fantasy XV – Dawn of the Future
It’s time to look at the book adaptation of the DLC for Final Fantasy XV that we didn’t get (and a little bit that we did)
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 332 – Undead Flankers
Each of these Temples has had some form of “Flanking” battle – this is the Earth Temple’s, with the flankers being undead that will wake up in 3 turns – unless we exorcise them first.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 331 – Rock Monster II
We clear out the fight, with the battle wrapping up with a bunch of undead.
Read moreAnime Review: Urusei Yatsura (2022-3)
These past few years have been a time of resurgence for various classic anime & manga franchises – not only with the long-running new adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, but also with an adaptation of Ushio & Tora, and a sequel to Inuyasha, it only seemed appropriate that someone returned to the manga that put Rumiko Takahashi on the map in Japan – Urusei Yatsura.
Read moreBook Review: Weird of the White Wolf
Weird of the White Wolf is the fourth part of the first of the current set of Elric omnibus volumes, and undoubtedly, this is where things get serious. I mean – there were serious things before, but this is where Elric gets shoved headlong into his destiny (the “Weird” in the title referring the Old English use of the word – Wyrd – meaning destiny) – like it or not (tending towards “or not”). And this is helped by the fact that here is where we encounter the first stories in the publication order, even if they’re not the first in Elric’s internal chronology.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 330 – Rock Monster I
We have another fight with a whole bunch of Golems.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 329 – Sandstorm
I take on the second area of the dungeon, and get hit with slow a bunch.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 132
Bomberman has moved up to the 64-bit generation, and we have a Mortal Kombat spinoff title.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 328 – Rocky Start II
We make our second attempt at the start of the Earth Temple.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 327 – Rocky Start I
We start off the Earth temple, and have a slight loadout hiccup.
Read moreAnime Explorations Episode 6: My Dress-Up Darling
This month we’re discussing My Dress-Up Darling – a romantic comedy anime (with some fanservice) all about cosplay, followed up by a discussion about this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards and the r/Anime Awards.
Read moreUnder Fortunate Stars: Book Review
A time travel fiction concept that definitely falls under the category of “things I didn’t quite realize was a sub-sub-genre” until recently is the “Don’t Meet Your Heroes” story (with the alternative addendum of “Or do, I’m not your parental figure”). Basically, a story where the main characters travel back in time, either intentionally or unintentionally, and end up meeting someone (whether a singular person or multiple people) who are on the eve of doing some thing instrumental to the timeline, and who one or multiple of the protagonists idolizes, with the grand reveal being that they aren’t quite the kind of person that history has remembered them as being. Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Huchings – March’s Sword & Laser book club pick – is a really great example of this kind of story.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 326 – Water Guardian II
Fourth shrine down, 1 to go.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 325 – Water Guardian I
It’s time to take on the Water Temple guardian.
Read moreFinal Fantasy XV: Video Game Video Review
As part of the build-up for Final Fantasy XVI, it’s time to give my thoughts on the past couple main Final Fantasy games.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 324 – Perilous Labyrinth II
We manage to get through without Denam getting yeeted into the void.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 323 – Perilous Labyrinth I
We have this temple’s map with treacherous pitfalls to watch out for.
Read moreSlayers – Book 1: Book Review
Recently, the first volume of the Slayers novels – which had been translated twice in the past (once by Tokyopop & now by J-Novel Club) received an audiobook review. This was ultimately the impetus I needed to get around to reading this, and this case, listening to the audiobook, read by Lisa Ortiz – the actress who voiced Lina in the English dub of the TV series.
Read moreFinal Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future – Book Review
Final Fantasy XV had a lot of DLC planned, to expand on the game’s story by providing additional plot details during the big time skip before the game’s final act, expanding on the game’s backstory, and even providing an alternate ending. We got… some of it. We got the backstory expansion. We got some elaboration on what characters were doing when they were off-camera at certain parts of the game. However, we didn’t get the whole story – we didn’t get the expansion discussing the time skip, and we didn’t get the alternate ending. However, the game’s writers wanted to make sure that story was told, leading to The Dawn of the Future – which adapts one released episode, and the plots of a bunch of unreleased ones, to give an alternate ending.
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