We begin our run on the Fire Temple.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 303 – Enter the Inferno I
Running a little behind – here are some photos!
So, I’m falling a little behind on my blogging – so instead I’d like to share a few photos I took.
Read moreElric of Melnibone: Book Review
Well, I need to get caught back up with where I was with the Sword & Laser Book Club, in terms of reviews – and that means it’s time to get back into the Elric Saga, with the pick that I ended up recommending (and which a lot of participants bounced off of) – with Elric of Melnibone, the chronologically first novel by Michael Moorcock in Elric’s saga.
There will be spoilers.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 302 – Ice Guardian
We take on the Ice Guardian, and equip the *one* weapon that dropped.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 301 – Three Bridges II
We manage to turn the enemies against each other (a little) and get cross the bridge.
Read moreVlog: Getting Up To Date On the OGL
Things changed a lot since I put my editorial on why the OGL matters – just two days after that video went live in fact. It’s time to go over what had changed, and what my thoughts on the changes are.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 300 – Three Bridges I
We have three bridges across a bottomless chasm with Medusae on the other side.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 299 – Flanked II
It turns out for that kind of flanking plan to work, you need people in the front position who are a little tankier.
Read moreNextGen #32 (August 1997)
We are slowly – but surely – trying to get caught up with where we are in Nintendo Power magazine.
Read moreManga Review: Master Keaton
Naoki Urasawa’s Master Keaton is fascinating to read alongside his later series Monster. If Monster is an HBO prestige television series, Master Keaton feels much more like a syndicated TV series. Both are mysteries, but Monster pushes forward on a tightly plotted course toward its conclusion. At the same time, Master Keaton is willing to tell a collection of more episodic stories, often moving back to a particular status quo at the end of each episode. That’s not bad, it’s just a different approach.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 298 – Flanked I
We have a bunch of goons trying to hold us in place while we’re attacked from the side.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 297 – The Sniper In The Gallery
We demonstrate that having the High Ground is not a win condition.
Read moreVlog: Thoughts On My New Switch OLED
I updated my Switch to an OLED model, around Christmas, and I figure now’s a pretty good time to give my thoughts on the upgrade, having had an opportunity to drive it around for a while.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 296 – Pincered II
We clear out the opposition (and they still don’t drop weapons).
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 295 – Pincered I
We end up between a bunch of Fusiliers & some monsters.
Read moreAnime Explorations Episode 4: Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1 + The Blade of Life & Death
This month, David, Tora and I are taking a look at the first season & film of Thunderbolt Fantasy for Lunar New Year.
Read moreManga Review: Naoki Urasawa’s Monster
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster was the series that got him on my radar when I learned (10 years ago) that Guillermo Del Toro was trying to get a live-action adaptation of the series made for HBO (which ultimately fell through). That was enough to get me to hunt down the manga and slowly, over time, read it through my local library system (impacted by books falling out of and then back into print). Well, at long last, I’ve finished reading it.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 294 – Chill Out II
We finish the Ice Temple’s one fortress map.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 293 – Chill Out I
We move on to the Ice temple.
Read moreEditorial: Why the OGL Matters
In the wake of Wizards of the Coast announcing that they are revoking OGL V1.0a, there have been a bunch of hot takes that the OGL does not matter and it and other licenses never mattered – so I get into a few of the legal cases that made the OGL important, and which makes current open gaming licenses important.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 292 – Crafty Commander
We make a new weapon – which Denam isn’t a high enough level for.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Part 291 – Lightning Guardian II
We finish dealing with the minions and take on the Guardian directly.
Read moreAnime Review: Lupin Zero
On the one hand, Lupin Zero is a show that doesn’t “need” to exist. We’ve had several TV specials and the series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine has covered some of this in the past. Lupin Zero tries to put their own spin on it by making Jigen & Lupin either late-Middle Schoolers or early High Schoolers, in a series set contemporaneously with when the manga started running.
Read moreAnime Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury (S1)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury is an excellent example of how to handle shifting the tone of a series incredibly well. The show opens with a prologue episode set several years before the main body of the series, establishing what the Gundams are, and what the Gundam (or GUND-ARM) technology that powers them is based on – before setting up why the Gundams are rare and restricted, and how the main character’s Gundam, in particular, is going to be special in the series to come.
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