We end up flubbing disarming some traps, and then have to flee an encounter before returning to town.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 118 – Butterfingers
Let’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 117 – End of the World (As We Know It)
We reach the Third Crystal and learn how the Flash happened.
Read moreBNA: Brave New Animal – Anime Review
Studio Trigger’s more recent fare is interesting from a critical standpoint because it’s very clear that they are a studio that does not shy away from being political and generally attempting to be progressive. They’re also a studio who, rather than directly addressing Japanese politics, tends to address their narratives through the lens of American politics, often through the X-Men books, which means that due to their distance from American politics, they can stumble into some rakes that are otherwise avoidable, and BNA: Brave New Animal is a great example of this.
Read moreLady Snowblood: Movie Review
Apparently Kazuo Koike’s manga is one of those edge cases where a creator’s manga adapts to the screen better in live-action than in animation. Koike’s anime track record includes the infamous Mad Bull 34 and Crying Freeman, while his live action adaptations include such classics as Lone Wolf & Cub, and the film I’m reviewing today – Lady Snowblood.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 116 – Childhood Trauma
We reach the second crystal and learn Durgan’s backstory.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 115 – Trail of the Past
We continue on our way to the second Memory Crystal.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 110
We have almost finished Year 8 of Nintendo Power, with a fairly lean issue.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 114 – …It’s Gone Now
We fight an optional boss to open up a portal back down to B8.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 113 – There Was A Lake Here…
We return to the waterfall level to investigate an area we unlocked.
Read moreX of Swords: Comic Review
X-Men comic events tend to not be small, and also tend to shake up the whole line to very dramatic degrees. Fall of the Mutants set up the Australia Arc and ultimately lead to that team going through the Siege Perilous. Inferno killed off Madeline Pryor, de-aged Illyana Rasputin, and sent Nathan Summers into the future to become Cable. X-ecutioner’s Song unleashed the Legacy Virus. And the most recent one of these has been X of Swords.
Read moreSprawlrunners: RPG Review
I like Shadowrun a lot – it was the second tabletop RPG I ever played and my first cyberpunk RPG. I also know it’s clunky in a lot of respects. So, when I learned about Sprawlrunners about a more fast-moving way to run a Shadowrun-like game, using the new edition of the Savage Worlds I decided to pick it up.
Read moreThoughts on the Time of the Red
I recently picked up the corebook for Cyberpunk Red, and have read through the whole book. I haven’t done anything with the rules yet, so I can’t speak to those. However, I do have some thoughts about the setting, particularly the changes in the Time of the Red.
Read moreThe Epic Crush of Genie Lo: Book Review
There are some YA novels that I have read that feel like I’m reading an anime. This is, in part, because some of the light novels that have been adapted to anime were aimed for YA audiences. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo is an YA novel that definitely fits that concept, though one with some very different and unique narrative hooks because of the point of view character and setting that make it really worth your while (and makes me wish it would get turned into an animated series).
Read moreUpdate on Knightfall, Cyberpunk 2077 Coverage
A few quick updates on Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga, and how I intend to cover Cyberpunk 2077.
Read moreGhost of Tsushima: Video Game Review
Ghost of Tsushima was the last game I beat in 2020 – I completed the game on New Year’s Eve on a launch PS4, and in spite of that console’s age, Tsushima is a title that looks and plays beautifully.
Read moreTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: TV Review
A long time back I reviewed Smiley’s People. At the time I’d seen the previous series – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – but I’d never gotten around to reviewing it. With the show having come out on Blu-Ray and being available through Netflix on-disk, and having seen the film a while back, I figured it was about time to revisit it.
Read moreKnights of Sidonia Vol. 8-11: Manga Review
Volumes 8-11 of Knights of Sidonia are where Nihei steps firmly into New Battlestar Galactica Territory. We had a bit of that in the earlier volumes, but here there’s the level of internal political dissension I associate with that show.
Read moreSilent Mobius Vol. 1-5: Manga Review
As part of this COVID-19 world, I’ve been trying to get through some of the manga titles on my reading list. One of the ones I’ve been working on is Kia Asamiya’s urban fantasy Cyberpunk opus, Silent Mobius.
(Note: For the purposes of this review I am reading the Viz Media release – the Udon release is incomplete, and the Manga Planet release hasn’t come out yet).
Read moreThunderbolt Fantasy Season 1: TV Series Review
There have been varying attempts in the past to tell dramatic and mature stories with puppets. The works of Gerry Anderson are great examples of this. Well, it turns out there’s a tradition of these kind of stories in Taiwan and china, through glove puppetry. We got a real great example of this a few years ago with the Taiwanese and Japanese co-production, Thunderbolt Fantasy.
Read moreRobin #5 Recap
When we last left off, Robin was in a grave predicament.
Read moreUzaki-Chan Just Wants To Hang Out: Anime Review
This week I’m covering an anime from last year that I omitted from my 2020 Anime Recommendations list – not because I didn’t like it, but because I wanted to spend a little more time on it – Uzaki-Chan Just Wants To Hang Out.
Read moreRobin #4 Recap
We’re continuing with the hunt for the Blackgate escapees.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 112 – Fast Retreat
We start to make our way to the next memory crystal, but get ambushed and have to fall back to town.
Read moreRobin #3 Recap
It’s time to go back to Robin, and deal with the aftermath of the Blackgate Breakout.
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