I’ve finished reading Battle Angel Alita: Last Order – so it’s time to finally get into the back half of the manga.
Read moreBattle Angel Alita: Last Order (Second Half): Manga Review
A Week Of Listening
This week I’m stepping away from my Let’s Play, my Reviews, and my Blog Posts to encourage you to likewise step away from the normal voices you listen to (which are statistically likely to be predominantly White). Instead, I’d like you to take this moment to actively seek voices of people of color, of Black people, on YouTube, on Twitch, in the podcasts you listen to, the books you read, the roleplaying games you play.
Read moreMatter: Book Review
Matter is my first step into the world of The Culture. I’ve heard bits and pieces about it through a variety of other sources, from the absurd ship names, to the concept of Outside Context Problems, to the absurdly high tech level – but I’ve never actually read a novel in the universe. While Matter is not the first book in the series, it is a pretty good jumping on point to the series.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 25 – Twisty Passages, All Alike
We get a warning about level B3.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 24 – The Evil That Men Do
We explore further, and learn something about the nature of The Reaper.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 103
We haven’t had a fighting game on the cover in a while – how about a first-party one.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 23 – A Friend In Need
We tell Rui’s client she’s okay, and pick up another job.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 22 – Pow-pow-Power Room
The party finds the second Power Room.
Read moreThe Big O: Anime Review
I have some significant gaps in the classics of Toonami. I watched most (though not quite all) of Gundam Wing when it first aired. Same with Outlaw Star, and a fair amount of Dragon Ball Z (at least through the end of the Namek arc). However, I never really watched much of Yu-Yu Hakusho, and I never got around to watching any of The Big O. Maybe it was the title of the show – it certainly wasn’t the aesthetic – the retro-futuristic style grabbed my interest. However, it wasn’t until recently that I finally got the opportunity to watch The Big O in its entirety – and it’s an interesting show to unpack.
Read moreMarvel’s Spider-Man: Video Game Review
Marvel’s Spider-Man is a game that I recall getting a lot of extremely positive reviews when it came out, and made it into contention for Game of the Year at a lot of places. On the other hand, the depiction of Peter Parker’s close relationship with the NYPD was consider somewhat problematic at the time – and time has not been kind to that aspect of the story.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 21 – The Mezzanine
We finish exploring what is basically the Mezzanine of B2.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 20 – The Switch
We find one of the controls we need to activate the elevator.
Read morePlaying at the World: Book Review
This week I’m covering a non-fiction book on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, and the various influences that fueled it.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 19 – Lift
We explore further and find the elevator.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 18 – Bloodied
We get down to B2, and a party member goes down for the first time.
Read moreMy Hero Academia Season 4: Anime Review
The gravity of pro hero work has always been kind of been in the background throughout the past few seasons of My Hero Academia. However, Season 4 of the show puts the situation the members of Class 1-A are going to be getting into once they graduate into much sharper relief.
Read moreSpace Battleship Yamato 2199: Anime Review
After completing Super Robot Wars V a year or so ago, I decided I wanted to watch some of the anime series from that show, particularly before moving on to X (along with wanting to watch a couple of the shows from X as well to set up the story for comparison). That, combined with the fact that I’d been watching various anime series on weekends with my parents, and that my mother had watched the original first season of Space Battleship Yamato while growing up in Hawaii, lead me to bump the reboot of that series up on my list.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 17 – Brains!~
We have our first battle with the undead.
Read moreBatman #497 Recap
It’s has very much all come down to this – Batman vs. Bane.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forgotten Land: Part 16 – Shortcut
We finally get the locked door in the opening area unlocked.
Read moreBreaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall Prelude Act 1 – Vengeance of Bane
Knightfall’s prelude begins with the Secret Origins of its antagonist – Bane.
Read moreDetective Comics #663 Recap
The Mayor has been rescued, but Batman and Krol have to escape a watery grave.
Read moreBatman #496 Recap
The Joker and Scarecrow are still in play, and they still have the mayor as their hostage.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 15 – Dance With The Reaper
The party has our first encounter with a Reaper.
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