I was worried about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond prior to release, between the eight or nine years of development across two completely different studios and the last few trailers focusing on things that felt decidedly un-Metroid. I was worried it was going to be a…
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To put it mildly, I did not like the first season of Hazbin Hotel. Almost two years ago now I wrote a scathing 13,000 word review on the many issues I had with it—not just the surface level stuff people online always make fun of…
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is here! I felt a bit lukewarm on the road to its launch. Now that it's out... well, look, this review's late, we already know how much everyone's loving the game by now. It kicks ass. It's the successor to Sonic and…
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Fifty of my favorite games of 2024 just got ported to Switch all at once. What were the odds? If you're out of the loop, let me get you up to speed first. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 new 8-bit games, developed over…
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This was originally posted as a review on my Backloggd account. It's long enough that I can justify putting it on my formal blog too. Mega Man 8 is one of the very best Mega Man games, and I will not be silenced. I don't…
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Part of me would like to do a much longer Umineko review and go way more in depth, but I'm already in the middle of writing two other huge game reviews, so I need to just do the sane thing and keep this one on the…
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I'm still making my way through the excellent Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. While watching that series, though, I've had a nostalgic hankering for the two preceding Trek series, which I hadn't watched in years. So I figured: why not watch the movies? I'd never seen any…
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Mirrored from the original post on Thanks Ken Penders. On December 10th, 2018, I was on the last day of a trip to Milwaukee. The night before, I'd attended the wedding of one of my best friends, Jake, who I've known since high school. Even…
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Did you know they make comic books that don't star Sonic the Hedgehog? Or even any of his friends? Shocking, I know! Did you also know that, instead of waiting for live action adaptations that mostly end up being mediocre, you can just go straight to the…
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Berserk Boy, released earlier this year, is a game I enjoyed moment to moment, but I wish I enjoyed it more. As it stands, it's overall a pretty good game that I hope did well enough to warrant a sequel to refine its ideas further,…
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Recently, Anthony and I watched the original 1998 Trigun anime, one of my boyfriend’s favorites that I'd always meant to get around to. I enjoyed it a lot. Immediately after this, we figured we'd watch Orange's modernized CGI take on the series from last year,…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. The announcement of a live action Knuckles streaming miniseries was surprising, to say the least. I mean, what would such a show even be about in a version of the Sonic universe with no Angel…
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If you've read this piece before and would like to see my thoughts on Hazbin Hotel season two and Helluva Boss, you can now read my followup review here. I never expected to watch Hazbin Hotel, the raunchy musical dramedy about demons created by Vivienne…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Well, here we are. The final seven episodes of Sonic Prime are out on Netflix, concluding the story of Sonic’s adventures in the Shatterverse. I’ve previously shared my thoughts on the first and second seasons,…
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This was originally posted on Tumblr to my Spider-Man blog, Thanks Steve Ditko. I beat the main story of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and have enjoyed my time with the game overall! I want to talk about spoilers and things that I liked and disliked in the…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Superstars is out! And guess what? It’s good! It’s a worthy new entry in the series, and I mostly like it. Mostly. Except for the handful of parts I don’t. As usual, allow me to…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. So I wrote a whole long thing about Amy’s tarot cards, but what about, you know… the rest of the Sonic Frontiers DLC? The new alternate story route, the hours of new gameplay, all that?…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Eight more episodes of Sonic Prime are out! They’re labeled as “season 2” despite just being the next eight episodes of the first (and presumably only) season, allowing Netflix to market it as multiple seasons…
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Final Fantasy XVI is an easy game to make assumptions about. From the moment it was unveiled, many worried that it would be overly bleak and nihilistic in a series that’s usually anything but. That it would use its newfound ability to more directly depict…
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I have now finally seen the Mario movie. It was Pretty Good. Here are my wordy thoughts on it. (I am going to spoil the entire movie. Duh.) In many ways, the Mario movie does what I wish the first Sonic movie had done. They…
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