I sort of missed striking an item off my New Year’s Resolutions list last month (as I finished Halo Infinite – but did make a bunch of progress in Final Fantasy XIV), but this month I have nocked the third of 5-6ish games off my list, with Trails of the Sky SC.
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Anime Review: Sand Land
For decades, the gateway to the works of Akira Toriyama in the US has been Dragon Ball Z – the point where Toriyama’s opus shifted gears from gag manga with fighting to shonen fight manga. In 2024, the year in which he sadly passed, we got an anime adaptation of another work, one which I think serves as a better jumping on point to Toriyama as an artist – Sand Land.
Continue readingCommissioner Gordon and The Penguin reflect on their place in things with this new Batman.
Video Game Review: Halo Infinite
The Halo series, from the jump, is a series that is known for creating the illusion of large open spaces for the player to explore, especially through the various levels of the game that combine large driving sequences with areas where the player has to get out and plunge into various Forerunner or Covenant facilities. So, by all rights, Halo Infinite just going full Open World game should be the right call, right? Right?
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Film Review: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me (+ The Missing Pieces)
When Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me came out, it was critically panned. Not unsurprising when a critical darling, an auteur who had been nominated for an Academy Award would dare to make his next film after daring to work in *shudder* television decides to make a movie that is tied in with that TV series. It lost money, it was roasted by critics and by David Lynch’s peers, burning him out on the Twin Peaks franchise entirely.
The sentiment of that critical establishment is not one I share – I’m a Trekker. I grew up watching the original series films, along with the movies for Next Generation – and appreciate the depths of both the series and the films, along with some of the ancillary works. Consequently, I would not dismiss a film tie-in to a TV series – so I came into Fire Walk With Me, and the edited-together Deleted Scenes of The Missing Pieces with an open mind, and was not disappointed.
Continue readingI mentioned, when discussing my surgery, I would do a vlog at some point about my *also* having gotten diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, and having gotten a CPAP machine. I discuss how that process went, a little about how the CPAP works, and the different kinds of masks I got.
We discuss the start of the Spring Anime season, along with some of the failings of Gundam SEED, before moving into Ippon Again.
Quick Notes On Upcoming Content
The next game I’ll be Let’s Playing once I finish Halo Infinite will be Citizen Sleeper.
Also, I fell a little behind on putting episodes together, so I will be putting together a Youtube video on my experiences getting my CPAP machine and getting diagnosed with Sleep Apnea.
I went to my first Indy wrestling show, and my first wrestling show in almost 16 years – Prestige Wrestling’s Roseland 8 show. I give my thoughts on the venue and the card.
Find out about upcoming Prestige Wrestling events: https://www.prestigewrestling.net/
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Film Review: To Live & Die In LA
A while back I watched and enjoyed William Friedkin’s The French Connection, and had seen, of his subsequent films, To Live & Die in LA come up a lot as other films I should watch, first just as Friedkin film in general, then in terms of crime films of the ’80s, and in terms of great films with Willam Defoe, then in terms of great movies with pop bands doing the score. So, eventually I decided that it was time to take this film off my watchlist, and onto my watched list.
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Film Review: Beep – A Documentary History of Game Sound
What is particularly significant about Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound can be found at the end of its title – Sound. Beep is a documentary not on just game music, though that certainly would merit a documentary on its own – but on sound in games as a whole, from the rudimentary tones of Pong to modern game sound effects, along with music and voice acting.
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