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I never really liked the genre of building block sandbox games in which Minecraft remains the exemplar. The gameplay feels meaningless and filled with busywork meant to pad your time, lacking any sort of narrative incentive to push me forward or urge me to continue playing. While Dragon Quest Builders 2 isn't perfect, it has certainly surprised ...
In reference to the headline: how, you may ask? Realistic 3D animation. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Some context first: The Disney Renaissance of the 90s was a joyous time for me as a kid. As a fan of cartoons and the animated medium, be it Western or Japanese, the late 80s and 90s were glorious, from the Under The Sea shenanigans of Sebastia...
Beneath the grimey swampland muck of a hurricane-swept Florida in the world of Crawl, and amidst all the rabid homicidal alligators advertised in the film's trailer lies a heartwarming story about a young woman and her "tiger" dad who used to be her swim coach trying to make amends. Director Alexandre Aja does his best in taking a conventional thri...
It's been two years since the previous season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix, and I have to admit; I don't remember much from that second season. Most of what I fondly remember about the series is from the brilliant first season. Fortunately, Stranger Things Season 3 feels more like an improved version of the first season's formula, making ...
Spider-Man Far From Home officially marks the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) Phase Three, as well as the first movie to explore the aftermath of a post-Avengers Endgame world. That's a lot of baggage for a movie to release with. Thankfully, I'm glad to say that this movie swings with flying colours in my books. We're Going On A Road ...
Platform(s): PS4, Xbox One Genre: 2D weapons-based fighting game In light of the new & rebooted Samurai Shodown's lovely sumi-e aesthetics that mimic classical Japanese paintings of the 17th century, I've decided to just write the majority of the review in a traditional poem structure renowned in that period. Summarized thoughts are at the b...
Marvel Studios hastily announced the Avengers Endgame Re-release Bring Back event about a week ago, in what clearly seems to be a final last bid at trying to overtake James Cameron's Avatar for the all-time box office number one spot. However, are several minutes worth of additional footage enough to warrant a re-watch of Avengers Endgame, especia...
Platform: PS4 Genre: Lawyer/detective game with Yakuza-style ass-kicking Sega has a pretty expensive and detailed Yakuza game engine to make games on thanks to the success of Toshihiro Nagoshi's Ryu ga Gotoku/Yakuza series in Japan and Asia. But it's starting to feel a bit tiring now, which is why I'm glad the Kiryu Kazuma saga has been put to bed...
Platforms:Â PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One Genre:Â PlayStation Mario Kart, Now On Other Platforms(?) This is the era of nostalgia, or more precisely; the era of remakes and remasters. Just look at the ungodly amount of 'retro consoles' that are filling the market. We have one from Sega, one from Capcom, and another one from Sony. The...
Creative Assembly's Total War franchise is known for being one of the most demanding games for the PC in terms of sheer processing power. It takes a beast of a machine to render those stacks of infantry and cavalry units clashing against each other. It's crazy to imagine that we've reached a point where we can play the same game not on a powerful g...
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch (soon, in a week) Genre: Metroidvania action adventure game from the guy who started the trend The thing is, we're living in a world where games like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, and Timespinner exist and do not charge you RM163 for the same kind of dearth and experience. In fact, the Castlevania Collection tha...
Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Musical Action Adventure When you think of the term "spoiling the market", you think lazy spin-off titles and offshoots like a lot of Final Fantasy mobile games out there. But you also think of other titles like your Auto Chess games in Dota 2; an offshoot of a mod that is so addictive it's making other devs make b...
To answer the headline on this Toy Story 4 review: yes. But it's not for the reasons you suspect. Against all odds, Toy Story 4 did the impossible: it made it past the third film and still has a lot of collective ideas and narratives left to make you emotionally invested in hand-me-down toys given to a kindergarten-level kid from a college student...
I'll save you a few bucks on movie tickets: Men In Black - International is one particular Sony release you can skip if you're looking for an outstanding update of the first film that debuted back in 1998. In fact, if you take away the British locale (which isn't featured that prominently) and the two main actors of the show -Chris Hemsworth and T...
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One Genre: Free DLC for the OG Loot & Shoot game (for the time being) The Borderlands 2 DLC Commander Lilith and the Battle For Sanctuary is a pretty generous offering from Gearbox Studios, lasting about 5 or more hours and features a ton of new weaponry and bad guys to kill. It also bridges story points between part 2...
Platform: PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Action RPG With Fever Mode & Cute Heads Bishi Bashi. Diablo III on Normal. Tekken 7 with casuals. Most Marvel vs. Capcom games against level 1 AIs. These are the kinds of experiences where you can turn your brain off for a bit and let your muscle memory and instinct take over while enjoying the pretty l...
The budget smartphone market is a saturated market with tons of options, and buyers will definitely be overwhelmed by the variety of choices. There's Oppo, Vivo, Redmi, Samsung, and Huawei, and it seems like all the brands are just another smartphone on the market. Nothing outstanding from each other. We have a new player in the market. It's the R...
After securing the North of Langye following a protracted campaign against The Hans and the Yellow Turban Rebels at the early portions of my campaign, my band of misfits consisting of the idealist strategist Liu Bei, the regal God of War Guan Yu, and the ever jovial Drunken Brawler Zhang Fei were finally ready to venture down south when we were giv...
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters has finally arrived half a decade after 2014's Godzilla. It's only the second ever live-action American version of the iconic monster/Kaiju (one that some fans have endearingly referred to as Fatzilla), although its Japanese incarnation has gone through multiple versions since the original 1954 movie more than half a ...
What separates the great from the good when it comes to gaming laptops? The processor? GPU? Overall package? Or intangibles that aren't listed down on the products description sheet? After running it through its paces for a while, we come to summarize that Dell's latest iteration of the G7 gaming laptop not only tick all the boxes above, it comes i...
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