Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin)

Written and illustrated by the man we all know as Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan is drama, action anime, some would say it's like the Game of Thrones of anime. In the series humanity has been pushed to living inside the walls of a city-state area by the force of these humongous sized creatures or more commonly know as titans. Though until now the walls have protected the humans but when out of nowhere a colossal titan appears and breaks down the wall, shit hits the fan. Now it's time for the men and women of the military(including protagonist Eren Yeager) to fend off and hopefully destroy the attacking force that is the titans.

Attack on Titan is know to be a more fast paced anime blowing through many of the manga's chapters in the first season which is really nice. Another thing driving the anime forward is the easy to understand, smooth action scenes and art style. You could say this is one of the few anime's that is better than the manga, one of the reasons that I believe this is because if you read the manga instead of watching the series you will miss the epic sound track, voice acting, awesome gore, drama and over the top personalities.

Though the series is supposed to be one of the best and most popular it still does make mistakes here and there. To be perfectly honest they are not important but are still there. Firstly just like Tokyo Ghoul the first episode is important to the story but the beginning of the episode is still slightly underwhelming to some. Another small error is when watching the series in English dub quite a lot of script is changed/lost in translation, but who watches dubbed anyway? Thirdly since there was barely any filler and straight important information and action in the first season the second season will have to slow down considerably which would add a lot of filler to it which would make it less popular than the first season. Very underwhelming.

To be honest Attack on Titan or Shingeki no Kyojin is definitely in my top ten anime ever(Not including manga) The series has a great soundtrack, a lack of filler episodes, a great and compelling story with some of the best visuals you have seen in years. The series does have some downsides but not many the most important will affect the next season making it irrelevant for this one. Overall there's not many bad things you can say about Shingeki no Kyojin without first pointing out all of the positives. If you wanna get into anime or are into anime and haven't seen this series yet. Go watch it! And if you've already seen it. Go watch it again!



D for Don't nom me bro


9.5/10    

Legends of League: PC Edition

Riot Game's masterpiece, League of Legends. The game was initially released in 2009 which would probably put it out of range of a review but with the ever changing nerf's and buff's as well as introduction of new game modes(The newest being Legend of the Poro King) I think it's a perfect time to review this game. League of Legends or more commonly know as LoL or League is a Moba in which two team's fight against each other with diverse champions in hope to force the enemy team to surrender or destroy their nexus. This is all done on either Summoners Rift, The Crystal Scar or The Howling Abyss(But only one of them is a good map)

The game has been around for quite along time with constant updates which has made it very uncommon for bugs/glitches to be found(The only exception being the Beta testing of new champions/ Summoners Rift) This however was very different back preseason 1. The actual graphics of the new map are up to and above standard but there still are quite a lot of old champions that need to be updated, because from close up they're quite the distortion. If you can look past that you will be able to see the amount of time and effort put into making the game work correctly as well at the same time trying to keep the Meta relevant without making certain champions too overpowered.

This is all great but at the same time this is quite bad for the people who want to play the game for fun instead of competitively. I'm talking about the person that just wanted to try ad malzahar(Ad meaning Attack Damage instead of ap, meaning Ability Power) and instead of having fun trying something new he gets flamed for not playing the Meta. Second downside of the game is the gap between a level one beginner and his dream of being diamond one. This gap that you have to pass before playing ranked is necessary but also a hassle. By that I mean if someone is playing the game for the first time they shouldn't have to deal with people who created alternate accounts who flame them for being new to the game/bad at the game. Thirdly not being able to go below bronze five in ranked, For some people ranked just probably isn't their thing yet. So if someone plays ranked and ends up in bronze five I believe they should be given time where they cannot play ranked and instead must practice instead of turning into a hated toxic played who blames his team for every loss.

To put it in a fair plain manner League of Legends is a very, very popular Moba with a lot of champion variation and some of the most competitive ranked play in the world. The main problem pulling it down is the toxic community because apart from them everything else works fine. The system would be so amazing without them. Hopefully soon Rito(Joke intended and not a type) will fix the tribunal and clear up the toxic waste that is plaguing their masterpiece.
P.S League may not be everyone's game, some may hate it and some may love it so rating is up for debate but because of my special enjoyment of Moba's I will obviously have a bias rating. You all have the right to rate the game as how you think it should be rated. Merc Out.


E for Elo hell

8.5/10

Definitely not Fifa 15

Published and developed by the most famous sports game producers in the world I give you Fifa 15.

Fifa fifteen is everything you think it would be, a soccer simulator and gambling platform. Like the last game you can be one of two types of FIFA players, the play who plays the game offline with friends or the player who plays ultimate teams. In other words you can gamble or not gamble.

Apart form that the only thing  improving the game from the last is smoother controls and 'better' graphics.

When I describe the graphics as 'better' I don't in any way mean that they are bad but more saying that it would probably take you at least ten seconds of thinking to tell FIFA 15 from FIFA 14. But if we look aside from that the game has probably some of the best graphics we've seen all year.(Maybe the EA budget helped?) A side from that you could say that the game is moderately bug free. Moderately bug free probably isn't good enough for a title that is this hyped in my opinion though. if you think about it that's really bad for a game with this budget to be having as many bugs and glitches as it does. But I think people look past that a tad too much.

Bad things yo. As a starter it's the EA cash grab, pay to win theme. Some could say that the game wouldn't be the same without pay to win implements which is true but I definitely think if EA wasn't EA and didn't get into that business the series could of been a lot better.... maybe? That brings me to my next point, which is the game leeching off of the popularity of soccer. By which I mean that when famous people who follow soccer see this game they automatically like it, and when those people have millions of subscribers on YouTube and make their viewers want to play this game even though it doesn't deserve all of this attention my eyes just water up.

All in all that makes FIFA 15 a moderately good game that has been just too hyped up, with too big of an audience and too big of a budget for its own good. AKA the unwanted little brother of a good game series called the "Dragging out the series for cash grab purposes game"(Original title by Jesse Mason) To its credit I must say that FIFA is still a good game, it's just not a great game and doesn't deserve the hype train that it has been placed on. (All of this is in my opinion and if you love FIFA great, but i'll keep loving the game's I love and you can keep loving the games you love)

T for The Cristiano Ronaldo school of acting.

8/10

Frustrated!

Pull out your popcorn kiddies because it's story time. To start off with i'm telling you that this is going to be an overview of my day. It begins with me waking up at 9am, I was tired, drowsy and looking for an energy source. "How about I grab a hot drink?" I though to myself, it was a fantastic idea, until I brought the drink back to my room where I proceeded to collapse onto my bed only to wake up to the sound of the drink spilling on my entire bed. I spent at least half an hour cleaning that up but that's life right?

Oh self fromm the previous paragraph you are so simple minded that isn't life life is realizing that now I can't go back to sleep or wake up properly. Oh no half dead me proceeded to turn on the computer to open up to updates that halt me from logging in for fifteen minutes. Those fifteen minutes were spent staring at a screen with a circle. Once the circle decided to stop spinning I could finally get on to the inter webs. Lets check Facebook I thought, once on Facebook I was confronted by a story for the Hostage situation in Sydney, of course I had a look to see what happened but to my dismay I was led to a website full of Malware that was just itching to get at my PC.

This is the part when the Malware latches on to my PC. I go to my MalwareBytes only to find that I need to update before scanning and once I did update the scan was nothing less than the pain of a lemon being squeezed into a cut. As I was losing all hope in that day I was alerted by the sound of Skype, it was joy full. It 'was' joy full until that person played me guitar and then hung up. Great just great.

There was one more thing to happen though in this day of frustration. A new washing machine was to be delivered as well as installed. The men showed up put in the new washing machine and left, sounds fine right? Wrong they didn't close the gate properly behind them selves causing my two dogs to escape. Now delayed even further  I got the pleasure of spending my afternoon looking for them. But we found them, they were fine and we put them back inside. Can I please just get a break was the phrase I was saying to myself to the point of insanity.

But some way some how this was all forgiven and completely irrelevant when I received news from Google that this Blog was up to AdSense standards and that my AdSense account has been fully activated. I never ever thought I would get payed for doing this, it's just crazy. So what I really want to say is a giant thank you to everyone! - :D

Plants vs Zombies: Garden "Warfare"

Developed by PopCap Games and Published by Electronic arts Garden Warfare is the remake of the very popular Plants vs Zombies game, but this time it's a  third person shooter. In the game you can either play offline co-op missions or play online multiplayer where you can either play as a plant or zombie in a vast amount of different game modes. The game features a bunch of character upgrade and customization which can be unlocked when completing certain challenges. It's kind of a goofy remodel of the Gear's of War series.

The game does well with the art style, its just what you would imagine for a three dimensional version of Plants vs Zombies. To the downside of the game design with the amount of flashy explosions there comes the not so uncommon graphical glitch. But it's not too noticeable, something only really recognized by the people who want to find said graphical glitches. Apart from that the game does quite well with the number of other bugs and glitches.

To the bad stuff. The biggest problem with the game is probably the lack YouTube support. By lack of YouTube support I mean that the game is targeted for people that are in their young teens, the people who are watching people like PewDiePie, they may love the game but because people like PewDiePie aren't playing it they quite quickly give up on it. Because of the downfall in players there's less games and longer waiting time which in a domino effect causes the game to fall out of popularity. For big and short problem number duex,  the game never received enough TLC from the developers after release which means less updates which means less drive to play which means less popularity. No one wants to play a game that no one else is playing.

Overall this makes Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare a bit of an odd ball. By which I mean its a perfectly fine game with a lot of good aspects all round but a lack of popularity due to  a lack of effort from the developers and a lack of promotion by other people on the internet because of  the lack of updates and such from the dev's. So what i'm trying to say is it's a up to standard quality game but all that's left is for you people to go play it.

Z for Zombie Invasion

8.5/10

A Big Announcement

Hey, I would just like to take a second from your time to tell you......We as of half an hour ago reached 3000 unique page viewers. Thanks a lot! :D

Heartstone: Hero's of RNG

A sort of old game but with the recent Goblins vs Gnomes update I though it would be a good chance to review it. Developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment Hearthstone is a collectible card game that uses certain characters and monsters from the Warcraft universe as cards in the game, the Goblins vs Gnomes expansion is just a well needed refreshing dump of cards into the game. So of which could be considered a little OP e.g Sneed's Old Shredder but I think the introduction of some newer and OP cards is just what the game needs to shift the meta bringing more different deck types into play.

Apart from being a massive card dump Goblins vs Gnomes also attempts to pull in more players with giving out a free arena run, a new card playing field and some free packs. Though apart from that there isn't too much new stuff. To go to graphics the game does very well with card designs and the animations on gold cards work very well too. As far as bugs and glitches go they are very few compared to when the game was first released but are still there e.g starting the game without getting a hand of cards. But as I said they are quite the rarity compared to previous patches which is better then nothing.

Some of the inevitable cons of this game, the first being both a pro and a con there is no trading of cards. This means there wont be any real world trading or need for account theft but it still does suck that you cant trade cards with your friends. Not saying there is enough variety of cards to trade anyways. And big con number two, unless skilled enough in arena it's quite the challenge to play the game completely f2p which is annoying and also brings the frustration of losing to another person just because they have payed which means they have better cards then you.

Overall Hearthstone is still probably one of the fairer famous card games, it has a small but nice variety in hero's and deck types. It falls short with pay2win but that is countered by the enjoyable graphics and animations which are probably enjoyed so much more when pulled from a pack you earn't. A good way to end it would be, great for those who are willing to put in the time or money but under performing for those who only want to hop on once a week to do their quests.


R for Random Number Jesus


8.5/10

Top Terrible Tips for Picking an Anime

According to my last post a lot of you seem like the anime so I give you now the things I always do when choosing which anime series to watch.

1. Don't too specific e.g don't just look for an anime where Japan is being invaded by Brittania but look for Japan being invaded or over run by any nation.
2.When you think you see an anime that looks alright always watch at least to fifth episode before making your final judgement.
3. Don't disregard an anime just because of it's art style. Even if an anime looks bad still give it a few episodes before you completely forget about it.
4. If an anime is subbed only either learn the language or get your reading pants on because you're not leaving that one in  the dust.
4.5. Subbed is better anyways,
5. Asking your friends or on the forums is fine but don't expect to like what other people like, be yourself.
6. Read the blurb but don't pay too much attention to it because most of the time it is inaccurate and irrelevant.
7. An add on to don't be too specific is think about anime as if it were in two genres PG 13 and not PG 13 so you cant miss out on anything just because it isn't a action, adventure anime.
8. If you plan on researching an anime before watching it, don't. you'll have a much better time without the spoilers and reviews.
9. Don't listen to the reviews too much because if you're watching something and you think you like it a lot but then you read something saying they gave it a 2/5 most of the time that's going to wreck your experience.
9.5. Think of reviews as people who finished the series just promoting how good or bad it is to one another, I would use another way to describe it(a certain circle) but I don't think that's really something I wanna include on my blog. Or is it?
10. Consider all names when picking an anime, don't just look at anime's with titles that are English words, also take notice to those without any English in them.

There you go guys, ten or so tips that you should go through when choosing an anime to watch.

P.S If you don't know what site to use AnimeLab and Crunchyroll would probably be my top two suggestions.

Something Fresh

Basically I've started watching this new anime lately and I've enjoyed it so much that I just wanted to write about it. The series name is Tokyo Ghoul, it's a very violent but somewhat sweet anime featuring the city of Tokyo which is infested by ghouls. The ghouls are put out to be animals with a lust for flesh but as you start watching the first few episodes you start understanding that ghouls are just troubled people with an unquenchable thirst that forces them to eat other people.

The main character of the series is Kaneki. Kaneki is a shy bookworm that managed to ask out a ghoul on a date, get attacked by said ghoul and survive. But to survive the doctors had to replace his organs, unknowingly the doctors gave him the organs of a ghoul and now he is half human half ghoul which means he has to figure out how to survive, interact with society as well as keeping the CCG off of his back. It's overall a really original anime plot but there still is the quite common stereotype here and there.

To put together the bad aspects of the show I would first have to say that the first episode is a key part of the plot but turns a lot of people off with the gore and jump scare, secondly some of the character genres just don't quite appeal to me especially Kaneki's childhood friend Hide  who is a ladies man, goof ball and "genius" at the same time, doesn't quite settle for me but I can live with it for the good of the show. Finally of the three top baddies of course I would have to include the weird storytelling of unexplained things e.g Why does this girl decide to save Kaneki, why does this Grandfather decide to teach him how to be a ghoul and function in society, I think that if there had been a little bit more time put into tying that stuff together the series would have benefited a lot.

So all in all Tokyo Ghoul is a very gory, plot based action anime. The story is very nice in the way that it forces you to watch more episodes to learn more. The series has some nice character designs or should I say characters that appeal to me at least. The series has a lot of content for adults but still draws back to some stereotypical charming anime scenes. An adult anime with kid elements that has both gore and pretty pictures. Its unimaginable.

P.S This review is sort of bias thanks to my binge anime watching.


P for Please don't eat me


8.5/10

Twitch Time

Hey yo, I've been thinking it over for a while now and I've decided at some point in the near future I'm going to start streaming as well as blogging. Thanks for reading and I will release the channel name at a later date. - :D

Realm of The Text Based God

It's Realm of The Mad God an MMORPG in a 2D pixelated world. The current company behind Realm of The mad God would be Kabam, Kabam also being the company that tainted the game with micro-transactions and some other terrible changes. But still some things are the same and as far as you know you're still playing as one of the many classes in Realm of The Mad God. After reviewing the paragraph I realized that I forgot one thing that would be permadeath which made Realm such a good game back in the day.

To look on the positive side even more I must say that the game has a substantial amount of classes that all in some way affect team based gameplay, the dungeons are hard as well as rewarding and best of all it's still permadeath which is the glue that holds this game together. Permadeath means completing a dungeon seems so much more rewarding, permadeath means teams rely on each other more meaning they focus on the game and permadeath means that what you do as well as how you do it actually matter. As a sub part of this I cant make a real comment on graphics because its a pixelated world and as far as bugs and glitches go its pretty good since there's not many things that can be buggy.

Bad things time men. To start off with it'll be the biggest and baddest one, micro-transactions that are pay2win, they are completely unneeded, unwanted and don't fit the genre of the game at all, stop being so greedy Kabam. Secondly not only do they have microtransaction's but they also made these microtransaction's pay2win transactions which means forget all that effort that you put into the game, forget all that skill that you built up because you can just gear yourself up instantly with a little help from the in game store which is supposed to be the nexus but you're not fooling anyone.

No please stop no, don't change things just so you can get money please, Leave it as the f2p model. Thanks.

To sum it up Realm of The Mad God was a great game which is still fun now even with microtransactions, the world is simple but beatiful, dungeons/bosses are rewarding, achievement in the game feels very good, it has a great community most of the time. Yep it's great but can we just please take it back to the f2p model.

I for I said no microtransactions 

If you're f2p 9/10 If you plan on paying to win 6/10

Shape Up and Ship Out

How does one make a fun video game where you CAN possibly lose weight. Only the developers and publishers from Ubisoft would know. It's an arcade style exercise game in which you progress through different game modes which are supposed to be fun or more enjoyable versions of actually workouts. It's an okay concept with great design and a very accurate system for picking up movement. I would have to say even if it's not one of the better game's it is probably the best weight loss game that there is.

As I said before it's an arcade style game with very bright flashy arcade everything, which means it doesn't exactly look very realistic or "nice" but it is definitely pleasing to the eye. As for bugs or glitches there is a few but most of them draw back to the kinect which cannot be helped too much apart form that talking about actual in game bugs there is very little thanks to the game being arcade style. Lets lose some weight boys!

But the main problem I'm thinking of right now which draws back to my previous sentence is the game genre doesn't appeal or sell very well with the audience it is marketing too. What I mean by that is no gamer wants to spend spend the time they have for video games playing a fitness game and I'm pretty sure that there won't be many occasions where said gamer would play it with their friends. In all honesty I think it'll be a game you buy, play once and love, then never play again. Ever. So until the gaming community changes no game like this is going to do well,

To mash this into one short paragraph for you, Shape Up is well designed, has a good art style, believable voice acting, a real sense pf achievement and most of all the capability to help the average Joe get fit. A good game with good intentions but just not the correct audience.


F for Fitness


7.5/10

Batman: Arkham Origins Whitegate

What went wrong people. Developed by Armature Studio and Published by Warner Bros. I give you the no.3 most lack luster game of 2014 aka Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate. Blackgate is a side scrolling version you could say of the Arkham series that really just didn't work. Not to discredit it for the things it did right but there is just too much that doesn't work to call this a good or above standard game. Opinion, opinion, opinion.

The game seems like a good formula after the previous titles success. The only thing wrong is that they have tried to recreate that winning formula on a side scrolling world. What i'm getting at is that the game looks fine, sounds fine but it doesn't feel fine. This is because with the side scrolling factor you don't have the same fluent fighting system, the world doesn't seem as full and finished, you cant really get into the story as much, characters have the same voices but not the same characteristics that we want and need. Its overall a pizza delivered without the toppings.

To the titles credit the game was never meant to be as good as the previous titles a more smaller sub-series, it's still a good game if you didn't have to compare it to the other Arkham games and it did receive a lot less tender loving care when it comes to fine tuning. Maybe if it wasn't a smaller game and it had more time to be designed/developed into what it would've been more people would actually buy and like it. Please companies work for that extra budget to make these games great instead of good.

To summarize Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is the unwanted little brother of the Arkham series. The game is good enough to be one of the most popular side scrolling games in the market just because of its reputable name but otherwise is a bit underwhelming when you try and compare it's game mechanics to that of a proper Arkham game. Too straightforward, not enough working features, not enough story work, more time and effort please.


B for Budget people


7/10

I Am Not Bread

Just another gaming fad that's popped out of no where, lets see how long it can last. Developed by Bossa Studios, the number one company who brought you one of the other most popular game fads know to be Surgeon Simulator. In the game you are well bread, bread that has aspirations of being toast. But be careful kiddies or you're going to become inedible with all of those ants on you. Yep that's the whole game, a few levels of bread trying to become toast with any means necessary. ANY Means.

Of course the games going to have a large quantity of bugs and glitches when it was only released a short time ago but the bugs and glitches are what you have to be expecting when buying a game such as this one. A part from that the game runs relatively smoothly, the controls are weird but are made to be that way on purpose relating it back to surgeon simulator. All in all its pretty bad but its really good at being bad.

Too some of the actual downsides we can start off with target audience. The game was obviously made for the main majority of people who watch PewDiePie which is younger kids, maybe 8-15 years old but the problem is after making the good game they add a nice story to it within the text, a story that half of these people will not understand or bother reading. A darn shame. Too the next problem, well sort of half problem which is the game isn't explained too well and it's quite a learning curve to figure out the games mechanics e.g I can toast myself on the frying pan or I have better grip if I put the butter on before the jam. Yeah dev's we need a fix for that.

All in all its a goofy physics based game to some but to others a charming short story. The game has quite the force of bugs and glitches with some sub-standard graphics to top it off but it really pulls back with the fun/social factor, the fun/social factor being able to talk to just about anyone about how they enjoyed the game and most of the time you will get happy responses (A domino of happiness). Which brings me to believe this is going to be....... nothing but a fad. Sorry people!



T for Toast Dreams


8/10

The Gang

The Crew was developed by Ivory Tower and was co-developed and published by Ubisoft. The Crew is an open world online racing game. In the single player game you play as Alex Taylor as he tries his luck at infiltrating several criminal groups. the online is a bunch of races and side quests that you can do with your friends, with a lot of customization an other jazz.

The game itself looks really beautiful with not too many glitches or bugs( I would accredit this to the postponed release date) The cars in the game probably drive slightly too well to be real but in some aspects that's actually pretty nice. To all you other gaming companies that doesn't mean you should make a game where cars can fly and do back  flips. Apart from that there is well designed friend-linking and customization systems, plus the servers have been holding well so far!

Oh o, its time for the downsides. First and foremost when starting off I had problems with learning some of the game mechanics and it all seemed a tad overwhelming which is fine once you get into it. The other major problem is the handling(which is fixable) to start off with the default settings leave you with a very strange and quirky driving style but you can change this via settings which makes the game a lot more enjoyable.

Overall The Crew is a high intensity thrilling game, with a very nice looking world, interactive multiplayer and a substantial amount of interesting and diverse side quest's. The only bad side of the game is the learning factor when you first start off. But as I said once you get past changing your settings and learning the game The Crew will be one of the best experiences of your gaming life.


R for Race mode


9/10

Watch Doges

Published and Designed by the infamous company we know as Ubisoft. The game is an open world action-adventure game that follows the story of a extremely skilled hacker (Aiden Pierce), who is on a road of revenge after his niece was accidentally killed.  Doesn't seem like too much of an original story but the 'hacking' elements make the game seem a little more exciting. Yeah a bit to bland on the story.

Next up is gameplay. And boy for a game with this much hype it's almost as underwhelming as the ending of Now You See Me. The game is filled with very common bugs, glitches and broken textures some things haven't even been scripted for Aiden to move on. Making a very lack luster experience. Oh and as a side note you really shouldn't down grade the graphics of a game from the preview(That Much)

Well to give praise where praise to due the game features a really nice side quest system and the ability to get a bio on any civilian gives nice back stories for those who are willing to give the time to get into that. As well there is a pretty nice multiplayer its just too bad that no one is playing it.

As an overall conclusion, the game is a great idea, good multiplayer, nice freedom/open world with a lot of side quest variety, it falls short on graphics, story and bugs/glitches. What i'm trying to get at is don't release an unfinished game!

O for Over-hyped

6.5/10

P.S Sorry for no content yesterday, I'll be back on the usual 3 per day by tomorrow.

South Park: The Club of Truth

A game published by Ubisoft and developed by Obsidian Entertainment. From the brilliant minds of Matt and Trey, I give you South Park:The Stick of Truth. The game begins with you the new kid moving into your new house in South Park. You quickly find yourself interacting with the other kids in some sort of turn based medieval world. The artifact which controls this world is The Stick of Truth. When this stick is stolen it becomes your quest to reclaim it.

The art-style and character design is taken straight from the actual show which makes it feel like your playing a roll in an actual episode. Apart from the art-style the sound-track is everything you would expect from South Park and there's no real need for a multi-player when you can have Princess Kenny at your side but it still sucks that it isn't there. The game finishes off with a lot of nice references and crude humor that you would expect.

Downsides time. I'll begin with the repetitiveness which was taken on board when the multiclass turn based fighting system was implemented without having  enough depth to keep up with the standard, so after awhile it becomes a bit of a grind with the only thing keeping you  excited being the next cut scene or piece of text. Apart from that the only thing I could really comment on is the similarities of the different classes. Maybe make them more recognizable in some way?

As a conclusion for all you people who don't want to take the extra time to read the whole thing. Its a really comedy based game filled with tonnes of references, has a nice new story, looks and feels like an actual South Park episode and they some how made it a turn based RPG game.

M for Many references

9.5/10

Game of Thrones the Game

Telltale's back at it again with their newest title Game of Thrones. The episode that you being in is The Red Wedding where you start off as the squire for Lord Forrester, whom is Lord of house Forrester. Once further into the episode you start to switch  between a few characters rapidly. The way the game flows like other Telltale games weighs highly upon the decisions you make while playing.

The game has a nice match of quick-time events and dialogue, I just wish that whatever thing you chose to say was what you actually said without any extra lines. Makes the game kind of confusing when trying to figure out which path will and will not get you killed. AI is fine since there isn't to much real game-play. Telltale has adopted its own art style but I think they should've changed it up a little bit to suit the GoT world better.

Moving on to cons of Game of Thrones, firstly unless you want one of the biggest spoilers ever you have to have read the books or watched the show, secondly there isn't much else to the game other then quite simple quick-time events which can seem boring and unappealing to a wide variety of people. And thirdly they implemented the every choice matters system but not every choice matters, as well it doesn't matter if you talk or find everything which is a bit disappointing.

Overall Game of Thrones is a very hit or miss game, it's easier to hit if you're a fan of the series but if you're not it's a bit of a throw off. Apart from that everything else seems to be up to Telltale standard but what is really appealing is the focus on in-depth characters, Telltale has made characters that you actually care for and making you feel like whatever you do in the game reflects on you in the real world.


R for Roose Bolton


8/10

A New Style Appears

So I changed things up quite a lot, tell me what you think. Do you prefer the new look or do you want the old one back?

Infamous:Which Son Was it Again?

Another superpower game. Published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Sucker Punch Productions. Infamous Second Son is an open world, super power,sand box game. The story follows the path of good or destruction created by the main protagonist Delsin with what you would call help from his older brother Reggie.

Overall it's a nice idea for a game having a bunch of super powered people running around and you consume their powers, it's not even nice is great but the only problem is every single 'different' set of powers is the same, so from beginning to end you're using the equivalent of the first powers thats just re textured. I feel like if the extra effort was put in to making the powers the game would've done much better.

Second Son is one of the first featured 'next-gen' games so what could you expect except for a really, really beautiful looking environment which doesn't toll too much on your system, unless you are using quite a below the market machine. Apart from that the character design is to standard and the voice-acting stays in sync most of the time, except for a few slight hiccups.

Looking at the missions and side quests in the game it gets a bit repetitive but moving back to my point earlier, I believe if the powers system was worked on for a while longer there would be much more to do with both the combat system and mechanics. Which would probably in turn make playing through the game less of a grind and more of  a do these things in a unique manner and be rewarded with more cool, unique things to do sort of game.

To conclude the games beautiful, has a nice story twist at the end but is lacking because of  trying to publish the game on the release date instead of making a really quality piece of material. Maybe would've been in the top ten open world games if it did? Who knows?


S for Superhero fantasy


8/10

Light Souls II

I behold to you the third installment in Hidetaka Miyazaki's most world renowned series. Developed by Bandai and From Software as well as being published by From Software. The game could be classified as an action RPG game but you cant really categorize Dark Soul's as there is no other series or game that comes anywhere near close to being like them. Dark Souls really can only be described as Dark Souls.

As far as gameplay goes its a bit of a grind for newer players and more experienced ones alike. The game keeps up the very challenging action of the other two titles but also adds the nice quality update to make the world look just that tad bit more fabulous. Players can enjoy co-op or single player PvE or go head to head in multiplayer PvP which adds nice competitive aspects for the more hardcore gamer's and more lighter co-op PvE for the gamer's who just want a nice experience with friends.

Lets take a second to look at the downsides of Dark Souls. Firstly I was a bit disappointed with the amount of in-depth lore that was lost when going through translation, I think the game would've done a tad better if that lore was still there. And the laziness of the developers with some of the boss-fights. Some were new and creative but it saddened me to see blatant copies of bosses from the previous Dark Souls. And finally matchmaking it doesn't seem to quite be at the standard it should be yet.

So all in all to conclude and sum up this review Dark Souls II is a long lasting RPG with some of the most pain-inducing bosses ever created, it features nice updated graphics and fighting quality but I don't think they've completely fixed it yet, to finish off it also has really, really well connected lore if you're willing to spend the time waddling in translation.


T for Try it before you buy it.


8.5/10


P.S I pray for all of you poor souls(pun intended)
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Summer Break

Yep its that time of year again guys. You can expect to see a lot more content being created as of tonight until school is back in after which i'll go back to my normal schedule of around two reviews a day. Happy hunting and may the odds be ever in your favor.

The Elder Scrolls: Partially Online

Coming in as probably one of the more higher-end and under-rated games of the year, ESO is the online or more exact partially online MMORPG for The Elder Scroll's series. The game was first undermined with the talk of micro-transactions and expensive P2P. Further more doubted with unimpressive frame-rate problems as well as unstable servers. Ever since then, then being the Beta even with patch fixes and well they didn't really advertise again but more of the patches the games got considerably better in my opinion at least.

Its hard to say that ESO is anywhere near the capability of standing up to some on the more well know MMO's but at the very least its gotten slightly higher up the chain of game quality. Downsides that the game is slightly harder to run on normal PC's and more fans means more toll on the servers which can be frustrating as well.

Moving onto the actual game which is basically grind, grind, grind play massive world PvP, the massive world PvP being a real time strategy game where you conquer forts, have giant team fights and slaughter NPC's. A great game-mode, its too bad that the teams usually are one-sided and the higher prestige's dictate the flow of the fights too much. If only there were more players, the possibilities of game would be infinite.

As a conclusion ESO is a mid-range game that has the potential to be great, the servers are slightly under-par and players without a god-like PC can expect frame rate problems but if you can look past that ESO is a really enjoyable MMORPG, for those who may not be as experienced in the genre its a great doorway into those sorts of games.

U for Under-rated

8/10

Call of GooGoo: Baby Warfare

Could you believe it?! Yet another Call of Duty game! Developed by Sledgehammer Games! Published by Square Enix! Oh look that rating says 4/5 it must be great, new and fantastic! Oh wait whats that the other review gave them a 6/10, huh it must of been a mistake. That was the last thing little Tommy said before he went and bought Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Just another perfectly innocent boy dragged down into 'sniping' and 'trick-shotting', just another soul turned demonic and rude by the witches I mean developers of Call of Duty.

That's right as you can tell from the first paragraph this probably isn't going to be a review with bunnies and A+'s  no its going to be a review to attempt to stop the everyday person from buying the new CoD game. To begin the hate, well not as much hate as I would give to some of the other CoD titles because Advanced Warfare does even if they are minuscule have some new features. Ughhh something about saying that just doesn't feel right.

So without further a due we will will begin with game-play, same old same old for most of it but I guess Sledgehammer did try with giving updates through a hologram on your gun. They also added laser and energy weapons so now your bullets look a bit different but I still think they need to work on the attributes of the different weaponry. And to conclude all the new stuff, they bought an actor to not just voice over but appear in the game.

So uhhh where to we go now? I mean we got past everything new, I might as well go and play CoD 4 now. Oh that's right don't forget about shoot shoot bang banging up Atlas and 'quick-scoping' people on multi-player. Yeah have 'fun' with that.

Just a reminder before you get your rage pants on remember these facts.
1. Don't talk about fight club
2. Everything I've said is in my opinion
3. You're not old enough to be playing CoD

P for Please no quick-scope


6/10

Kingdom Hearts: DJ Khaled Remix

Another resurrection by our one and only Square Enix. By resurrection I mean the remastering, updating and refreshing of the Kingdom Hearts series, a series loved by generation after generation. So i'm here to say that another game from our legacy is being brought back to the prestigious quality that it wants, needs and deserves.

What you say that Kingdom Hearts had already been remastered in the 1.5 remix well chuck that out the door and onto the pavement because the 2.5 remix is remastering the remastered games including Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix. The only downer is that it might only be released on PS3 and not the next-gen consoles but I have faith that ill be able to see all three hours of HD remastered cinematic's.

As for the key features like goofy, playful music and cartoonish worlds, they are all still there but now they just look like they went through a car wash after twenty years of laying in mud. They keep the old content the same which is nice but as an added benefit of buying the game you also gain access to previously non-existing content, which as I see a nice business plan brought in by the dev's but I still think the game is slightly over-priced for whats its worth unless your reallyyyyyyy into nostalgia.

In conclusion the game is slightly buggy which may turn a small population but if you get past that and would like to just enjoy a bunch of new cinematic's, revamped game-play and a medium amount of new content then Kingdom Hearts: HD 2.5 Remix is going to be a great buy.

C for Cinematic's


8.5/10

The Unleashing of Isaac: Unbirth

A sequel that is almost if not as good as the original?! The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth being designed by Edmund McMillen and developed by Nicalis. The game itself is a fresh remodel, redesign and recreation of The Binding of Isaac flash game, adding hundreds of new things but keeping on the same story line.

Character progression in the game is almost never the same or identical meaning every single game is a new challenge with differently generated rooms and areas. The only thing that really stays the same on each run is your mom. Yes the crazy woman fueled by her belief in everything righteous that would kill her own baby boy in a frantic man-hunt. Scary.

The main features of Rebirth is the game not being a flash game which gives the developers  the opportunity to add many features normally unavailable to flash-game designers such as saving and returning to your game,ability to play with different controllers, more modding support as well as features obtained with a better budget such as local co-op, resolution options and different game difficulties.

Through to the game play, which has been fine-tuned and sharpened a lot more since the first title thanks to the hard work of the game dev's. Apart from item updates and additions the main part of the game play is still very identical to the first game so I can't really make to much of a comment on it sadly but i'm willing to give Edmund the benefit of the doubt on this one.

In conclusion The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a must have for most if not all gamer's as it offers up never ending uniqueness, a quite balanced progression system that is both exciting and easy to learn as well as many secrets along the way.

M for Must have.

9/10

The Second of the Two K15's

WWE 2K15 is a wrestling video game developed by Visual Concepts and Yuke's and published by 2K Sports. If you love watching muscly oiled up men less than half clothed roll around and 'wrestle' each other this is the game for you. Being the same game as WWE 2K14 with some new player models and slightly updated graphics you are in for a real ride kiddos.

The only time I may ever find myself playing this game is as a joke with friends due to the fact that facial features look warped and stupid, the bodies don't look anything like a real life person and the movement is the most unnatural and ghastly that I've seen in a game for years.

Though for some people this may be just what you are looking for, I would not recommend this game to anyone that is not a hardcore WWE fan and even they should just consider going out and buying the 2010 edition for a tenth of the price, because to be honest its practically the same game.

H for homosexual fantasy

4/10

The First of the Two K 15's

From the widely loved 2K Sports and developed by Visual Concepts NBA 2K14 is the most popular basketball simulation game in the entire world. What you say the 2K14 should be 2K15? Sure I guess that would be valid if they weren't the same game. Its quite saddening to see such a well recognized series fall into the clutches of the Call of Duty cult. The Call of Duty cult being making a new game every year no matter how unoriginal and unfinished it is.

If you forget about the fact that they are publishing the same game every year it's quite easy for you and your friends to fall back in love with the game that has been inspiring hordes of people for years. To be fair it is quite complicated to rejuvenate a sports game without changing aspects of the sport, oh imagine the hate people would get for doing that.

Now past cult followings and die hard sportsmen we can shine a light on some more of the good parts of 2K15, for example better quality but not quite as good as other games, an all right local multiplayer but not good enough to stand up to a franchise such as Halo. I mean the NPC's are great but still sub par. I know! The 2K games are good at being games that will always be their for you on lonely nights when you fell like doing sports but not really because you're a gamer! :D

D for Don't give up hope yet!

7/10

One Big Family

I'm ecstatic to announce that we currently have viewers from Malaysia, The United States of America, Germany, Australia, India, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Ireland, Puerto Rico, The United Kingdom, Canada,  Taiwan, France and New Zealand.
 Good job guys :D

The Master Chef Collection

Halo the Master Chief Collection, recently published by Microsoft Studios and developed by all assisting companies is previous titles including Bungie, 343 Industries, Saber Interactive, Ruffian Games, United Front Games and Certain Affinity. The title is a collection of games from the Halo series exclusive to the Xbox One. Containing arguably the most influential first person shooter ever created, this collection of remastered games promised many things, and for the most part, it delivered, with an excellent 60 FPS at 1080p quality.

As for game-play, it keeps up the unprecedented reputation of Combat Evolved and 2 as well as adding a few minor bug fixes. The games feel newer, fresher and all in one place, an awesome package for all of those Halo fans who want to relive their favorite scenes and missions in high quality.

Now to the downside of The Master Chief Collection, the multiplayer. Not much of it is really Bungie's fault but more the technical difficulty of moving all of the Halo games made on unique engines all on to one individual system. To be fair it is possible and the developers are working hard as we speak to get everything right but in my opinion Bungie's attempt to release the collection as early as possible for the fans might of been a slight error. I mean we've waited four years for them to release the next big thing why not a few months more.

As a final conclusion mashed into one comment, great games, fun idea, good business plan, nice quality update and slowly progressing multiplayer.

W for Wait for fixes.

9/10

Outer-Earth: Light of Mordor

An action role-playing game published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developed by Monolith Productions as well as Behavior Interactive. Arguably the best game posted to this blog to date, Shadow of Mordor is a prequel to Lord of the Rings and the most popular Lord of the Rings game to knowledge. The story is quite in depth as far as Lord of the Ring's lore goes as it follows the lead-up to the events of the first Lord of the Ring's book.

The actual story is a follow along of a Ranger who was situated at the Black Gate until he and his family were killed and he becomes attached to a wraith. The two new 'best' buddies set off in a quest for knowledge in a hope that they could find out what happened to them.

Onto game-play, the kind of game-play that never gets boring through the entire game. Because of the great character development and information gathering that is actually important you're never really repeating the same mission twice. That is if you do stop yourself from doing side-quests and grabbing collectibles along the way, almost impossible for me.

In conclusion to this toned down review the game looks great without promoting the look, the GUI is clean and easy to master, most bugs are non-existent, great story-line as well a lot of nice referencing to lore, unique character and enemy progressing system. All in all the almost perfect mash-up of  Assassins Creed, Border Lands, and the Batman: Arkham series.

C for Close to Perfect


9.5/10