The next lot of G Gundam episodes are a bit of a let down overall. After a fun and crazy story arc last time the show reverts to a “of the week” format again, with different adversaries for Domon to take down each week and even a rematch with his Shuffle Alliance pals with each getting an episode for a rematch. It’s not bad per say, but it did feel like the show was breaking out of the convention and stretching out a bit, only to snap right back. Let’s take a look!
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The Horns of Nimon is a hard one to talk about because technically, in every way you’d normally judge a story, it’s pretty crap. The story is quite dull, the acting quite poor, the costumes, even for the time, are quite naff… yet despite all of that I do often enjoy the story, mostly because of the odd dichotomy of Tom Baker doing a few serious takes while the character of Soldeed eats so much scenery that you kind of have to applaud him for it. So let’s take a look and see where my opinion lands on this watch through…
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As a fan of both Mega Man and RPGs the Mega Man Battle Network series has always interested me from afar, but the combination of being on a handheld, which as mentioned before on this site just was never my thing, and seeing cards involved just put me off. So when the full Battle Network series of games got a big compilation release a year or two ago just as I was in my RPG renaissance the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. So it’s time to dip my toe in the Battle Network series and see if I want to return to the waters down the line…
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When it came to finally reviewing a story from Season 16 I couldn’t bring myself to choose a later serial as the season is one long connective story arc from start to finish, so for this season only (well, and probably Season 23…) I will be reviewing these in order, whenever I swing back round to it again. “The Ribos Operation” isn’t exactly a stellar start, while I do like the concept of the season and Mary Tamm impresses straight away as Romana a lot of the actual core story is, well, dull frankly. Oh well, let’s take a closer look!
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The insanity that is G Gundam continues as the build up to the fight with the Devil Gundam / Dark Gundam continues. It’s a chunk of episodes full of DG Cells, training arc clichés and some fun and crazy battle scenes. Let’s take a look!
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Time to tackle another personal favourite of mine with “Horror of Fang Rock”, a classic claustrophobic base under siege (or in this case, lighthouse under siege) story with an eclectic cast of characters slowly being picked off by a mysterious creature. It only features about five sets but everything is written and directed so well that you don’t notice, or if you do, you don’t care. It also introduced the Rutans visually at last in currently their only TV appearance, oddly enough! Let’s take a look.
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Fire Emblem, or “Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade” to give it its actual title, was the first of the series to see a release in Western territories and I remember being interested thanks to Roy being my most-played character in Smash Melee, but as I often did at that time I assumed I’d be crap at tactical RPGs and the idea of permanently losing party members really didn’t appeal due to that assumption. Fast forward a decade or two and this game ended up on the Switch Online app and with renewed self-confidence and interest in JRPGs of all kinds I decided to give it a go, and you know what? I really enjoyed myself. I’ll admit I used save states at the start of each map for quicker restarts should I lose someone I don’t want to, which isn’t in the spirit of things, but beyond that I played legit and eventually got the hang of it and had fun. Want to know more? Read on!
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The next somewhat random Fourth Doctor serial to get reviewed is the “Masque of Mandragora”, another one of those stories I can’t remember the last time I watched due to an overriding feeling of it just being “okay”. It is a rare Fourth Doctor “pseudo historical” and set in Italy’s past no less, but despite sentient time energies, evil cultists and swashbuckling scenes it’s… yeah, still just “okay”. Let’s take a look anyway!
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The next volume of “Dragon Quest: The Mark of Erdrick” came in the post a week or two ago, so let’s take a look! You can see my review by clicking HERE.
Once again its a good bit of fun, so long as you accept it’s never going to be a very “deep” experience…
It’s finally time for our next archive anime review series and it’s also the return of looking at an older Gundam series, though really “Mobile Fighter G Gundam” isn’t a Gundam series in nearly every way you’d normally count one as, beyond having white mobile suits called “Gundam” in it, though even then there are tonnes of them of all colours, shapes and sizes. Instead G Gundam is far closer to the old fashioned “Super Robot” shows that the original Gundam tried to distance itself from, with some Shonen fighting tropes thrown in to make things even weirder. The important thing though: does this mean it’s bad? No, it’s quite fun actually…
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