The Time War: Uncharted line comes to an e- … Oh, well… The Time War: Uncharted line concludes a few things but somehow continues on with “Branches”, seeing the return of Susan to the storyline, albeit briefly. After a 4 for the Cass boxset and Set 1 Uncharted 2 got just a 2 from me last time, so how does this fair? Well…
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In what I hope will be the last of the collected catch up mini-reviews now I’m starting to crawl out of the darkness it’s time to look at some games I played at the end of last year / start of this year, three JRPGs in fact, and on three different consoles to boot! Sadly with this trio none of them blew me away, and in fact one of them I didn’t enjoy enough to finish. Which one? Well…
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Just in the vein hope of speeding through some of these older Big Finish releases I’ve once again bunched all three stories of this boxset into one review. This is the kicking off point in a new series of full cast Eleventh Doctor stories, featuring their second recast (I missed out on the first one for the most part, something to get to later I guess!) and I have to say our new Eleventh Doctor isn’t quite up the task of the previous one but does a good enough job that I was able to lean back and enjoy listening to the stories, and the new companion set up is a real treat too. Let’s take a look…
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Another trio of “mini-reviews” of things I sadly missed out of giving proper time to over the past few months, this time a trio of anime! Admittedly as much as I enjoyed the eye candy that was Jujutsu Kaisen’s Culling Game season I doubt my overall review would’ve been that much longer really, given it’s all-action approach…
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Due to more Big Finish website / app issues and a long period where I just haven’t felt like doing… much of anything, I’m WAY behind on Big Finish, so don’t mind me if I double or triple up some shorter, less-detailed reviews in the next few months! Kicking this off is a double bill of Fourth Doctor and Sarah adventures, with both stories featuring the Brigadier and Harry, giving this a more Season 12 vibe than 13, which while isn’t necessarily a bad thing does kind of fly in the face of the idea of this run of stories… Let’s take a look!
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Another Anime UK News Review, this time for the Blu-Ray “Collector’s Edition” of Ragna Crimson, a “battle shonen” show I’d never heard of despite the fact it came out in 2023. Is the reason I never heard of it because it was neither so bad it got mocked online nor so good it got praised online, therefore falling in the middle?! … Click HERE to find out!
Hi all, while I’m not ready to fully commit to long-form reviews I didn’t want to lose out on months of watching / listening / reading / playing so I thought I’d put up a series of “mini-reviews” for the time being, going over my thoughts on things without going into deep detail. If/when I get fully back into the swing I can always revisit some of these things and give them a proper review, though I’ll admit when it comes to this trio it’s unlikely… Let’s take a look!
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While I’m still trying to put myself back together I managed to write a few paragraphs to keep the streak of Dragon Quest: Mark of Erdrick reviews going for Anime UK News! It can be viewed HERE.
Still not sure when I’ll be up to resuming here, but receiving a review copy from the publishers gave me that little extra push to get this one done (and it’s still a fun series for the record!)
I can’t believe I’m typing this just four years after my Mum passed, but sadly my Dad has passed away after a rather nasty combination of cancer and dementia robbed him of a peaceful end to his life. The lead up to it has been some of the worst days of my life, and now he’s gone I feel a little directionless. It will pass, I know from when my Mum passed, but when that happened my blog went silent for quite a while, so just giving you the head’s up that may happen again. I was thinking of maybe switching to bunches of short-form reviews to lower the workload, but we’ll see.
With the exception of the Daleks’ Master Plan review from a week or so ago it’s been pretty quiet here for a while anyway, so this is why that happened. It’s been rough, it might get a little rougher, but I’m sure I’ll be back in some form or another soon…
Thank you,
David “Cold Cobra” Hogan.
While I’ve been struggling as of late I didn’t want to miss out on documenting the fact I watched two episodes of Doctor Who I was pretty sure were lost forever a month or two ago. Episodes 1 and 3 of The Daleks’ Master Plan was returned and released digitally back at Easter and given Episode 2 already existed watching three episodes of the serial one after the other was pretty amazing. Given I already have a review of Episode 7 up as part of my Christmas Who marathon a while ago I thought I’d continue on with the also-existing Episode 5 and photo recons of 4 and 6. I’ll hold off on the second half just on the off chance that more episodes or animations might be coming our way in the future. Let’s take a look!
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