Doctor Who: Cloud Eight Review

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The latest Ninth Doctor and Rose release, “Cloud Eight”, takes a look at the technological innovations and the slippery road they can lead us down, which is fine though sadly towards the end it felt a little… direct, like a lot of the Fifteenth Doctor TV stories it felt like I was being lectured about something I already agreed with, but unlike those ones the story used to tell the listener for the majority of its runtime was at least well constructed and well written, so let’s take a look!

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Mario Kart World (Switch 2) Review

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Mario Kart World is an odd one as despite being a life-long fan of the series since the first SNES version (as evidenced by having reviewed every version on this very blog!) a lot of the hype surrounding this release didn’t appeal to me, and sure enough when I got my Switch 2 with this included I played Hades II and even Soul Calibur II via the NSO GameCube app more than this. It’s not bad, the open world map is very cleverly designed and the graphics and soundtrack are top notch, it’s just… not very Mario Kart-y. Does that make it bad though?

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Doctor Who: The Potential Daleks Review

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After a long wait and a pretty bang-average previous boxset we finally have the next box in the odd Second Doctor post-regeneration story arc and guess what? Once again it’s not great as some of the early parts may as well have not existed and there is a heavy focus on your typical Dalek stuff we get so often in other ranges rather than anything interesting the concept could have given us. Oh well, let’s have a closer look…

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Doctor Who: Cybergene Review

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“Cybergene” was one of the more hyped Big Finish boxsets in recent years and much like TV story “Asylum of the Daleks”, which suffered from a fan backlash when it didn’t in fact have “Every Dalek Ever!” in it, this box having loads of different Cybermen on the cover and promising much the same you’ll be unsurprised to hear it had a similar backlash from hardcore fans, made worse by the fact its audio so it’s hard to know which Cybermen featured at all beyond one or two obvious ones. Ignoring all that though, what is the story like by itself? It’s… fine. Basically a decent War Doctor story that happens to feature Cybermen. Let’s take a look…

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The Walking Dead – The Ones That Live Review

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I don’t really have a great deal of interest in the Walking Dead spin-offs, not being the greatest fan of the last few seasons and all, but “The Ones Who Live” mini-series peaked my interest (not enough to subscribe to the service it was on, but enough to pick up the blu-ray cheap!) because it tied up the Rick and Michonne loose ends, and given Rick leaving the show was one of the major reasons I didn’t like it as much seeing him back in the spotlight was worth the price of admission alone. What about the rest though? Like the really… REALLY stupid Michonne stuff from the main show, was that brought to a reasonable conclusion? Let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: Empty Vessels – Lure of the Zygons Review

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The second half of “Empty Vessels”, or the other two-thirds I guess, is “Lure of the Zygons”, a two part/two hour story that similarly deals with a spooky abandoned space craft but throws in some Zygons for some extra flavour. Well… sort of, honestly this felt just like the previous story in being rather bland, thankfully inoffensive, but still just that little bit too predictable and meandering to stand out. Let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: Empty Vessels – Eos Falling Review

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The next Eighth Doctor boxset is already here, just a month after the previous one released and this time we’re back with Liv and Helen in their post-Stranded, pre-Liv-returning-to-Tania period, and it seems we might be gearing up towards bringing this period of the Eighth Doctor’s life to a close… in a few years’ time, given the amount of Eighth Doctor ranges/time periods that get shuffled through each release! “Eos Falling” reminded me a bit of some of the middle episodes of the Eighth/Lucie Miller run in that it was just an hour long and while inoffensive it was also not particularly original either. With that glowing endorsement, let’s take a look!

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