Doctor Who: The Imposters Review

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So… this was a rare one. “The Imposters”, the latest Third Doctor audio adventure, dropped a week or two ago now and got such universal distain from pretty much everywhere that it put me off listening to it straight away. Normally I’m a “I’ll form my own opinion and check what others said afterwards” kind of guy but in the forums I visit this time opinions were unavoidable and oddly one sided, no “I actually liked it…” rebuttals or anything. Having now listened to all six parts I can say this: Yep! It’s pretty dire alright. Let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom Review

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Kicking off this run of Fourth Doctor reviews is one of my all-time favourite Doctor Who stories: “The Seeds of Doom”, which features the plant-based Krynoids and spends one third of the story in Antarctica and the other two-thirds in the British countryside, leading to a fun six parter that doesn’t lose steam like so many of its peers. Let’s take a look!

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Final Fantasy I: Pixel Remaster (PS4) Review

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Kicking off this mini-marathon of “RPGs I’ve played recently” is one of the pioneers of the genre: Final Fantasy I. It’s a game I’ve always wanted to play through and tried several times but the old school grind without a story to motivate me led to me dropping it. Fast Forward to today (or, well, a while ago) and I finally brought the Pixel Remaster bundle of FF I – VI knowing that you can put an XP multiplier on in order to speed up a lot of the grind without necessarily “cheating” the game and wouldn’t you know it? I finally completed it. Now, I won’t go around saying I completed it legit, but it was pretty close, so what was it like as an experience in the mid 2020s?

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A trio of archive review series starting tomorrow!

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Hi all,

Quick note I have not one, not two but THREE mini-marathons of older stuff starting this coming week, having finished the work on all of them roughly the same time. As promised last year this will mean they’ll run at regular days instead of sometimes months apart, and current and/or stand-alone reviews will still appear when they’re done (there are a few modern shows and audios on the docket, I’ve just not had the time to finish watching/listening to them yet!) Click more see what they are (as otherwise this will push the front page down too much)

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Resident Evil: Requiem (PS5) Review

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Despite enjoying all the trailers and just generally looking forward to any new Resident Evil game I was still surprised by how great Requiem is. While I enjoyed 7 and 8 they were first person and almost entirely with their own little cast so RE9 here celebrating 30 years (blimey…) by calling back to a lot of past storylines and play styles including the option to drop first person entirely really made this feel like the first “proper” new Resident Evil game in a long time (not counting remakes, obviously) So although my overall opinion is pretty obvious even at this point, let’s dive deeper!

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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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