The next Thirteenth Doctor story has arrived (or did a few months ago…) and it’s time for the Thirteenth Doctor to meet the Ice Warriors, but more interestingly for this long… long time fan of the Big Finish side of Doctor Who it also sees the return of sarcastic policewoman Patricia Menzies after a long absence. What’s the story like outside of continuity references? Very good, as it turns out!
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Aegis is the “big mid-season finale” style story, even though the “season” as it were is continuing bi-monthly that was the intention, and to be fair this does wrap up a few plot threads and then leave enough dangling to keep you interested, it’s just lacking a little “oomph”. Let’s take a look!
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My latest Anime UK News review is of, and boy am I fed up of typing this long-arse title, “Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia – Part 1”. It can be found by clicking HERE.
Basically it’s a chunk of a popular gatcha game that makes it difficult to get invested in when you haven’t touched said mobile gatcha game. Still, I’ve liked other Fate anime adaptations, so maybe it wasn’t so bad…?
Continuing my look at the Kingdom Hearts franchise for the first time I’ve reached the infamously long-titled “Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-” which came exclusively with “Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue”. Being just a “fragmentary passage” it’s a short one, just the equivalent of a single world from a normal Kingdom Hearts game, it does fill in a little continuity gap before we head into the final chapter of this story arc with KH III though, which I’ll look at early next year. Let’s take an equally short look!
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Now we’re caught up with the Ninth Doctor releases it’s time to catch up with the Thirteenth Doctor, starting with “The Violet Hour”. Set in 1920s London and featuring predominantly women fighting back against the old fashioned (or then current I guess) dismissal of women as equal to men it certainly fits the bill as a Thirteenth Doctor story, sadly more of the TV side of things that these audios have tended to thankfully back away from. Still, there is a good story tucked away here regardless, so let’s take a look…
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“Dark Tides” is the first Ninth Doctor and Rose story separate from the recent Powell Estate story arc and much like its name it’s rather plain and by-the-numbers, but I’ll take a simple space horror (with knights! … and the evil hologram scientist woman from classic Red Dwarf episode “Quarantine”…?) over another trip to 00s London right now… Let’s take a look!
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The Mandalorian and Grogu has the sad “dishonour” of being the first Star Wars film released post-1998 I didn’t see in the cinema (due to… “unfortunate personal events”, let’s say) but that does mean I missed out on one of the main complaints about the film: that it felt just like an extended episode of the show rather than a big blow-out movie experience. Watching at home meant it was just like a special episode of a favourite TV show of mine (though with a far higher budget, obviously…) and for that reason I enjoyed myself, for the most part. Let’s take a look.
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Taking a bit of a break from RPGs series I’ve not played before with a return to the always fun Pixel Remasters. Final Fantasy III thankfully brought the series back to traditional levelling up systems and added in Jobs for the first time. Admittedly they also reintroduced nameless and personality-less protagonists and a more simplified story, but hey-ho, can’t get it all right, I guess! … Well, later entries will prove they can actually get it all right, but you know what I mean… Anyway, let’s take a look!
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The storyline of The Doctor and Rose constantly being pulled to the Powell Estate comes to a close with “Thirteen O’Clock”, and can I just say: boy that wasn’t worth it. Six stories over a year and we end with a sequel to a story from just a few years ago that was okay but not particularly memorable? Same writer so I’m sure he loved bringing back his old creations like they were beloved characters, but for me I was just left wondering why this was the big pay-off and not just a one off thing… Oh well, let’s take a look…
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Our next chunk of Big Finish catch-up is a trio of Ninth Doctor adventures followed by a trio of Thirteenth Doctor adventures, getting us caught up with the monthly singles ranges in three batches of two. “Pandemonium” continues both the “we keep getting brought to the Powell Estate” story arc as well as the idea of being set after the TV story “Father’s Day” as it features more Rose and her Dad related grief. Let’s take a look!
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