Time to finally kick of “Scrolling Sundays”! Oddly, the first two games in the weekly feature are ones I didn’t play back in the day, but since I have free access to them via Nintendo Online, I thought “why not?”. River City Ransom is a game I’ve been meaning to play for many years, so it was nice to finally sit down and play it a bunch. What’s this extremely early example of the genre like? Let’s find out!
So the news of the release of Streets of Rage 4 made me and my friend play through a whole bunch of Scrolling Beat ‘Em Ups, our favourite genre as kids, a couple of months ago, and I of course took a bunch of screencaps during our escapades with the hope of turning it into this very feature. Then we were both stuck in our own houses unable to meet due to a certain global crisis, so we only got through 15 or so…
Still! We got through our favourites (including SOR 1-3) so I decided to fill in the gaps myself, even if single player isn’t half as fun. Now why weekly and not “on and off” like my other featured things? Well, there are a lot of them, but they’re really easy to review for the most part because the Gameplay section is often brief (and the story even briefer!) so I knew I could easily write enough ahead that I could keep a review a week going, unlike the actually “on and off” Wrestling Rundown, which requires more than a single session of play plus some research to create. Sundays was previously the only day I never posted on (barring the old weekly marathons) so it won’t ever “get in the way” of other things I post, and “Scrolling Sundays” brought a brief smile to my face, so why not?
Much like my Games to Movies “on and off” Marathon (which is returning next week!) when I hit a series of games I’ll review them in a row, otherwise they’ll be reviewed in release order and will only feature games I’ve played in the past (funnily enough, with the exception of the first two games on the list that I played FOR this feature because they were on Nintendo Online) or present, I guess. This means I’ll only have to wait a few months to review Streets of Rage 4 instead of, like, over a year… hooray!
So look forward to plenty of overweight fire breathing guys, lift levels and questionably dressed women attacking with whips every Sunday morning!
Well, after a “rough start” (by which I mean an awful start) Victory Gundam’s next batch of episodes is an improvement at least. Maybe not a massive one, but the move to space and less pointless female pilot deaths (less, not none…) means this was… tolerable. More information? Why not?! See below!
That headline’s a mouthful! Anyway, I really enjoyed this manga, admittedly I’m a big fan of the game series, so that should be a big surprise. My thoughts can be read HERE.
It’s funny how I’ve reviewed a CG net series, a crossover game and now a manga, but I’ve yet to actually review a KOF game… Well, that’ll change when I get round to the KOF movie in the Game to Film marathon, I guess!
This is going to be a quicky! Target Practice was a single issue comic story and isn’t even connected to the mini-story arc seen in the previous two comics. Still, is it fun to breeze through?
Continuing on with looking at the comic stories contained within the Ground Zero GN, we now go back down the line of The Doctor to see the original (erm, well…. No, let’s just stick with original…) and his Granddaughter Susan in the still relatively rare pre-Unearthly Child period of their lives. Is this another fun three-issue romp? Let’s find out!
So in between Outer Worlds and Resident Evil 3 Remake I played through Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate. Now, often Warriors games are pretty crazy, but given the premise of this game can be summed up as “Odin faces off with Zeus as a group of Three Kingdoms era Chinese warriors and some Samurai from the Japanese Sengoku period get caught in the middle”, this might take the cake. Bloody fun though! Let’s take a closer look…
While I’ve finished playing catch up with the Doctor Who Audios, I just need to quickly run down the stories featured in the Graphic Novel “Ground Zero”, but as each story features a different Doctor I can’t group them up, so there may be a bit of a comicathon coming up!
Curse of the Scarab is set during that rare period of Fifth Doctor and Peri, a period that TV-wise was just two stories long, and also features the return of the Orsiran race. These were probably unique things back in the 90s, but Big Finish and Titan Comics of recent years have put an end to that! Let’s take a look anyway…
This month’s Main Range audio sees the return of the Sixth Doctor, Constance and Flip trio, plus the audio debut of the Ice Warrior “Ice Queen”. All this plus regular Ice Warriors, Ice Lords and Time Lord technology, and that’s a lot of returning or familiar elements, but what about the new Vultriss race? Does it all add up to a good story?! Let’s find out!
So, after much delay, we reach the end of the current run of Titan Comics’ 10th Doctor and all things considered, it’s a fine send off. While certain things are still left up in the air that I hope one day will be revisited, “The Good Companion” at least had the feel of an epic series finale. Let’s take a look!
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