Warriors Abyss (PS5) Review

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Well this was a surprise, literally as it was suddenly revealed and shadow dropped last month! I was expecting the first and only new Warriors review to go up on this blog to be Dynasty Warriors Origins but as that still hasn’t dropped to a price I’m comfortable with I’m happy to get this rather addictive Roguelike with nostalgic characters (i.e. reused models) from the peak of both the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors series instead. Is it perfect? No, but it’s relatively cheap (so long as you’re not interested in vastly over priced costumes!) and really fun. Let’s take a closer look, as the game has understandably gone under the radar I feel this is one of the few reviews that might actually matter in the long run!

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Doctor Who: The Krillitane Feint / The Krillitane Relic Review

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The latest Classic Doctors, New Monsters set has once again created a two-parter but split the parts across two different eras of the Doctor, in this case the Second and Seventh, so in order to cover the story as a whole I’m linking them together with the Seventh Doctor template, but Part 1 is still all Troughton, so to speak. The Krillitane are an interesting concept in that that keep adapting themselves all the time, stealing things from other species in packs, so no Krillitane grouping is ever the same, visually or power-set-wise, so it’s nice to see them appear here (even if the visual on the cover has them looking exactly the same as their TV appearance, but I can forgive that as it’s kind of the point of the set…) Let’s take a look!

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Dragon Ball DAIMA – Episodes 13 – 20 Review

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My review of the first 12 episodes can be found by clicking HERE.

Quick dive back into currently-airing anime but sticking with Dragon Ball, the latter half (ish) of Dragon Ball DAIMA has now aired and its time to look at how the series ended. It’s a very odd one honestly and it sets up something of a new continuity going forward rather than sliding in between Z and Super. It also has some extremely lazy writing and some very odd plot thread drops that makes me think that maybe Toriyama didn’t finish his draft for the finale before he passed… Well, either way, let’s take a deeper look.

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Doctor Who: Faithful Friends – The Dying Breed Review

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It’s time for another “Classic Doctors, New Monsters” set and for the first time we get a Thirteenth Doctor era “monster” to meet a classic Doctor in the Lupari, the dog-like warriors from the um, not-that-great Flux series. The issue here is that a lot of what make them at least a little unique is the fact that they look like dogs so on audio all this story really feels like is a really basic “combat-obsessed medieval society” story with one gag that sees the bipedal and human-sized dog-people somehow believe K9 is one of them, but even that gets old quick. Well… anyway, let’s take a look!

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Star Wars: The High Republic – Tempest Breaker Review

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“Tempest Breaker” is the latest addition to the High Republic era of Star Wars and weirdly despite being a full cast audio drama it’s actually a direct continuation of the Marvel High Republic comic series, and I mean direct continuation! After a recap we pick up where the previously released issue ended and we follow the characters from the comics (plus a couple of over-arching High Republic characters) through some pretty important scenes in the overall plot. I mean I loved it, it’s no secret I love sci-fi audio dramas and whoever cast the actors here nailed every single one, but I imagine if you’re not a fan of the genre you might be a little peeved, especially if you’re a big fan of the comics. Anyway, let’s take a look!

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Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix (PS4) Review

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After mistakenly playing the next game release-order-wise last time (thanks PS4 collection menu!) it’s finally time to tackle Kingdom Hearts II in this on-and-off marathon of my first time playing the series, and I was excited about this more than most because it’s often cited as the best one. Now obviously I still have three main games and two spin-offs to look at yet (not counting mobile titles, which I won’t be covering gameplay wise at least) so I can’t say “I agree!” but I did enjoy myself a lot, which can never be a bad thing… let’s take a closer look at the game then, nearly 20 years after its initial release (Coincidentally!)

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Doctor Who: The Curse of Time Review

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It’s time for Big Finish’s celebration of 50 years of the Fourth Doctor, and you what? They actually didn’t go overboard this time! Instead of an old enemy and companion-fest like the Fifth and Sixth Doctors got, or whatever the hell “The Last Day” for the Seventh Doctor was, we have a perfectly pleasant Doctor/Sarah/Harry story that nicely slots into their debut season with some warm and comfortable tropes thrown in. Sound good? It did to me, both leading up to the release and when actually listening to it, so let’s take a look!

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Iron Man: Origin (Tales of Suspense Issues 39 – 50) Review

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Our look at the comic origins of Marvel characters actually comes to a close with Iron Man, leaving only the Avengers origin left on my list before we start heading into actual story arcs. Iron Man was a character who didn’t really click with a lot of people until Mr. Downey Jr. came along, I enjoyed the early 90s cartoon and I liked playing as him in the CAPCOM vs. fighting games, but even I didn’t really find him all that interesting for a lot of his early stories. Does this revisit to his very early days change that? Erm, well… sort of! It’s a mix of dull and often racist stories and fun and hilariously weird ones.. Let’s take a look!

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Dragon Ball Z – Saiyan Arc (Episodes 1 – 10) Review

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It’s been a long time coming but after covering the whole of the original series it’s time to finally start covering Z. This is definitely one of those things I put up thinking “doesn’t the internet really need someone reviewing such an iconic series in 2025? What’s left to say?” Well… nothing really, but after covering the criminally under-looked original series I wasn’t going to leave it there! So let’s take a look at the first 10 episodes, because the Saiyan Arc is so comparatively short but I still wanted a consistent four-ish parts. Thanks to pacing issues future arcs will have higher episode chunks, I have no doubt…

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Doctor Who: Unknown Soldiers Review

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I was looking forward to “Unknown Soldiers”, as I do for pretty much any War Doctor story, to be fair. The boxset has its moments and some of the cast really shine but others, um, not so much, especially a “Rocket Raccoon you have at home” that gets FAR too much attention in the last half of the story. Still, is there more good than bad? Well…

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