The “Storm of the Sea Devils” boxset concludes with this entirely Sea Devil-less two parter that more than most stories really suffers from not having its own cover… Well, anyway, as with a lot of the under-one-hour stories there isn’t a lot of time to get know new characters which is why this story very cleverly focused almost entirely on the TARDIS team themselves. Let’s have a look…
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When being in a Final Fantasy mood in the run up to Rebirth coincided with having a gap in my “book to read in bits before bed like some sort of old man” schedule I decided to give this Final Fantasy XV book a go after a reader commented about it (which was handy because I completely forgot it existed!) “The Dawn of the Future” is actually a novelisation of the final DLC story, “Episode Ardyn” as well as the three that were planned to come after it but were cancelled. What’s interesting is those three comprise a “What if?” scenario that leads to a completely different ending, giving the whole book a unique feel, though if you’re not already a fan of XV it’s safe to say you’ll be lost! So let’s take a look…
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My review of the first half of the Season can be found by clicking HERE.
X-Men’s animated series reaches what was clearly meant to be its conclusion with a four-part epic at the end of this season, the fact a fifth season was suddenly greenlit sadly only giving us a weaker actual finale, but that’s for next time (and I guess technically it’s now also not the actual finale?) Either way even the episodes leading up the final story were good as well, giving us an overall really strong Season. Let’s take a look, shall we?
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This year’s Fourth Doctor series finally gives us the debut of the Harry Sullivan / Naomi Cross duo that has had adventures after their time with the Fourth Doctor already released, thanks to the Fourth Doctor stuff being banked so far in advance. In their further adventures I’ve been critical of Naomi being really plain and her actress not emoting very well, and unsurprisingly I can’t say she started off great and got worse, let’s put it that way. Oh well, what about the rest of the story? Let’s find out!
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Red Dwarf XI and XII are an odd one, as they don’t have the “wow Red Dwarf is back!” feel of X and frankly don’t have the mostly good-to-great writing of X either, and while neither series falls as low as VIII they stand out so little that my rewatch for this review at times felt like I was watching them for the first time because I remembered so little about them. Well, with that said, let’s take a look at XI and see what, if anything, stands out!
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A short while ago I mentioned starting two game review features on one series I’ve always wanted to play, Kingdom Hearts, and another I’ve played many times and the Metal Gear series is the other half of that, as after the likes of Sonic and Resident Evil it’s probably the game series I’ve replayed the most across my life, and pretty much all entries to boot. Speaking of which, I went back and forth on where to start from, since I’ve already reviewed the first Solid game, but since Snake Eater is getting a full on remake in the near future I thought I’d give as much time between them as I could, plus it’s the earliest game in the franchise timeline-wise, so it made sense in that way too. Sadly it’s often considered to be the peak of the series, especially story-wise, but is it really all downhill from here? Does it still even stand up? Let’s take a look!
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In a sentence I never thought I’d ever type, I wrote an obituary for Akira Toriyama for Anime UK News, which can be viewed by clicking HERE.
Heartbroken doesn’t even cover it… My reviews of Dragon Ball Z later in the year will have a slightly more impactful feel now. RIP.
It’s time to cover the fourth and current only other Fourteenth Doctor story released, that being a Doctor Who Magazine strip that ran from post Power of the Daleks right up to the 60th Anniversary specials and indeed “filled in the gap” between those two parts of Doctor Who, complete with a post-regeneration scene. It also ran for a whopping fourteen parts, which honestly was a little too much in retrospect, but at least collected into one Graphic Novel it wasn’t too bad… Let’s take a look!
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Moving on to Season 4 with X-Men and things calm down, with no epic four/five part Phoenix stuff and instead back to self-contained Earth-based episodes with a couple of double-bill stories thrown in… well, with the exception of the finale, but that’s in the next half! So let’s have a look at what the first 12 episodes brought to the table…
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It’s finally time to do another little run of older One Piece episodes, following on from my review of the all-time classic Marineford arc a while ago (okay, a good while ago… there was a lot of Wano in that time though!) I’ve actually had this and the next review on my PC for a good while now, it was just the soul-sapping Fishman Island arc that slowed the older reviews to a halt, but I’m happy to say I’m over that hurdle so let’s look at the next three One Piece arcs (because the first two are really short). The Post War Arc is less about the direct fallout from Marineford and more about Luffy coming to terms with Ace’s death by remembering his childhood with Ace and a young boy named Sabo, followed by preparing for the next era of the series. Let’s take a look.
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