Category: Review

  • The Great One Piece Journey (Part 8): Little Garden

    Not a week on the Grand Line, and the Straw Hats have become enveloped in a complex political plot that’ll take them on their first truly insane adventure. This is literally the start of their time here. Only Luffy could manage something that crazy that quickly! After picking up Vivi and Karoo and putting themselves…

  • Resident Evil Village: Wait, there’s a game attached to this vampire milf?!

    Resident Evil Village: Wait, there’s a game attached to this vampire milf?!

    Everyone lost their shit over vampire milf, only to discover that she only takes up about 20% of the game. Capcom giveth, Capcom taketh away. Resident Evil: Village (or RE8) is a jack of many traits, master of few. As a horror game, it’s only scary about 25% of the time. As an action game,…

  • H.P. Lovecraft’s The Alchemist: Humble Beginnings

    Ah, H.P. Lovecraft. One of the many artists who only got the appreciation they deserved after their time. The man single-handedly defined cosmic horror as a genre, with works such as The Mountains of Madness and Call of Cthulu. Nowadays, Lovecraft has a unique entertainment empire. Radio dramas, board games, tabletop RPGs, video games, the…

  • The Great One Piece Journey (Part 7): Entering the Grand Line and Whiskey Peak

    Okay, now One Piece can actually start. Upon entering the Grand Line, the Straw Hats encounter Laboon, a massive whale, and Crocus, an old man who cares for him. During this encounter, they meet a pair of strange individuals, Mr. 9 and Ms. Wednesday. After learning how to navigate the Grand Line from Crocus and…

  • Elantris: Tell Don’t Show… Without Much Telling

    It’s been a while since a book made me genuinely frustrated. Elantris is a very frustrating book. It scratches the surface of greatness but never manages to break through. Instead, it continues to skim the surface until it eventually comes to a disappointing end. The entire time I was reading, I was wondering when it…