Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Cobra Kai shocked me both for how very much I wound up enjoying the show and for how rigorously it adheres to the ‘lore’ (for lack of a better term) of the four original films. (And, by extension, how much better it adheres to its own weird, internal logic than far less ‘throwaway’ shows.)

Yeah, a Project X Zone 3 would definitely push a Switch Lite into ‘must buy immediately’ territory for me. As it stands, it’s in line behind a whole bunch of other purchases - both essential and non. (At this rate, I may just wait and see what a Switch successor looks like, as it could very well be 2022 before I…

Funny story, I bought it primarily because of Project X Zone 2.

My interest in Genshin Impact went flying out the window the moment I read that it was free-to-play.

The original and best version of this song.

So...on top of Nintendo’s usual preorder and/or limited run bullshit, they were also making people dance for so much as a shot at ordering their pins? This is a new low, even for them.

Fair. I guess my point was that even the more batshit elements of his less to not-at-all great films don’t necessarily save the production from being little more run-of-the-mill Japanese genre cinema. Which was the impression I was left with after watching the original trailer way back when.

I broadly second this sentiment, and if that Last of Us series that (I think?) HBO is producing actually does well, critically and otherwise, we may very well see other properties adapted in the same way.

The couple of trailers I saw didn’t make the film look like much, though I did appreciate the inclusion of actual Heat auras. But I have to say, after what a snore Yakuza Apocalypse turned out to be and The Mole Song’s inconsistency, I no longer take Miike’s name as a guarantee of entertainment, let alone quality.…

No doubt they’re looking at...oh...I dunno...Ryan Reynolds to play Kiryu. Maybe Matt Damon for Majima.

It was never accurate. The MSX was one of the most popular home computers in Japan during the eighties and earlier nineties and was created by Microsoft. (And, funnily enough, manufactured by Sony among others.) Apple’s various i-devices - beginning with the iPod - were consistently popular from the word go. Hell, in…

Yeah, has anyone on the right ever set foot in a grocery store? A real one, not what Walmart passes off as a supermarket. Because tuna ain’t cheap. Nobody’s throwing that when generic canned beans are fifty cents a pop and stones are free.

Wasting it. Clearly.

I think anyone who saw previews for The Wizard had an identical childhood fantasy. I know seeing Super Mario Bros. 3 at that size did a number on me. Still don’t feel like I’ll have truly experienced the game until I can play it with a three foot tall Tanooki Mario.

Well, in Shadow of Mordor’s case, getting the game to run on seventh-gen hardware meant removing the Nemesis system, as there was simply more going on under the hood than the older hardware could handle. Which resulted in a significantly different experience. The last gen versions being little more at that point than…

Well, I’m here for Monster Hunter Stories 2. Picked up the first one recently and have been quite happy with it.

No arguments about what a looker Zero Dawn is, and it remains one of my favorite original offerings on the PlayStation 4. That said, maybe give the trailer another viewing, because those underwater sections in particular are, in fact, radically beyond anything the original accomplishes in terms of visuals. And are,…