I just finished watching it, and while it was enjoyable, I'm with you on the forgettable. It did feel overstuffed, with too many plotlines for the runtime, so several felt glossed over by the end, or wrapped up too neatly.

Continuing my journey through the Final Fantasy series with Fantasy V Advance's bonus dungeon!

I really disliked XIII when I first played it, but I've come around since. Once I stopped using the auto battle, the combat became much more interesting, and I like the fact that the game is actually pretty challenging most of the time. There's a satisfaction to finding just the right combination of jobs to take down…

Skyrim is very, very forgiving with how you level. With very few exceptions, you should be able to approach any scenario with virtually any character on the default difficulty and emerge victorious.

You're right about the Great Khans! I end up visiting their unremarkable settlement once or twice in the game. Then they end up with a pathos filled ending slide, leaving me scratching my head.

The DS version does some very interesting things - the augment system is surprisingly compelling - but basically requires you to know things you couldn't possibly know in advance to maintain a reasonable difficulty curve. If you're playing for the first time, you won't know know you need to give one of the twins one…

I think the setting is beautiful, and some of the background story is interesting, but the plot really stumbled for me. I would have loved an in depth examination on what faith means in a post-apocalyptic world, but instead we got a twist on White Man's Burden that went unexamined in any meaningful way. To be fair,…

I'll be playing through Final Fantasy IV. I've been replaying the series; the original idea was to eventually build up to XV, but realistically I'm going to burn out within a couple more games and then try again in a year or so.

I feel like a lot of the renegade choices in Mass Effect are actually smart decisions when you can't actually look up the results on a wiki. Why would I save the rachni based on a short conversation where the queen promises she's good this time, really she is? Why should I lose ships to save three people, even people…

I've got issues with every other NV DLC, but I love Dead Money unabashedly. My only reservation is that it can hit the central theme a little too hard, but I find that true of everything Obsidian works on.

I love the original Mass Effect, but whenever I start I new game now, I have to cheat. I bump myself up to level 50 or so and give myself extra skill points to boot. Since I tend towards power based classes, the incredibly long cooldowns of the early skills make the first third of the game too tedious otherwise.

I started this season back when it was first released, but stopped after the second episode - not really sure why. But these reviews encouraged me to finish off the season, and I'm glad I did! So, thank you, and I'm looking forward to further analysis on some of the later episodes.

I think my opinions are colored by the fact I don't really like Alyssa. She just doesn't appeal to me. So having her return was a little bit of an eyeroll moment for me.

I think we'd be singing a different tune if Alaska broke down in a different way. If instead of using humor (and please, the 10k to stay thing was a joke) and then expressing anger, she had just burst into tears and talked about how hard it was, there would be a lot more sympathy. We want to see people break down…

I don't think I enjoyed Bjork as much as many. It was a good performance, but something didn't quite gel with me.

The season really lost me after the twist/queens returning bit. It really killed the aggressive forward momentum - I'd have rather the eliminated queens form a jury than the standard 'come back to the competition'. It's even worse since the returning queens went home in the following two weeks, making the last three…

Having rewatched the episode in HD, I actually think Alaska deserved the win in that lip sync. Katya brought it at the start with splits and guitar legs, but really didn't nail the landing - she was just flopping on the floor for the end. I think she could have snatched the win with some theatrics right at the…

I'm confident history will validate my stance!

Oh boy, unpopular opinion time. I didn't care for this episode. And I think that's due to my…not dislike, but indifference towards Alyssa. I just don't get her. I know plenty of people find her hilarious, but I'm just missing it somehow. So to have her come back over Phi Phi, who was at least compelling to me, annoys…

Ugh, I watch the acting challenges for the memorable trainwrecks, not a bunch of seasoned pros doing what they can! That really brought the lousy scripts into sharp relief.