While the book doesn’t play up the heroism of the Europeans, it takes the “mystical natives” trope and runs with it like a football into the screaming ends of madness.

If it’s faithful to the book, it will be riveting until halfway through the final episode, when it will become complete unwatchable garbage.

It is not terribly scary. It is, essentially, a better, more open version of Bioshock, but in space.

I tried to play through it on two different occasions, and somehow wound up having a completely different experience, encountering completely different main plot missions (I think?) so I still have no idea what the story is even really about.

I finished Prey, which was really quite good.

Dragon’s Dogma has a lot of problems. I could never quite get over how its story made exactly zero sense.

Having finally gotten all the prophecy verse weapons and associated ghost shell in Destiny 2, I’m a bit adrift at the moment. I’ll be going on a bit of a Destiny hiatus, maybe helping my clan with the raid on weekends, until the next expansion, which leaves a bit of a hole.

Also: PILLARS OF ETERNITY II: DEADFIRE!

If you have a PS4, you can try the Monster Hunter beta on the 18th.

Dragonball FighterZ has an open beta starting on Sunday (Saturday if you pre-ordered) with over half the roster available. Monster Hunter World is getting another open PS4 beta, with a new mission no less, on the 18th.

I went to Western Carolina University, so I know all about Sylva. My mom is from St. Louis and is adamant that Missouri is not the South, but the Midwest. Parts of Missouri are similar to Appalachia, but honestly the most mountainous parts I’ve seen are a far cry from the mountains of NC.

There is a museum in Wilmington that has an exhibit dedicated to all the movies that were made there, with lots of Stephen King memorabilia. They even have the bifurcated cow from Under the Dome!

I’ve been playing a ton of Destiny 2 lately, and I don’t see that stopping this weekend. But I am going to try to make some time to continue on in Prey, Okami HD, Metroid: Samus Returns, and/or Pokemon Ultra Sun.

I recently saw a trailer for a new Christian Bale movie called Hostiles that is apparently out this month. It’s a Western, and I’ve heard absolutely nothing about it beyond that one commercial.

I’m not saying it’s a mystery, I’m saying it could have been delivered to the audience in a better way.

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about. The prequels were a mess, but as much of them as I would have changed I certainly wouldn’t have removed the Palpatine/Anakin subplot, and I think the Last Jedi—which I enjoyed and consider overall a lot better than any of the prequels—shows the pitfalls of a “tell,…

I think there’s a limit to what can be made implicit or unspoken in a film. Ben’s fall to the Dark Side is a huge moment in the story, and it’s only ever revealed to the audience partially and second-hand. I would complain less if the second-hand explanations were a little more detailed.

Yes. These new Star Wars movies are plagued by vagueness, and that’s directed at a franchise in which the guiding force of the universe is literally called “the Force.”

I’m mostly OK with it, it’s just that there’s a lot of useful information we lose because of it. He’s too important to have been left as much of a mystery as he is.

Honestly, I think all of this could’ve been avoided if they had featured more flashbacks to actually show what the hell went down with Luke’s Jedi academy. Hamill’s criticisms were pretty fair, but the scenario presented in the film would have worked well as a way to bridge Luke’s past optimism with his present…