Pretty sure the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for Marvel is Thor 2 at 67%. (Norton Hulk is also at 67%, though mileage varies on whether that "counts" since it came before Iron Man & official MCU.) That's obviously far from an end-all-be-all, but it's a point in favor of Marvel not having truly bombed anything. They…

You're not wrong, but I feel like the tone of the story (as was mentioned in the article) suggests that while Superman means well, he's not an admirable figure. He's just a sucker that's useful for Batgod to achieve his ends.

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Yeah, I remember flaming out on Shining Force when I gave it a go a couple years ago as well. I… don't totally understand its position as a cult classic, for the same reasons you describe.

Item number one is definitely going to be polishing off Grim Fandango Remastered. I've made my quasi-triumphant return to Rubacava in Year 4, and it's time to rescue the Bone Wagon from a comical amount of dynamite attached via booby trap. It's been super charming as a whole, though the adventure-game-iness is…

Gravure model. Meaning lots of swimsuits and sexy posing, but nothing approaching explicit. It's roughly on par with being a booth babe, as far as I can tell.

Chro-bars!

3.5 stars? Wha… how…?

Little disappointing that it doesn't even make the top block of articles though. We got shunted to page two by the Rush Hour TV adaptation? *grumble grumble*

The strangest thing to me is how the movie straddles its final fight between being intensely personal and intensely nationalistic. Rocky is there partly because America Fuck Yeah but mostly because he wants revenge against the guy who killed his best friend. Drago's scenes between rounds involve him acknowledging…

I love that this has been such a running theme for the American government over the last few decades. Did we ever cover the FBI's recent anti-terrorism website/game thing?

It benefits from adding some genre diversity, I think. The only other famous game/franchise focused on creative noodling I can think of is SimCity, but the name value hasn't really been there since EA threw it into a wood chipper.

I totally ignored it when it came out - Mark Millar does not need any encouragement in my book - but Film Critic Hulk's piece on it [LINK] has made me genuinely curious to go back and track it down. Mark Millar adaptations are not the sort of thing anyone goes into expecting thematic cleverness, so a closer second…

My favorite part of the movie is definitely its dual wave-particle nature.

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The fascist Superman dream sequence looks like he was trying to ruin Red Son, too!

I'm thinking Grim Fandango Remastered is next on the list. My last couple games have struck me as kind of lukewarm and easy to put off, so something quick & charming should be just what the doctor ordered. That's of course not counting Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, which I got to bust out for the first time last…

True, and I think it says something that I don't even feel the need to look up specifics to confidently believe that a lot of folks complaining are being ridiculous and terrible human beings. This is a song and dance that's been done before, and it's been ugly every time.

I'm sure there are people going way, way overboard with their rage, but my uninformed guess is that it's more about Metroid not getting entries regularly enough for fans to be content with spinoffs. It's not as much of a B-tier franchise as it was during the 8 years of silence between Super and Prime, but the last two…

One of the small things that I really appreciate about Dishonored's morality system is that it quietly cuts you a ton of slack. I initially planned on mostly being a ghost, but as soon as the priestly types gave a "How To Better Oppress Women" seminar on the level where you eliminate the high overseer, I pretty much…