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Category: Reviews By Me

They may be short. They may be long. (Or not even beautifully written pieces of work.) But by golly, they are reviews!

  • Warframe: The War Within Reaction

    Warframe: The War Within Reaction

    [No major spoilers for Warframe, Dreamfall or Dreamfall Chapters]

    Just finished The War Within in Warframe. The entire game is mostly sci-fi with fantasyish elements, but TWW went into full-on Dreamfall mode. The mountain pass segment in particular–not just the snowy segments1, but there was also the “battle in the center of your mind” bit, with the Golden Maw, that was a lot like the scenes in DFC that took place in Storytime and other planes of existence. It made me nostalgic for The Longest Journey series. đŸ„ș

    1: referring to one of Dreamfall’s ending scenes with the Black House

    Btw, if you’re interested in playing Dreamfall or DFC, definitely start with The Longest Journey. Reviewers say you don’t need to play it in order to under either of the Dreamfall games. But because TLJ is the first game in the series, both Dreamfall and DFC make a lot of references to TLJ and basically picks up where it left off. Also the very last scene of DFC will have more meaning.

    I saw a Youtube video with said-last scene. The ones who didn’t play TLJ were mostly annoyed and didn’t understand it all. While the ones that did play were all feelsy, because it officially answered a long standing question everyone had when they played TLJ.

  • I saw the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie today

    I saw the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie today

    I think I might be one of 20 or so Asians outside of Japan who is ok with the Major’s casting. (Then again, I also never saw the anime or read the manga, so not sure if my opinion would change.)

    [EDIT] I was reading comments on this on Kotaku (sorry, I don’t remember the actual article). People were saying things like, well you probably should be Japanese American for your opinion to count. But I am Japanese American (4th generation). đŸ€” I guess my opinion still doesn’t count.

  • TOOORRRR!!!

    TOOORRRR!!!

    The Jedi Temple…you’ll never find a more wretched hive of–oh wait. Wrong place. *ahem*

    FunkyMonk and I started playing SWTOR (Star Wars: The Old Republic). We were planning on waiting for it to go free to play, but FM saw that it was only about $7 at Target and thought, welll…we could buy the game now and wait for it to go F2P.

    And then mid-October, we decided–no, wait. I’m not sure what happened here. But we decided to start playing it anyway. But if we get a subscription for one month, we won’t be charged until the month is over. Before that happens, we could cancel the subscription and won’t have to pay.

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  • The Secret World…wot do I think?

    I played The Secret World from during the free weekend. And despite the constant lagging and disconnecting (that may be blamed on our router, Verizon or my computer more than the TSW servers*), it was fun.

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