The Video Game/Movie Review Blog

Well, this has been a long time coming, but I've put this off for long enough. I wanted to see if I could bring myself to get past the point I was at in this without completely getting ragey and dropping the game. I am sorry to say that I was enjoying the game, until one specific point, which I could not get past, and after trying many strategies, including looking online, I could not get past the boss I was stuck at, so I am dropping this game. Now, I think that this game is totally fine, and think that there is a lot of redeeming value to it, especially in the story and character interactions. The story is very sweeping, like you'd expect from a JRPG. It involves a bunch of titans that live in the clouds, acting as the continents of the world, known as Alrest, and the story focuses on a young salvager named Rex, who ends up finding a mythical sentient blade known as the Aegis, although her human avatar usually prefers to go by the name Pyra. The Aegis is being sought out by a...

Getting back into the monster movies after a little detour yesterday, I remembered liking this film when I last watched it, and on a rewatch, it still proved to be extremely fun. So, let's get right into this one. The story starts with a mysterious egg washing up on the shores of Japan, and immediately, a corporation takes ownership of it and wants to build a theme park around it. However, this egg is actually that of the giant moth creature from a place called Infant Island known as Mothra, and two of its ambassadors, called the Shobijin, ask the corporation to return it to the island. As can be expected, the corporation is greedy and refuses, which causes those from Infant Island to lose faith in Japan. This only gets worse as Godzilla turns up once again to terrorize Japan, forcing a group of reporters to beg the islanders for Mothra's help in defeating Godzilla. After an initial refusal, the islanders agree and Mothra goes off to fight Godzilla. The story, both from the mon...

Well, this was an interesting movie. I have a lot of mixed feelings on this one, so let's talk about that. Based on the famous horror video game of the same name, Five Nights at Freddy's is about a disgraced security guard named Mike Schmidt, played by Josh Hutcherson, who is urged by his career counselor to take a job as a security guard for the now defunct pizzeria/arcade, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, to help provide for himself and his younger sister, Abby. Sounds fairly similar to the plot of the game, but then the movie decides to do its own thing while also playing with the mythos established in future games. There is a subplot where Mike is trying to remember who took his younger brother, Garrett, in an incident that happened when he was around 12. Honestly, this subplot was kind of dull and to me, it really distracted from the horror elements. I don't mind a good mystery, but this wasn't a good mystery. It just kind of consists of Mike having the same dream ov...

Right from the get go, you can probably guess this movie is going to be ridiculous and corny from the title alone. Well, I am pleased to say that you would be right. For Godzilla's return to the big screen after seven years, the resulting film does not take itself seriously at all, but for the Godzilla series at this time, I think that is a good thing. The story basically focuses on Godzilla coming back to Japan while also focusing on a pharmaceutical company trying to boost ratings by exploring the mysterious Faro Island to find a giant evil spirit, which turns out to be King Kong. Once both monsters have their opening scenes out of the way, they just kind of fight for the rest of the movke, and it is hilarious. I love watching them fight because of how cheesy and ridiculous it is. It's literally two guys in suits punching each other and doing silly stunts in the process. A particular highlight for me is when King Kong shoves a tree down Godzilla's throat, which is as ridi...

Well, this certainly was a movie. I've never been a particular fan of this film, but rewatching it for this review made me realize how utterly pointless it was. So, this was released about a year after the original Godzilla film, and, honestly, you can tell. I'm assuming that Toho wanted to capitalize on the success of Godzilla and so quickly rushed a sequel, and...this is what we got. The plot focuses on a couple of pilots, Tsukioka and Kobayashi, who encounter what appears to be Godzilla while helping a fishing company search for the best places to fish. Turns out, there was another Godzilla, and he's been fighting against an Ankylosaurus-like creature called Anguirus. Death and destruction follow, as can be expected. Now, unlike most future Godzilla films where the monster fights are entertaining and campy, this fight is kind of boring. It literally looks like a kid hitting two action figures together because that's how fighting works, right? Plus, the fight is over ...

Hey everyone! It's been a couple months. I'm at a crossroads on my Switch Adventures series after running into a little trouble in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, so I'm not sure what will happen with that quite yet, but in the meantime, I have another lengthy review block that I have wanted to do for awhile, and that is the Godzilla series, which is the longest running sci-fi series to date, I believe. So, this will obviously take awhile, but it should be enjoyable. This movie's plot is both simple yet says a lot at the same time. Where most monster movies are just about the destruction, and believe me, destruction is very much present in this film, this movie focuses more on the devastation that comes in Godzilla's wake. Basically, after three Japanese ships sink due to...something, the Japanese government decides to research the incidents. It turns out that the culprit is an irradiated dinosaur known as Godzilla by the locals of a nearby island called Odo Island, who is ...