Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America - The Winter Soldier (2014) Chris Evans Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson Robert Redford Sebastian Stan Anthony Mackie Cobie Smoulders Frank Grillo Spoiler Free thoughts and Notes The second entry in the Captain America series comes in right on the heels of The Avengers, or "Phase 2" of the Marvel Cinematic universe.  I want to take a moment here to comment on how the continuity of these movies have been handled up to this point, since this is the first "post crossover" movie.  This applies to pretty much all of the Phase 2 movies, though it seems to…
Review – Final Fantasy VIII (PS1)
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Review – Final Fantasy VIII (PS1)

Playstation 1 – Squaresoft – 1 Player Sometimes you play through a game, and for some reason you just know you’ve played a really good game. One good way to know that a game has got to be at least marginally good is if over the course of playing it your opinion of it completely changes. With little or no effort, you find a game you expected and did hate suddenly becomes something you enjoy playing. That is the case of Final Fantasy 8. Before playing this game, as far as I could tell from what others were saying ti…
Review – Pokemon Magikarp Jump (Android, iOS)
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Review – Pokemon Magikarp Jump (Android, iOS)

The Good Charming visuals and art work Magikarp Magikarp The Bad Very repetitive game play Weird overpriced Microtransaction Model Shallow Gameplay In Depth Pokemon Go isn't the only mobile Pokemon Experience available on mobile, Pokemon Magikarp Jump is a much more traditional mobile game with all of the usual caveats that come along with that.  At it's core, Magikarp Jump is just your traditional old school Tomagotchi only with Pokemon.  You fish up a Magikarp, you feed it food and train it, and then take it off to compete in a Jumping contest against AI Magikarp opponents.  That's 100% of…
Review – Super Mario Run (Android, iOS)
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Review – Super Mario Run (Android, iOS)

The Good Solid Mario style Game on Mobile Smooth graphics and Gameplay Fun Gameplay in some modes The Bad Regular price is too high ($10) Repetitive Gameplay Toad Rally is Lame In Depth Nintendo is slowly making their way to mobile with a few of their flagship series, namely Pokemon and Super Mario Brothers.  They still aren't putting out straight ports of the classics yet, but hopefully they will come around.  Hopefully when they do they don't flub it and overprice everything the way Square has done with it's Final Fantasy ports.  Mario's first mobile foray is Super Mario Run,…
Review – Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
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Review – Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)

After wrapping up the remake of Metroid II with Metroid: Samus Returns, it seemed like a good idea to look back a bit on Metroid Zero Mission, the remake of the original Metroid put out for the Game Boy Advanced. Previous to Metroid Zero I had just finished Metroid Classic, the GBA remake of the NES game. The best part of the Classics series is that they are pretty true to the original titles. I’ve previously played bits and pieces of Metroid but the sheer massive randomness of this game has always kept me away. Also it’s “really hard”. Or…