Lets Play Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Critical Mode Final Mix Post Game Content Part 2

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 Here we are folks, the hardest challenges that Kingdom Hearts has to offer. Sorry fo this being so late I had other issues to attend to, though looking back, this was one of the best games that I ever completed. These bosses were challenging, fun (for the most part) and made me sweat. Though there's still Birth By Sleep to cover before Kingdom Hearts 3. So after my Kyuuranger vs Space Squad Review is finished until the release of Kingdom Hearts 3 I'll be dedicating myself to showing you all how I platinumed Birth By Sleep on the hardest difficulty, besides it'll be the holidays and I need myself a break, hope you all can understand.

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Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix, Disney Interactive Studios, Tetsuya Nomura, and Shinji Hashimoto.

Movie Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet: The special water (No Spoilers)

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Sorry but Deadpool still holds claim to that feat.

 The first Wreck it Ralph is honestly still a good movie, as a video game fan I love the little touches, retro callbacks and the side by side jokes comparing Arcade classics to modern gaming sensibilities and aesthetics and I really enjoyed the central idea of Ralph (played by John C. Reilly) as a Character, that even though he's a "bad guy" it doesn't mean that he's a bad guy. I also liked Vanellope (played by Sarah Silverman) as a knock back against the Disney Princess archetype and the cute little friendship she develops with Ralph as both are outsiders who find common ground. I even liked King Candy as a villain and for the whole "hit guy with glasses" bit that was really clever. All in all Wreck it Ralph was an enjoyable movie and I'm definitely looking forward to wrecking stuff with Ralph in Kingdom Hearts 3.

 I had to get all of that out of the way so that when I say that Ralph breaks the Internet falls short in comparison to the first one I don't have ravenous Disney fans out for my blood. Yeah, yeah a sequel doesn't live up to the original a sadly not uncommon story. But it's true, while the premise of the story is a good one and it does have some great moments and commentary it just sadly ends up as a less intellectually insulting version of the Emoji movie. I'm serious there's just as much product placement as the Emoji movie but it has an actual story behind it as opposed to just being a piece of brainwashing marketing, it's a contrived and drawn out story but at least it has a story.

 It takes place 6 years after the first movie (so in real time I guess?) Ralph and Vanellope are still being best buds and have a routine going on, but Vanellope is tired of the same old same old in Sugar Rush so Ralph tries to change up her course for her but it winds up with the Sugar Rush cabinet getting broken, unplugged and with the only available part costing $200 bucks on Ebay it looks like the game is going to be moved out in a few days leaving all of the Game Characters homeless unless Ralph and Vanellope use the new Wi-fi router to go into the internet, buy the part and save Sugar Rush before Fix it Felix and Calhoun (reprised by Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch respectively) lose their minds after agreeing to adopt the Sugar Rush racers and learning that, surprise, surprise adopting 15 kids was a very stupid idea!

 Along the way they encounter a group of diverse characters, most prominently is Shank (played by Gal Gadot) who is a character from the Game "Slaughter Race" who gives Vanellope the challenge that she was looking for. Basically Slaughter Race is like Christmas Town for Vanellope, so new, so different and everything she was looking for, which causes more then a fair bit of jealousy to stir within Ralph. So if they get the part delivered to the Arcade, will it really just be like old times for Ralph and Vanellope? I mean as the song goes "How 'ya gonna keep'em down at the farm now that they've seen Paree", or in this case Detroit?

 As mentioned before there's a lot of advertisements in this movie for Ebay, Youtube, Amazon, twitter you get the idea. But unlike the Emoji movie aside from Ebay and Youtube (which is weird they have a location called Buzztube which I'm guessing the unholy fusion of Buzzfeed and Youtube even though we see adds for Youtube in the background it's odd) there's very little product placement in the foreground, it's mostly just background details, which is good though still questionable but in a movie about the internet as it is today these references are unfortunately unavoidable. So at least this could make a decent time capsule of internet culture as it is today if anything else. So while it's good that the movie doesn't focus on the advertisements and keeps its focus on Ralph and Vanellope it's not a whole lot to do. While Vanellope and her thoughts of Slaughter Race is a good angle to go with Ralph has unfortunately kind of regressed as a character due to his jealousy threatening to drive a wedge between him and his best friend.

 Though you'd think that after the first movie Ralph's friend count should have gone up by a few names it just kind of feels weird. Speaking of his friends as mentioned before Felix and Calhoun were practically gift wrapped their own sub-plot with them adopting the Sugar Rush racers but it's just dropped like a lead Elephant until the end of the movie for one joke. So if you were fans of the two, liked how they got together and wanted to see more of them in this new scenario, well tough taffy you're out of luck! Also we get some jokes about gamers and modern internet references. While some were a bit on the nose I did get a raised eyebrow about some of the topics that they talked about, I won't say what they are but it will lead to the most unexpected Arnold Schwarzenegger movie reference you'll ever find aside from the Kindergarten Cop School from the first Silent Hill game.

 Now if you feel like I'm being too negative there are some good scenes in this movie and they're both focused on Vanellope. First is the one that's in all of the advertisements, where she goes to a Disney website and meets the Disney Princesses. It's easily the best part of the movie with all of these different princesses interacting with each other, talking about the overused tropes of the archetype and the "Special Water" conversation. I don't know what I just saw but I'm cool with it. Also when Vanellope finds the special water, it lead to one of the most surreal musical numbers since the Cake Song in Madoka Rebellion, as I was watching I could only think of the Manperor's wise words.

 Though aside from that, Shank's crew and the once again surprising ending I don't really have a whole lot to say about Ralph Breaks the Internet. It honestly felt a bit "by the numbers" from Disney. Which is very weird, it feels like one of those straight to video Disney sequels that flooded the market back in the late 90's early 2000's but with better writing, a bigger budget and more product placement than Man of Steel. I didn't really go into this movie expecting something groundbreaking, really I just saw this on a whim but I'm kind of in a weird place, I'm not angry I thought it was just, ok. I figure that maybe they could have gone a bit farther with the "what kids are into" angle that they were hinting at with Slaughter Race and Buzztube like maybe Ralph interacting with characters from popular games that got big because of Youtube and streamers and that, like Ralph interacting with the FNAF characters but then that'd just be going into Fanfic territory and I'm not that far gone just yet. Or at the very least give us the Felix and Calhoun subplot like they set up or something.

 I guess I was kind of expecting more out of a movie where retro game characters go into the internet, but for what I got I wasn't bored so you know just like my review of the Happytime murders this is just one of those instances where you just have to ignore the hype and make the best judgement call around, yours. But as before at least I have Ralph fighting Heartless to look forward to. Now if you'll excuse me, I've prolonged my suffering for long enough, back to Dumbluck and his gang of idiots next week.

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Ralph breaks the Internet is owned by Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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 The word of the day is confusion. First I manage to defeat Domino after figuring out the tricks and rescuing Meche and the Angelitos from his grasp. Now I'm back in Rubacava trying to save my hotrod from his post mortem trap. Then the V-log for the week gives me a very confused time travel story on top of another time travel story. But in the end at least there's a puppy before the final story arc of 2018's Super Sentai.

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Lets Play: Bendy and the Ink Machine Full Playlist

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 After a whole year of waiting people can finally get their chance to play the new indie horror darling that hopefully will give FNAF some competition, Bendy and the Ink Machine. As for my background with Bendy I've been aware of this game since Matpat did his first theory about it and seeing the theMeatly change the game so much over the years is quite a wonder and gives people a little glimpse at the background of game design, speaking from some experience here. Now while I may have spoiled myself on the last two chapters so much has changed with he first three that I don't know what's up. So for those of you wondering my scares are legit there's no staging here just me, an ink demon and plenty of regrets. So get your Metaverse navigation app, type in the coordinates and let's infiltrate Joey Drew's palace, take his treasure and save that old man's heart.

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Bendy and the Ink Machine is owned by Kindly Beast (Joey Drew Studios) Thomas Field (aka theMeatly) and Rooster Teeth games.

Tokusatsu Review: Uchu Sentai Kyuuranger vs Space Squad Part 1: Excelsior!

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In memory of Stanley Martin Leiber Aka Stan "The Man" Lee
 December 28th 1922-November 12th 2018

 Now before I talk about this movie there’s a recent event that needs to be addressed. Mr Stan Lee was an icon, whether through direct creation or with assistance from his various collaborators such as Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko he helped create some of the most iconic and long lasting characters in comics. From Spider-Man to Dr strange to the X-men and the Fantastic Four Stan’s influence can be seen not just in Marvel but all modern comics. For today’s purposes he was the man responsible for Super Sentai as it is today. After Marvel collaborated with Toei to produce the Spider-man Tokusatsu series Toei drew inspiration from that show, namely Spider-man’s giant robot the Marveler and borrowed the concept to revive the Sentai series after JAKQ Dengektai was cut short due to executive meddling due to Parent Watch groups complaining about the show’s more “graphic” nature.

 Originally Toei was going to adapt Captain America but that project was recycled for the Sentai project now rebranded as Super Sentai to differentiate it from Himitsu Sentai Goranger and JAKQ since they were created by Shotaro Ishinomori and thus under his name. But Stan’s influence on Sentai doesn’t end there, we could have gotten Sentai adaptations here in the states before Saban got lucky with Power Rangers. Originally Stan was trying to get either a dub or adaptation of Sun Vulcan but was rejected. So yes, without Stan Lee we wouldn’t have Super Sentai or even Tokusatsu as we know it today for good and for ill, and if people had listened to him we could have had much more Sentai content to inspire and entertain then we do today. So Stan, no matter what anyone says, you were the true believer and made true believers of us all, in that anyone can be a hero, all of humanity is equal and that righteousness and justice will always triumph over those whose hearts are only filled with evil, hatred and bigotry, to you we say, excelsior!

Well enough of the good stuff time to talk about a rookie legacy hero dealing with a group of 11 morons being dragged down by an even bigger moron who would most likely be the exact opposite of Stan’s super hero ideology. Though not right away as we open on another of the 12 Apostles of Genmaku finalizing his plan to the big boss, Fumein.

Who honestly looks like a more mobile and combat focused Alpha 5.

 However his plans are intercepted by Ninja Jiraiya (last seen looking like a dumbass with the Ninningers) and Space Sheriff Shaider. Before the two can put the Space Shinobi down he jumps through a dimensional hole and begins his plans to conquer an alternate universe. (Even though the movie keeps saying Galaxy it's really an alternate universe, that's the level of dumb we're dealing with here people, they can't tell the difference between a Galaxy and a universe.) Specifically the universe of the Kyuuranger, since it's been established that Kyuuranger takes place in an alternate universe keeping the main universe safe from Dumbluck's stupidity.

 Speaking of said universe the story picks up 4 years after the defeat of their big bad Don Armage. Everyone seems to have moved on with their lives and are enjoying the piece. Including the former Houoh Soldier Tsurugi Ohtori who's now the president of the new Galactic Federation and introduces new devices called NeoKyuutamas to a press conference which is basically a limitless Deus Ex Machina device. Which means it's perfect for an evil faction to steal the four prototypes for their malicious purposes, oh look, someone working for an evil organization stealing them for malicious purposes. But the thief is confronted by Spyro the Dumbass Dragon who reveals herself to be Yera Allon who only gets away because Spyro threw out his back after tripping on the unconscious guards, our mentor ladies and gentlemen!

 We then cut to Dumbluck meeting back up with Robo Bison before his 999th total defense match where the two catch up on how everyone's doing. While Dumbluck has been ignoring his duties as a king and has spent the last four years traveling (like the irresponsible moron that he is!) Leman Russ has a wife and kid meaning that his species won't go extinct so great for him, Sasuke Clone #3472 and some of the others are working with Spiro's organization Rebellion keeping the good fight going while Luigi Mario's restaurant chain is taking off like a rocket.  But while they start talking about Yera the news comes on about how she stole the Neo Kyuutama, so yeah awkward. But not as awkward as Tsurugi giving Sasuke Clone, Kurumi and Pine Tree (Koguma Skyblue) orders to bring her in so he can her her side of the story.

 But unless that story starts off with "this evil Space Ninja forced me to help him" I doubt you've got that much a defense case since we then see Yera giving Demost the NeoKyuutamas. So what does he do now that he has these incredibly powerful devices? He uses them like the Deus Ex Machina orbs that they are and resurrect four powerful General grade villains (at least two of which should be impossible). He brings back Mele from Gekiranger, Basco from Gokaiger, Escape from Go-busters and Juzo from Shinkenger.

 Ok, starting from the top, one they're in an alternate universe where these guys never existed so how the hell was Demost able to resurrect them? Two, Mele and Rio were heavily implied to have reincarnated after they were killed by Long at the end of Gekiranger so how the hell did she come back? I mean yeah she showed up for the Legendary War at the opening of Gokaiger but so did every other dead ranger so I guess God gave them a one time revival to take part in that war or something, best explanation I could come up with. Third, Escape has no soul to revive, she's an AI created by Messiah, and Messiah and the Vaglas aren't like the Geth from Mass Effect or Reploids from Mega Man X where their AI has progressed to the point of actually being mistaken for human, in other words these units do not have a Soul. Basco and Juzo I don't have an issue with though mostly because I never saw Shinkenger and thus don't know how things went with Juzo but I am not substituting what happened with Decker in Power Rangers Samurai for obvious reasons. But in short, less than 8 minutes in you've shat the bed movie.

 Also theses choices of revived bad guys make very little sense as apparently the spell only works on souls who have some form of lingering regret like the Revival Jutsu from Naruto but again these four make no sense. Maybe Basco and Juzo since Basco's a fun loving anarchist and Juzo is a bloodthirsty maniac respectively so maybe they just want more fun and carnage. But again Escape is an AI with no actual humanity. Hell even Mele points out that her resurrection makes no sense since she only cares for earning the love of her master Rio, but Demost fixes that with a good old fashioned brainwashing spell and sends the five on their way to attack the Kyuurangers.

 Basco starts off by attacking Sasuke Clone, Kurumi and Pine Tree claiming that he's working under Yera's orders, and they believe him like the morons that they are. Because this obviously untrustworthy Jack Sparrow knock-off looks like he would definitely be telling the truth about something like this, even though they fought beside each other and have known each other for at least 5 years and thus should know better, everyone in this movie is an idiot I thought you should know. While Escape launches a similar attack at Luigi Mario's restaurant Dumbluck and Robo Bison make tracks back to Earth to check in with Tsurugi and learn more. Along the way they run into a certain pervert in navy blue as well as Mele. As for Bootleg Spock and Josuk3PO they actually run into Yera but before they can talk Juzo covers her escape and duke it out with the two.

 The villains and Yera retreat but not before the perv, though the power of sexual assault and being a major grade A creep manages break though Mele's brainwashing just a bit before she withdraws as well. The perv introduces himself to Dumbluck and Robo Bison as Karasuma Shuu aka Space Sheriff Shaider which Dumbluck recognized after remembering his encounter with Geki. Proving that the two are friends Dumbluck takes Shuu with him to see Tsurugi. The group finally meet up and compare notes, though to make things complicated Bootleg and Josuk3PO arrive with a recording of their fight with Yera, Demost and Juzo; Shuu recognizing the Space Ninja from before. Knowing that Yera appears to be collaborating with a notorious criminal Tsurugi does the regrettable yet correct thing of putting an APB for her arrest.

 But of course since we can't have logic be a thing Dumbluck objects. Now normally he'd be right but the evidence is clear cut, now while they don't know the context behind this situation the facts are that she's infiltrated a government research center, stole four prototype power sources, has been seen collaborating with a notorious criminal and attacked her former comrades without any explanation. As for the defense all Dumbluck has is "don't you trust her you traitor?!" Not exactly an ironclad defense. Besides as Tsurugi points out a former hero turned criminal and the newly elected president who was her comrade not trying to stop her would undermine the new government that the people have placed their futures in after living under the tyranny of Jark Matter.

 Now anyone who's seen Gurren Lagann would point out that this sounds similar to the second half of the show where the Anti-Spiral attacked and Nina awoke as their harbinger. In that show, Simon later was arrested by Rossiu to quell the population after the initial Anti-Spiral attack to prepare the Ark Gurren for an emergency evacuation of the planet. The difference between then and now is that Simon went along with it; even agreeing to fight the Anti-Spiral with bombs installed into Gurren Lagann because he had to make sure that Rossiu's plan worked since he knew what was at stake and could see the bigger picture. Dumbluck by contrast can't see farther than his nose because he's a self-righteous moron who doesn't know the first thing about responsibility. Remember that he's apparently a King, yet he spent the last four years after Jark Matter's defeat wandering around space like he did when the show started, so in summation Dumbluck, you're a fucking moron!

 But because stupidity is contagious Robo Bison and Pine Tree go with him. So the muscle bound moron robot who exercises (even though he's a robot just like in Headmasters) and the pre-teen kid are the only ones on Dumbluck's side. If that doesn't tell you how wrong this putz is I have no idea. So after all of this idiocy I need a break. Come back next week as we skip past the fight scenes and learn why Yera is even working with Marvin the Ninja in the first place, spoilers it's really stupid.

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 2nd week in a row confirms that my Ps4 connection problems are officially over! Now I can focus on what really matters in showing all of you how inept I am with these ancient point and click games. Yes I know I had to use the internet to warp up the 2nd year in Grim Fandango I'm weak and I know you all don't want to watch me struggle. Though I at least got my first commenter on the stream so that's a major plus! Also the regular Toku V-logs are back since there's no golf or whatever, yay!

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Lets Play Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Critical Mode Final Mix Post Game Content Part 1

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 Alright Xemnas is beaten the worlds are saved now the real game begins! First we claw our way through the Cavern of Remembrance and unlock the Data battles. Next we finish off the Goddess of fate cup and get back to the mushroom 13. Next we give Sephiroth another beatdown before he and Cloud run off till Kingdom Hearts 3. Finally we start taking down the Data Organization members.

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Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix, Disney Interactive Studios, Tetsuya Nomura, and Shinji Hashimoto.

Tokusatsu Review: Space Squad Character Dossier

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 Time for a recap of the Space Squad movies. Now I know I said that I was going to cover both Girls in Trouble and Space Squad last time. While I will be doing that I won't be doing full on reviews just giving clip notes of the key players, the plots and anything else I think is necessary before I cover Gaven Vs Kyuuranger. Because 1, Space Squad and Girls in Trouble are actually really good and I don't want to spoil them for you. 2 because it's been out for a while so most likely people have seen it and lastly 3, because it's getting close to the holidays and I'll be really busy so this just saves us some time and stress.

 First we'll talk about the titular Space Sheriff Gavan, in this case the second Gavan; Geki Jumonji who took over the role with the original Gavan; Retsu Ichijoji serving as his superior officer/ mentor. He first appeared in Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie the Metal Hero's 30 anniversary movie where Retsu passed on the title of Gavan to Geki, who as Gavan-Type G then pursued the remains of the Space Mafia Makuu who were attempting to resurrect their leader Don Horror. Afterwords Geki teamed up with the Go-Busters to eliminate another Makuu remnant. So aside from Super Hero Taisen Z (which is now non cannon BTW) there really hasn't been any trace of Geki until this new movie series. Also to note that the Metal Hero revival was no doubt inspired by the crossover between the original Gavan with the Gokaiger which is not only a good movie but also is cannon with Gokaiger since Gavan actually saved Marvelous when he was a little kid.

 Next is the 28th super sentai Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (whose footage was used for Power Rangers S.P.D here in the states) who instead of fighting an organization protected earth from alien criminals categorized as Alienizers who all got the weapons for their various crimes from an arms dealer named Agent Abrera. We have Dekared Banban Akaza, a hot headed idiot who actually grew up and calmed down as the series went on, Dekablue Hoji Tomas, the blue oni to Ban's red oni, DekaGreen is Senichi Enari or Sen-chan for short, he's the brains of the outfit and does his best thinking upside down, Dekayellow is an ESPer called Jasmine, and the show and movies love to remind us of her ESPer powers every, single damn chance they get! The core five is rounded up by DekaPink aka Umeko, she's a good hearted ditz who loves bubble baths. The 6th ranger is Dekabreak Tekkan Aiwa, he's a crossdressing master of disguise who isn't just a stupid glowing orb of light from the future. Their boss and Extra Ranger is the guard dog of hell himself Doggie Kruger aka Dekamaster.

 During these movies we learn that not only is Makuu still alive but have joined forces with the remnants of the other organizations defeated by the other Metal Heroes to become the Genmakuu society, a space cult that plans on universal conquest. During the events of Girls in Trouble; the prequel to this saga Umeko and Jasmine worked with Shelly and Tammy the partners of the new Gavan and Shaider respectively to defeat one of the 12 apostles of Genmakuu, the mercenary leader and Predator knock off Hellvira. The next day the Dekarangers and Gavan-Type G defeated another apostle; Mad Gallant while the executive overseeing both operations, the space Ninja Benikiba managed to escape. Afterwords Ban and the head of the Galactic Police; Sophie decide to combat the threat of the Genmakuu that Geki should work with not only the Dekarangers but also other Metal Heroes and space/ dimension based Sentai teams to combat these returning threats.

Sadly not them, but also VALIDATION!!!!!

 Nope instead of those three lovable Otaku we instead have to see Geki pull the weight of DumbLuck and his gang of idiots! Now again this is a great premise for a yearly movie series for Toei, returning Metal Heroes and older Sentai, redesigns of old villains, and a new hero and supporting cast to get behind. This just reeks of great storytelling potential and just plain fun. Besides after the abysmal Taisen Movies Toei needs something to fill their spring movie quota so why not put competent writers and a good director in charge and see the dough roll in? I mean they had Naruhisa Arakawa for both Girls in Trouble and Space Squad so this can't possibly go south.

 Though they brought in Nobuhiro Mouri to write Kyuuranger Vs Gavan so, ugh. I mean to be fair Mouri did have success with the Kamen Rider Yongou net-moives and he was the head writer for Kyuuranger (for better or worse) so on paper getting the head writer for the show headlining the crossover is not a bad idea. The problem was that Kyuuragner's 12 man team was overstuffed and Mouri was way too green to make this large team work and all attention was focused on how Dumbluck was an insufferable moron! Now I will be looking at this movie with a fresh look but I have an instant bias towards the Kyuranger so take it as you will. Besides I don't see a Produced by Shinichiro Shirakura credit anywhere so this has a better then average chance of actually being passable and according to an interview with Sakamoto for the Tokusatsu network he's basically saying that this movie is more like episode 1.5 then episode 2 so there's that to keep in mind.

 But based on my previous track record with Kyuuranger (aka the only Sentai series I dropped after the first five episodes) I'm not exactly looking at this movie with sunshine and sprinkles you know what I mean? But it's my job to catch up on this stuff for you guys and by Stan Lee's mustache I'm gonna do it! So drop in next time as I see how the Kyuurangers manage to drive Geki bat-squeak loco. Hopefully we'll see Geki smack DumbLuck upside the head and tell him to get a clue, here's hoping.

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 Ok this week I have some good news bad news. The bad news is that there's no Tokusatsu V-Log since I guess there was a golf game or something again, this tends to happen every so often. The good news is that I finally fixed my streaming problem! Now I can actually make 2 hour long streams instead of having the feed cut out every so often. So now you can all look forward to just two videos on Saturday instead of several.

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Lets Play Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Critical Mode Final Mix The World That Never Was (Finale)

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 So here we are at long last, my favorite level in Kingdom Hearts 2. I absolutely love this level, from its music, its atmosphere the boss fights everything in this world is just aces. Also a big part of why this level is so good has to go to an outstanding performance from the late Cristopher Lee as Ansem the Wise. Besides the final boss fight is very difficult if yo get hit with Xemnas' attack that forces you to control Riku. But we're not done with this game just yet since there's post game content.

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Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix, Disney Interactive Studios, Tetsuya Nomura, and Shinji Hashimoto.

Video Game Review: Luigi’s Mansion 3DS: Who you gonna call? Weegee!

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 Ah Luigi’s Mansion, when I was a kid this was one of my favorite games especially around Halloween and one of the first two games I got for the GameCube. Now that it’s rereleased on the 3DS and I can take it on the go the memories came right on back and after replaying and completing it it still holds up, though not without some flaws. Now for those who haven’t played this 16 year old game (Christ how time flies) the premise is a simple as a Mario game can be. Luigi wins a mansion in a contest he didn’t enter (cue Admiral Ackbar) and he finds the place is haunted. Now normally he’d have run for the hills by now but Mario got there first to scope it out and was captured by King Boo and his army of Ghosts, most of whom have escaped from the collection of Paranormal researcher Professor E. Gadd. 

 Gadd had captured a giant Boo called Boolossus and in retaliation, King Boo freed him along with all of the other Ghosts in his portrait collection. Now King Boo and all of the Professors Portrait Ghosts are hiding out in their newly constructed Mansion with Mario as their prisoner. So now with the Professor’s Poltergust 3000 Luigi has to venture into the Mansion, capture all of the portrait ghosts, defeat King Boo and save Mario, like I said simple. Since this is a remake of a GameCube game there’s more then a few updates that I both like and dislike. Let’s get the one bad thing I have about this remake out of the way, it has motion control. 

 When you’re sucking in or launching an element you have to aim it using the 3DS’ gyroscopic control which gets really old really fast and can make some Ghosts downright unbearable. Though you can easily resolve this issue in one of three ways, either have the 3DS XL with the C Stick and Z buttons or if you have just a New 3DS then the Circle Pad Pro will the job as well. Either way with those and the C Stick the issues that I have will pretty much go away. However if you use the circle pad pro you’ll have it activate it every time you turn the game back on or close the 3DS, annoying but nothing that’s going to break the deal. Also you can turn off the Motion controls by going into the options menu and setting the sensitivity to 0, though again you’ll need the c stick from either of the previously mentioned solutions otherwise this port will be very difficult.

 Other then that one issue this is a fantastic rerelease. As a modern game Luigi’s Mansion 3DS has some achievements to complete such as capture all 50 Boos, get all of the Portrait Ghosts, you get the idea. This also has a new rank for the Ghosts that can only unlock once you get access to the hidden Mansion after you beat the game once, you can actually get them a Platinum Frame if you can suck all 150 of their HP in one shot. A tough order but one that can be done with practice. Though just a heads up, Chauncey, Nana and Sue Pea made my life miserable! 

 Sue Pea in particular caused my control stick to crack slightly from all the pressure I was placing on it to wrangle her in. Though this was ultimately worth it in the end when I was rewarded with the S rank Mansion for getting platinum frames for all of the Ghosts. Though I may have had an easier time if I had assistance from Gooigi, the co-op character introduced for this port from E Gadd in the future during the events of Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon which I haven’t played but will give it a shot if I have the time. As mentioned Gooigi is a protoplasm construct of Luigi that can help you during the game and having his help in the Hidden Mansion and getting platinum frames will be a godsend! After playing Luigi’s Mansion on the GameCube so many times the Hidden Mansion in the 3DS port is the most challenge I’ve ever had from this game since the first time I played it all those years ago. 

 There’s more ghosts in the rooms of the Mansion with more HP, Speedy Spirits are in completely different locations, some keys are in different rooms, Mario’s items for Madam Clarvoya are in different rooms, this mode can really throw veterans off their game. Also the Hidden Mansion changes one of the optional ghosts to mandatory and vice versa. Slim Bankshot is now mandatory while Henry and Orville are optional, other then that the rest are as you remember just with harder pulls, more HP and way more annoying as a result. But seeing that S Mansion was really rewarding after going through all of this BS. So if you have a 3DS make sure you pick up a copy of this remake of a ghoulishly good game, even though Halloween’s over at the time of this article, poop.

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