I'm David, welcome to my brain. Here I write to not only show that I can but to share my opinions on various topics. Mostly Video Games, Anime, Movies and Tokusatsu. Though I am open to suggestions and never afraid to admit when I'm wrong. Have a good time in here and be sure not to mess with my memory, it's bad enough as it is.
Sorry for the delay folks, had to wait till the episodes were up. Anyway once again Zi-O manages to find new levels of incompetence with the introduction of Grand Zi-O. Let me tell you all once I get my entries of Kamen Rider Final Forms updated when we get Zero One's final form this sucker is not breaking the top ten. Ryusoulger gives us RyusoulGold who is basically a pretentious Glen Quagmire. But on to the good stuff with Spider-Man the City that never sleeps where Hammerhead is ready to take a shot at being New Yorks top dog.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Well, we've had ourselves a nice little break haven't we? Now it's back to work covering how this movie blows chunks, yay. After Sento states the obvious we cut back to Tiddlywinks's hide out where his Another Riders bring him Shingo. Next is the three stooges finding Kazumi's unconscious body in front of Ataru's house. Yet Ataru didn't think to call an ambulance for the guy bleeding out in front of his house who tried to save him and the little kid from the monster working for a psychopath?
But something seems wrong as when Sento asks where Shingo is Ataru thinks that they're talking about his older brother. Yet after Sougo clarifies that they were talking about the kid they still don't think that something is wrong. Look I'm done waiting for the movie to drop the other shoe and I'm not going to insult your intelligence by going along with their poorly constructed foreshadowing any longer, Shingo is Ataru's time displaced brother. For reasons that will be explained later Tiddlywinks abducted him before Ataru was born which was one day before the premiere of Kuuga. This explains why they both have the same name, why Shingo only knows about Kuuga and how he's never seen a smartphone before when this movie takes place in 2018 and every kid who has even heard of one has racked up at least $1000 dollars on their parents phone playing Angry Birds.
Now we get to the part where we learn how Ataru caused all of this in the first place, brace yourselves and have buckets on stand by for when you either have an aneurysm or your brains are reduced to Yogurt! He invites Sento and Sougo inside and shows them his room, which is full of Kamen Rider figurines and merchandise. You name it it's there, there's drivers, posters, festival masks, toys, figurines you name it it's most likely there. After the non reaction from our two heroes after they learn about how their lives are only fiction Ataru explains how they got to his world in the first place. See Ataru comes from the real world, where Kamen Rider is just a T.V show yet one day he gets possessed by an Imagin who grants his wish to be able to see real Kamen Riders.
I repeat, an Imagin, from Kamen Rider Den-O, shows up, in the real world, to grant Ataru's wish!
First off, if Kamen Riders are not real in your world, there's no way in hell that there should be an Imagin there to grant your wish. Second, Imagins are not that powerful. Sure they're based off of the Djinn which is the basis of Genies, but like the original Djinn, Imagins don't have the phenomenal cosmic power that was ascribed to them from works like the Disney version of Aladdin but are more depicted as they were originally portrayed, as spirits summoned by someone to carry out a task. In other words, they could only grant a wish that was within normal parameters such as "get revenge on this guy for me," "bring me millions of dollars," wishes like that, usually through twisted and violent ways. But this new Imagin (he goes unnamed through out the movie but the wiki says that he's named Futaros) is just somehow able to merge worlds together to grant this wish, even though no Imagin before this has that kind of reality merging power, not even the Death Imagin, the strongest Imagin in Den-O.
And then with Ataru telling them that none of this matters since this is all his dream and that once he wakes up nothing will have happened that's strike 3 and this guy is out. So why did he even do this in the first place? Because he just wants to forget his reality where his parents focused on his 7 year old older brother Shingo disappearing thanks to Tiddlywinks and thought that the Riders would help him. Sento, after rightfully chewing him out for thinking that this was just nothing but his delusions has had enough and walks out with Sougo not too far behind. Now, allow a clown to be serious for a few seconds, because there are several things I find wrong with this scene on both a storytelling level and philosophical level.
First let's get the storytelling out of the way because trust me the philosophical side can get pretty juicy. I mainly have issues with the revelations and the characters reaction, or in this case lack of reaction in the scene. We have a set up where people who thought that their lives were real turns out to be in fact, fictitious. There are many ways and stories that touch on and experiment with this concept whether it be for a deconstruction of the agency of viewers interaction with the work or creators commenting on the nature of the meta narrative. Such examples include The Stanley Parable, Princess Tutu or most prominently in my mind, Grant Morrisons run on Animal Man.
Each of these works touch on the agency of a creation in their fictional world. Now of course I'm not saying that every story that has these ideas has to be some grand philosophical treatise on the meta narrative and creation being ruled by the creator; this idea can also be used for poking fun at the 4th wall like Deadpool, the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie and Doki Doki Literature club. But what I'm getting at is that these works took this idea and actually did something with it. But in this movie, nothing is done with this concept. It's just casually tossed in as an afterthought explanation to justify the inconsistencies of the original setting, in. my opinion this is lazy, thoughtless and wasteful.
But now we come to the probable intent of this scene, why the creators thought to include this in the first place. Now, after thinking long and hard about this scene I'm actually reminded of something. Back in the 200th Episode of Atop the 4th Wall Linkara reviewed Spider-Man One More Day, in issue three of that story Peter encounters an overweight alternate universe version of himself who went on a tirade deriding the entire concept of escapist fiction. Considering who was involved in the creation of that story, combined with the fact that issues 3 and 4 of that story were heavily rewritten he incorrectly assumed that Joe Quesada was responsible for that scene. It was later revealed that while the rewrites were a thing, most of issue 3 was written as intended by J Michael Straczynski.
How it was written could easily be seen as a message of contempt to people who indulge in escapist fiction. The overweight Peter could easily be seen as a stand-in for JMS calling the audience failures for ignoring the real world, or him venting his frustration of having to toss all of his years of work on Spider-Man out the window to appease Quesada. But having gone through the scene and given the context of the story I could see this as the overweight Peter telling Spider-Man that while he never got the spider bite and couldn't be a hero in the spandex and cape sense, 616 Peter, as Spider-Man can do so much more good. Though Tubby is ignoring the fact that there's more ways of being someone's hero then the cape and cowl routine, like working in a soup kitchen, helping a homeless person get back on their feet, or even just giving someone reassurance, comfort and hope when all seems hopeless. So yeah like most versions of Peter Parker, he's kind of a fucking idiot.
But back on track, unlike Quesada and JMS the two working on this movie; Shinichiro Shirakura and Kento Shimoyama have constant track records consisting of critically paned work, and in Shirakura's case; excessive meddling and distain towards the Tokusatsu fandom. Given this and Shirakura's hands on approach towards the productions he helms I can safely assume that he's responsible for this scene.
And he's clearly telling the fans of Kamen Rider that they're delusional, sociopathic cowards for indulging in this series. You know, the series that is a long standing Japanese cultural icon for decades, the series that he's a producer of, one of the properties that is responsible for the roof over his head, the food in his gut and the clothes on his back?! He's basically saying "the people who watch this franchise and buy my crap are losers so keep buying my crap losers!" Now while I don't have a clip of Linkara giving that spiteful ramble towards JMS (accidentally to the guy who didn't even want to do that story in the first place) I do have a clip that hopefully conveys the message to Shirakura all the same.
I honestly should end this review right here, but sadly no, there's still much more to come. Anyway, after Sento's departure Futaros asks whether this is enough since he's draining himself to keep the Riders here and apparently this is the reason why they are losing their memories. Now that Tiddlywinks has Shingo he gets started on both creating his perfect world and his perfect Kefka impression. First by doing an insane laugh that would make Mark Hamel blush, then he summons a giant castle out of nowhere in the middle of Tokyo.
And he can do all of this because don't question it or else you'll be kicked in the head by a horse!
Oh and as if that wasn't enough he literally makes it rain and then sends an army of Grunts into the city to kill everyone in their path. Sento and Sougo notice the giant eyesore and agree that fictional or otherwise, they have to stop Tiddlywinks' plans. Ataru finally notices what his actions have caused and after being chased by an Inves, Ghoul and Roidmude and finding that Kazumi has lost his memories decides that enough is enough and tells Futaros that the contract is fulfilled allowing him to assume his full Imagin from and fight off the Grunts before jumping through Ataru completing the contract. But with said contract completed the Riders return to their world leaving the "real world" at the mercy of Tiddlywinks and his army. As Sougo witnesses Futaros traveling back in time he returns to his world with Woz watching him sleep like the zealous creep that he is.
After he explains everything to Woz, Sento finds him and tells him about the photo he found at Ataru's house and the two twits finally figure out what anyone who was watching this movie and didn't huff paint as a kid figured out half an hour ago. But now that they know the score how are they getting back to stop Tiddlywinks? They use the W Ridewatch that's how! I'll get into my thoughts about that later right now it's BS time. After the trio travel though Hypertime apparently they land back in the "real world" where the minions are racking up a major kill count.
Sougo and Woz manage to find Ataru, Woz then oh lord give me strength, accesses the Gaia Library to fill Sougo in on how the Imagin operate and then pulls out a Rider Ticket out of nowhere to figure out where Futaros went!?
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Kamen Rider is owned by Ishinomori Productions, Toei Productions, and Bandai. Back to the Future is owned by Robbert Zebecks, Bob Gale, Stephen Spielberg, Ambling Entertainment and Universal Studios. See no Evil, Hear no Evil is owned by Tristar Pictures and Arthur Hiller. Half Baked is owned by Universal Pictures, Robert Simonds Productions and Tamra Davis.
Well, it seems that there's no Kamen Rider or Sentai this week. I'm guessing it's due to Golf or something else airing around the time but hey a break from Zi-O is always a good thing in my books. But we have plenty of action as we wrap up the main campaign of Spider-Man after I had to replay the game due to region incompatibility. After we take care of the Sinister Six and save the city Peter has the future to look forward to after putting Aunt May to rest. Now that the main campaign is done we can move on to the DLC.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Before I say anything this review is in no way, shape or form influenced or sponsored by Aniplex, Magia Quartet or anyone involved with the game or Madoka Magica franchise. This is all me, a fan giving basically free advertisement of my own accord. With that said June of 2019 is turning out to be quite a wonderful and surprising month for gaming. First we have the US release of Persona Q2 New Cinema Labyrinth; the last major release on the 3DS just a few weeks ago. E3 actually gave me something to smile about and not just how pathetic EA and Ubisoft are and the live Adult Swim show that is the Devolver Digital presentation I’m talking about some real good stuff. Not only do we have a release time for Kingdom Hearts Remind but we also have the remake of Final Fantasy 8 (for the like, three people who actually like it.) But my highlights of E3 is the confirmation of both No More Heroes 3 and Banjo Kazooie for Smash!!!
But in the midst of all this is that a little mobile game that I’ve been eyeing since its release in Japan back around 2017 is getting released in the states on the 25th. Magia Record, a moble game tie in to Madoka Magica. When I heard this was finally making it stateside only one thought ran through my head.
I mean as a Madoka fan how could I not want this? It’s free (technically), introduces a new story, more characters and more chances for Urobutchi and his crew to rip your heart out and squish it like a bug, what more can ya want?! Now there is a story to go with this game so without going into major spoilers the new main is Iroha, a magical girl who’s set up shop in the city of Kamihama and is looking for her little sister Ui who is also a Magical Girl and has been missing for quite some time. Along the way she’ll meet up with some new friends, some familiar to us, others brand new. But aside from the usual witches running around and spreading despair like Johnny Appleseed after listening to Linkin Park for too long there’s these new monsters called Rumors who; just like the rumors in Persona 2 Innocent Sin are the manifestations of rumors spread by the people of the town. Only unlike the majority of Persona 2 rumors these ones manifest as Witch like creatures who exist to perpetuate the rumors that spawned them. Usually that involves killing people in some convoluted Two Face or Riddler esc obsessive compulsive fashion. As if that wasn’t weird enough, in Kamihama; Magical Girls don’t turn into Witches, instead their witches manifest as Doppels, which are basically dollar store versions of Stands or Personas, only with more body horror, YAY! And just like Innocent Sin; tying all of these weird events together is a cult of Magical Girls called the Wings of Magus with weird powers and objectives. Alsothere's this weird Kyubey like creature running around which doesn't seem to be part of the collective and no this isn't Juubey from Innocent Malice it actually looks like Kyubey justmoreintentionally cute. From what little I can gather on this game the combat isn’t too complicated. You can control up to 5 of your favorite MG’s as you battle it out with Witches, their familiars, Rumors, other MG’s you know the drill. While I’m not too familiar with the exact controls you can input certain commands and cards related to your team to unleash normal attacks, buffs, Final attacks and with some of the girls you can summon their Doppels for a screen nuke that will if not wipe you your enemies then at the very least give you a major advantage. You can recruit other MG’s to chose from but there comes the big catch with this game. It’s a Gatcha free to play game where depending on if you progress in the story, log in daily or buy them yourself you can acquire Gems to spin the wheel and see if you can get a brand new MG for your team. Now I personally recommend not buying these types of currency unless there’s a special deal going on, like a discount or getting something on top of the Gems your getting like how Kingdom Hearts UnchainedX does its weekly deals where you not only get jewels for 15 bucks but also access to exclusive deals and Medals for the week, basically make sure you’re getting enough bang for your buck know what I mean? Speaking of KHUX there's the girls themselves and how they level up. See there's a Star tier system. The higher the rank the girls are, the more powerful they are, simple enough. Starting with the 1 Star to the top tier 5 Stars.
Not exactly sure how they level up but it's there. Also if there's a 5 Star MG they will have a Doppel. Sometimes with updates MGs who could only go up to 4 starts will get a boost to 5 and a Doppel of their own. So make sure you save them all cause you never know. But speaking of Gems it's time to get to the brass tacks of why I mad this article in the first place.
To promote the game Aniplex or whomever decided to do a promotion campaign for potential player. If they can reach a pre determined number of per orders for this free mobile game (wtf?) we get escalating bonus'. The top one for 20,000 people pre ordering this sucker is that every player will get the 4 Star Glasses Homura and 150 Gems. Not sure how valuable those gems are but for a 4 Star Moemura I think we need to send some love their way I don't know about all of you. Here's the link to the tweet so you can share with your other friends which includes the link to the Apple Page so you can help us get a leg up in the game and get the poor purple more blob before her world turned her into Loli Schwarzenegger.
So there you have it, we not only have the original 5 of Madoka, Homura, Sayaka, Kyoko and Mami but we'll also get a plethora of new original MG's and some of the MG's from the Spin off Manga will get their long over due time in the spotlight, including Kazumi and Yuma, yay! Listen, I love the Madoka series because it has earned it from me. This is not my usual thing, either Magical Girl stuff or Gatcha free to play stuff, but there is always the exception that proves the rule as Madoka deserves. With this, a Manga and anime adaptation of this game coming out this year it's a clear sign that this franchise isn't going anywhere. Hopefully with enough support we'll finally get the conclusion we've all been waiting for.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record is owned by Aniplex, F4samurai and Magica Quartet. Street Fighter (TV Series) is owned by Capcom, Graz Entertainment, InVision entertainment, USA Studios and Discotek Media Spongebob SquarePants is owned by Nickelodeon, Stephen Dillenburg, United Plankton Pictures, and Viacom International Media Networks
Sorry that there's no Spider-Man stream, again. But I've had no choice but to delay the stream since I've learned that the Reign 2 disk doesn't run the American DLC. I should have gone without saying but apparently I've had to learn the hard way and now I have to replay the game up to the point where I was before I had to stop last time so that I'm back in full gear when I cover the DLC campaigns. Honestly it shouldn't take too long to catch up but still kinda annoying. Also Zi-o sucks and Ryusoulger's tone is off its rocker again, but then again that is just assumed at this point.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Oh wowie the last of the Generations Movies! The first one was a great tie-in to one of my favorite Rider series and did the impossible by actually making Ghost look good.
Heisei Generations Final once again fills in the blanks for Kamen Rider Build while getting some of the best Heisei Riders back while giving closure to some of those riders while showing Build as just as worthy to stand along side those heroes.
I mean considering how good the last two were there's no way they can screw it up right?
You poor fools forgot that the last two movies were written and directed by people who actually knew what they were doing. Instead we have the crew of Kamen Rider Zi-O helming this turkey which means that Kento Shimoyama wrote this and the producer was the Japanese Dan Didio himself Shinichiro Shirakura. So in the words this is a Taisen movie in Generation movies' clothes. Oh and before I forget this movie involves time travel, pants to be darkened!!! So let's not put this off any longer; time for the Heisei era to end, not with a bang but with the disgusted sneers of an old bastard who hates this franchise and the people who love it with the intensity of a million Foreman grills!
After the traditional Toei logo we get an actually cute and fitting little montage of a kid growing up with Kamen Rider, from a Kuuga figure in his delivery cradle to him getting a picture with Den-O ect our torture session opens in 2018 with Sougo walking back from school where Geiz and Tsukuyomi are chasing after him in their Time Mazine. Wait, by the emperor's toes the series is starting over again!
Ahahahahahahha oh dear god no I can't do this all over again I can't!
Ok, no no thankfully Shirakura felt somewhat generous that day and decided not to subject us to Zi-O all over again because once Geiz and Tsukuyomi corner Sougo an evil version of the Den-Liner makes a crash landing; knocking the Time Mazin out in the process. Then one of the only good things in Zi-O; an Another Rider jumps out of the wreck to kill Sougo. Of course since he has the year 2007 and the name Den-O on his body and came out of a twisted version of the Den-Liner it's clear that this is the Another Rider of Kamen Rider Black.
No it's obviously Another Den-O, Black already did some time travel but we don't like to talk about that.
Before Another Den-O can kill this would be despot Geiz transforms and stops him from doing what he originally came back to 2018 to do in the first place. During the fight Geiz and Tsukuyomi know who Sougo is but he doesn't recognize them. It's only when Another Den-O knocks him around and Sougo sees the Zi-O Ridewatch does he remember who they are.
While Another Den-O deals with Geiz and Zi-O a little kid escapes from the train. (Warning sign #1, a little kid in a modern Tokusatsu movie is a good sign that Shirakura was involved with the production and that it will be bad. Nobody likes it when guest child actors are involved in a Toku movie unless they're written well. As they often tend to steal focus from the main heroes, are not compelling to watch and are usually portrayed as bratty, annoying, moody or all three and refuse to advance the plot unless the threat is staring them in the face.) Anyway he escapes before getting swept up by a green cyclone and lands in front of Kiryu Sento and Banjo Ryuga.
Hallelujah!
Before you ask, no these aren't the Sento and Banjo that Sougo met and got the Build and Cross-Z Ridewatchs from in the disastrous first two episodes. These are the Sento and Ryuga that landed on the main Toei Earth after Sento merged the Build Earth with the main Earth to stop Evolt. If you're asking how that makes any sense, then shut up the makers of the movie clearly don't care even though they wrote the damn show that these events spun off from. Ok it is kind of explained later but we'll get to that later. Anyway the kid runs and hides because "it" is coming.
You know I'd say that the design of Pennywise for It Chapter 2 jumped the shark but he is a shapeshifter so I don't know maybe the Turtle that holds the Earth or something from Dark Towers can explain it, because it's either one or the other.
No this is Another W who attacks after Sento and Banjo transform into Build and Cross-Z. We then cut back to the wreck of the another Den-Liner to see the main villain of our story, the Time jacker who created Another W and Another Den-O.
After the tittle card we see the two pairs of Riders forcing their opponents to retreat. But in both instances there was a crowd of people watching and cheering the riders on like it was a live show. Hell even Build and Cross-Z get back up from Kamen Riders Grease and Rogue, who shouldn't be there since they were killed before the world merger. There wasn't even a chance to have them be like a Jay Garrick and Barry Allen Flash situation like after Crisis on Infinite Earths where since they were so radically different the new world decided to keep both versions of the Flash like with Sento and Banjo they're just here because the Kool-Aid man is red. During the Build Riders fight with Another W a high schooler is watching and recording the fight on his phone while the kid that Another W was after escapes into the crowd. We're then subjected to I kid you not, 8 minutes of pointless scenes that can basically be summed up with "things aren't what they're supposed to be!"
Sento finally corners the kid and tries to ask why the Another Rider was after him but he refuses to trust and talk to him like the dumbass brat that he is. He does finally talk when Sento mentions that he's Kamen Rider Build and the kid thinks that he fights alongside Kuuga. But before Sougo can ask any more questions Tiddlywinks shows up to abduct the kid who he identifies as Shingo. Sento tells Shingo to run while he holds him off but Tiddlywinks uses his Timejacker powers to toy with and possibly molest him.
"slurp You have the taste of a Heisei Rider!"
Seriously Sento looks legitimately uncomfortable, I can't help but think this was ad libbed, I'm starting to get a Jerod Leto's Joker vibe now, never go full Jerod Leto. So after, that Tiddlywinks wonders what Sento is even doing here since there apparently shouldn't be any Kamen Riders in this world. But he decides to make Lemonade from this lemon and uses some unexplained mind control powers on Sento. Speaking of Jojo references we catch up with the kid who was recording the fight talking to a voice in his head who tells him that Sougo is following him, who he recognizes as Zi-O and introduces himself as Ataru Hisanaga who claims to have the power to draw riders to him, despite the voice telling him to quit acting so cocky.
Ataru decides to demonstrate this by taking Sougo out for Fumen at a stand in Futo. He says that this will lure out W, well he's half right (ha) as instead Shingo shows up being chased by Another W. Sougo begins to transform but Another W retreats before he can finish. When Sougo tires to talk with Shingo the stand owner hands him the W Ridewatch because apparently Shotaro told him to give it to Sougo when he recognized him, because he "protected the city". Wow not only does Futo have their won Kamen Rider but they also have their own plot convenience Fairy!
Sougo and Ataru decide to bring Shingo back home. Along the way Shingo says that his mother's in the hospital because she's about to deliver his baby brother, he's happy about is since he has someone he can watch Kamen Rider Kuuga with. Ataru is impressed that a little kid knows about such an old Rider series since he himself was born one day before Kuuga aired, making today his birthday. After some antics about Sougo's home not being the same as he knows it and Geiz and Tsukuyomi's memories being rewritten as what happened to Banjo, Kazumi, Gentoku and Misora he decides to look for Shingo's house with the map app on his smart phone.
And the fact that Shingo says that he's never seen a smart phone should have been a major tip off to him not being from the present day! Now, what a normal person would do in this situation would be to ask Shingo what year it was due to the two major oddities about him, but since this is an idiot plot neither Ataru nor Sougo do this. Even the two Persona Q games got this plot point out of the way faster then this pair of brain trusts!!! While we painfully wait for the characters to catch up with the audience for the solution to this obvious mystery Kazumi and Banjo show up asking Shingo where Sento went. After he tells them about his confrontation with Tiddlywinks Sento's bike shows up to take Banjo and Sougo to where he is keeping Sento, somehow!
When Zi-O and Cross-Z find him he has the still mind controlled Sento transform into his TankTank form and attack the two. After more obvious foreshadowing Shingo gets taken by Another W and Another Den-O after they beat the ever loving tar out of Grease. But not before Another Den-O shows Ataru who he really is, Ataru, wait what?! Back to the Rider fight we learn that Sento actually wasn't under Tiddlywinks control and was just playing along until he can learn what his goal is. But he never learned what that was so he wasted his time and nearly killed his allies for no reason, our heroes everyone!
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Kamen Rider is owned by Ishinomori Productions, Toei Productions, and Bandai. Superman Returns is owned by Dc Comics, Bryan Singer, Warner Bros Pictures, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Legendary Pictures and Peters Entertainment. Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-mak is owned by Telltale Games and Chuck Jordan. Aliens (Film) is owned by James Cameron, 20th Century Fox and Brandy Wine Productions Based off of characters by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett Hellsing Ultimate is owned by Kouta Hirano, Studio Madhouse, Madman Entertainment, Manga Entertainment, Geneon and Funimation. Hellsing Ultimate Abridged is owned by Team Four Star.
Well for once Zi-O managed to give a decent tribute episode with Kagami finally becoming Kamen Rider Kabuto as he wished for in the first episode. Ryusoulger however gets really stupid with a pointless filler episode that finally introduces Gaisorg after his appearance in the Super Sentai Saikyou special. But boy, things sure escalated quickly in Spider-Man. After finally defeating Mister Negative we find that he was just the appetizer for the main course that is the Sinister Six. Now not only do we have to deal with all of the Rykers escapees but also the Silver Sable forces who have turned New York into a police state.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
Sorry guys, been too busy working on Persona Q2 and I have a new idea for a Let's Play in the works so I figured I share my fight with Taskmaster on my Stream off hours.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
The first Persona Q was a fun little slice of fan service for fans of Persona 3 and 4 seeing our favorite characters interact with each other, deal with bizarre new situations and still deliver a staple Persona gut punch to the heart with a story that manages to blend the themes of the two stories together. Those being the acceptance of Death and facing your darkest truths. So if we add another team of characters, an alternate universe rule 63 version of the Persona 3 lead and tack on the theme of rebelling against an unjust society, do you think that maybe there’s a risk of spoiling the broth? Those are some of my fears going into Persona Q2. Surprisingly not for the Switch but the 3DS again, you’d think that with Nintendo pushing the Switch as their new home/portable console you’d think that Atlus/Sega would take the hint, but no we get it on the 3DS. And just like with SMT Strange Journey Redux I’m guessing that since Atlus is releasing this on a technically last gen device; they don’t feel the need to give these games an English dub and save some coin. But that just begs the question of why not release them on the Switch anyway with an English dub to keep that sec of the fandom happy? I’m not complaining I just think it’s kind of odd that they’re going about it like this. I'm guessing that it has to do with these mechanics working only on the 3DS. But hey at the end of the day we get more SMT goodness on the go without mobile micro transactions (or the ability to take a selfie with Jack Frost or Mara but hey there’s a price for everything I guess) so it’s all good by my books.
As for the plot from what little I can glean since I’m avoiding spoilers is that the Phantom Thieves (mostly around their school festival due to the presence of Pancake Boy on the team before he stabs them in the back) are taking a page from Veiwtiful Joe and are venturing through the world of movies to undoubtedly solve the problem of some girl that will most likely be Rei 2.0 and be some ghost unable to pass on due to trauma. I mean she basically is Rei only her Zen is an older woman. Anyway these two are stuck in what I’m guessing is the abandoned movie theater near Leblanc, and this is tied into some odd Shadow called Doe that has a doofy looking mask that seems to have some connection to the new girl. As the Phantom Thieves venture through the movie worlds they’ll encounter and recruit the returning Persona characters. First we have the Female Protagonist from Persona 3 PSP in the movie Kamoshidaman where the rapist, child abusing power-mad scumbag is a Superhero.
Then we recruit the Persona 4 team in a Jurassic Park parody where apparently Diego Brando is ruining around since we see that some of the Persona 4 team is turning into Dinosaurs. Last we have the rest of the Persona 3 team in a movie where humanity has been replaced with Robots where one of them has developed individuality and their goal is to protect this A.I. But if the last Persona Q game was anything to go by there’s at least two more movie worlds after those but again I won’t be looking around for it any time soon. As for the combat and Personas if you've played the first Q gameyou should know what you're in for. We will have the Velvet Room but since there's no Social Links the Personas we get are just that, no extra EXP or anything. I could talk more about some of the potential features based on the first game but that will just be speculation. From getting new items from salvaging Shadow parts (and yes we're back to traditional Shadow designs instead of the Demons in Mementos, thankfully) to avoiding the F.O.E's that wander the Labyrinths; eventually coming back to beat them and get more items, EXP and potentially strong Personas. Hopefully there's no more of that Streetpass crap, cause I never used the thing and I doubt anyone will since the Switch is a thing now. But all that remains is to get Persona Q2 and see what happens. Now I know I promised that I'd go back to Homura's Revenge after the Month of Mayga man but, something fell into my lap that demands my attention, Heisei Generations Forever, the team up movie of Zi-O and Build, help me.
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support. Persona Q2 New Cinema Labyrinth is owned by Atlus and Sega. Spongebob SquarePants is owned by Nickelodeon, Stephen Dillenburg, United Plankton Pictures, and Viacom International Media Networks
Ok we're back no track for this week. For Zi-O we have the return of Toku's favorite Uke and Seme and some actually interesting things happening with Tsukasa and some words from Kagumi. With Rysoulger we get a brand new mech and Kou proves that he's at least better than Right, Takaharu and Lucky. But I'm also back in the streaming saddle with 5 full hours of web slinging action and holy Moses do things get dark. Not just from Black Car but also Mr Negative declaring war on Norman Osborn but we see Otto getting funding from A.I.M so that can only lead to good, right guys?
Special thanks to my Patreon backer Jesse for his support.
