Fiction and Fantasy

Category: Review

  • Anime Review: World Trigger

    Toei Animation Genre: Shounen/Coming-of-Age Year Released: 2014 – 2016 Distributor: Toei Animation Directors: Mitsuru Hongo (episodes 1−48), Kouji Ogawa (episodes 49-73) Seasons: 2 Seasons; 73 episodes total The Premise In a near-future Japan, Earth has come under attack by bestial, bio-mechanical aliens known as “Neighbors.” The only force that’s been able to go toe-to-toe with Neighbors…

  • Video Game Review – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    Photo courtesy of NintendoEverything.com Genre: Action-Adventure RPG (open-world) Year Released: 2017 Publisher: Nintendo Director: Hidemaro Fujibayashi Platform(s): Wii U, Nintendo Switch Rating: Everyone 10+; for Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes (cleavage), alcohol references and a drunken character (via ESRB) This review contains mild story spoilers. You have been warned.  The Premise The hero Link awakens…

  • Movie Review: Titan A.E.

    Writer’s Note (2-11-18): Some of you may be like “Whooooa, I was wondering where this post disappeared to!” while some of you might be wondering where the heck this brand-new but not-new post came from. This was one of a series of posts I had to pull from the blog temporarily so I could update…

  • Extended First Impressions: Final Fantasy XV

    Ahh! Real life got in the way of plans, so today’s post is a day late! Apologies! So my “extended first impressions” of Final Fantasy XV are a bit of a mess. See, I have this nasty habit of pretty much never finishing video games… so I’ve still barely started the main storyline. HOWEVER, I’ve…

  • Extended First Impressions: The Last Guardian

    Waiting ten years for anything is a harrowing experience. Think about it. That’s ten entire years to get excited. Three-thousand six-hundred and fifty days (plus leap days) for daydreaming about it, for wondering what it’ll be like, for worrying it won’t be what you expected or as good as you hoped. And if, at the…

  • The Long-Awaited Games Have Come – First Impressions of Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian

    Update : Updated article closing to include links to followup posts. Updated formatting to current blog standards. …Also I totally missed last time’s update. I am so sorry! I’ll try to post for the next three Fridays in a row to make up for it. Christmas came with a bang this year, and if any…

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