Videogames I’m Looking Forward to Play 2023 and Beyond

It’s strange that we are now in June and not seeing an E3 conference since that this year they decided to cancel it, but I think that it was for the good since that it looks like that companies are putting out their own presentations to showcase up and coming games. But it looks like that there are some companies that have done this, and we have seen some games pushed back to negative criticism, I’m looking at you Rocksteady with Suicide Squad, but there are some games and added content that I am looking forward to playing this year and beyond.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape: Recently, I got back into playing Destiny 2 for a few reasons, from what I heard from my friend the direction that it was heading sounded interesting, then there was the passing of Lance Reddick that got this old Titan player back in the throw of things. Then at the PlayStation Showcase they revealed a rather interesting trailer in which we see Ikora talking with a mysterious person, that turns out to be Cayde-6, who died back in Forsaken, and it turns out that he may be in some sort of different dimension that may have something to do with the Traveller or maybe the Darkness. However, it looks like that we will have to wait a bit longer as it was a teaser for what is to come as there is going to be more information revealed coming this August.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero: I have had some mixed feeling about the new Pokémon games, but I do have to say I have liked playing them since they did try to do a lot of things differently and I did like it. The only thing that I didn’t like about the game was that it did seem that there was something that were missing since it didn’t seem complete and there were some questions still to be answered. But it looks like that we are going to be getting some answers with two DLC packs coming out later this year, the first being The Teal Mask in which were are getting several new Pokémon and the second called The Indigo Disc in which we are heading off map to a sister school. I think that these are going to be fun to play, but at the same time and like many others I thought that it was going to be taking place between the Paldea region and Kalos region since both of them are based on Spain and France respectively. But I ain’t fussed since I did like the DLC that they brought out for Sword and Shield, and I think that these are going to be good as well.

Skull and Bones: Out of most of the games on this list I have been anticipatingly waiting for this game to come out. Assassins Creed Black Flag was one of my favourite games from the series and when they announced that they were taking the ship aspect of that game a turning it into a full game had me from the start. Then there was no news for a long time, until last year when they revealed more information about the game from story aspect as well as gameplay, then January came through and it was announced that it was being delayed until 2024 and then I started to feel a sense of worry from it. But the delays could be important since that it could mean that they could use that time to improve on the game and hopefully not make it buggy mess since that is what has happened with several big games already this year.

Assassins Creed: Mirage: The Assassins Creed series has been quite strange over the past few instalments, and I think that this game is also going to be strange and possibly a breath of fresh air that the series may need. With this instalment you get to play as the character the returning character of Basim before the events of Valhalla and this had me rather confused. Since that in Valhalla, you do get to meet Basim and he is revealed to have been corrupted by the memories of Loki and is trapped by Eivor in Yggdrasil and is released when Layla Hassan by accident and she then gets trapped in his place instead. So, it gets me thinking if we are going to be seeing him as a good guy or are we going to get a case like in Assassins Creed 3 where Basim does have some antagonistic qualities. But I am looking forward to it since that it looks like they are downsizing the game since one of my biggest gripes that I had with the series from Origins is that I thought that there was way too much exploration in a game that was quite closed spaced.

Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4: I have been a fan of the Dragon Ball series for quite a long time, I’ve watched a lot of the anime as well as dabbled in a few games like Xenoverse and Kakarot, but there was a series that I never played that being the Budokai Tenkaichi series. I think the reason why I never played them was mainly that I didn’t know that there were games for them, and it was at a time where I ended up dropping out of the franchise until the mid-2010’s and when I got back into the series, I was playing the newer games than the older ones. I did end up watching a lot of Budokai Tenkaichi 3 thanks to TeamFourStar who played through the game on their gaming channel, and I thought that it looked like a lot of fun. Then low and behold that back in March we got the first teaser for Budokai Tenkaichi 4 and from that it looks like that it is taking a design pick from Kakarot and I am all for it. Hopefully we’ll get more information in the next coming months and getting to see what other characters we get to play as.

RoboCop: Rouge City: I always get a bit worried when it comes to videogames that come from licensed movies since that a majority of a time, they tend to be either rushed or seem more disconnected. However, this one looks like that we could be getting what we would expect from the movie in the form of a videogame. From what was shown in the first trailer you have to go around looking for evidence to take down criminals in the legal way, to then go and then take them down. I did also like at the end of the trailer where it looks like that you also get to go around ticket cars, that looks like it’s going to be fun. Hopefully when the game does come out, we get more cool action to boot.

Metal Gear Solid 3 (Delta) Snake Eater (Remake): The PlayStation Showcase ended up dropping quite a few more shocks with this one, for me personally, being one of the biggest shocks. I wouldn’t think in a million years that Konami would follow other companies like Capcom down the path of remakes and I think that they have done the right choice by having it be Snake Eater that is going to be the possible start of the remakes for MGS. However, I am still quite apprehensive about the game for a few reasons, the first being that this doesn’t have the same creative team behind it since Hideo Kojima left after the cluster-f that occurred with MGS 5. Then the second being that according to a few different outlets it’s being revealed that the remake is going to be using the original game’s voice lines, so does that mean that they are just going to be taking the lines from the original game and putting it into this or are they going to be using the same dialogue from the game but with new actors(?). It’s going to be a confusing time, but I am going to be keeping a close eye out on this game since Snake Eater was the first MGS game that I played, and I hope they don’t screw it up.

Metal Gear Solid Collection: Speaking of Metal Gear Solid, not only did they announce the remake they also announced that Konami was going to be re-releasing the Metal Gear Solid collection with MGS 1-3 as well as Metal Gear 1&2. I did have the collection for the PlayStation 3, and I think that I skimmed across the first two MGS games and played more of Snake Eater, and I am hoping that when these games do get re-released, I actually play through them. But there is one thing that I am rather curious about and that has to with a particular boss fight with Psycho Mantis… will it still do the reading of the ‘memory card’ and the changing of controller ports or will it have some sort of new mechanic instead. But like with the remake I am going to be keeping an eye out on it.

Silent Hill 2 Remake: Speaking of remakes, I remembered that we are also, at some point, going to be getting a remake of Silent Hill 2 as well as a bunch of other Silent Hill spin off titles and for somebody who has only read about the series, I am looking forward to playing it. The only thing that I ever played that was Silent Hill was the P.T and I did enjoy that and was really disappointed that was all we were getting as this came during Kojima leaving Konami. I did at one point consider buying the HD Remakes, but after discovering what happened to them when they were getting made, I decided to hold up on them as well as I wasn’t using my PS3 much at the time, so I never got to play a proper Silent Hill game. So hopefully with this remake that is coming out I get the chance to enjoy the game.

Silent Hill Ascension: Speaking of Silent Hill, there is one game that is coming out that does have me rather intrigued, and this comes in the form of Silent Hill Ascension. This game is taking the concept from games like The Dark Pictures Anthology, in which you control characters and make their decisions and try to get may of them out alive. So, I think that this is going to be rather interesting since that I think that there is going to be a lot of delving into the psychology of more characters. I hope that the game does have do well since that I think that this could help bring more people into the franchise.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2: I am a big fan of Spider-Man, you can go back and read any of my Spider-Man reviews to see that, and I was also a fan of the spin-off title Spider-Man: Miles Morales. So, I was waiting patiently for the day when it was going to be announced that Spider-Man 2 and when I saw that we were going to be getting Kraven the Hunter and Venom for it I was hyped. Then with PlayStation Showcase they not only revealed a new trailer showing Kraven and his motives, but we also got a scope of how big this game is since that it doesn’t just take place New York City, but also appears that we get to go to both Queens and Brooklyn which means that there is going to be a lot of exploration to be done. So not only did we get to see Kraven’s motives for the game, we also did get a bit of gameplay with Spidey now donning the Venom symbiote trying to save The Lizard from Kraven’s forces and it looks amazing (pun intended). But the bigger shocker (pun intended) is that you get to swap between Peter and Miles meaning that you get the best of both Spiders, and he too has some new abilities too boot. Hopefully from what was shown, which was good in my opinion, makes itself through to the game and I pray that this doesn’t go the same way a LOT of games went this year with it being a buggy mess.

So those are the games and added content that I am looking forward to play from this year onwards and hopefully they all do turn out to be good and not pushed back any further and for next week we’re heading back over to DC and more of the Death of Superman.

My Thoughts On: Spider-Man Miles Morales

Back earlier this year during the reveal for the PlayStation 5, Sony unveiled a tie-in game to Spider-Man that came out a couple of years ago and luckily enough it was going to be released for the PS4 so I knew that I would be able to play it, since the fact that I wasn’t able to get it pre-order it and I don’t think I may get my hands on a console till either December or early next year. But were not going to talk about my mistakes, but a pretty fun game and also the obvious spoilers ahead.

But let’s start off with the things that I do find about the game and the first to get off the list is that there are still a few bugs in the game. One of the Roxxon bases that I ended up finding it wouldn’t ley me leave the first time as it ended up loading the outside of the world, but not the vent that was supposed to be to exit the area, and when I reloaded my checkpoint, I ended up having to relaunch the game. There are also a few texture problems with the game where it will take a few seconds for them to load up properly with the first case being the new suit that Peter gives you and then a few cases when you’re in the apartment where objects will start out being pixilated to then turning in what they should be.

Now with that out of the way lets get onto the game itself. The story of the game is rather interesting as it starts out in the same way as Spider-Man started with Rhino being transferred to the Raft along with a bunch of prisoners and when it looks like that there is a small problem occurs, it then leads into a chain reaction where Miles accidently causes the escape of not only Rhino for a time being, but along with Raft inmates. So Spidey and Miles end up catching up with Rhino leading to Miles discovering that he has a new ability, bio-energy, in which he is able to stun people with his attacks and they get more and more insane as the game goes on. This leads to Roxxon picking up Rhino after he is defeated by the duo and Peter reveals that he is going to be going away for a few weeks with MJ so that she can do a report in Symkaria and that means that Miles is going to be swinging solo for the next few weeks. This is something good since that it does mean that there isn’t anybody that is going to be there for Miles, besides his friend Ganke, but as high up on a super hero level there is nobody there, which I still don’t understand since there is still Avengers Tower along with the Sanctum Sanctorum.

Another good thing that I do like about this game is that they carries over the same sort of villain scenario from the previous game as you have four different groups to go up against with the two main ones, Roxxon and the Underground being the replacements for the Demons and Symkaria forces, being the two more challenging groups with different abilities and I think that they are rather cool. They also carry over the bases feature that was in the previous games, but to a more scaled down that being only about three or four between them. The Underground is a more interesting villain group to me as well since they are heavily tech based and their boss The Tinkerer is rather was interesting at first, but in the end, I did feel left down. We get introduced early on to Phin, a old friend of Miles who haven’t seen each other for a while and it turns out that he brother, Rick was working for Roxxon on their new energy replacement called Nuform and we find out later that Rick was dead because of the side-effects of it and that Phin was also the person behind the mask of the Tinkerer. I did think that this reveal was going to be Rick at first, but the reveal being Phin was more interesting and that she has a very big motive to go up against Roxxon since that it was them who ended up, in a way, the people responsible for her brothers death. I did think that Rick was going to be the Tinkerer at first since that when Miles kept bringing to Phin about how he was she kept passing over the answer that he was up to something nefarious. Then you have the other side of the coin for Roxxon, with Simon Krieger, however I thought was rather boring and just seemed to me to be a bit of a take on Justin Hammer from Iron Man 2, in which he was just there for the story elements and the representation of evil corporate America at its best.

When I got through looking at the trophies after I started playing the game, one of the trophies that got me interested was that there was going to be a fight with The Prowler in the game and it got me thinking that it was going to be a bit of an underwhelming since it had a lot of Into the Spider-Verse vibes, but it ended up being a lot more interesting than it was. We get introduced Aaron early on with Miles discovering that he how works for the rail services and discovers really quickly that Miles is the new Spider-Man and then later we see him in the game and this time he in his costume and it looks like that he is there to help out Miles with what is going on at Roxxon, but it turns out, if you can believe it, but he was on Roxxon’s payroll. During the final push to the end of the game before the confrontation with Phin, he ends up knocking Miles out and brings him to his lair in which he says that he is trying to protect Miles but Miles is wanting to do the right thing in saving the people that he cares about as well as Harlem. But one of the things that I did like about what they did was that he ends up getting a change of heart and he ends up helping evacuate Harlem with Miles mom and he then ends up revealing the shady dealings that Roxxon has been up to and this does mean that there could be a chance for The Prowler to make a reappearance in a future Spider-Man game.

A new cool thing about this game is that Miles has his own powers that are a lot different to what Peter had since the majority of Peter’s abilities revolve around using tech to improve his webbing, but with Miles he has two really cool abilities, the first being the Venom attacks that he has ranging from the punch, ground slam, charge and then the expulsion that he gets at the end of the game. Plus, with the good combination of inputs you can take down a large group of enemies rather well since with the correct suit upgrades you can make moves rather interesting. The second ability is one that is acquired after the bridge scene that was shown during the reveal and it is one of the better abilities, camouflage. Camouflage is a rather useful ability to have when you end up getting overwhelmed by enemies, especially when it comes to doing the bases since that if you get caught you can easily hide yourself, zip off to a wall or ceiling and chill waiting for the suspicion to drop and then start talking out foes. This is a cool feature, but there is something that I did find rather disappointing is that they did bring out a counter-measure for the camouflage in the form of Roxxon troops equipped with thermal scope and the only time that you seem to face them are when your in Roxxon along with Phin after being kidnapped or in the battle of Harlem before the ending boss fight. I don’t know if they appear as an additional encounter when you do the bases since I ended up completing all of them before I commenced the fight with The Prowler, but I do remember there being on of the Large Shield Underground members there when I did their bases.

So, with this following the events of Spider-Man, I was pretty shocked to see a post-credit scene that continues on the story from the previous post-credit scene. We have a POV shot from Harry inside the tube that has some sort of goop inside (possibly a symbiote?) and that Dr Connors aka The Lizard being interrupted by Norman who says that he wants him out of the tube, to Connors dismay that it could end up being too dangerous to do so. So, it looks like that we are getting Harry’s debut for Spider-Man 2 when it comes out.

One of the things that I also think that make this game better there are a lot of different representation in the game with one of them being Hailey since I think that, from the games I have played, a deaf NPC that is a part of the story and it also points out that Miles also is knows ALS, which I think is rather fun to see that Insomniac went to the degrees of adding the diversity into their games. Another rather charming thing that I do like that they added were a few easter eggs, that were also trophies, was visiting your dad grave which is full of feels, but one that has a lot more feels for fans of the franchise is the memorial for Stan Lee. Outside of Mick’s Diner where Stan made his cameo in Spider-Man there is a statue with him there.

Overall, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a fantastic game to play, even with it being a shorter game, but if you take your time with it, it is a great to play. This also does get me hyped, not only to replay Spider-Man on the PS5, whenever I manage to get my hand on a console, but I am looking forward to seeing what they do with Spider-Man 2 since not only do we have two Spider-Men in New York there is also all the villains that could appear, with a possible appearance from either Venom, Green Goblin and Lizard being my three picks to make an appearance.

Next time we head into December and for the first time in a while, I am not going to focus anything Christmas related, but for the next three weeks before Christmas with a few manga/anime review first starting with Naruto.

Games I Would Like to See For the Next Generation

With us now being on the precipice of the release of the PlayStation 5 and a slew of not only new IP’s announced for the system that look to be rather interesting like Deathloop and Project Athia but there have also been several titles receiving a new game like Ratchet and Clank and Horizon plus a fabled remastering in the form of Demon Souls. But like many fans I am demanding for more titles to be revealed for the new generation and here are some of the games I would like to seem make an appearance over the years to come.

The Simpsons Hit & Run (Remaster/2): This one is a game that has been on many a fan of Hit & Run since the games pretty since the PS3 had been released and the reasoning why is because it was such a fun game to play and looking at it years later the story aspects were a lot of fun, even if some of it was a bit annoying. I think that a remaster of the game on either the current Unreal Engine or even Unreal Engine 5 would be a lot of fun to see since that it would make Springfield looking amazing to see, but I think that a sequel would be just as fun to see since it could be interesting on how they handle the story.

Metal Gear: With companies like Square Enix, Nintendo and From Software putting in a tonne of effort in remastering several titles that they have made with games like Link’s Awakening and Final Fantasy VII being big hits and looking magnificent in the process. This got me thinking, what would it be like if there was a remaster of the original Metal Gear. I honestly think that this would be amazing to see since that the FOX engine that they used for the last few Metal Gear Solid games it they look really phenomenal through both in game as well as cut scenes. I think that it would be rather interesting to see since there was a lot of strange things that they had in the first game that I would be rather interested to see how they would get around some of the stupid stuff such scorpions, the door puzzles as well as the pit fall traps.

Rayman: When it comes to classic PlayStation titles people usually bring up either Crash Bandicoot or Spyro as the usual big two games that people say would be better than the other, I on the other hand preferred playing Rayman over the two and I’m not going to lie, I preferred Rayman over them. I think that the level designs were a lot better than Crash and Spyro. It’s been nearly seven years since a new main core Rayman game has been released since that it looks like the spin-off of Rabbids have been popular since their debut even having a crossover with Mario. I think a remaster would be good for the game as it has been rather successful for both Crash and Spyro, since Crash is now receiving a fourth game, it could help boost the fan base to possibly even get a new lease of life, but that it all up to Ubisoft on what they want to do.

Batman Beyond Arkham: Now this is going to be a little different with this being more wishful thinking on an amazing series. As we know there is supposed to be a rumoured sequel to Arkham Origins being developed by WB Montreal, but this idea I have isn’t it. This will take place in the far off reaches of Neo Gotham and set after the events of Arkham Knight in which Terry McGinnis ends up stumbling upon Batman who is set out to bring peace back to Gotham like he use to, but it wounded by a group of Jokerz and he decides to train Terry to be his replacement when it’s revealed that there is a new threat coming to Neo Gotham in the form of Saint Batman who, in a bit of a similar vein to the Arkham Knight is out to take control of the city, but this is down to things happening around the world with attacks happening in cities across the world and Saint Batman is returning to stop this from happening, however Bruce reveals who is behind Saint Batman saying that he picked him to be his successor but he ended up become mad with power and started a war on crime that caused destruction through Gotham and formed the foundations for Neo Gotham. This idea I do like since that it does link up a lot from the past games as well as featuring a lot of backstory for the foundations for the new Gotham and it also referencing more Batman titles.

Silent Hill: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KONAMI GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSESS AND RELEASE A NEW SILENT HILL GAME. Okay a bit more detail I think is needed, ever since that it was announced that there was going to be a new Silent Hill with the introduction of PT that was released for the PS4 many moons ago. However, with the whole Kojima/Konami debacle that happened during the development that also effected Metal Gear Solid 5 the project was scrapped and Kojima left the company to reopen his old studio and then went on to release Death Stranding. But with the speculation that Sony is trying to procure the rights for a bunch of titles including Silent Hill it would be interesting to see what they could do with it, if they give the project to Kojima and we see his take for Silent Hill and what his story would have entailed.

A Transformers Game: Transformers is in the top ten of my favourite franchises of all times with the shows varying rather meh to fantastic, the live actions films being just okay and the videogames being a lot of fun to play and with the recent new show having been released on Netflix got me thinking, how come there hasn’t been a new Transformers game since 2015 with Transformers Devastation and it looks like that it could be a while until we could see a videogame as well. For me the best games were War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron since they both had really interesting stories with the first having two story mode where you got to play as both Autobots and Decepticons (usually the more recognisable characters) and with Fall of Cybertron you got to play as Grimlock as well as Bruticus. Hopefully one day Hasbro will decide to go down the videogame route and renew their license with a good team, like Activision because a good Transformers game is something that the world could do with.

Red Dead Redemption: Red Dead Redemption 2 has been one of my favourite games that had come out for the current generation in a long time, the story was fun, the game play was intriguing and it had me hooked even on Tutorial Mountain, to the point that I have played through the game at this point about three or four times (mainly trying to get some of the collectable missions out of the way). I did however a few years prior to even learn that there was going to be a sequel to the game I picked it up and from what I played of it I really wasn’t that impressed with it at the time, though I could try and get back into in to see if it was just me. However, a second thought that I do have is this, what if they remastered Red Dead Redemption with the same engine and system that they used for RDR2 because I think that it would look amazing to see.

A New Marvel Title: One of the biggest games that have come out for the PlayStation 4 has been Spider-Man with it even releasing a launch title spin off with Spider-Man Miles Morales and also with the imminent release of Marvels Avengers with a port for the next gen also revealed what about if we put that focus into a different character that could help make character more popular for the non-comic book fans. The first idea that comes to my head is Daredevil and having it being set after the events of Spider-Man in which the Kingpin manages to get out of prison it is now up to Matt Murdock to put him back behind bars and you get to play him as both Murdock and Daredevil. This way you can also build up more on the story that was already started in Spider-Man and then bringing in the story of Daredevil and bringing in his rouges gallery to make the game being good and interesting.

And that’s the list, next week we begin the coverage of DC September specials first beginning with Zero Month as we take a look at the first full appearance of Simon Baz in Green Lantern.

Top 10 PlayStation 5 Games I’m Looking Forward To Play

A few weeks ago PlayStation finally revealed what their next-gen console to rival Microsoft’s new X-Box and I got to say it does look weird when you first see the image of it, but comparing it to what Microsoft revealed, and it looks a lot better. But not only did they reveal the console as well as controllers and additional accessories, they also revealed a load of games that some will be launch titles and others are going to be titles that will be coming over the next several months and years. So, I thought with the pool of games that they had revealed I thought that I would share the games that I am looking forward to play. (Note: there is no order to this list)

10: Demon Souls: Now I am going to be cheating a little bit with this entry since I do really don’t think that I will be buying this game anytime soon, however the reason why this is on here is for a few reasons. The first is that this game does look beautifully remastered for the latest generation and seeing the side by side comparison of the original trailer it looks like it is going to be amazing. But one of the reasons why I am looking forward to is to see if TFS Gaming is going to be doing a Drunk Souls series of the game since they have done for the previous instalments of the series. But I may end up getting it later on if I do really want a good challenge or end up getting bored.

9: Project Athia: A few weeks before the reveal of the PS5 there was a reveal for the new Unreal Engine in which they shows how the new engine works and it pretty much looked amazing, but for the life of me I couldn’t even remember the name of the game when they did the reveal. But when they showed it in the reveal line up I thought that it looked to be rather good from what they had shown. It looks absolutely beautiful with the amount of detailing that they have put in and it does make me think that games that are going to be coming out in the future are going to look awesome. But there is one thing that does have me curious about the game, the first is the title of the game since Project Athia is more of a development title. The second thing that I am rather curious on how the game is going to play, is it open world, is it going to be a RPG or is it going to be episodical, these are questions that I do hope to see answered in the coming months since this is going to be a big milestone for gaming.

8: Horizon: Forbidden West: I never fully completed the first Horizon game and it is something that I should really get around to replaying at some point once I end up finishing (or even starting) the games I already have. One of the things that I do like the look of for this game is that there is going to be more of the game to explore in which it appear that you get to go to the West Coast as in the trailer it showed the Golden Gate Bridge, but another cool thing is that they also revealed new machines as well. But one of the cool things that I do like about this game is what appears to be the main antagonists the game as they come riding in with freaking elephants which is one of the most coolest looking thing that I saw from the trailer, but it does remind me of Lord of the Rings. Hopefully once I get around to replaying Zero Dawn, Forbidden West should be released as it currently doesn’t have a specific release window.

7: Resident Evil 8: Village: I have enjoyed looking at the Resident Evil series, having watched a lot of walkthroughs on the game and also playing them as I did start playing Resident Evil 2. But when the trailer dropped for this game I originally thought that it was in fact going to be the remake for Resident Evil 4 since from what I saw from parts of it, there was a weird looking village there but alas I was wrong. This game does look rather interesting since that it does also follow off from the events of Resident Evil 7 (a game that I should get around to playing around at some point) where Ethan is stranded in the mysterious titular village where he is ends up encountering Chris Redfield, again, and is wondering what is going on. I am rather curios to see how this game goes and will it follow with what had come before it, that being first person survival or will it take the route of going back to third person in the light of the new remakes. Hopefully, it will be good to play and I will be looking forward in seeing more gameplay for it.

6: Little Devil Inside: Now this game is rather cute looking game that is going to be receiving a limited time exclusivity run and I think that it is going to be a lot of fun. The game seems to focus around you playing a character that is tied somehow to an older gentleman that has some ties to an army. As the character, you are basically following the usual monster hunting tropes as you are hunting down creatures and killing them, what you do with them and what they have to do with the gentleman I have no clue, but I get the feeling it has something to do with him. But the thing that attracts me to the game is more along with the art style since it does seem a lot more like rather cool computer generated kids movie and the designs for the creatures look awesome with one of them being that of a dragon that appears near the end of the trailer. I am looking more to hear in the following months since it is a game that does look rather interesting.

5: Sackboy: A Big Adventure: When I saw this first when the trailer dropped, I thought that this was going to be originally LittleBigPlanet 4, but I was mistaken. I have always had a place in my heart for the franchise since it was one of the games I loved playing when I went over to my friends house and we would play different stages on both the first and second games and I had so much fun playing it, especially with the different DLC content that came with the game. One that always stuck to my mind was the Metal Gear Solid stage since that at the end of the stage you got to face off against Rex which I thought was pretty awesome and even more so having a game that was Rated 18 to be redesigned for a kids game. I am rather curious to see what the game is going to be like since this game does have a rather different layout to the previous games since that the LittleBigPlanet games played through 2.5d and this now coverts into the 3d format so there seems to be more to explore in the levels. I also think that this would make an awesome launch title game for the console and I am definitely going to be picking this up once it comes out.

4: Hitman 3: I have been enjoying the hell out of the Hitman games that IOI have been making and this is a series has been a highlight of my past few years. One of the reason why I have like this series is that you can easily play the games episodically, since the first game was released over the span of months and you can just play one mission since if you really want to take your time, some mission can take up to 30-40 minutes to complete. What has me rather interested about this game however is that it looks like that you are going to be going up against your handler but this could also have something that concludes from the ending of Hitman 2 (like with other games I still need to get around to beating it). Another thing that I do like about this game is, like Hitman 2, you are going to be able to carry over the data from the previous games which means that this game is going to have a lot of replay value for the next generation.

3: Deathloop: One of the games that really had me intrigued mainly with the stylisation of what the game looked like is Deathloop. In this game you are playing an assassin called Colt (sort of weird in two entries back-to-back featuring assassins) who is out to take out eight people before midnight, but one of the big points of the game is that when you get killed, you reawaken back at the beginning and being caught in a death-loop. Since it is also brought by the same people behind Dishonoured there is a lot of similarities to the play style and it looks like that this game can be rather interesting to play on repeat. But there is something else that does make this game rather interesting and that there is a second assassin that is hunting you in the game, but the interesting thing is this, they can be played by the computer or another person playing in multiplayer mode. I am also looking forward to seeing more about this game since that its concept does make it to be interesting since it also looks like that it could be even turned into a show.

2: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: I feel rather ashamed in a way to say that the only Ratchet and Clank game that I have ever played was the PS4 game that came out roughly when the film came out, and by the way check out the film because it is pretty awesome. This is looking to be rather interesting since it looks like it is going to be interesting since that it is going to be featuring the usual trope of alternate time lines, with there being a female Lombax that we don’t know the name of yet but it does seem to be rather interesting. Another thing that is going to be cool about this game is that apparently we to revisit places that you have previously visited from old games. Since this doesn’t have a release window yet like with many other games on this list, I plan on playing through the games for the PS3 so that I can enjoy more of the series.

1: Spider-Man: Miles Morales: As many people know I am a huge fan of Spider-Man and there is no surprise that this was going to make the list and for good reason. During the end credits there was a scene where Miles shows Peter that he has new powers and jumps onto the ceiling and then Peter follows suit. A new Spider-Man game where we don’t get to play as Peter as a main is something that I have wanted to see in a long time in any form of digital media and the first we ever got that was in Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse and it was an amazing film. The game on the other hand is something that I am rather 505/50 on since I am looking forward to the game but I get the feeling that it is going to be a case like Infamous Last Light where it is going to be a rather short game, but I do think that there is going to be a lot of substance to the game since, by the trailer it looks like that it looks like there are going to be new villains and more backstory for not only Miles but also for the Spider-Man story and then leading on the road to Spider-Man 2 where we hopefully will see more crossover between playing as Peter and Miles.

Join me next week where I will be covering a YouTube Spotlight.

Top Five Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetypes

Back when I was a teen I got into playing Yu-Gi-Oh thanks to my friends after they gave me one card, that being Turtle Tiger and I thought it was the most awesome card I had ever seen. From then on I grew out my collection, dropped in and out of the series over the past few years, only to be pulled right back in for the new sets of rules that make it a lot better to play. So, I decided to share my top five Archetypes from the series, and they are also decks that I have used to success in the past that being duelling against friends or against a computer.

5: Raidraptor: The first on the list is a deck that I used a lot against my friends and that is being the Raidraptors and they are a lot of fun if you can pull them off correctly. First a lot of them are easy to pull off to get them to XYZ summon since the majority of them are low levels, then comes the fun part with their own Rank Up spell cards which help them proceed even further in Ranks so you are able to get Rank 5-9 out with nearly no problems. Another good thing about using this deck is that it can also get around the effects of certain cards that restrict what cards can attack since that XYZ monsters go off a Ranks and not levels which makes them a good thing to use.

4: Elemental Hero: Next up on this list is also one of the most recognisable archetypes that being the Elemental Hero’s used by protagonist Jaden Yuki in GX. I had a lot of good fun using this deck in when I was using it, mainly trying to play off the same combos that Jaden used when I ran the deck against my friend, but I had a lot more success using the deck on Legacy of the Duellist, which I am going to be bringing up a lot on this list. On that I have managed to created quite a good fusion based with a good combo of moves such as using EH Blazeman to get out a quick fusion and also using EH Heat and EH Lady Heat to both increase the attack of one and then dealing damage with the effects of the latter. Another good combo that I do like using, which can be rather risky depending also on what sort of deck that the opponent uses and that is Fusion Gate to help build up the attack points of EH The Shining since it gets an increase of 300 for each EH that has been banished, plus when The Shining has been sent to the GY you can bring back two EH back to your hand, which can also help getting fusions back into the extra deck.

3: Red Dragon Archfiend: Third on the list, for this entry isn’t used by the 5D’s version of Jack Atlas but the Arc V version as it has a lot more support to use as well as move versions of the Red Dragon Archfiend. I have used this version of the deck to pretty much near death on Legacy of the Duellist with the lovely help of the DLC as well as cards that you can unlock through progression through the game. One of the good combos that I like to use is a combination of Red Sprinter and Red Resonator since they help gain life points as well as monsters to make it easy to summon out Red Dragon Archfiend and its other forms. One of the things that I like to do with this deck is to try and get different versions of Red Dragon Archfiend out as quick and easy as I can, I remember being able to get out a Hot Red Dragon Archfiend and then getting out Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend to then later get out Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity which I was amazed to get out since it is rather ridiculous to try and get out. It does have a pretty big weakness however since that it does require a lot of support to keep monsters on the field.

2: Dinomist: I had way too much fun using this deck on LotD for one main fact, it is deck that is easily to take down a majority of decks in with the right cards. The first is using the field spell Dinomic Powerload since it gives a boost in attack for Dinomist monsters and if there’s a Dinomist on the field the opponent can’t activates cards and effects until the end of the damage step which makes it really useful against a lot of traps. Another technique I like to use is a combination of Dinomist Pteran along with Dinomist Charge since that way with Pteran’s ability when it destroys a card I can add a Dinomist card, which I usually go for Charge and then that way I can add another Dinomist monster and usually get what I need that being a second pendulum monster or to bring out one of my favourite Dinomist monsters that being Plesios since with that on the field I can lower the attack of my opponents monsters by the amount of Dinomists on the field in which I have had some monster in the range of less than 1000. One of the things however with the new rule set I haven’t had a chance to use it yet since that it does rather limit the combinations that I can use but it is something that I plan on trying out.

1: Blackwing: My favourite archetype of Yu-Gi-Oh are the Blackwing’s of Crow for 5D’s. I have had so much using this deck over the course of several years and is one that I have used many a time and it is so fun to use. I love the designs of all of the Blackwing monsters, though some of the lower level do look rather boring, but the best designs come from the Synchro monsters. My favourite designs for the Blackwing series is Armor Master and is one of the four that I try to keep on the field or get out first, the reasonings is because he had a very cool design since that it looks like a Blackwing had manages to get a cool armour that is very slick looking. Plus its ability is rather good as well since it can’t be destroyed in battle as well as not taking any battle damage, but another great ability is that it has the ability to place wedges on monsters and you can take them off to reduce the attack or defence of that monster. So, for instance if your opponent has a something that can hit hard or is there to be a tank, you can easily get rid off it. Another reason why I like this archetype is also that it is rather fast to get through and get out monsters, for instance a majority of the lower level monsters have abilities to special summon monsters if there is a Blackwing on the field, one of the techniques that I use revolves around having a low levelled tuner out on the field and hopefully having Elphin the Raven in my hand since it is a level six monster, which helps getting out Synchro’s.

That is it for this list and join me for the next list in which I cover five television shows (that I have watched) that have had rather controversial moments and some that I have just discovered this month.

My Top 10 Favourite Galar Pokémon

It has been over six months since Pokémon Sword and Shield debuted on the Nintendo Switch and it is also nearly time for the adventure towards the Isle of Armor for the first DLC content that they have made for the game, so I thought that it would be a good time to cover my top ten favourite Pokémon from the Galar region. Also, for this list just to make it fair I’m not going to be covering Galarian variants of Pokémon, unless they are the evolutions of the Galarian forms then they are fair game since they were introduced for the games. So, let’s get started.

10: Cooperajah: First on the list is Cooperajah and the reason why it is on the list, like a lot of the others on the list, is down to its design that being a giant elephant. Another cool thing that I like about Cooperajah is down to one of its abilities that makes it rather useful combining it with rather useful move set is Sheer Force. Having a combination of physical moves that have additional effects make those moves to deal extra damage and combining them with the use of steel type moves like Iron Head make it useful to have in battles, however for me a slight downside to it, for me at least, the ones I have been using have been pretty slow.  

9: Frosmoth: One of my favourite Pokémon that I used to use between generations five and six was Volcarona and since that it has been announce that is returning in the expansion pass I have a rather good duo on my hands now and we come to the opposite of fire and that being Frosmoth. Frosmoth is a really beautifully designed Pokémon and I think that it has a rather interesting combination however the weakness towards fire makes it lower on the list. Another thing that also puts it low on the list is that it takes a while to evolve Snom into Frosmoth since that it only evolves through friendship at night and that the best combo to do this would be Soothe Bell and Luxury Ball. But it does have a rather cool move set since it can use a combination of not only flying and bug moves but also has access to some flying moves as well.

8: Perrserker: I think it is rather weird that Meowth not only got a Galarian form, after just receiving an Alolan form in the previous generation, but to get a completely new evolution is rather intriguing. Instead of being based on what does seem to me more of a house cat design like what Persian is Perrserker the complete opposite and seems to be more based on a wild cat crossed with a Viking. Plus, also the typing for it is really good with it being a pure steel attacker and it makes it useful going into several gyms with one if them being Opal, who I pretty much soloed with Perrserker thanks to the type advantage I had plus also using Metal Claw and getting the boost off.

7: Centiskorch: The first of the list in which I am going to talk about the fad of the game and that being the spectacle known as Dynamaxing. Throughout the first couple of gym matches you comes across Milo and Nessa just using base Dynamax Pokémon for their final battles, but when it came to the third gym leader, Kabu, he brought out the first biggest challenge that being a G-Max Centiskorch. It looks amazing when it is summoned in the stadium and to me it does remind me a bit on Shenron from Dragon Ball since it looks more draconic than a giant centipede, which makes sense since it does have the fire typing.

6: Corviknight: The second of the list for the G-Max design but that is not the only reason why I have added Corviknight to the list but because I think that out of the generations that have had a two stage bird evolution this could be quite possibly my favourite for a few reasons. The first is that it’s typing is rather cool that being Flying and Steel which is rather unique since there aren’t that many types since that Skarmory is the only one that can come to mind. It’s design, like I said before, is rather cool since it does look rather knightly and majestic with the colour pallet as well, even the shiny colour makes it look even better. I also like the fact that Corviknight is used as a service for the people of Galar in which you can use the Flying Taxi service to get to places, meaning that they are going to be rather strong to be able to carry not only a taxi, but also the people and Pokémon in a taxi to boot.

5: Obstagoon: One of the things that I like about this game, as well as the previous generation, and that is the take on alternate forms for Pokémon that had adapted for that region and one of the ones that had made the most sense has been the Galarian Zigzagoon line in which the Hoenn region they were based on raccoons, and in Galar they are based of badgers. The design for Obstagoon is rather cool as well and I was going to make sure that I put it on my team, even if it was going to be absolute garbage. Like to many people Obstagoon struck a resemblance to one of the most iconic looking glam rock artists of all time, Gene Simmons from KISS and that was the reasoning behind having that on my team.

4: Dreadnaw: Dreadnaw was one the first Pokémon that I had on my team for the majority of when I played through Pokémon Shield and it pretty much stayed there until the post-game and I didn’t even have the cool G-Max version, though I do wish that I caught it when encountering the raids for it but that is just my luck. The move pool that it has is something that makes it quite fun to have and making it physical does help since that a lot of rock type moves are physical plus, like with Cooperajah it’s ability makes it pretty useful and that is Strong Jaw and have it’s move set be based on biting moves such as Ice Fang, Crunch and Jaw Lock, which is a rather cool move to have since it keeps the opponent in the fight and is pretty much a Mean Look with a damage output as well. Plus the shiny colours for it work out great swapping out the lighter blue and browns and are now replaced with darker green and browns which make it stand out a lot more clearer and is also a homage possibly to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since they do have a similar shading to the shiny colouring in some of the media.

3: Toxtricity: Continuing on with Pokémon with awesome designs Toxtricity and that goes for both forms which I think is pretty cool. So, when Toxel evolves it can evolve into two different versions of Toxtricity depending on the nature which I think is pretty cool. During my first playthrough I had got the Amped version which I think is the better design since that it does give rather punkish design and I think that does look better than the Low-Key version. Another cool ability that this Pokémon has is Punk Rock which out of the two regular abilities that it has it is a lot better than the latter ability that it has, that being Plus/Minus which only works if you’re in a double battle with the corresponding ability. Punk Rock on the other hand helps boost the power of sound-based moves so moves like Boomburst get a boost on the attack. One thing that I don’t like however about this Pokémon is its G-Max form mainly because I think that it looks rather boring.

2: Sirfetch’d: The final Galarian form that got an evolved form that being a generation one Pokémon and something that people have been wanting for quite a while and that is Farfetch’d. One of the cool things about this is the method that you have to evolve Farfetch’d into Sirfetch’d and that is you have to get three critical hits off in a row and win the battle and then it will evolve. One of the best ways to do this is teach it Focus Energy, which you can get from a NPC in Motostoke and then facing off against one of the Breeder trainers that are on the same route where you can catch Farfetch’d, set up with Focus Energy and then just start going away with Fury Cutter, or if you somehow were lucky enough to get Leaf Blade from a raid or from a Watt Trader since that it will increase the odds of a critical hit even more. But besides the cool evolution method the other thing that I do like about it, like the current theme of the list, is the design and, like Corviknight, it is rather majestic looking as well as with the way that it also has rather cool weapons. Since Farfetch’d had a Leek as a tool that it uses in battle, Sirfetch’d uses a Leek sword as well as a shield which I think is rather suiting for the series that it had debuted in.  

1: Duraludon: The final entry in this list was one of my favourite Pokémon from the when one if the first trailers that had dropped for the game and that was because of its design and I thought it was going to be something that was going to be fun to use it honestly is. The one that I had managed to capture after a while of trying to encounter it I ended up getting one that had the better of the two basic abilities that being Heavy Metal, which double the weight of the Pokémon which gave me the best game plan to teach it Heavy Slam so that it can do the most damage that it can. Another cool thing that I like about this is its design, it looks solid and a heavy hitter, plus its G-Max form that it can have turns it into a freaking tower that does remind me rather a lot like Lumious Tower from Gen 6.

So that is my list on my favourite Pokémon from the Galar Region, the next list that I will be doing next week will be covering another famous and beloved franchise and that is Yu-Gi-Oh and my top five favourite architypes.

Top Five Games Disappointing Games 2: The Reckoning

Back when I was thinking of what I was going to do for this list I didn’t realise that I already had done beforehand so I thought you know what can go down well: sequels. So, for this list this is going to a follow on a previous list.

5: WWE 2K20: So, to start of this list is game that has been critically panned by fans and reviewers alike. I have a very hard time trying to find anything good so far to say about this game because it has dropped a lot in quality for what had came before had. A lot of the character models have dropped in quality across the board with one of the biggest comparisons being of the model of The Rock used in 2k19 where it looked a lot more like him and then in 2k20 where it looks more like a bad Rock cosplayer. There have also been a lot of glitches that have happened with the game, with people finding a lot of unintended collisions happening and one person even managing to have a wrestler being hurled around the ring, like a washing machine on a fast spin. Luckily enough for me the only problems that I have came across have been has been that of some small collisions as well as having a slight problem when it came to a tag match where, no matter even if I had hit the correct button to get on the apron, I wouldn’t move. The only thing that I do find strange about these problems that have happened with these is that there is one name that is missing from the game for the first time ever and that is Yukes who have been a part of the WWE Games since SmackDown! on the PlayStation, so I don’t know if the problems have to do with it just been done by Visual Concepts but it seems that’s what the problems could be. The other problem that I had with the game then actually comes down to the story of the game and oh boy does it seem to be melodramatic and bad. The story focus is one of the most confusing and stupidly built I have seen from a wrestling game (and I played the TNA Impact game), in which it follows Trey and Red who are being inducted into the Hall of Fame (which it throws at you at the beginning of the game) and their trail on how they ended up in the WWE. Now I haven’t completed the game yet (I’m still waiting for an update that hopefully resolved the problems) but from what I have played it has been rather dull and both Trey and Red are two of the most boring people that I have ever seen in a WWE Game and it is making me want to really wish that I had never bought this game. Trey is an idiot who is there as a joke and there for the entertaining side, whereas Red is the one that is dedicated to becoming a wrestler, however it is her attitude that is the worst thing about her since that she gets mad whenever somebody pisses her off. Hopefully the rest of game might be better and I’m hoping that the Showcase Mode of the Four Horsewomen is a lot better.

4: Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Another game that I do think is rather good but with flaws is the third instalment of the rebooted Tomb Raider series, in which we continue the tales of Lara and in this one we take a trip to South America, in which it feels more like this game should have come out in 2012 with it ties into the ancient times and indigenous tribe that Lara befriends. The story is rather interesting, but it did have its flaws, especially with one segment of the game where a village is destroyed during a cataclysmic event. But the problem that I had with the game was with the final boss battle and I have only a few words to say about it and that is dull, boring and repetitive. It seemed to be rather like the way to defeat the boss from Rise of the Tomb Raider in which you pretty much take care of the ads to take on the boss. I was disappointed with this, but I digress it was a fun game to play.

3: Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon: First let me say this about this game, I do like playing this game. I have done Nuzlocks, Wonderlocks and now currently doing an Egglock of the game, but when the game came out I was rather disappointed about the game and the main reason to do with it was the story of the game. The original games Sun and Moon were rather decent, but it seemed that there was something more missing from the game, in a slight similar way that X/Y had apparent code for more things to do with Zygarde and then incorporated it into S/M. When it was announced that there was going to be another Gen VII game a lot of people thought that it was going to be a sequel game, in the same vain in what Black2/White2 were for Gen V, but alas it turned out not to be. Instead we pretty much just got the director’s cut version of S/M. We had an increased amount of Pokémon and the introduction of new characters as well as a more redefined story. The game pretty much follows beat for beat of the original game, all the way up to Aether Paradise/Ancient Poni Path where you are basically there to stop Necrozma from consuming the light as well as revealing a new form on Necrozma. But there was something that I did prefer that the original game did a lot better and that was the story between Lillie and Lusamine since it focused a lot on how Lillie had changed as a character and standing up to her mother and that she had changed a lot (even before being absorbed by Nhilego) but that is pretty much missed from USUM since that Lusamine Possessed heads into Ultra Space to defeat Necrozma to no avail. Another problem that I didn’t like about the game was the Totem Stickers/Totem Pokémon since that it pretty much made it feel like that you were getting a competitive Pokémon for collecting in-game rewards. It felt rather cheap and it also made it feel like the Totem Pokémon were less special since that you only saw them or got to fight them when doing the trails. Everything else about the game I thought was rather fine, the Rainbow Rocket post game was enjoyable since you also got to expand of the theory pretty much that the Ultra Wormholes helped tie into the similar events from ORAS with alternate time like with being able to fight previous version of the villain team leaders.

2: Batman Arkham Knight: I bet if you were to see an Arkham series game on this it would be WB Montreal’s Arkham Origins, but here’s the thing: Origins didn’t have the Batmobile. Arkham Knight is an okay game at best, the story was pretty much predictable if you picked up on some of the subtle hints that happened through the game especially with the Joker flashbacks where it was revealed that he had in fact kidnapped Jason Todd instead of killing him and turns him into the Arkham Knight aligning himself with Scarecrow and taking over Gotham City. The thing that bugged me a lot with this game is that it relied way too heavily on the use of the Batmobile. Yes, it was a nice new feature for the game and it was an easier way to get around the open world area, however the thing that was the most annoying and unbelievable thing was to do with the Riddler challenges. How in the hell did Riddler manage to build entire raceways underneath Gotham City without anybody (including Batman) knowing what was happening? Seriously it was a moment in the game that really annoyed me having to traverse the tunnels that Riddler controls, but there is one thing that annoyed me even more and that was the Cloudburst battle that takes a large amount of time since especially if you end up dying to it since there isn’t a checkpoint when get it down to a certain health. Another problem that I had also still had to do with the Riddler and the Batmobile and that was the Riddler Trophies that are scattered across the hub world in which I found it rather difficult to try and solve (I know that there supposed to be hard to solve cause of Riddler’s stich) and thus I have not yet seen what happens with the true Knightfall ending (and yes I know its on YouTube, I’d prefer to see it the true way).

1: Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Campaign): For this one I am going to solely focus on the campaign for this game because when the game was revealed it did have me hooked. You got to play as a member from the Empire’s Inferno Squad and you get to take one Rebels during the dying times of the Empires hold on the universe. But then we are then thrusted into something else that I wasn’t that huge of a fan of, playing as several heroes from the side of the Rebel Alliance including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Lando Calarisian. I was rather annoyed by this because outside of The Force Unleashed (since I haven’t played any other games like KOR) where you got to play as the villains, but then I was more furtherly annoyed when the main characters of Iden Versio and Del Meeko have a change of heart questioning the ideas of what had happened with Operation: Cinder so far and then pledge their allegiances towards Leia and the New Republic. I would have been a lot happier if we did get a game in which it could have focused on the side of the Empire during the fall of The Emperor and then the start-up of the First Order and how they came into power. That would have been more interesting instead of getting your usual ‘oh the Empire is really evil lets go on the run and join the Rebels.’ Even though the next Star Wars game that is out in a few days is called ‘Jedi Fallen Order’ and I am going to go on a limb and say that this is going to either focus on the guy either being on the side of the Jedi Order or possibly the Grey Order but one day I hope to get to play a game as the bad guys for the full game.

Next week we are going to be heading back to the comics with: Venom-Verse.

 

Destiny 2 Review

When Bungie announced this game a lot of my friends and I had rather mixed feelings about this game since that we did have a lot of problems when it came to the first game and we were worried that there was going to be problems that carry over. But lucky enough it seemed that some of those worries were gone.

The story is one of the better things about this game since that in the first game, there was barely a story since that it seemed to be up in the air and developed in some pieces of lore, but with this it starts out strong and it keeps on going. Dominus Ghaul is an interesting villain since that his story is well developed over the course of the cutscenes that we see since that he has his own agenda. Knowing of the existence of the Traveller and the powers that it can give to the Guardians and he wants that power for himself. Then we have the aftermath from the opening when your Guardian is ‘killed’ by Ghaul and is trying to get through the assault in the City, there is so much dread and the possibility that all is lost. But once you meet Hawthorn that is when there seems to be the start of hope in the game.

The rest of the story is rather interesting since that the first few parts is mainly getting the Vanguards back together to come up with a plan to take down Ghaul but there are all the usual Destiny fetch/destroy/defend missions along the way. For the rest of the story there were other things that I did like and the most enjoyment that I did have was with Cayde-6 and Failsafe on Nessus since that a) finding out what Cayde-6 got into the trouble he did with a Vex Teleporter and b) being introduced to Failsafe, the Exodus Black’s Computer for the fact that she is rather unique because of her personalities. But the best thing about the story is the penultimate and final mission in which the plan goes off, with some small hiccups along the way but it is some of the most beautiful looking missions that they have made since that the penultimate you get to fight on Ghaul’s command ship where it is about to absorb Mercury to take out the Sun and it shows a lot of the amazing design that they put into the Sun as well as the detail on the Almighty is rather spectacular.

However, the ending that they did for this is handled better than what happened before since that this had resolution. Being able to defeat Ghaul with all your abilities back that he had taken away from the beginning and then when you think that he is defeated the ending cinematic shows something that was bat-shit insane. That being Ghaul creating a weird astral form in which he tries to get recognition from The Traveller, since that throughout the game Ghaul’s main quest has been trying to get the Traveller acceptance for to be given the same powers as the Guardians. But unfortunately, that doesn’t go well for him as the Traveller, who is also bound in a chain-like cage, but it manages to break out of it and destroys the Astral Ghaul. But that wasn’t the end of it, just like with movies a post credit scene appears several Vex Pyramid ships, with one of them seeming like it was a Mother-Ship leading to mean that this would be the first DLC content that we will be having.

The rest of the game is rather alright. The new areas are designed rather well and each have their unique parts. Another thing that I do like are the Lost Locations in which are hordes of enemies that are hiding Loot.

But I did have some problems that I do have with the game and rather currently it has been down to it still being a relatively a new game and that has been a lot of the connection problems that has been plaguing. As a personal experience when I was playing the day after the first weekly reset I was plagued with five connection problems when I was playing Crucible with my friends. This caused me to even show up on the enemy team at times or even leaving the game, which was rather weird.

But one of my major problems that I have with this game are the Nightfall Strike, but not for the same reason why people have been having problems with. My problem comes with the Strike being set to a 10-minute time limit, in which I do find it to be rather pointless. It can be done but it does make it rather harder and more complicated for some players to do since that you would need to do multiple things on top of the actual Strike. I think that it would have been better if they had the time limit set to the Prestige mode for the challenge since that does give it more of a challenge. Hopefully there could be some changes coming to the Nightfall since that this does make it rather stupid.

I haven’t had a chance to check out the Leviathan Raid yet but hopefully in the next week, I may put something in to cover that.

Overall I did find this game to be quite the step up from where I did leave the first game and I do plan on playing through the entirety of this game. 8/10.

Top Ten Favourite Pokémon

With a franchise that is currently over twenty years old and a sequel to last year’s instalments due out in November I think it’s time that I did a top ten lists of my favourite Pokémon and for this list it is going to mainly come from my experiences from the games and not from other mediums.

10: Hydreigon: Playing through Pokémon Black, I came across a Deino and I caught it and then spent what seemed to be forever to try and get it evolved through Zweilous to finally get Hydreigon out and boy was it a useful to have. A combination of being a Dark type along with Dragon meant that it would be useful for the upcoming Elite Four since that two of the members had Ghost and Psychic types on which I was able to get the upper hand on. Another good thing that I like about Hydreigon is the design it has with its evolution chain getting an additional head, going down the line of it being a Hydra having an additional head. But since the introduction of Fairy type Pokémon I haven’t used it in quite a long time since Hydreigon is 4x weak against them.

9: Toxapex: I think that Toxapex is one of the most useful Poison type Pokémon that has been so far in the franchise. The ability to land critical hits when the opponent is poisoned. Plus, its move set is rather decent as well including its own protect move, Baneful Banker, in which also poisons the attacking Pokémon.

8: Krookodile: One of my favourite Pokémon from the Unova regions and beyond for the fact that it is rather useful being another dual type, this time being Ground/Dark giving it advantage over many different types, but also giving it quite a few weaknesses to boot. However, the move sets that it can learn is also useful with the ability to learn Dragon, Rock and Fighting moves, which can help with the weaknesses. Plus, I think that the final evolution looks awesome and menacing.

7: Turtonator: When I saw the designs first for this Pokémon, I thought that it just looked to be rather stupid and I wasn’t interested in getting one. But a few months ago, I was replaying through Pokémon Moon and I decided to trade over a Turtonator to see what it was like though levelling up. Then I realised how awesome of a Pokémon it is. It didn’t take me long to get used to its move list and I was really shocked with its stats since I started off with a Litten and was training them up together and I found Turtonator to be stronger even when Litten was Incineroar. Plus, the fact that it is a Pokémon that has a high special attack it makes moves like Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse and Draco Meteor even stronger.

6: Glalie: After the fifth or sixth time that I restarted playing Alpha Sapphire I decided to go and get a new Ice type Pokémon since that I usually went with Walrein since I did use it as a HM Pokémon. So, when I decided to get Snorunt I found out that it had a lot of rather decent moves, with one of them being Freeze-Dry, a move introduced in Gen VI, where it can be super effective against Water type Pokémon making it rather useful since that Hoenn has a lot of water, plus it makes it useful for the Elite 4 when fighting Drake since his Kingdra is one more trickiest on his team to beat since that Kingdra resists the Ice type weakness. Another useful thing about Glalie is that its Mega Evolution changes its ability to Refrigerate in which Normal type move deal Ice damage so this means that it has move of a S.T.A.B set when you give Glalie a Normal type move.

5: Talonflame: When I started playing Pokémon Y, I caught a Fletchling not fully knowing if it is going to be any good but once I got it through the levels and got Talonflame I found it to me useful with a good dual typing, this time being Fire/Flying, making it useful for dealing with Steel and Ice types. In my current Moon playthrough I have been using a Talonflame and it has been useful for me dealing with Mallow’s trail as well as dealing with Guzma’s pesky Bug types since that my team is rather lacking in moves to use against him.

4: Electivire: When I played through Diamond and Pearl I never had the chance to get a Electivire since at that point I didn’t have a second DS to trade with myself or any friends at the time playing it. But a few generations later I managed to get my hands on a Electivire and I really enjoyed using it. It has a quite a good move pool with being good for physical and special attacks but the main reason I like using it is because of its ability and even more so for Double Battles, that being Motor Drive, being able to increase the speed stat. I also think that when they added the new evolutions from previous generations this was the one that had the coolest looking designs, that and along with Magmortar.

3: Mudkip/ Marshtomp/ Swampert: One of my favourite evolution chains in the entirety of Pokémon has been Mudkip’s line since that for its generation it has a lot of advantages. The first is that you have an advantage over the Gym Leaders and depending on which version that you play you have an advantage over the rival faction. Swampert is also a useful Pokémon to have since that it does have a rather good move pool as well having a good physical stat can make it useful making moves like Waterfall and Earthquake powerful.

2: Absol: Super Luck + High Critical Moves + Scope Lens = a really broken Pokémon. When I was trying to come up with an idea for a duo for when me and my friend did the Battle Maison I decided to try and use something that could be rather useful and when I saw that it could learn Psycho Cut, Night Slash, Slash and Shadow Claw, this gives me quite an advantage over several types and each time always dealing critical damage. And for what I chose as a my first choice for the Battle Maison is…

1: Greninja: I used this as my second pick and the main reason was that I got it during a Wonder Trade and discovered that it had its hidden ability of Protean in which it can change its type depending on the type of move that it is going to use. This is really useful since that it does take out the weaknesses for Water and Dark types, but it a double-edged sword since that it does give it the weaknesses of that type which in the Battle Maison made it seem that I was playing a high risk on every round it was in. But when I started using it in the Battle Tree I found to be at a disadvantage but with a lot of changes I did find it to be back to its usefulness.

E3 2017 Games I’m Forward To Play

Last year I did a list of the games revealed at E3 and there were a lot of games that I liked the look of, but I only wanted to make it a top ten lists. So, this year I have decided to expand on my usual list lengths and just doing a list of the games that I am looking forward to playing or at least look interesting.

Call of Cthulhu: When I heard about this game last year, there wasn’t that much information about the game at that date. However, this year we got a trailer for the game and it does look rather interesting. It seems that this game is going to be a first-person exploration game, in the same way that Amnesia is where you’re going around looking for clues to try and solve whatever the story is. I think that this could be a game that I could pick up, but I would need to see something more solid before I put my money down.

Days Gone: Another game that we saw from last year’s E3 and that showed a very cool video of the protagonist that you play trying to run away from a hoard of zombies through a farm area and the immense nature of the zombies was something that intrigued me and some of my friends.  But when the latest footage that was shown, we saw a lot more of the game. The first being that we can ride certain vehicles in the game, with this showing a motorbike. Luring away zombies from a camp to set up an ambush to go and rescue a member of your group. But then we got something more amazing than anything that I have seen in a zombie film and that is we get to, at some point, facing a zombie bear and that is what I am looking forward to.

Dragon Ball Fighter Z: One of the more stranger reveals of E3, for me, was this game since that I knew going in that this was going to be shown, but I didn’t know where it would have shown up. Up to this point I had only played Xenoverse 2 as the only fighting game that was Dragon Ball based on and I was really hoping for a new fighting game for consoles. Then this game was announced and I was really looking forward to it since that it was going to be a 2.5d game which is rather different to what we currently have. Hopefully that this game is going to be good to play since that the only time that I have played a demo for Extreme Butoden and I wasn’t that impressed with it since that it was 3v3 and not 1v1.

Far Cry 5: Another game that was revealed before E3 and this is something that has rather intrigued me. The main reason that this has got my interests me is that instead of this game taking place somewhere rather mysterious and exotic islands or areas, but Montana. The main story of the game seems to revolve around a cult leader and you are a sheriff’s deputy trying to protect the residence of Hope County from the cult. Another thing that I like from the information that we got from this reveal was that you also have the chance to get companions and they seem to be rather useful as well and the two that I like are Boomer, the dog, who can take out enemies as well as giving you guns from the fallen enemies. The second is Grace Armstrong who appears to take the distance approach as she her main is a Sniper Rifle. I think that if I do get this game I would be using Grace more than the other Hires that you can get since that I do find her being a sniper to be a lot more useful. Another thing that I like that was revealed from an interview from GameSpot and that is that there isn’t going to be any towers or possibly even a mini map which is rather weird compared to previous games where there were towers where you could find further points in the map.

Kingdom Hearts 3: I have been playing Kingdom Hearts for only a short period of time, but I have been looking forward to seeing what this game is like and I think that this could be a cool game. So far from what I have seen, the story seems interesting and that it involves Sora reuniting with Donald, Goofy, Riku and King Mickey who are trying to stop Master Xehanort’s plan and try and stop the second Keyblade War. There are two things that I am looking for from the game is the new worlds that they are going to add, since that currently we have two new worlds. The first is Tangled where we get Rapunzel and Big Hero 6 where we get Baymax. Plus, at this year’s D20 event there will be a new character and world revealed and I am hoping for one of two worlds, one being a Star Wars world where we could get Luke/Rey as a playable character or a Marvel world where I have no idea who would be playable. The second thing that I like is the Japanese dub since that it sounds a lot more better than what the English dub is so I’m hoping for an option where I can change it cause Japanese Hades sound awesome.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2: All the LEGO games that I love playing are the ones that have original stories and when I heard that this game was coming out I knew that I was going to be getting it since that it would be a lot better than Marvel’s LEGO Avengers game that came out since that was a rather bad game. But with this game since that it has its own story makes it a better game by default for me. The story from what we know is it is going to be based in a world called Chronopolis where time displacements happen which cause heroes to be placed in different time lines and that they all must unite against Kang the Conqueror who plans on taking over Chronopolis. I like the look of the game as it takes a lot of elements from previous games and I hope that it can make them better. I am looking forward to seeing what the full story and what DLC content will follow since I really loved playing them since they are something fun to do.

Life is Strange- Before the Storm: I played Life is Strange and I liked playing it. However, when Square Enix revealed that this was going to be released, I was really hoping that this was going to be the sequel that Dontnod Entertainment have in development, but it turns out that it is in fact going to be a three-part prequel series that is going to be done by Deck Nine Games instead. This did sort of bother me since that there has been a bad track record for me when I have played a game series where a title was made by a different company, such as Arkham Origins being made by WB Montreal instead of Rocksteady. But nonetheless I am slightly looking forward to it since that it tells the story on what happened to Chloe three years before the events of Life is Strange and we also get to see more of Rachel, who was a subject of the first game as she was presumed missing during most of the game. Since that this is going to be a rather short game and for the fact that it is going to be episodically released it would be an easy game to pick up.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: So, this is the only Switch game that I have on this list but this is the one that to me looks like it could be really fun to play. Mario on his way to Peach’s castle but hijinks ensures where he sees a vortex floating above him where Rabbids begin to fly out. It is now up to Mario and his friends with the help of four heroic Rabbids that dress up as different characters to stop the invasion. But the coolest thing about this game is that this looks like Ubisoft took a page out of the X-Com series where it is a turn based tactics game and this makes it more interesting than usual.

Monster Hunter World: I found this to be one of the weirdest reveals from Sony’s press conference and that was that Capcom where bringing out a new Monster Hunter game to consoles, which hasn’t happened in a few years since that has happened. I am looking forward to this for a lot of reasons, the first is that we are getting a few new pieces of equipment, the first being a grappling hook, the second a slingshot and a third, that I find to be really interesting, a ghillie-suit. The suit is something that interests me since that with it, it does mean that it would be handy to hunt creatures that spook easily but also something good to distract monsters as well when working with group. The second thing that I like about the game is that it is more open world than what the previous games are, but when I mean open world for this game, I mean that there are no load screens between areas in maps, which is something that was pretty tiring about previous games. The final thing that I like about this game is that since that this game is also playable online, there will be loads of people that will be playing from around the world, and this could build up an amazing community.

Spider-Man: I am a huge fan of the Spider-Man franchise and if there is one thing that I have been looking for the past year has been information about this game and this seems to be really interesting since that it does seem to feature a different villain to what we normally get and that is Mr. Negative. One of the other things that I like about this game is that it looks like that the combat system has improved a lot better since the Amazing Spider-Man games that came out in conjunction to the films, but this time round this doesn’t link with the movie which is something that I do like. But from what I have seen from the game that I dislike and it is more of personal issue and that is I really don’t like the costume that you get from what appears to be the start of the game since I think that the white is too much for the costume. However, I did find out that there will be alternate costumes that will be available throughout the game, so I will be changing out of that costume ASAP.

Star Wars Battlefront 2: When I heard that there was going to be a sequel to Battlefront I was already determined to NOT get the game since I had rather bad experiences and found that EA/ DICE thought that it was better to focus on giving people who bought the season pass to get more perks. But when I saw that they were scrapping the season pass system as well as making the DLC content free for players. This has me more interested in the game so it means that I am not putting an extra £30-40 of additional content for a game that I’m not sure that I would enjoy playing. Another thing that I do like about this game is that we are going to be playing through three different eras where we even get to play as Battle Droids which I am really looking forward to. Another thing I like is that the first game mode that was shown at E3 makes it look rather good as it is a new game mode where the Separatists are invading Theed and it is their goal to break into the throne room to get the Queen to sign the treaty. I think from what we have seen of this it does look like that it is better than what Battlefront is. Hopefully, we would be getting more confirmations on heroes and villains over then next few months and I think that we could see something at D20 this year.

Wolfenstein- The New Colossus: I didn’t know what to think when I played The New Order since that I have never played Doom or the old Wolfenstein and didn’t know what to really expect. But I do have to say that I really enjoyed playing it since that it was a rather fun FPS, which I haven’t had fun playing in years. This game has me interested since that it pretty much continues off after the events of the first game where you have to protect your family and create new alliances to defeat the Nazi’s.

Honourable Mentions:

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon: This is something that I am more cheating with since that it was only revealed before the start of E3 when Nintendo held a small Direct Conference where they revealed this at the end but more importantly Pokken on the Switch. I think that this looks rather interesting since that it seems that it could be going down the line of Black 2/ White 2 where the trailer looks like that we are in the same region, but it looks like that there are more things going on and I think that the story is going off the events of the first game as we know that Lillie is off trying to get her mother better after the events of the game. But other than that, I don’t know that much else about the game, but I guess that we may get another Direct in a few months where they may reveal more information about the game

South Park: The Fractured But Whole: I have already gone over why I am looking forward to this game with my list from last year. I do hope that the delays that have come with this game, that being pushed back from December to March then finally coming out in November, but I am still looking forward to it still.

Skull and Bones: One of my top games that I have played on PS3 was Assassins Creed Black Flag and this was due to the naval mechanics where you got to go around the Caribbean attacking and looting ships to make your ship, the Jackdaw, better. When Ubisoft revealed this game I along with a few of my friends got excited since that we enjoyed the naval stuff in the game. But since that we don’t have a lot of information on the game there is only so much information that we could take on hand at this time.